Adam Back says Liquid BTC is collateralized after dashboard problem
For a few hours on Monday, liquid.network displayed less than 3,463 BTC backing 4,199 LBTC in circulation.
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Pavel Durov laughs at WhatsApp, but Telegram is just as opaque
Telegram founder Pavel Durov and X owner Elon Musk used a recent WhatsApp lawsuit as an opportunity to advertise their own messengers.
Ambitious developers are biggest risk to Bitcoin, says Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor has said that the greatest risk to Bitcoin is ambitious opportunists advocating protocol changes.
It took a decade to fix this Bitcoin Lightning bug
The most popular node software on the Bitcoin Lightning network has finally been patched nearly 10 years since a developer discovered it.
Why two-party Bitcoin Lightning channels keep failing
René Pickhardt has published new research into why most of the two-party Bitcoin Lightning payment channels fail to sustain liquidity.
If BTC was really a rival to gold, it would be at $278K
BTC has lagged far behind gold over the past year. By one calculation, BTC is 68% lower than it should be.
Trump sues Jamie Dimon, revives ‘Operation Chokepoint 2.0’
Donald Trump has sued the JPMorgan CEO over an alleged debanking incident, which reinforces a narrative about Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
— Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy
Strategy market cap down 40% after pivot from bonds to preferreds
Strategy preferreds were supposed to fix the problems with bonds, such as principal repayment, but instead they brought a raft of new issues.
— Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy
Strategy manager wrong about BTC backing STRC
The manager mistakenly claimed that Strategy's BTC collateralizes shares of its stock, even though it doesn't.
Jack Mallers drops BTC per share metric as Twenty One stock falls 84%
Mallers advertised Twenty One as a company that would increase BTC per share but it hasn’t disclosed any purchases since July.