Bitcoin 2026 opens to empty seats, protests, awkward moments
Bitcoin 2026 opened with a virtually empty main stage, speakers dialling it in, security blunders, and a decimated NAKA stock price.
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There’s a Mexican standoff in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Bitcoin's Lightning Network suffers recurring Mexican standoffs where nodes benefit from rebalancing lopsided BTC but no one wants go first.
Bitcoin 2026 speaker list packed with altcoin promoters
This year’s largest “bitcoin only” conference is stacked with speakers who previously promoted altcoins that later crashed.
Cloudflare’s 2029 quantum sprint raises Bitcoin alarm bells
Cloudflare is joining Google in a 2029 post-quantum deadline that's lighting a fire under Bitcoin’s historically slow upgrade cadence.
Bitcoin’s best month since September was a 1.8% gain
BTC closed March at $68,221, snapping a five-month losing streak by the slimmest of margins. It opened the month at $67,000.
Bitcoin’s quantum deadline just moved up
Requirements for a quantum bitcoin attack dropped from millions to sub-10,000 qubits, cutting estimates by two orders of magnitude.
Bitcoin outperforms gold as Iran war shakes ‘safe-haven’ trade
Since Donald Trump joined Israel’s war with Iran on February 28, BTC has rallied 8% while gold has fallen 18%.
US margin debt reached all-time highs as crypto lost $2 trillion
Crypto markets have been penalized with downside volatility amid historic levels of US margin debt relative to income.
Larry Lepard ragequits after Bloomberg analyst forecasts $10k BTC
After a senior Bloomberg analyst called for bitcoin to crash to $10k and kept interrupting his counterargument, Lawrence Lepard ragequit.
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.