Lightning Network gets ‘real bitcoin’ reality check
In a recent online poll, more than 80% of respondents said they don't think that Lightning counts as "real" BTC.
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Who really controls Lava’s bitcoin collateral?
Lava claimed to be a BTC-focused lender with competitive interest rates, but it's facing a flurry of social media backlash.
Tenerife to make 100,000% profit on BTC bought for research
Tenerife's Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies bought the BTC in 2012 for €10K and plans to invest the profits in new projects.
Bitcoin mining industry mostly uninterested in spam controversy
While many Bitcoiners have gone to war over the use of node-level “spam” filters, those in BTC mining have stayed in their lanes, unbothered.
Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN war just went nuclear: a chain fork proposal
A proposed Bitcoin fork would commence an activation period for updating consensus rules to limit storage unrelated to the movement of BTC.
BTC from 2011 moves after ‘Salomon Brothers’ repossession notice
A 2011 BTC wallet moved over $400M after a supposed deadline of "constructive possession" relating to the Salomon Brothers brand elapsed.
CHART: mNAV down across bitcoin treasury companies
The premium that investors are paying for BTC treasury companies continues to decline. In other words, mNAV compression is real.
No, a quantum computer didn’t break SHA-256 or Bitcoin
Yet again, Bitcoin was the target of fake news about a non-existent quantum computer cracking SHA-256 cryptography.
CHART: Strategy’s BTC growth slows to multi-year low
Strategy has been adding BTC to its treasury at its slowest rate in five years. Worse, its mNAV is also falling.
CHART: Was Biden or Trump better for bitcoin?
Donald Trump has embraced BTC, but despite that, it's seen a much smaller relative appreciation under his leadership than it did under Biden.