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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.

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.

This year’s largest “bitcoin only” conference is stacked with speakers who previously promoted altcoins that later crashed.

Cloudflare is joining Google in a 2029 post-quantum deadline that’s lighting a fire under Bitcoin’s historically slow upgrade cadence.

BTC closed March at $68,221, snapping a five-month losing streak by the slimmest of margins. It opened the month at $67,000.