This Week in Bitcoin

119: Debt Always Wins

Washington reaches for Hamiltonian economics, the bond market pushes back, and Bitcoin rips for exactly the reasons Bitcoiners warned about. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes BIP-110 Post Mortem Luke Dashjr Proposes BLAKE2b Bitcoin Hard Fork Monetary Nodes: A Spam-Free Bitcoin Without a Fork Lyn Alden on Bitcoin Fee-Based Security Bitcoin ETF Inflows Hit $137 Million Treasury Doubles Long-Term Bond Buybacks Treasury Steps In as Long-Bond Yields Surge Critical Takes on Treasury's Bond Buyback Intervention Why Bessent Is Playing With the Treasury Market US Debt Forces Investors to Demand Higher Returns Global Bond Rout Puts Governments on Notice 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits Highest Since 2007 Foreign Holdings of US Treasuries Fall Dollar Drops After Treasury Expands Bond Buybacks Gold Surges as Treasury Buybacks Hit Yields and Dollar Fed Minutes Show Growing Inflation Concerns Oil and Debt Fears Drive Global Borrowing Costs Higher Oil Above $90 Revives US Inflation Fears Soft US Data Keeps Pressure on the Dollar Metaplanet Commits 2,100 BTC to US Treasury Venture BlackRock Reaffirms Bitcoin Investment Case Citi Plans Bitcoin Custody Alongside Stocks and Bonds Large Holders Pour $2.75 Billion Into Bitcoin Bitwise Sees Bitcoin Substantially Higher by Year-End JD Vance and the Dollar's Reserve Currency Role JD Vance Is Right Can the Dollar Maintain Its Exorbitant Privilege? Electrum 4.8.1 Released With Security Fixes BitBox Warns Users About Severe Vulnerability BitBox 08.2026 Dixence Update Hunting Down the Coldcard Hacker Zeus Security Incident Post-Mortem DOJ Developer Exemptions World Gold Council CEO Says Bitcoin Will Go to Zero CNBC on the CLARITY Act and White House Meeting Bitwise Says Crypto Can Grow Without the CLARITY Act

Why BIP-110 Failed

Why BIP 110 failed, what its three block fork revealed about Bitcoin consensus, and the push for a proof of work change, plus weakening jobs and NVIDIA’s new AI asset class that could become an even bigger liquidity vacuum for Bitcoin. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Absolutely. I removed the duplicates, stripped tracking/query cruft where possible, tightened the titles, and grouped the Bitcoin/security stories first, followed by macro/jobs and then the miscellaneous research links. ZEUS Goes Offline After Cybersecurity Incident BTCPay Server 2.4.2 Security Advisory COLDCARD Entropy Failure: Technical Autopsy COLDCARD Attackers Begin Laundering Stolen Bitcoin Bitcoin Red Team Expands Ecosystem Security Audit Bitcoin Red Team Reports Thousands of Findings Blockstream Announces Swaps Floresta 2026 Node Roadmap Libbitcoin Is Coming Anthropic Signs $9.1 Billion Deal With Bitcoin Miner Riot BIP-110 Fork Stalls After Mining Two Blocks BIP-110 Attracts Just 0.15% of Bitcoin Hashpower OCEAN Says BIP-110 Is on Track to Fail What Is the BIP-110 Upgrade? Bitcoin Is Not Changed by Proof of Node Mechanic on Why Not Changing Proof of Work Was a Mistake Bitcoin Cash Precedent for BIP-110 A Critical BIP-110 Take Motion to Remove Luke Dashjr From BIP Editors Pull Request to Remove Luke Dashjr From BIP Editors BIP-110 Code Review Takeaways Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash Block-Time Discussion Strategy Says Selling Bitcoin Demonstrated Treasury Resilience Strategy Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript Strategy’s Bitcoin Treasury Model Senate Crypto Bill Faces Another Setback U.S. Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July July Jobs Report Market Reaction Private Payrolls Added Just 44,000 Jobs in July July Payrolls Preview: Job Growth Expected to Stay Weak Stocks Jump After Surprise Jobs Decline Weak Jobs Report Pushes Rate-Hike Odds Lower Incarcerated Person Access to News Media Constraints and Opportunities in Interview Transcription Music: The Jetsons By: Joe Martin

117: Coldcard Fallout

We unpack the widening Coldcard fallout, the uncomfortable lessons Bitcoiners need to face, and a major macro intervention that reveals just how trapped the financial system has become. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes COLDCARD Mk3 Seed Generation Warning COLDCARD Entropy Issue: Technical Background Predictable RNG Fallback in COLDCARD Firmware COLDCARD Entropy and Nonce Analysis COLDCARD TRNG Recovery Fix When random.bytes() Runs but Doesn’t Work COLDCARD’s Random Numbers Weren’t Everything to Know About the COLDCARD Hack How COLDCARD Wallets Lost $70 Million COLDCARD Exploit Shakes Faith in Self-Custody COLDCARD Wallet Attack Drains Up to $89 Million COLDCARD Flaw Linked to $70 Million Theft COLDCARD Attacker Stole $30 Million in 10 Minutes COLDCARD Firmware Bug Drained $38 Million COLDCARD Firmware Bug Bypassed RNG for Five Years Hackers Target Bitcoin’s Safest Hiding Place COLDCARD Attack Pushes Bitcoin Toward Exchanges $38 Million Swept Through Weak Seed Entropy More Details on COLDCARD Bricking COLDCARD Incident Victim Intake How Blockstream Jade Generates Recovery Phrases BlockSlop: BIP-110 Chainstate Validation Gap Bitcoin Developer Revives PoW-Change Code for BIP-110 BIP-110 and Who Decides Bitcoin’s Future BIP-110 Falls Flat With Zero Miner Support Did IBM’s Quantum Timeline Spook Jim Cramer? Jim Cramer Rethinks Bitcoin Over Quantum Risk Lummis Says CLARITY Act Delay Could Kill the Bill Lummis Presses CLARITY Act Holdouts Warren’s Opening Remarks on the CLARITY Act Warren Warns About Crypto Money Laundering Fed Holds Rates Steady as Warsh Fights Inflation Warsh’s Quieter Fed Communication Strategy A Quieter Fed Could Mean More Volatile Markets Warsh Says the Fed Has No Tolerance for Inflation Warsh Reiterates the Fed’s Inflation Pledge June 2026 FOMC Statement U.S. Treasury Signals Possible Yen Intervention Why the U.S. Stepped In to Support the Yen Why Trump Is Propping Up Japan’s Currency Bessent Says the Japanese Yen Looks Undervalued Delayed BOJ Hike Adds Pressure on the Yen Lessons From the Plaza Accord The Real Lessons From the Plaza and Louvre Accords Music: Empty Passenger Seat by Joe Martin

116: Coldcard Wallets Compromised

An urgent warning for COLDCARD users: Coinkite says funds tied to seeds generated on some Mk3 devices may be at risk, and we examine why other hardware wallets could be next. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Mk3 Security Advisory | COINKITE Blog Bitcoin News on X: "BITCOIN CORE DEVELOPER: “SORRY, THIS IS THE TIME TO PANIC” Nick Neuman on X: "It sounds like Mk4, Q, and Mk5 are also vulnerable in a different way than Mk3. Zero-Knowledge Goof (Loop master general) on X: "MK4s are vulnerable but are millions of times harder to steal from.

115: Before Satoshi

Bitcoin did not emerge from a vacuum. We trace the decades of ideas that made it possible, and revisit the early days when it all came together. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes David Chaum demonstrates electronic cash at the first World Wide Web Conference (1994) David Chaum and Adam Back reflect on DigiCash, Hashcash, and the crypto wars Adam Back explains Hashcash and its original anti-spam purpose Nick Szabo discusses cypherpunks, bit gold, and Bitcoin's predecessors Adam Back: Hashcash — A Denial of Service Counter-Measure Wei Dai: b-money Nick Szabo: Bit gold Hal Finney: Reusable Proofs of Work Satoshi's correspondence with Adam Back and Wei Dai Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin — A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Plan B BETA | Plan B 1 Just Getting Started | Plan B 2 Flight of the Butterfly | Plan B 3 Inside BitVegas | Plan B 4 To Mine or Not to Mine? | Plan B 5 Spending Your Coins | Plan B 6 Amir Taaki and Bitcoin 2013 Wrap-Up | Plan B 7 Then They Fight You | Plan B 8 Bitcoin Will Disrupt Big Media | Plan B 9 90 Days or Bust | Plan B 10 Be Your Own Bitcoin Exchange | Plan B 11 Bitcoin vs. the Banks | Plan B 12 Blame It on Mt. Gox | Plan B 13 Winklevoss Woes | Plan B 14 Bitcoin Must Comply | Plan B 15 Summer of Bitcoin | Plan B 16 Regulation Dooms Bitcoin? | Plan B 17 The Big-Picture Perspective | Plan B 18 U.S. vs. the Bitcoin Revolution | Plan B 19 Bitcoin Is Legal-ish | Plan B 20