US Marshals Key Leak 🕵️, BlackRock Call Seller 🪙, Bitcoin Jobs Pivot 🧲

🕵️ US Marshals’ Bitcoin Custody Springs a Leak

🪙 BlackRock Sells Upside for ‘Income’

🧲 Bitcoin Hiring Shifts Beyond Developers

Ale, a longtime Italian Bitcoin community pleb and Founder of DataSapiens, argues that maximalism protects Bitcoiners but cannot drive adoption alone, so he builds bridge tools like BitRoundApp to steer newcomers from scams toward self-custody and sovereignty without diluting Bitcoin-only principles (Jan 27 | 11 min read).

Che Kohler of The Bitcoin Manual warns that Nostr Wallet Connect convenience can enable silent BTC theft via auto-approval and misconfigured permissions, urging strict budgets, manual approvals, isolation, and regular audits to protect sats (Jan 26 | 21 min read).

Frank Corva, contributor to Bitcoin Magazine and Forbes, explains how programs like Bitcoin Dada and Dada Devs help African women join Bitcoin and Lightning development through mentorship and community, while urging that female BTC developers are evaluated solely on merit and code quality (Jan 26 | 7 min read).

James Caw, founder and Bitcoin strategist at SimplB, argues that BTC is not behaving like gold because institutional adoption lags, creating an 'early premium' for fiduciaries who build custody and governance now before mandates, liquidity, and policy frameworks catch up (Jan 26 | 8 min read).

Conduition, a pseudonymous cypherpunk, shows that with heavy parallel processing SLH-DSA (a post-quantum signature) can verify signatures about as fast as a single-core Schnorr (secp256k1) verifier, but it still loses when Schnorr uses many CPU cores together (Jan 25 | 7 min read).

Billytheked, a Stacker News user, shares a step-by-step guide on setting up Core Lightning to receive instant Ocean mining payouts via BOLT12 offers, detailing how to run it alongside LND and overcome installation challenges for small-scale miners seeking lightning-based payments (Jan 24 | 3 min read).

Eduardo Prospero of Blink wallet details how MoneyBadger integrations in Blink 2.4.8 enable BTC Lightning payments across South Africa via Zapper and Scan to Pay QR codes, expanding everyday spending while navigating Rand conversion, taxes, and circular economies like Bitcoin Ekasi (Jan 23 | 9 min read).

Vlad Costea of Bitcoin Takeover argues that Bitcoin maximalism has failed by rejecting innovation and driving developers to altcoins, resulting in lost network effects, stagnant adoption, and declining dominance, while proposing a new 'post-maximalism' philosophy that embraces experimentation and acknowledges Bitcoin's limitations (Jan 23 | 16 min read).

ProPublica reporters reveal how bigblocker Roger Ver (aka ‘Bitcoin Jesus) avoided prison for $50M in alleged tax evasion by hiring Trump's former attorney Christopher Kise, who leveraged insider DOJ connections to secure an unprecedented deferred prosecution deal that lets Ver simply pay what he owed (Jan 22 | 14 min read).

Joakim Book, managing editor for Bitcoin Magazine Print, argues that his Revolut account freeze over an unverified dispute exposes how bank deposits fail as true money since institutions can block access anytime, making permissioned fiat fundamentally different from assets under exclusive personal control (Jan 22 | 4 min read).

Jeffery L Degner and Thomas Savidge, Research Fellows at the American Institute for Economic Research, argue that America's declining birth rates stem primarily from monetary policy rather than culture, contending that inflation and fiat currency have made daily life unaffordable and that returning to sound money would be more effective than government subsidies in reviving family formation (Jan 22 | 6 min read).

Sylvain Saurel, author of the 'In Bitcoin We Trust' Newsletter, argues that by 2026 Bitcoin has matured from a speculative casino into boring financial infrastructure, becoming the global neutral collateral layer as institutions, miners, and sovereign entities integrate it into their operational systems through rigorous governance and compliance frameworks (Jan 22 | 8 min read).

New on Geyser: DCTRL Vancouver, a Bitcoin clubhouse and community hackspace in Canada, seeks crowdfunding support to sustain its volunteer-driven space.

New on Geyser: Sat Sorter, an open-source Bitcoin budgeting app built by a husband-and-wife team, offers zero-based budgeting with Nostr relay sync, NWC transaction tracking, and BTC Map integration for private and personal finance management.

Bitcoin Art Magazine launches its new podcast across major streaming platforms, inviting artists and creators to participate in discussions about the intersection of bitcoin and art.

Stirling Forge, a Nostr developer, creates a decentralized rideshare protocol on Nostr and two apps based on it - Ridestr and Drivestr - using Lightning payments via Cashu, eliminating corporate servers and relying entirely on Nostr infrastructure for communication.

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 434 by AJ Towns introduces a standardized peer-to-peer feature negotiation message, enabling permissionless protocol extensibility without version coordination across implementations.

Plebeian Market, an open-source Bitcoin marketplace built on Nostr, completes full migration to the NIP-99 standard enabling sovereign, interoperable stalls with direct Lightning zaps, zero custody, no mandatory fees, and optional value-for-value splits across all compatible clients.

Anipy, a self-custodial bitcoin wallet engineer, builds a one-tap Bitaxe mining setup that auto-configures Public Pool stratum settings and your BTC address from a mobile wallet.

Unchained, a bitcoin custody platform, launches a mobile vault spend feature on iOS enabling users to draft transactions, request multi-signature approvals, and manage vault security directly from their phones.

Fountain launches Fountain for Artists, an open music distribution platform using RSS, Bitcoin, and Nostr to give musicians instant payments, subscriptions, analytics, and automated revenue splits for $1/month.

SatsLegacy, an open-source Bitcoin inheritance platform, enables self-custody BTC vaults with timelocks, dead man’s switches, and multisig decay without third parties, KYC, fees, or custody.

Bitcoin DCA calculator by Tom Bennet compares dollar-cost averaging strategies against lump sum investments using historical price data, showing total returns, BTC acquired, and portfolio value over customizable time periods.

Vanity Npub is a tool that enables users to generate custom Nostr identities with desired prefixes through browser-based mining, offering 100% client-side key generation with no data storage or tracking.