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Bobby Shell, VP of Marketing at Voltage, writing for Bitcoin News, chronicles how Bitcoin's Lightning Network has evolved from an experimental concept into proven financial infrastructure over eight years, now processing $500M in capacity and positioning Bitcoin as a scalable global payment system beyond just a speculative asset (Feb 9 | 4 min read).

Ritika Gupta, Financial Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst at AMBCrypto, explores how BlackRock's IBIT ETF amplified Bitcoin's 35% crash through forced bank hedging on February 5, but notes recent $200M inflows and a 65% jump in Coinbase Premium Index may signal institutional re-entry and a potential BTC bottom (Feb 8 | 2 min read).

Chris Dixon of a16z claims that blockchain's current financial focus is a necessary foundation for future non-financial applications, explaining that infrastructure and regulatory clarity must precede broader adoption, much like the internet's evolution required decades of groundwork before enabling social media and streaming (Feb 8 | 4 min read).

Robert Warren, Head of Research and Education at Bitcoin Park, argues that Bitcoin mining fulfills industrial-era visions by transforming stranded energy into instantly monetized hash rate, unlocking human flourishing through decentralized, location-invariant operations that overcome traditional manufacturing constraints (Feb 7 | 30 min read).

Saurabh of Bitcoin Data Labs examines Gloria Zhao's Bitcoin Core contributions revealing 503 commits over five years including protocol-critical work on Package Relay and V3 Transactions, followed by a sudden two-month silence and resignation after sustained controversy, suggesting bullying impacts developer productivity (Feb 7 | 2 min read).

Che Kohler of The Bitcoin Manual writes that Bithumb's $44B typo – where an employee mistakenly distributed 620,000 BTC instead of $425 in Korean won – proves centralised exchanges are catastrophically unsafe and that hardware wallet self-custody is the only way to truly protect bitcoin holdings (Feb 6 | 15 min read).

Onramp, a bitcoin financial services provider, argues that bitcoin remains fundamentally uncontrollable by any single entity through its decentralized architecture of open-source code, 24,000 independent nodes across 150 countries, and consensus-driven protocol changes that have repeatedly resisted corporate and mining attempts at centralized influence (Feb 6 | 6 min read).

[alloc]init, a cryptography research firm, publishes Bitcoin PIPEs v2, a witness encryption scheme enabling covenants and zero-knowledge proofs on Bitcoin without consensus changes, using cryptography rather than new opcodes to make Bitcoin more programmable while avoiding soft forks (Feb 5 | 2 min read).

Tobias aka 'TheCoinDad,' a US military veteran and Bitcoin mining shop owner, in an interview with Conor Chepenik of Bitcoin News, chronicles his journey from accidentally collecting abandoned miners to founding the Bitcoin Discovery Center in Dallas, a 30,000-square-foot nonprofit museum and education hub preserving Bitcoin's physical mining history (Feb 4 | 9 min read).

Pieter Wuille, a Bitcoin Core developer, explains how BIP 324's v2 transport protocol encrypts Bitcoin node communication with pseudorandom bytestreams, raising costs for large-scale network surveillance while maintaining the decentralized network's trustless architecture and avoiding reliance on Tor or I2P (Feb 5  | 5 min read).

Brian Cubellis, Chief Strategy Officer at Onramp, warns that physical and digital attacks on bitcoin holders surged 70% in 2025 as criminals exploit data breaches and social engineering to target self-custody users, arguing multi-institution custody offers structural protection against escalating kidnapping and coercion threats (Feb 3 | 10 min read).

New on Geyser: Nostr Game Engine, an open-source platform leveraging Bitcoin and Nostr protocols, offers serverless P2P networking, privacy-first monetization, and decentralized game distribution for developers building real-time applications.

New on Geyser: Bitcoin House Malaysia, a community-funded education center and hub in Kuala Lumpur, offers free walk-in sessions, developer hackathons, and hands-on learning resources to build Southeast Asia's Bitcoin technical capacity and foster long-term community growth.

Agent Wallet by Money Dev Kit's agent Satbot enables AI agents to autonomously send and receive bitcoin via Lightning Network using bolt11, bolt12, LNURL, and lightning addresses with zero-configuration self-custodial setup.

Bitpost, a no-KYC peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, opens its waitlist offering early users lifetime subscription draws, higher reputation, discounted fees, and zero-fee trading for a limited time.

BIP 433 introduces Pay to Anchor (P2A), a keyless Bitcoin output script requiring no signature to spend, designed to enable efficient CPFP fee bumping for layer 2 systems like Lightning Network while minimizing transaction footprint and improving watchtower interoperability.

Satoshi Sentinel, an experimental Bitcoin education chatbot, prioritizes thoughtful understanding over speed by reframing questions in plain language, avoiding investment advice, and encouraging users to think critically about trade-offs.

Ibis Wallet, an open-source self-custodial Bitcoin wallet for Android built with BDK, offers advanced features including hardware wallet signing via QR codes, coin control, RBF/CPFP fee bumping, built-in Tor routing, and encrypted backups for experienced users.

Orange Dev Tracker, a comprehensive Bitcoin Core development dashboard, visualizes 15 years of contributor data, functional code categories, global distribution patterns, and the shift from voluntary to sponsored development.

Africa Bitcoin News, a new continent-focused Bitcoin-only news platform, launches to cover local adoption stories, African builders, and Bitcoin developments across the region.

BIP 110, a temporary soft fork proposal to reduce Bitcoin transaction data, enters the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository with a deployment plan featuring mandatory signaling period before activation at block 965664.

Tom Bennet ships an interactive piece exploring proof-of-work and mining from first principles, covering concepts like hashing and the difficulty adjustment.

Umbrel, maker of home cloud servers for self-hosting apps like Bitcoin nodes and OpenClaw, launches its premium Umbrel Pro on Product Hunt this week.