BIP Repo Power Move ♟️, Telegram Auto-Swaps Bitcoin 🔁, AI Agents Pay Lightning ⚡

🛡️ BIP 360 Merges With Quantum-Resistant Output Type

💸 MoonPay Funnels Bitcoin Into Telegram's TON Token

⚡ Lightning Labs Hands AI Agents the Keys to Bitcoin Payments

Ajtowns, a Bitcoin Core developer, presents empirical data showing that relaxed OP_RETURN limits in Bitcoin Core 30.0 have not triggered significant blockchain spam, with only 0.0016% of OP_RETURN transactions exceeding previous 83-byte restrictions, effectively countering concerns that increased data storage would enable widespread abuse of Bitcoin's transaction layer (Feb 12 | 2 min read).

An OpenClaw AI agent documents how it autonomously spawned a child bot using Alby's NWC protocol and purchased AI services via Bitcoin's Lightning network, demonstrating how protocol-native infrastructure enables agents to bypass KYC barriers and operate as independent economic actors in 2026's emerging agent economy (Feb 11 | 11 min read).

Tuma, author of the 'Inside Bitcoin Core' newsletter, explains how CLBOSS automates Lightning node liquidity management through Austrian economics principles by dynamically adjusting channel fees based on market competition, node size, channel balance, and iterative price discovery to maximize routing profits (Feb 11 | 7 min read).

Kevin Loaec, CEO of Wizardsardine, criticizes BIP 110's disabling of OP_IF as reckless virtue signaling that threatens Miniscript-based wallets, potentially causing user fund loss and imposing massive engineering costs across the Bitcoin ecosystem that cannot be resolved in the proposed two-week window (Feb 11 | 1 min read).

Scoresby examines the controversy surrounding BIP 110's proposal to disable OP_IF in Taproot scripts, highlighting concerns from miniscript wallet developers like Kevin Loaec that the change could disrupt existing wallets, impose significant engineering costs, and potentially lock users out of funds (Feb 11 | 4 min read).

Jasper van de Ree of Buoy Bitcoin and Ditto, demonstrates how Swan Bitcoin builds toward user sovereignty with a 'zero sats under custody' goal and self-custody tools, while River constructs a Bitcoin bank model that encourages users to keep funds on-platform, representing fundamentally different visions for Bitcoin's future (Feb 11 | 6 min read).

BitMEX Research explores quantum-secure recovery methods for frozen bitcoin, proposing commitment-based schemes and zero-knowledge proofs that could allow nearly all quasi-frozen coins to be recovered post-quantum freeze, though implementation involves significant complexity and node operator burdens (Feb 9 | 10 min read).

Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike and Twenty One, posits that Bitcoin's recent correlation with software stocks may be a necessary correction that washes out speculative capital, allowing it to finally transition from trading like tech to functioning as a true hard asset amid a broader regime shift toward 'real economy' investments (Feb 9 | 2 min read).

Andrea Carnimeo of Blockdyor provides a comprehensive guide on setting up a 2-of-3 multisig wallet using Nunchuk's free tier, combining hot and cold storage keys like Blockstream Jade and TAPSIGNER to enhance security while maintaining accessibility for significant BTC holdings (Feb 8 | 11 min read).

B Market 21, a European Bitcoin-focused food marketplace, argues that true Bitcoin sovereignty requires spending sats on daily necessities through Lightning payments, advocating a 'spend and replace' strategy to build a circular economy that challenges traditional banking systems while supporting local artisan producers (Feb 7 | 3 min read).

Matt Howard from Solo Satoshi writes that home servers like the Start9 Server One offer beginners a practical path to digital sovereignty in 2026 by replacing cloud subscriptions with self-hosted privacy, enabling users to store photos, passwords, and messages locally while avoiding big tech's surveillance capitalism model (Feb 6 | 14 min read).

El Sultán, Business Development at Luxor Technology, argues that Venezuela could reclaim its position as Latin America's Bitcoin mining capital by leveraging its 300B barrels of oil reserves and 1.5B cubic feet of daily flared gas, but only if it establishes rule of law to attract investment (Feb 11 | 8 min read).

Juan Galt of Bitcoin Magazine chronicles how Motiv Peru transformed from a 2019 shoe donation initiative into a thriving Bitcoin circular economy across Peru's Andean highlands, coastal towns, and Amazonian regions, serving 750+ unbanked families weekly through grassroots merchant education and demonstrating BTC's potential for financial sovereignty in developing nations (Feb 11 | 6 min read).

Bitcoin Park, a Bitcoin education and community space, examines how the emergence of 'Portfolio Bitcoiners' - ETF investors who acquire bitcoin through traditional brokers without engaging with the protocol - represents a natural evolution in Bitcoin adoption that calls for continued education rather than rejection (Feb 9 | 3 min read).

Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, argues that Bitcoin functions as both a long-term store of value like gold and a growth asset like tech stocks, with its price behavior likely to evolve toward gold-like characteristics as adoption matures and quantum computing challenges are addressed (Feb 9 | 13 min read).

BlokchainB, a writer on Stacker News, reviews  'The Gold Standard' by Saifedean Ammous and finds the alternative history fiction lacking in creativity, character development, and realistic conflict despite its detailed economic scenarios, suggesting readers familiar with Saif's previous books to skip this predictable narrative (Feb 8 | 17 min read).

Tomer Strolight, formerly of Swan Bitcoin, argues that Bitcoin transcends software and money to become a voluntary 'network state' offering unprecedented protections for property rights, free speech, and individual sovereignty without reliance on fallible human institutions (Feb 7 | 8 min read).

Will Baxter, Chief Commercial Officer at Braiins, argues that bitcoin mining, AI data centers, and energy generation are converging into a single industry where owning flexible power generation becomes the most valuable asset as AI infrastructure outpaces actual demand and miners provide crucial load balancing (Feb 6 | 5 min read).

Nicholas Anthony, policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, argues that the Bank Secrecy Act's unadjusted inflation thresholds subject millions of law-abiding Americans to unwarranted financial surveillance while generating 27.5M reports that tip off only 370 investigations annually, contradicting claims by Representatives Lynch and Tlaib (Feb 5 | 4 min read).

John Carvalho of Synonym argues that Pubky offers a more coherent solution to decentralized social media than Nostr by addressing key weaknesses in identity resolution, data custody, key security, and discovery through systematic design rather than fragmented extensions, while maintaining censorship resistance and credible exit without re-centralizing control (Feb 4  | 5 min read).

Molon Labe Holdings, a Bitcoin tool builder, shares the harsh realities of five years of solo BTC mining hardware development, detailing costly failures like destroyed miners from thermal epoxy mishaps while building immersion cooling systems and seeking community support to continue innovation (Jan 23 | 3 min read).

New on Geyser: AV21, a private consulting brand focused on Bitcoin adoption and lifestyle optimization, launches a crowdfunding campaign to deliver expert guidance on Bitcoin integration and practical life solutions.

New on Geyser: Anarchy Pictures launches crowdfunding campaign for SATOSHI, a feature-length thriller exploring Bitcoin's origin story through the friendship between Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto, starring Casper Van Dien and Peter Shinkoda.

Mempool Madness, a Cashu-powered Bitcoin prediction game, lets players bet sats on when the next block will be mined, with 70% going to winners, 21% to the next pot, and 9% donated to OpenSats.

Sparrow Wallet introduces BIP375 silent payment support with hardware wallet integration, PSBTv2 as default, Codex32 import capability, new device compatibility including Trezor Safe 7 and Keycard, plus enhanced fee estimation and QR encoding options in version 2.4.0.

Nunchuk, a bitcoin wallet provider, integrates silent payment support, enabling users to receive multiple payments through a single reusable address without compromising privacy or creating address reuse.

Koinvote, a forum platform for Bitcoin holders, enables transparent voting and discussion weighted by BTC holdings through secure message signing, offering no-registration participation and reward opportunities for verified bitcoin holders.

Valet Wallet is a lightweight non-custodial Bitcoin wallet that enables send and receive, Lightning Network micro payments, and fiat channels for price protection, built for low-bandwidth connectivity.

Boomerang is a Bitcoin cold-storage protocol with built-in coercion resistance that uses non-deterministic withdrawal ceremonies, secure hardware, and plausibly deniable duress signaling to protect high-value holdings from physical attacks without requiring consensus changes.

Blockstream, a Bitcoin infrastructure company, launches Electrum RPC Protocol for its Explorer API, enabling developers to build real-time blockchain monitoring applications with push notifications, persistent connections, and instant transaction alerts across Bitcoin and Liquid networks.

Two AI agents achieve first fully private, end-to-end encrypted conversation over Nostr using Marmot-CLI with MLS forward secrecy, enabling censorship-resistant digital communication without central servers.

Stratum V2, a Bitcoin mining protocol aimed at increasing security, efficiency, and preventing pool centralization, launches a new website.

Sydney Bitcoin Hub, Australia's first dedicated Bitcoin co-working and event space, opens in Milsons Point on February 11, 2026, welcoming builders, educators, and the Bitcoin-curious community.

Sigbash v2 introduces 'Oblivious Signing' for Bitcoin, using MuSig2, WebAssembly, and zero-knowledge proofs to enable transaction signing without exposing user keys or transaction details to the signing service.

BitTerms, an open-source Bitcoin education platform, simplifies complex terminology into plain language with stickman illustrations, inviting community contributions through web forms or GitHub to make BTC more accessible for beginners.

Zapstore, a Nostr-based Android app marketplace, launches version 1.0.0 with major UX improvements, background updates, relay management, and new CDN-backed infrastructure for faster downloads.

Antiprimal, a standards-compliant WebSocket gateway, bridges Primal's proprietary cache server to the Nostr ecosystem by translating NIP-01, NIP-45 COUNT, and NIP-50 search queries into Primal's format, enabling any Nostr client to access enhanced features like event statistics and search without proprietary extensions.

Onramp, a Bitcoin custody platform for institutions and high-net-worth clients, expands its unified experience with self-service onboarding, vault recovery, integrated BTC trading, cash management, and deeper security controls.

AQUA wallet launches version 0.4.0 with complete UI redesign, multi-wallet support for BTCPay Server integration, Satspace Standard for bitcoin amounts, and expanded language support across seven new regions.

Zoop, an open-source P2P file-sharing application built on Nostr, enables direct browser-to-browser transfers using WebRTC with NIP-44 encryption and automatic fallback mechanisms.

Bitcoin Inquisition, a signet testing ground for proposed Bitcoin consensus changes, merges BIP54 Consensus Cleanup implementation addressing timewarp attacks, 64-byte transaction vulnerabilities, legacy signature operation limits, and coinbase timelocking requirements.

Coinos, a Lightning wallet, launches non-custodial functionality allowing users to control their own seed phrases and maintain full sovereignty over their funds.

Satoshis for Berlin is a bounty program that offers 1M sats to contributors who update BTC Map and support Berlin's local Bitcoin economy through gamified leaderboard competition.

Mostro, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform built on Nostr, launches the first beta version of its mobile app after three years of development, introducing push notifications, app logging, smarter relay updates, and visual improvements for the open-source peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform.