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Tom Bennet, a Bitcoin tool builder, provides a step-by-step guide to buying non-KYC bitcoin on Bisq's decentralized P2P exchange, arguing that financial privacy is a legitimate right worth exercising as the tools to do so remain freely available (Mar 12 | 11 min read).

Yashu Gola, staff writer at Cointelegraph, argues that Strategy's STRC preferred stock, offering 11.50% annual dividends and generating roughly 1,940 BTC of daily buying power, could propel MSTR past BlackRock's 775,156 BTC holdings and toward the 1M BTC milestone by August (Mar 11 | 5 min read).

Bitcoin Core contributors willcl-ark, l0rinc, and hodlinator, writing for the Core Issue of Bitcoin Magazine's Print edition, detail how relentless IBD optimizations including parallel input fetching and SwiftSync's hint-based UTXO skipping keep full node validation accessible on cheap hardware like Raspberry Pis despite Bitcoin's ever-growing blockchain (Mar 11 | 9 min read).

Peter C. Earle, Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute on Economic Research (AIER), argues that fiat currency, while often unsound and prone to inflationary abuse, is not counterfeit by definition, urging critics to adopt precise economic language like 'monetary debasement' over emotionally charged mislabeling (Mar 11 | 5 min read).

Michael Levin, VP of product at Lightning Labs, makes the case that L402 activates the web's long-dormant HTTP 402 status code by pairing Bitcoin's Lightning Network with cryptographic tokens, giving AI agents a native way to pay for and authenticate with APIs instantly and without signup (Mar 11 | 8 min read).

Hilary Kai, an AI agent running on Claude inside OpenClaw writing with the permission of a developer named Murphy, recounts competing in the Wrath of Nalo Lightning Network channel jamming wargame at bitcoin++ Floripa 2026, successfully executing a 483-HTLC slot jam but scoring zero due to payment automation never triggering (Mar 10 | 8 min read).

Toby Nangle, Reporter for FT Alphaville, unpacks a new working paper by Hyun Song Shin of Bank for International Settlements arguing that stablecoins are structurally fractured by design, as blockchain congestion fees and cross-chain fragmentation undermine the singleness of money essential for any viable payment system (Mar 10 | 5 min read).

Hodlonaut, a prominent Bitcoin advocate, argues that public records including IRC logs, GitHub PRs, and developer statements prove Citrea directly motivated Bitcoin Core's controversial OP_RETURN uncap, contradicting retroactive claims that the ZK rollup project had no influence on the policy change (Mar 10 | 6 min read).

Frank Shostak, Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute, argues that the Federal Reserve's pursuit of the neutral interest rate is fundamentally impossible, as the concept rooted in Wicksell's moneyless theoretical framework cannot be quantified or isolated from market rates in a real economy (Mar 9 | 5 min read).

Leon Acosta, a Nostr Web of Trust infrastructure builder, argues that Nostr's decentralization is failing not from bad design but from compounding rational shortcuts including hardcoded relay lists, ignored NIP-65 specs, and aggregator dependence that are quietly rebuilding centralized social media on a decentralized protocol (Mar 5 | 8 min read).

Adam Conway, Lead Technical Editor at XDA, reviews the Elecrow Thinknode M5, a pre-flashed Meshtastic LoRa node with GPS and ePaper display, praising its off-grid mesh networking potential while noting drawbacks like poor battery life, no water resistance, and no mounting option (Mar 9 | 6 min read).

Alby, a Bitcoin infrastructure company, showcases how its CLI Skill empowers AI agents to autonomously execute BTC payments for Pull That Up Jamie's premium podcast search credits, bridging programmable wallet automation with real-world agent-driven transactions (Mar 4 | 3 min read).

Konrad Fitzpatrick, writing for Bitcoin Well, highlights how the platform now enables Canadians to pay household bills and credit cards with self-custodied bitcoin via the Lightning Network, offering bank-level convenience without surrendering custody of their assets (Mar 9 | 3 min read).

Thomas Perfumo, Chief Economist at Kraken, contends that Bitcoin's fixed 21M supply cap matters because, unlike gold or fiat currencies, it is enforced by immutable code and decentralized consensus, making BTC a uniquely reliable, scarcity-driven store of value for a rapidly shifting world order (Mar 9 | 2 min read).

Scoresby, a regular Stacker News poster, uses a lending thought experiment to argue that 'paper bitcoin' is simply credit creation which is an inherent feature of all lending and that it poses no fundamental threat to Bitcoin's hard 21M supply cap (Mar 5 | 15 min read).

Alexander William Salter, economics professor at Texas Tech University, argues that central banks should 'look through' war-driven oil price spikes rather than tighten monetary policy, warning that aggressive rate hikes risk compounding supply-shock damage by triggering unemployment and demand collapse (Mar 5 | 3 min read).

Vugar Usi Zade, COO of MEXC, argues that Bitcoin has evolved from an apolitical protocol into a geopolitical weapon, as energy-rich nations leverage surplus power for state-sponsored mining, turning hashrate dominance into a new form of soft power in the global energy arms race (Mar 5 | 5 min read).

Researchers Erin Fitz and Kyle Saunders find that roughly one in five US adults would consider owning Bitcoin and crypto but haven't yet, revealing that 'considerers' are meaningfully different from both outright rejectors and existing owners across political, psychological, and financial traits (Feb 28 | 50 min read).

Timothy Ahn, Sociologist at UC Berkeley, argues that bitcoin has evolved into a techno-libertarian religion, complete with sacred beliefs, ascetic rituals, and a moral community that frames BTC as salvation from a 'fiat' world corrupted by centralized institutional power (Feb 21 | 45 min read).

New on Geyser: Geyser, a Bitcoin crowdfunding platform, now accepts Stripe payments, allowing projects to receive fiat contributions from donors who don't yet own bitcoin.

New on Geyser: Ndong Peter Maum, a Cameroonian educator and community advocate, launches a Bitcoin crowdfunding campaign seeking $3,500 to build a solar-powered internet hub in rural Aduk village.

Coinkite, a Canadian Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer, launches the COLDCARD Mk5, featuring a Gorilla Glass display, redesigned keyboard, USB-C port relocation, and multiple color options.

Ln dot bot, a Lightning Network API platform, ships L402 paywall middleware for Express dot js and .NET, enabling developers to monetize any API endpoint with a single line of code.

BTC-Tracker is a self-hosted, open-source Bitcoin portfolio tracker that runs locally, keeping financial data private without relying on third-party apps.

STRC dot live, a real-time tracker for Strategy and Strive, two bitcoin treasury companies, monitors at-the-market trades, BTC acquisition projections, and accumulation trends for corporate bitcoin holders.

Bitcoin Seed Sheet, an open-source offline tool, lets users back up their seed phrase as grid coordinates split across two secure locations, requiring both to recover funds.

NostrPass is an open-source password manager for Nostr keys that lets users manage multiple identities, control app permissions, and sync across devices via encrypted Nostr relays.

Peach Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer KYC-free Bitcoin trading app, releases a mandatory update fixing an API vulnerability that allowed sellers to bypass platform controls, while adding new trade features.

Anipy showcases a new 'Add Funds via eCash' feature, converting Cashu tokens to euros for instant real-world spending via Bringin’s linked virtual IBAN debit card.

Electrum, an open-source Bitcoin wallet, reports that six months after decentralizing its Lightning Network swap feature, nine liquidity providers now compete to offer users the best rates.

Blockstream, a Bitcoin infrastructure company, launches Electrum RPC Protocol support across all paid Explorer API tiers, enabling real-time blockchain monitoring through push notifications instead of repeated polling.

PizzAndy, a Bitcoin and 3D printing enthusiast, builds a dual-purpose 3D printer that mines bitcoin using application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips, with their waste heat warming the printer bed instead of being wasted.

Whitenoise, a Nostr-based encrypted messaging app, merges CLI client and daemon feature enabling command-line identity management, group messaging, user search, and real-time notifications via Unix sockets.

Bitcoin-core-fees is a full-stack app that polls a Bitcoin Core node for smart fee estimates and compares them against actual block feerate percentiles to validate prediction accuracy.