Keith Mukai, SeedSigner's Lead Developer, reports on a historic Vinteum-organized summit in Brazil where competing self-custodial Bitcoin projects forged alliances, shared code freely, and charted a unified FOSS roadmap (Aug 13 | 15 min read).

Calle, member of the recently formed Bitcoin red team, reveals that AI-driven vulnerability scans are exposing widespread critical flaws across Bitcoin's open-source codebase, urging developers to adopt AI audit pipelines, ditch the C language, and respond faster to stay secure (Aug 13 | 2 min read).

Isaque Franklin, fellow at Vinteum, breaks down libsecp256k1's ECDH module line by line, explaining how Bitcoin's cryptographic library derives shared secrets through scalar multiplication, hashing, overflow checks, and constant-time memory clearing for security (Aug 12 | 10 min read).

Alby reports on the growth of L402, x402, and MPP, the three HTTP-402 payment protocols powering AI agent commerce, highlighting that paid endpoints grow roughly 7x from February to June 2026, led by x402's dominant share (Aug 12 | 5 min read).

Lontivero, Wasabi Wallet developer, outlines the project's roadmap, detailing mobile support, WabiSabi library, hardware wallet coinjoins, Payjoin v2, and future plans to build a fully programmable, service-based Bitcoin privacy wallet (Aug 12 | 3 min read).

Bennet, a Bitcoin researcher, explores how someone permanently destroyed 107 BTC (worth $8.3M) via a burn address in May 2026, explaining why deletion is impossible, how eater addresses versus OP_RETURN work, and speculating on the burner's motive (Aug 12 | 9 min read).

Helen Partz, staff writer at Cointelegraph, reports how investigators including Galaxy Research, TRM Labs and CryptoQuant are producing conflicting Coldcard hack loss estimates ranging from 1,432 BTC to 1,816 BTC due to limits of on-chain tracing on Bitcoin (Aug 11 | 2 min read).

Jameson Lopp, Casa's Chief Security Officer, explains how the company built an AI-powered pentest harness that discovers, verifies, and reports Bitcoin code vulnerabilities with source-grounded evidence to cut hallucinations and speed up security triage (Aug 11 | 5 min read).

Researchers M Sarnecki and N Burke publish a peer-reviewed research showing that Bitcoin mining can absorb 83% of Ireland's wasted wind energy, while boosting farm revenues by 32% without subsidies or battery degradation (Aug 11 | 50 min read).

Loïc Morel, author of the Bitcoin Dictionary, in a post for Wizardsardine, presents a detailed technical autopsy Coldcard's entropy failure, showing how a linker error routed seed generation to a predictable software RNG, shrinking key space to just 2^22 candidates, sweepable cheaply on a single GPU (Aug 11 | 67 min read).

Knut Svanholm, host of the Bitcoin Infinity Show and a BIP-110 proponent, reflects on BIP110's failed activation, concluding that miners ignored the UASF due to insufficient economic support rather than proving Bitcoin's capture (Aug 11 | 7 min read).

Samson Mow of JAN3 corrects the record on BIP-148, arguing that the 2017 UASF succeeded through combined economic weight, hashrate, and nodes rather than conviction alone (Aug 11 | 3 min read).

Destiny Smart of Blink Wallet, warns Bitcoin users that phishing scams are now targeting self-custodial wallet holders by tricking them into typing their 12-word backup phrase into fake websites, emphasizing one rule: never share it online (Aug 12 | 7 min read).

Bitcoin Mechanic, one of the leading advocates of the BIP-110 fork, argues that BIP110's rejection by mining pools reveals that Bitcoin's consensus is captured, urging a Proof-of-Work hard fork to restore decentralization and preserve Bitcoin's original monetary purpose (Aug 12 | 4 min read).

Nunchuk, a Bitcoin wallet and collaborative-custody provider, details its emergency response to Coinkite's Coldcard entropy vulnerability, migrating 99% of exposed funds while crediting its no-single-point-of-failure architecture for preventing any client losses (Aug 11 | 5 min read).

Allard Peng of Bitcoin for Corporations argues that Strategy's $4.65B USD reserve exists solely to support its Digital Credit issuance and offset S&P's B- rating penalty on BTC, making cash hoarding unnecessary for most other bitcoin companies (Aug 11 | 4 min read).

Decrypt explains why Strategy, the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder, sold 6,948 BTC for roughly $432.5M since May under its new Digital Credit Capital Framework, funding dividends and STRC buybacks while still holding over 840,000 BTC worth $53.6B (Aug 11 | 3 min read).

Turtlecute of Braiins argues that Luke Dashjr repeatedly abused maintainer and editor access across Gentoo, BIPs, and Core translations, misrepresenting BIP-110's risks before its access revocation ended a decade-long pattern of misusing keys (Aug 11 | 3 min read).

Raphael Zagury, the new CEO of Twenty One, outlines five priorities - governance, operating businesses, capital markets, M&A, and Bitcoin lending - to close the gap between the company's stock price and its bitcoin holdings while building beyond a pure treasury model (Aug 11 | 7 min read).

Jacob Langenkamp of the Bitcoin Policy Institute argues that Bitcoin mining can monetize Ukraine's stranded nuclear power, generating roughly $1B over five years to service reconstruction debt while stabilizing a war-damaged grid (Aug 11 | 24 min read).

Alok, founder of CryoBrick and Bitshala fellow, explains how his team built an affordable, disguised Bitcoin cold storage wallet from a $20 feature phone, offering plausible deniability and cryptographic security without a dedicated Secure Element (Aug 10 | 8 min read).

Vincenzo Palazzo, a Bitcoin developer, argues that BOLT12 offers can unify Lightning's fragmented protocols like Spark and Ark, hiding plumbing complexity so payments 'just work' for users without repeating past UX mistakes (Aug 10 | 2 min read).

Frank Corva, a Bitcoin writer, explores how fiat currency debasement has crushed minimum wage and median family income purchasing power since 1971 when measured against gold, while arguing that Bitcoin is a fairer, apolitical alternative for restoring workers' dignity (Aug 10 | 8 min read).

Charles Guillemet, CTO of Ledger, argues that open source is a distribution property rather than a security guarantee, warning that hardware wallets require secure elements and rigorous verification instead of relying on 'trust minimization theater' (Aug 6 | 5 min read).

Orangesurf of Mempool(dot)space analyzes the critical Coldcard firmware vulnerability, warning that default setup wallets are insecure and urging users to immediately migrate their bitcoin using high fee public broadcasts or private mempools (Aug 5 | 7 min read).

Blockstream highlights the expansion of its Simplicity smart contract language on the Liquid Network, showcasing live post-quantum signatures and upcoming developer tools designed to streamline secure, decentralized financial applications (Aug 4 | 5 min read).

SimpleStacker, in an article on Stacker News, investigates how CoinKite's licensing conflicts and desire to abandon GPLv3 triggered a firmware migration to 'libNgU' that ultimately introduced the critical ColdCard entropy bug (Aug 4 | 4 min read).

Anmol Sharma, a fellow at Bitshala, presents an exhaustive analysis of BIP 352, explaining how Silent Payments eliminate address reuse on the Bitcoin network while evaluating the cryptographic mechanics, receiver-side scanning costs, and vital PSBT integrations for hardware wallets (Aug 3 | 30 min read).

Jabulani Chibaya, co-founder of GourdAI, in an article on Mises Wire, argues that Zimbabwe's central bank is reviving inflationary money printing to covertly finance a high-stakes ruling-party succession crisis, threatening the newly launched gold-backed currency's stability and penalizing key exporters who face over $228M in unpaid conversions (Jul 30 | 6 min read).

Osygy, a Cashu developer, introduces Orchard, a self-hosted, open-source web application designed to simplify Cashu mint management by unifying Bitcoin, Lightning, and local AI tools into a single command center (Jul 30 | 4 min read).

Fabian Jahr, a Bitcoin developer, drafts BIP460 to enable cross-input signature aggregation for Taproot spends, potentially lowering fees and improving CoinJoin privacy via soft fork.

Lexe, a self-custodial Lightning wallet provider, launches zero-reserve, zero-fee commitment transactions in v0.10.0, letting users spend channel balances fully after key Bitcoin Core and LDK upgrades.

Bitcoin Dev Project, an open source Bitcoin education initiative, launches a visual tool explaining entropy sources like TRNG, PRNG, dice rolls, and BIP-39 seed generation.

Braiins, a Bitcoin mining infrastructure firm, introduces guaranteed SHA-256 hashrate contracts, letting miners rent computing power with stable pricing, flexible terms, and cancelation options.

Floresta, a lightweight Rust Bitcoin node project, outlines its 2026 roadmap, shifting from new capabilities toward stronger testing, observability, synchronization, and developer tooling.

KaleidoSwap, a Bitcoin swap service, releases version 0.2.0 of their Extension, adding Liquid and RGB mainnet support, Nostr identity, and personal Lightning addresses.

Jonas Nick, Blockstream Research head, publishes libshrincs, a C library for Bitcoin-focused WOTS+C one-time signatures, with formal verification work by remix7531.

Payjoin Dev Kit, a Bitcoin privacy toolkit, releases version 1.0 with stable Rust BIP 77 and BIP 78 payjoin support and multi-language wallet bindings.

ChillDKG is a distributed key generation standard that helps FROST multisig wallets create threshold keys without trusted dealers or visible on-chain multisig footprints.

Anthony Towns, a Bitcoin developer, updates a proof-of-work signet faucet to let small miners earn test coins for realistic Bitcoin network testing.

Sam, a Bitcoin developer, drafts Monetary Nodes, a proposal letting validating nodes delete non-monetary UTXO data while preserving consensus and spend validation.

Ledger Bitcoin app version 2.5.0 adds human-readable Taproot Miniscript policy descriptions, helping hardware wallet users verify complex account rules before funds move.

Developer Welliv proposes to integrate Routstr into Alby Hub as a self-hosted AI gateway, enabling per-request AI payments in sats through Cashu ecash.

Amboss, a Bitcoin infrastructure and analytics platform, releases an interactive entropy explainer quizzing users on multisig security benefits versus dice roll based key generation methods.

WoompaLoompa, an open-source developer, also launches LNbits-CLINK to enable automated, non-custodial bitcoin subscriptions and payments natively over the Nostr network.

Ek, a Stacker News contributor, launches territory(dot)watch to help territory founders track revenue and stats while exploring future community-built Bitcoin forum tools.

Lightning Labs launches an alpha AI assistant in Lightning Terminal, letting node operators analyze balances, routing, fees, and channel health with privacy safeguards.

Plaza, a native macOS Nostr client built on the zig-nostr core, offers local first feeds, guest reading, and secure key custody through its separate Notary signer process.

Compass Mining, a bitcoin hardware hosting marketplace, discloses a breach after attackers access customer accounts, view emails and invoice histories, and attempt pool changes.

Frontier Crown, a Bitcoin-inspired browser massively multiplayer online game, launches beta to test fixed money supply in-game with a finite amount of Crown Gold, global ticks, and player-driven markets.

m0wer, a Bitcoin developer, releases Bitcoin Airgap QR Workbench, a browser-based tool for scanning and generating dynamic QR codes used by airgapped hardware wallets.

Brandon Black, developer known as reardencode, launches rbitcoin, an AI prompted rust-bitcoin node implementation, despite prior community warnings against using rust-bitcoin for consensus critical Bitcoin infrastructure.

Lightning Mode AI launches a Telegram-based self-custodial wallet proof of concept on signet using Lightning Labs’ Wavelength SDK.

Stream Road is a Nostr-based live streaming platform that enables Lightning zaps and card-supported payments via PayPal for creators.

Signal, the encrypted messaging app, tests a new paid option letting users skip phone number registration via one-time payment or existing account key, according to Flash, a new reporter on Nostr.

OCEAN defends its BIP110 default endpoint choice, explains prior hashrate rebates, and denies advocating for the contested, non-consensus Bitcoin upgrade proposal.

Geyser, a Bitcoin fundraising platform, urges creators to add their own Bitcoin and Lightning addresses or connect Stripe for contributions as a temporary measure as partner Boltz, a swap infrastructure provider, suspends operations.

Conduition, a Bitcoin researcher, proposes 'DropKick', a minimal commit/reveal protocol designed to protect inactive users' vulnerable bitcoin unspent transaction outputs from potential quantum computer attacks.

Justin, developer of Shocknet and the CLINK protocol, announces adding three new applications, including a Dark Wisp plugin, to CLINK's ecosystem list.

WoompaLoompa also releases an OpenCart plugin for the CLINK protocol, enabling e-commerce merchants to accept direct, non-custodial bitcoin payments and auto-renewing subscriptions.

Blink, a Bitcoin wallet provider, launches Blink Terminal, a web-based point-of-sale tool that lets merchants accept custodial and non-custodial bitcoin payments through any browser.

Magic Internet Math, a Bitcoin educational platform founded by @Fundamentals21m, releases a comprehensive primer explaining covenants, a set of proposed upgrades to Bitcoin.