Michael Tanguma, co-founder and CEO of Onramp, examining the Coldcard exploit that drained roughly 1,779 BTC (over $112M), argues that AI attackers are now weaponizing dormant firmware flaws within hours, meaning Bitcoin's security must shift from single-device trust to engineered, decorrelated key redundancy (Aug 20 | 4 min read).

Fedi, a company building scaling solutions for Bitcoin, explains how community custody using multi-signature Federations of trusted Guardians lets people hold bitcoin securely without bearing all the self-custody risk alone (Aug 19 | 6 min read).

Bitcoin Dev Project, an Bitcoin development education initiative, explains how developers get funded through salaried employment at various companies and grants from numerous organizations supporting open-source contributors around the world (Aug 19 | 2 min read).

Gabriel Custodiet & Urban Hacker, in an article on Watchman's Torch, argues that hardware wallets are overhyped, complex, and insecure, urging users to prioritize operational security and hot wallets to protect their funds from physical threats and supply chain vulnerabilities (Aug 19 | 12 min read).

Houston Morgan, in an article for Casa, explains how the distinct generation and storage of the Mobile Key, YubiKey, and Casa Key secure multisig vaults against single points of failure to protect user funds (Aug 18 | 12 min read).

Kudzai Kutukwa examines why Bitcoin matters beyond price speculation, using real stories of Iranians like Ismail, denied crowdfunding aid due to sanctions after losing his home, and Azad, whose wages collapsed due to an inflation rate of 88.6%, to argue that Bitcoin solves financial exclusion, not poverty itself (Aug 18 | 11 min read).

Car, in an article on Thriller, his Bitcoin zine, reflects on mortality and the Bitcoin bear market to argue that true success lies in faithful stewardship, honest building, and serving others rather than chasing superficial 'points' on a scoreboard (Aug 17 | 6 min read).

Nelson Cardozo, Bitcoin educator and author of Conociendo Bitcoin, argues that Bitcoin culture isn't dead but has splintered into a diverse ecosystem of overlapping communities, urging adoption through normality rather than greed or ideology and decentralized grassroots organizing over centralized institutions (Aug 17 | 9 min read).

Stephen Hall of Unchained argues that current bitcoin custody debates, pitting rigid self-sovereignty against institutional ETF custodianship, miss the deeper point, advocating instead for trust-based multisig collaboration among individuals, families, and institutions to scale true, resilient private property ownership responsibly (Aug 15 | 7 min read).

James Van Straten, Senior Analyst at CoinDesk, reports that AI/HPC-pivoted bitcoin miners now trade at 12.3x enterprise value versus 5.9x for pure-play operators, though a bitcoin price recovery to $126,000 could revive hashprice and restore traditional mining's appeal (Aug 18 | 3 min read).

Juan Galt of Bitcoin Magazine investigates the $118M Coldcard hardware wallet hack, exploring how Block traced the Wave 1 attacker's 1,082.65 BTC theft to blockchain-provider logs while examining whether a five-year-old entropy bug tied to Coinkite's libngu library migration points to insider involvement or coincidence (Aug 18 | 11 min read).

Leon Wankum, author of Digital Real Estate, in an excerpt from his book, draws on Michael Saylor's Manhattan analogy to argue that bitcoin functions as digital real estate, deriving value from absolute scarcity, borderless portability, and an expanding global network of adoption, liquidity, and trust, while distinguishing it from income-generating property (Aug 18 | 4 min read).

Zach Herbert, CEO of hardware wallet maker Foundation, argues that the Coldcard hack exposes how Bitcoin's 'don't trust, verify' community let one company's reputation silence researchers, enabling a five-year-old entropy bug to drain wallets unchecked (Aug 17 | 4 min read).

Thesvn, fellow at Bitshala, kicks off an article series explaining nginx, the open-source web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer that solved the C10K concurrency problem, alongside its master-worker architecture and how Rust powers the ngx_l402 module for L402 payments (Aug 17 | 11 min read).

Frank Shostak, in an article for Mises Institute, argues that the Fed should never accommodate rising money demand since doing so effectively expands the money supply, fueling boom-bust cycles rather than preserving genuine price and economic stability (Aug 17 | 5 min read).

Jaimes, in an article for Lightning News, maps six emerging Lightning-native ad rails, comparing reach, sats-based cost, and conversion for advertisers targeting Bitcoin-native audiences (Aug 3 | 18 min read).

Bringin, a European Bitcoin payments platform, releases its first Business Report detailing MiCA's licensing reset from 3,167 firms to 244, bank access hurdles, Travel Rule compliance risks, and country-by-country tax rules amid BTC's 31% H1 drop against the euro (Aug 13 | 48 min read).

Federico Rivi of Atlas21 examines Arthur Hayes' Yen-Quake essay arguing that Bessent's dollar-yen strategy pressures the Fed to expand its balance sheet via the FIMA Repo Facility, exposing monetary policy as foreign-policy leverage (Aug 13 | 4 min read).

D-Central, Canadian Bitcoin mining firm and firmware developer, explains Mujina's open-source GPL Rust mining daemon, comparing its experimental Bitaxe/EmberOne support against DCENT_OS and production-ready BraiinsOS+ for Antminer hardware (Aug 13 | 7 min read).

Ryan McMaken, editor in chief at the Mises Institute, explains how World War I's massive debt-fueled spending forced Europe off the gold standard, leading to the Brussels and Genoa conferences that birthed central bank-controlled fiat currency and lasting inflation (Aug 12 | 13 min read).

Nick Ward of Bitcoin For Corporations argues that AI's power demands aren't evicting Bitcoin miners but transforming them into energy arbitrageurs, monetizing grid-tied sites to stabilize balance sheets and reduce forced bitcoin selling (Aug 12 | 3 min read).

Blockstream researchers Kyrylo Riabov and Artem Chystiakov propose a decentralized asset management protocol on Liquid using Simplicity covenants, letting holders transfer regulated assets under onchain policy proofs without requiring the issuer's cosigning signature (Aug 12 | 15 min read).

Amboss, a Lightning infrastructure company, publishes an explainer that breaks down Ark's shared-UTXO tree design, comparing its round-based batching, VTXO expiry risks, and O(log n) exit costs against Lightning's channel model to clarify what each layer is actually built for (Aug 10 | 9 min read).

Keith Mukai, SeedSigner lead dev, publishes a ‘Dice to seed’ guide showing bitcoin users how to verify BIP-39 dice-generated seeds, avoid roll-count FUD and match wallet methods with external tools for seed security (Aug 3 | 60 min read).

Btrust Builders, a Bitcoin developer initiative which trains Global South talent, launches its 12-week 2026 Open-Source Fellowship to help high-performing developers transition into active open-source contributors on the Bitcoin network.

Clay Garrett, lead of Block's Bitkey, launches a public security log to document all system bugs and fixes, boosting transparency for users securing their own bitcoin.

Lightning node operator Shadowbip launches a new independent coordinator for Mostro, a peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin trading protocol, to help decentralize the ecosystem and offer users more choices.

Krux, an open-source Bitcoin signing device firmware project, names Jean (@JohnDoe_le_frog) as new lead maintainer, succeeding former maintainer odudex who stays on as contributor.

Overtorment, CTO of Blue Wallet, introduces Blueberry, a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet utilizing Neutrino technology to sync directly with the Bitcoin network without relying on centralized server infrastructure.

Bitcoin Core developer AChow announces that the Hardware Wallet Interface, a Python tool enabling Bitcoin software to communicate with hardware storage devices, is entering maintenance mode before its eventual archival.

Bringin, a European Bitcoin company, launches Bringin for Business beta, giving 10 companies dedicated corporate accounts for Bitcoin buying, selling, and Lightning payments.

OpenBitcoin is a self-hosted block explorer with node crawling, rich list data, price tools, offline utilities, and Bitcoin themed arcade games for users.

Blockstream, a Bitcoin infrastructure company, launches QuickSync, an open-source protocol condensing hundreds of address lookups into one descriptor request, speeding wallet syncing via its Explorer API significantly.

Visualize Bitcoin offers a 3D interactive tour explaining Bitcoin's network, wallets, mining and mempool visually.

Citadel FOSS, a Bitcoin open source developer group, rebrands Coinswap to OpenSwap, a decentralized atomic swap protocol removing single points of failure from providers.

Noah wallet adds offline payment receiving via Bark, letting its server forward invoices directly to users' Ark protocol addresses without push notifications.

Cordn, a private messaging application built on Nostr, launches version 0.3.0 to introduce encrypted voice notes and a redesigned user interface.

Iris Drive is a decentralized file sync tool that uses Nostr identity and content addressed htree storage, offering encrypted peer to peer sharing without DNS, SSL, or cloud servers.

Cashu development team releases version 2.0.0 of coco, a modular TypeScript toolkit for building ecash wallets, introducing advanced Lightning Network features and on-chain minting to simplify application development.

Blox Space, a coworking hub for Bitcoin builders in Turin, Italy offers grant-funded developers and researchers a free desk for six months to work in their space.

Foundation releases KeyOS version 1.4.0-beta1 for its Passport Prime device, introducing a redesigned launcher and expanded multisig wallet export options.

Club Orange, a social network for Bitcoiners, now lets users in the US buy bitcoin via Cash App directly in-app.

Lightning FM is a Nostr-based music platform that enables fans to stream music for free and purchase downloads directly from artists using bitcoin via the Lightning Network.

Eric Voskuil, a libbitcoin developer, shrinks Electrum's full chain address index from 160GB to 16GB, keeping fast sync and query speeds via extra SHA-256 computation.

RaspiBolt, an open-source Bitcoin and Lightning Network node guide, releases version 4, targeting Raspberry Pi 5 and Debian 13 for self-hosted node setups.

Bitcoin-decoder is an open-source tool that decodes Bitcoin transactions, Lightning invoices, VTXOs, and Nostr profiles in one interface.

Bitcoin-node-os-fingerprint scans publicly reachable Bitcoin nodes with nmap -O to guess their operating system.

Rust-bitcoin’s bip322 crate, a Bitcoin address-ownership proof verifier, fixes a critical flaw allowing forged P2WPKH and P2SH-P2WPKH signatures with unrelated keys.

m0wer, contributor to JoinMarket, proposes BlP 46 support for SeedSigner, helping users manage timelocked fidelity bonds with offline address verification and signing.

Npanel, a self-hostable nsite gateway for Nostr, lets teams publish decentralized sites and map custom domains without traditional web servers or platform lock-in.

Daniele, a Nostr developer, launches Squalk, an asynchronous forum tool built on Nostr featuring chat, threading, and community customization options.

Ibis Wallet releases version 4.7.0-beta with wipe PIN, clipboard clearing, RBF defaults, and major security fixes after an independent audit.