Adam Back Calls Bitcoin BIP-110 Idiocracy
Adam Back dismisses BIP-110's 'flip the bit' plan as idiocracy, saying Bitcoin faces no risk without broad miner support.
Adam Back dismisses BIP-110's 'flip the bit' plan as idiocracy, saying Bitcoin faces no risk without broad miner support.
Stablecoin supply reached approximately $309.7 billion in July 2026, while Visa’s on-chain analytics recorded a 58% increase in adjusted transaction volume over the preceding 12 months. As stablecoins also process billions of dollars during weekends beyond conventional banking hours, Payment companies have started adding them to existing financial products. Stripe completed its acquisition of Bridge
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warns that crypto vaults and lending protocols may fall under federal securities law.
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly surged over $66,800 this week, its strongest level in more than a month, before slipping back. Consecutive ETF inflows have pulled money back into the market after a prolonged period of outflows. Still, every bounce revives the same question. Is this the low, or another bear-market rally that fades? Why the Bitcoin
Strategy's new MSTR metrics show how much Bitcoin is left for shareholders after debt and preferred claims.
Elon Musk tells The Economist AI momentum is unstoppable, keeps his extinction risk estimate, and says enjoy the ride.
A US government test says Kimi K3 cyber capabilities trail top American AI models, but the comparison is not so simple.
Two experts explain when quantum computers could break Bitcoin, why a 2% risk could wipe out crypto, and who must act.
CZ admits he misjudged the stablecoin market, once dismissing it as a temporary patch job before it grew past $300 billion.
Multicoin and Paradigm's $291M HYPE unstaking pushed the token below $60. Both deny selling as data points to custody moves.
Hackers took over Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account to push Vladhood, a new crypto coin flagged as a likely scam.
Oil prices topped $100 as Trump weighed a massive new strike on Iran, while Bitcoin slipped below $65,000.
SpaceX stock and its 2056 bonds are sinking together, and Peter Schiff sees it as a crash warning for stocks and crypto.
A public petition has alleged that foreign-funded groups helped drive India’s Cockroach Janta Party protests. A BeInCrypto audit found no public evidence of a broad crypto-funding wave during the movement’s July escalation. The available signals moved in the opposite direction. Protest-related Google searches surged about 1,350% above baseline between July 18 and July 22. Crypto-buying
CZ says his biggest mistake building Binance was underestimating law, compliance, and politics, not the technology.
Google's $94 billion SpaceX stake came from a 2015 bet, not a new deal, and most of the shares stay locked up.
BMEX price crashed nearly 90% after BitMEX confirmed its shutdown, handing derivatives share to Binance, OKX and Hyperliquid.
New EU sanctions hit 11 crypto platforms tied to Russia and tighten exchange checks on users, though Bitcoin stays legal.
Elon Musk tells The Economist he backs normal people, not the far-right, framing his politics as defending the West.