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Wang Chun Becomes the First Bitcoiner to Visit Outer Space…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Acknowledges Bitcoin as a Store of Value…
Jack Dorsey: Bitcoin Payments for Square and Bitkey Are in Progress…
Happy 50th Birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto…
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Hits the Moon…
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Why the Future of Bitcoin Mining Is Distributed…
What Are Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks..?
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Wow! Wang Chun, who started mining bitcoin at $1 and who invented the first Chinese mining pool, became the 1st Bitcoiner to visit Outer Space. He completely funded the entire SpaceX flight himself and also became the first human to orbit both Earth’s poles in a single 3.5 day mission. Images of Earth from above always puts things into perspective! ⬇️
Below is a funny video describing the long journey that bitcoiners go through learning about Bitcoin. When a friend simply asks them how to understand Bitcoin, you can't just explain it in a few sentences! Also, the video explains how the act of “orange-pilling” someone can have unintended negative consequences. ⬇️
Below describes why we need Freedom Money a.k.a. Bitcoin! ⬇️
Michael Saylor explains what it would take for a government or bad actor to attack the Bitcoin network. ⬇️
📰 Latest News Updates
Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin Payments for Square and Bitkey are in Progress.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Block, the fintech firm behind Square and Bitkey, has confirmed that his team “is working on” integrating Bitcoin as a payment option for Bitkey and Square. Dorsey’s statement came in response to an X user’s question about the delay in enabling Bitcoin payments across Block’s services. He also pushed back against the idea that the process is “a simple flip of a switch.”
Empowering Ordinary People: Taking Control of Your Future in an Age of Corruption.
The solutions we need are not found in the broken systems of power but in individual actions and local initiatives. Voting for someone may be your choice, but relying solely on elections every few years as a form of political activism is a losing strategy. People around the world have fallen into the trap of thinking that casting a ballot once every four years is enough, only to return to complacency as conditions worsen. Voting for the "lesser of two evils" has been the norm for decades, yet expecting different results from the same flawed system is naive at best.
Happy Birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin Creator's Symbolic Birth Date Hits 50.
The pseudonymous Bitcoin inventor's P2P Foundation profile lists April 5, 1975—a birth date loaded with historical significance for monetary freedom advocates.
Bitcoin Holds Firm While Traditional Markets Bleed from Trump Tariffs.
Markets plunged after President Trump announced global tariffs, triggering the worst stock performances since 2020 and a sharp crypto pullback. Institutional crypto adoption remains stalled due to regulatory uncertainty, leaving crypto markets largely driven by retail traders and hedge funds. However, analysts suggest Bitcoin may be evolving into a hedge against U.S. economic isolation and could rebound faster than other risk assets.
Vivek Ramaswamy Stresses Bitcoin’s Hedge Role as ’Increasingly Clear’.
"Bitcoin is hedge. That’s becoming increasingly clear" Ramaswamy quoted an X post published by Tether’s CEO Paolo Ardoino on Friday, in which the latter refers to Bitcoin as “the hedge.” The ex-colleague of Elon Musk agreed with that, saying that Bitcoin’s role as the hedge is becoming “increasingly clear.”
Bitcoin Drops Sunday Evening as Cryptocurrencies Join Global Market Rout.
Bitcoin fell below the $78,000 level as investors braced for more financial market volatility after U.S. equites suffered their worst decline since 2020 on the rollout of President Donald Trump’s restrictive global tariffs.
The Future of Bitcoin Mining is Distributed.
Troy Cross argues that Bitcoin mining's future lies in global distribution, not U.S. dominance, to protect its neutrality and value against nation-state attacks.
Bitcoin Python Library Targeted by Wallet Draining Malware.
Machine learning has been used to detect crypto malware targeting users of bitcoinlib, a popular Python library for making Bitcoin wallets. ReversingLabs says the malicious packages attempted to overwrite legitimate commands in order to extract sensitive database files. Researchers say bitcoinlib is a "widely used open-source library" that allows crypto wallets to be created and managed—attracting more than one million downloads since its launch.
Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks.
An address poisoning attack is a form of social engineering in which a malicious actor tries to trick users into sending cryptocurrency to the wrong address (controlled by the attacker) by exploiting how wallet interfaces display and store addresses.
Cango Sells Legacy China Business, Goes All-in on Bitcoin Mining: Report.
Cango, a publicly traded Chinese conglomerate, has agreed to sell its legacy China operations to an entity associated with peer Bitmain in a bid to go all-in on Bitcoin mining, according to a report by The Miner Mag.
Jeff Booth Says Bitcoin isn’t just a Technology — It’s the Foundation of a New Internet.
According to Booth, Bitcoin’s architecture mirrors the early internet. The base layer — Bitcoin itself — is intentionally limited in functionality to ensure security. But second-layer technologies like the Lightning Network are scaling it rapidly, now reaching “650 million people today,” Booth noted, adding, “It’s growing faster than the internet was in the ‘90s.”
Tariffs Disrupt Bitcoin Mining Supply Chain Rooted in Asia.
Lauren Lin is in a hurry. She has less than 48 hours to ship about 5,600 Bitcoin mining machines from Thailand to the US before tariffs imposed on the Southeast Asian country by President Donald Trump kick in. “Today we’re just scrambling,” said Lin, head of hardware at Luxor Technology, a Bitcoin mining software and services company. “Ideally we can charter a flight and get machines over — just trying to be as creative as possible to get these machines out.”
Mining Difficulty Rises 6.81% as Bitcoin Hashrate Hits Record High.
At press time, the Bitcoin network’s computing capacity is gliding at 876.24 EH/s, slightly below its recent peak. This record-setting hashrate arrives as mining difficulty edged up by 6.81%, raising the bar for miners attempting to validate new blocks. The current spot hashprice—the projected daily return for 1 petahash per second (PH/s) of SHA256 hashpower—stands at $46.16 per PH/s. The hashprice has fallen 11.15% since March 5.
Bitcoin Developer Proposes Hard Fork to Protect BTC From Quantum Computing Threats.
A draft Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) suggests a network-wide migration to post-quantum cryptography for BTC wallets. The proposal aims to protect Bitcoin from potential quantum attacks on ECDSA cryptography, which is currently used for signatures. The plan involves a hard fork and a migration deadline, requiring users to move their funds to more secure wallets before the deadline.
😁 In Case You Missed It
Phong Le, CEO of Strategy gives a talk to students at MIT’s Bitcoin Expo. ⬇️
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Bitcoin is becoming a store of value. ⬇️
🔍 Community Highlights
Before the weekend some Bitcoiners prematurely celebrated the arrival of The Great Bitcoin Decoupling event where Bitcoin price starts moving independently to everything else (stocks etc). By Sunday night, Bitcoin began crashing with everything else. When Bitcoin crashes, the percentages are much higher than with TradFi! ⬇️
Interestingly, Bitcoin’s ratio against the Magnificent 7 companies reached an all time high! ⬇️
Bitcoin’s hashrate also continues to explode, reaching a historic milestone of 1 zetahashes per second for the first time! To put that into perspective, 1 zetahash equals one sextillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) hashes per second—a truly astronomical amount of computational power. This surge in hashrate reflects not only the growing security and resilience of the Bitcoin network but also the massive global investment in mining infrastructure. It’s a clear signal that Bitcoin's underlying technology is stronger than ever, and its decentralised network seems increasingly difficult to attack or disrupt. ⬇️
Jack Dorsey explains why we Bitcoin! ⬇️
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