News Coinbase Users Lose Over $300M Per Year to Social Engineering Scams - ZachXBT Coinbase users are estimated to lose at least $300 million worth of assets per year to various social engineering attacks.
News The Human Rights Foundation Awarded All 11 Bitcoin Development Bounties Every single bounty was claimed, resulting in important tools and upgrades that empower human rights activists and freedom enthusiasts all over the globe.
News Block's Proto Partners with The 256 Foundation to Support Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Block's mining team, Proto, announced a partnership with The 256 Foundation, beginning with a significant donation of chips.
News Tether, Lightning Labs Announce USDT on Lightning Network Tether has announced the integration of USDT into Bitcoin’s ecosystem, encompassing both its base layer and the Lightning Network. This integration is supported by the Taproot Assets protocol, developed by Lightning Labs.
News The First-Ever Bitcoin Telehash Fundraiser Actually Found a Block Block 881,423, mined by Future Bit Apollo Solo for The 256 Foundation during the Telehash event, marks the first time a fundraiser has been conducted through Bitcoin hashrate, raising 3.146 BTC in rewards worth approximately $330,300.
News OpenSats' 9th Wave of Bitcoin Grants: Kibo, El Tor, Nustash & rust-bitcoin OpenSats, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Bitcoin and freedom tech developers, announced its ninth wave of for four Bitcoin projects.
News Disclosure: Invalid Claims Liquidity Griefing in LDK v0.0.125 & Earlier Bitcoin developer and security researcher Matt Morehouse has put together a disclosure for an invalid claims liquidity griefing vulnerability present in Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) versions 0.0125 and earlier.
News Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025 - Day 2 Livestream Adopting Bitcoin - Cape Town 2025 is a boots-on-the-ground Bitcoin conference for real-world adoption in Southern Africa.
News Make the Rehypothecation of Bitcoin Custody Illegal – Preston Pysh Preston Pysh, macro analyst and partner at Ego Death Capital, shared a blog post advocating for a ban on bitcoin rehypothecation for all institutions following the repeal of SAB 121 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
News US Federal Court Rules Backdoor Searches of FISA Section 702 Data Unconstitutional A federal judge has ruled that the federal government's method of searching through information incidentally collected on US-based individuals violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.
News Ledger Co-Founder and His Wife Freed After Ransom Kidnapping (UPDATED) David Balland, co-founder of Ledger, was kidnapped from his home in France early Tuesday and released Wednesday night following a police operation. According to the prosecutor’s office, the kidnappers demanded a large ransom in cryptocurrency.
News US SEC Withdraws Controversial Accounting Guidance SAB 121 Days After Gary Gensler Leaves The SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 122, which revokes the contentious SAB 121, and permits financial institutions that hold bitcoin and other digital assets for their customers to decide if the held digital assets should be reported as a liability.