Bitcoin

Explorer shifts from lookup tool to network view Blockstream says it has rebuilt Blockstream Explorer to show more of what is happening across Bitcoin, Liquid and their testnets. The update moves the explorer beyond a simple confirmation check by adding live fee context, transaction...

StarkWare reports a quantum-safe Bitcoin mainnet transaction StarkWare says a Bitcoin transaction using Avihu Levy’s Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method has been mined on mainnet without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules. The company describes the transaction as the first mainnet use of the QSB...

Falcon emerges as the leading lattice option for Bitcoin Blockstream Research has published a detailed evaluation of lattice-based signatures that could one day help protect Bitcoin transactions against quantum attacks. The report compares Dilithium, Falcon and Hawk across on-chain size...

Blockstream Frames Jade Security After Wallet RNG Scare Blockstream has released Jade firmware version 1.0.41 with new features, fixes and security updates, while addressing user concerns after the reported Coldcard random number generation fallout. The Jade firmware team says Jade is not...

Desktop Lightning and QR Signing Reach Blockstream App Blockstream App 3.5.0 for desktop adds Lightning payments in beta and expands Jade hardware wallet workflows built around QR codes. The release lets eligible software wallet users send and receive bitcoin over Lightning from inside the...

Bitcoin Has Pulled Strategy's Massive Treasury Back Above Water Strategy's 840,447 BTC position has crossed back into unrealized profit after Bitcoin climbed above the company's $75,385 average acquisition price. The reversal is striking because only days earlier the same treasury was sitting on...

Bitcoin Breaks $71,700 as a Treasury Move Ignites the Short Squeeze Bitcoin surged about 11% and traded above $71,700 on August 20, reaching its highest level since June 1 after an unexpected shift in U.S. Treasury debt management changed the mood across global markets. The trigger came from...

Existing Wallet Chips Meet a Quantum-Signature Test Blockstream says benchmark implementations of several hash-based post-quantum signature schemes ran on four widely used hardware wallet families. The result does not settle the whole quantum-migration problem for Bitcoin, but it challenges the...

Inside Jade's PIN Protection Model Blockstream has published a detailed explanation of how its Jade hardware wallet protects PIN access without a dedicated secure element chip. The company says Jade uses a Virtual Secure Element, splitting the material needed to decrypt the wallet between the...

Blockstream Builds a New Swap Route for Bitcoin Layers Blockstream says it is launching Blockstream Swaps, an in-house feature designed to move value between Bitcoin layers without placing a custodian in the middle. The announcement follows disruption at Boltz, whose swap services were said to...

Blockstream narrows a post-quantum signature trade-off Blockstream Research says it swept 25,935 parameter candidates for SHRINCS, a hash-based post-quantum signature proposal aimed at Bitcoin. The work focuses on the stateless fallback path, where the team reports a signature around 5.7 KB...

The custody decision is a tradeoff between control and operational responsibility. Moving bitcoin away from an exchange removes one class of counterparty risk but introduces the possibility of losing, exposing or mishandling recovery material. Understand the exchange model An exchange manages...

Market narratives compress a complicated price move into a memorable explanation. They can organize evidence, but they often appear after the move and may ignore contradictory data. Identify the actual claim Rewrite the narrative as a testable statement. Specify the event, expected mechanism...

A treasury sale with a financing purpose Strategy Inc disclosed in a Form 8-K published on July 6, 2026 that it sold 3,588 bitcoin across two recent periods for approximately $216 million. The company said the proceeds were used to fund preferred-stock distributions and replenish the part of its...

Market discussion is welcome when assumptions, evidence and risk are stated clearly. Posts must not promise guaranteed returns or pressure readers into acting quickly. Analysis template Time horizon and market examined Data sources and the time the data was observed Thesis and assumptions...

BIP-361 Turns Bitcoin’s Quantum Debate Into a Property-Rights Fight Bitcoin developers have put a radical idea on the table: if the network ever gets a post-quantum output type, coins that stay on legacy cryptography long enough could eventually become unspendable. That is the core political...

A Two-Week Iran Truce Triggered a Classic Relief Trade The market got the headline it had been pricing for days, and then it moved all at once. Donald Trump said the United States would suspend bombing Iran for two weeks after accepting a truce proposal pushed by Pakistan, with the pause tied to...

Stretch STRC Is Becoming Strategy’s Weekly Bitcoin Engine Strategy’s latest week of buying highlights a new reality: the company is no longer just “holding bitcoin”, it is building a repeatable funding rail to acquire more of it. Russian-language outlet Bits.media reported that Strategy added...

Strategy’s Latest Bitcoin Buy Shows How Far the Treasury Playbook Has Moved Strategy disclosed that it bought 17,994 BTC for about $1.28 billion during March 2-8, 2026, continuing the company’s now-routine cycle of raising capital and converting it into bitcoin. The purchase lifts Strategy’s...

Corporate treasuries increase crypto holdings despite ETF outflows Public companies continue to expand their cryptocurrency reserves even as institutional capital flows out of US spot exchange-traded funds. Over the past week, BitMine and Strategy both increased their holdings of Ethereum and...