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Bitcoin 2025 Year in Review
Back at the start of the year, I wrote that Bitcoin was attracting serious attention from developers and that we could expect new, interesting solutions to make a major contribution to its development. Now the year is coming to an end. So, what important innovations did it actually bring to Bitcoin? If you spent all of 2025 watching Bitcoin solely through...
A New Name for a New Era
Messari's annual report has become something of a New Year tradition for the crypto industry - it always feels like a gift to the whole space. It's always exciting to read, and even more fun to discuss it later with colleagues. The Crypto Theses 2026 report will clearly spark many conversations as well. I haven't finished it yet, but...
Why Trust Wallet Deserves Respect - Even After a Hack
I’ve never considered Trust Wallet a particularly solid choice for storing crypto. It’s hugely popular - and projects with that level of visibility inevitably become attractive targets for hackers. And a major hack did happen. The vulnerability was found in the second-to-last version of Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension for Chrome. Users lost around $8 million worth of crypto. But today’s...
USDT Freezes in the Billions, But Freeze Resistance Gets Zero Demand
AMLbot published a data-backed report comparing Tether and Circle stablecoin freezes between 2023 and 2025. Over that period, Tether froze roughly $3.3 billion worth of USDT - while Circle froze about 30 times less, around $109 million. That part didn’t surprise me. I’ve written about USDT freezes many times before. But another detail caught my attention. According...
Gnosis 2025 vs Ethereum 2016: A New Era of Community Intervention
I've been following the Gnosis Chain hard fork debate for the past 24 hours, and I want to share my takeaways. First, some quick context. * In November, the DeFi protocol Balancer suffered a major exploit, resulting in the theft of over $100 million in user assets. * Part of the stolen funds was sitting in...
On the IMF's New Statement About El Salvador
A year ago, when the IMF published a press release about its agreement with El Salvador, I honestly did not fully believe it. In that statement, the IMF claimed it had reached an agreement under which El Salvador would abandon the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin as legal tender. Salvadoran authorities tried to look confident, with representatives of the...
Charlie Lee’s Advice From the Future
In an interview with CoinDesk, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee was asked what advice he would give his younger self from the future. His answer was simple: instead of creating Litecoin, he would rather have just bought Bitcoin, held it without selling, and stayed anonymous. That path, he said, would have brought him more money and far fewer headaches. Wise advice...
How a Simple Mistake Can Turn 1,000 USDC Into 1 XLM
One day, a user contacted rabbit.io support claiming that after an exchange he received 1 XLM instead of 1,000 USDC. It looked like a serious loss. One lumen is worth far less than a dollar: at the moment, XLM is trading at around $0.22. Losing almost the entire amount in such a way would be alarming for anyone. Naturally, we started investigating the...
The Losers No One Expected
On CoinGecko, there is a crypto losers ranking that shows which assets have fallen the most over a given period. Just look at who ends up at the top of that list if you select a one-year timeframe. On the left is a screenshot of the biggest losers among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. On the right - the same ranking...
Bitcoin and Online Gambling: Revisiting a 12-Year-Old Prediction
Exactly 12 years ago, Michael Saylor wrote on Twitter that Bitcoin's days were numbered and that it would suffer the same fate as online gambling. That view of Bitcoin's future has never surprised me. I personally believe that Bitcoin could indeed fade into obscurity if humanity invents a way to reliably store and freely transfer value that is clearly better than Bitcoin...
