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PACT: Ownership Before the Quantum Era
Yesterday, Paradigm published another proposal on how to address the potential impact of quantum computing on Bitcoin’s cryptography. It’s called PACT (Provable Address-Control Timestamp). The idea is fairly straightforward: today, while quantum attacks are still impractical, the owner of a vulnerable address - especially someone who doesn’t want to move their coins or draw attention to themselves...
What the Bisq Exploit Really Shows
If you feel like crypto hacks are happening more often than usual, you're not imagining it. A chart from DefiLlama shows a clear spike. A few weeks ago, industry media reported on a new version of the Claude neural network - Claude Mythos - which is said to be exceptionally good at finding vulnerabilities in code. Mythos hasn’t been released publicly yet. But...
Tether’s Faucet: Real BTC, Tiny Amounts, New Tradeoffs
Tether has been giving away Bitcoin for the second day in a row. And apparently, they’re giving away a lot - so much that today they even had to pause the faucet for a while. Funny how the term "Bitcoin faucet" sounds in 2026, isn’t it? And yet, Tether’s faucet isn’t the only one out there. Plenty of websites still use small BTC giveaways to keep...
Facebook Monetization Goes Crypto - With Stablecoins
Meta offers monetization programs for Facebook creators, and today it emerged that some creators in the Philippines and Colombia may now receive payouts in USDC on the Solana and Polygon blockchains. Another data point in a broader trend: it’s stablecoins - not Bitcoin or any other crypto asset - that are gradually becoming the “money of the internet.” Then again, Meta...
What Monad’s X Ban Reveals About Crypto
Here’s a headline that says a lot about today’s Monad story: the blockchain’s account on X has been blocked. There’s clearly something to unpack here. The issue is real. According to Lookonchain, Monad just broke into the top 10 by spot trading activity. Its native token had every chance to ride that momentum, attract attention, and move higher. Instead, an external force -...
The $500K Username That Raises Awkward Questions
A transaction on the TON blockchain has recorded the purchase of an NFT representing the Telegram username "boss" for 500,000 USDT. It raises two completely separate questions. First, back in 2022 this same username was bought by its previous owner for 40,000 Toncoin. At the time, it seemed like Toncoin might become a universal payment currency within the Telegram ecosystem. Many other...
DCA Alternatives. Part II
In Part I of this article, I covered several simple alternatives to DCA - the popular strategy for accumulating Bitcoin. I discussed four approaches: * lump-sum investing, * value averaging, * calendar rebalancing, * and threshold (tolerance-band) rebalancing. Before moving on to four more strategies, I want to add a small bonus to Part I - a look at how these strategies...
Polymarket Is Leaving Polygon - What Comes Next?
The CEO of Polymarket has reposted a message from the company’s VP of Engineering and DeFi on X. Among other things, it mentioned that Polymarket is planning to leave Polygon and migrate to another network. About a year and a half ago, I wrote that Polymarket could help Polygon carve out a strong niche as a chain for gambling. Back then, I didn’t consider...
The Industry Bails Out Aave - But Not the Ethereum Foundation
The crypto industry is pooling funds to support Aave after the fallout from the KelpDAO exploit. The fundraising effort is being tracked by RR2 Capital (see the screenshot above). For those who haven’t followed the story: the attackers behind the KelpDAO hack obtained unbacked rsETH - tokens that effectively had no value - and used them as collateral on Aave to borrow...
The Cost of a Narrative: Cardano and Bitcoin DeFi
The Cardano development team is asking ADA holders for approval to withdraw a large sum from the network’s treasury - tens of millions of dollars - to build a project that would use BTC as capital within the Cardano ecosystem. I wrote about the technical possibility of this kind of integration about a year and a half ago. Back then, some active...
