"Wave one happened in 41 minutes. Not one of those UTXOs was created before March 17th, 2021, when the cold card firmware bug was introduced."

Alex Thorn breaks down the attack waves.

"All of the coins in wave one are just sitting inert. They have not moved."

Alex Thorn on tracing the Coldcard hack funds through collector addresses, none of them laundered yet.

Senate may delay August recess to vote on the CLARITY Act.

Sen. Lummis: “I don’t think we’ll be leaving on Friday. I think we’ll go into the weekend.”

"You did nothing wrong. You did not deserve this."

Alex Thorn on why Coldcard victims should not be ashamed to come forward and share their drained addresses with Galaxy's forensic tracing team.

Strategy matching the $1,000 Trump Account contribution for every employee's newborn plus $250/year per kid.

Giacomo Zucco announced he's resigned from the board of OCEAN mining pool.

He says he still has love for Luke Dashjr and believes in OCEAN's core ideas, miner-side block production, KYC-free coinbase payouts, and Lightning share markets, but felt he needed to "speak the truth."

The resignation comes as BIP-110 support from miners remains below the 55% activation threshold, and some BIP-110 proponents are now floating a proof-of-work change hard fork.

Pavel Durov reveals that Telegram was briefly removed from the App Store last night after a takedown extortionist planted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in a public group chat, effectively hiding it from members so they couldn't report it.

The extortionist then reported it directly to Apple to trigger the removal.

Durov warns that "Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be."

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SpaceX just announced a partnership with Nvidia to build its Starmind AI-1 satellite payload, putting data center-class compute into orbit.

Each Starmind satellite will run Nvidia's latest Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs, pushing SpaceX's peak satellite computing capacity to 250 kW.

We're no longer just talking about putting AI in the cloud. We're literally putting it in space. The race for compute has gotten so intense that companies are now looking beyond Earth's surface to find capacity.

SpaceX already has the largest satellite constellation in history with Starlink, now they're turning that infrastructure into an orbital compute network.

Coinkite published a new update on the ColdCard vulnerability.

They say the bug "lived at a boundary between two unrelated submodules, not in the parent code, and not in the cryptographic or Bitcoin-specific logic that are the subject of most internal and third-party reviews."

They ran AI-assisted review against their codebase in the weeks before the exploit and it didn't catch it. They've since tested frontier models including Kimi K3, Claude, and Codex 5.6, none of them caught it either.

Coinkite is now warning other bitcoin projects: "If your team relies on AI review of security-critical code, we recommend you test it specifically against build and submodule boundaries."

Former CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger on the CLARITY Act: "I think we're getting there on ethics. We seem to be on the 10 yard-line here. The right players are working on it...I think we're headed in a direction we're gonna get a good vote on this bill"

Chris Guida (cguida6) has rebased Luke Dashjr's 2017 proof-of-work change hard fork code onto a recent version of Bitcoin Knots, arguing it should be kept ready in case miners refuse to signal for BIP-110.

"I think we should have this in our back pocket in case miners decide to collude to betray bitcoin."