This Week in Bitcoin

This Week in Bitcoin is an independent, investigative podcast covering Bitcoin. A high-signal news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.

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  Episode #118

  Why BIP-110 Failed

  Aug 12, 20261h 31m

  Why BIP 110 failed, what its three block fork revealed about Bitcoin consensus, and the push for a proof of work change, plus weakening jobs and NVIDIA’s new AI asset class that could become an even bigger liquidity vacuum for Bitcoin. Episode Links Boost from the Web Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Absolutely. I removed the duplicates, stripped tracking/query cruft where possible, tightened the titles, and grouped the Bitcoin/security stories first, followed by macro/jobs and then the miscellaneous research links. ZEUS Goes Offline After Cybersecurity Incident BTCPay Server 2.4.2 Security Advisory COLDCARD Entropy Failure: Technical Autopsy COLDCARD Attackers Begin Laundering Stolen Bitcoin Bitcoin Red Team Expands Ecosystem Security Audit Bitcoin Red Team Reports Thousands of Findings Blockstream Announces Swaps Floresta 2026 Node Roadmap Libbitcoin Is Coming Anthropic Signs $9.1 Billion Deal With Bitcoin Miner Riot BIP-110 Fork Stalls After Mining Two Blocks BIP-110 Attracts Just 0.15% of Bitcoin Hashpower OCEAN Says BIP-110 Is on Track to Fail What Is the BIP-110 Upgrade? Bitcoin Is Not Changed by Proof of Node Mechanic on Why Not Changing Proof of Work Was a Mistake Bitcoin Cash Precedent for BIP-110 A Critical BIP-110 Take Motion to Remove Luke Dashjr From BIP Editors Pull Request to Remove Luke Dashjr From BIP Editors BIP-110 Code Review Takeaways Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash Block-Time Discussion Strategy Says Selling Bitcoin Demonstrated Treasury Resilience Strategy Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript Strategy’s Bitcoin Treasury Model Senate Crypto Bill Faces Another Setback U.S. Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July July Jobs Report Market Reaction Private Payrolls Added Just 44,000 Jobs in July July Payrolls Preview: Job Growth Expected to Stay Weak Stocks Jump After Surprise Jobs Decline Weak Jobs Report Pushes Rate-Hike Odds Lower Incarcerated Person Access to News Media Constraints and Opportunities in Interview Transcription Music: The Jetsons By: Joe Martin

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  Episode #117

  117: Coldcard Fallout

  Aug 5, 20261h 30m

  We unpack the widening Coldcard fallout, the uncomfortable lessons Bitcoiners need to face, and a major macro intervention that reveals just how trapped the financial system has become. Episode Links Boost from the Web Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes COLDCARD Mk3 Seed Generation Warning COLDCARD Entropy Issue: Technical Background Predictable RNG Fallback in COLDCARD Firmware COLDCARD Entropy and Nonce Analysis COLDCARD TRNG Recovery Fix When random.bytes() Runs but Doesn’t Work COLDCARD’s Random Numbers Weren’t Everything to Know About the COLDCARD Hack How COLDCARD Wallets Lost $70 Million COLDCARD Exploit Shakes Faith in Self-Custody COLDCARD Wallet Attack Drains Up to $89 Million COLDCARD Flaw Linked to $70 Million Theft COLDCARD Attacker Stole $30 Million in 10 Minutes COLDCARD Firmware Bug Drained $38 Million COLDCARD Firmware Bug Bypassed RNG for Five Years Hackers Target Bitcoin’s Safest Hiding Place COLDCARD Attack Pushes Bitcoin Toward Exchanges $38 Million Swept Through Weak Seed Entropy More Details on COLDCARD Bricking COLDCARD Incident Victim Intake How Blockstream Jade Generates Recovery Phrases BlockSlop: BIP-110 Chainstate Validation Gap Bitcoin Developer Revives PoW-Change Code for BIP-110 BIP-110 and Who Decides Bitcoin’s Future BIP-110 Falls Flat With Zero Miner Support Did IBM’s Quantum Timeline Spook Jim Cramer? Jim Cramer Rethinks Bitcoin Over Quantum Risk Lummis Says CLARITY Act Delay Could Kill the Bill Lummis Presses CLARITY Act Holdouts Warren’s Opening Remarks on the CLARITY Act Warren Warns About Crypto Money Laundering Fed Holds Rates Steady as Warsh Fights Inflation Warsh’s Quieter Fed Communication Strategy A Quieter Fed Could Mean More Volatile Markets Warsh Says the Fed Has No Tolerance for Inflation Warsh Reiterates the Fed’s Inflation Pledge June 2026 FOMC Statement U.S. Treasury Signals Possible Yen Intervention Why the U.S. Stepped In to Support the Yen Why Trump Is Propping Up Japan’s Currency Bessent Says the Japanese Yen Looks Undervalued Delayed BOJ Hike Adds Pressure on the Yen Lessons From the Plaza Accord The Real Lessons From the Plaza and Louvre Accords Music: Empty Passenger Seat by Joe Martin

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  Episode #116

  116: Coldcard Wallets Compromised

  Jul 30, 202613 min

  An urgent warning for COLDCARD users: Coinkite says funds tied to seeds generated on some Mk3 devices may be at risk, and we examine why other hardware wallets could be next. Episode Links Boost from the Web Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Mk3 Security Advisory | COINKITE Blog Bitcoin News on X: "BITCOIN CORE DEVELOPER: “SORRY, THIS IS THE TIME TO PANIC” Nick Neuman on X: "It sounds like Mk4, Q, and Mk5 are also vulnerable in a different way than Mk3. Zero-Knowledge Goof (Loop master general) on X: "MK4s are vulnerable but are millions of times harder to steal from.

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  Episode #115

  115: Before Satoshi

  Jul 29, 202634 min

  Bitcoin did not emerge from a vacuum. We trace the decades of ideas that made it possible, and revisit the early days when it all came together. Episode Links Boost from the Web Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes David Chaum demonstrates electronic cash at the first World Wide Web Conference (1994) David Chaum and Adam Back reflect on DigiCash, Hashcash, and the crypto wars Adam Back explains Hashcash and its original anti-spam purpose Nick Szabo discusses cypherpunks, bit gold, and Bitcoin's predecessors Adam Back: Hashcash — A Denial of Service Counter-Measure Wei Dai: b-money Nick Szabo: Bit gold Hal Finney: Reusable Proofs of Work Satoshi's correspondence with Adam Back and Wei Dai Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin — A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Plan B BETA | Plan B 1 Just Getting Started | Plan B 2 Flight of the Butterfly | Plan B 3 Inside BitVegas | Plan B 4 To Mine or Not to Mine? | Plan B 5 Spending Your Coins | Plan B 6 Amir Taaki and Bitcoin 2013 Wrap-Up | Plan B 7 Then They Fight You | Plan B 8 Bitcoin Will Disrupt Big Media | Plan B 9 90 Days or Bust | Plan B 10 Be Your Own Bitcoin Exchange | Plan B 11 Bitcoin vs. the Banks | Plan B 12 Blame It on Mt. Gox | Plan B 13 Winklevoss Woes | Plan B 14 Bitcoin Must Comply | Plan B 15 Summer of Bitcoin | Plan B 16 Regulation Dooms Bitcoin? | Plan B 17 The Big-Picture Perspective | Plan B 18 U.S. vs. the Bitcoin Revolution | Plan B 19 Bitcoin Is Legal-ish | Plan B 20

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  Episode #114

  114: Hard Money Wins

  Jul 22, 20261h 19m

  Open source AI is shaking the capex boom, energy inflation is tightening liquidity, and gold’s old weaknesses are back in focus, while BlackRock and even gold bugs keep making the case for Bitcoin. Episode Links Boost from the Web Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Foundry Asks Miners to Vote on BIP-110 BIP-110 Deadline Nears With Zero Miner Support What Is BIP-110? Michael Saylor Opposes BIP-110 Bitcoin Core on Transaction Relay Policy Bitcoin Macro Strategy Lyn Alden Launches Bitcoin-Backed Investment Firm Orange Juice Raises $40 Million for Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Lyn Alden’s June 2026 Newsletter Trump Presses Senators on the CLARITY Act CLARITY Act Faces Make-or-Break Moment Trump’s Crypto Legislation Push Gains Steam Warner Pushes Senate Crypto Bill Warner Calls Senate Negotiations “Crypto Hell” Warren Demands Ethics Rules in Crypto Legislation Luke Gromen on Gold, Energy, and the Monetary System Luke Gromen Debates a Global Monetary Reset Energy Markets Brace for Prolonged Hormuz Disruption Oil Hits a One-Month High Hormuz Oil Flows Fall Sharply Goldman Flags Further Oil Price Risk Moonshot’s New AI Model Rattles Tech Markets SpaceX Stock Falls Below Its IPO Price Falling California Rents and AI Wealth Haters Will Say He Was Just Luckey Music: Cool Summer By: Tony Salomone

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