Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the base-layer race.
The traders left and ORDI sits 95% below its peak, yet builders turned Bitcoin's block space into a data layer. A new…
Simple taproot channels went production-ready in June 2026, almost five years after the soft fork. But PTLCs, the private payments Taproot promised…
Bitcoin's network makes more than 900 quintillion SHA-256 guesses a second. Here is what a single one of those guesses actually is,…
A year after its October 2025 peak, Bitcoin's hashrate still has not set a new record. The machines that secure the network…
Bitcoin's difficulty held near 133 trillion at its October retarget as price climbed back above miner costs. The real test comes in…
Bitcoin's most uncontroversial soft fork fixes four old bugs and adds no new features, yet one mining pool has already stalled it.…
Bitcoin opens Uptober near $85,000, its highest since January, after soft US jobs data priced out an October Fed hike. A year…
Bitcoin has had no soft fork since Taproot, yet a multibillion-dollar finance layer grew on it. In 2026's BTCfi shakeout, protocols that…
A palm-sized Bitaxe won a full Bitcoin block this summer. We run the real 2026 odds, from a 1-in-6-million day to an…
Five years after Taproot, its last successful soft fork, Bitcoin is at war over what blocks are for. Core v30 uncapped OP_RETURN,…