Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the base-layer race.
Bitcoin's hashrate is its most-cited metric, yet no one can measure it directly. Here is how it is estimated, why trackers disagree,…
A year ago Bitcoin's hashrate crossed one zettahash for the first time. It has since stalled below that mark, and the cause…
Taproot activated in November 2021 and remains the last change to Bitcoin's rules. In 2026 the fight is no longer what to…
Rootstock and Stacks are the two oldest bets that Bitcoin can host DeFi. After a 74% BTCFi shakeout and the Liquid hack,…
Eighteen months after launch, Bitcoin has a real on-chain asset economy: Runes, Ordinals and BTCfi. It is native and durable, but tiny,…
An attacker drained $320 million from the Liquid Network in 35 minutes without stealing a single key. Here is what the exploit…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network shed 17.6% of its capacity in August 2026, its sharpest monthly drop yet. Is the payment layer dying, or…
Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade turns five in November 2026 with modest usage but outsized influence. It now underpins stablecoins, bridges, the covenant fight…
MuSig2 made Bitcoin multisig invisible; Taproot's script path made it programmable. Here is how Miniscript, timelocks, and MAST are quietly rebuilding inheritance…
Spark scales Bitcoin by moving keys, not coins, giving wallets offline payments and near-zero fees. The catch is a bounded trust assumption…