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Bitcoin Magazine An Excerpt From The Satoshi Papers: Self-Sovereignty and Political Philosophy This story does not end well. Without principled political renewal stemming from the fundamental root of a self-sovereign political philosophy, we should expect an intensification of surveillance and control and a normalization of war. We must actively choose liberty and peace if we

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Surges to $88,000 as Institutional Demand and Gold Rally Fuel Momentum Bitcoin’s price continued its upward trajectory today, rising $3,735 (4.42%), at the time of writing, to reach $88,300, seemingly driven by strong institutional buying and renewed momentum in alternative assets. The surge comes as gold breaks above $3,400 per ounce

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Buys $555 Million Worth of Additional Bitcoin Strategy has acquired an additional 6,556 bitcoin for $555.8 million, according to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on Monday. The purchase, made between April 14 and April 20, brings the company’s total bitcoin holdings to 538,200 BTC, acquired at an average price of

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Antoine Poinsot: The Great Consensus Cleanup While attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot. Currently at Chaincode Labs, Antoine was previously at Wizardsardine, a bitcoin security company behind Revault, a pre-signed transaction based vault, and Liana, a

Bitcoin Magazine Spar Supermarket in Switzerland Starts Accepting Bitcoin SPAR has begun accepting Bitcoin payments at its Zug, Switzerland location, marking another milestone in Switzerland’s progressive approach to bitcoin adoption. The implementation uses the Lightning Network through DFX Swiss’s OpenCryptoPay solution, enabling instant transactions at the point of sale. The store’s location in Zug, often

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Covenants: TXHASH And CHECKTXHASHVERIFY(BIP 346) This is the third article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in-depth breakdown. TXHASH and CHECKTXHASHVERIFY (TXHASH), put forward by Steven Roose and Brandon Black with a BIP number currently unassigned, is a “template based”

Bitcoin Magazine What Bitcoin Indicators Predict for Q3 2025? Bitcoin’s 2025 journey hasn’t delivered the explosive bull market surge many expected. After peaking above $100,000, the 2025 Bitcoin price retraced sharply to as low as $75,000, sparking debate among investors and analysts about where we stand in the Bitcoin cycle. In this analysis, we cut

Bitcoin Magazine How Bitcoin Offers a Speed Advantage for Driving Shareholder Value Bitcoin is the first instantiation of digitally scarce capital—allowing companies to raise, deploy, and prove value faster than ever before. In legacy finance, capital formation is a slow, friction-filled process. A company raises funds, deploys them over months or years into infrastructure, products

Bitcoin Magazine How Do We Protect Bitcoin From Quantum Computers? Not With A Joke Recently, Project Eleven (a quantum computing research group) announced a 1 bitcoin reward for the first team able to complete a challenge to demonstrate breaking a ECC (elliptic curve cryptograph) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer.  The deadline for

Bitcoin Magazine Corporate Bitcoin Holdings Hit Record High in Q1 2025 as Public Companies Accelerate Accumulation Public Companies Now Hold Over 688K BTC, Signaling Record Institutional Bitcoin Adoption Bitcoin adoption by public companies has reached an all-time high, according to a new report from Bitwise. In Q1 2025, publicly traded firms now hold a combined