2026-05-19 04:00:08
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming "increasingly stringent compliance obligations" (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/1
Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Shipping Insurance for Hormuz Strait (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/iran-starts-bitcoin-backed-shipping-insurance-for-hormuz-strait
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p36#a260518p36
RE: #Bitcoin
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (Emily Zemler/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/m
Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/401627/big-dot-energy-michael-sayl…
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
📉 Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/22/bitcoin-miners-are-losing-usd19-000-on-every-btc-produced-as-difficulty-drops-7-8
Iranian media: Iran launches "Hormuz Safe", a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on trades and plans to launch in the coming weeks (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/charles-schwab-to-…
um homer simpson zu zitieren:
"sie werfen monatlich 1000$ in wunschbrunnen"
"weil ich mir mehr geld wünsche!"
@… https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi…
Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/1
In a thread on X, Adam Back,
a London-born computer scientist and entrepreneur
denied being the mysterious
– and presumably ultra-wealthy
– inventor of Bitcoin.
“I also don’t know who satoshi is,
and i think it is good for bitcoin that this is the case,
as it helps bitcoin be viewed [as] a new asset class,
the mathematically scarce digital commodity,” he wrote.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity has been the subject of speculation for years.…
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
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It's almost Friday, so kick back and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Hackers stole millions from Bitcoin Depot wallets,
--OpenAI readies its own vulnerability hunting system,
--Handala breached the devices of former IDF chief,
--Hackers published data from China's supercomputer,
--Hundreds of unprotected and unencrypted Modbus devices are exposed on the internet,
--Hack-for-hir…
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (Emily Zemler/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/m
Bitcoin, crypto currency - any way you spell it it means "crime".
"She Thought Her Bank Needed $18,000. A Store Clerk Told Her, ‘No, It’s Not Your Bank'"
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/she-thought-her-bank-needed-152000995.html
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
Interesting intersection of politics and technology.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/strait-hormuz-choking-bitcoin-not-134900366.html
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
«KI-Verkehrskameras haben 90-prozentige Fehlerrate:
Ein Pilotprojekt in Athen soll Verkehrssünder aufspüren. Auswertungen zeigen, dass viele Strafen ungerechtfertigt sind.»
Weshalb erinnert mich das KI-Marketing wie damals den Bitcoin Hype? Jeglicher Quatsch wird blind gepuscht ohne wirklich eine Ahnung zu haben aber das alles auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit.
🤦
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
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Defillama Confirms April 2026 as Crypto's Most-Hacked Month With 30 Incidents
https://news.bitcoin.com/defillama-confirms-april-2026-as-cryptos-most-hacked-month-with-30-incidents/
Giant Yorkshire gas field ‘to mine Bitcoin instead of boosting British energy’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/19/giant-yorkshire-gas-field-to-mine-bitcoin/
Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
On Monday Vegas will welcome crypto CEOs, Trump family members and administration officials and more than a few members of Congress for the
2026 bitcoin conference.
For those interested in what lawmakers are pledging allegiance to the industry, we’ve made a helpful guide:
https://ther…
Anybody know which company this is?
A former infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey admitted to hacking and extorting the company to try and collect $750,000 in Bitcoin, officials said.
https://www.
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/busin…
bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
I am fascinated how the right is reacting to the news that a UK fracking field will be used for crypto-mining.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/19/giant-yorkshire-gas-field-to-mine-bitcoin/
Krypto-Anleger glauben trotz Kursverlusten an hohe Gewinne
Ob Geldanlage oder Spekulation: Hohe Kursverluste bei Bitcoin und Co. schrecken Privatanleger einer Umfrage zufolge nicht ab.
https://www.
On the other hand, "Dunning-Krugerrands" as a name for bitcoin is A
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
BitSov: A Composable Bitcoin-Native Architecture for Sovereign Internet Infrastructure
Oliver Aleksander Larsen, Rasmus Thorsen Larsen, Mahyar T. Moghaddam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28727
Seit April ist #ViktorOrbán weg, im Herbst dann verlieren die #Republikaner die Mehrheit im #US-Parlament und #Trump
> Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
>
> I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok
💭: slopcoin
statt transaktionen auf einer blockchain zu speichern fragt man einfach ein LLM wie viel geld man aktuell hat
genauso zuverlässig wie bitcoin aber mit dem vibe der 2020er
New from @… (CW: irony alert!)
"Tech Santa has arrived, and even though the ice is melting, his bag is still bulging with the latest, greatest tech toys for the boys. Let’s see, what do we have here? AI, bitcoin, shiny, shiny electric vehicles, scooters, vapes, and solar panels. Wind machines with gigantic blades that can reach almost as high…
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
Und ich dachte immer Dave Bayer ist Satoshi Nakamoto.
Er wird schließlich im #Bitcoin Whitepaper zitiert und er ist das Hand Double wenn Russel Crowe in a beautiful mind Mathe schreibt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bayer
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Insurance of Agentic AI
Quanyan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05449 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116696535801623005
- Bitcoin After Block Rewards
Junhyuk Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05503 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116696457548098249
- Online Min-Cost Matching with General Arrivals
Josh Ascher, Eric Balkanski, Jason Chatzitheodorou, Vasilis Gkatzelis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05546 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116696483136717005
- Measuring Concentration of Power in Approval Voting Games
Takaaki Abe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05655 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econTH_bot/116696378312014137
- Learning to Contest: Decentralized Robust Fairness in Cooperative MARL via Cross-Attention
Can Savc{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06162 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/116696376542763270
- Regret Minimization with Adaptive Opponents in Repeated Games
Mingyang Liu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Tiancheng Yu, Kaiqing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06486
toXiv_bot_toot
The Senate Banking Committee advances the Clarity Act, which would make CFTC the primary regulator for most digital assets while SEC oversees digital securities (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/b…
SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/01/strate…
Court filing: lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent $12,800 buying press for AML Bitcoin prior to his 2020 indictment; Forbes and the Daily Caller were among recipients (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/another-right-wi…
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/403640/coinbase-better-first-…
bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/bitco…
As always, the crypto industry seeks to link our nation’s financial system ever closer to their online money laundering tokens.
For the low price of $599 (plus $39.80 in processing fees) attendees will get to watch riveting speeches from the likes of West Virginia Senator Jim Justice and Eric Trump,
while hopefully brushing shoulders with some of the event’s elite Whale Pass holders (whose passes come in at a cool $12,999 plus $646.01 in fees.)
Here’s a quick breakdown of so…
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
Filing: Michael Saylor's Strategy bought $2.54B in bitcoin over the past seven days, its largest acquisition since November 2024; Strategy owns ~$61B in bitcoin (Matt Haldane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking its stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/te…
Day two, and a much earlier start. Now Kevin Lewis from apify is here to tell us about how http 402, payment required, has been pointless till now but now maybe AI agents will pay when people couldn't.
Giving ai a wallet.
Dollar payments too slow and expensive for agents paying a penny for a page. Days for payment clearance. Kyc means every payer has to be human even.
X402 then instead. Stable coins on blockchain. Programmable , fast settlement. Pay in millionths of a dollar.
Or l402 to pay with bitcoin lightning.
Server sends bill and specifies payment details in 402 reply. Agent making request settles on chain then retries request with payment reciept.
Agents will want to evaluate if its worth the money within budget and etc. Give agents only limited wallet with disposable funds.
There's a mech for paying unpredictable prices. Over pay and refund whatever the excess .
He shows a demo. On how to pay a web scraper to scrape Instagram for you. For a dollar his service will give you 400 scraped profiles.
Paying for questionable services eh?
Not clear why an agent would pay another agent to scrape a website instead of just doing it itself.
No indication of how the agent can be prevented from leaking its private keys to injection attacks.
#devWorld
CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-03/a-180-cry…
Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/valinor-seed-round-25-mil…
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/fann…
Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/99c1c1e7-1a1c-479c-9fc8-e21aea5c3f0e
Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-kalshi-launch-crypto-t…