A cryptic poem has reportedly appeared in repeated Bitcoin transactions, but the sender and motive remain unknown. Galaxy Research’s counts, fund-flow details and technical claims are difficult to verify without transaction IDs or supporting analysis.
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Liquid Network suffered a consensus bug that let an attacker mint invalid L-BTC, drain most of the BTC reserve, and then bargain with Blockstream on-chain. Some funds were returned, but the exploit exposed a brutal verification failure, not a key theft.
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An OP_RETURN message claims someone built a Bitcoin wallet puzzle from Genesis Block data, but the real takeaway is the security fail: public information, low entropy, and brainwallet-style key generation are a recipe for disaster, not a clever hiding place.
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A Bitcoin OP_RETURN message in block 963,629 claims a wallet puzzle was built from Genesis Block data, but offers no proof. The claim is permanent on-chain; the key, derivation method, and any real solution remain unverified.
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Samson Mow says the backlash over BIP-110 wasn’t accidental, blaming Bitcoin Core’s handling of the OP_RETURN debate for fueling the blowup. At stake is a bigger fight over whether Bitcoin should stay money-first or tolerate more on-chain data.
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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 proposal has ignited a sharp governance fight, with supporters calling it a fix for blockspace abuse and Saylor blasting it as a dangerous attack on Bitcoin’s neutrality. The real battle: who gets to decide what Bitcoin should allow.
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Blockonomics has launched a Bitcoin blockchain text search tool that makes old on-chain messages easier to find, alongside EternalNote for adding new text. Useful for archives and curious users, but also a reminder that Bitcoin is money infrastructure—not a free-for-all data dump.
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Bitcoin Policy Institute is moving to stop a New York lawsuit that tries to treat dormant Bitcoin wallets as abandoned property. The fight could set a dangerous precedent for self-custody, because inactivity is not the same thing as surrender.
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