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What Is A Blockstream JadeLink?
Bitcoin self-custody is all about getting to grips with the concept of “air-gapping”, which is the gold standard for security—keeping your seed in complete physical and wireless isolation from potentially compromised systems. While many hardware wallets offer air-gap capabilities through QR codes, Blockstream’s JadeLink takes this concept further, offering a specialised tool that transforms the Jade Plus into one of the most secure and versatile Bitcoin custody solutions available today. If you’ve invested in a Jade Plus hardware wallet or are considering one, the JadeLink offers an essential companion device that could be the difference between good security and truly
The Bitcoin Treasury Trap
Bitcoiner and Bank to the Future co-founder Simon Dixon has issued one of his most urgent warnings yet: we are entering what he calls “the Wall Street attack phase”—a systematic effort by institutional finance to pull your Bitcoin into custodial wrappers and, in times of crisis, separate you from your coins permanently. While Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy (now Strategy) are celebrated as financial engineering heroes and pioneers in bringing Bitcoin to traditional capital markets, accumulating over 649,000 BTC in the process and inspiring dozens of copycats “Bitcoin treasury companies” might not be the next step in stacking, but at best,
What IS BIP-360?
In June 2024, a Bitcoin developer named Hunter Beast introduced BIP 360, also known as “Pay to Quantum Resistant Hash” (P2QRH), a new address format aimed at future-proofing Bitcoin transactions and ensuring your hodl assurances remain secure on the blockchain, as they have for over a decade. While debates over block sizes, spam transactions & lower block rewards grab headlines, BIP 360 addresses a looming threat that could render Bitcoin’s entire cryptographic foundation obsolete—the advent of quantum computers capable of breaking the elliptic-curve cryptography that secures every Bitcoin wallet in existence today. Is this threat real? In the short term, no! It all