What Is Agentic AQUA?
A1 Lab—a division of JAN3—recently launched Agentic AQUA, taking another step in merging the Bitcoin economy with artificial intelligence and its growing infrastructure and impact on global markets. Leveraging Agentic AQUA autonomous AI agents have access to a native Bitcoin wallet, enabling them to send, receive, and manage funds entirely through natural language commands. Agentic […]
What Is Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin?
There has been a lot of chatter surrounding Bitcoin’s longevity as a network, as research on quantum computers gains traction, with some claims circulating that a viable device is less than a decade away, which, if true, will have massive implications for not only Bitcoin but the entire web from a privacy and security perspective. […]
Bitcoin Core v30 Has To Rollback
In an extraordinary egg-on-face moment (or moemish, as we call it in my native South Africa), Bitcoin Core developers issued an urgent warning on January 5, 2026, about a catastrophic bug in versions 30.0 and 30.1 that can completely delete wallet files and result in total fund loss. The severity of the issue prompted developers […]
What Is BIP-110?
The rollout of Core 30 has done little to settle the debate over transactions with arbitrary data, with the monetary maximalist side of Bitcoin supporters offering up a few consensus change proposals of their own. One being The CAT, which is a rather aggressive proposal that has already ruffled several feathers, but I think it was […]
The Cat in the Taproot Wizards Hat
The bull market we thought we would get in 2025 never arrived, and because we’re not enjoying a year of up-only markets smashing $150 000 and beyond, the community has turned its attention away from NGU and toward each other. We need something to entertain ourselves and someone to blame for the lack of a […]
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 […]
What Is SamRock Protocol?
As more of the world’s cash balances migrate into Bitcoin, it enriches those who have chosen to store their value in this $2 trillion-sized digital asset class. If you’ve held any Bitcoin over the last 1, 2, 3 or even four cycles, you’re sitting on some pretty sweet gains and good on you for managing […]
What Is A Dark Mempool?
When performing an on-chain transaction, you must first broadcast it into a waiting room known as the mempool. You can do this using your node, or broadcast your transaction via a third-party node, and eventually, your transaction details will make the rounds. As other nodes pick up the transaction, it’s added to their local mempool […]
What Is Citrea?
Bitcoin has proven it’s the only real innovation in the blockchain space, while altcoins have made for interesting experiments with real money, real lives and real crimes, no other chain has come close to Bitcoin. With each 4-year (bull & bear) cycle that goes by, Bitcoin continues to lap these other ecosystems, draining liquidity, users, […]
Regulatory Arbitrage Versus True Bitcoin Scaling
As more people find their way into Bitcoin, it puts pressure on block space, the limited resource available every 10 minutes. That limit might not be obvious right now, but we have reached periods where demand has reached the upper bound. The mempool doesn’t tell us the full story either, since a lot of Bitcoin […]