Inside Core Lightning’s AI-Triggered Security Crisis
The Bugs, the Blackout, and What CLN Node Operators Need to Know 2026 has not been a good year for Blockstream; for fourteen days starting in late August 2026, anyone running a Core Lightning node was asked to operate on trust rather than evidence. No public CVE details, no exploit description, no severity breakdown just […]
Beware Of BIP110/Blake BTC Scams
If you own Bitcoin, you should be aware of chatter over the last few weeks about “BIP110,” “Blake2b,” and a potential chain that will split away from Bitcoin’s main network with a proof-of-work change and act as a competing network. Opinions on this fork are all over the map — some people see it as […]
Fake Ledger App For Mac Steals Millions
In mid-April 2026, a well-crafted scam launched a fake Ledger Live application that made its way onto Apple’s Mac App Store, bypassing the company’s vaunted review process and resulting in nearly $9.5 million in losses from over 50 victims. The scam targeted semi-conscious cryptocurrency users—people who specifically use self-custody wallets precisely because they don’t trust […]
What Are Zero Human Companies?
The tech industry has a predictable pattern: Every few years, a “revolutionary concept” emerges that promises to fundamentally transform how we organise human activity, eliminate inefficiency, and democratise opportunity, but it turns out to be a scheme to funnel money out of your pocket into someone else’s pocket without delivering a working product. From the […]
What Is The Snail Mail Hardware Wallet Scam?
The internet is filled with scams that arrive via email, text message, or social media, and we’ve become desensitised to them, despite monthly news stories and reports on the subject. Billions have been stolen in the Bitcoin and adjacent crypto space, and if it’s not a world-record hack, it’s brushed under the carpet by survivorship […]
The Fall of FreeBitco.in
For over twelve years, FreeBitco.in stood as one of Bitcoin’s most enduring success stories—a simple faucet site that paid out free satoshis to millions of users worldwide, becoming synonymous with accessible Bitcoin adoption. Faucets were an early feature of Bitcoin’s distribution model: sites would spin up and offer free Satoshis to attract traffic and users […]
Hackers Exploit Trezor Support & Launch Phishing Scam
In late June 2025, hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor issued an urgent security warning to its users about a phishing campaign that exploited their customer support platform. Now, Trezor, like other hardware signing device manufacturers, is no stranger to data breach attacks and phishing scams. This is not the first time Trezor has come under attack; […]
Altcoins Running On Fumes With Gas Free Transfers
Despite all the marketing and hullabaloo about technical superiority, altcoin chains’ value propositions have not translated to the eroding of Bitcoin’s dominance, and while Bitcoin continues to march on and distance itself from other blockchains and their related tokens, these so-called layer one blockchains or utility tokens are finding it hard to sucker in new […]
How FTX Repayments Will Work
The collapse of FTX in November 2022 marked one of crypto’s largest failures, leaving millions of customers wondering about their funds and a plethora of memes and face-palm moments that will last a lifetime. While SBF has graduated from the Forbes list into a jail cell like many others before him and many more after, […]
Bitcoin ATMs Get A Bad Rap
So you want to get some Bitcoin, but you don’t have a bank account or credit card, or you do and don’t want to tie it to a Bitcoin purchase. Where do you go? What if you have cash, physical cash? What do you do? It’s not as if you can walk up to CoinBase […]