Bitcoin (BTC)

🔥NEW: SOLO BITCOIN MINER HITS $210K JACKPOT IN RARE BLOCK WIN A solo miner has secured the full block reward of 3.139 BTC worth $210,000, highlighting a rare win in Bitcoin’s increasingly industrialized mining landscape. https://t.co/LBPlmAXWbH

💥BREAKING: $9T Charles Schwab to launch crypto accounts for direct Bitcoin trading. 37M clients are getting access to BTC. https://t.co/0BCNtuNsR4

Is Bitcoin the @Cubs lucky charm? Tyler Spalding/ @trspalding bought tickets to Game 7 of the 2016 World Series! The night the Cubs ended their 108-year drought, using Bitcoin. The seller had never used it before. Tyler walked him through it. They settled in two steps: half up front, one ticket delivered, the rest on confirmation. He flew to Cleveland that night with both tickets in hand. This is adoption. Bitcoin Takeover S17E02

🔐 Quantum Computing Poses Future Threat to Bitcoin's Security According to Decrypt, experts warn that the future development of quantum computers could potentially break Bitcoin's cryptographic digital signatures. This theoretical event, termed "Q-Day," would allow for the forgery of transactions on the network.

🇰🇪#Kenya Sets Stiff #Bitcoin/Crypto Licensing Terms as Industry Pushes Back https://t.co/Ls2X50skkU

Tadge Dryja, the co-inventor of the Lightning Network, just dropped an update on Utreexo, one of the most underappreciated scaling projects in bitcoin. The problem is straightforward. Every bitcoin node that wants to validate transactions has to store the entire UTXO set, every unspent output on the network. Right now that's 11GB and growing. As more transactions hit the chain, as inscriptions and other data-heavy outputs pile up, every node operator has to store all of it. The UTXO set doesn't get pruned like old blocks can. It just grows. Utreexo eliminates the entire UTXO set from your node. Instead of storing 11GB of data, a Utreexo node stores less than 1KB of hashes and still fully verifies every transaction. It's not a light client. It's not trusting anyone else. It's full validation with radically less storage. The tradeoff has always been bandwidth. Utreexo nodes need to download extra proof data to verify transactions without storing the full set. Until recently, syncing the blockchain with Utreexo took 2-3x the data download of a normal node, pushing into terabytes. That problem is now being solved, new aggregator techniques from SwiftSync have eliminated the extra download overhead. The implementation is still being finalized, but the hard part appears to be behind them. Two things worth noting: First, Utreexo is quantum safe. The accumulator and aggregator are built entirely on hash functions, not elliptic curve cryptography. Whatever quantum computing does to bitcoin's signature scheme, it won't touch Utreexo. At a time when the quantum conversation is heating up, that's a meaningful design advantage. Second, Utreexo directly addresses the tension around "spam" on bitcoin. Inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, and other data-heavy outputs bloat the UTXO set that every node has to carry. Pruning helps with old block data but doesn't touch the UTXO set. Utreexo makes the entire debate irrelevant, if your node doesn't store the UTXO set at all, the size of it doesn't matter. New releases are out for both utreexod (BTCD-based) and Floresta (rust-based, built with rust-bitcoin). Both are in testing mode, not ready for real funds yet, but ready for developers and node operators to try. This is the kind of quiet, foundational work that actually scales bitcoin at L1. No token. No VC round. No press tour. Just better engineering.

🚨 BREAKING: Jack Dorsey’s Block just launched a Bitcoin faucet, letting users earn free Bitcoin. https://t.co/aefD1bzrN8