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The list is a weapon
By Adam - CEO @ Bitcoin Well · 9/1/2026
Canada's no-fly list flagged infants. America's leaked in the open. Every list leaks eventually. Here's how to buy bitcoin without joining one.
Jump out of the pot
By Adam - CEO @ Bitcoin Well
8/19/2026
Your bank account is a surveillance camera. How 50 years of financial reporting built the pot, and h...
What BIP-110 Actually Proved: How to Read a Bitcoin Fork Fight
By Zachary Addair
8/14/2026
BIP-110 nodes rejected non-signaling blocks and split off. Four checks for spotting bad arguments th...
BIP-110 Is Dead. What Its Two-Block Fork Proved About Who Really Controls Bitcoin
By Zachary Addair
8/10/2026
BIP-110 mined two blocks and stalled at ~2.5% miner support. No CEO, no regulator, no vote. A retros...
Self-custody is still the point
By Carl Frisko
8/6/2026
A build error drained millions in bitcoin from Coldcard wallets. The answer isn't handing your keys ...
Roll Your Own Bitcoin Seed: How to Create a Wallet You Don't Have to Trust
By Zachary Addair
8/4/2026
The ColdCard hack exposed weak seed randomness. Here's how to roll your own entropy with dice, the e...
An Important Update on ColdCard
By Bitcoin Well
7/31/2026
Coinkite and Block published security advisories today about a flaw in Coldcard firmware. Seeds gene...
The Coldcard Hack: A Timeline of the $38M Entropy Failure, and How to Keep It From Happening to You
By Zachary Addair
7/31/2026
A firmware flaw made Coldcard seeds predictable, not random. 594 BTC swept in 25 minutes. Here's the...
This Isn't Late-Stage Capitalism. It's Late-Stage Corporatism.
By Zachary Addair
7/29/2026
The State Department's "Freedom Tech" program is co-founded by Palantir and Anduril, both seeded by ...
The Last Analog Man: What John C. Dvorak Understood About Value That the Algorithm Never Will
By Zachary Addair
7/27/2026
John C. Dvorak spent 19 years on a podcast with no ads, paid directly by listeners. That value-for-v...