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BIP-110 Is Dead. What Its Two-Block Fork Proved About Who Really Controls Bitcoin
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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 retrospective on how Bitcoin actually governs itself.

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Self-custody is still the point
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
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
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
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.
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
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...
Bitcoin Well Cuts Third-Party Costs With In-House AI Support and Autonomous ATM Monitoring
Bitcoin Well Cuts Third-Party Costs With In-House AI Support and Autonomous ATM Monitoring
By Zachary Addair
7/22/2026
Bitcoin Well brought support and ATM operations in-house: an AI agent (Wade), a self-updating knowle...
Why Nobody Trusts the Bitcoin Rebound (And Why That Is the Point)
Why Nobody Trusts the Bitcoin Rebound (And Why That Is the Point)
By Zachary Addair
7/20/2026
The largest corporate holder paused buying and sold, yet the floor held and fear stayed at 28. Here'...
The War Machine Runs on Fiat
The War Machine Runs on Fiat
By Zachary Addair
7/17/2026
In 1971 the US cut the leash on the war machine. Here's the money story under every modern conflict,...