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While at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provoost.
Sjors is a physicist turned Bitcoin developer, which believe it or not is actually a pretty common phenomenon. He began contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2017, a very turbulent time during which the activation of Segregated Witness was playing out in the culmination of the block size wars with the User Activated Softfork and the New York Agreement.
He is also the co-host of Bitcoin, Explained, a podcast done with Aaron van Wirdum, the current Editor in Chief of Bitcoin Magazine. Most recently he has also written the book Bitcoin: A Work In Progress, explaining technical…
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The Bitcoin Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, scheduled for the last week of May, includes several notable political figures slated as speakers, including returning guest and Bitcoin advocate Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY). Also appearing are Trump’s so-called “A.I. and Crypto Czar,” David Sacks, and Bo Hines, the “Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets at the White House.”
This year, a less-expected and almost otherworldly contingent will possibly make an appearance as well — at least in the audience, if not beamed up and looking straight into the stage’s spotlights. Like fire from the skies, an unexpected $3,000 bitcoin donation which…
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This is the fifth article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in-depth breakdown.
OP_CAT, put forward for reactivation in tapscript by Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri in BIP 347, is not a covenant. It was an opcode that was originally included in the first release of Bitcoin for manipulating data elements on the stack. It was deactivated in 2010 with the release of Bitcoin 0.3.10 along with a number of other opcodes due to concerns of denial of service attacks that could crash nodes. A global maximum limit of 520 bytes for any individual item on the stack while executing a script was also added.
You should…
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We now know what’s been hinted at for a while: MapleStory’s crypto spinoff, MapleStory N, is finally launching on May 15.
On May 8, players in select countries will be able to pre-download the game.
The new game will be a 2D, sidescrolling MMORPG like the original game. MapleStory N is part of MapleStory Universe (MSU), which also includes plans for a mobile game version for players plus MapleStory N SDK and Project ModN (a blockchain game sandbox) for developers.
MapleStory N uses its own Avalanche L1 (also referred to as a subnet) to facilitate player-to-player game item trading…
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According to a new SEC filing today, Brown University, a private university based in Providence, Rhode Island, revealed a large position in BlackRock’ spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, as first reported by market analyst MacroScope. The position showed Brown held $4,915,050 in IBIT as of March 31, 2025, which sees the school become the third U.S. university to publicly announce a Bitcoin purchase after Emory & University of Austin (UATX), according to VanEck’s Matthew Siegel.
“In a 13F filing this morning, Brown University reported owning 105,000 shares of the IBIT Bitcoin ETF as of March 31, valued at $4.9 million,” MacroScope posted to X. “This is a new position, which means it was…
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A lot has happened since I last wrote on Movement. At the time, the chain was not live.
About a month later, on April 15, Blockworks’ Katherine Ross and Jack Kubinec broke a story on market maker “misconduct” around the project’s MOVE token on the Binance exchange.
The market marker was alleged by ZachXBT to be linked to market making firm Web3Port. At the time, MOVE traded at $0.29, about 74% down from its highs of $1.12 in December.
Movement Labs co-founder Rushi Manche was also reportedly taking a “temporary leave” from the company, a claim that Manche neither explicitly…
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Last year, Maya Parbhoe quickly became well-known in the international Bitcoin community as she presented herself to the world as a presidential candidate in her country, Suriname. She vowed to fight corruption in a country rife with it and to make bitcoin legal tender in Suriname to help get the country’s citizens out of financial “survival mode.”
Parbhoe’s story as an underdog candidate quickly gained traction as she made her case for how she could help Suriname as president both online and in person at conferences such as Bitcoin Amsterdam.
Prominent members of the Bitcoin community such as Bitcoin mining analyst and leadership coach Daniel Batten have vouched for Parbhoe in…
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Picture the iconic Spider-Man meme with the various Spider-Men pointing at each other.
Got it in your head?
Kraken said yesterday that it turned the tables on a North Korean hacker who was trying to get a job at the exchange.
I spoke to Kraken’s chief security officer, Nick Percoco, who gave me some details that are, honestly, just perfect for a Friday edition.
Percoco told me Kraken had received a list of email addresses tied to hackers. They, as one would expect, checked to see if any of those addresses would pop up around Kraken. One did. The person had applied for a job and was in a…
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The Tokyo-based company said in a regulatory filing that the 12th series of ordinary bonds will be sold entirely to EVO FUND, carrying no interest and maturing on October 31, 2025. The bonds will be issued at 90 million yen per unit and redeemed at face value, according to the company notice.
“The proceeds raised through this issuance will be allocated to the purchase of Bitcoin,” Metaplanet stated in the filing, noting the funding aligns with plans disclosed in January regarding its series of stock acquisition rights.
The company expects to fund the bonds’ redemption through capital raised from the exercise of its 15th to 17th series of stock acquisition rights. The bondholder…
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