An open-source Bitcoin seed generator has converted radioactive decay events into 12-word and 24-word BIP39 recovery phrases using an offline hardware device. The Entropy32 Plus repository, published by developer Alexander Higgins in September 2026, contains the project’s firmware, circuit-board designs, fabrication files and printable enclosure. Higgins describes the device as an experimental, educational project and
The U.S. housing market has reached its strongest buyer’s market on record, but the shift is being driven as much by disappearing demand as by improving supply. There were an estimated 57.9% more home sellers than buyers in August, the widest gap in Redfin data going back to 2013. The imbalance jumped sharply from 52.1%
Bitcoin is rapidly losing its status as independent digital gold and turning into an ordinary stock market puppet, Bloomberg Intelligence senior macro strategist Mike McGlone warns in a new review. In his assessment, its rigid correlation with U.S. equities and the inevitable tightening of Federal Reserve policy have created critical downside signals for the leading
Lightning Development Kit, a toolkit for building Bitcoin Lightning applications, released v0.2.6 on Sept. 9 with fixes for bugs that could divert small amounts of a node’s funds or prevent saved channel state from loading. LDK packages a Lightning implementation as a software development kit for uses including mobile wallets and payment-service infrastructure. The update
The International Energy Agency has cut its 2026 oil supply forecast and now expects full Gulf supply recovery in 2027, complicating the prospect of energy-driven relief in borrowing costs for Bitcoin investors. Its Sept. 11 report projects average global supply of 100.7 million barrels a day this year, down from 102 million in the Aug.
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron has challenged Robinhood’s claimed 1:1 stock token backing by asking whether shares supporting the products could be lent to short sellers. Aron’s Sept. 12 statement directed a series of questions to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher. The post followed their public defense of the company’s
A hypothetical $10k investment highlights a key divergence. From a technical perspective, Bitcoin displayed stronger resilience than precious metals during the US-Iran conflict. A hypothetical $10,000 investment in $BTC would have grown to $11,762, while the same investment in gold and silver would have hit $8,200 and $7,310, respectively. This is notable, as metals usually
Satsuma Technology said the High Court of Justice approved the cancellation of 11,235,874,700 B shares, authorizing the share-capital reduction behind a £30,718,881 return to shareholders. The return is fixed at £0.002734 per B share after the UK-listed company sold all 669 $BTC it disclosed. The B shares are the mechanism for moving cash back to
Solana blockchain co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko reacted sarcastically to a sudden agreement among AI industry leaders to force a halt to the development of advanced neural networks. Earlier, the heads of Anthropic (Dario Amodei), OpenAI (Sam Altman) and xAI (Elon Musk) simultaneously called for the industry to slow down, citing safety risks. However, the Solana co-founder
Every major TradFi player is pricing a rate hike. As reported by AMBCrypto, the latest CPI figure came in slightly higher than expected, with the US August inflation rising 0.4% compared to 0.1% in July. It left America’s inflation comfortably above the Fed’s 2% level, with the annual inflation standing at 3.4%, which would allow