Author: NBTC

Canadian Bitcoin developer Peter Todd sparked fresh debate over the identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. He posted on X that he had been discussing programming with adults since the age of 12 and was already communicating with cryptographers Adam Back and Hal Finney at 15 while attempting to create Bitcoin. Todd made the remarks while criticizing the United Kingdom’s proposed restrictions on social media use for children under 16. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government plans to introduce rules inspired by Australia’s legislation, with measures that could limit access to platforms such as X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. His…

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts in April that the roughly $1.8 trillion private credit market doesn’t pose a systemic risk. “You have to have very large losses in private credit before, at least it looks like, banks are going to get hit,” he said. He made that comment the same week executives at Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo used nearly identical language to describe their own exposures as “comfortable.” But a Reuters analysis of 53 publicly traded business development companies found that 28 had swung into the red during the first quarter of 2026. Average profit…

TapTools, a Cardano-focused real-time analytics platform, has begun winding down after its fifth top-level executive departure, compounding leadership instability and making continued operations unsustainable. TapTools said in a post to X on Tuesday that it would begin winding down over the next two weeks, and noted the departure of its two co-founders, chief operating officer and chief technology officer earlier this year. “We worked hard to adapt,” TapTools said, adding that its backend developer had become its CTO as the platform shifted its focus toward shipping products more sustainably; however, they have since departed, and “the technical knowledge required to…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to create a new US government agency focused entirely on addressing corruption at the federal level, noting President Donald Trump’s gains from “various, and extremely lucrative, cryptocurrency ventures.” In a Thursday notice, Schumer said that he had introduced a bill called the Anti-Corruption Bureau Creation Act, which, if passed, would have the authority to “investigate, enforce, and prevent executive branch corruption.” The text of the bill addressed Congress’ findings that Trump had disclosed earning more than $2 billion from investments in 2025, including $1.4 billion tied to crypto, and his family had more…

Introduction If you’ve been searching for “Coinbase Pro” recently, here’s the short version: it doesn’t exist anymore. Coinbase officially sunset Coinbase Pro on November 20, 2023, folding its advanced trading features into the main Coinbase platform under a new name — Coinbase Advanced Trade. If you had a Coinbase Pro account, your funds and trading history didn’t disappear; they moved. This guide explains exactly what happened, what changed, and how to pick up where Coinbase Pro left off. What Happened to Coinbase Pro? Coinbase Pro (originally launched as GDAX) was the exchange’s separate platform for more experienced traders — deeper…

Bitcoin mining difficulty has dropped 19.9% from its peak in the third deepest ASIC era decline on record, as miners sell bitcoin at record rates and redirect power capacity toward artificial intelligence data centers. Bitcoin mining difficulty has dropped 19.9% from its all time peak. That single number captures a transformation that has been building for months but accelerated through the first half of 2026: the economics of mining bitcoin have deteriorated to the point where a meaningful share of the global fleet has shut down, and the operators that remain are increasingly looking beyond bitcoin for revenue. The decline,…

Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s censorship-resistant, Bluetooth-enabled messaging app, has gone viral again, this time due to the Indian Government trying to get it banned from GitHub. In this latest round of authoritarian measures versus decentralized technologies, Bitchat has won. In July 2025, Jack Dorsey announced a new messaging application he described as a weekend project. The app, called Bitchat, was designed to work without internet access, phone numbers, user accounts, or central servers. It relied instead on Bluetooth mesh networks for local communication and the Nostr protocol for wider reach. A year later, that same application became the subject of a…

BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset management firms and a key player in the Bitcoin ecosystem, has been ranked as the third-largest Bitcoin holder across the globe. Although BlackRock is globally renowned for its extreme focus on Bitcoin, the recent ranking by Arkham researchers has positioned the firm above Strategy, which is believed to hold more $BTC. Did BlackRock actually flip Strategy? While Arkham released a report confirming that BlackRock currently holds about 764,000 $BTC, commentators have argued that placing it behind only Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and the leading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase may have been an unfair…

There’s a question buried in this week’s US economic data that sounds simple but is surprisingly hard to answer: when Americans spend more money, does that mean they’re buying more, or just paying more for the same stuff? Those are completely different things, and it’s important to tell them apart. If people are buying more, then the economy is genuinely strong. But if they’re just paying higher prices for the same amount of goods, then the economy is actually weakening, while looking healthy only on the surface. And the two big reports that landed this week each have a blind…

The Sui Foundation on Sunday published a post-mortem on the three mainnet outages that took its Layer 1 down on May 28 and 29, pinning the first two halts on a gas-charging bug introduced by the v1.72 “address balances” upgrade and the third on a separate randomness-state fault exposed when validators restarted to install an interim fix the team admits it shipped knowing it carried a low-probability halt risk. SUI, the network’s native token, slid 6.6% in the 24 hours after the post-mortem and is down 18.5% over seven days at $0.82, trimming Sui’s market capitalization to $3.31 billion, per…