Articles tagged: btc

How To Steal Bitcoin: The Landauer Attack

Bitcoin's base layer was designed as a minimal, thermodynamically efficient ledger for value transfer. Over the past decade, a sequence of protocol changes and narrative shifts has progressively loaded the chain with non-payment data and institutional dependency. This report applies Landauer's principle, the thermodynamic cost of information, to Bitcoin's governance history, identifying a pattern of incremental complexity addition that threatens the protocol's core function as censorship-resistant money. The pattern is not hypothetical. It is documented in protocol commit histories, DOJ-released Epstein files, ETF prospectus language, and the public statements of the actors involved. The August 2026 BIP-110 activation window represents the first organized attempt to reverse this trajectory, and the institutional response to it reveals which actors benefit from the accumulated complexity.

Bisq: Bitcoin kaufen ohne KYC 🛡️

Du kaufst Bitcoin weil du frei sein willst. Raus aus dem kaputten Fiat-System, weg von der Kontrolle der Zentralbanken. Und was ist dein erster Schritt in diese angebliche Freiheit? Du scannst deinen Reisepass ein, machst ein braves Selfie für den Ident-Check und lädst beides bei einer zentralen Börse hoch. Fällt dir was auf?

Hyperliquid funding extremes — 2026-06-01

top 5 paying longs (shorts collect): $HYPE +142.1% apr (oi $1.62B, mark $72.16) $VVV +137.0% apr (oi $45.6M, mark $19.54) $FET +95.2% apr (oi $15.6M, mark $0.29) $ZRO +15.7% apr (oi $24.6M, mark $1.15) $BTC +11.0% apr (oi $2.19B, mark $73,787) top 5 paying shorts (longs collect