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Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said Strategy's STRC offer of high yields and low volatility was always a questionable fit for buying Bitcoin, as the cryptocurrency offers neither.
New data from Allium suggest that US users are bypassing geoblocks to bet on markets offered on Polymarket’s global platform.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the shortcomings of the company's recent restructuring and the slow development of AI agents.
VC funding into Indian startups for the first six months of the year touched $6.9 billion, raising hopes that capital inflow will surpass 2025 levels by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Noida-based Addverb has grown alongside India's warehouse automation industry.
Yotta Data Services is reportedly seeking $1 billion from global and domestic funds, aiming to sell a 25-30% stake at a $3 billion valuation to fuel its expansion. The Hiranandani group's data centre arm is also exploring an initial public offering in India. This move comes as India's data centre se
BRIEF-BRIEF-Hcltech Announces Strategic Partnership With European Firm
Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profits When South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case returned to court last month, the lawyers were arguing not just about the breakdown of a re
Google has lost its final appeal to the European Commission's €4.1 billion fine from 2018. The appeal was Google's last chance and was presented at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe's highest court. The record-breaking fine sat at €4.34 (later reduced to €4.1) was imposed on Google by the
After getting a second chance to formally respond to Apple’s lawsuit, Jon Prosser filed his answer today, disputing the company’s account of how he obtained and published details about the Liquid Glass revamp. Here are the details.
HODLing is the beginning. But Bitcoin was meant to be programmed. "Not Just HODLing: Real Bitcoin Script Engineering" starts here. Building Taproot addresses with dual Script Path leaves and understanding both Key Path and Script Path spending through real testnet transactions Target Audience: Devel
HODLing is the beginning. But Bitcoin was meant to be programmed. "Not Just HODLing: Real Bitcoin Script Engineering" starts here. “Why does the redeemScript in a P2SH transaction get executed after hash comparison?” “Can’t I just duplicate it before hashing, so it’s still on the stack and ready to
HODLing is the beginning. But Bitcoin was meant to be programmed. “Not Just HODLing: Real Bitcoin Script Engineering” starts here. Most Bitcoin Taproot tutorials stop at 1–2 leaves. This is different. What you’re about to see is the first publicly available demonstration of a complete 4-leaf Taproot
Companion notes to my book Mastering Taproot. HODLing is the beginning. But Bitcoin was meant to be programmed. "Not Just HODLing: Real Bitcoin Script Engineering" starts here. Underneath, two different architectures coexist: a philosophical commit–reveal model shared by all address types an enginee
Excerpt from my book Mastering Taproot — full chapter. HODLing is the beginning. But Bitcoin was meant to be programmed. "Not Just HODLing: Real Bitcoin Script Engineering" starts here. This article is an excerpt from my upcoming book Mastering Taproot, which explores the engineering principles behi
HODLing is the beginning. But Bitcoin was meant to be programmed. “Not Just HODLing: Real Bitcoin Script Engineering” starts here. In the Bitcoin development world, most tutorials only teach you concepts, not how to actually write code, and even fewer guide you to thoroughly dissect a real Bitcoin t
You took a screenshot of an important chat conversation. You open it later and the text is a blurry, pixelated mess — compressed to death by WhatsApp or Messenger. You can barely make out what was said. Or you snapped a photo of a receipt for expenses. Two weeks later the thermal print has faded so
Bitcoin is not a state machine. It is a verifiable sequence of events. "Event Machine Letters - Protocol Thoughts on Bitcoin's Architecture" begins here. While writing Chapter 5 of my book How People Tried to Push Non-Transaction Data into Bitcoin, I fell into a technical rabbit hole: How did Counte
If you build software long enough, you eventually ship a bug that isn't a typo or a logic error — it's a default. Specifically, it's the answer to a question nobody asked out loud: "What happens when this check fails?" That question has a name in security engineering: fail-open vs fail-closed. Pictu
I spent the last while building the HMRC integration for TapTax, a Making Tax Digital (MTD) app for UK sole traders. MTD is the UK government's programme that pushes tax filing out of paper and spreadsheets and into software talking directly to HMRC's APIs. I have integrated with a fair few third-pa
At the beginning of June I started a “Claude withdrawal” challenge. The plan was to run MiniMax 3 for a month, to see if I can get the same level of quality, but at 5x less the price. Until then, Claude Code was my main driver, with MiniMax on the backup, for when I was running out of quota, or some
