Bitcoin Today Recast

Mike Schmidt, who funds core developers through Brink and runs the Bitcoin Security Consortium's quantum work, explains why Bitcoin Core skipped version 32 for 32.1 after an AI scanner caught a medium-severity bug, and why the BIP110 fight turned on the difference between consensus and policy. TC reads the day's difficulty adjustment, set to jump close to 6% for the second ti...

Joe Carlasare, an attorney, walks the room through AI copyright: whether AI output is a tool's product or a principal author's work decides if it can be protected at all, and why anonymous accounts offer no shelter from false-light judgments. Lorenzo opens on the Fed meeting with a simpler frame: he does not save in dollars, so he follows issuance, halvings, and difficulty in...

Terence Michael hosts an open-floor Bitcoin Today room that starts with the simplest question in personal finance: what actually preserves savings when bonds sit doing nothing for decades and the 401k is supposed to be fine? The room builds a working elevator pitch for Bitcoin, from 17 years of persistence to self-custody, the circle of trust, and why a crisis is what finally...

Loren Hodl and the Bitcoin Today room work through the quantum FUD cycle, paper Bitcoin, and what actually secures a blockchain, from hacked-coin scenarios to the nominal amounts that matter. The room debates whether any other chain can ever reach Bitcoin's decentralization, why the top 10 from 2016 looks nothing like today, and what evidence would change their minds. The sho...

Roberto argues Japan is the monetary experiment lab for the West: thirty years of QE, QQE, and yield curve control that never created growth, with yield curve control next for the United States if a bond market crisis hits. He calls the BIS the head of the Medusa and makes the finale case that Bitcoin solves the Triffin dilemma, because a reserve asset with no host country ca...