NEW: Strive's CEO Matt Cole to speak at the Bitcoin Treasuries Conference 2026, on September 28 in Manhattan.

BITCOIN SUPPLY IN LOSS SURPASSES SUPPLY IN PROFIT

For the first time since the 2022 bear market bottom, more Bitcoin is being held at a loss than at a profit.

According to ARK Invest, supply in profit fell from ~57% to ~46% in Q2, while supply in loss rose…

Bitcoin is still below the realized price of the 18-month-to-two-year UTXO cohort.

FOUNDRY ASKS MINERS TO VOTE ON BIP-110 SIGNALING

Foundry USA Pool has begun asking its mining customers how the pool should signal on BIP-110.

According to an email sent to pool account owners, votes are weighted by each participant’s average 10-day hashrate.…

📰 Leia o artigo “D. Pedro Henrique autoriza o traslado de D. Leopoldina”, escrito pelo Conselheiro da Pró Monarquia Osvaldo Rocco e publicado originalmente na edição nº 33 do boletim “Herdeiros do Porvir”, de abril, maio e junho de 2013.

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Mecanismos de financiamento para redes comunitárias de internet são analisados em relatório da Connect Humanity. O estudo examina os desafios econômicos dos provedores comunitários, opções de modelos de propriedade com casos de sucesso e recomendações para…

July 17, 2011 (15 years ago)

BTC-E LAUNCHES IN TEST MODE

A Russian exchange opens with a simple pitch: no names, no questions. It becomes a top-3 Bitcoin exchange, a $4 billion laundering machine, and the puzzle piece that cracked the Mt. Gox theft. Brief…

2/9 - BTC-e was built by Alexander Vinnik and Alexey Bilyuchenko, registered behind shell companies in London and run on servers in the US and Europe. It required no identity verification at all, by design. Anonymity was not an oversight. It was the product.

3/9 - That design made it a black box. You deposited bitcoin and received BTC-e's internal credits, and every trade after that happened inside a private off-chain ledger. When funds exited, the link to where they entered was gone: a clean break in the transaction…

4/9 - The funding rails told the same story. BTC-e accepted wire transfers and Liberty Reserve, the Costa Rica based digital currency favored by dark web markets. When the DOJ seized Liberty Reserve in May 2013, BTC-e absorbed the users left behind and simply…

5/9 - It worked. At its peak, BTC-e ranked among the top three Bitcoin exchanges in the world by volume. US prosecutors later put its deposits at over $4 billion, with funds traced to exchange hacks, ransomware scams, identity theft schemes, and narcotics…

6/9 - What brought it down began at Mt. Gox. Blockchain analysts at @WizSec, led by Kim Nilsson, spent years tracing the roughly 630,000 BTC drained from Gox's compromised wallet. Around 300,000 of those stolen coins flowed into BTC-e:

https://blog.wizs…

7/9 - The wallet clustering exposed something worse than dirty customer deposits. Some of the stolen Gox coins moved straight into BTC-e's internal storage, bypassing customer deposit addresses entirely. WizSec's chief suspect for laundering the proceeds:…

8/9 - In late July 2017 it all collapsed at once. Vinnik was arrested while vacationing in Ouranoupolis, a Greek resort town, the same week US authorities seized http://btc-e.com and unsealed a 21-count indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian…

This week we are putting things in memory ...

O hospital público é gratuito e o estacionamento dele cobra 15 reais a hora. A área dentro do terreno do SUS foi concedida a uma empresa privada, que fatura sobre a única vaga possível pra quem leva um doente ou visita um internado. O acompanhante de uma…

Existe um dia do ano em que o serviço público para pra comemorar a si mesmo. O dia do servidor, 28 de outubro, vira ponto facultativo em praticamente todos os órgãos, e o país inteiro descobre repartições fechadas, perícias desmarcadas, prazos suspensos.…