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Deep dives into Bitcoin security, self-custody strategies, and the evolving landscape of financial sovereignty.

Line chart of the hours of work needed to buy one ounce of gold, rising to about 117 hours in 2026

October 1, 2026

Hours of work to buy 1 ounce of gold

How many hours an average worker needs to work to buy one ounce of gold, from 500 BC to today, with the yearly inflation rate one click away.

Two envelopes side by side: on the left the sealed one the chain shows, 0 sat and 669 bytes of hex; on the right the same envelope opened with Bob's viewing key, showing 5,000 sat received

September 25, 2026

Shielded Bitcoin

Proof of concept: a shielded payment on Bitcoin mainnet, proving the mechanism on chain. Insecure by design, not usable today.

Two device screens side by side: stock SeedSigner magnifying one of 25 QR squares to copy by hand, and ShieldSigner confirming the secret was saved to a SeedKeeper card

September 17, 2026

Multisig on SeedSigner vs ShieldSigner

September 13, 2026

One Google search took down Silk Road

A simulated SeedSigner beside a wallet panel holding a 2-of-3 MuSig2 wallet, with three smartcards below

September 10, 2026

The future of multisig: airgapped MuSig2

Two SeedSigner screens: one reviewing a payment to a verified name, the other confirming the multisig signature

September 4, 2026

A 2-of-3 multisig that looks like one signature, paying a silent payment address

A helper server sending scanning data to a phone, with a chain of per-block fingerprints beneath it whose head is signed into a public record the server cannot edit

September 2, 2026

The silent payment server that can be caught lying

Coins under a day old are 78.9% of confirmed blocks but 4% of the pending mempool, while coins over a year old are 2.8% of blocks and 41.6% of the mempool

September 2, 2026

Most of the mempool is not competing with you

A short payment name on the left, and a SeedSigner approving a silent-payment spend on the right, with three different taproot outputs arriving from three payers

September 1, 2026

Silent payments on SeedSigner

Ninety-nine dice rolls feeding three firmware versions and splitting into three different wallets

August 27, 2026

Same dice, different wallet

A long bitcoin address beside a short payment name, the first marked as needing a fresh copy for every payer, the second as published once and never touched again

August 25, 2026

I replaced my bitcoin address with a name

A wallet on the left linked through three onion-routed relay hops to a stacked Bitcoin full node on the right, the path drawn as a shielded tunnel

August 24, 2026

Connect to the Bitsaga node

A grid of fine camera sensor noise on the left, the same grid flattened into smooth uniform blocks on the right, with the discarded fine detail marked in orange

August 22, 2026

The one number you cannot check

August 21, 2026

Bitcoin bottom on 3 November, says spiral chart

A histogram of bitcoin supply grouped by the euro price its holder paid, with a tall orange block in profit just below today's price and smaller blue-grey blocks underwater above it

August 21, 2026

The thinnest ceiling on record

An orange curve of remaining trust falling steeply with verification effort, approaching but never touching the dashed zero-trust line

August 20, 2026

The trust asymptote

The DIY Signing Device Revolution is Just Beginning

August 13, 2026

The DIY Signing Device Revolution is Just Beginning

Verifying SeedSigner

August 6, 2026

Verifying SeedSigner

Bitcoin at block resolution: 275 onchain metrics from our own archival node

August 6, 2026

Bitcoin at block resolution

Twenty-five things the chain says, each one measured on our own node

August 6, 2026

Twenty-five things the chain says

August 20, 2026

Nunchuk is 3,940 bytes from reproducible

Run the real SeedSigner firmware in your browser

August 3, 2026

Run the real SeedSigner firmware in your browser

Hardening a Linux agent server: 21 phases from first root login to a defensible box

August 2, 2026

Hardening a Linux agent server

Bitcoin's Graveyard: the fishbone chart of everything that died before Bitcoin

July 24, 2026

Bitcoin's Graveyard: the chart, and the branches that died

Bridges Burned: $35 Million Gone in Six Hours Proves Wrapped Bitcoin Is a Liability

July 23, 2026

Bridges Burned: $35 Million Gone in Six Hours Proves Wrapped Bitcoin Is a Liability

Dutch Court Exposes the Surveillance State's Bitcoin Honeypot

June 10, 2026

Dutch Court Exposes the Surveillance State's Bitcoin Honeypot

Dollar historically low, bitcoin ready to rocket

January 29, 2026

Dollar historically low, bitcoin ready to rocket

Why BIP 110's Size Limits Challenge Protocol Ossification

January 29, 2026

Why BIP 110's Size Limits Challenge Protocol Ossification

The AI – Bitcoin Energy Symbiosis

January 27, 2026

The AI – Bitcoin Energy Symbiosis

The Yen Carry unwind is bitcoin’s tailwind

January 27, 2026

The Yen Carry unwind is bitcoin’s tailwind

The Psychology of Diamond Hands

January 26, 2026

The Psychology of Diamond Hands

A Short Story About Inflation

January 15, 2026

A Short Story About Inflation

Bitcoin Core vs Knots

January 8, 2026

Bitcoin Core vs Knots

Seedsigner is the BTC Swiss army knife

July 17, 2025

Seedsigner is the BTC Swiss army knife

Bitcoin privacy

July 8, 2025

Bitcoin privacy

5 things Bitcoin is not

August 1, 2021

5 things Bitcoin is not