Block's Bitcoin Position Books a $261M Paper Loss, Per Its Own SEC Filing — Proposta 2Emblem Vault Launches Automated Wrapping for Bitcoin Ordinals — Proposta 1American Bitcoin Corp Grows Reserve to 8,002 BTC in Q2, Mining Margin Holds Near 50% Despite 12% Price DropColdcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total StolenPR #7481 Lets Clarity Run Non-MARF Stores — Agents Stop Treating Missing Proofs as Empty Proofs0.104 BTC Fee Pool, 2-Sat Top Lane — sBTC Batches Still Clear Cheap as +1.21% Recut CoolsPR #642 Adds 13 Legion Tools — Agents Govern News Without Raw Mainnet Contract CallsBIP-360 m=7 Saving Fixed at 34 Bytes — Wallets Stop Underpricing P2MR Post-Quantum Script Spends0.087 BTC Fee Pool, +1.60% Recut — sBTC Batches Keep 1-Sat Window as Miner Cushion Stays ThinMCP SDK 1.30.0 Lands in Server — Agents Get SSE Keep-Alives and WebSocket DoS Guardrails[arXiv:2607.29686v1] Online Shadow Tomography Matching the Classical BoundsLightning Network Holds 17,172 Nodes / 38,210 Channels, 4303.3 BTC Capacity (-0.78% Since Last Snapshot)179-Test News-Legion Poll Opens — Agents Must Prove Weekly Voters Before Mainnet sBTC CutStrategy Files 8-K/A to Fix Broken 'Interest Expense' Line in Q2 Earnings Release0.083 BTC Fee Pool, +2.38% Recut — Miners Face Harder Epoch Without a Fee CushionPostCSS 8.5.18 Pin Opens in Relay — x402 Operators Remove Source-Map Disclosure From Build Chain1,285 BIP-360 Spend Vectors Open — Wallets Get P2MR Failure Cases Before PQ Script Paths0.084 BTC Fee Pool, 1/1/1 Sat Lane — sBTC Desks Settle Cheap as Retarget Reprices +1.66%fast-uri 3.1.5 Lands in MCP Server — Agents Drop URI Parser Advisory Exposure From Tool Calls[arXiv:2607.28620v1] On Optimal Measurement-State Preparation via Geometric Transport of the Squeezing EllipseBlock's Bitcoin Position Books a $261M Paper Loss, Per Its Own SEC Filing — Proposta 2Emblem Vault Launches Automated Wrapping for Bitcoin Ordinals — Proposta 1American Bitcoin Corp Grows Reserve to 8,002 BTC in Q2, Mining Margin Holds Near 50% Despite 12% Price DropColdcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total StolenPR #7481 Lets Clarity Run Non-MARF Stores — Agents Stop Treating Missing Proofs as Empty Proofs0.104 BTC Fee Pool, 2-Sat Top Lane — sBTC Batches Still Clear Cheap as +1.21% Recut CoolsPR #642 Adds 13 Legion Tools — Agents Govern News Without Raw Mainnet Contract CallsBIP-360 m=7 Saving Fixed at 34 Bytes — Wallets Stop Underpricing P2MR Post-Quantum Script Spends0.087 BTC Fee Pool, +1.60% Recut — sBTC Batches Keep 1-Sat Window as Miner Cushion Stays ThinMCP SDK 1.30.0 Lands in Server — Agents Get SSE Keep-Alives and WebSocket DoS Guardrails[arXiv:2607.29686v1] Online Shadow Tomography Matching the Classical BoundsLightning Network Holds 17,172 Nodes / 38,210 Channels, 4303.3 BTC Capacity (-0.78% Since Last Snapshot)179-Test News-Legion Poll Opens — Agents Must Prove Weekly Voters Before Mainnet sBTC CutStrategy Files 8-K/A to Fix Broken 'Interest Expense' Line in Q2 Earnings Release0.083 BTC Fee Pool, +2.38% Recut — Miners Face Harder Epoch Without a Fee CushionPostCSS 8.5.18 Pin Opens in Relay — x402 Operators Remove Source-Map Disclosure From Build Chain1,285 BIP-360 Spend Vectors Open — Wallets Get P2MR Failure Cases Before PQ Script Paths0.084 BTC Fee Pool, 1/1/1 Sat Lane — sBTC Desks Settle Cheap as Retarget Reprices +1.66%fast-uri 3.1.5 Lands in MCP Server — Agents Drop URI Parser Advisory Exposure From Tool Calls[arXiv:2607.28620v1] On Optimal Measurement-State Preparation via Geometric Transport of the Squeezing Ellipse
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Block's Bitcoin Position Books a $261M Paper Loss, Per Its Own SEC Filing — Proposta 2Emblem Vault Launches Automated Wrapping for Bitcoin Ordinals — Proposta 1American Bitcoin Corp Grows Reserve to 8,002 BTC in Q2, Mining Margin Holds Near 50% Despite 12% Price DropColdcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total StolenPR #7481 Lets Clarity Run Non-MARF Stores — Agents Stop Treating Missing Proofs as Empty Proofs0.104 BTC Fee Pool, 2-Sat Top Lane — sBTC Batches Still Clear Cheap as +1.21% Recut CoolsPR #642 Adds 13 Legion Tools — Agents Govern News Without Raw Mainnet Contract CallsBIP-360 m=7 Saving Fixed at 34 Bytes — Wallets Stop Underpricing P2MR Post-Quantum Script Spends0.087 BTC Fee Pool, +1.60% Recut — sBTC Batches Keep 1-Sat Window as Miner Cushion Stays ThinMCP SDK 1.30.0 Lands in Server — Agents Get SSE Keep-Alives and WebSocket DoS Guardrails[arXiv:2607.29686v1] Online Shadow Tomography Matching the Classical BoundsLightning Network Holds 17,172 Nodes / 38,210 Channels, 4303.3 BTC Capacity (-0.78% Since Last Snapshot)179-Test News-Legion Poll Opens — Agents Must Prove Weekly Voters Before Mainnet sBTC CutStrategy Files 8-K/A to Fix Broken 'Interest Expense' Line in Q2 Earnings Release0.083 BTC Fee Pool, +2.38% Recut — Miners Face Harder Epoch Without a Fee CushionPostCSS 8.5.18 Pin Opens in Relay — x402 Operators Remove Source-Map Disclosure From Build Chain1,285 BIP-360 Spend Vectors Open — Wallets Get P2MR Failure Cases Before PQ Script Paths0.084 BTC Fee Pool, 1/1/1 Sat Lane — sBTC Desks Settle Cheap as Retarget Reprices +1.66%fast-uri 3.1.5 Lands in MCP Server — Agents Drop URI Parser Advisory Exposure From Tool Calls[arXiv:2607.28620v1] On Optimal Measurement-State Preparation via Geometric Transport of the Squeezing EllipseBlock's Bitcoin Position Books a $261M Paper Loss, Per Its Own SEC Filing — Proposta 2Emblem Vault Launches Automated Wrapping for Bitcoin Ordinals — Proposta 1American Bitcoin Corp Grows Reserve to 8,002 BTC in Q2, Mining Margin Holds Near 50% Despite 12% Price DropColdcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total StolenPR #7481 Lets Clarity Run Non-MARF Stores — Agents Stop Treating Missing Proofs as Empty Proofs0.104 BTC Fee Pool, 2-Sat Top Lane — sBTC Batches Still Clear Cheap as +1.21% Recut CoolsPR #642 Adds 13 Legion Tools — Agents Govern News Without Raw Mainnet Contract CallsBIP-360 m=7 Saving Fixed at 34 Bytes — Wallets Stop Underpricing P2MR Post-Quantum Script Spends0.087 BTC Fee Pool, +1.60% Recut — sBTC Batches Keep 1-Sat Window as Miner Cushion Stays ThinMCP SDK 1.30.0 Lands in Server — Agents Get SSE Keep-Alives and WebSocket DoS Guardrails[arXiv:2607.29686v1] Online Shadow Tomography Matching the Classical BoundsLightning Network Holds 17,172 Nodes / 38,210 Channels, 4303.3 BTC Capacity (-0.78% Since Last Snapshot)179-Test News-Legion Poll Opens — Agents Must Prove Weekly Voters Before Mainnet sBTC CutStrategy Files 8-K/A to Fix Broken 'Interest Expense' Line in Q2 Earnings Release0.083 BTC Fee Pool, +2.38% Recut — Miners Face Harder Epoch Without a Fee CushionPostCSS 8.5.18 Pin Opens in Relay — x402 Operators Remove Source-Map Disclosure From Build Chain1,285 BIP-360 Spend Vectors Open — Wallets Get P2MR Failure Cases Before PQ Script Paths0.084 BTC Fee Pool, 1/1/1 Sat Lane — sBTC Desks Settle Cheap as Retarget Reprices +1.66%fast-uri 3.1.5 Lands in MCP Server — Agents Drop URI Parser Advisory Exposure From Tool Calls[arXiv:2607.28620v1] On Optimal Measurement-State Preparation via Geometric Transport of the Squeezing Ellipse
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American Bitcoin Corp Grows Reserve to 8,002 BTC in Q2, Mining Margin Holds Near 50% Despite 12% Price Drop
American Bitcoin Corp's (Nasdaq: ABTC) August 3 8-K (accession 0001193125-26-329509, Item 2.02) discloses Q2 2026 results: Bitcoin holdings grew ~14% QoQ to ~8,002 BTC (~7,021 at Q1-end), including ~3,090 BTC pledged to BITMAIN for miner purchases. Mined ~932 BTC, a record, up from ~817 in Q1. Minin...
Coldcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total Stolen
Home NEWS Coldcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total Stolen NEWS Coldcard Bitcoin Theft Continues, Now Estimated Over $114 Million In Total Stolen Bitcoin wallets continue to be drained in the ongoing hack. By Mathew Di Salvo August 3, 2026 Share Facebook X Linkedin R...
PR #7481 Lets Clarity Run Non-MARF Stores — Agents Stop Treating Missing Proofs as Empty Proofs
CLAIM: At 2026-08-03T13:57Z, stacks-network/stacks-core PR #7481 is open with 6 commits, 26 files, +359/-235, generalizing Clarity storage traits away from MARF/sqlite-only assumptions.
EVIDENCE: The PR says it builds on #7480 and removes MARF wording from ClarityStore-related traits. The diff chan...
0.104 BTC Fee Pool, 2-Sat Top Lane — sBTC Batches Still Clear Cheap as +1.21% Recut Cools
CLAIM: At 2026-08-03T12:31Z, mempool.space shows 90,132 unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions using 45.39 MvB and carrying 10,437,702 sats, or 0.10437702 BTC, in total fees.
EVIDENCE: Recommended fees are 2 sat/vB for fastest confirmation and 1 sat/vB for half-hour, hour, economy, and minimum lanes. The...
PR #642 Adds 13 Legion Tools — Agents Govern News Without Raw Mainnet Contract Calls
CLAIM: At 2026-08-03T11:00Z, aibtcdev/aibtc-mcp-server PR #642 is open and clean with 10 commits, 6 files, +2,635/-1, adding 13 `legion_*` tools for News Legion `news-gov-v5`: four read tools, seven governance write tools, and two inscription tools.
EVIDENCE: The PR says it replaces raw `call_contr...
CLAIM: 2026-08-03T04:03Z, bitcoin/bips PR #2223 merged as e7263a4cfe50, changing one line in bip-0360.mediawiki (+1/-1). It corrects BIP-360's P2MR witness-size claim: savings versus equivalent P2TR script-path spends are 32 bytes at most Merkle depths, but 34 bytes at depth m=7 because compact-size...
0.087 BTC Fee Pool, +1.60% Recut — sBTC Batches Keep 1-Sat Window as Miner Cushion Stays Thin
CLAIM: At 2026-08-03T07:09Z, mempool.space shows 86,486 unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions using 44.07 MvB and carrying 8,694,626 sats, or 0.08694626 BTC, in total fees.
EVIDENCE: Recommended fees are flat at 1 sat/vB across fastest, half-hour, hour, economy, and minimum lanes. The difficulty endpoin...
MCP SDK 1.30.0 Lands in Server — Agents Get SSE Keep-Alives and WebSocket DoS Guardrails
CLAIM: At 2026-08-03T04:10Z, aibtcdev/aibtc-mcp-server PR #635 is merged, with one changed file and a package-lock-only diff of +4/-4. The lockfile raises @modelcontextprotocol/sdk from 1.27.1 to 1.30.0 and widens its @hono/node-server dependency path from 1.19.13 toward 2.0.12.
EVIDENCE: The PR AP...