AI-assisted attacks forced the swap provider Boltz offline, took Satora down briefly, and had BTCPay shipping an emergency patch for a critical, actively-exploited bug. The twist: the same AI is now hardening the whole open-source Bitcoin stack. The lesson — self-host, stay patched, build redundancy.

Weekly Brief 2026/32

A wave of AI-assisted probing forced the swap provider Boltz offline, took Satora down briefly, and had BTCPay shipping an emergency patch — whil...

The Blink Terminal is here: a cash register in a browser. Open a link, take Lightning payments — nothing to install. BTCPay rebuilds multisig for teams, a Salvadoran town adds tuk-tuk rides in sats, and the hardware-wallet fiasco shows why real open source — not just readable code — wins.

Weekly Brief 2026/31

Blink shipped the Terminal — a cash register that lives in a browser tab, no install required. BTCPay Server rebuilt multisig for teams, machine-...

Accepting Bitcoin just got easier: the new BTCPay plugin turns a Blink Lightning address into a full merchant setup — no node, no API key, your keys. Lightning Labs ships Wavelength, pooled sats buy a cow, and a town in El Salvador pays for laundry, juice, and coffee in bitcoin — this week's brief.

Weekly Brief 2026/30

Accepting Bitcoin just got easier: the new BTCPay–Blink plugin turns a Lightning address into a full non-custodial merchant setup — no node, no...

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$49.3M pushed through open-source BTCPay rails in a year. A Salvadoran school canteen improvising NFC cards so kids can tap to pay in sats. New merchants in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Bitcoin payments, proving themselves at every scale — this week's brief.

Weekly Brief 2026/29

Bitcoin payments proved themselves at both ends this week: one operator pushed $49.3 million across 70,566 transactions on open-source BTCPay rails...

A payment app demanded a Lightning sender's real name — or your money back. A sharp reminder of why self-custody matters. This week's brief also covers Bitcoin at the travel counter, a Salvadoran coast with 170+ merchants, and townships running their own payment networks.

Weekly Brief 2026/28

A payment app demanded a Lightning sender's real name — a vivid case for holding your own keys. Meanwhile Bitcoin walked into everyday commerce: ...

We just shipped the biggest release in Blink's history: non-custodial accounts, live on iOS and Android. Your keys, your bitcoin, same app. This week's brief also covers tap-to-pay counters, wages paid in sats, and 517 real transactions in one Kenyan economy.

Weekly Brief 2026/27

Blink just shipped its biggest release ever — non-custodial accounts, your keys in the same everyday app. Around it: a Kenyan community paying wa...

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What stays the same in Blink: your Lightning address, your QR codes, instant payments, your Dollar Balance. What changes: you get a 12-word recovery phrase. You hold the keys. We can't touch your funds. Unilateral exit to on-chain bitcoin. More sovereignty, more responsibility. Update and try it.