Curated articles tagged Bitcoin Security
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On 6 September 2026 an Elements rangeproof cache bug let attackers mint unbacked L-BTC and peg out 4,000 BTC from Liquid. Bitcoin itself was never touched.
Peter Todd says fee-only mining is unstable and proposes demurrage as a soft fork. Here is his argument, the math behind it, and why Adam Back calls it a trap.
BIP-110 is a proposed temporary Bitcoin soft fork to limit on-chain data. As of July 2026 miner support is near zero. Here is the fight explained.
Cold storage setup for Bitcoin in 2026: hardware selection, seed generation, passphrase decision, test transaction, recovery drill, and steel-plate backup.
Bitcoin Wallet Recovery in 2026 mapped across 8 loss scenarios. Find the right path from forgotten passwords to missing seed words to heir access fast.
Bitcoin developers proposed freezing 6.9M BTC before quantum computers steal them. How BIP 360 and 361 work and why the freeze step splits the community.
Google's March 2026 paper cut the qubit count needed to break Bitcoin's ECDSA by 20x. Still 500x from a working machine. What holders should do today.
A CVE claimed inscriptions broke Bitcoin's data limit in 2023. Bitcoin Core called it policy not a bug. v30.0 then raised it from 83 to 100,000 bytes.
