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Luxor Announces $16M Funding Round to Scale AI Compute, Derivatives

AI hardware is sold out, and the companies that cut their teeth in Bitcoin mining are moving in. Luxor just raised $16 million in a round led by CMT Digital to scale its cloud platform, GPU hardware business and compute trading. Ethan Vera of Luxor and Sam Hallene of CMT Digital join BMTV to explain why Bitcoin mining expertise translates so well into AI compute.

Chapters:
00:00 Luxor Raises $16M to Take Bitcoin Mining Expertise Into AI
01:17 Why CMT Digital Backed the Luxor Team
02:54 What Bitcoin Mining Teaches AI Infrastructure
03:48 Luxor Cloud: Runners, Sandboxes and Code Review
04:51 Sandboxes for AI Agents
05:43 GPU Demand: Nvidia Sold Out for the Year
07:12 Compute Derivatives and Liquidity for AI Markets
08:12 Luxor’s Full-Stack Compute Ecosystem
10:24 Why Luxor Chose Strategic Investors
12:08 Bitcoin Mining Is Still a Core Pillar

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DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

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Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Raises $16 Million to Scale AI Compute Trading and Hardware

Seattle-based Luxor Technology Corporation announced a $16 million strategic investment round on Tuesday. CMT Digital, the venture capital arm of Chicago-based CMT Group, led the round. Canaan, MicroBT, Halo, Steelhead, and angel investors also participated. 

The round includes both primary and secondary capital. Luxor describes each investor as an operating partner in the compute supply chain it serves, spanning hardware, capital, and power.

The raise follows the September launch of Luxor AI, a business segment that extends the energy, hardware, software, compute trading, and data stack Luxor built for bitcoin mining into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. 

Luxor said its hardware brokerage desk has traded $1 billion of ASIC hardware for bitcoin mining. Its energy arm services more than 75 megawatts of load across ERCOT and SPP. Its agentic cloud platform had reached 1.8 million workloads year to date as of September.

The firm plans to use the new capital in four areas: scaling its agentic cloud platform, providing working capital for its AI hardware business, expanding its compute derivative trading and market making, and hiring engineering and go-to-market staff.

The hardware push responds to tightening supply chains. The firm’s AI hardware desk sources GPUs and AI servers through a tiered network of partners. As a Value-Added Reseller to major OEMs, the company says it can access abandoned orders, special allocations, and used markets.

Luxor and AI compute

CMT Digital brings nearly three decades of electronic trading and market-structure experience. Sam Hallene, a partner at CMT Digital, said Luxor understands the energy and infrastructure landscape behind compute, as well as the financial tools customers need to manage risk. He said the team has built that skill over eight years in digital assets and is applying it to AI.

Luxor’s over-the-counter desk already offers cash-settled options, forwards, and backstops on compute-rental indexes. CMT’s backing, the company says, positions Luxor to scale that business as AI compute becomes a tradable market.

Canaan CEO Nangeng Zhang said his company is pursuing long-term power resources in North America as part of its compute-plus-energy strategy, and that joining Luxor’s cap table aligns with those goals. He called the company an important partner across bitcoin mining and the energy industry.

Nick Hansen, Luxor’s CEO and co-founder, summed up the thesis: “Compute markets are converging: the same miners, power sites and capital that served digital mining are now powering AI.”

Earlier this year, the company unveiled Commander, a fleet management platform designed to help Bitcoin mining operators monitor operations, manage energy use, and optimize profitability from a single system. 

Integrated with existing infrastructure, the platform offers real-time fleet monitoring, remote machine controls, and tools that help miners adjust to changing hashrate and electricity market conditions.

Public bitcoin miners had signed more than $70 billion in AI and high-performance computing contracts by the end of March, according to CoinShares data. 

This post Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Raises $16 Million to Scale AI Compute Trading and Hardware first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

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Bitcoin Security Expert Jameson Lopp: Cyberattacks on “Exponential” Path

Bitcoin Core just changed its security policy because AI can find bugs with a simple prompt. Jameson Lopp explains the bigger trend behind it: two and a half months of exponential growth in vulnerability discovery, attackers adopting uncensored AI models first, and security researchers who “have not been able to get a lot of rest.” He breaks down the PHP remote code execution flaw, why the fallout was smaller than expected, and why security now has to be real time and built into the development pipeline instead of a once-a-year audit.

Chapters:
0:00 Bitcoin Core Changes Its Security Policy: AI Finds Bugs With a Simple Prompt
1:04 Google’s 500,000-Qubit Estimate: Physical vs. Logical Qubits
2:00 The Quantum Timeline: “If We Have Less Than a Decade, We’re Behind”
2:57 Why We Don’t Have a Quantum Computer With More Than a Few Hundred Usable Qubits
4:26 30% of Addresses Have Exposed Keys: Who Attackers Would Target First
6:27 Why a Quantum Upgrade Will Take Years: Taproot, Consensus and Untested Cryptography
7:54 The PHP Remote Code Execution Flaw Explained
9:41 The Real Trend: Exponential AI Vulnerability Discovery and Exhausted Defenders
10:54 Security Must Be Real Time: From Annual Audits to the Development Pipeline
13:19 Hardware That Can’t Be Patched, and Why Wrench Attacks Have Topped 700

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post Bitcoin Security Expert Jameson Lopp: Cyberattacks on “Exponential” Path first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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PHP Hack: How Bitcoin Will Respond to the “Cyber Pandemic”

Government websites in France and Finland and hospital sites in the Netherlands are offline, Cloudflare is seeing attack traffic, and Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre is telling organizations to pull systems if they can’t patch fast. Bitcoin Magazine technical editor Shinobi joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to explain what broke in PHP, why memory management mistakes are the most common security flaw, and why AI finding the exploit in hours changes the pace of hacking but not its nature. He also answers the question every Bitcoiner is asking: is Bitcoin exposed?

Chapters:
0:00 The PHP Exploit Takes Government and Hospital Websites Offline
0:54 AI Found the Flaw in Hours: The “Cyber Pandemic” Warning
1:45 What Actually Broke: Memory Management Mistakes Explained
3:06 Why PHP Was Never Secure and Why This One Is Different in Scale
3:47 Is the AI Hacking Story Sensationalized? AI Does 95% of the Work
5:08 The Rough Adjustment Period and Why Shinobi Is Confident About the Other Side
6:41 No Serious Software Will Ship Without an AI Security Audit
7:23 Is Bitcoin Exposed? libsecp256k1, Bitcoin Core and Why Slow Development Was Right
9:30 Take Your Lightning Node Offline and Keep Your Coins in Cold Storage
12:09 Multisig and Sparrow Setup Checks, and Where to Follow Security Engineers

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post PHP Hack: How Bitcoin Will Respond to the “Cyber Pandemic” first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Bitcoin Core Ends Long Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Rediscover

Bitcoin Core has changed its security disclosure policy to speed up fixes for vulnerabilities that large language models can find with little effort, ending the months-long embargoes those bugs once received.

Maintainers merged the change to the project’s security policy on Thursday. Chaincode Labs developer Antoine Poinsot, who wrote the proposal, announced it in a message to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List the same day.

“We recently experienced an increase in the number of reports for security vulnerabilities that can be easily (re-)discovered,” Poinsot wrote. “This is largely due to LLMs drastically reducing the bar to find certain classes of issues or identify covert fixes.”

How the policy worked before

Bitcoin Core, the software that runs on most nodes in the Bitcoin network, has graded each reported vulnerability by severity and timed its disclosure to match. Low-severity flaws were made public two weeks after the next major version shipped. 

Medium- and high-severity issues stayed under embargo until two weeks after the last affected release reached end of life, a span that could stretch to a year.

The extended timelines gave node operators, many of whom upgrade at a slow pace, time to move to patched software before details became public. In practice, the approach meant fixes went unreleased for older maintained versions and arrived with the next major release.

Poinsot argued that this tradeoff fails for bugs that are easy to rediscover. “The embargo period achieves little but it delays the availability of a fixed release,” the policy reads.

What changes

During triage, Bitcoin Core can flag a vulnerability as “easily discoverable,” a category the policy defines as issues that can be found “with minimal effort, such as through a simple LLM prompt.” The label is open to flaws found by other means as well.

For those issues, the project will backport a fix to every maintained major version, cut point releases as soon as possible and publish a security advisory with some details at the same time as the fixed software. 

Poinsot acknowledged that such fixes will have less testing time before they reach users.

Vulnerabilities outside that category keep the existing severity-based schedule. Critical bugs, those that could enable coin theft at the protocol level, inflate the supply or cause a permanent chain split, remain outside the standard policy and will be handled case by case.

Developer Antoine Riard pushed for an option to ship a fix without an advisory and withhold details on a case-by-case basis. Poinsot declined, writing that alerting users without details “could create more risk unnecessarily” by prompting a rushed migration among users who would otherwise be unaffected.

A summer of AI-driven reports

The change follows months of heightened pressure on Bitcoin’s open-source projects. In late July, a volunteer group of 16 developers known as the Bitcoin Red Team ran AI models across 390 bitcoin repositories in about a day and logged 4,962 findings, including 85 rated critical.

Within days, a BTCPay Server flaw the group had reported in private was exploited on live merchant servers, draining Lightning nodes.

In August, Core Lightning developers told operators to upgrade or disconnect after AI-generated reports to the project proved accurate.

The Red Team effort followed a Coldcard hardware wallet exploit in which attackers drained 594 BTC in 25 minutes on July 30. Losses across four sweeps approached $114 million.

This post Bitcoin Core Ends Long Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Rediscover first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

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Robinhood Wins Dubai License to Bring Bitcoin and Stock Trading to the Middle East in 2027

Robinhood Markets has received authorization from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to offer retail trading and custody across 10 asset classes, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, equities, ETFs and investment tokens, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. 

The platform is set to go live in the region in 2027 from a new hub in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a special economic zone that will serve as the firm’s Middle East and North Africa headquarters.

Salah Kaddoura has been named senior executive officer and president of Robinhood MENA. The title is a DFSA-recognized role, which makes him the person regulators will call. He will build out the Dubai team ahead of launch.

“The DIFC is one of the world’s most important financial hubs, and our expansion there brings us closer to building a global platform that enables anyone, anywhere to own the highest quality financial assets,” said Vlad Tenev, Robinhood’s chairman and CEO, in the company statement. 

JUST IN: Robinhood has been approved by the Dubai Financial Services Authority to launch Bitcoin and digital asset trading in the Middle East pic.twitter.com/8jBNriCnP9

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) October 22, 2026

Robinhood’s expansion over the years  

Dubai extends a run of expansion beyond the US, where the app made its name with young investors trading single stocks. 

Robinhood entered the UK in 2024, opened full operations in the European Union last year, won in-principle approval for brokerage services in Singapore in April, and closed its purchase of Canadian crypto platform WonderFi in June. 

At home, it added weekend trading and perpetual futures in September. The company says it counts more than one million customers outside the US.

Johann Kerbrat, who runs crypto and international for Robinhood, framed the Dubai move around a wave of new retail investors in the region. He is the same executive who disclosed on October 7 that Robinhood had put $25 million of bitcoin on its own balance sheet, the first time the firm held BTC as a corporate asset rather than on behalf of customers.

The DFSA has signed off on Robinhood holding client digital assets, not routing trades alone. For a firm that took years to enable bitcoin withdrawals in the United States, being cleared for custody from day one in a new jurisdiction says something about how far its crypto operation has matured.

Robinhood arrives in a financial center that keeps growing despite the war with Iran and tension across the region. The DIFC passed 10,000 active registered firms this year and continues to draw global names, Ken Griffin’s Citadel among them.

In March, it opened a cluster of new towers with 600,000 square feet of commercial space, with Deutsche Bank and Moody’s among the tenants, according to Bloomberg. Proprietary trading firm Maven said this week it will close its New York office as it shifts weight to Dubai.

Competition will not be thin. The DIFC listed 72 authorized brokerages as of March 31, and several crypto-native exchanges hold licenses from Dubai’s separate Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority. 

Robinhood has not said which countries will be served at launch, what pricing will look like, or how “eligible investors” will be defined, and that last point will decide the size of the addressable market.

This post Robinhood Wins Dubai License to Bring Bitcoin and Stock Trading to the Middle East in 2027 first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

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“Massively Undervalued” – Samson Mow on MSTR & Bitcoin Treasuries

Are Bitcoin treasury companies being overlooked? JAN3 CEO Samson Mow says a lot of them, especially Strategy (MSTR), are massively undervalued right now. He explains why treasury companies act as Bitcoin’s buyer of last resort, buying no matter what and creating a self-reinforcing cycle that should push the price higher over time. Mow also shares why the best time to launch a Bitcoin treasury company or Bitcoin bond is when the price is low, and how sovereigns looking to Bitcoin are adding to a worldwide race for a finite asset

Chapters:
00:00 Samson Mow on Whether Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Is Dead
01:46 What Could Trigger Bitcoin’s Next Major Rally
03:01 Why AI Companies Will Adopt Bitcoin Strategies
03:56 Bitcoin Bonds and Timing a Nation-State Launch
05:11 Treasury Companies Accumulating and Strategy’s Undervaluation
06:21 SpaceX IPO Liquidity and Competing With the AI Trade
07:36 Why Nation-State Bitcoin Adoption Has Slowed
09:22 How Aqua Wallet Users Discover Bitcoin Through Stablecoins
11:33 Agentic Commerce: Save in Bitcoin, Spend in Stablecoins
14:27 Is Quantum Computing a Real Threat to Bitcoin?

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post “Massively Undervalued” – Samson Mow on MSTR & Bitcoin Treasuries first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Financial Repression in the Age of AI

America can’t build its own defense equipment, robots, or AI hardware anymore, and Craig Tindale says that’s a national security crisis. Drawing on Alexander Hamilton and Dwight Eisenhower, he explains why decades of offshoring left the U.S. dependent on its rivals for critical metals. He also explains why he sees AI as a race to automate the world and build an impenetrable defense network.

Host: Spencer Nichols — Bitcoin Magazine
Craig Tindale — Independent Investor

Chapters:
0:00 – Craig Tindale: Financial Repression in the Age of Superintelligence
2:17 – Why Yields Are Rising Everywhere and Countries Don’t Go Broke
5:22 – Operation Twist and a New Treasury–Fed Accord
8:40 – Hong Kong’s Gold Vault and Why Nations Need Hard Assets
10:44 – Who Pays? Why Domestic Savers Bear the Cost of Financial Repression
14:39 – Stablecoins, the GENIUS Act and a Fragmenting Multipolar World
19:53 – Protectionism, Hamilton and the Case for Reindustrializing America
27:27 – AI as a Weapon: Automation, Code and State Capitalism
32:35 – Protecting Capital: Gold, Silver, Copper, Bitcoin and Diversification
37:20 – Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and the Fourth Turning

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post Financial Repression in the Age of AI first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mark Mason.

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Jeff Park: What The AI Pain Trade Means For Bitcoin

From Strategy and Strive to Google and Super Micro, companies are turning to preferred securities to fund their growth. Jeff Park explains why digital credit is set to become a main fixture of investors accessing income. He also weighs in on Anthropic’s IPO, why liquidity is at a premium, and why knowing value, not just price, is the hardest skill in investing.

Chapters:
0:00 – Jeff Park on Record Stock Volatility and Market Dispersion
1:53 – Why Owning Zero Bitcoin Could Be the Bigger Risk
3:05 – Bitcoin Rising With 10-Year Yields Above 5%
3:43 – Rethinking the 60/40 Portfolio and the Risk-Free Rate
5:02 – Bitcoin as Collateral and the Rise of Bitcoin Income
6:02 – The GENIUS Act Becomes an Implementation Story
7:37 – Where Stablecoin Demand Will Come From
9:18 – Tokenization, Collateral Mobility and the BNY–Citadel Repo
12:11 – MSCI, Strategy and Booming Demand for Bitcoin Preferreds
15:19 – Anthropic’s IPO and Why Liquidity Is at a Premium

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post Jeff Park: What The AI Pain Trade Means For Bitcoin first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Kraken Parent Payward Wins Full Dubai License, Plans UAE Launch

Crypto exchange Kraken’s parent company Payward has said it has plans to launch in the United Arab Emirates. 

After receiving full market approval from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, Payward said Tuesday that Payward can now operate as a regulated virtual asset service provider serving retail, professional and institutional investors. 

It follows a preliminary approval in May that allowed the company to complete its operational set-up ahead of onboarding clients.

JUST IN: Kraken has been approved to launch Bitcoin and crypto asset trading in the UAE pic.twitter.com/H7gJNwK3KS

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) October 13, 2026

At launch, Kraken clients in the UAE will be able to trade spot and margin with dirham-denominated pairs and fund and withdraw directly in dirhams. 

They’ll also have access to on-chain staking, xStocks tokenized equities and Krak for crypto transfers, while institutional clients gain OTC spot trading and Kraken Prime. Crypto derivatives and new yield products are expected later in 2026 and into 2027, subject to regulatory approval.

Payward holds more than 100 licenses and registrations worldwide, spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

The expansion comes as the company increasingly makes a number of deals. In September, Bloomberg reported that Nasdaq Inc. was investing $100 million in Payward in a deal valuing the company at $21 billion. Kraken will distribute Nasdaq’s tokenized stocks on its own platform, according to the report.

Payward and SoFi Technologies also recently announced a deal to route SoFi customers’ crypto orders through Kraken Prime, Kraken’s prime brokerage arm launched in 2025, and to list SoFi’s stablecoin on the exchange.

Kraken, like other crypto exchanges, is pushing into the traditional finance world, allowing users to trade stocks, bonds and other assets. The company has sold its app as a “primary account for everything.”

This post Kraken Parent Payward Wins Full Dubai License, Plans UAE Launch first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.

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Alex Gladstein: How The Bitcoin-AI Convergence Impacts the Fight for Freedom

Is the biggest AI risk really the end of humanity? Alex Gladstein says no: the real danger is AI centralized in the hands of dictators, governments, and a few large corporations. In this interview, the HRF Chief Strategy Officer explains why “AI will kill us all” claims are largely propaganda, and why local AI on your own laptop and phone could be a huge win for human rights. Tune in to hear his vision for AI that’s in our control.

Chapters:
0:00 – Alex Gladstein on Freedom AI vs. Corporate AI
1:26 – How HRF Trains Human Rights Activists to Use AI
2:57 – The Freedom Stack: Encrypted Inference, Open Weights and Local AI
5:45 – The Real AI Risk: Centralization in the Hands of Dictators
8:20 – HRF and Bitcoin Park Hackathons for Activists
9:57 – Why CBDCs Are a Tool of Repression
12:35 – Living on Bitcoin in Kenya With Tando and M-Pesa
15:25 – Building Your Own Freedom Tech With AI Agents
17:39 – Venezuela After Maduro and Bitcoin as a Lifeline
20:25 – What “Freedom Money” Really Means

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post Alex Gladstein: How The Bitcoin-AI Convergence Impacts the Fight for Freedom first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Bitcoin Core developer responds to AI & Quantum Risk

Has AI really changed Bitcoin’s address security, or is it just fear-mongering? Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Poinsot of Chaincode Labs joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to respond to Justin Drake’s viral post. He explains why security researchers need evidence before making claims, and what’s actually at stake with quantum computing risk. He also shares why preparing early matters more than reacting out of fear.

Chapters:
0:00 – Antoine Poinsot Responds to Justin Drake’s Bitcoin Address Security Claims
1:05 – What the Failed Summer Soft Fork Taught Bitcoin
2:35 – BIP 54 Consensus Cleanup: Fixing Long-Standing Bitcoin Bugs
3:44 – Why Bundle Four Fixes Into One Soft Fork
4:53 – Building Consensus to Activate BIP 54
6:53 – How Quantum Theft or Frozen Coins Could Break Trust in Bitcoin
9:08 – BIP 360 vs. BIP 361 vs. P2TR v2
10:38 – Why Hiding Public Keys Behind Hashes Is a Red Herring
11:52 – Lessons From the Coldcard Incident
12:29 – Reducing Single Points of Failure With Multisig and Liana

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post Bitcoin Core developer responds to AI & Quantum Risk first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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AI Coding Agents Drive Surge in Bitcoin Integration Requests: Breez

Bitcoin software company Breez said demand for its developer tools has surged since AI coding agents went mainstream, with partnership inquiries rising roughly 14-fold as developers, and increasingly the agents they deploy, look to add bitcoin payments to their apps.

In a company blog post, it tied the jump directly to Anthropic’s Claude Code, which launched as a research preview in February 2025 and became generally available three months later.

Before 2025, Breez said, most prospective partners fell into three camps: committed bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech firms that treat bitcoin as an asset class.

Since Claude Code arrived, the company said, it has heard from many developers with little or no bitcoin experience. Requests have come from fitness apps, messaging apps that want users to send each other money, an eSIM service for travelers, and the team behind a mushroom-identification app.

Breez said many of these developers pick bitcoin for speed. Setting up traditional payment acceptance, including a bank account and cross-border transfers, can take weeks or months, while the company says its SDK can be running within minutes.

Breez said a growing share of inquiries now come from software, not people. The company said it regularly fields requests from coding agents writing on behalf of the companies that deploy them.

The company argues agents favor bitcoin because it is permissionless. An agent can build an app and set up payments for users worldwide without opening a bank account, passing onboarding checks or signing forms.

“Bitcoin is agnostic about whether the code of its current owner and user is composed of DNA base pairs or weights in a neural net,” Breez wrote.

That same absence of gatekeeping has long drawn scrutiny from financial regulators, who require traditional payment providers to verify customers.

Breez said its newest SDK implementation, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, handled the added volume without problems.

The company framed the shift as an update to investor Marc Andreessen’s 2011 essay arguing that software is eating the world, saying AI is now eating software. It compared Bitcoin’s role to background infrastructure like electrical sockets and subsea cables.

This post AI Coding Agents Drive Surge in Bitcoin Integration Requests: Breez first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.

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StoneX Global Macro Director: French Bond Market Contagion & BTC Market Outlook | Vincent Deluard

Treasury yields, oil prices and the yen carry trade are all reaching a breaking point, and Vincent Deluard warns that equities could be next. The StoneX strategist argues that markets will hold up through the midterms and the Anthropic IPO, but that AI capex can’t keep doubling forever. After November, he plans to turn bearish on stocks while staying bullish on Bitcoin and gold.

Chapters:
00:00 Why Rising Treasury Yields Point to Long-Term Dollar Debasement
02:01 Can AI and Robotics Grow the US Out of Its Debt Problem?
03:48 Bitcoin vs. Gold: Which Is the Better Debasement Hedge?
05:36 What Daily Tax Collection Data Reveals About the US Economy
09:34 Inside France’s Bond Market Crisis and Its Debt Problem
12:21 Eurozone Contagion Risk and the Case for Shorting the Euro
15:02 Yen, Oil and Treasury Yields: Three Signals at a Breaking Point
17:15 Top-Heavy Stocks, the Anthropic IPO and a Post-Midterm Sell-Off
19:52 The Return of QE and Why It’s Bullish for Bitcoin and Gold
21:27 Bitcoin Price Outlook for the Next Two Years

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post StoneX Global Macro Director: French Bond Market Contagion & BTC Market Outlook | Vincent Deluard first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Money20/20 USA 2026: How Bitcoin, Stablecoins and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Finance

Fintech has moved beyond disruption. The technologies and ideas first introduced by Bitcoin, including borderless value transfer, digital asset ownership and programmable financial infrastructure, are changing how the world’s largest financial institutions think about money.

These topics dominate discussions at Money20/20 USA 2026, taking place in Las Vegas from 18-21 October. Leaders of the financial services ecosystem will come together, along with more than 11,000 attendees, 600+ speakers, and representatives from 85+ countries, to shape the future of money.

Money20/20 USA 2026 reflects a profound shift in the financial ecosystem. One where Bitcoin and digital assets are increasingly moving from the edge of innovation into the centre of global finance. What began with Bitcoin’s vision of a global, internet-native monetary network is now influencing discussions on payments, settlement, custody and cross-border commerce across traditional finance.

The rise of borderless financial architecture

Money20/20’s agenda is built around four defining pillars that reflect the forces shaping the future of financial services: Borderless Financial Architecture, Technology as the Great Equalizer, Partnerships as the Engine to Scale, and Brave New World: Setting Guardrails.

Borderless Financial Architecture stands out as one of the most dynamic themes for Bitcoin. It explores how cross-border modernisation, tokenisation, interoperability and stablecoins are reshaping the movement of money and value around the world.

Stablecoins are expanding the potential for Bitcoin in traditional finance. While Bitcoin has been adopted by asset management through tokenized funds, stablecoins are paving the way for tokenized payments at scale. Payments infrastructure is integrating stablecoins as a critical layer, with discussions focused on real-world adoption, regulatory frameworks, cross-border payments and the future of global commerce.

The importance of stablecoins in payments is reflected in conversations such as “From Pilot to Payout: What it Takes to Move Stablecoin Payments at Platform Scale,“ featuring Will Artingstall, Head of Banking as a Service at Citi, Rowland Berry, Vice President, Stablecoin of Payoneer and Renata Camera Santos, Head of Wallet of eBay. The discussion promises a practical look at how stablecoins are moving from experimentation to operational deployment.

Equally notable is “Stablecoins Without the BS: What $1.5T in Transactions Actually Signals,“ featuring Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks, and former Federal Reserve innovation leader Sunayna Tuteja now Atlantic Council. At a time when stablecoins are becoming increasingly important to global settlement and treasury operations, few conversations are likely to draw more attention from institutional attendees.

Attendees interested in practical implementation should also prioritise “Building the Infrastructure Behind a Stablecoin Program,“ featuring Vira Platonova, SVP, Global Head of Visa Direct of Visa, Farooq Malik, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rain and Malcolm Clarke, Global Head of Digital Assets of Western Union.

Each of these conversations at Money20/20 USA 2026 highlights how traditional finance is integrating decentralized financial technology to create a tokenized economy. They’re opening up the potential for Bitcoin to grow further and develop an autonomous financial environment.

Agentic AI becomes a financial reality

Autonomous finance demands automated intelligence, and Agentic AI is the perfect intelligence layer. Money20/20’s Technology as the Great Equalizer pillar highlights how AI is transforming payments, fraud prevention, lending, customer experience and financial decision-making.

The agenda is packed with sessions exploring a world where AI agents actively participate in commerce. Some discussions around this topic include “The Intelligence Layer: How AI Is Rewiring Financial Services,“ featuring Zach Perret, CEO of Plaid, and Aravind Srinivas, CEO and Co-Founder of Perplexity.

Other notable sessions include:

• “The Trust Layer for Agentic Commerce“ featuring Ranjita Iyer of Mastercard and Amir Sarhangi, founder and CEO of Skyfire.
• “Wiring the Agent Economy: Infrastructure for Trustworthy Agentic Commerce“ featuring Jay Shah, Business Lead, Link of Stripe.

• “When AI Agents Buy: Trust, Control and Accountability in Commerce“ featuring executives from Kaitlin Moran, US Strategic FI & Fintech Accounts of Visa, John Piazza, Lead, Stripe Issuing of Stripe, Andrew Lambert, Senior Vice President, Head of Product of Cross River.
• “Self-Driving Money: What’s Live, Hype and Next?“, featuring experts from Rodri Fernández Touza, Co-Founder of Crossmint, David Rolf, Head of Visa Ventures of Visa and Dennis Yang, Principal Product Manager, AI of Chime.

The future of commerce involves autonomous agents acting on behalf of consumers and businesses, raising entirely new questions around trust, identity and financial control.

Bitcoin’s Institutional Moment

Digital assets and tokenisation will have a larger presence than ever before at Money20/20 USA 2026. The dedicated Intersection program, focused on the convergence of traditional finance and decentralised finance, brings together leaders from Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, Robinhood, Stripe and Citi to explore how digital asset markets are integrated with mainstream financial services.

Bitcoin serves as the benchmark for institutional adoption of decentralized finance. The growing presence of major banks, payment providers and digital asset firms at Money20/20 reflects how Bitcoin has helped open the door for broader engagement with blockchain-based finance.

Standout sessions include “The Tokenized RWA and Stablecoins Flywheel“ featuring executives from Coinbase, Citi and Stripe; “Goodbye TradFi: Crypto Is the Future of Consumer Fintech“ featuring Phantom alongside Sequoia Capital.

Financial institutions are no longer debating whether blockchain technology matters. They are actively determining how to participate, compete and build within the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Navigating Money20/20 USA for the First Time

For attendees focused on Bitcoin and digital assets, the Intersection program, stablecoin sessions and discussions on tokenisation and cross-border settlement offer some of the clearest insights into how institutional adoption is evolving. Use the Money20/20 Connect platform to schedule meetings before arriving, take advantage of SmartMeet sessions, and prioritise networking opportunities as much as conference content.

Most importantly, arrive on Sunday. The specialised summits, first-time attendee networking sessions, and Sunday Night Live x The Money Awards provide valuable opportunities to establish relationships before the main event begins.

Money20/20 is where the future of decentralized finance is shaped. As finance becomes increasingly borderless, intelligent and programmable, the event brings together the leaders defining the next era of payments, banking, AI and digital assets. Each one is a natural consequence of the emergence of Bitcoin, which has challenged assumptions about money, ownership and value transfer since 2009.

These conversations are strategic discussions about the technologies and business models reshaping the global financial system. The future of money is no longer on the horizon, it’s already being built.

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BlackRock Says AI Agents Could Be the Next Big Driver of Crypto Demand

Artificial intelligence and digital assets are beginning to converge, with AI models showing a preference for bitcoin and stablecoins, according to research cited by BlackRock . 

In a new report, the $15 trillion Wall Street giant said that card networks and automated clearing houses involve human-driven onboarding, fees that make tiny payments uneconomic and slower settlement and finality.

The report, “The Machine-Native Economy”, is a bet that the next big source of crypto demand won’t be human investors but software. As AI agents begin booking travel, buying data and renting computing power on their own, BlackRock argues, they will need payment systems that run around the clock and can handle transactions worth fractions of a cent.

NEW: $15 trillion BlackRock says AI agents may choose to save in #Bitcoin for "long-term value preservation"

"These findings … point to a potential AI-native monetary architecture in which stablecoins serve as transactional money and bitcoin as a store of value." pic.twitter.com/utJHYuTkGJ

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) October 6, 2026

“As AI agents become more capable and as their real-world applications expand, they increasingly demand payment and asset infrastructure designed natively for machine-speed commerce,” the report read. 

“Crypto-native blockchain rails are particularly well suited to high-frequency, sub-cent, machine-to-machine transactions that take place around-the-clock, including API calls, on-demand data, and consumption based compute.”

It added that the Bitcoin Policy Institute research found that “controlled simulations generally favored stablecoins for everyday payments and bitcoin for long-term value preservation.”

“As AI adoption broadens and agentic systems become more capable, digital

assets could become increasingly integral to AI’s economic infrastructure, expanding utility across stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and native cryptoassets that support blockchain settlement,” the report noted. 

BlackRock has long praised Bitcoin and other crypto apps that utilize its technology, like the tokenization of assets. 

The Securities and Exchange Commission in 2024 approved BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, 

which has since attracted the most investment and trading volume out of all U.S. bitcoin ETFs. The fund had the most successful debut in the history of ETFs and now manages over $67 billion in assets. 

BlackRock has previously said that Bitcoin is in an asset class of its own, and that investors are buying it to hedge against any potential debt crises.

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Frank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin & Gold

Bitcoin miners already have the power, the land, and the substations that AI needs. Frank Holmes, executive chairman of HIVE Digital Technologies, explains why he calls Bitcoin mining a “tier one” data center, how GPUs that once mined Ethereum led HIVE into AI, and why he thinks the next wave of AI factories will be built on mining infrastructure from Paraguay to Canada.

Chapters:
0:00 Frank Holmes on HIVE: From Gold Investor to Bitcoin Miner to AI Compute
2:12 How ETFs Changed Bitcoin: From the Fear Trade to the Love Trade
4:20 The Binance $19 Billion Liquidation and the $350 Trillion Money Supply
5:45 Gamers, Younger Quants, and Why Bitcoin Will Keep Gaining Adoption
7:29 Covid’s $40 Trillion of Money Printing and the Global MMT Risk
9:24 China, Russia, and Why Bitcoin Is a Tier One Data Center
11:33 China’s Bitcoin Mining, $1.4 Trillion of Lending, and Central Banks Buying Gold
13:44 Paraguay’s Central Bank and Bitcoin Mining as an Export
14:57 Compute as a Commodity: Canada’s AI Push and Bitcoin Miners’ Power Advantage
20:34 Where to Find Frank Holmes’s Weekly Investor Alert Newsletter

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

This post Frank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin & Gold first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.

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Solari Capital Founder Scaramucci: Betting on Bitcoin & Exponential Technology

Solari Capital just came out of stealth with $350 million deployed across AI, biotech, and Bitcoin. Founder AJ Scaramucci explains his “programmable reality” thesis: exponential computing power is turning biology, matter, intelligence, and finance into programmable systems. He also covers why Bitcoin is a core bet against monetary debasement.

Chapters:
0:00 AJ Scaramucci and Solari Capital’s Programmable Reality Thesis
1:22 Programmable Matter: Robotics, Alchemy, and Embodied AI
2:56 Physical Superintelligence and the Next Paradigm in Physics
4:16 How Close Are Humanoid Robots? Lessons From Waymo
5:27 Bitcoin and Monetary Debasement in Solari’s Framework
6:56 Scarcity vs. Abundance: Gold and Bitcoin vs. the Mag 7
8:23 Frontier AI Labs, Open Source, and the Application Layer
9:12 Treasure Trove and Collectibles as a Cultural Store of Value
11:39 The Dinosaur Fossil Market: T-Rex as an Asset Class
13:26 Fission Labs, Tokenized Private Shares, and the Future of IPOs

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

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Dr. Pippa Malmgren: Investing in Bitcoin in the Age of Abundance

The US–Greenland security deal isn’t really about ice or minerals. Dr. Pippa Malmgren says it’s about the space race. The former White House economic advisor and founder of the Geopolitica Institute explains why missile tracking and satellite ground stations make the Arctic critical, and why Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands are next. She then connects geopolitics to markets, from US debt to China’s Treasury selling to the future of Bitcoin.

Chapters:
0:00 Dr. Pippa Malmgren on Greenland, the Arctic, and the Space Race
2:04 Diego Garcia, the Chagos Islands, and America’s Strategic Bases
2:51 100% Debt-to-GDP: The Administration’s Plan to Grow Out of Debt
4:18 Why China Is Selling US Treasuries
6:31 Frontier AI Labs, Nationalization, and AI Safety
8:01 From Fiat to Digital Money: Why Money Is Becoming Intelligent
9:51 Bitcoin, Dollars, and Stablecoins: “DeFi to Refi”
10:52 Austin as the New Shenzhen and the Genesis Mission
12:39 AI Agents, Abundance, and Whether We Still Need Inflation
14:39 Stablecoins or Bitcoin for AI Agents — and the Trillion-Dollar Political Risk

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BTC Inc., Bitcoin Magazine, or any affiliated entities. This content is provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Nothing contained in this show constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or financial instruments. Viewers should consult their own advisors before making financial or business decisions.

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