The OCC just gave banks the green light to custody digital assets without balance-sheet penalties. Executive action can loosen rules quickly, but without Congress, the advantage flows to incumbents with banking licenses. Rob Hamilton

It's pretty funny that #Bitcoin's price topped at the same time as Core v30 Rob Hamilton Jokes aside, a lot of energy in 2025 was wasted on regressive fork debates. Let's not repeat that in 2026

The Genius Act isn’t about “innovation.” It’s about calibrating the dollar as a geopolitical weapon. Nolan Americans are barred from earning yield on stablecoins as long as issuers fund the U.S. government via T-bills. Abroad, there’s no such restriction. Result: yield gets

America is abandoning financialized narratives for energy, AI, and real-economy power If AI is the new industrial base, #Bitcoin is aerospace in the 1950s. Nolan

What if America’s next growth story is new cities built from scratch? Nolan We already have prototypes (Elon's Starbase) with 7 more in the works. One of them just might be a #Bitcoin city with miners financing the electricity!

Bitcoin isn’t “money” in the way people casually describe it - John Carvalho There are no native transactions or commerce happening on Bitcoin itself; it’s a protocol for tracking unit ownership tied to cryptographic keys That’s why running a node matters: verification

BIG NEWS. The Blockworks website has evolved: yesterday we were the home of news, today we are the home of onchain data. Head over to the site to see for yourself, but here's a little snippet of what you can expect: 1. Sector leaderboards (chains, DEXes, borrow lend, DATs,

#Bitcoin doesn’t need ossification or speculative complexity. It just needs a much higher bar for change John Carvalho