Harnessing Lightning reshapes you, just like lifting weights sculpts muscles: The value-for-value revolution will fundamentally change how we work, produce, consume and live on a bitcoin standard.

Botanix Labs, the Harvard-founded Bitcoin Layer 2, launches stBTC—a 1:1 BTC-backed token redistributing 50% of network fees as yield, audited by Spearbit and Sigma Prime for EVM compatibility.

The third of ten Bitcoin privacy focused videos. Yuval Kogman joins Shinobi to discuss what privacy means when it comes to transacting on Bitcoin.

With bitcoin treasury company mNAVs collapsing below 1, it made perfect sense for Strive to gobble up Semler Scientific in an all-stock deal. Also: bitcoin price falls from $116,000 to $112,000 on crypto liquidation scare; Metaplanet, Saylor and Capital B stack more bitcoin.

Tim Berners-Lee suggests the web’s flaws requires regulation to fix. But the problem doesn't lie in design alone: The entire fiat-based monetary system exerts pressure that distorts incentives and has shaped the web’s trajectory in ways Berners-Lee may not fully appreciate.

Taproot could be used to "hide" quantum safe spending conditions inside Bitcoin UTXOs to deal with the risk of quantum computing.

Ark and Spark revolutionize Lightning Network’s scalability in 2025, slashing on-chain transactions with shared UTXOs for fast, cheap Bitcoin payments. Their interoperable, trust-minimized designs overcome channel factory hurdles, cementing Lightning’s role in Bitcoin’s layer-2 future.

BTC Inc. and Strategy Inc. have renewed their strategic partnership for Bitcoin for Corporations (BFC) initiative for five more years, aiming to accelerate corporate Bitcoin adoption through 2030. The initiative currently represents 38 member companies holding 69% of all corporate Bitcoin holdings, and will continue providing networking, educational resources, and support for companies integrating Bitcoin into their treasuries.

Nostr has the potential to become the social layer of the internet and beat the incumbents at their own game. Despite early momentum from figures like Jack Dorsey, Nostr usage is flatlining in 2025. What's the killer app?

The second of ten Bitcoin privacy focused videos. Calle joins Shinobi to discuss how micropayments can bring privacy back to the internet.

ZBD, a Bitcoin payments firm, has embedded real-money rewards via Lightning Network into TapNation's Idle Bank, achieving a 355% surge in 30-day player retention and 124% increase in revenue per player.

Is Paper Bitcoin Summer, and the associated extractable premium in price, coming to an end?