Cryptocurrency
Blockchain hashing, wallets and on-chain incidents. Clear-eyed coverage of how crypto works under the hood, the security trade-offs, and the hacks and exploits worth learning from.
BIP-39 Passphrase Setup: Hidden Wallet in 12 Steps [2026]
A 24-word seed phrase feels like the end of the security conversation. It isn’t. Anyone who finds that paper backup, photographs it, or coerces you into revealing it…
Bitcoin Quantum Risk: 7M BTC Exposed, BIP-360 Still Just a Proposal [2026]
A little over one-third of all bitcoin in circulation now sits in addresses that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could theoretically drain, according to wallet-scanning research that has…
Crypto Wallet Security: 12 Steps After $713M Stolen [2026]
More than $3.4 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen in 2025, according to Chainalysis’s 2026 Crypto Crime Report, one of the worst years on record for theft. Of that…
MEV Bot Yoink Beats Hacker to $7.8M rsETH Haul [2026]
A hacker spent effort setting up an exploit against a Safe smart-contract wallet on Ethereum. On September 15, 2026, the attack fired, and within the same block another…
Cold Storage Seed Migration: Fix It in 12 Steps [2026]
Coinkite’s Coldcard wallet was supposed to be the paranoid option. It had two separate hardware random number generators, an air-gapped signing flow, and a five-year reputation as the…
3rd Bitcoin Reorg in a Month: Top 2 Pools Hold 44% [2026]
Bitcoin’s blockchain briefly split in two on September 11, 2026, when SpiderPool and AntPool each mined a valid block at height 966,500 within seconds of each other. The…
Safe Multisig Setup: 12 Steps After the $1.5B Bybit Hack [2026]
On February 21, 2025, Bybit’s engineers watched roughly $1.5 billion in ether leave a wallet that three separate people had approved. Every signer used a hardware wallet. Every…
Coldcard Hack Drains $116M in 5-Year RNG Flaw [2026]
A hardware wallet is supposed to be the boring, reliable part of holding Bitcoin. Plug it in, generate a seed, keep the seed offline, sleep well. That premise…
Build a Flashbots Arbitrage Bot: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Every block on Ethereum leaves money on the table for whoever notices first. A price gap between two Uniswap pools, a liquidation that pays a bounty, a pending…
Nomic Bridge Bug Freezes 36% of Osmosis allBTC [2026]
A Bitcoin bridge exploit that most of the crypto market didn’t even notice as it happened is now reshaping how the Cosmos ecosystem talks about wrapped BTC. On…
