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Gary Brode highlights Bitcoin's absolute scarcity as the antidote to fiat currency debasement. Roughly 90 percent of the supply has been mined, and the remaining portion will issue over the next 150 years.
The grass-roots Nordic Bitcoin conference, BTC Hell, takes place in Helsinki, focusing strictly on self-custody, privacy, and technical sovereignty. Finland's cold climate has also made it a hub for city-scale waste heat Bitcoin mining.
Mike Belshe strongly opposes introducing a tail emission or forever subsidy for Bitcoin miners. He argues that altering the fixed supply cap would constitute a rug pull on investors who bought into the network's original rules.
Marathon Mining's Slipstream service allows users to pay miners directly off-chain to execute transactions. Mike Belshe warns that while acceptable as a market choice, a total transition to private subscription-based mining would undermine Bitcoin's open structure.
Merch notes that Bitcoin Core PR 35949 builds block templates compliant with BIP 54 to prevent the Merch-Zavi time warp attack. PR 34931 separates database deserialization failures from non-existent UTXOs to prevent accidental chain splits.
The US House Ways and Means Committee is evaluating a 114-page crypto tax package, the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act. The bill excludes a highly anticipated provision that would have deferred taxation on mining and staking rewards until the assets are sold.