Rumors are swirling of custodians & services rehypothecating Bitcoin for the various staking protocols which have popped up over the past year. Are these founded? What's the risk?

The Fourth Turning? That's the Uranus return cycle. Ray Dalio's 250 civilizational cycle? That's Pluto's return. It's astrology all the way down (or up!)

The Taproot Wizards "are a new Bitcoin Cultural movement" that combines nerdy tech & fun experimentation. "Illusionist" OuterLumen joins Bitcoin Season 2 to talk about Spellverse, the Wizard's project to document & catalogue the universe of community submissions over the past 2 years.

The race is ON between who can attract more Bitcoin: Corporations or the on-chain Bitcoin economy.

We thought we won the Blocksize War in 2017 when Bitcoin Cash forked off -- but now it sounds like some Bitcoin developers are picking up the same talking points?

Most "Quantum FUD" you hear is probably BS. But there are some ways Bitcoin is vulnerable to quantum computers. Luckily we're already solving them!

Bitcoin is solidly over $100k but what in the world is happening in the "Bitcoin ecosystem"?

Hyperbitcoinization is more than just the price going up, it's about Bitcoin being the basis for every transaction in the world *and* it means a vibrant on-chain ecosystem.

"What do Bitcoin devs think about X?" is the most popular question right now in the soft fork discussion. How do we measure who supports what?

Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp talks about Bitcoin consensus, ossification, and how he hopes Bitcoin does not follow the same path the email (SMTP) protocol has

While everyone's arguing about soft forks like OP_CAT, several researchers have proposed sneaky workarounds which are able to emulate certain covenants *without a soft fork*.

FarmerJoe is an unlikely DeFi yield farmer who found himself investing in all things Bitcoin Season 2 *and* becoming an accidental $PUPS memecoin founder.

AI models are now everywhere in crypto, and you've probably already interacted with one that Bootoshi built!

James O'Bierne just dropped a SPICY twitter thread "The Consensus Conundrum" which basically says Bitcoin has a leadership problem.

Murad outlays his thesis for why the next year will be historic for memecoins, and how the best memecoins will look more like quasi-religions, movements, than speculation.

Mihael Šinkec from sCrypt talks about how enabling covenants on Bitcoin superpower the chain, unlocking "platform" and computer-like characteristics.

Ordinals Creator Casey Rodarmor just gave away his first every ordinals inscription to a random Minecraft player!

How does Bitcoin's "governance" work? Trick question: there IS no governance!

There aren't that many good critics of OP_CAT left, so we asked Post Capone to provide his perspective.

There's no longer a dominant Bitcoin culture, so who are the big names in Bitcoin and where do they fall along the Laser Eye x Degen spectrum?

AI tokens have hit every blockchain and now they're on Bitcoin too. Also: Casey breaks Ord

Stephen & Matthew from MagicEden explain how the platform combines cutting edge tech w/ intuitive product design.

Alex B of Ark Labs explains how Ark can be considered a "UTXO renting service" and how an Ark can superpower everything Bitcoin already does and more

We get super technical with Misha Komarov about Bitcoin PIPEs -- a proposed scheme to emulate opcodes like OP_CAT (and therefore covenants) without a soft fork.

Blockchain explorer mempool.space adds Runes flags to transactions and some laser eyes don't like this, causing the ordinals community to donate to the project.