₿REAKING: Bitcoin mining officially reached a new all-time high for sustainable energy use. Cambridge reports that 59.4% of the network is now powered by renewable electricity sources, higher than any other reported global industry.
The reason bitcoin doesn’t change is not that change is forbidden. It’s that the change requires convincing millions of strangers to change Bitcoin who bought it because it doesn’t change.
The Bitcoin developers write the rules but can’t impose them on anyone. The Bitcoin miners follow the rules but can’t change them. The Bitcoin nodes enforce the rules, but only on themselves. The Bitcoin holders own all the money, but the money makes none of the rules.
Jack Dorsey’s company released an open source version of the team chat app Slack called “Buzz”
Within a day, users have enabled agentic economic collaboration. Artificial intelligence agents are paying each other back and forth independently using bitcoin
Poolin was once the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. Now it is filing for bankruptcy. Throughout Bitcoin’s history, dominant pool operators have risen and disappeared, while individual miners moved to other pools and the decentralized network continued without them.
The Bitcoin Security Consortium, a group of financial institutions and firms including Strategy, BlackRock, and Coinbase have pledged $15 million over three years to support the network, with an initial focus on quantum computing threats.
Technology’s natural dividend is that life should get cheaper. Better tools turn less time, energy, and material into more output. Bitcoin’s fixed monetary unit gives that abundance somewhere to appear, as greater purchasing power.