This was the week the security warnings became confirmed damage. BTCPay confirmed an exploited bug cost real funds. Cuba's non-custodial lnp2pBot shut down indefinitely under sustained attack. A volunteer red team logged 7,958 findings across 501 projects. And the payment layer kept shipping anyway: Wallet of Satoshi moved to self-custody, Blink added non-custodial BTCPay receiving, and everyday sats purchases widened across Africa. The lesson holds — self-host, patch fast, hold your own keys.

Weekly Brief 2026/33

BTCPay confirmed an exploited vulnerability cost real funds, Cuba's lnp2pBot shut down under sustained attack, and a volunteer red team logged 7,95...

There is exactly one piece of information that can empty your Bitcoin wallet: your backup phrase. Nobody needs it typed into a website. Not Blink. Not "Blink support." Not any wallet asking you to "verify," "restore," or "sync." New blog post on backup phrase phishing and the one rule that keeps you safe:

Backup Phrase (Seed Phrase) Phishing: How to Keep Your Bitcoin Wallet Safe

Here's how phishing scam works, and the one rule that keeps you safe.

The Blink plugin for BTCPay Server now supports non-custodial accounts. No node. No API key. Connect your Blink Lightning address and start accepting Bitcoin, receive-only, on mainnet. Same battle-tested plugin. Now without handing over any keys.

Blink's BTCPay Server Plugin Now Supports Non-Custodial Accounts: Here's How to Connect

No Lightning node, no API key, no custodian holding your funds: connect your non-custodial Blink Lightning address straight to BTCPay Server

AI-assisted attacks forced the swap provider Boltz offline, took Satora down briefly, and had BTCPay shipping an emergency patch for a critical, actively-exploited bug. The twist: the same AI is now hardening the whole open-source Bitcoin stack. The lesson — self-host, stay patched, build redundancy.

Weekly Brief 2026/32

A wave of AI-assisted probing forced the swap provider Boltz offline, took Satora down briefly, and had BTCPay shipping an emergency patch — whil...

The Blink Terminal is here: a cash register in a browser. Open a link, take Lightning payments — nothing to install. BTCPay rebuilds multisig for teams, a Salvadoran town adds tuk-tuk rides in sats, and the hardware-wallet fiasco shows why real open source — not just readable code — wins.

Weekly Brief 2026/31

Blink shipped the Terminal — a cash register that lives in a browser tab, no install required. BTCPay Server rebuilt multisig for teams, machine-...

Your non-custodial Blink wallet is safe. Blink is not affected by the recently discovered vulnerability of hardware wallet vendor Coldcard. Your 12 words are created only from your phone's secure hardware randomness — and if that randomness isn't available, the app refuses to create a wallet. Read more about security at Blink:

Know Your Keys: How Blink Protects Your Non-Custodial Wallet

Self-custody is a partnership: we make sure your keys are born safely inside your phone's secure hardware, and you keep the 12 words somewhere only...

Accepting Bitcoin just got easier: the new BTCPay plugin turns a Blink Lightning address into a full merchant setup — no node, no API key, your keys. Lightning Labs ships Wavelength, pooled sats buy a cow, and a town in El Salvador pays for laundry, juice, and coffee in bitcoin — this week's brief.

Weekly Brief 2026/30

Accepting Bitcoin just got easier: the new BTCPay–Blink plugin turns a Lightning address into a full non-custodial merchant setup — no node, no...

Accept Bitcoin on BTCPayserver with Blink — now with non-custodial accounts. Connect with just your Blink lightning address, keep custody of your funds, and skip the technical hassle. See it work in under 5 minutes Get started → blink.sv/btcpay Plugin →

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$49.3M pushed through open-source BTCPay rails in a year. A Salvadoran school canteen improvising NFC cards so kids can tap to pay in sats. New merchants in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Bitcoin payments, proving themselves at every scale — this week's brief.

Weekly Brief 2026/29

Bitcoin payments proved themselves at both ends this week: one operator pushed $49.3 million across 70,566 transactions on open-source BTCPay rails...

A payment app demanded a Lightning sender's real name — or your money back. A sharp reminder of why self-custody matters. This week's brief also covers Bitcoin at the travel counter, a Salvadoran coast with 170+ merchants, and townships running their own payment networks.

Weekly Brief 2026/28

A payment app demanded a Lightning sender's real name — a vivid case for holding your own keys. Meanwhile Bitcoin walked into everyday commerce: ...

We just shipped the biggest release in Blink's history: non-custodial accounts, live on iOS and Android. Your keys, your bitcoin, same app. This week's brief also covers tap-to-pay counters, wages paid in sats, and 517 real transactions in one Kenyan economy.

Weekly Brief 2026/27

Blink just shipped its biggest release ever — non-custodial accounts, your keys in the same everyday app. Around it: a Kenyan community paying wa...

✅ 21-second onboarding ✅ Your keys, your coins We hope more people fall in love with holding their own keys 🔑

What stays the same in Blink: your Lightning address, your QR codes, instant payments, your Dollar Balance. What changes: you get a 12-word recovery phrase. You hold the keys. We can't touch your funds. Unilateral exit to on-chain bitcoin. More sovereignty, more responsibility. Update and try it.

Blink Wallet now has non-custodial accounts. Live on iOS and Android today. Your keys. Your bitcoin. Same app. We built Blink in 2020 so bitcoin could be everyday money. Back then, custodial Lightning was the only way to get the UX right. New L2 possibilities changed that — we can finally do self-custody without making it harder to use. Six years in the making.

We Are Launching Non-Custodial Accounts for Blink Wallet — The Facts and The Full Story

Your keys, your Bitcoin: bringing non-custodial control home to Blink Wallet

Weekly Brief 2026/26 Bull Bitcoin got an EU license — and kept self-custody. South Africa is fighting to keep it. Bolivia now has it in all 9 departments. This week's brief is about one thing: the right to hold your own bitcoin.

Weekly Brief 2026/26

Self-custody week: Bull Bitcoin secures a MiCA license without surrendering it, South Africa fights a draft self-custody ban while running six circ...

We Are Launching Non-Custodial Accounts for Blink Wallet — The Facts and The Full Story

Your keys, your Bitcoin: bringing non-custodial control home to Blink Wallet

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Blink 3.0 — now with non-custodial accounts. Hold your own keys with the same simple experience Blink is known for. Blink is the Bitcoin wallet t...

Weekly Brief 2026/25 Square just made Bitcoin a checkout toggle on Square Register — no staff training. The Ark protocol settled its first real coffee in Kenya. And Bitcoin payments now reach GCash's 94M users in the Philippines and 52M M-PESA numbers via Tando.

Weekly Brief 2026/25

Square made Bitcoin a checkout toggle on Square Register with no staff training, the Ark protocol settled its first real coffee purchase in Kenya, ...

Weekly Brief 2026/23 South Africa stacked three Bitcoin checkout wins: Lift Airlines flight bookings, OzowPay integration, and a bitcoin-only online store paying suppliers in BTC. In Mexico, AureoBitcoin linked Lightning to bank accounts — pesos in seconds.

Weekly Brief 2026/23

South Africa stacked three Bitcoin checkout wins in one week — Lift Airlines flights, an OzowPay integration, and a bitcoin-only online store pay...

Weekly Brief 2026/22 Wallet of Satoshi says POS merchants must switch to self-custody addresses or stop accepting payments — citing worsening custodial reporting rules. Kenya's 40M Lightning-addressable M-Pesa numbers now sit on a $4B remittance corridor. And an AI agent just bought FRED economic data for 20 sats.

Weekly Brief 2026/22

Wallet of Satoshi said its POS app will require merchants to switch to self-custody addresses or stop accepting payments, a new protocol called Kag...

Weekly Brief 2026/21 Cash App is giving 5% back for Lightning payments at Square sellers — no bitcoin required to start. Bitcoin Pizza Day hit five countries. Bootlegger Coffee rolled out Bitcoin checkout across 100+ South African locations. And a school in Uganda was built almost entirely in sats.

Weekly Brief 2026/21

Cash App introduced 5% back for Lightning payments at Square sellers while Bitcoin Pizza Day drove spending events across five countries, Bootlegge...