A bitcoin address dormant since 2011 moved 15 BTC, marking the first public response from a defendant in a New York lawsuit claiming ownership of 39,069 dormant wallets valued at $285 billion.
A Bitcoin address inactive for over 10 years has moved 909.38 BTC worth about $84.62 million, with the funds sent to a SegWit-compatible address and the market watching the next on-chain steps.
Google Quantum AI's new whitepaper says breaking Bitcoin only needs 1,200 logical qubits—20x lower than prior estimates—with quantum hardware expected by 2033. The real crisis is not physics but Bitcoin's conservative governance, as anti-quantum upgrades would halve throughput and triple fees, with consensus potentially taking a decade.
BIP-110 proposes a soft fork to cap on-chain non-monetary data, requiring only 55% hashrate for activation. The proposal has triggered the most intense community division since 2017, with supporters calling for correction and Adam Back denouncing a mob attack.
Blockchain forks are protocol changes, but not all forks work the same way. Soft forks stay backward compatible, while hard forks break compatibility and can split a network into two chains. SegWit, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum Classic remain key examples.
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Crypto wallet addresses are public identifiers used to send and receive digital assets. This guide covers how they are created, how BTC and ETH formats differ, and the main privacy and security issues users need to know.
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, has published a detailed critique of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-110, arguing that the proposal creates a larger governance problem than the spam issue it is trying to address. In a July 18 essay titled "110 Reasons Why BIP 110 Is a Bad Idea," Saylor said filtering certain data types through consensus changes would set a precedent that could later be used against privacy tools, stablecoin settlement, and other applications built on Bitcoin. BIP-110 is scheduled to enter its mandatory signaling phase around Aug. 7 and take effect on Sept. 1. As of mid-July, miner signaling support stood at 0.86%, far below the 55% threshold required to lock in the soft fork. The proposal would temporarily restrict several transaction formats used to carry non-payment data, including OP_RETURN outputs, witness items, Taproot annex data, control blocks, and some Tapscript paths. Those routes have been used by Ordinals and Runes-style inscription systems to write images and text to the blockchain. The debate has widened into a governance dispute. Saylor argues that Bitcoin’s edge comes from neutral and predictable base-layer rules, while supporters of BIP-110, including some Bitcoin Core developers, say non-payment data is consuming block space, raising full-node costs, and weakening Bitcoin’s role as electronic cash.
