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Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot

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Bitcoin Magazine Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot Could anyone actually break Bitcoin? Micah Warren, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon and author of Bitcoin: A Game-Theoretic Analysis, joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to break down Bitcoin’s security through the lens of game theory. He explains why miner incentives are one of the main things holding Bitcoin up, and why classic reorg and double-spend attacks are unlikely today. Chapters: 0:00 – Micah Warren on What Game Theory Reveals About Bitcoin’s Security 1:33 – Why Miner Incentives Hold Bitcoin Together 3:40 – How Treasury Companies, Governments and Miners Change the Game 4:54 – North Korea, Iran and Bad Actors in the Bitcoin Ecosystem 6:18 – AI vs. Bitcoin Mining: When Miners Have Other Options 8:30 – Feather Forks: How a Minority of Miners Could Try to Censor Transactions 12:09 – Could Government Stakes in Miners Raise Censorship Risk? 13:02 – Blacklisted vs. Clean B...
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Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg: The Digital Gold Investment Case for Bitcoin

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Bitcoin Magazine Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg: The Digital Gold Investment Case for Bitcoin Bitcoin’s digital gold case is “a pretty strong rationale,” says Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg. But she wants to see Bitcoin trade more like gold and less like risk assets. She discusses Bitcoin’s correlation with gold, how stablecoins, quantum fears, AI, and inflation are weighing on demand, and why she won’t let one day or one inflation print define Bitcoin’s outlook. Chapters: 0:00 – Stablecoins and USDT on Bitcoin 1:23 – Who’s Buying Morgan Stanley’s Spot Bitcoin ETF? 2:54 – Bitcoin as Digital Gold in Client Portfolios 4:11 – Moving Self-Custodied Bitcoin Into ETF Shares 5:33 – Borrowing Against Bitcoin ETFs and Spot Bitcoin 6:33 – Bitcoin’s Correlation With Gold and What’s Weighing on Demand 8:52 – How Morgan Stanley Is Assessing Quantum Risk 9:55 – Why Tokenization Could Transform Every Asset Class 12:24 – Morgan Stanley’s Digital Asset Lab 15:42 – AI Agents and the Future o...
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Sazmining Brings Proto’s Immersion Hashboards to Individual Owners, With 0% Financing From $1,397 Down

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Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Brings Proto’s Immersion Hashboards to Individual Owners, With 0% Financing From $1,397 Down SHERIDAN, Wyo. — October 16th, 2026 — Sazmining today began offering Proto immersion  hashboards to individual and institutional buyers through its mining-as-a-service platform. The  launch brings Proto’s immersion systems, until now deployed by large operators, to anyone who  wants to own competitive hashrate, starting at $1,397 with 0% financing over 18 months.  Proto, Block’s (NYSE: XYZ) suite of bitcoin mining products and services, designs its immersion  mining hardware for efficiency, durability, and long-term performance. Customers purchase Proto  immersion hashboards, each configured to deliver roughly 200 TH at about 15 J/TH, and own  them outright. Sazmining provides and operates at a facility in the United States, managing the  deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of the hardware. Buying at the hashboard lev...
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Latin America’s MSTR: How OranjeBTC is Running the Saylor Playbook in Brazil | Gui Gomes

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Bitcoin Magazine Latin America’s MSTR: How OranjeBTC is Running the Saylor Playbook in Brazil | Gui Gomes Bitcoin is “likely the best collateral one could ask for,” says OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes. He explains how digital credit, Bitcoin-backed loans, and new financial products are pushing Bitcoin deeper into global financial markets, including a first-of-its-kind Bitcoin-backed loan in Brazil. He also shares why every step brings Bitcoin closer to becoming the world’s reserve currency. Chapters: 0:00 – OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes on Running the Strategy Playbook in Latin America 0:32 – Why Brazil Ranks No. 1 in Grassroots Bitcoin Adoption 1:57 – Brazil’s Advantages for Building a Bitcoin Treasury Company 3:38 – Brazil’s New Bitcoin Regulations and VASP Licensing 5:23 – Brazil’s Elections and the Shift Toward a Pro-Market Economy 7:22 – Lower Rates, the Real and Brazil’s Next Growth Phase 8:27 – How Global Investors Can Buy OranjeBTC Shares 9:21 – DIGI11: Bringing STRC and SATA to...
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Charles Edwards: Why Quantum Risk Could Be MASSIVE BTC Upside Catalyst

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Bitcoin Magazine Charles Edwards: Why Quantum Risk Could Be MASSIVE BTC Upside Catalyst What will it take for Bitcoin to break to new all-time highs? Charles Edwards says something substantial has to happen, whether it’s real progress on quantum, a shift in Fed policy, the U.S. government buying Bitcoin, or a stimulus event. He also discusses how institutional buying through ETFs is keeping the backdrop strong. Chapters: 0:00 – Charles Edwards on Rates, Liquidity and Bitcoin’s Market Outlook 1:36 – ETFs vs. Treasury Companies: Who’s Driving Bitcoin Buying? 2:54 – How AI-Driven Unemployment Could Change the Fed and Bitcoin 4:01 – Hash Ribbons: Why Rising Hash Rate Is a Bullish Signal 6:13 – Is This Hash Rate Cycle Different With AI? 8:14 – Is Bitcoin Still Undervalued? Production Cost, Energy Value and MVRV 10:37 – Global Liquidity, 5% Rates and Bitcoin’s Uncharted Territory 14:50 – Quantum Computing: Why a Roadmap Could Be an Upside Catalyst 17:21 – Can AI Break Bitcoin? Su...
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Wellington-Altus’ James Thorne: Bitcoin “Supercycle” has Begun

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Bitcoin Magazine Wellington-Altus’ James Thorne: Bitcoin “Supercycle” has Begun “The next run in Bitcoin is going to be one for the ages.” Economist James Thorne, Chief Market Strategist at Wellington-Altus Private Wealth, joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to explain why he believes Bitcoin is entering a generational supercycle. Drawing on his experience with the commodities supercycle, he explains why a changing market structure makes this time different. He also explains why he thinks the four-year cycle is done. Chapters: 0:00 – James Thorne on Hot Core CPI: Why Shelter, Not Energy, Drove It 1:30 – Is the Fed Making a Policy Mistake by Hiking? 5:35 – Why Hedge Funds Are Acting Like the New Bond Vigilantes 6:42 – Can AI Deliver a Greenspan Moment? Warsh’s Jackson Hole Miss 10:22 – Why Bitcoin Is Entering a Generational Supercycle 14:11 – The Four-Year Cycle Is Done and Who Buys Bitcoin Next 18:45 – Why Bitcoin Solves the Settlement Problem 21:15 – Strategy...
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Troy Cross: Number Go Up – The Solution to Bitcoin’s Marketing Problem?

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Bitcoin Magazine Troy Cross: Number Go Up – The Solution to Bitcoin’s Marketing Problem? Can Bitcoin really separate money and state? Philosopher Troy Cross offers a grounded answer. He doesn’t expect governments to give up printing money anytime soon, but argues Bitcoin puts a check on endless money printing because people will take refuge in it. He also explains why he thinks academics will be the last to get Bitcoin, after innovators, finance, and journalists. Chapters: 0:00 – Troy Cross on the Clarity Act’s Failure and Why Bitcoin Continues On 1:20 – The Getting Bitcoin Campaign in the Wall Street Journal 2:32 – Why Readers Are Clicking Bitcoin Essays at 4–6x Normal Rates 4:10 – Why Academics Will Be the Last to Get Bitcoin 5:51 – Nakamoto Project Survey: Is Bitcoin Becoming Partisan? 7:52 – The 2026 Survey: Bitcoin Normalizing While Polarizing 10:08 – Bitcoin’s Brand Problem and Confusion With Crypto 11:44 – Price Action, Education and Why Number Go Up Is th...
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The Undercurrent: Three European Artists on Making Money Visible

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Bitcoin Magazine The Undercurrent: Three European Artists on Making Money Visible Amsterdam helped lay the foundations of modern finance, but its artists were among its earliest critics. When speculative bubbles burst across Europe in 1720, Amsterdam printers and satirists responded with The Great Mirror of Folly , a collection of engravings and plays exposing the excesses of financial speculation. Nearly three centuries later, the city hosted another monetary experiment. David Chaum, the cryptographer whose work on anonymous communication helped lay the groundwork for the cypherpunk movement, came to Amsterdam in the 1980s to work at CWI, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science. Around 1990, he founded DigiCash to develop private electronic cash. The company went bankrupt in 1998, a decade before bitcoin, but the dream of digital money was already taking shape. Last year at Bitcoin Amsterdam, BMAG exhibited The Waterworks of Money , in wh...
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Capitalism is Broken and Bitcoin is the Great Equalizer | Natalie Brunell

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Bitcoin Magazine Capitalism is Broken and Bitcoin is the Great Equalizer | Natalie Brunell Young people are angry at capitalism, billionaires, and even their parents, but Natalie Brunell says they’re blaming the wrong thing. The Bitcoin Is for Everyone author explains how our financial system has become “socialism for the banks,” with privatized gains and socialized losses. She shares why Bitcoin could be the greatest equalizer for a generation that’s lost hope of owning a home or starting a family. Chapters: 0:00 – Natalie Brunell on Leaving Legacy News for Bitcoin 1:09 – Fleeing Communism in Poland and Chasing the American Dream 2:17 – Losing Everything in the Great Financial Crisis 3:37 – Why People Still Don’t Understand Bitcoin 7:01 – Bitcoin as a Savings Technology: Start Small, Stack Sats 9:40 – What “Broken Money” and the Cantillon Effect Really Mean 12:33 – Why Young People Are Losing Hope in Capitalism 14:40 – Socialism for the Banks: Privatized Gains, Socialized Loss...
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Blue Coin Capital CIO: MSTR’S BTC Buying Engine is About to IGNITE | Mike Treidl

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Bitcoin Magazine Blue Coin Capital CIO: MSTR’S BTC Buying Engine is About to IGNITE | Mike Treidl Bitcoin treasury companies have moved from convertible bonds to perpetual preferred equity, and Mike Treidl explains why. He breaks down how preferreds let issuers like Strategy defer payments without defaulting, and why preferreds returning to par could give Strategy a second engine for buying Bitcoin. He also explains how sats per share and leverage without margin calls add value beyond holding Bitcoin directly. Chapters: 0:00 – Mike Treidl on Bitcoin’s Rebound to $83K 0:50 – From Morgan Stanley to Blue Coin Capital: Bridging Wall Street and Bitcoin 1:49 – Risk Budget First: How to Size a Bitcoin Allocation 4:11 – Seller Exhaustion and Bitcoin Treasury Companies 5:27 – Why Treasury Companies Moved From Convertibles to Preferreds 6:47 – What Strategy’s Preferreds Returning to Par Means for Bitcoin 8:13 – Sats Per Share: Leverage Without Margin Calls 9:11 – Pensions, Endowment...
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