Bitcoin surged past $72,000 following a two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, fueling a broad recovery in global risk assets. While MicroStrategy added 41,000 BTC in March, its accumulation rate has slowed relative to the aggressive growth seen in 2025. Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has emerged as a major institutional force, staking over 3.3 million ETH to control nearly 4% of the total supply. Bitcoin reclaimed...

Researchers from Microsoft Research, Google DeepMind, and Columbia University have proposed the Agentic Risk Standard (ARS), a framework for managing financial risks in autonomous AI transactions. The protocol introduces escrow, underwriting, and collateralization to protect users from financial losses when AI agents execute tasks involving real assets. Separately, Bitcoin wallet provider Nunchuk released open-source tools to grant AI agents...

Entrepreneur Rodolfo Novak analyzed 66 research papers, concluding that quantum attacks on Bitcoin mining remain physically impractical. While Google researchers recently warned of a 20-fold reduction in resources needed to break wallet signatures, mining remains protected by the laws of thermodynamics. Research suggests that using Grover’s algorithm to outpace classical miners would require the energy output of a star. Bitcoin...