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Morning Edition · Friday, June 26, 2026
Bitcoin's Builders Push to Decentralize Their Own Pipeline, From GitHub to Block Templates
Developers are weighing an exit from GitHub after a tooling dispute, while a mining pool produced a block it described as the first to let a miner, not the pool, choose its transactions.
Two developments this week point to the same instinct in Bitcoin's technical community: reducing reliance on centralized intermediaries in the network's own production pipeline. The veteran developer Matt Corallo urged Bitcoin projects to m…
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- Security Roundup: Mid-Six-Figure DeFi Drains Continue as Researchers Test AI Against On-Chain Exploits
- Stablecoins Become the Fed's Problem as Tether Briefly Outgrows Ethereum
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- Kraken Eyes a 15% Stake in Aave, Blurring the Line Between Exchanges and DeFi
- Strategy's $13 Billion Paper Loss and a Securities Suit Spotlight Bitcoin-Treasury Strain
- Russia Opens a Crypto Trade Corridor for Sanctioned Firms, but Cash-Out Routes Stay Constrained