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2% allocation. If Bitcoin doesn't perform, the portfolio recovers. If it continues toward $200T, the effect is outsized.
@adam3us on why pension funds don't need to form an opinion on how far Bitcoin goes, just stay the course and don't rebalance.
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Quantum-ready Bitcoin in practice:
To get ready, you send to a new Taproot address. With OP_CHECKSHRINCS by @blksresearch, it holds a Schnorr key and a post-quantum key. You keep spending with Schnorr at today's cost. When a quantum computer arrives, you spend with the post-quantum key.
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“The amount of Bitcoin buying is much higher than Bitcoin being mined So it's just a question of when the sellers run out of Bitcoin to sell or decide they don't want to sell any more.”
Blockstream CEO @adam3us
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The Simplicity community is live. A dedicated space for in-depth technical discussion with the team building high-assurance Bitcoin contracts. Ask your questions, see what others are shipping, and post the actual code.
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"If you can't outperform Bitcoin with a strategy, maybe you should just buy Bitcoin."
Over six-year rolling periods for the last 15 years, Bitcoin has been the outlier asset class.
@adam3us on why Bitcoin is the hurdle rate for long-term value preservation.
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Sync an entire Bitcoin wallet in seconds.
QuickSync is a new open-source wallet scanning protocol by Blockstream that turns hundreds of address lookups into one descriptor request, dramatically cutting sync time when using the Blockstream Explorer API.
Get an API key today: dashboard.blockstream.info
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Self-custody does not have to wait for shipping.
Create a wallet in the Blockstream app, write your recovery phrase on paper, set a PIN, and you can start to receive bitcoin securely.
Fully open source and reviewed in the open, from a team building on Bitcoin since 2014.
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The Simplex SDK is live. @BlockstreamJade signing support is working.
Early applications including a lending protocol, a DEX, and a post-quantum verifier are already being built.
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Your recovery phrase backs up your bitcoin, so keep it offline.
Don't photograph it, don't type it into any website, and don't drop it into your notes app.
Put it on paper, or better still, steel.
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There's no single path into Bitcoin.
@adam3us on why every on-ramp matters, and where the new Jade Core hardware wallet fits.
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Buy bitcoin on an exchange and it sits as a balance on their books.
Until you withdraw, it is not bitcoin you hold. In the Blockstream app, every purchase lands in a wallet you control, in self-custody from the first second.
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Make your Bitcoin ready to spend anywhere it's accepted with the Blockstream App.
Swap into Liquid for fast, Confidential Transactions that can pay any Lightning invoice. When you're ready to go back to mainchain, swap back to Bitcoin.
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Post-quantum signatures aren't new, they've existed for about 45 years.
@adam3us on why OP_CHECKSHRINCS proposed by @blksresearch is designed as a minimal, provable change to Bitcoin, and why starting the migration now means more real-world data before it's actually needed.
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Quantum is the @BTCconsortium's first focus, and @blksresearch has spent the last year working toward a quantum-safe Bitcoin.
Check out the thread below to learn about some of our initiatives, starting with OP_CHECKSHRINCS. 🧵
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Today, the best quantum hardware can just about factor 21 (3 x 7).
@blksresearch hired @kudinov_mikhail, one of the cryptographers behind NIST's post-quantum signature standard, and we have already proposed OP_CHECKSHRINCS, an optimized hash-based signature opcode for Bitcoin.
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Hashcash, invented by @adam3us, is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Yet in 2013, watching bitcoin pass $100, he thought he had missed the boat.
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Reusing a bitcoin address links your transactions and weakens your privacy.
The Blockstream app gives you a fresh receive address every time, and your funds stay in self-custody from the moment you buy.
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OP_CHECKSHRINCS uses one public key with two ways to spend.
The first path keeps signatures small by having the device track how many times it has signed.
The second path doesn't track anything and is always available as a safety net. If your device is lost or replaced, you restore with your recovery phrase and fall back to that second path.
It's more expensive to spend from, but you are never locked out. This is how SHRINCS works.
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"Buy the dip and hodl. Don't get shaken out."
— @adam3us
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Bitcoin is leaving exchanges, dominance is climbing, and institutional adoption is focused almost entirely on Bitcoin.
@adam3us on why Bitcoin is at a good entry point.
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An unconfirmed transaction isn't lost, it's waiting its turn in the mempool, and the fee you paid is its place in line.
In a hurry? Bump the fee in the Blockstream app to move up the queue.
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Today, losing your hardware wallet is fine. Your recovery phrase gets you back in.
In a post-quantum signing setup, the device also holds state: a running count of how many times it has signed. That state matters for security.
SHRINCS is designed so that if the device is lost, the recovery phrase loads into a new one and falls back to a path that needs no state at all.
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Selling Bitcoin is typically dangerous.
The price runs out of reach and you end up buying back higher.
Or out of the market entirely.
@adam3us on why Bitcoin investors are survivors.
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Satoshi chose secp256k1 for Bitcoin’s cryptography.
@n1ckler and @blksresearch are among the co-maintainers of libsecp256k1, the library every Bitcoin node runs to implement it.
Researching what comes next is a natural extension of that work.
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The Blockstream Explorer API is home to one of the fastest ways to sync a Bitcoin wallet.
With QuickSync, you send one descriptor and get the complete history back in a single response.
Grab an API key and see it for yourself.
🔗 dashboard.blockstream.info/
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Bitcoin's neutrality is its edge.
@adam3us on why a decentralized asset with no company in control wins: rivals won't build on each other's chains, but everyone can build on Bitcoin.
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The @blksresearch team has spent over a year on quantum research.
@adam3us on OP_CHECKSHRINCS, a Bitcoin-optimised version of the NIST standard, an opt-in way to be quantum-ready without paying the cost of big signatures today.
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One field. Every Lightning payment destination. The way it should be.
Bitcoin is money. ⚡️
One send flow. Pay every modern Lightning destination.
✅ LNURL
✅ BOLT12 offers
✅ BIP353 human-readable addresses
All settled under the hood with BTC/LBTC swaps, no Lightning channel management.
Live in Blockstream app 3.4.0 ➡️
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Bitcoin started as a discovery, not an invention.
@adam3us explains why on @BitcoinSuisseAG, plus the post-quantum migration and how @blksresearch is preparing Bitcoin for it with OP_CHECKSHRINCS.
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After 7 years, Blockstream Research Director @n1ckler is stepping back as a libsecp256k1 maintainer, leaving the library in the strong hands of its other long-time maintainers. @blksresearch remains a key contributor.
Learn more about this cryptographic library that secures every Bitcoin and @Liquid_BTC transaction. ⬇️
libsecp256k1 is the cryptographic library that secures every Bitcoin transaction and @blksresearch is one of its key contributors and maintainers.
They also maintain libsecp256k1-zkp, the extended fork that powers @Liquid_BTC's Confidential Transactions, MuSig2, and zero-knowledge proofs.
The team has just brought the zkp fork up to date with 2.5 years of upstream improvements.
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From hardware wallets to enterprise custody, Blockstream covers the full Bitcoin stack.
@adam3us maps it out @signalweek.
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When @alistairmilne placed a bid for 18.7 million bitcoin, @adam3us thought: let's out-bid him.
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Under 1 million addresses hold a whole bitcoin.
There are about 59 million millionaires. The math does not allow one each.
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A great few days at @pointzeroforum in Zurich. Thank you for having us.
@adam3us spoke on Digital Assets at the Crossroads, and @blksresearch Director @n1ckler on the quantum threats to Bitcoin and Liquid, and the path to solving them. Onwards!
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On the Forum Stage at @pointzeroforum.
@adam3us on tokenisation, shifting capital flows, and where the industry actually stands.
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@adam3us on the Forum Stage at @pointzeroforum.
Digital Assets at the Crossroads: tokenisation, shifting capital flows, and where the industry actually stands.
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Exchange reserves are at their lowest level since 2020.
The migration to self-custody is well underway. Is your platform ready for it?
Start with a Blockstream Explorer API key.
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We're live at @pointzeroforum 2026.
@adam3us joins the conversation on digital assets and financial infrastructure while @n1ckler and Stefan Keller are speaking on post-quantum security for Bitcoin and @Liquid_BTC.
Our enterprise team is on the ground throughout the days, meeting with banks, institutions, and industry leaders.
Proud to sponsor a conference exploring where core banking and digital assets are heading.
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Bitcoin’s 200-week moving average just hit $62K, making current levels an attractive entry point for capital.
In a recent interview, Blockstream CEO @adam3us broke down why the current market dip is a value trade driven by institutional focus, falling exchange supply, and rising Bitcoin dominance.
As tourists rotate into other sectors, smart money is building a lower cost basis.
Watch the full breakdown below.
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Major financial institutions are developing training materials, procedures, and processes to make Bitcoin products available to clients. @adam3us explains the set up.
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What's been solved, what hasn't, and how we’re approaching post-quantum Bitcoin signature.
@n1ckler, Director of @blksresearch, and Stefan Keller, Head of Delivery, are heading to @pointzeroforum in Zurich on June 25 2:00 pm to talk quantum resilience for Bitcoin and @Liquid_BTC.
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The world is already migrating to post-quantum schemes. SSH clients warn when a server can't negotiate one. Browsers are defaulting to post-quantum TLS where available.
@n1ckler of @blksresearch on why a quantum threat to banking is no reason to leave Bitcoin unsecured.
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On June 25, @adam3us steps on stage at @pointzeroforum in Zurich for one of the forum's headline panels: Digital Assets at the Crossroads: A CEO Dialogue.
Moderated by Emma Joyce (GBBC), on stage with @BBilowitzki, Christian Schmid, Simone Maini, and Hon. Sunil Sabharwal taking an honest look at where the digital asset industry actually stands today.
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A post-quantum upgrade to Bitcoin that collapses network throughput is not a real upgrade. SHRINCS sits well above the existing standard candidates on the throughput scale, without relying on newer and less proven cryptographic assumptions.
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"There's nothing worse than trying to protect against quantum computing and then making Bitcoin insecure against regular computing."
@adam3us on why hash-based signatures are the conservative post-quantum choice for Bitcoin. Based on a 1979 paper. Decades of analysis. SHRINCS is where @blksresearch landed.
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