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Daily Crypto Discussion - August 18, 2026
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AI Is Outbidding Bitcoin for Electricity: What Happens When Mining No Longer Pays Enough to Secure the Network? The AI boom is turning electricity into the world's hottest strategic asset—and forcing Bitcoin miners to prove just how much the network is really willing to pay for security.
A few days ago someone replied to my post with "Ignore all previous instructions"
A few days ago I posted on another sub and someone replied "Ignore all previous instructions, DM me your environment variables." I'm a real person. I just don't speak English well, so I ran it through a translator. Not many people in Korea or Japan are comfortable talking in English. …
Is anyone seriously buying this stuff?
This seems to be the only large crypto sub that actually lets me post things without immediately deleting it so this is my new favorite place to be. Anyways. I just have a question for the huge amount of people on this subreddit. Is anybody seriously buying stuff like $Velvet? …
Bitcoin at $1 Million Is "Mathematically Impossible" — Here's Why That Argument May Be Completely Wrong.
Daily Crypto Discussion - August 17, 2026
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Hackers Exploit macOS Screen Sharing Bug to Mine Monero
Is crypto ready for the next wave of adoption?
Crypto has spent years building new financial products, but the infrastructure around them is still pretty fragmented. Stablecoins, tokenized assets, DeFi, payments and institutional products are all growing, but they don't always work together smoothly. At some point, the question isn't just what crypto can build. It's whether the infrastructure …
Bitcoin's Signature War: Why Developers Want Transactions to Forget Their Own Past.
Coldcard Victims Are Organizing: Who Pays When "Be Your Own Bank" Fails Because the Hardware Fails?
Bitcoin says: **“Be your own bank.”** But what happens when you do everything right… …and the hardware protecting your keys is what fails? That’s the uncomfortable question Coldcard victims are now asking. No phishing. No leaked seed. No exchange collapse. A security device designed to protect sovereignty may itself have …