Pledging Bitcoin instead of paying a cash down payment lets buyers keep their coins, but it replaces savings with a second loan and locks the collateral for years.

Bitcoin Core will now ship fixes for easy-to-find vulnerabilities to every maintained version as soon as possible, after AI tools made its longer embargoes for those bugs largely pointless.

Perpetual contracts on gold, oil and stocks traded $55.3 billion in a week, up 26.2%, and Talos says traders used 24/7 markets to trade an AI selloff and earnings.

Tesla’s digital assets gained $288 million in the third quarter, almost exactly what Bitcoin’s rally would add to its 11,509 coins, as Tesla and SpaceX committees weigh a merger.

Swiss retail investors will be able to buy a fund that holds Bitcoin directly after the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) approved the country’s first Bitcoin ETF on 20 October. To approve it, the regulator exempted the fund from the risk-diversification rules that normally govern Swiss investment funds.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has put a long-term return on Bitcoin for the first time, and at 10% a year it beats the 7.5% assumed for U.S. large caps.

Strategy raised its preferred buyback cap to $3 billion with $161.7 million of the old cap left, while the USD Cash that funds repurchases fell to $447.3 million.

Strategy holds about 79% of the Bitcoin owned by treasury companies, but over the past two weeks it bought 584 BTC while Strive disclosed 6,133.

Donald Trump’s waiver delays tariffs and sanctions under the new Graham Act, and the order itself sets no end date.

AI agents can now order a Bitcoin mix. Flash Mixer, launched this year, has added an MCP server, the plug-in standard that AI apps such as Claude Desktop use to call outside tools.

Google has demonstrated a technique needed for future fault-tolerant quantum computers, but it has not shown a machine capable of recovering a Bitcoin private key.

Strategy has conditionally declared daily dividends for its STRC preferred stock in November, setting up smaller, more frequent payments if common shareholders approve the plan on October 28.