Brink announced the completion of the first public third-party security audit of Bitcoin Core, conducted by Quarkslab and coordinated by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF). Funded by Brink with support from Chaincode Labs, the four-month review examined critical components including the peer-to-peer networking layer, mempool, and consensus logic. Auditors identified no critical, high, or medium-severity vulnerabilities, only two low-severity findings and thirteen informational recommendations. The assessment enhanced fuzzing infrastructure with new harnesses for untested scenarios like chain reorganization. As Quarkslab noted in Brink’s blog, the codebase is “the most mature and well tested they ever assessed,” reflecting a strict yet welcoming contribution process. This milestone bolsters confidence in Bitcoin Core’s robustness, paving the way for ongoing independent reviews to sustain the network’s resilience and user sovereignty.
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Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) is pivoting its vast energy portfolio toward the fast-growing AI inference market, positioning itself as a leader in decentralized, power-integrated digital infrastructure. As AI shifts from resource-heavy training to widespread inference workloads, MARA argues that edge data centers co-located with low-cost generation will dominate due to superior cost per token, latency, reliability, and security. With 1.8 gigawatts under control and new modular facilities underway, the company is repurposing flexible power once used for bitcoin mining to fuel real-time intelligence. “Our mission is to harness massive volumes of low-cost power and channel them toward their most productive use cases,” CEO Fred Thiel stated in the Q3 2025 shareholder letter. Partnerships with MPLX for onsite gas generation and majority ownership in Exaion accelerate their gambit for secure, efficient inference deployments worldwide, turning abundant energy into scalable intelligence.
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The American right is undergoing its most profound internal fragmentation in decades, driven by populism and social media’s echo chambers rather than mere personality clashes, according to an original analysis published by SchiffGold. Fault lines long present among free-trade advocates, foreign policy hawks, libertarians, and social conservatives have widened into open hostility, contrasting sharply with the unifying coalitions forged under leaders like Reagan. The piece argues that internet algorithms foster hyper-specific beliefs while populist instincts elevate public whims over principled governance and institutional stability. “Populism completely precludes this possibility by reinforcing the idea that the people’s wants are the only absolute principle of government,” the analysis states. To secure lasting electoral success and national resilience, the article suggests conservatives must prioritize enduring structures and shared ideals over short-term outcomes, offering a path toward renewed cohesion in a digitally amplified era.
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As higher education has expanded globally, the average cognitive ability of degree holders has declined, not due to intelligence drops, but as more people access tertiary education, diluting selectivity at each level. This manifests as the Will Rogers phenomenon: shifting individuals upward in attainment lowers means within groups while keeping the overall population mean stable. In “Education Isn’t What It Used To Be,” Cremieux Recueil examines evidence from large-scale studies showing undergraduate IQs falling from elite levels to merely above average over decades. “As more and more people have obtained educations, the meaning of a given level of it has changed,” he notes. Germany’s G8 reform, compressing academic tracks, initially appeared to slash student IQs dramatically in flawed analyses, but rigorous econometric evaluations using national panels and PISA data reveal no harm, and often slight benefits, from increased intensity offsetting shorter durations. These findings highlight opportunities: shortening school years without sacrificing outcomes freeing young adults for greater personal agency in the era of prolonged education.
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