Burnout, Banter, Breaches & BIPs | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 74

Banter Rule UK
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15454419/Labour-banter-ban-cost-firms-60million-enforce.html

A French company that helps calculate taxes on crypto has been breached and it's suspected that info on 50,000 clients has been leaked.
- https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/cryptomonnaies-la-plate-forme-waltio-victime-de-tentative-dextorsion-par-les-mysterieux-shiny-hunters-23-01-2026-KBCBLDCHANDMDIUM6W2JIMJHMM.php

Bitcoin hashrate drops 8% as US miners curtail during Winter Storm Fern
- https://blockspace.media/insight/bitcoin-hashrate-drops-8-as-us-miners-curtail-during-winter-storm-fern/

Meet John Lick: Stealer of Stolen Funds
- https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2014685263327351116

Write a letter of support for Roman Storm
- https://freeromanstorm.com/write-letter

From "A developer":

I'm not going to post this on socials as I'm done arguing with plebs who can't verify and read the code for themself, but FYI, I just read through the BIP110 activation client code and:
Contrary to the activation parameters as written in the BIP (BIP9 style activation, miner activated), the actual activation client has an additional BIP148 style enforcement starting around August 1st. When the threshold of 55% blocks signaling for bip110 in a single window (2016 blocks) has not been reached, any block that is not signaling for BIP110 after August 1st will be rejected by the activation client, basically splitting themself of, or even coming to a complete halt if there's no hashpower. Looking at the node counts and virtue signaling on X, this is going to be interesting to watch.

https://github.com/dathonohm/bitcoin/commit/10bb4479dff1b9cb833795df5e6fab27c71def6d#diff-97c3a52bc5fad452d82670a7fd291800bae20c7bc35bb82686c2c0a4ea7b5b98R4652