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Hannah Bolt
Lightning Network evangelist and payments infrastructure reporter. Ran a node since 2020 and tracks every routing fee, channel rebalance, and merchant integration. Believes Bitcoin wins as money, not as a ticker symbol.
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Articles by Hannah Bolt
Aug 28, 2026
Ripple's 10,000-Line Trim Shows Security Isn't Just About Audits
Ripple is axing more than 10,000 lines of dead XChainBridge code from the XRP Ledger while Lending Protocol V1.1 gets an AI-only audit. With $1.31 billion lost to crypto attacks in H1 2026, the timing matters. Ripple's layered security approach is the real story.
Aug 28, 2026
Bullish's $100M GPU loan bet says stablecoins already won
Bullish is lending $100M in stablecoins against AI computing hardware. That's not just another exchange product. It's proof that crypto's real killer app is dollar tokens on public rails, not speculative trading.
