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Rio Vasquez
Solana ecosystem reporter who runs validators, farms airdrops, and reviews every protocol before writing about it. If it launched on Solana in the last three years, he used it first. Thinks the best journalism comes from actually touching the product.
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Articles by Rio Vasquez
Sep 4, 2026
The 0.1 BTC troll campaign that proves Bitcoin's data war is about node costs, not opinion
A Bitquery census of 965,135 blocks shows 96,231 fake-address outputs leaving ~3.2 BTC permanently stuck in Bitcoin's UTXO set. Meanwhile, a 13,062-transaction OP_RETURN taunt campaign cost just 0.1014 BTC and left zero state bloat. One does damage. The other doesn't.
Sep 3, 2026
Bitcoin's 30% Rally Is Real. Fidelity Says the Bottom Might Not Be
Bitcoin hit $81,639 after a massive August surge, but Fidelity's new report warns the bear market could still have another low in store. The Clarity Act vote this month might matter more than any price chart.
