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The anniversary collection / An 84-page special edition
Charlie Lee, the Foundation, the mining families, privacy builders and the institutional record. Read the illustrated edition page by page, or keep the complete print magazine.
Open the 84-page anniversary editionMarket snapshot
Coinbase Exchange returned a BTC/USD last trade of $85,387.2, timestamped 2026-10-04T17:31:13.727Z. This venue-reported trade was retrieved at 2026-10-04T17:31:15.881Z; the two times are recorded separately.
Market snapshot
Coinbase Exchange returned a LTC/USD last trade of $71.368, timestamped 2026-10-04T17:31:13.517Z. This venue-reported trade was retrieved at 2026-10-04T17:31:15.881Z; the two times are recorded separately.
Wall Street & institutions
The iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF holdings file reports 803,343.05410 BTC and 1,414,760,000.00 shares outstanding as of October 1, 2026. The source supplies a date, not an intraday timestamp.
Coinbase Exchange last trades, sampled for this issue. Not live quotes or a global price index.
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$85,387.2LITECOIN / USD
$71.368Original explainers & field guides
Wall Street & institutions
A share price, a holdings file and a financial disclosure can all be correct—and describe different moments.
Explainer · 4 minBuilders & AI
Useful autonomy starts with a narrow task, a visible trail and a human who can stop the work.
Field guide · 4 minPolitics & public record
Proposed, finalized, announced, enacted: one word can change the meaning of a policy story.
Analysis · 4 minThe reading room contains original AI-prepared editorial previews. Independent human review is pending. These explainers and analysis are separate from the dated daily source briefings.
Bitcoin & proof of work
Behind the price ticker is a more interesting question: what can you verify without asking someone else to believe for you?
4 min · Editorial preview ↗Custody & security
An institutional name or a regulatory milestone can matter. It still does not describe every product, entity or recovery path.
4 min · Editorial preview ↗Litecoin & treasury research
A growing register can help researchers find evidence. Adding every row together can still answer the wrong question.
4 min · Editorial preview ↗Community & the world
A field guide for a first gathering: one useful lesson, one shared act of service and room for someone who knows nothing about Bitcoin.
4 min · Editorial preview ↗Public policy & custody
The SEC’s October 1 proposal puts crypto custody arrangements under discussion. Our reading begins with the action taken, then the questions it leaves open.
3 min · Editorial preview ↗Lightning & open-source builders
LND v0.21.4-beta arrived on October 1. Its release record offers a useful exercise in how open-source changes become understandable, testable evidence.
3 min · Editorial preview ↗Your first Bitcoin conversation
A plain-language path through money, keys and verification. Read freely, and learn one useful idea at a time.
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