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The Bitcoiner who Ran for French National Assembly
Running on a Bitcoin-only platform is a significant milestone.
By Joe Nakamoto
Running on a Bitcoin-only platform is a significant milestone.
By Stephan Livera
Bitcoin is a real solution to the issues surrounding the question of “If they can print money, why do we pay taxes?”
By Rapha Zagury
Bitcoin is the world’s first truly global grassroots revolution.
By Stephan Livera
While quick ‘drive-by’ analyses can be inflammatory and make it look like Bitcoin is failing, proper analysis requires ‘zooming out’ and understanding the reasoning at a deeper level…
By Tomer Strolight
Block 840,000 has come and gone. With it, came Bitcoin’s fourth halving, cutting the issuance of new coins to 3.125 per block. Welcome to Epoch V. What awaits us?
By Tomer Strolight
Bitcoin will change the lens of what it takes to succeed in pursuing change itself. It will change everything and the tactics people use to achieve change. Bitcoin will change how we “People with each other.”
By Tomer Strolight
Rule Changes Are Being Proposed. How Might They Change Bitcoin? How Might They Happen?
By Tomer Strolight
For Bitcoin to achieve the lofty goals many have for it, its rules will need to change. This three-part series of articles will tackle what it takes to change Bitcoin.
By Sam Callahan
Although $50k was close to the cycle high in 2021, the current environment makes it easy to believe that this time, $50k marks the beginning, not the end, of an extraordinary bull run.
By Sam Callahan
While past performance is not a guaranteed indicator of future results, the combination of these catalysts suggests a heightened interest and investment in Bitcoin and another green candle year!
By Sam Callahan
If the Fed decides to cut rates then expect the floodgates to open, and Bitcoin will be one beneficiary as it sucks up the liquidity, potentially driving its price to new heights in the coming year.
By Isaiah Douglass
All-Time High Bullishness — Why Today Feels Different!
By Tomer Strolight
Only Bitcoin completely demystifies how money works and, even more importantly, will continue to work.
By Sam Callahan
The emergence of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network offers promising solutions that could potentially reverse negative trends and revitalize US productivity.
By John Haar
It’s agreed that there are problems in the banking system. The proposed solutions are wildly different. A look at the recent U.S. banking failures, the nature of banking crises, and how Bitcoin is different.
By Lyn Alden
For proponents of privacy and open networks to win, the technology must be easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-understood by the public.
By Stephan Livera
Even if Ordianals are not a short-lived fad, what’s the most likely outcome? Low-value inscriptions will likely be priced out by financial transactions over time as Bitcoin gets adopted by more people. Learn why below!
By Dante Cook
What the history of shipping containers can teach us about Bitcoin.
By Sam Callahan
2023 is shaping up to be an exciting year where the industry builds to deliver even more value for Bitcoin users and investors around the world.
By Stephan Livera
We need an open, sound and scarce monetary system: Bitcoin. Accept no substitute.
By Stephan Livera
Metaphors and analogies are critical for helping newbies understand Bitcoin, but they are dangerous when taken too far.
By Sam Callahan
Learn how GBTC works, how it’s associated with the recent crypto contagion, and why buying spot Bitcoin and taking self-custody helps you avoid all of these risks today.
By Sam Callahan
Expect the fires from FTX to continue to burn and claim more victims along the way. If anything, this event has provided a tough lesson on why Bitcoin is different and why self-custody is vital.
By Steven Lubka
How to sell your bitcoin for tax advantages without interrupting your strategy to hold for the long term.
By Sam Callahan
Bitcoin mining is truly a game of survival of the fittest, and right now, the creme is being separated from the crop. By the end of this squeeze, Bitcoin’s security layer will be more efficient than ever before.
By Stephan Livera
A recent column by the Financial Times’ Jemima Kelly demonstrated some misunderstandings about Bitcoin’s decentralization and singularity.
By Sam Callahan
The highest adoption rates continue to take place in countries with high inflation, increased capital controls, and where economic instability is the norm.
By Lyn Alden
Examining the scaling method of the Bitcoin network and its evolution from a store of value to a medium of exchange.
By Tomer Strolight
The Blocksize Wars were “fought”… but by whom? And what do we really mean by fighting?
By Stephan Livera
As we continue to debate the proper roles of crypto and lending, Bitcoin full reserve can be the future for credit and commerce.
By Sam Callahan
Swan Private Market Update 7/15/22. Investors currently fear a coming recession as the Federal Reserve continues on its mission to tame CPI inflation.
By Stephan Livera
There has been a lot of digital ink spilled about the concept of Bitcoin Maximalism, but there are things the critics don’t understand.
By Sam Callahan
If Bitcoin protects even one family, one person, or one child from the ravages of hyperinflation, then it is worthy of our time, and a useful technology for the world.
By Steven Lubka
Bitcoin is often described as an inflation hedge, so why hasn’t it worked?
By Cory Klippsten and Wicked Smart Bitcoin
How Today’s Higher Rates and Lower Prices Impact the Case to Borrow to Buy Bitcoin
By Yan Pritzker and Tomer Strolight
In this analysis, we examine and fact check the claims in the recent DARPA blockchain report which claims that Bitcoin’s blockchain is susceptible to centralized control.
By Cory Klippsten and Sam Callahan
Luna/UST went from a collective market capitalization of ~$50 billion to now down 99%. The collapse of the Luna/UST Ponzi scheme occurred even faster than anyone expected, but this implosion was perfectly predictable.
By Stephan Livera
A recent blog post outlined an investor’s rationale for abandoning Bitcoin, and necessitated a Bitcoiner’s response.
By Tomer Strolight
The rise and fall of an empire: It is a story that has repeated itself throughout human history. Where does Bitcoin fit in?
By Scott Wolfe
Some challenging stories are begging to be properly investigated and told. The question is always which investigative journalists have the willingness, integrity and editorial freedom to take these on?
By Tomer Strolight
Bitcoin provides value that surpasses the brand value of the U.S. dollar, as the code provides the utility of superior money.
By Spencer Schiff
One of the most persistent falsehoods prograted by goldbugs is the idea that monetary goods must have direct utility.
By Stephan Livera
The progress that the Bitcoin community made in 2021 reminds us to take nothing for granted, and to make the changes we want to see next year.
By Tomer Strolight
“Bitcoin is Generational Wealth” is a short film exploring Bitcoin’s potential across generations.
By GeertJanCap
The price of any asset is determined by its supply and demand. Bitcoin’s programmed halving of supply has a diminishing effect its price.
By Sam Callahan
One of the biggest blindspots investors have when they first come across Bitcoin is that they view it solely as an asset. Bitcoin is digital gold — you can send over the internet.
By Tomer Strolight
History shows that fiat systems collapse. The monetary units of these systems become worthless upon those collapses. Science shows that the laws of physics do not collapse. They are eternal.
By Spencer Schiff
Bitcoin will be considered the safest asset in human history, thanks to its resistance to debasement, censorship, and confiscation.
By Nick Payton
We must compare Bitcoin’s enivronmental and socio-economic impacts to the financical systems it aims to replace.
By Gigi
Why the internet doesn’t feel as clumsy anymore is twofold: (1) we got used to the novel concepts the internet brought with it, and (2) countless layers of abstraction make interacting with the base layer easier.
By Drew
IBIT vs. GBTC. A review aiming to provide clear insights for both seasoned and novice investors. Which is better in July 2024!