The Battle for Monetary Independence
A 50-day campaign to advance freedom and sovereignty through Bitcoin adoption
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The Battle for Monetary Independence
A 50-day campaign to advance freedom and sovereignty through Bitcoin adoption
Is Bitcoin Safe for Generational Wealth?
Is Bitcoin safe for generational wealth? Learn why custody, inheritance planning, and patience matter more than price when building lasting family wealth with Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Estate Planning: The Risks Most Holders Aren’t Addressing
Bitcoin estate planning is the most under-addressed risk in HNW portfolios. Why holders and their CPAs, attorneys, and trustees keep missing it, and how to close the gap.
Bitcoin Wealth Management: How to Build and Protect Generational Bitcoin Wealth
Learn how Bitcoin wealth management works, from custody and security to inheritance planning and liquidity. Discover how families and businesses use Bitcoin to build and protect long-term wealth.
Bitcoin vs. Gold as a Store of Value: Which Asset Better Protects Your Wealth?
Bitcoin vs. gold as a store of value in 2026: how they compare on scarcity, portability, and ownership & which better protects your wealth long term.
Swan Real Bitcoin Exchange (RBX): A Structured Path from Bitcoin ETFs to Real Bitcoin
RBX is designed for investors with significant Bitcoin ETF positions who want to own Bitcoin directly and seek a tax-efficient outcome.
Bitcoin Custody: How to Store Bitcoin Safely Without Overcomplicating It
Bitcoin custody is not one-size-fits-all. Learn the tradeoffs between hot wallets, cold storage, single sig, multisig, collaborative custody, ETFs, inheritance planning, and long-term Bitcoin security.
Best Place to Buy Bitcoin: A Decision Framework, Not a Ranking
Coinbase, Kraken, River, or Swan? The best place to buy Bitcoin depends on what you’re building — a trading position, or long-term wealth with real custody.
Economics
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Trillion-Dollar Deficits are Keeping the Economy Afloat
The reckless nature of government fiscal policies suggests a future where financial instability may hinge on the balance between innovation and traditional policy decisions.
Trillion-Dollar Deficits are Keeping the Economy Afloat
The reckless nature of government fiscal policies suggests a future where financial instability may hinge on the balance between innovation and traditional policy decisions.
Will Bitcoin Follow Gold’s Monetary Rise and Fall? And a Look at Bitcoin’s Scaling Strategy
Bitcoin can achieve its ultimate goal — to be a neutral base layer of a new monetary system for billions of users worldwide
Argentina: How Fiat Policies Ruined a Once Prosperous Nation
If Argentina embraces Bitcoin, perhaps it can start to resemble the prosperous nation it once was and its people can finally experience something they haven’t felt in a long time — hope.
Feast or Famine? Breaking Down the State of the Economy
As Americans continue to feel misled by their government and struggle with the cost of living, Bitcoin increasingly becomes a viable alternative.
Preparing for an Inflationary Soft Landing
Investors need to consider that we may be entering a period not seen in the developed world in decades, similar only to those experienced in emerging markets.
Analysis
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Bitcoin vs. Gold as a Store of Value: Which Asset Better Protects Your Wealth?
Bitcoin vs. gold as a store of value in 2026: how they compare on scarcity, portability, and ownership & which better protects your wealth long term.
Bitcoin vs. Gold as a Store of Value: Which Asset Better Protects Your Wealth?
Bitcoin vs. gold as a store of value in 2026: how they compare on scarcity, portability, and ownership & which better protects your wealth long term.
Quantum Fear-Mongering and The Infinite Perils Trap
Quantum is a real research problem, not a license to break Bitcoin’s deepest norms. Prepare seriously. Move slowly. Leave Satoshi’s coins alone.
Buy Real Bitcoin, Not a Bitcoin ETF: Why Ownership Still Matters
A spot Bitcoin ETF tracks the price of Bitcoin. Owning shares is not the same as owning Bitcoin.
This Time is Different
No longer a niche commodity, Bitcoin now finds itself a prime fixation of the US Executive Branch.
Digital Asset Reserves: Bitcoin Stands Alone
Bitcoin is the only digital asset that meets the necessary criteria for a sovereign reserve, given its decentralization, liquidity, security, and geopolitical significance.
Investing
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Bitcoin Wealth Management: How to Build and Protect Generational Bitcoin Wealth
Learn how Bitcoin wealth management works, from custody and security to inheritance planning and liquidity. Discover how families and businesses use Bitcoin to build and protect long-term wealth.
Bitcoin Wealth Management: How to Build and Protect Generational Bitcoin Wealth
Learn how Bitcoin wealth management works, from custody and security to inheritance planning and liquidity. Discover how families and businesses use Bitcoin to build and protect long-term wealth.
Asset Performance in Times of Conflict
Given the inflationary consequences of war, history advises caution regarding traditional safe-haven assets such as cash and bonds.
Wall Street Bitcoin: What it Means For Bitcoin and You
With the successful launch of 10 Bitcoin ETFs, Wall Street has come into Bitcoin in a big way, and it will only get bigger. Is this good or bad for Bitcoin? Like many things in life, the answer is nuanced and uncertain.
Education
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Bitcoin Estate Planning: The Risks Most Holders Aren’t Addressing
Bitcoin estate planning is the most under-addressed risk in HNW portfolios. Why holders and their CPAs, attorneys, and trustees keep missing it, and how to close the gap.
Bitcoin Estate Planning: The Risks Most Holders Aren’t Addressing
Bitcoin estate planning is the most under-addressed risk in HNW portfolios. Why holders and their CPAs, attorneys, and trustees keep missing it, and how to close the gap.
Bitcoin Custody: How to Store Bitcoin Safely Without Overcomplicating It
Bitcoin custody is not one-size-fits-all. Learn the tradeoffs between hot wallets, cold storage, single sig, multisig, collaborative custody, ETFs, inheritance planning, and long-term Bitcoin security.
Rolling Over a 401(k) and Other Workplace Retirement Plans to a Swan Bitcoin IRA: The Complete Guide
Rolling your old 401(k) into a Swan Bitcoin IRA lets you move legacy retirement savings into real Bitcoin while preserving tax advantages and compliance protections.
How to Set Up Swan Vault: Unlocking Safer Bitcoin Self-Custody
Discover how Swan Vault puts you in full control of your Bitcoin with a simple, secure setup. See just how easy it is to safeguard your wealth and unlock your monetary autonomy.
3 Easy Steps to Delete Your Coinbase Account (w/ Screenshots) July Update
You may have wondered “How do I get my money out of Coinbase?” This guide will show you step-by-step how to transfer Bitcoin from Coinbase and then how to delete your account forever in July of 2024!
Industry
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Swan Announces New Chief Investment Officer, Publishes Guide to Leveraged Bitcoin Equities
Ben Werkman joins Swan as CIO. New LBE primer explains key concepts, implementation steps, risk management, and valuation approaches.
Swan Announces New Chief Investment Officer, Publishes Guide to Leveraged Bitcoin Equities
Ben Werkman joins Swan as CIO. New LBE primer explains key concepts, implementation steps, risk management, and valuation approaches.
Swan Bitcoin and Equity Trust Collaboration Unlocks New Retirement Account Features for Bitcoin Investors
Equity Trust and Swan collaborate to bring new IRA account types and features to Swan’s IRA product.
Swan Vault — Safe and Sound Self-Custody
Swan Vault is advanced Bitcoin security made simple. You don’t need a bank, but you don’t have to go it alone.
Craig Wright Referred for Perjury Prosecution, Receives Injunctions in COPA Case
Final arguments in the the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) vs. Craig Wright’s assertion that he is Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and to prevent him from continuing to make such claims.
Germany’s Sale of 50,000 Confiscated Bitcoins Demonstrates Bitcoin’s Robust Liquidity
Germany sold 50,000 Bitcoin seized from an illegal music-sharing service. How the German government is valuing the BTC has sparked global interest and debate in the Bitcoin community.
Politics
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Bitcoin on the Ballot
Millions of Bitcoiners are single-issue voters. Jason evaluates how much influence will they have in November 2024!
Bitcoin on the Ballot
Millions of Bitcoiners are single-issue voters. Jason evaluates how much influence will they have in November 2024!
Biden’s SAB121 Veto Stands: What This Means for Banks and Bitcoin Custody
The House failed to overturn Biden’s veto on a bill allowing banks to custody Bitcoin and crypto assets, addressing SEC’s SAB 121, which imposes stringent accounting requirements on banks holding these assets.
Bitcoin is the New Non-Aligned Movement
In a bifurcated world, Bitcoin can be the solution representing a new Monetary Non-Aligned Movement.
Are Recent Regulatory and Political Moves Good for Bitcoin?
The answer is becoming clear: not only will they not ban it — they will embrace it.
Privacy, Executive Order 6102 & Bitcoin
Let’s keep pushing forward for the future we want to see, one in which both the price of Bitcoin and global freedom can go up together.
Opinion
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Is Bitcoin Safe for Generational Wealth?
Is Bitcoin safe for generational wealth? Learn why custody, inheritance planning, and patience matter more than price when building lasting family wealth with Bitcoin.
Is Bitcoin Safe for Generational Wealth?
Is Bitcoin safe for generational wealth? Learn why custody, inheritance planning, and patience matter more than price when building lasting family wealth with Bitcoin.
Why Every Gold Investor Should Seriously Consider Bitcoin
After managing a Swiss gold fund for 8 years, I realized Bitcoin surpasses gold as the ultimate store of value. Here’s why every gold investor should study Bitcoin closely.
The Ghosts of Glass-Steagall: SAB 122 and History’s Warning for Bitcoin’s Future
The SAB 121 repeal mirrors the end of Glass-Steagall in 1999, which played a major role in the 2008 financial crisis. Bitcoiners should listen to history and be more cautionary about SAB 122.
From Fiat Family Home to Bitcoin Mining Trailer: Off-Grid Steve
The British Bitcoiner on a mission to understand whether Off-Grid, Bitcoin miner heat living is a viable and crucially, profitable venture.
Markets
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Bitcoin ETFs Inflows Showing Robust Turnaround in July
The inflows on these two days alone underscore the growing interest and confidence in Bitcoin ETFs.
Bitcoin ETFs Inflows Showing Robust Turnaround in July
The inflows on these two days alone underscore the growing interest and confidence in Bitcoin ETFs.
The Race is On: 11 Bitcoin ETFs Launch
These ETFs will act as a top-of-funnel and will become an initial touchpoint for many future Bitcoiners.
A Fed Pivot Releases Animal Spirits
It seems like things are all lining up for Bitcoin to have an explosive year in 2024.
Bitcoin: A Buoy in the Waves of Inflation
As uncertainty remains the status quo in the traditional financial system, Bitcoin’s system remains predictable and reliable.
The Inflation/Deflation Tug-of-War
Overall, the economy and central banks are in a tense tug-of-war. Inflation and disinflation are going back and forth. Which side will gain the upper hand?
Product Updates
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Swan Real Bitcoin Exchange (RBX): A Structured Path from Bitcoin ETFs to Real Bitcoin
RBX is designed for investors with significant Bitcoin ETF positions who want to own Bitcoin directly and seek a tax-efficient outcome.
Swan Real Bitcoin Exchange (RBX): A Structured Path from Bitcoin ETFs to Real Bitcoin
RBX is designed for investors with significant Bitcoin ETF positions who want to own Bitcoin directly and seek a tax-efficient outcome.
Best Place to Buy Bitcoin: A Decision Framework, Not a Ranking
Coinbase, Kraken, River, or Swan? The best place to buy Bitcoin depends on what you’re building — a trading position, or long-term wealth with real custody.
Swan Vault Plus: Human-Verified Withdrawal Protection
Live video verification, Jade Plus signing devices, and a purpose-built recovery assistant give families and businesses greater control over their Bitcoin.
Cryptographic Proof Over Passwords: Passkeys are Live for All Swan Clients
Passkeys enable faster, more secure device-based logins (face/fingerprint) that reduce password risks and strengthen our Swan Guard security protections.
Introducing Swan Generations, Empowering Families to Allocate Real Bitcoin to the Next Generation
Swan Generations provides a unique service for parents, legal guardians, and others to make irrevocable gifts of real Bitcoin.
Culture
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Bitcoin — For All Ages, For The Ages
For the first time in our lifetimes, we have the opportunity to save reliably over the long-term!
Bitcoin — For All Ages, For The Ages
For the first time in our lifetimes, we have the opportunity to save reliably over the long-term!
An Open Letter to Ann Barnhardt
I decided to write a letter, then made it an open letter, to Ann Barnhardt.
Bitcoin: Reuniting a Deeply Divided World
Bitcoin’s unchangeability is the fix we have needed for money throughout history.
Yours Truly, Bitcoin
I do hope this letter has helped to bridge the understanding between you and me.
Bitcoin: An Endless Chain of Mysteries
There are so many mysteries that draw us into Bitcoin. And there always will be.