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Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. In his Take from yesterday, Frank invited bitcoiners to join Nostr: “The world’s biggest bitcoin circular economy.” I fully endorse this invitation; Nostr aligns much better with Bitcoin’s original values than — specifically — Elon Musk’s...
Mining Bitcoin In The Congo And Beyond: The Journey Of BigBlock Datacenter’s Sébastien Gouspillou
Listening to Sébastien Gouspillou share stories from the past eight years of his international life as a Bitcoin miner, it’s difficult to believe he’s telling the truth. Each of his tales come across as works of fiction in which he, often compelled by little more than...
You Should Not Wear This Bitcoin Shirt — Here’s Why
Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Everyone has their own unique sense of style, but if you are wearing Bitcoin merch like the shirt in the X post below out in public — you should probably stop doing so. This Bitcoin shirt is cringe as fuck. Have fun...
You Should Not Wear This Bitcoin Shirt — Here’s Why
Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Everyone has their own unique sense of style, but if you are wearing Bitcoin merch like the shirt in the X post below out in public — you should probably stop doing so. This Bitcoin shirt is cringe as fuck. Have fun...
Bitcoin DeFi Is Finding Product-market Fit With Runes
Over the past year, the Bitcoin Renaissance has brought significant attention to BTCfi, or “Bitcoin DeFi” applications. Despite the hype, very few of these applications have delivered on their promises or managed to retain a meaningful number of “actual” users. To put...
We’re Repeating The 2017 Bitcoin Bull Cycle
The 2017 Bitcoin bull market was a wild ride, with prices soaring from under $200 to nearly $20,000. As we look at the current market, many are wondering if we might see a similar surge again. In this article, we’ll explore the data and trends that suggest we could be...
Syria Exploring The Embrace of Bitcoin
Syria’s economy is in a bad state, to put it very mildly. Not only has the Middle Eastern nation been battered by over a decade of war, the Assad regime, which has been in power since 1971, has now been overthrown by a jihadist group. The conflict, which began in...
Nostr Is The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Circular Economy: Join Us
Follow Frank on X. While many of you may have heard of bitcoin circular economies like El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach or South Africa’s Bitcoin Ekasi but haven’t been able to go and spend your sats in such a place, please know that in just a few clicks you can join the...
This Bitcoin Explainer Video Is Going Insanely Viral
I’ve been in Bitcoin for eight years now, and one of the hardest things I’ve faced is explaining Bitcoin to someone new. Whenever someone asks, “What is Bitcoin, and why is it important?” I struggle to give them something short and impactful. I’ve always sent people...
In One Week, Donald Trump Will Decide Ross Ulbricht’s Fate
Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Last year on May 25, Donald Trump vowed to commute the sentence of early Bitcoin pioneer and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to time served if elected president. As we all know, Trump won the election and will take...
ARKA NOEGO / NOAH’S ARK: On Solidarity and Bitcoin
A Peaceful Revolution During the 1980’s, a genuine popular movement arose in Poland that ended up toppling the communist regime in that country. Although there were many anticommunist intellectuals writing and being read in Poland at the time, the spark that ignited...
Why You Should Redeem Your Bitcoin From THORChain’s Lending Service
Follow Frank on X. Two days ago, the atebites X account pointed out that THORChain’s lending service currently has nowhere near enough bitcoin to repay its creditors. As of the time of the post, the total amount of bitcoin to be repaid to depositors was 1,604, while...
Privacy Shouldn’t Be A Product, Stop Treating It Like One
Privacy is a very important issue. It can be how you manage keeping parts of your life separate. It can be how you maintain your sense of dignity. It can be how you respect someone else’s trust. It can be a matter of your safety, even your life. At the center of all...
Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval Was The Most Important Moment In 2024
Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts One year ago today, Gary Gensler and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally capitulated and approved the trading of spot bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETF) to go live the next day. These ETFs would go...
Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell Receive The Finney Freedom Prize
The Human Rights Foundation, in collaboration with the Finney family, has awarded Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell the prestigious Finney Freedom Prize for their groundbreaking contributions to Bitcoin usability, scalability, and privacy. The prize recognises their...
Have Bitcoin ETFs Lived Up to the Hype?
The launch of Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024 was heralded as a groundbreaking moment for the market. Many expected these products to open the floodgates for institutional capital and catapult Bitcoin prices to new heights. But now, a year later, have Bitcoin ETFs...
The Future Of Home Bitcoin Mining Is Bright
Follow Frank on X. Perhaps the best way to decentralize the Bitcoin network is through home mining, and things are trending in the right direction. Yesterday, Solo Satoshi announced the Bitaxe Touch, the latest device in the world of home bitcoin mining. This new...
Steve Hanke Is Wrong About the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Steve Hanke is wrong about something Bitcoin related once again. He’s recently taken aim at the idea of the U.S. creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR). In the video embedded in the X post below, Hanke claimed that converting government savings into bitcoin would...
Don’t Buy The Bitcoin Dip
Follow Frank on X. With bitcoin’s price dipping significantly below $100k again, the “buy the dip” cheerleaders are out in full force. But I’m here to offer a different perspective, which is simply: Don’t buy the dip. Before I continue, let me please make it clear...
The Lightning Network Privacy Big Picture: Don’t Forget the NSA
One of the secondary benefits of how the Lightning Network works as a scaling solution is privacy. It’s by no means perfect or undefeatable privacy, but it is a better than naive use of the base layer blockchain itself. It’s also not perfectly balanced. The sender...
Buying Greenland Would Be A Huge Boost to US Bitcoin Mining
Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts In less than two weeks, the United States will have a new administration in office, but there’s already much debate about President-elect Donald Trump and his policies. One of the most controversial — his expressed...
Using Mining To Create More Fully Validating Bitcoin Users
Bitcoin’s value proposition relies on its ability to resist any type of censorship. Without that feature, Bitcoin loses its power to challenge and resist any authority that wants to subjugate Bitcoin to the same rules that apply in the traditional world. With this in...
Ledn Remains Bitcoin’s Premier Borrowing And Lending Platform
Company Name: Ledn Founders: Mauricio Di Bartolomeo and Adam Reeds Date Founded: September 2018 Location of Headquarters: N/A (Fully remote) Number of Employees: 51 Website: https://ledn.io/ Public or Private? Private “Lending is the type of relationship where you...
Bitcoin Layer 2 Foundations Should Buy Bitcoin For Their Treasuries
I've been thinking about this a lot lately: Bitcoin Layer 2 foundations need to start holding bitcoin in their treasuries. It makes too much sense for them not to. And apparently I’m not the only one. As someone who's watched this space evolve, let me explain why...