$1 Million In Seed Capital Awarded To DeFi Hedge Fund Boreal, Bitcoin Alpha Competition Winner

At Bitcoin 2024 this past July, Samara Alpha Management and Bitcoin Magazine Pro selected Boreal, a market neutral DeFi hedge fund, as the winner of this year’s Bitcoin Alpha Competition. Boreal was awarded $1 million in seed capital as well as access to Samara’s institutional-grade infrastructure to help manage its fund. Boreal stood out because of its … Read more

Owning 1 Bitcoin Is Better Than Being a Millionaire

Let me be honest—becoming a wholecoiner is one of the smartest moves you can make, but it’s also becoming ridiculously hard. I remember when I first got into bitcoin back in 2016. The price was around $400-$500, and owning one full bitcoin felt totally doable. Now? It’s a completely different story. Bitcoin is sitting near … Read more

The Women In Bitcoin That CoinTelegraph Forgot

Follow Frank on X. A week ago, CoinTelegraph published a “women who kicked ass in crypto” piece in which only one non-American or non-European woman (Maya Parbhoe) was mentioned. Because I feel that what’s happening with Bitcoin in Africa, Latin America, The Middle East and Southeast Asia — regions where bitcoin is more often used … Read more

Bitcoin Is Fiat

Bitcoin is fiat. Now go ahead, take the time you need to get it out of your system. Breath deeply. Blood pressure still up? Okay, let’s try this then. What does fiat mean? An arbitrary order or decree. Fiat currencies are given value by the authority of governments. They have value because the State decides … Read more

Recounting Ethiopia’s Bitcoin Developments In 2024

Ethiopia’s state-owned power producer, and a population of 126 million Ethiopians, welcomed the bitcoin mining industry in 2024 with an attractive electricity rate of USD 3.2 cents KWh. In this past year EEP has generated USD 55 million in revenues from bitcoin miners and expects USD 123 million in the year to come. As we … Read more

Neobank Yopaki Aims To Make Every Mexican A Bitcoiner

Company Name: Yopaki Founders: Francisco Chavarria (CEO) and Carlos Chida (CTO) Date Founded: March 2023 Location of Headquarters: Austin, TX Number of Employees: Four full time; one part time Website: https://www.yopaki.com/ Public or Private? Private In 2021, Francisco Chavarria stood in the audience at Bitcoin 2021 and watched as Strike CEO Jack Mallers passionately delivered … Read more

WATCH: Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin $100K Party

The moment Bitcoiners around the world have been waiting for is finally here: Bitcoin has hit the monumental $100,000 mark, and Michael Saylor is throwing the Party of the Century to celebrate! What started as a dream and a meme has now become a reality, as Michael Saylor, a legendary advocate for Bitcoin and Executive … Read more

Why I Capitulated And Started Buying MSTR

Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Look, I know I am late to the party. I remember covering the news of MicroStrategy’s first bitcoin purchase, and I’ve watched the stock rise from $14 to $400 per share. All that time, I didn’t buy. Yet, this past Friday, for the first time since 2018, … Read more

Bitcoin: Use It Or Lose It

Whenever concerns surrounding Bitcoin’s long term prospects’ going in a negative direction surface, a common refrain of dismissal is “Well tell us what to do about it then.” This is used to dismiss all concerns of regulation leading to regulatory capture, of deeper involvement of certain entities leading to higher risks to the consensus process, … Read more