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 world’s biggest bitcoin circular … Read more
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 office one week from today. This leaves a … Read more
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 the peaceful revolution that ended Soviet rule was lit not by the educated … Read more
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 the lending pool only had 592 bitcoin in it. We need to … Read more
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 these things, … Read more
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 on to be the best performing ETFs in history, with BlackRock’s … Read more
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 work during the 2012-2016 era, corresponding to Bitcoin’s block height of 210,000 to 420,000. The Finney Freedom Prize honours … Read more
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 delivered on their promise? For a more in-depth look into this topic, … Read more
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 device will utilize the BM1370 ASIC chip from the Bitmain S21 … Read more
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 be a “drag on the economy” because those savings wouldn’t be … Read more
