Fiat Is Artificial Money And Bitcoin Is Natural Money
I attended the Bitcoin Freedom Festival in Uvita, Costa Rica from January 18th through 20th. It was a unique event that was unlike any bitcoin gathering I’ve ever attended. There…
First Ever Freedom Festival Held In Bitcoin Jungle Shows Bottom Up Adoption of Lightning
Over two hundred bitcoiners descended on Uvita from January 18th – 20th which is a popular seaside spot in Costa Rica. The Bitcoin Freedom Festival was billed as a spiritual…
DLCs Evolving To Meet Institutional Needs
Discreet Log Contracts are an old concept in this space at this point, proposed by Thaddeus Dryja (co-creator of the Lightning Network protocol) in 2017. DLCs are a smart contract…
Changing Regulatory Dynamics For Bitcoin ATMs
In the ever-evolving landscape of Bitcoin, changes can be hard to keep up with. As we enter into a new year, it’s important to be mindful that significant industry shifts…
Resisting the EIA: One Possible Playbook
The Biden Administration has intensified oversight on the U.S. bitcoin mining sector through an Energy Information Agency (EIA) emergency survey, portraying electricity usage by miners as a significant threat to…
Bitcoin vs. Real Estate: Which Is The Better Store Of Value In Times Of Conflict ?
Introduction We live in a highly digitalized world, but most of humanity still uses physical goods to store value. The most used store of value in the world is real…
Navigating The Now: Events Leading Up To The Bitcoin ETFs
Over the past months, Bitcoin ETFs dominated the cryptocurrency, finance, and investing discourse. A flurry of attention-focused articles on the latest wave of spot Bitcoin ETF applications captured the collective…
The No-coiner Texts Arrive: A Bull Market Beckons
The subtle shift in social media conversations. The mentions in the mainstream media: “Bitcoin will now be available for Wall Street investors!”. All the text messages arriving with questions about…
Bitcoin ETF: A Decade Of Struggle For Legitimacy
The crypto revolution was finally taken to new heights when the SEC approved 11 Bitcoin spot ETFs in January 2024. Global investors flooded in like never seen before, adding almost…
The EIA Emergency Information Collection Is Alarming
In mid-January, a massive winter storm swept across the United States, dropping temperatures in Central Texas into the low 20s and causing Texans to huddle indoors with their heaters running…