If you’ve been watching bitcoin, you probably noticed the pullback yesterday. It dropped from $108,000 to $99,000 after the FOMC meeting, where the Fed cut rates, and Jerome Powell, the…

When I saw Nic Carter’s recent Bloomberg interview, I couldn’t help but shake my head. Nic, who’s been a long-time Bitcoiner and someone I respect, said that the US shouldn’t—and…

Look, I think it’s only a matter of time before China pulls a complete 180 on its Bitcoin ban. Yes, they outlawed trading and mining back in 2021, but honestly,…

Jeremy Rubin released a proposal two weeks ago titled Un’FE’d Covenants (FE = Functional Encryption). Given the ongoing debate over covenant proposals for Bitcoin the last year or two, his…

If you’ve bought bitcoin, chances are that you want to self-custody. Without self-custody, you don’t really have bitcoin, so why wouldn’t you? Using a hardware device to set up an…

The Islamic conceptualisation of finance is built around a set of core principles which give primacy to honesty, fairness and accountability in trade and transactions. As such, Islamic finance seeks…

Early in our thinking about the interaction between bitcoin and energy it became obvious to me that the value of bitcoin was fundamentally underpinned by the amount of energy that…

Wow, we finally hit $100,000 bitcoin. What a time to be alive! A cypherpunk experiment started as magic internet money is now the 7th largest asset globally, surpassing a $2…

Follow Frank on X. (Author’s note: In this Take, I offer an interpretation of recent events in Guatemala through the lens of someone on the ground in the country.) On November 10,…

A small, but significant development in Bitcoin’s much-debated decentralized consensus process is taking place, with some developers moving to publicly gauge sentiment of warring soft fork proposals that would augment…