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The Bitcoin Halving: From A Macro Event To Quasi-Holiday

[Apr 18, 2024 10:04 AM] SATOSHI’S THOUGHT PROCESSHave you ever wondered what it must have been like for Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2008 when he published the Bitcoin Whitepaper? Spending countless hours in solitude, meticulously writing the code that would bring the world…

The Weekly Reorg: Bitcoin Fashion Week

[Apr 16, 2024 1:13 PM] In case you missed it, Bitcoin Season 2 released part of its Spring/Summer collection last week. Amongst other things, Mezo, a “Bitcoin economic layer” came out of stealth with a $21 million fundraising round. Alpen Labs announced a $10.6 million…

How Bitcoin could impact financial inclusivity among minority groups

[Apr 16, 2024 10:30 AM] From an obscure footnote known to only the more tech-savvy in a much more insular internet, Bitcoin has transformed into an important player in today’s financial landscape.However, while we’re all keenly aware of BTC’s impact on financial markets…

Beyond Tribalism: The Synergistic Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum

[Apr 15, 2024 8:03 AM] Tribalism has existed for as long as tribes themselves. For as long as humans have been organizing into social groups, we’ve been hating on the group in the next valley. Even though we have much more in common with them than we would care to…

Dogma Kills Brain Cells

[Apr 10, 2024 8:00 AM] This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Inscription Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Click here to download a PDF of this article.Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the cringiest of them all? Is it the

Bitcoin Mining’s Boon for Small Town America

[Apr 5, 2024 1:18 PM] Will Foxley’s doc about a small Texas town’s embrace of a new mining facility paints a more positive story about Bitcoin’s impact on rural communities than typically reported.

Are Bitcoin Developers Losing Faith in Lightning?

[Apr 2, 2024 11:59 AM] High-profile defections, and ongoing criticism from the community, paints a picture of a much-hyped scaling project running out of steam. But bitcoiners have always been critical of the leading scaling solution.

NoOnes Helping Nigeria After Binance Exit

[Mar 29, 2024 12:00 PM] Some Nigerians were shocked when crypto exchange Binance announced they would discontinue all services in Nigeria by March 8. Despite facing scrutiny from regulators before the announcement, many people still asked how the biggest exchange in…

Bitcoin & Public Health: Addressing the Debt-Money Crises

[Mar 28, 2024 8:51 AM] In December, I had the privilege of attending the Africa Bitcoin Conference (ABC) in Accra, Ghana. As a public health professor with a background in health education and community health, this may seem like an odd conference to attend, but this…

Bitcoin and Taxation: Government On A Bitcoin Standard

[Mar 25, 2024 8:01 AM] How will governments function in a world that has transitioned from fiat to hyperbitcoinization? This is a question that I have thought about recently, and I wanted to think through what happens to governments on a Bitcoin standard. The questions I…

Saving Seeds in DNA: Bitcoin as Information

[Mar 13, 2024 10:30 AM] I recently converted a Bitcoin seed phrase into a DNA sequence, just because I can. Using only the first four letters of the BIP39 seed words, a 12-word seed phrase can be stored in a mere 48 nucleotides of DNA. (For comparison, the average gene is…

Bitcoin on Wheels: The Story of Bitcoinetas

[Mar 12, 2024 8:01 AM] You may have seen that picture of Michael Saylor in a bitcoin-branded van, with a cheerful guy right next to the car door. This one: Ariel Aguilar and La Bitcoineta European Edition at BTC Prague. That car is the Bitcoineta European Edition, and…

The Perils of Centralized Control

[Mar 7, 2024 12:17 PM] “It is in the nature of a system of government control of business to aim at the utmost centralization…In voting for government control of business the voters implicitly, although unwittingly, are voting for more centralization.”- Ludwig Von…

We Can Be So Back

[Mar 7, 2024 9:00 AM] This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Click here to download a PDF of this article.“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering’. S

Bitcoin Enters the Conversation within the German Parliament

[Mar 6, 2024 8:45 AM] With the kickoff event 'Bitcoin im Bundestag,' Bitcoin has entered the political discourse in Germany. Roman Reher of Blocktrainer, the largest German-speaking Bitcoin YouTube channel, and Kristian Kläger, CEO and founder of terahash.energy GmbH…