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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…

The Sabotage of Bitcoin

[Feb 28, 2024 10:00 AM] “Government agents are not active in Bitcoin developer and influencer circles.”As the war for global monetary supremacy wages on, you have to assume that the state is actively operating information warfare. This means that the state is operating…

The Catalyst That Could 'Standardize' Bitcoin

[Feb 26, 2024 8:35 AM] Today in my series called “things people following Bitcoin for the last 13 years have already figured out but I’m presenting as a brand new epiphany”, I wanted to write about a revelation about Bitcoin's adoption, standardization, and normalization

The New Satoshi Emails: 120 Pages Detailing Work on Bitcoin

[Feb 23, 2024 2:14 PM] Satoshi Nakamoto's earliest collaborator Martii 'Sirius' Malmi has released his entire email correspondence with Bitcoin's creator.Spurred by an ongoing lawsuit in the U.K., the new emails are the most significant addition to the canon of what we…

Scaling Liberty: Bitcoin's Tension Between Ideology and Adoption

[Feb 23, 2024 9:30 AM] Since its inception over 15 years ago, Bitcoin has captured the imagination of libertarians, anarchists, and a variety of other advocates of individual liberty and financial sovereignty. To them, Bitcoin represented a revolutionary challenge to…

Why I Bitcoin

[Feb 22, 2024 9:00 AM] Readers of my blog know that I started dabbling in buying Bitcoin in late 2022.In fact, it was the best performing asset out of any of the names I wrote that I was watching for 2023. Similarly, and not to give away the suspense, I added Bitcoin…

What the Warren/Satoshi Flag Moment Means

[Feb 16, 2024 3:07 PM] The prank was believable because even bitcoin critics like Warren might have to embrace crypto voters in the wake of ETF approvals, says Daniel Kuhn.

Fiat Is Artificial Money And Bitcoin Is Natural Money

[Feb 15, 2024 11:47 AM] 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 were over 30 speakers during the festival so I won’t try to cover…