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Even Robinson Crusoe Understood the Price and Value of Money

[Aug 9 1:12 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Even Robinson Crusoe Understood the Price and Value of Money Nothing is as crucial to the functionality of a free market as its money. Money constitutes half of every transaction, representing one side of all value expressed in the…

Know-Your-Customer: The Quiet Kill Switch

[Aug 8 5:43 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Know-Your-Customer: The Quiet Kill Switch The know-your-customer (KYC) threat isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it didn’t arrive through a nationwide ban or an emergency executive order. It quietly showed up with a checkbox and

How Preston Pysh Changed My Mind on Bitcoin Treasuries

[Aug 6 8:47 AM] Bitcoin Magazine How Preston Pysh Changed My Mind on Bitcoin Treasuries For a while, I was skeptical of bitcoin treasuries. All these bitcoin companies felt like another fiat-financial stunt, another way to play games with debt and derivatives…

Bitcoin Mining Is the Resurrection Of the Working-Class Hero

[Aug 6 3:00 AM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining Is the Resurrection Of the Working-Class Hero Most people think of bitcoin as just another asset: You buy some, throw it in cold storage and wait. Easy, right? That’s the white-collar view of bitcoin: clean, polished…

Pooling in OP-CAT’s World

[Jul 25 4:00 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Pooling in OP-CAT’s World Counter to popular discourse, we argue that upgrades to Bitcoin — such as the BitVM, OP_CAT or OP_CTV — will stabilize Bitcoin consensus. By opening up new miner fees and reducing reliance on…

Laos and Bitcoin: The Big Struggles of a Small Nation

[Jul 21 2:05 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Laos and Bitcoin: The Big Struggles of a Small Nation A few weeks ago, a notification on Nostr caught my attention, thanks to a small Laos flag emoji in the poster’s username. Intrigued, I followed him back, and soon we exchanged…

Bitcoin and the Next Wave of Institutional Capital

[Jul 18 3:30 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin and the Next Wave of Institutional Capital There are multiple approaches to valuing bitcoin and they can differ from traditional, institutional asset class valuations. The reason is that bitcoin can be regarded as a…

Bitcoin Mining in Space

[Jul 17 5:54 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining in Space The building blocks that will serve as the foundation of the Second Renaissance continues to be laid. Americans have realized that the future rapid expansion of industry and innovation is lying in wait, just…

Bitcoin Is a Commodity: Why Congress Must Fix Bitcoin Taxes

[Jul 16 12:41 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Is a Commodity: Why Congress Must Fix Bitcoin Taxes I grew up in northwest Iowa, the heart of the Corn Belt, renowned for some of the most fertile and productive farmlands in the world. When my grandpa planted corn and…

How CoinJoin Anonymity Can Be Undermined Using Clustering

[Jul 11 6:04 PM] Bitcoin Magazine How CoinJoin Anonymity Can Be Undermined Using Clustering Anonymity is the end goal when studying privacy, and it’s useful to think of de-anonymization as a game. We imagine an adversary with some access to information, and it…

Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Bubbles

[Jul 4 5:00 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Bubbles Half a year has passed since the publishing of my initial report on the company then-named MicroStrategy, now simply Strategy. Other than a name change, the company has since then…

How Institutional Flows and Market Cycles Are Shifting

[Jun 30 7:33 PM] Bitcoin Magazine How Institutional Flows and Market Cycles Are Shifting Year-to-date, bitcoin returns are flat — at negative 0.4%. This is far from bitcoin’s returns in 2024 at +121% and its compound annual growth rate of 98.60% over the last 13…

Are Bitcoin Treasury Companies Ponzi Schemes?

[Jun 30 7:15 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Are Bitcoin Treasury Companies Ponzi Schemes? The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat…

The 30,000-Foot View of the Oslo Freedom Forum

[Jun 13 6:20 PM] Bitcoin Magazine The 30,000-Foot View of the Oslo Freedom Forum As I step onto the plane leaving Gardermoen Airport in Oslo, Norway, the weight and warmth of the past week settles into my chest.The Oslo Freedom Forum is not a conference. It’s not a…

The Future of Bitcoin Mining is Distributed

[Apr 4 9:13 PM] Bitcoin Magazine The Future of Bitcoin Mining is Distributed In a recent video interview by Bitcoin Magazine, Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College, delves into the topic of his latest article for Bitcoin…

Bitcoin Is A Strategic Asset, Not XRP

[Mar 14 8:09 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Is A Strategic Asset, Not XRP A new proposal submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) newly-established Crypto Task Force by a Maximilian Staudinger makes the case for XRP as a “strategic financial…

FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners

[Feb 21 3:51 PM] Bitcoin mining is a tough business. When one considers deploying economic resources to mine traditional commodities such as gold, copper or oil, prospecting for those resources in the field is always done beforehand, to ensure that any capital…

FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners

[Feb 21 3:51 PM] Bitcoin Magazine FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners Bitcoin mining is a tough business. When one considers deploying economic resources to mine traditional commodities such as gold, copper or oil, prospecting for those resources in the…

The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions

[Feb 20 3:00 PM] Bitcoin Magazine The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from…

The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions

[Feb 20 3:00 PM] Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from there with those landmark events as anchors.Don’t take these…

The Next Decade, Part 3: The Road Blocks(And Roads Around?)

[Feb 19 3:00 PM] Bitcoin Magazine The Next Decade, Part 3: The Road Blocks(And Roads Around?) Bitcoin Banks (or Binks). It’s happening. Guaranteed. Done deal. In the bag. It’s just a question of when? Germany cleared banks to custody and handle Bitcoin and…