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Stablecoins Are Not Your Friends

[Nov 19, 2024 6:01 PM] Stablecoins are often pitched as a stopgap method, or a friendly tool for people in the developing world who cannot handle the volatility of Bitcoin. They are framed as something complementary to Bitcoin, not in competition with it. Nothing could…

Bitcoin Treasury Adoption Surges: Meet the New MicroStrategys

[Nov 19, 2024 5:15 PM] Follow Nikolaus On X Here MicroStrategy’s corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy is taking off. Public companies are FOMO’ing into bitcoin. It’s almost as if Trump’s pro-Bitcoin stance is giving companies the green light to stack BTC.Yesterday alone

Why $100,000 Bitcoin Is Right Around The Corner

[Nov 18, 2024 11:21 PM] If you have been following Bitcoin news today, like I have, you can not be more bullish on Bitcoin. Seriously, what a time to be alive! Just today:MicroStrategy purchased another 51,780 BTC for $4.6 billion and announced its plans to raise $1.75…

Buy Drugs, Get Bitcoin

[Nov 18, 2024 4:41 PM] Follow Frank on X. A co-worker recently told me about NiHowdy, a platform that helps you save on prescription medication while earning bitcoin rewards in the process.For context, I’m a fan of bitcoin rewards programs like Fold, which let you earn…

Would Jesus Be Bitcoin's Biggest Fan? A Holy Take

[Nov 18, 2024 12:44 PM] Follow Mark on X. Did you know the Bible is practically a financial thriller? Yep, it's got more money talk than a Wall Street boardroom—over 2,300 verses on cold, hard cash. That’s right, the Good Book might as well have been the Good Ledger, with…

No, BlackRock Won’t Ossify Bitcoin

[Nov 15, 2024 4:22 PM] Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. In his Take from Wednesday, Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share his concern to an extent, I am less convinced this is…

Buy As Much Bitcoin As You Can Before $100K

[Nov 14, 2024 5:24 PM] Follow Nikolaus On X Here Today, Fox Business’s Eleanor Terrett revealed that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is introducing legislation that would effectively allow the state to hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet as a strategic reserve…

More Nodeless Non-custodial Bitcoin Lightning Wallets, Por Favor

[Nov 14, 2024 2:21 PM] Follow Frank on X. On Tuesday, Breez announced its latest partner, Yopaki, a Mexican neobank. Yopaki has integrated with Breez’s free and open-source SDK, which enables its users to have a non-custodial Lightning wallet without having to run…

The Trump Pump: A Road To Capture and Failure

[Nov 13, 2024 6:06 PM] Well the “Trump Pump” seems to be ripping off spectacularly. Everyone is cheering, euphoric, happy, feeling on top of the world. Knock it off. Yes, the number is going up, everyone’s net worth (on paper) is increasing by the hour, but this is not a

Bitcoin May Hit $100,000 Faster Than Expected

[Nov 13, 2024 5:46 PM] Follow Nikolaus On X Here It’s been just over seven days since Trump was re-elected as president of the United States, and bitcoin is up over $18,800 (25.3%) at the time of writing. And it’s currently steamrolling its way towards $100,000.I cannot…

Great Scott! If Only We Could Go Back to 2009 to Buy Bitcoin!

[Nov 12, 2024 7:42 AM] Follow Mark on X. It’s 2024. Donald Trump has just clinched the election again, Bitcoin’s hit a new all-time high, inflation’s running hotter than the DeLorean’s flux capacitor, and everyone’s wondering, “What’s next?” As we all wrestle wi

Bitcoin Businesses Feel Safe In The U.S. In Wake Of Trump Victory

[Nov 11, 2024 9:17 PM] Follow Frank on X. This morning MARA, the largest publicly-traded Bitcoin mining company, shared that it will be rolling out three new data centers in the U.S.Would it have made such an announcement had Harris won the election? Probably. (It’s not…

Don’t Lose Sight Of The Bitcoin Mission

[Nov 8, 2024 5:32 PM] Follow Frank on X. Now that Trump has been elected, Bitcoin enthusiasts and companies alike are more optimistic about the future of Bitcoin in the United States. We can clearly see this reflected in the price of bitcoin, which continues to reach…

Trump Is Not Bitcoin's Savior

[Nov 8, 2024 2:00 PM] The election is over, and Trump is now going to be President again. He pulled off something that hasn’t been done since Grover Cleveland in the 1800s, a successful re-election following a loss after his first term. People all of this space are…

Bitcoin’s Time Has Come With The US Election Results

[Nov 8, 2024 11:32 AM] It finally happened. Trump won the 2024 election and became the 47th President of the United States of America. Simply put, this presidential victory changes everything for Bitcoin.As a non-U.S. bitcoiner, I usually don't care much about the US…

Trump’s Coin Is About As Revolutionary As OneCoin

[Nov 5, 2024 12:41 PM] Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. After these classy gold sneakers and his God Bless the USA Bible, Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency World Liberty Financial (WLFI) immediately appeared to me like yet another way to squeeze some more money out of his…

The US Should Establish A Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

[Nov 4, 2024 8:08 PM] This morning, the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) released a 53-page report on the pros of the United States establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve (SBR).In July, @CynthiaMLummis announced the BITCOIN Act, the first bill in US Congress to propose…

I’m Grateful for Trump’s Embrace of Bitcoin

[Nov 4, 2024 3:30 PM] Co-founder of BTC Media eleven years ago, I am passionate about the future of Bitcoin – and in the spirit of free speech and democracy on this election eve – I feel compelled to share my first Bitcoin Magazine opinion article. Weeks ago our…

Coinbase Is Embarrassing Itself By Not Buying Bitcoin

[Nov 1, 2024 10:25 PM] Really, at this point, Coinbase is just embarrassing itself by not buying Bitcoin and doing silly buybacks. Coinbase just had a bad quarter. After reporting disappointing Q3 earnings, its stock plunged over 10%. To instill confidence, Coinbase…

Bitcoin All Time High Has Been Postponed — Please HODL

[Nov 1, 2024 5:59 PM] Follow Nikolaus On X Here This is your captain speaking: Due to regulatory uncertainties regarding who will win the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, Bitcoin’s price has fallen back to $70,000 under further notice — please HODL.Okay now past…

Bitcoin's Price Does Matter — A Lot

[Nov 1, 2024 4:50 PM] Follow Frank on X. Some in the Bitcoin space claim to only be in it for the tech, maintaining that bitcoin’s price doesn’t matter much to them. Whether they’re just posturing or whether they really mean it, they’re overlooking a major factor that

I Did Basically Nothing And Got $500 in Bitcoin

[Nov 1, 2024 2:47 PM] Follow Nikolaus On X Here A couple of summers ago, I used to order lunch via Grubhub while working long days in the office. When ordering, I always made sure I was logged into Lolli, a bitcoin rewards platform with a browser extension, so that I…

The Whitepaper: The Simplest Ideas Are The Most Profound

[Oct 31, 2024 5:14 PM] It has now been sixteen years since the original publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list. Satoshi went and dropped the paper in the place it would be best received, where all of the cypherpunks and cryptography nerds…

No, Today Is Not Bitcoin’s Birthday

[Oct 31, 2024 10:26 AM] Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. Some things in Bitcoin are just not up for debate.The plural of bitcoin is also bitcoin— not bitcoins. (One bitcoin, two bitcoin, three bitcoin…) Bits is a better sub-denomination than sats. (100 sats is actually one…