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Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval Was The Most Important Moment In 2024

[Jan 10 7:03 PM] Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts One year ago today, Gary Gensler and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally capitulated and approved the trading of spot bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETF) to go live the next day. These…

The Future Of Home Bitcoin Mining Is Bright

[Jan 9 3:48 PM] Follow Frank on X. Perhaps the best way to decentralize the Bitcoin network is through home mining, and things are trending in the right direction.Yesterday, Solo Satoshi announced the Bitaxe Touch, the latest device in the world of home bitcoin…

Steve Hanke Is Wrong About the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

[Jan 8 10:03 PM] Steve Hanke is wrong about something Bitcoin related once again. He’s recently taken aim at the idea of the U.S. creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR).In the video embedded in the X post below, Hanke claimed that converting government savings…

Don't Buy The Bitcoin Dip

[Jan 8 7:34 PM] Follow Frank on X. With bitcoin’s price dipping significantly below $100k again, the “buy the dip” cheerleaders are out in full force.But I’m here to offer a different perspective, which is simply: Don’t buy the dip.Before I continue, let me ple

The Lightning Network Privacy Big Picture: Don't Forget the NSA

[Jan 8 7:02 PM] One of the secondary benefits of how the Lightning Network works as a scaling solution is privacy. It’s by no means perfect or undefeatable privacy, but it is a better than naive use of the base layer blockchain itself. It’s also not perfectly…

Buying Greenland Would Be A Huge Boost to US Bitcoin Mining

[Jan 8 6:16 PM] Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts In less than two weeks, the United States will have a new administration in office, but there’s already much debate about President-elect Donald Trump and his policies.One of the most…

Democrats Should Reverse Their Stance On Bitcoin

[Jan 7 2:55 PM] Follow Frank on X. Last month at the New York Times DealBook Summit, political analyst and media personality Van Jones admitted that the Democrats made a fatal mistake in not only largely disregarding the crypto voter but in acting against them…

Anchors Are Evil! Bitcoin Core Is Destroying Bitcoin!

[Jan 6 6:45 PM] I really thought that we had seen the bottom in terms of Bitcoiners making irrational and ridiculous arguments against improvements to Bitcoin, in order to paint themselves as some kind of righteous underdog fighting against corruption and…

Canada Can Elect The Next Bitcoin World Leader

[Jan 6 5:11 PM] Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he is officially resigning from his position in office and as the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada — effective when the party chooses his…

Michael Saylor's Trump Meeting Is Turbo Bullish for Bitcoin

[Jan 3 7:58 PM] Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Last night, President-elect Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, posted a photo of himself at Mar-a-Lago with MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor with the caption, “Two friends, one passion…

A Birthday Letter To Bitcoin

[Jan 3 6:34 PM] Bitcoin, you are 16 years old now, well into your teenage years. These are usually the years during which, for many people without even being aware of it consciously, one usually makes the decisions that shape the course of the rest of their life…

Owning 1 Bitcoin Is Better Than Being a Millionaire

[Jan 2 9:39 PM] Let me be honest—becoming a wholecoiner is one of the smartest moves you can make, but it’s also becoming ridiculously hard. I remember when I first got into bitcoin back in 2016. The price was around $400-$500, and owning one full bitcoin felt…

The Women In Bitcoin That CoinTelegraph Forgot

[Jan 2 4:05 PM] Follow Frank on X. A week ago, CoinTelegraph published a “women who kicked ass in crypto” piece in which only one non-American or non-European woman (Maya Parbhoe) was mentioned.Because I feel that what’s happening with Bitcoin in Africa, Latin…

Bitcoin Is Fiat

[Jan 1 6:33 PM] Bitcoin is fiat. Now go ahead, take the time you need to get it out of your system. Breath deeply. Blood pressure still up? Okay, let’s try this then. What does fiat mean? An arbitrary order or decree. Fiat currencies are given value by the…

Why I Capitulated And Started Buying MSTR

[Dec 30, 2025 7:41 PM] Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Look, I know I am late to the party. I remember covering the news of MicroStrategy’s first bitcoin purchase, and I’ve watched the stock rise from $14 to $400 per share. All that time, I didn’t buy.Yet

Bitcoin: Use It Or Lose It

[Dec 30, 2025 7:17 PM] Whenever concerns surrounding Bitcoin’s long term prospects’ going in a negative direction surface, a common refrain of dismissal is “Well tell us what to do about it then.” This is used to dismiss all concerns of regulation leading to regulatory

Earn Bitcoin For Providing Liquidity Via Boltz Pro

[Dec 30, 2025 5:00 PM] Today, Boltz is launching Boltz Pro, a service that lets users help Boltz manage its bitcoin wallet and Lightning channel liquidity, and I plan to test it out.But first some background on how Boltz Pro works.According to Kilian, a co-founder of…

Debt: Bitcoin Is Not A Return To Stateless Money, It Is the First

[Dec 27, 2024 7:09 PM] I have just finished reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by anthropologist David Graeber. The book takes a look at the history of money, debt, and how they relate to societal structures from a lens that departs heavily from the conventional wisdom…

Michael Saylor Doesn’t Understand Bitcoin

[Dec 27, 2024 4:52 PM] Follow Frank on X. On a recent episode of the Galaxy Brains podcast, Michael Saylor made the case that bitcoin isn’t a currency and that it’s best to think of it as capital and capital only.He also shared that Tether (USDT) and Circle’s USD Coin…

No, BlackRock Can't Change Bitcoin

[Dec 21, 2024 7:38 PM] Recently, BlackRock released an educational video explaining Bitcoin, which I thought was great—it's amazing to see Bitcoin being discussed on such a massive platform. But, of course, Bitcoin X (Twitter) had a meltdown over one specific line in the…

We Need In-Kind Redemptions For The Spot Bitcoin ETFs

[Dec 20, 2024 11:22 PM] Follow Frank on X. On a recent episode of the Coinage podcast, guest SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said that she is open to reconsidering in-kind redemptions for spot bitcoin ETFs.(For those who aren’t familiar with the term “in-kind redemption,”

Bought Bitcoin at $108,000? Don't Panic

[Dec 20, 2024 8:31 PM] Bitcoin’s price is down over 10% from its all-time high and its critics are taking victory laps this week as bitcoin has plummeted all the way back to… $97,000. It is still practically almost $100,000 for a single bitcoin. It is crazy to me to…

Bukele Is The President of El Salvador, Not Bitcoin

[Dec 19, 2024 7:42 PM] As a condition of a new IMF loan package, President Bukele of El Salvador has had to concede three aspects of the Bitcoin Law passed in 2021:A legal tender mandate requiring businesses to accept BitcoinShutting down Chivo, the state run wallet and…

Don't Fall for the Bitcoin Crash – It's Just a Breather

[Dec 19, 2024 2:24 PM] 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 Fed Chair, when asked about the Strategic Bitcoin…