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2026-08-31 10:35:00 CEST

Beware Of BIP110/Blake BTC Scams
If you own Bitcoin, you should be aware of chatter over the last few weeks about “BIP110,” “Blake2b,” and a potential chain that will split away from Bitcoin’s main network with a proof-of-work change and act as a competing network. Opinions on this fork are all over the map — some people see it as […]
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2026-08-23 13:45:14 CEST

What Is Bitcoin Purity?
Bitcoin Purity is the latest, and arguably strangest, offshoot of the BIP 110 saga. Where the BLAKE2b hard fork responded to BIP 110’s failed soft fork activation by launching a clean break — new proof-of-work algorithm, new branding, an openly separate coin — Bitcoin Purity has taken the opposite approach entirely. Its mainnet went live […]
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2026-08-09 11:16:26 CEST

What Happens When Bitcoin Nodes Diverge?
Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism works because, most of the time, everyone agrees on the rules. Nodes collect transactions in the mempool, miners compile blocks, submit them, nodes verify them, the chain extends, and miners get a reward for their efforts and energy. Everyone is happy! When a proposal like BIP 110 — the “Reduced Data Temporary […]
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2026-08-05 21:33:42 CEST

What Is the RGB Protocol on Bitcoin?
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin (v0.11.1) is an open-source protocol for issuing and transferring digital assets directly on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, without any change to Bitcoin’s base layer. It is not a third layer stacked on top of Lightning: RGB runs on Bitcoin’s base layer (Layer 1) and integrates natively with Lightning (Layer 2). […]
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2026-07-31 15:02:16 CEST

The Bitcoin ColdCard Hack
A Bleak Day for Self-Custody — And What You Need to Do Right Now For years, the Bitcoin community’s answer to every custody question has been the same: get a hardware wallet, generate your seed offline, never expose your keys to an internet-connected device, and you’re safe. We’ve been fortunate to have several vendors create […]
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2026-01-13 09:32:59 CET

Iran’s Rial Collapse and Why Bitcoin Is the Only Lifeboat
On January 12, 2026, the Iranian Rial crossed a threshold that marked it as one of the world’s least valuable currencies: one million rials to a single US dollar. For context, in 2015—just a decade earlier—the Rial traded at 32,000 to the dollar. The currency had lost 97% of its value, and the acceleration was […]
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2025-12-08 17:36:22 CET

The Cat in the Taproot Wizards Hat
The bull market we thought we would get in 2025 never arrived, and because we’re not enjoying a year of up-only markets smashing $150 000 and beyond, the community has turned its attention away from NGU and toward each other. We need something to entertain ourselves and someone to blame for the lack of a […]
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2025-11-23 18:15:03 CET

What Is A Blockstream JadeLink?
Bitcoin self-custody is all about getting to grips with the concept of “air-gapping”, which is the gold standard for security—keeping your seed in complete physical and wireless isolation from potentially compromised systems. While many hardware wallets offer air-gap capabilities through QR codes, Blockstream’s JadeLink takes this concept further, offering a specialised tool that transforms the […]
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2025-11-23 12:52:28 CET

The Bitcoin Treasury Trap
Bitcoiner and Bank to the Future co-founder Simon Dixon has issued one of his most urgent warnings yet: we are entering what he calls “the Wall Street attack phase”—a systematic effort by institutional finance to pull your Bitcoin into custodial wrappers and, in times of crisis, separate you from your coins permanently. While Michael Saylor […]
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2025-10-26 08:51:42 CET

What Is A Ledger Nano Gen5?
The hardware wallet market has evolved dramatically since the first Ledger Nano devices emerged nearly a decade ago. Ledger had a first-mover advantage, and the Nano S brand and visual aesthetic were nearly synonymous with self-custody, but as competition emerged and Ledger faced its own share of drama —hacks and questions over access to private […]
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2025-10-19 11:08:18 CEST

How Bitcoin Mining Can Power Water Desalination
If Greenpeace and Greta Thunberg are to be believed, then Bitcoin mining is a net negative in getting to net zero, as we boil the Oceans in exchange for magic internet money. Environmental advocates claim that Bitcoin’s sin is that it uses fossil fuels and encourages more usage through its demand for electricity. And that […]
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2025-07-23 10:10:13 CEST

Why Your Ledger Nano S Won’t Work with Your iPhone
If you’re a Bitcoin holder using an iPhone and own a Ledger Nano S and Ledger Live, you’ve likely discovered a frustrating reality: these popular hardware wallets simply don’t work with iOS devices. You can no longer run your trusty watch-only wallet and keep an eye on your stack without being able to access it. […]
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2025-06-06 18:24:21 CEST

What Is Proof of Liabilities?
Two cycles ago, few in the Bitcoin community knew or cared about Michael Saylor and his software analytics company, Microstrategy (now renamed to just “Strategy”). But what has become a stock market darling in 2024/25 started as a stagnating company trying to figure out what to do with $500 million in cash equivalents at a […]
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2025-01-17 08:08:43 CET

Liquid Cuts Confidential Transaction Costs
The maxi-maligned and ugly step-cousin of the Bitcoin blockchain, the Liquid network, has been remarkably reliable since its inception. We don’t often hear it having to be restarted, yes I’m talking to you, Solana. Now I know Liquid is not everyone’s cup of tea, you don’t offer unilateral exit, and you’re going to get hate […]
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2025-01-06 19:14:56 CET

Bitcoin Treasuries Aren’t An Infinite Money Glitch
A slowly growing trend has emerged among corporate treasuries: adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets. This strategy has garnered significant attention, with MicroStrategy leading the charge and other companies like Metaplanet, Kulr and Rumble following suit. MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor’s software company turned bitcoin-holding vehicle, is now worth $88 billion, making it one of America’s largest […]
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2024-12-27 11:58:54 CET

What Are Bitcoin Company ETFs?
Saylor has been shouting from the rooftops, that is, every podcast or CNBC interview that will have him on, about his Bitcoin strategy; if you haven’t heard of this guy or MSTR in the last 3 years, you’re probably too busy crying about trading JPEG rocks or smoking rocks. While he seemed like a madman […]
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2024-12-22 13:47:16 CET

Why Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Bitcoin
MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software company founded by Michael Saylor, is the first to adopt a Bitcoin treasury policy, and it’s done wonders for his share price and the growth of his business. He has set the stage for corporate involvement in Bitcoin from companies that don’t directly work in this space, and a few have […]
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2024-12-07 17:15:38 CET

How To Use AlbyHub Node Sub Accounts
Let’s get real for a moment; Alby moving to fully non-custodial is a good thing for Bitcoiners, but it is still a pain in the arse when compared to the ease of a custodial wallet. Having gone through the onboarding process myself, I can attest to the work the Alby team has put in with […]
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2024-11-24 14:35:49 CET

Memecoin Mania, The Jokes On You
2024 is the comeback year; stocks are surging, gold has hit all-time highs, and so has its counterpart in digital gold; Bitcoin has set new all-time highs, and we’re safely in NGU territory. Whenever Bitcoin makes new highs, it’s a newsworthy moment, and it’s time for the legacy media and social media to punt it […]
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2024-09-21 16:47:53 CEST

What Is A Braiins Mini Miner?
Pleb mining has had a bit of a renaissance in recent years, with lottery mining devices hitting the market. The Avalon Nano, Nerdminer and BitAxe have carved out quite a following among Bitcoin enthusiasts, and these projects are starting to gather momentum. We’ve already seen a few upgrades to the BitAxe, and soon SolarBit should […]
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2024-09-16 18:05:06 CEST

Norwegian Town Kicks Out miners At Great Cost
If there’s one guilty pleasure a Bitcoiner has to get used to, then it’s the steady serving of schadenfreude from no coiners who don’t get it. It’s a tale as old as Bitcoin and a mistake that many are doomed to repeat as the world’s hardest money butts heads with the world’s hardest noggins. When […]
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2024-09-16 13:13:01 CEST

What Is cbBTC?
The centralisation risk around Coinbase seems to have no limits, with the US’s largest Bitcoin honeypot constantly looking for new ways to source and custody Bitcoin. Coinbase is not only an exchange for retail to buy and sell Bitcoin and altcoins, but it’s grown its business substantially with institutional custody services for large businesses and, […]
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2024-09-11 13:50:03 CEST

What Is The Sequentia Side Chain?
Bitcoin is optimised for security and reliability. Its design, while robust, has inherent limitations when it comes to scalability. The blockchain, the underlying technology, can only process a finite number of transactions per second. This limitation, often referred to as the “scalability trilemma,” presents a significant challenge as the network’s popularity grows. As Bitcoin’s user […]
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2024-09-10 21:54:58 CEST

What Is Fractal Bitcoin?
It feels like nearly a lifetime ago now that Ordinals were making headlines and stirring up all sorts of arguments about how to use block space; while the debates raged on for a brief moment in time, fees were astronomically high, making the base chain unusable for the average person. If you wanted to spend […]
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2024-08-28 15:17:47 CEST

17 Exciting Lightning Network Innovations
Lightning Network innovations are popping up left, right, and centre. Without a doubt, Lightning is winning ground in providing fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. The Lightning Network is an open and programmable payment protocol, and many possibilities have emerged that nobody has ever thought of before. This spurred innovation and the creative energy of builders, developers, users […]
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2024-08-25 15:44:57 CEST

German Authorities Crack Down On BTC ATMs
2024 is the year German authorities woke up and chose violence; it’s been a bit of a brat summer in Bavaria, starting off with the massive market dump of 60,000 Bitcoin in July, netting them a cool €2.3 billion and change. When chatter globally increases about the benefits of nations states setting up strategic Bitcoin […]
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2024-08-23 17:59:48 CEST

Fountain App Integrates Nostr
Fountain FM was one of the first mobile apps to promote the value-for-value model with a slick UI, providing a built-in custodial wallet for easy onboarding. The app and later website curated podcasts that enabled value4value transfer through podcasting 2.0 and also helped onboard podcasters to the monetisation model powered by Bitcoin and the Lightning […]
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2024-08-19 17:50:24 CEST

How To Add RSK Network To MetaMask
When you dive into Bitcoin scaling, you’ll likely end up down the Lightning rabbit hole, with more than enough reading, videos and tutorials to keep you busy for a few months. While Lightning remains the premier scaling solution, there are other methods of taking your Bitcoin activity off-chain, all with different trade-offs. Currently, if you’re […]
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2024-07-16 21:48:39 CEST

Mt. Gox Repayment Program Set To Begin
2024 has been the year of liquidation. First, the German government decided to offload the 50,000 coins it seized from Movies 2k. During those 27 days, the market took a 25% dip, hitting a low of $ 54,000, while buyers tried to absorb this influx of coins. After the German government emptied its coffers, the […]
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2024-06-20 17:23:59 CEST

What Are Full Block Ordinals?
Ordinals have given the Bitcoin community much to think about. Some say they make Bitcoin fun, and others say they’re spam. Personally, I don’t need my money to be fun; I need it to be safe, secure, and reliable. But that’s just one plebs opinion. Ordinals have started their own movement, with businesses, applications, and […]
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2024-06-02 14:10:48 CEST

Two Pots & Not One To Piss In
In the past few months, there has been much noise about the changes being made to the South African retirement system and what those changes mean for your retirement savings. The South African government continues to look for ways to juice the economy following the kneecapping it faced via lockdown measures, Eskom’s failures and the […]
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2024-05-26 15:50:09 CEST

Bitcoin The South Africans Escape Hatch
South Africa is becoming a hotspot for Bitcoin adoption; with a high internet penetration rate and a population looking for alternatives in an economic climate financial landscape that makes the Rand and Rand-based assets a poor place to park your wealth, Bitcoin’s unique properties attract significant interest. South Africa has been at the forefront of […]
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2024-05-17 11:05:44 CEST

pStaking More Like Piss Taking
Bull markets are the ideal environment for opportunists. It’s the period in the cycle where bad ideas can get funding and live longer than they should. Once that influx of capital comes into Bitcoin as the great repricing begins, it raises all ships and dead wood surrounding those ships. As part of that deadwood are […]
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2024-05-04 18:22:58 CEST

What Is A Unilateral Exit?
Bitcoin operates as a decentralised network, meaning no single entity controls it. Transactions are recorded on a public ledger (blockchain), fostering transparency and trust. The ledger is maintained by thousands of nodes distributed around the world, making it impossible to change or censor. These attributes resonate with users who value freedom from central banks and […]
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2024-05-02 22:58:27 CEST

What Is MicroStrategy Orange DID?
MicroStrategy, known for its bullish stance on Bitcoin, recently unveiled a new project called MicroStrategy Orange. This isn’t about fruit (although the name is catchy), but rather an orange washing of the Decentralised Identity (DID) play, with MSTR looking to build a platform on the Bitcoin blockchain instead of launching a side-chain or using a side-chain, the data for […]
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2024-04-24 22:33:47 CEST

What Is The “Sustainable” Miners Reward System?
Bitcoin is lauded for its decentralisation and security, but these qualities come at a cost. You can’t have the hardest money in the world, providing global settlement reliably for over a decade, without dedicating considerable resources to it. While Bitcoin secures well over a trillion dollars in value and settles billions in transactions daily in exchange for […]
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2024-04-20 18:13:39 CEST

Rune Etching Mania Spiking Fees
The Bitcoin blockchain has just undergone its fifth halving event, marking a significant shift in the network’s ability to satisfy any growing demand for the asset. At block 840,000, the block subsidy – the incentive for miners to secure the network – was programmatically sliced in half, dropping to 3.125 BTC per block. The latest […]
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2024-04-18 18:38:58 CEST

Fair Mints: The Mexican Standoff
Altcoins have often painted themselves with a coat of decentralisation, claiming to democratise finance. It’s a “free market bro”. Anyone can create their own currency and participate in a revolution against traditional financial institutions. A movement that started with Bitcoin has seen a faction split off and devolve into a paragon of Ponzis, playing out […]
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2024-04-18 09:31:27 CEST

The Benefits Of Runes
Let me make this clear: I am an ordinal disrespector. I run Knots on my node, and I am proud of that; yes, Maxi brain doesn’t allow anything other than Bitcoin to fit in this blockhead. Now that you know my bias, let’s get down to the latest Tamagotchi craze hitting the blockchain. Ah, the […]
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2024-04-17 21:31:12 CEST

Crypto Degens Decide To Run BTC Nodes
The Bitcoin world is abuzz with the upcoming halving, which, if previous cycles are to be believed, will kick off the next bull run as the supply of new coins is reduced and the new inflation rate drives wild swings in price discovery. But that’s not all that’s happening this month; while the programmatic cutting […]
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2024-04-12 00:30:52 CEST

Bitcoin ETFs Could Offer Yield
As we approach the point of the cycle, where the anticipation of another Bitcoin bull run begins to attract more capital, speculators and media attention, we find that risk is no longer a factor and all that matters is “Number Go Up“. Despite being around for over a decade, this market is still very much the Wild […]
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2024-04-10 19:03:21 CEST

The Centralisation Of Mining Rewards
Bitcoin has no shortage of critics, always looking to pick apart the network and find issues with it; these concerns can come from inside the community of those actively working in the space or from outsiders who feel that Bitcoin is just another meme coin that’s boiling the oceans. Attacks on Bitcoin are always a […]
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2024-04-06 18:48:37 CEST

Bitcoin’s Battle With OFAC Compliance
Bitcoin is considered an open monetary network due to two key features: decentralisation of access to the network, since anyone can run a node or miner and support or use the network, and the entire system resting on an open-source code base that anyone can review and run. Unlike traditional currencies controlled by governments or […]
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2024-04-03 09:34:50 CEST

Lightning Is Not Lightning In A Bottle
After the scaling debate, which resulted in the block size wars, settled down, the small blockers continued with SegWit. The Lightning Network (LN) emerged as a beacon of hope for Bitcoin’s scalability woes. The second-layer network enabling off-chain transactions promised to usher in an era of faster and cheaper Bitcoin transactions, and to a degree, it did […]
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2024-04-01 23:42:16 CEST

How To Find BTC eCash Mints
Becoming your own bank has drawbacks, and Bitcoin users are finding that out the hard way. The days of having all your coins on-chain and paying negligible fees are slowly starting to erode, and we have to accept that certain financial transactions will never make sense on-chain. This leaves a new Bitcoin holder; you must […]
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2024-03-31 14:02:38 CEST

What Are Non-Arbitrary Tokens?
Ah, Bitcoin, to many looking in from the outside, is seen as the Wild West of finance, the land of digital gold rushes, and the breeding ground for financial innovation that we still need to grasp fully. Having that level of caution and scepticism isn’t a bad thing. Remember, don’t trust, verify. A healthy approach to […]
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2024-03-30 15:27:02 CET

What Are Real World Asset Tokens?
Real-world assets, or RWAs, refer broadly to any traditional security or physical asset that derives its value from outside the blockchain, unlike the closed-loop ecosystem that Bitcoin provides. Think of it as a 3rd party representation of the underlying asset; these tokens can represent stock certificates or bonds, they could be NFTs that represent non-fungible […]
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2024-03-29 15:36:11 CET

What Is Hedgehog?
Super Testnet, a freelance developer focused on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, is known for developing some rather novel ideas and pushing them out to drive discussion and innovation. Every so often, the tinkerer pops up with a new proof of concept and leaves some of us scratching our heads as we try to keep […]
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2024-03-28 17:16:54 CET

Google Brings Chain Analysis To The Masses
Google is dipping its toes into some blockchain data, specifically the Bitcoin blockchain! That’s all I am interested in, but they’re also supporting Google’s indexing for five EVM-compatible networks: Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon, and Fantom. This move signifies a considerable attitude shift in how Google deals with Bitcoin. Previously, Google was hostile to the industry, […]
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2024-03-26 21:24:31 CET

What Is Bitcoin Block Art?
It’s been a quiet few months when it comes to on-chain graffiti; it seems like a lifetime ago, Ordinals enjoyers claimed they broke Bitcoin, and the mempool was stuffed to the brim with inscription-based transactions. For a while, the mempool was more of a meme pool as the trend of stuffing JPEGs and JSON files into blocks had its […]
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2024-03-24 08:22:30 CET

EU To Put Chokehold On Bitcoin Wallets
Just when you thought Bitcoin was on the up, that the suits would finally give in with the rollout of the US spot ETF, and the price would be free to melt faces, the FUD makes a return, this time from the European Union (EU). The EU has taken a significant step towards regulating the Bitcoin market, […]
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2024-03-23 15:57:31 CET

How Altcoin Chain Data Is Monetised Against You
Many of us have to head off to the fiat mines every day to exchange time for a deteriorating store of value, and my mine of choice or chance is digital marketing. I spend most of my working days collecting data on customers, analysing their behaviour, and optimising websites and apps based on that data […]
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2024-03-20 15:16:36 CET

The Stress Of Self Custody
Ah, Bitcoin, the asset that divides the dinner table, the political sphere, the financial world, and generations. When it comes to Bitcoin, it often feels like there is no room for nuance, and you’re encouraged to side with one of two camps. Either it’s dismissed as a digital Ponzi made up of cryptographic proofs, while […]
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2024-03-18 08:52:56 CET

Songs As Ordinals A New PR Stunt
Rappers love flaunting their wealth; it makes up a large percentage of their lyrics, and it’s been part of hip-hop culture for decades. What began a positive message of rags to riches through your art, work ethic, and endeavours have devolved over time into braggadocious bars that seem never to find a conclusion. It’s always […]
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2024-03-17 15:00:58 CET

What Is Pathcoin?
We’ve all heard of Bitcoin as a digital currency, a revolutionary way to exchange value online. Internet native money used by cartels to launder money, ones and zeros used to purchase drugs via online marketplaces, and digital beanie babies are ideal for somewhere scams. Yes, Bitcoin has been used for those types of transactions, but […]
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2024-03-15 08:32:18 CET

Bitcoin Spot ETF Fees Race Toward Zero
The recent launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US had been hyped up for several years now; we had heard the warnings: Wall Street is coming, the pensions are coming, the boomers are coming, and with this cohort would come a wave of liquidity and demand side support, the likes of which Bitcoin has never seen. […]
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2024-03-03 13:36:26 CET

What Is Anduro?
Bitcoin has changed how we transfer value online, allowing users to transfer funds without an intermediary. It has chugged along nicely over the last decade, increasing its user base yearly. While several bull cycles have come and gone, on-chain transactions could meet demand interest, and the user base was manageable. Yes, there were a few […]
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2024-03-02 18:46:00 CET

NiceHash Launches LN Payments For Its Miners
Bitcoin mining has graduated to the big leagues, from the humble desktop computer to the garage and now to the factory floor that is data centres that dominate hash power generation. As more hash rate comes online, the competition for fees and the block subsidy rises, and with the halving on the way, a big chunk of those rewards will be reduced for each block […]
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2024-02-28 11:09:03 CET

What Is Altseason?
As the saying goes, “A rising tide raises all ships.” but it will also bring scum and debris along with it. When the Bitcoin market begins to see rapid price appreciation, anything remotely seen as a digital currency will likely benefit to some degree. Bitcoin (BTC) is often the market driver that increases investment in […]
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2024-01-14 13:39:28 CET

Mining Pools Auction Off Their Rare Sats
The Bitcoin mining landscape has become one of fierce competition and razor-thin margins as large private and publicly listed companies and even countries enter the space. The race to secure the next block and win some newly minted Bitcoin along with the fees for that block requires more and more hash rate as more participants join […]
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2024-01-12 12:29:51 CET

What Is A Bitcoin Spot ETF?
Bitcoin has come a long way since the days of P2P trades via forums and, later, the first “formal” exchange platform, Mt. Gox, in 2010. As the demand for Bitcoin grew globally, attracting hundreds of millions to the asset and network, on-ramps sprung up to meet this demand. Centralised exchanges sprung up and became the go-to […]
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2024-01-08 16:32:44 CET

Beware Of Fake Bitcoin Wallets
Many of us find our way to Bitcoin with the idea that we’re going to make some money in this market, and without a doubt, there have been many success stories of people becoming Bitcoin millionaires. These stories only fuel the fire, and when investors are solely focused on making money or getting into Bitcoin […]
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2024-01-03 12:15:44 CET

What Are ARC-20 Tokens?
As Bitcoin begins its approach towards the next halving and the possible price appreciation due to the supply shock, there have always been crazes that piggyback off of it and try to ride the wave. Remember ICOs in 2017? Or DEFI in 2021? Those fleeting fads that promised the world but fizzled faster than a […]
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2024-01-01 12:33:19 CET

What Is Teleburning?
The crypto world seems to have a recurring addiction – degens chasing the next shiny object, even if it means setting fire to what they claimed was revolutionary innovation along the way. I suppose when your goal is to get rich through the sale of vapourware wrapped in narratives, it doesn’t need to be consistent or make […]
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