Proton Wallet — Now Available To Everyone — Is A Great Starter Self-Custodial Bitcoin Wallet
Follow Frank on X. In July of last year, Swiss privacy tech company Proton (makers of Proton Mail) announced it would be launching its own bitcoin wallet — Proton Wallet….
Read More »The Cowboy Is Off The Reservation
I just sat down and watched this debate between Jimmy Song and Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin ossification. I don’t even know where to start as far as the absurdity and…
Read More »The Cynics and Idealists of Bitcoin
There is something to the stereotype of naive dreamers and idealists, or cold hard realists and cynics. Stereotypes don’t just come into being baselessly, there is a kernel of truth…
Read More »Why You May Want To Redeem Your Bitcoin From THORChain’s Lending Service
Follow Frank on X. Two days ago, the atebites X account pointed out that THORChain’s lending service currently has nowhere near enough bitcoin to repay its creditors. As of the…
Read More »Bitcoin Layer 2 Foundations Should Buy Bitcoin For Their Treasuries
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately: Bitcoin Layer 2 foundations need to start holding bitcoin in their treasuries. It makes too much sense for them not to. And…
Read More »Debt: Bitcoin Is Not A Return To Stateless Money, It Is the First
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…
Read More »Bought Bitcoin at $108,000? Don’t Panic
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…
Read More »Self Custody For Me, But Not For Thee
One counter-argument against pushing for greater scalability with Bitcoin is that “most people won’t self-custody anyway, so why bother?” This is a wildly assumptive, arrogant, and outright fallacious argument. It…
Read More »The Trump Pump: A Road To Capture and Failure
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,…
Read More »Trump’s Coin Is About As Revolutionary As OneCoin
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…
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