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…
Read More »Coinbase Is Embarrassing Itself By Not Buying Bitcoin
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…
Read More »The Whitepaper: The Simplest Ideas Are The Most Profound
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…
Read More »BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF is the Most Successful New ETF in 4 Years
Follow Nikolaus On X Here Ever since BlackRock filed for its spot Bitcoin ETF last year, Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart have been providing valuable insights and…
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