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 time of the post, the total amount of bitcoin to…
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Privacy Shouldn’t Be A Product, Stop Treating It Like One
Privacy is a very important issue. It can be how you manage keeping parts of your life separate. It can be how you maintain your sense of dignity. It can be how you respect someone else’s trust. It can be…
Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell Receive The Finney Freedom Prize
The Human Rights Foundation, in collaboration with the Finney family, has awarded Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell the prestigious Finney Freedom Prize for their groundbreaking contributions to Bitcoin usability, scalability, and privacy. The prize recognises their work during the 2012-2016…
Have Bitcoin ETFs Lived Up to the Hype?
The launch of Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024 was heralded as a groundbreaking moment for the market. Many expected these products to open the floodgates for institutional capital and catapult Bitcoin prices to new heights. But now, a year later,…
Buying Greenland Would Be A Huge Boost to US Bitcoin Mining
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 controversial — his…
Using Mining To Create More Fully Validating Bitcoin Users
Bitcoin’s value proposition relies on its ability to resist any type of censorship. Without that feature, Bitcoin loses its power to challenge and resist any authority that wants to subjugate Bitcoin to the same rules that apply in the traditional…
The Lightning Network Privacy Big Picture: Don’t Forget the NSA
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…
The Future Of Home Bitcoin Mining Is Bright
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…
Don’t Buy The Bitcoin Dip
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: Don’t buy the dip. Before I continue, let me please…
Steve Hanke Is Wrong About the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
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…