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Bitcoin Rollups – The Rock Or The Hard Place?

Rollups have become the narrative focus of scaling Bitcoin lately, becoming the first thing to truly “steal the limelight” from the Lightning Network in terms of wider mindshare. Rollups aim to be an off-chain layer two that is not bound…

Give Me Time

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Privacy Issue”. Subscribe to receive your copy. With the Fourth Halving in the rearview mirror, it seems a perfect time to provide some on-record analysis of Bitcoin from the perspective of Number…

Bitcoin’s Potential Rally Amid U.S. Dollar Weakness

Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar have a long-standing inverse correlation, notably when observing the Dollar Strength Index (DXY). When the dollar weakens, Bitcoin often gains strength, and this dynamic might now be setting the stage for restarting the BTC bull…

Choose Privacy

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Privacy Issue”. Subscribe to receive your copy. Privacy is a fundamental issue in using a public blockchain system like Bitcoin. Numerous projects and proposals have been made over the years to either…

Bitcoiners and Wobblies: Labor Day Edition

Recently, I’ve been reading about the foundations of the American Labor Movement. Specifically, the birth of the Industrial Workers of the World and a group called the Wobblies, a nickname given to IWW Members. At its peak, the IWW had…

The Fight for Bitcoin Privacy Has Truly Begun

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Privacy Issue”. Subscribe to receive your copy. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.The quote—commonly misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi—has been overused to the…

The Impact of Institutional Investors on Bitcoin

For years, Bitcoin enthusiasts have been expecting a significant change in the value due to the involvement of institutional investors. The concept was simple: as companies and large financial entities invest in Bitcoin, the market would experience explosive growth and…

The Privacy Issue: Letter From the Editors

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know.…