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Want Greater Bitcoin Adoption? Engage With Your Government.

It’s been a good week for Bitcoin and its status in the eyes of federal deposit insurance corporations. (Well, there’s a weird sentence I never thought I’d write.) On Tuesday, the anti-crypto U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman, Martin…

Microsoft Should Buy $78 Billion Worth of Bitcoin

As someone who has used Microsoft products my whole life, it pains me to see they are fumbling the bag on Bitcoin. The company’s $78 billion in cash reserves are losing value daily. Meanwhile, they stubbornly refuse to follow MicroStrategy’s proven…

JIPPI IS POKÉMON GO FOR BITCOIN

Today’s modern Bitcoin exchanges have drastically improved access to Bitcoin ownership in 2024. Gone are the days of janky peer-to-peer (P2P) trade forums and questionably secure early exchanges like Mt Gox. Instead, a legion of Bitcoin on-ramps focused on superior…

US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve FOMO Is Being Horribly Oversold

Let’s get one thing out of the way – The United States already holds more bitcoin than any government in the world. Follow Rizzo on X. https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/ While this data is true, you wouldn’t exactly know this from the obscene…

Stablecoins Are Not Your Friends

Stablecoins are often pitched as a stopgap method, or a friendly tool for people in the developing world who cannot handle the volatility of Bitcoin. They are framed as something complementary to Bitcoin, not in competition with it. Nothing could…

Good Riddance, Martin Gruenberg

Follow Frank on X. Martin Gruenberg, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), announced today that he’ll be stepping down on January 19, 2025, one day before Trump takes office. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell…

Buy Drugs, Get Bitcoin

Follow Frank on X. A co-worker recently told me about NiHowdy, a platform that helps you save on prescription medication while earning bitcoin rewards in the process. For context, I’m a fan of bitcoin rewards programs like Fold, which let…

The Consensus Conundrum

A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it’s scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more tractable. I won’t rehash them here, you’re probably already familiar. Some…

No, BlackRock Won’t Ossify Bitcoin

Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. In his Take from Wednesday, Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share his concern to an extent, I am less convinced…

How to Use & Store Bitcoin Safely

Ever since its 2009 development by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin has become foundational to the cryptocurrency and fintech landscape. As the first decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has driven significant growth in blockchain technology, becoming the most visible and widely adopted…

A Nation of Individuals?

It is the prospect of the sovereign individual that seems to most trouble the nation-state today. This odd threat perception has been the outgrowth of a political genealogy that, in the generations since the American Revolution, has increasingly come to…

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, everyone’s net worth (on paper) is increasing by the hour,…

Bitcoin May Hit $100,000 Faster Than Expected

Follow Nikolaus On X Here It’s been just over seven days since Trump was re-elected as president of the United States, and bitcoin is up over $18,800 (25.3%) at the time of writing. And it’s currently steamrolling its way towards…