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Wyoming Introduces Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill

Looking to cement Wyoming’s position at the forefront of Bitcoin innovation, freshman Representative Jacob Wasserburger (@jacob4wyoming) has introduced the “State Funds-Investment in Bitcoin Act” (HB0201), a bill aimed at creating a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve for the state. Following the footsteps…

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President Trump Has Got A Bold Vision For Bitcoin In America

Follow Casey on X. With his return to the presidency, Donald Trump has positioned himself as a key figure in the Bitcoin conversation. His keynote at Bitcoin 2024 laid out ambitious plans for integrating Bitcoin into the U.S. economy, making…

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Treat Bitcoin As A Tool, Not A Cult

Follow Frank on X. I was recently a guest on the Mr. M podcast, where the host, Maurizio (Mr. M), and I discussed many of the realities of investing in bitcoin that often aren’t discussed with enough nuance. For context,…

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Coinbase’s Bitcoin Loans Are Not What They Seem

Follow me on X for more Bitcoin L2 alpha &commat;GuerillaV2 Earlier today, Coinbase announced the launch of “Bitcoin-Backed Loans” using Base, its native blockchain. But there’s one problem. (Actually, two.) These loans are not backed by Bitcoin, nor are they…

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What Bitcoin Price History Predicts for February 2025

As the Bitcoin market steps into 2025, investors are keenly analyzing seasonal trends and historical data to predict what February might hold. With Bitcoin’s cyclical nature often tied to its halving events, historical insights provide a valuable roadmap for navigating…

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Bitcoin Miners, Economic Irrationality Can Be Fatal

Some miners at OCEAN have started making use of the Coin Age Priority algorithm during block template construction using DATUM. Originally, Bitcoin Core originally selected transactions to include in blocks based on what they had seen first in their mempool.…

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US Government To Release Half Its Bitcoin Intended for Trump’s Strategic Reserve

Follow Nikolaus On &Xopf; Here For Daily Posts Earlier this morning, the U.S. government announced via a court document that stolen bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack in 2016 should be returned to the exchange in-kind. This bitcoin, as seen publicly…

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How Should Bitcoiners View Quantum Computing?

In the early 2020s, quantum computing hit the public spotlight as a potential threat to Bitcoin. Relying on SHA-256 cryptographic hash function for its proof-of-work network consensus, Bitcoin’s value is predicated on computational power. If there is a technology that…

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You Should Not Wear This Bitcoin Shirt — Here’s Why

Follow Nikolaus On &Xopf; Here For Daily Posts Everyone has their own unique sense of style, but if you are wearing Bitcoin merch like the shirt in the X post below out in public — you should probably stop doing…

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We’re Repeating The 2017 Bitcoin Bull Cycle

The 2017 Bitcoin bull market was a wild ride, with prices soaring from under $200 to nearly $20,000. As we look at the current market, many are wondering if we might see a similar surge again. In this article, we’ll…

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Bitcoin DeFi Is Finding Product-market Fit With Runes

Over the past year, the Bitcoin Renaissance has brought significant attention to BTCfi, or “Bitcoin DeFi” applications. Despite the hype, very few of these applications have delivered on their promises or managed to retain a meaningful number of “actual” users.…

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In One Week, Donald Trump Will Decide Ross Ulbricht’s Fate

Follow Nikolaus On &Xopf; Here For Daily Posts Last year on May 25, Donald Trump vowed to commute the sentence of early Bitcoin pioneer and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to time served if elected president. As we all know,…

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ARKA NOEGO / NOAH’S ARK: On Solidarity and Bitcoin

A Peaceful Revolution During the 1980’s, a genuine popular movement arose in Poland that ended up toppling the communist regime in that country. Although there were many anticommunist intellectuals writing and being read in Poland at the time, the spark…

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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 time of the post, the total amount of bitcoin to…

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Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval Was The Most Important Moment In 2024

Follow Nikolaus On &Xopf; Here For Daily Posts One year ago today, Gary Gensler and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally capitulated and approved the trading of spot bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETF) to go live the next day.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…