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MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV
Bitcoin Magazine MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV Miner Extractable Value. That phrase is essentially one of the biggest fundamental risk spaces that exist for blockchain based systems. The original conception of a blockchain included incentives for miners...
Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, In Focus At First U.S. Digital Assets Subcommittee Hearing
Bitcoin Magazine Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, In Focus At First U.S. Digital Assets Subcommittee Hearing Today, the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets hosted its first hearing, entitled “Exploring Bipartisan Legislative Frameworks for Digital Assets,” at which...
The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium
Bitcoin Magazine The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy...
Voltage Aims To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Every Business In The World
Bitcoin Magazine Voltage Aims To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Every Business In The World Founder: Graham Krizek Date Founded: October 2020 Location of Headquarters: Wichita, Kansas Number of Employees: 17 Website: https://www.voltage.cloud/ Public or Private?...
Bitcoin Price Set for Big Move as Volatility Drops
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Set for Big Move as Volatility Drops Bitcoin appears to be on the verge of a major price movement, and data suggests that volatility could return in a big way. With Bitcoin’s price action stagnating over the past few weeks, let’s analyze...
How to Use PGP for Enhanced Privacy and Powerful OPSEC
Bitcoin Magazine How to Use PGP for Enhanced Privacy and Powerful OPSEC In today’s world of constant surveillance and daily data breaches, it’s never been more important to take control of your own privacy. Whether you’re protecting your emails, securing sensitive...
How Local Businesses Can Use Bitcoin For Payments
Bitcoin Magazine How Local Businesses Can Use Bitcoin For Payments I. Introduction Bitcoin is often praised as a long-term savings technology, but its role as a medium of exchange is just as important—especially for businesses. From local cafés to large corporations,...
FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners
Bitcoin Magazine FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners Bitcoin mining is a tough business. When one considers deploying economic resources to mine traditional commodities such as gold, copper or oil, prospecting for those resources in the field is always done...
The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions
Bitcoin Magazine The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from there with those...
USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
Bitcoin Magazine USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown Everyone has heard the Chinese proverb British misquote: “May you live in interesting times,” and how it’s supposed to be a curse. It sounds deep, like a quote for edgelords over 80. But have you...
The Witness Discount
Bitcoin Magazine The Witness Discount The witness discount refers to the reduction in data “weight” given to the witness portion of a Bitcoin transaction — the part that contains the signatures used to prove ownership. Implemented as part of the 2017 segregated...
What are BRC-20 Tokens?
Bitcoin Magazine What are BRC-20 Tokens? Introduction BRC-20 tokens are an experimental and inefficient token standard designed for creating fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain. Inspired by Ethereum’s ERC-20 tokens, BRC-20 tokens leverage the Bitcoin Ordinals...
Conference Bitcoin Afrique: A Bitcoin-Only Revolution in French-Speaking Africa
Bitcoin Magazine Conference Bitcoin Afrique: A Bitcoin-Only Revolution in French-Speaking Africa In April 2025, Bitcoiners from across the world will converge in Douala, Cameroon, for the Conference Bitcoin Afrique (CBA), a groundbreaking event dedicated to Bitcoin...
My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report
Bitcoin Magazine My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report In a report released this Wednesday, Fidelity Digital Assets in collaboration with Lightning payment provider Voltage released a report on the state of the Lightning Network. The...
My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report
Follow Frank on X. In a report released this Wednesday, Fidelity Digital Assets in collaboration with Lightning payment provider Voltage released a report on the state of the Lightning Network. The report details the many ways in which the Lightning Network has grown...
Conference Bitcoin Afrique: A Bitcoin-Only Revolution in French-Speaking Africa
In April 2025, Bitcoiners from across the world will converge in Douala, Cameroon, for the Conference Bitcoin Afrique (CBA), a groundbreaking event dedicated to Bitcoin adoption in French-speaking African countries. This is not just another crypto or Bitcoin event —...
FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners
Bitcoin mining is a tough business. When one considers deploying economic resources to mine traditional commodities such as gold, copper or oil, prospecting for those resources in the field is always done beforehand, to ensure that any capital invested in a mining...
The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions
Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from there with those landmark events as anchors. Don’t take these as hard...
I Still Don’t Like Tether (USDT) On Bitcoin And Lightning
Follow Frank on X. The news of USDT (Tether) coming to Bitcoin and Lightning via Taproot Assets has been met with various reactions. Some believe it’s good for Bitcoin (most, actually, based on a small survey I conducted on X; yes, I know the sample size isn’t large...
The Next Decade, Part 3: The Road Blocks(And Roads Around?)
Bitcoin Banks (or Binks). It’s happening. Guaranteed. Done deal. In the bag. It’s just a question of when? Germany cleared banks to custody and handle Bitcoin and Bitcoin accounts for customer starting 2020. Who will be the first? This is one thing that people will...
Amboss CEO Talks Growth Of The Bitcoin Lightning Network, Tether (USDT) On Lightning
Founder: Jesse Shrader and Anthony Potdevin Date Founded: March 2021 Location of Headquarters: Nashville, TN Number of Employees: 10 Website: https://amboss.tech/ Public or Private? Private Jesse Shrader thinks that this will be an important year for the Lightning...
The Next Decade, Part 2: The Road Ahead
We’re already starting to see the seeds of second layer potential develop from the base layer primitives that have been added or optimized in the first decade. Lightning, while still subject to some pretty big limitations, is really starting to thrive. And that is...
Mastering Bitcoin On-Chain Data
Bitcoin’s price movements dominate headlines, but the real story of BTC lies beneath the surface. Beyond technical analysis and price speculation, on-chain data offers an unparalleled view of supply, demand, and investor behavior in real time. By leveraging these...
The Next Decade, Part 1: The Road Behind
It’s a new year, and with that new year come all the normal social media circle jerking centered around predictions of “what will happen in 2020!” I wanted to extend that out a bit, and look at the next decade. But first, I wanted to spend a minute going over the last...