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Economics
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
The Costs that Haunt Your Dreams of Hyperbitcoinization
Emil explores what’s standing in the way of hyperbitcoinization. Posted September 3, 2020.
Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Visualization of the halving’s supply shock
Croesus shares a visual explanation of how the halving creates a supply shock on Bitcoin. Posted October 23, 2020.
The intrinsic value of Bitcoin (II)
Manuel examines the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, which has been debated many times but lays out a clear framework. Posted October 5, 2020.
Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
Different bitcoins different prices
JP Koning explains why Bitcoins fetch different prices. Posted September 2, 2020.
Once Inflation Starts, It Won’t Be Contained
Gael Sannchez Smith explores how and why inflation can’t be stopped. Posted June 12, 2020.
Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Global Standard of Value
Paul Knight makes the case for Bitcoin as a global store of value. Posted February 1, 2020.
The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
What Does Bitcoin Really Represent?
Sylvain Saurel examines what’s really behind Bitcoin. Posted May 15, 2020.
Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
Over 75 percent of Bitcoin’s On–Chain Volume Doesn’t Change Hands
Rafael Schultze-Kraft looks at volume on-chain and explains why he thinks Bitcoin is not changing hands. Posted February 13, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
Bending Bitcoin — The Principle of Hard Money
Ben Kaufman explains hard money and why Bitcoin is such. Posted December 30, 2019
Information Theory of Money
Dan Held explains how Bitcoin will reshape our society. Posted December 27, 2019.
Ignorance about Bitcoin Disguised as Caution
Rollo McFloogle debunks a recent piece by Austrian economist Jeffrey Tucker, and in doing so builds a case for Bitcoin. Posted December 7, 2019.
Digital Money
Phil Bonello reviews the importance of Bitcoin I’m a world of digital money. Posted November 26, 2019.
Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.
Matt Ahlborg shares how Paxful is delivering money services in places you’d never expect. Posted November 25, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin is the world’s only independent central bank
Pierre Rochard shares a simple chart that illustrates the title. Posted November 22, 2019.
Bitcoin Is The Only Way To Opt-Out
Rhythm shares why Bitcoin is so important regarding privacy and opting out. Posted November 19, 2019.
Bitcoin Cannot be Banned
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin cannot be banned. Posted November 8, 2019
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove addresses macro investing legend, Ray Dalio, regarding his position on Bitcoin. Posted November 8, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
The Triumvirate of Liquidity
Nik Bhatia explains how Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world’s next risk-free asset. Posted November 6, ...
Volatility as information
Acrualdigs into the power of volatility in this quick read. Posted October 31, 2019
Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
Bitcoin is for Stackers
Elaine shares why Bitcoin is growing slowly, namely Gresham’s Law. Posted October 17, 2019.
The Monetary Case for Bitcoin
Ben Kaufman makes the case for Bitcoin as a monetary system. Posted October 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: We’ve Built Intermediaries
Meltem Demirors shares her opinion on what’s being built, and why we should rethink things. Posted September 27, 2019.
Tweetstorm: How do you know it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin now?
Hasu makes the case on why it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin. Posted September 12, 2019.
Mainstream Media of Exchange
Knut Svanholm discusses how Bitcoin is a grassroots movement and is indeed a currency.Posted September 6, 2019
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
Parker Lewis makes a strong case on why it’s all about Bitcoin, not blockchain. Posted September 6, 2019.
Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Harold Christopher Burger shares a simple article that uses time-based equations to model Bitcoin’s price. Posted September 4, 2019.
Applying Carl Menger to the Monetization of Bitcoin
Rollo McFloogle the relationship between principles from Carl Menger and Bitcoin. Posted August 25, 2019.
Bitcoin for safety
James O’Beirne shares his opinion on where we are headed financially. Posted August 24, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin is not too slow, why it operates at the speed it does, and how it will scale. Posted August 23, 2019.
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin’s energy consumption is justified. Posted August 16, 2019.
Tweet: Opinion on Wealth Concentration
Tweets on Wealth Concentration. Posted by Nic Carter on August 14, 2019.
Projection and Throwness
The Bitcoin Observer describes an overlooked advantage that Bitcoin has over traditional forms of commodity money. Posted August 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile
Parker Lewis explains volatility and why it’s important to understanding Bitcoin. Posted August 9, 2019.
Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin can never be copied and how a minority is forcing its will upon the masses. Posted August 2, 2019.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Parker Lewis introduces a new series and explains why he believes Bitcoin is money. Posted August 2, 2019.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Bitcoin Recapitulation
Mircea Popescu tells us about Bitcoin’s smallest unit, the satoshi. Posted July 15, 2019.
Tweet: The Times They are a Changing
Matt Walsh posts a chart that details the timeline of Bitcoin opion with bankers. Posted July 11, 2019.
We’re All Default Keynesians Now, and How Bitcoin is Changing That
Brady Swenson pens a term that describes all of us, pre Bitcoin, default keynesians. Posted June 21, 2019.
We’re All Default Keynesians Now, and How Bitcoin is Changing That
Brady Swenson pens a term that describes all of us, pre Bitcoin, default keynesians. Posted June 21, 2019.
Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Crypto Voices 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base
Crypto Voices publishes their quarterly look at the Global Monetary Base. Posted May 22, 2019.
The Race to Acquire One Bitcoin: Time’s Running Out
Jared explains why now is the time to acquire because it won’t get any easier.
When the Price of Bitcoin Rises
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Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Bitcoin is the “c” of Money
Beautyon explores Bitcoin as a monetary standard. Posted June 13, 2018.
Why Bitcoin Works
Jimmy song makes the case for Bitcoin versus soft money. Posted April 17, 2018.
The Many Faces of Bitcoin
Adam Taché and Murad Mahmudov discuss four schools of thought related to Bitcoin. Posted April 10, 2018.
Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin
Posted March 28, 2018, Alex Svetski gives an explanation of why Bitcoin exists.
The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i)
Nick Szabo examines the traditions and history of non-governmental money. Posted March 23, 2018.
Maduro’s Mint of King Cnut
Beautyon makes the case that Maduro’s attempt to create a new money will fail and any distraction to Bitcoin is a good thing because it gets stronger over ti...
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
Stop comparing Bitcoin to the internet
Dhruv Bansal explains why 1 BTC will be worth $1M. Posted January 19, 2018.
The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Resource Allocation And Interest Rate Distortion
Michael Suede examines interest rates in a Bitcoin standard. Posted July 6, 2011.
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – How Bitcoins Act As Money
Michael Suede looks at monetary properties of Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2011
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
The Most Dangerous Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede shares a quick reflection on Bitcoin as a major threat to governments. Posted May 26, 2011.
Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
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Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is Secure Money
JW Weatherman makes the case for Bitcoin as a secure money in this brief tweetstorm. Posted June 29, 2019.
Full Reserve Banking with Bitcoin
Tamas Blummer makes the case for full reserve banking with Bitcoin as the reserve asset. Posted June 28, 2019.
The Sovereign, the Subject, and Crypto-power
Erik Cason describes the power crypto brings to the individual. Posted June 24, 2019.
Money, Banking, Bitcoin, and Libra
Allen Farrington paints a dystopian future and makes the case for money that is open, permissionless, neutral, private, and sound. Posted June 22, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Common Tongue
Robert Breedlove shed’s some light on the Bitcoin and cryptoasset universe in an exoteric nutshell. Posted June 19, 2019.
Bitcoin is the Antivirus (Mushroom Medicine) — Part 3/4
Brandon Quittem expands on his 4 part series drawing comparisons between mushrooms and Bitcoin. Posted June 20, 2019.
Bitcoin Average Dormancy
David Puell and Reginald Smith explore dormancy as a metric of Bitcoin’s long-term economic health. Posted June 20, 2019.
Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
There Can Be Only One
Tamas Blummer makes his case for Bitcoin’s strongest argument, the definition of time with computation. Posted June 18, 2019.
The Golden Ratio Multiplier
Philip Swift shares the Golden Ratio Multiplier which he believes will be a useful investment tool in this coming market cycle for identifying areas of profi...
The Political Theology of Crypto
Erik Cason examines the power of crypto’s political theology. Posted June 11, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Money is the most important field
Hasu makes the case for money being the most important field of study over the next 20 years. Posted June 6, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Touchpoints
Vijay Boyapati shares a strategy for engaging people with Bitcoin. Posted June 4, 2019.
Statechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin Transfer
Ruben Somsen lays out his proposal for statechains, a novel way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain. Posted June 4, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin rescues the human
Conner Brown shares a brief tweetstorm on Bitcoin rescuing humanity from itself. Posted June 3, 2019.
Satoshi’s Rebuttal of Modern Monetary Theory
Jack Purdy makes the case for Bitcoin as a sound money alternative to todays easy money. Posted June 3, 2019.
Introducing Binary Adjusted BDD, VOCD and Reserve Risk
Hans Hauge explains Binary Adjusted Bitcoin Days Destroyed which build on BDD. Posted May 30, 2019.
Satoshi’s vision for bitcoin as told by its predecessors
Tony Sheng explores attempts at digital currencies before the Bitcoin experiment and how those projects influenced Bitcoin. Posted May 28, 2019.
How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Tweetstorm: On Bitcoin Culture
Neil Woodfine cranks out a noteworthy tweetstorm that disects Bitcoin culture. Posted May 24, 2019.
Golds Best Use Case Is Bitcoin
Anthony Elia discusses the gold industry’s attempt at spreading FUD and why Bitcoin is here to stay.
The World Is Growing Tired of Government-Controlled Fiat Currencies
Austrian economist, Douglas French, discusses the people’s desire to get out of fiat and governments trying to keep their power. Posted May 23, 2019.
Bitcoin could change the game for foreign aid
Alex Gladstein makes the case for Bitcoin as a powerful tool to move money to people in need where they might not be able to receive foreign aid. Posted May ...
Crypto Voices 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base
Crypto Voices publishes their quarterly look at the Global Monetary Base. Posted May 22, 2019.
Understanding (and Mitigating) Re-Orgs
Anthony Lusardi explains re-orgs in simple terms. Posted May 21, 2019.
Bitcoin: an Accounting Revolution
Permabull Nino explains why cryptocurrencies are fundamentally valuable from the absolute first principles.
Five Fundamental Effects in Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s value comes from supply and demand and this article supports this thesis by looking at 5 fundamentals. By Prateek Goorha. Posted May 19, 2019.
Bitcoin is the worst enemy of communism and dictatorship
A short essay from Merwane Draï on the power of Bitcoin over the state. Posted May 18, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Security is Fine
Dan Held examines the growing Bitcoin network and explains how it’s security is growing and how it will be sustained over time via fees rather than block sub...
Lightning at the End of the Tunnel
Roy Sheinfeld reviews the road ahead for Lightning adoption. Posted May 14, 2019.
Cryptocurrencies & Their Effects On Monetary Policy
Deniz Özgür shares a report that lays out crypto from start to finish. Posted May 14, 2019.
Differentiating Against Bitcoin
Sourabh lays describes why differentiating against Bitcoin is really hard. Posted May 11, 2019.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
No, You Can’t Just ‘Rollback Bitcoin’
The reorg FUD is real and Eric Olszewski sets the record straight. Posted May 9, 2019.
A modest proposal regarding Bitcoin mining
Nic Carter trolls us all with a proposal to organize miners for a pro-reorg future. Posted May 9, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Jimmy on the reorg
Classic Jimmy Song on the Bitcoin reorg conversation. Posted May 8, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Ari Paul on the reorg and it’s feasibility
Ari Paul lays out the feasibility of a Bitcoin chain reorg. Posted May 8, 2019.
How to bribe miners to re-org?
Tamas Blummer shares a scenario of a Bitcoin reorg. Posted May 8, 2019.
Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin is the ultimate store of wealth BECAUSE it has no intrinsic value. Posted May 8, 2019.
Why learn to program with Bitcoin’s Lightning network?
Very simple fundamentals on why you should pick up Lightning Network. Posted by Pierre Rochard on May 7, 2019.
Why Blockchain is Not the Answer
A reexamination at a failed narrative. Jimmy Song makes the case that blockchain is nothing without Bitcoin. Posted May 7, 2019.
BTC Long/Short MVRV difference indicates an end of the bear cycle
Valentin expands on the MVRV ratio and adds insight to the data that indicates an end to the bear market. Posted May 7, 2019.
Bitcoin - The Unseizable Asset
Rayne Steinberg lays out a case for Bitcoin surrounding it’s unseizable nature. Posted May 2, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Gravity
Gigi explains ideas and Bitcoin and lays out the challenges of changing Bitcoin. One does not simply change Bitcoin. Posted May 1, 2019.
Bitcoin is a Demographic Mega-Trend: Data Analysis
Spencer Bogart takes a look at survey data that shows Bitcoin is top of mind in young adults mind. Posted April 30, 2019.
Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops
Renato Shirakashi introduces SOPR, which is a new oscillating indicator that signals when major supply changes occur. Posted April 25, 2019.
Lightning is Only the Beginning: The Emerging Bitcoin Stack
Spencer Bogart shares thoughts on the emerging layers in the Bitcoin network, Lightning and beyond. Posted April 25, 2019
Tweetstorm: Adoption by number of users
A tweetstorm from Nic Carter that looks at user adoption. Posted April 24, 2019.
A Monetary Layer for the Internet
Thib pulls back the curtains to look at the emerging layers in the Bitcoin network. Posted April 24, 2019.
This Key Part Of Bitcoin’s History Is What Separates It From Competitors
Kyle Torpey reminds us of Bitcoin history and why it’s so different from the competition. Posted April 23, 2019.
Bitcoin fundamentals continue to strengthen
Pomp posts another fire post. If you like charts, you’ll love this one. Posted April 23, 2019.
An open letter on scaling bitcoin
Joseph Dallago replies to Nic Carter’s piece on scaling Bitcoin. Posted April 22, 2019.
The Road to $1m per Bitcoin
David Parkinson makes the case for $1m per Bitcoin. Posted April 17, 2019.
How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer discusses soft fork mechanics. Posted April 17, 2019.
A few thoughts on what bitcoins are
Joe Kendzicky makes a case to define “bitcoins” the noun form. Posted April 17, 2019.
The Return of the Deniers and the Revenge of Patoshi
Sergio Demian Lerner shares thoughts and evidence of a single person acting as Satoshi in regarding to mining. Posted April 16, 2019.
The Race to Acquire One Bitcoin: Time’s Running Out
Jared explains why now is the time to acquire because it won’t get any easier.
I’m Not an International Drug Dealer
Privacy matters. Meltem delivers a great piece to share with friends and family. Posted April 15, 2019.
How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
When did Bitcoin’s investment era begin? A study using NVT.
Willy Woo looks at the historical charts on Bitcoin and makes a case for when investing began. Posted April 13, 2019.
Bitcoin is a Weapon
Hector Rosenkrans looks at his own life experiences and tells us why Bitcoin is a weapon to take the power back. Posted April 11, 2019.
Experiments on Cumulative Destruction
David Puell and Willy Woo lay out new models for the concept of destruction into price analysis. Posted April 9, 2019.
The Puell Multiple
Cryptopoiesis looks at several charts from David Puell that help illustrate his ideas on the coming bull market. Posted April 4, 2019.
Crypto - Time to Take it at the Flood
Rayne Steinberg pen’s a quick read on why you should get in sooner than later. Posted April 4, 2019.
When the Price of Bitcoin Rises
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Technological Teachings of Bitcoin
Part 3 of 3 from Gigi, Posted April 2, 2019.
The case for a small allocation to Bitcoin
Wences Cesares makes the case for why an allocation of your portfolio must be Bitcoin. Posted April 11, 2019
Bitcoin: An insurance policy against the largest monetary and fiscal policy experiment in human history
We’re in a transformational time which calls for new financial models. Enter Bitcoin. Travis lays out a case for holding Bitcoin. Posted April 1, 2019.
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Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: We’ve Built Intermediaries
Meltem Demirors shares her opinion on what’s being built, and why we should rethink things. Posted September 27, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis demystifies Bitcoin inherent values and explains how things work. Posted September 27, 2019.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
A Note On Variance in Bitcoin Mining
Christopher Bendiksen explains variance in Bitcoin mining and what it means in relation to the recent VERY temporary drop in hashrate. Posted September 25, 2...
Bitcoin’s power oscillator
Harold Christopher Burger introduces the Bitcoin power oscillator. Posted September 20, 2019.
Tweetstorm: How to Outperform Bitcoin
Michiel Lescrauwaet rolls out his tehesis on how to outperform Bitcoin. Posted September 19, 2019.
Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network
Giacomo Zucco shares a 7 part series on the history of Bitcoin. Posted September 2019.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Tweetstorm: How do you know it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin now?
Hasu makes the case on why it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin. Posted September 12, 2019.
The Encrypted Meaning of Crypto
Erik Cason
Tweetstorm: 21 Charts
Hans Hauge shares 21 charts that paint a wonderful picture on the state of Bitcoin. Posted September 10, 2019.
Mainstream Media of Exchange
Knut Svanholm discusses how Bitcoin is a grassroots movement and is indeed a currency.Posted September 6, 2019
A most peaceful revolution
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the revolution we have been waiting for. Posted September 7, 2019.
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
Parker Lewis makes a strong case on why it’s all about Bitcoin, not blockchain. Posted September 6, 2019.
Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Harold Christopher Burger shares a simple article that uses time-based equations to model Bitcoin’s price. Posted September 4, 2019.
Bitcoin Positive Feedback Loops
Ben Davenport diagrams the multiple Bitcoin positive feedback loops. Posted August 28, 2019.
Applying Carl Menger to the Monetization of Bitcoin
Rollo McFloogle the relationship between principles from Carl Menger and Bitcoin. Posted August 25, 2019.
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
Bitcoin for safety
James O’Beirne shares his opinion on where we are headed financially. Posted August 24, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin is not too slow, why it operates at the speed it does, and how it will scale. Posted August 23, 2019.
The Rise of the Sovereign Individual
Gigi tells us how the current times are enabling individuals to take back their sovereignty. Poseted August 22, 2019.
The Bitcoin/Government Battle is Vaporware
Jesse Lawler explains why the Government will not be able to take down Bitcoin. Posted August 21, 2019.
Bitcoin Did The Things That Didn’t Scale Initially, Which Is Why It Remains The King Today
Anthony Pompliano draws comparisons between Bitcoin’s early days and advice to startups from Paul Graham. Posted August 19, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Performance Against Bitcoin
Willy Woo shares a chart that illustrates alt performance in BTC. Posted August 17, 2019.
Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin’s energy consumption is justified. Posted August 16, 2019.
Tweet: Opinion on Wealth Concentration
Tweets on Wealth Concentration. Posted by Nic Carter on August 14, 2019.
Projection and Throwness
The Bitcoin Observer describes an overlooked advantage that Bitcoin has over traditional forms of commodity money. Posted August 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile
Parker Lewis explains volatility and why it’s important to understanding Bitcoin. Posted August 9, 2019.
Bitcoin Layers
Joe Rodgers makes the case for defining Bitcoin scaling layers. Posted 8-8-2019.
Proof of Life
Gigi makes the case for Bitcoin being a living organism. Posted August 7, 2019.
Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin can never be copied and how a minority is forcing its will upon the masses. Posted August 2, 2019.
We Need Bitcoin Full Nodes. Economic Ones.
Stadicus makes the case for more full nodes. Posted August 1, 2019.
Tweet: Proof of Work Equivalent Days
Bitcoin peaks ATH for PoW equivalent days. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin’s Power Balance
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Introducing the Difficulty Ribbon, signaling the best times to buy Bitcoin
Willy Woo introduces a new signal, the Difficulty Ribbon. Posted August 1, 2019.
Tweet: This is my favorite graph, what’s yours?
Pierre Rochard posts his favorite Bitcoin graph. Posted July 31, 2019.
Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Libra
Alex Svetski looks at Bitcoin in comparison to the blockchain meme and Libra. Posted July 30, 2019.
Why Bitcoin Needs to Become a Medium of Exchange
Roy Sheinfeld makes the case for why Bitcoin needs to become a MoE asap. Posted July 29, 2019.
Every Investment is Speculation - Move on
Jeff Dorman debunks fud on Bitcoin investment and speculation. Posted July 29, 2019.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Parker Lewis introduces a new series and explains why he believes Bitcoin is money. Posted August 2, 2019.
The Moral Case for Lightning
Alex Gladstein makes the moral case for Lighning. Posted July 25, 2019.
Breaking Down the Bitcoin Lightning Network: eltoo
Brandon Arvanaghi dives into an update to the Lightning Network via proposed updates in eltoo. Posted July 25, 2019
Tweetstorm: On Bitcoin Paradigm Shifts
Meltem Demirors lasy out the Bitcoin paradigm shift that is occuring. Posted July 23, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin’s year to year price level
Yassine Elmandjra posts a post that sums it all up. Posted July 23, 2019.
Symmetrical and asymmetrical power
Oleg Andreev explains the difference betweet symmetrical and asymmetrical power. Posted July 23, 2019.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Why People Think Bitcoin Miners Are Not Intermediaries
Angela Walch works through a thought experiment as she explores why people thinks people think Bitcoin miners are not intermediaries.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
Bitcoin and Energy Consumption - Rebuttal
Dr. C lays out rebuttals to several Bitcoin energy consumption arguments. Posted July 16, 2019.
Bitcoin Recapitulation
Mircea Popescu tells us about Bitcoin’s smallest unit, the satoshi. Posted July 15, 2019.
Why God Loves Bitcoin
Adam Paul Moore makes the case for Bitcoin’s morality. Posted July 12, 2019.
Technical: A Brief History of Payment Channels: from Satoshi to Lightning Network
Alan Manuel K. Gloria shares the bacakstory of payment channels and makes the case that Bitcoin scales! Posted July 12, 2019.
Bitcoin Is a Human Right
Nik Bhatia makes the case for Bitcoin as a human right. Posted July 12, 2019.
BetterHash: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining With New Hashing Protocols
Stop and Decrypt makes the case for a new mining protocol that will help to decentralize mining controls away from pool operators. Posted Julyt 14, 2019.
Tweet: The Times They are a Changing
Matt Walsh posts a chart that details the timeline of Bitcoin opion with bankers. Posted July 11, 2019.
Pathways for DeFi on Bitcoin
Mohamed Fouda explains ways that Bitcoin is being onramped to DeFi. Posted July 10, 2019.
The differences between Bitcoin and Libra should matter to policymakers
Peter Van Valkenburgh draws a line in the sand between Libra and Bitcoin. Posted July 8, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Smarter Than Politicians And Central Bankers
Anthony Pompliano makes the case (again) for Bitcoin. Posted July 8, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Inflation is Cruel
Ben Prentice lays out a fire tweetstorm putting inflation on blast. Posted July 6, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Founders and Cryptocurrency
Jake Chervinsky shares his thoughts on what our founders would thijnk of cryptocurrency. Posted July 4, 2019.
Tweetsorm: SIDECHAINS ARE NOT LAYER 2
Georgios Konstantopoulos shares a much needed tweetstorm where he describes the difference between sidechains and L2. Posted July 4, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Department of Defense: The Case For A Global Reserve Currency With No Guns
Anthony Pompliano rings the bell for a peaceful Bitcoin revolution. Posted July 1, 2019.
Bitcoin, The Dollar And Facebook’s Cryptocurrency
Caitlin Long breaks it down in plain english, “traditional financial markets may be more price-stable than Bitcoin short-term, but will periodically face sys...
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
The rise of the individual.
Aleksander Svetski shares his thoughts on the rise of self sovereignty as a revolutionary idea, all made possible by Bitcoin. Posted December 31, 2019
Bending Bitcoin — The Principle of Hard Money
Ben Kaufman explains hard money and why Bitcoin is such. Posted December 30, 2019
The cat is out of the bag
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is here to stay and it’s free to use. Posted December 29, 2019.
Bitcoin As a Startup
Hass McCook lays out his thesis on how Bitcoin is evolving in stages much like a startup raises capital. Posted December 29, 2019
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #78: 2019 Year-in-Review Special
A technical lookback at 2019 from Bitcoin Optech Newsletter. Posted December 28, 2019.
Information Theory of Money
Dan Held explains how Bitcoin will reshape our society. Posted December 27, 2019.
Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Bitcoin is a information channel
Acrual expands his meaning behind “low entropy carrier”. Posted December 22, 2019.
Tweetstorm: A forward look at Bitcoin
John Newbery gives a glimpse of what to expect from Bitcoin. Posted December 21, 2019.
The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
Bitcoin and the Tyranny of Time Scarcity
Robert Breedlove makes the case for harnessing time scarcity as a means to break free of the monetary shackles put upon us by the state. Posted December 19, ...
Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Ignorance about Bitcoin Disguised as Caution
Rollo McFloogle debunks a recent piece by Austrian economist Jeffrey Tucker, and in doing so builds a case for Bitcoin. Posted December 7, 2019.
Tweetstorm: A Decade in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi hammers out a recap of Bitcoin’s last decade. Posted December 5, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
Debunking Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Marcel Burger digs into the corridor of growth. Posted November 30, 2019
Bitcoin Operating System
Aleksander Svetski makes the case for Bitcoin as a new monetary network, not a payments technology.
Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Digital Money
Phil Bonello reviews the importance of Bitcoin I’m a world of digital money. Posted November 26, 2019.
Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.
Matt Ahlborg shares how Paxful is delivering money services in places you’d never expect. Posted November 25, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin is the world’s only independent central bank
Pierre Rochard shares a simple chart that illustrates the title. Posted November 22, 2019.
Bitcoin Is The Only Way To Opt-Out
Rhythm shares why Bitcoin is so important regarding privacy and opting out. Posted November 19, 2019.
Tweetstorm: How I explain Bitcoin to normies…
Willy Woo breaks down his approach to non-Bitcoiners. Posted November 17, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
The Last Mortal Man
Part 2 from Hased Entropy’s series of short stories. Posted November 13, 2019.
Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis
Phil Bonello lays out an investment thesis based on principles in the Sovereign Individual. Posted November 12, 2019.
Bitcoin Cannot be Banned
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin cannot be banned. Posted November 8, 2019
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove addresses macro investing legend, Ray Dalio, regarding his position on Bitcoin. Posted November 8, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
The Triumvirate of Liquidity
Nik Bhatia explains how Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world’s next risk-free asset. Posted November 6, ...
Johannes Trithemius, Archmage of Secrets
David Morris shares the story of the first known cryptographer. Posted November 6, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
Bitcoin, life, and time.
zen ₿ shares a quick read on time a scarcity. Posted November 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Oxhearding
Dennis Reimann applies the 10 Buddhist Oxhearding principles to Bitcoin. Posted November 4, 2019.
What Hath Satoshi Wrought
Hashed Entropy shares the first in a future series of short stories. Posted November 2, 2019.
Why does hashing public keys not actually provide any quantum resistance?
Andrew Chow explains how and why public key quantum resistance is not something to worry about. Posted October 16, 2019.
Volatility as information
Acrualdigs into the power of volatility in this quick read. Posted October 31, 2019
Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Plot Twist
Oleg shares a short plot twist. Posted October 29, 2019.
The Real Wisdom behind Proof of Work
Ferdous Bhai shares a couple thoughts about the magic of PoW. Posted Octover 29, 2019.
All 21 Million Bitcoin Already Exist
Phil goes galactic exploring Bitcoin’s 21m hardcap. Posted October 25, 2019.
The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto
Erik shares some glorious opinions on Satoshi Nakamoto. Posted October 24, 2019.
A Fossil Fuel Future for Bitcoin Mining
Maximilian Fiege explores the future of Bitcoin mining. Posted October 22, 2019.
Tweetstorm: 5 Insanely Bullish Charts for Bitcoin
James Todaro shares a couple charts that show a bullish case for Bitcoin. Posted September 20, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme
Parker Lewis addresses yet more FUD. Posted October 18, 2019.
Money and time
Acrual shares a quick perspective on why Bitcoin is the best way to value time. Posted October 17, 2019.
Bitcoin is for Stackers
Elaine shares why Bitcoin is growing slowly, namely Gresham’s Law. Posted October 17, 2019.
The Startup Government
Tim Draper looks at how Bitcoin and other technologies will shape our future. Posted October 10, 2019.
The Investment Case for Bitcoin
Gabor Gurbacs makes the case for holding Bitcoin. Posted October 8, 2019.
Crypto without Criticisms
Erik Cason explains how semantics matter and how we can build a better future with crypto. Posted October 7, 2019.
The Monetary Case for Bitcoin
Ben Kaufman makes the case for Bitcoin as a monetary system. Posted October 5, 2019.
Reddit Response: Question on the Vulnerability of Bitcoin
Greg Maxwell posts a reply to the Bitcoin 51% attack vulnerability. Posted October 10, 2019.
Tweetstorm: On making Bitcoin easier
Small tweetstorm from Beautyon regarding making Bitcoin easier. Posted October 1, 2019.
Bitcoin Equals Freedom
Ross Ulbricht makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate form of freedom. Posted September 25, 2019
Politics
Back to top ↑Bitcoin at 12
Nic Carter reflects on 12 years of the white paper. Posted October 31, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History
Brandon explores how humanity repeats itself and what role Bitcoin plays in the current world. Posted October 29, 2020.
Home On The Range
Sovereign.615 outlines a framework for a Bitcoin citadel charter. Posted October 21,2020
The Way of the Digital Citadel
Yuri de Gaia explores the creation of digital citadels. Posted June 26, 2020
Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
Why we may fail Lightning
Antoine Riard explains why Lightning might be doomed or what we can do to push the stack forward. Posted September 28, 2020.
Tweet Thread: PUELL’S 21 LAWS OF BITCOIN
David lays out the unwritten laws of Bitcoin. Posted September 9, 2020.
Bitcoin as a Tool for Secession
Yuri de Gaia explores how Bitcoin can be used as a tool for secession. Posted Summer 2020.
Bitcoin: Separating Money From State
Pedro Febrero covers Bitcoin’s role in separating
Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Freedom Money – Bitcoin and the First Amendment
Hector Rosenkrans makes the case for Bitcoin as an essential liberty like the First Amendment. Posted July 4, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is a silent protest against corrupt governments everywhere.
Tatiana Koffman pens a piece calling for the separation of state and money. Posted June 13, 2020.
Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Anarchy and Monarchy - A Natural State
Yuri de Gaia shares a post that draws comparisons between monarch and anarchy. POsted May 1, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Take action. Bitcoin is a vote.
Marty pens a quick note on the importance of voting with your money. Posted April 23, 2020.
A Rebels Renaissance
Stefen Reid shares a great article about the Bitcoin revolution. Posted April 23, 2020
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Welcome to prepping, Bitcoiners
Preston pens an open letter to Bitcoiners on prepping. Posted March 31, 2020.
Bitcoin mythbusting
David shares a thoughtful piece on Bitcoin FUD. Posted April 14, 2020.
Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
The rise of the individual.
Aleksander Svetski shares his thoughts on the rise of self sovereignty as a revolutionary idea, all made possible by Bitcoin. Posted December 31, 2019
The cat is out of the bag
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is here to stay and it’s free to use. Posted December 29, 2019.
Bitcoin Is The Only Way To Opt-Out
Rhythm shares why Bitcoin is so important regarding privacy and opting out. Posted November 19, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Plot Twist
Oleg shares a short plot twist. Posted October 29, 2019.
The Startup Government
Tim Draper looks at how Bitcoin and other technologies will shape our future. Posted October 10, 2019.
Bitcoin Equals Freedom
Ross Ulbricht makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate form of freedom. Posted September 25, 2019
Tweetstorm: We’ve Built Intermediaries
Meltem Demirors shares her opinion on what’s being built, and why we should rethink things. Posted September 27, 2019.
The Encrypted Meaning of Crypto
Erik Cason
The Rise of the Sovereign Individual
Gigi tells us how the current times are enabling individuals to take back their sovereignty. Poseted August 22, 2019.
The Bitcoin/Government Battle is Vaporware
Jesse Lawler explains why the Government will not be able to take down Bitcoin. Posted August 21, 2019.
The Moral Case for Lightning
Alex Gladstein makes the moral case for Lighning. Posted July 25, 2019.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
The Sovereign, the Subject, and Crypto-power
Erik Cason describes the power crypto brings to the individual. Posted June 24, 2019.
The Political Theology of Crypto
Erik Cason examines the power of crypto’s political theology. Posted June 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Could Bitcoin fix the stagnant political and economic landscape?
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Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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A Human Rights Activist’s Response to Bitcoin Critics
Alex Gladstein responds to critics and makes the case for Bitcoin. Posted February 19, 2019.
Cryptosovereignty
Erik lay’s out the framework for a future based on crypto rather than man’s subjective views. Posted February 3, 2019.
Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin will usher an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity
Essential tweetstorm from Murad on a great vision of a Bitcoin future. Posted April 14, 2018.
Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin
Beautyon explains why Bitcoin is unregulatable. Posted March 15, 2018.
How Blockchains Will Enable Privacy
Shaan Ray describes a private future enabled by blockchain. Posted March 3, 2018.
Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
Politics vs Technology
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Money
Back to top ↑Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Different bitcoins different prices
JP Koning explains why Bitcoins fetch different prices. Posted September 2, 2020.
Bitcoin: Separating Money From State
Pedro Febrero covers Bitcoin’s role in separating
Freedom Money – Bitcoin and the First Amendment
Hector Rosenkrans makes the case for Bitcoin as an essential liberty like the First Amendment. Posted July 4, 2020.
The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is a silent protest against corrupt governments everywhere.
Tatiana Koffman pens a piece calling for the separation of state and money. Posted June 13, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Value Proposition – Is It Truly the Best Currency?
BTChap looks at Bitcoin versus the alternatives. Posted March 22, 2020.
What Does Bitcoin Really Represent?
Sylvain Saurel examines what’s really behind Bitcoin. Posted May 15, 2020.
How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Take action. Bitcoin is a vote.
Marty pens a quick note on the importance of voting with your money. Posted April 23, 2020.
A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
The Halving or Halvening
Aleksander Svetski posts another epic piece
Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
The Nature of Bitcoin
Zane Pocock shares an overview of Bitcoin as he sees it. Posted February 13, 2020.
Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Money is about credibly representing value transactions
acrual explains what money represents. Posted February 5, 2020.
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Information Theory of Money
Dan Held explains how Bitcoin will reshape our society. Posted December 27, 2019.
Bitcoin is a information channel
Acrual expands his meaning behind “low entropy carrier”. Posted December 22, 2019.
Digital Money
Phil Bonello reviews the importance of Bitcoin I’m a world of digital money. Posted November 26, 2019.
Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.
Matt Ahlborg shares how Paxful is delivering money services in places you’d never expect. Posted November 25, 2019.
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove addresses macro investing legend, Ray Dalio, regarding his position on Bitcoin. Posted November 8, 2019.
The Monetary Case for Bitcoin
Ben Kaufman makes the case for Bitcoin as a monetary system. Posted October 5, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin is not too slow, why it operates at the speed it does, and how it will scale. Posted August 23, 2019.
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin’s energy consumption is justified. Posted August 16, 2019.
Projection and Throwness
The Bitcoin Observer describes an overlooked advantage that Bitcoin has over traditional forms of commodity money. Posted August 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile
Parker Lewis explains volatility and why it’s important to understanding Bitcoin. Posted August 9, 2019.
Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin can never be copied and how a minority is forcing its will upon the masses. Posted August 2, 2019.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Parker Lewis introduces a new series and explains why he believes Bitcoin is money. Posted August 2, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is Secure Money
JW Weatherman makes the case for Bitcoin as a secure money in this brief tweetstorm. Posted June 29, 2019.
Crypto Voices 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base
Crypto Voices publishes their quarterly look at the Global Monetary Base. Posted May 22, 2019.
Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin
Posted March 28, 2018, Alex Svetski gives an explanation of why Bitcoin exists.
The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i)
Nick Szabo examines the traditions and history of non-governmental money. Posted March 23, 2018.
Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – How Bitcoins Act As Money
Michael Suede looks at monetary properties of Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2011
Libertarian Goldbugs Hating On Bitcoin – Free Market Money
Michael explains why Libertarian Goldbugs are hating on Bitcoin. Posted June 6, 2011.
Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
CY19 Q1
Back to top ↑Managing Bitcoin and Private Keys
Thib runs through the various ways to secure your Bitcoin. Posted April 1, 2019.
The Ethics of Money and Bitcoin
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On Bitcoin’s Academic Lineage
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Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Bitcoin’s True Market Dominance
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Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Why Bitcoin Matters
Posted March 15, 2019 by Aleks Svetski, this article explains why Bitcoin matters.
Could Bitcoin fix the stagnant political and economic landscape?
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Bitcoin Mining Explained in 15 Tweets
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Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?
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Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Investing in Bitcoin
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Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach
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Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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A Human Rights Activist’s Response to Bitcoin Critics
Alex Gladstein responds to critics and makes the case for Bitcoin. Posted February 19, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Security Budget in the Long Run
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Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Cryptosovereignty
Erik lay’s out the framework for a future based on crypto rather than man’s subjective views. Posted February 3, 2019.
Why Monetary Maximalism could fall short of expectations
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A Conflict of Crypto Visions
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Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Money, Bitcoin and Time: 3 of 3
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Money, Bitcoin and Time: 2 of 3
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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
Money, Bitcoin and Time: 1 of 3
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Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman lsays out the framework for his interprutation of a Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 18, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin as SoV
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Unpacking Bitcoin’s Assurances
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Economic Teachings of Bitcoin
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Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
The Bitcoin Light Bulb Moment
Beautyon shares thightbulb moment for Bitcoin compared to the evolution of lightbulbs. Posted January 8th 2019.
Bitcoin: Winner Takes Most or Winner Takes All?
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Planting Bitcoin — Species
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Planting Bitcoin — Soil
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Planting Bitcoin — Season
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Planting Bitcoin — Gardening
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Bitcoin: Two Parts Math, One Part Biology
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Tweetstorm: Bitcoin’s 10 Year Anniversary
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Cryptocurrency: The Canary in the Coal Mine
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An Open Letter to Banks about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
In classic Peter McCormack style, he addresses bankers on the state of the market and lobbies for change. Posted March 4, 2018.
2020 Q2
Back to top ↑The Way of the Digital Citadel
Yuri de Gaia explores the creation of digital citadels. Posted June 26, 2020
How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Marketing
Dan Held tweets about Bitcoin and marketing. Posted June 16, 2020.
The Bitcoin Journey
Gigi shares his idea of the Bitcoin journey and the steps along the way. Posted June 15, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is a silent protest against corrupt governments everywhere.
Tatiana Koffman pens a piece calling for the separation of state and money. Posted June 13, 2020.
Bitcoin Needs You As Much as You Need Bitcoin
Sylvain Saurel explains the relationship between the protocol and the individual. Posted June 13, 2020.
Bitcoin is Antifragile
Parker Lewis descirbes how Bitcoin is antifragile. Posted June 12, 2020.
Bitcoin Has to Be for Everyone
Brian Harrington makes a bullish case for everyone. Posted June 13, 2020.
Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
A Peaceful Protest - Opt-Out, Buy Bitcoin
Adam Pokornicky makes the case to opt out. Posted June 8, 2020.
Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Anarchy and Monarchy - A Natural State
Yuri de Gaia shares a post that draws comparisons between monarch and anarchy. POsted May 1, 2020.
Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
What Does Bitcoin Really Represent?
Sylvain Saurel examines what’s really behind Bitcoin. Posted May 15, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
Citadels and Pandemics
Yuri de Gaia examines a future of citadels. Posted March 25, 2020.
Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Humans Can’t Be Trusted To Govern Over Our Money
Nik shares a quick read on why man can’t be trusted with monetary policy. Posted April 24, 2020.
Take action. Bitcoin is a vote.
Marty pens a quick note on the importance of voting with your money. Posted April 23, 2020.
Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer explains how soft forks might work. Posted April 17, 2019.
Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
The Halving or Halvening
Aleksander Svetski posts another epic piece
Bitcoin mythbusting
David shares a thoughtful piece on Bitcoin FUD. Posted April 14, 2020.
Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Falling empires, Corporate Fiat and the fate of Bitcoin
Mariana Trip pens a solid read on the coming Bitcoin revolution thanks to loose monetary policy from central bankers. Posted April 7, 2020.
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Back to top ↑Welcome to prepping, Bitcoiners
Preston pens an open letter to Bitcoiners on prepping. Posted March 31, 2020.
The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
Dear Bitcoiners
Gigi pens an optimistic letter to Bitcoiners around the world. Posted March31, 2020.
Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes
Joe Rodgers explores the idea of the Bitcoin diaspora. Posted March 11, 2020.
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It’s a Safer Asset Than Most
Jill Carlson explains why Bitcoin is not as risky as you think. Posted March 5, 2020.
So You Think Bitcoin Mining is Wasteful?
Daniel compares energy usage of Bitcoin and video games. Posted March 5, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Adversarial Thinking
A tweetstorm on adversarial thinking and Bitcoin from Ragnar. Posted January 12, 2020
The Many Angles of Bitcoin Adoption
Phil Bonello explains what’s enabling Bitcoin adoption. Posted February 12, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
Sven Scnieders points out some of Bitcoin’s antifragile properties.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Habitats
Gigi lays out the three realms where Bitcoin exists. Posted March 1, 2020.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Welcome to Bitcoin Club, Here Are the Rules
Sylvain Saurel shares a fun read laying out the unspoken rules of Bitcoin modeled after the movie Fight Club. Posted February 27, 2020.
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Why Bitcoin’s volatility can only decrease, but it will take a bit longer
acrual explains why Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time. Posted February 19, 2020.
Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Why is Bitcoin so hard for most people to understand?
A random anonymous comment on a YouTube video sums up a struggle with getting Bitcoin. Posted February 17, 2020.
The Complex Market Hypothesis
In which I hypothesise that markets are subjective, uncertain, complex, stochastic, adaptive, fractal, reflexive… — really any clever sounding adjective you ...
Some conclusions after learning Bitcoin
acrual shares some learnings. Posted February 15, 2020.
The Perfect Storm: Why Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2020 is different from Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2017
Marc van der Chijs explains the difference between Bitcoin today and in 2017, hint, lots. Posted February 13, 2020
The Nature of Bitcoin
Zane Pocock shares an overview of Bitcoin as he sees it. Posted February 13, 2020.
Over 75 percent of Bitcoin’s On–Chain Volume Doesn’t Change Hands
Rafael Schultze-Kraft looks at volume on-chain and explains why he thinks Bitcoin is not changing hands. Posted February 13, 2020.
Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Tweetstorm Bitcoin as super-collateral
Aaron explores Bitcoin as the ultimate collateral in this short tweetstorm. Posted February 5, 2020.
Money is about credibly representing value transactions
acrual explains what money represents. Posted February 5, 2020.
Technology
Back to top ↑Tweet Storm - About Schnorr Sigs
Ben Carman explains Schnorr Signatures at a high level. Posted November 22, 2020.
SNARKs and the future of blockchains
Ruben Somsen explains what SNARKs can and can’t do for blockchain. Posted October 3, 2020.
2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
MPPs & Wumbo Channels - Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
Roy Sheinfeld explains Wumbo and MPP on Lightning Network. Posted September 14, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #78: 2019 Year-in-Review Special
A technical lookback at 2019 from Bitcoin Optech Newsletter. Posted December 28, 2019.
Tweetstorm: A forward look at Bitcoin
John Newbery gives a glimpse of what to expect from Bitcoin. Posted December 21, 2019.
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
Why does hashing public keys not actually provide any quantum resistance?
Andrew Chow explains how and why public key quantum resistance is not something to worry about. Posted October 16, 2019.
Reddit Response: Question on the Vulnerability of Bitcoin
Greg Maxwell posts a reply to the Bitcoin 51% attack vulnerability. Posted October 10, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis demystifies Bitcoin inherent values and explains how things work. Posted September 27, 2019.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
Parker Lewis makes a strong case on why it’s all about Bitcoin, not blockchain. Posted September 6, 2019.
Bitcoin Did The Things That Didn’t Scale Initially, Which Is Why It Remains The King Today
Anthony Pompliano draws comparisons between Bitcoin’s early days and advice to startups from Paul Graham. Posted August 19, 2019.
Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
Tweet: Proof of Work Equivalent Days
Bitcoin peaks ATH for PoW equivalent days. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
Statechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin Transfer
Ruben Somsen lays out his proposal for statechains, a novel way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain. Posted June 4, 2019.
Decentralizing Bitcoin’s Last Mile With Mobile Mesh Networks
Richard Myers explains the power of mobile mesh networks and how to further decentralize the Bitcoin network. Posted May 29, 2019.
Understanding (and Mitigating) Re-Orgs
Anthony Lusardi explains re-orgs in simple terms. Posted May 21, 2019.
Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
A Guide To Bitcoin’s Technical Brilliance (For Non-Programmers)
Lucas Nuzzi attempts to provide a semi-technical guide to key aspects of Bitcoin’s technology. Posted April 15, 2018
Meditations on Fraud Proofs
Paul Sztorc explains the ins and outs of Fraud proofs. Fraud Proofs address the problem of learning that a Bitcoin header is invalid (despite it being PoW va...
Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
Hugo Nguyen explains why PoS is flawed. Posted March 18,2018.
Crypto Innovation Spotlight: Schnorr Signatures
Spencer Bogart highlights some key features in Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 22, 2018.
Excited for Schnorr signatures
Murch recaps the pending BIP technology, Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 3, 2018.
Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
Bitcoin, what took ye so long?
Nick Szabo talks about hindsight and Bitcoin. Posted May 2011.
Game Theory
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: PUELL’S 21 LAWS OF BITCOIN
David lays out the unwritten laws of Bitcoin. Posted September 9, 2020.
Bitcoin is One for All
Parker Lewis makes the case for Bitcoin for everyone. Posted August 27, 2020.
Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Adversarial Thinking
A tweetstorm on adversarial thinking and Bitcoin from Ragnar. Posted January 12, 2020
The Many Angles of Bitcoin Adoption
Phil Bonello explains what’s enabling Bitcoin adoption. Posted February 12, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
Sven Scnieders points out some of Bitcoin’s antifragile properties.
Bitcoin’s Habitats
Gigi lays out the three realms where Bitcoin exists. Posted March 1, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Reddit Response: Question on the Vulnerability of Bitcoin
Greg Maxwell posts a reply to the Bitcoin 51% attack vulnerability. Posted October 10, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis demystifies Bitcoin inherent values and explains how things work. Posted September 27, 2019.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Mainstream Media of Exchange
Knut Svanholm discusses how Bitcoin is a grassroots movement and is indeed a currency.Posted September 6, 2019
Bitcoin Positive Feedback Loops
Ben Davenport diagrams the multiple Bitcoin positive feedback loops. Posted August 28, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin is not too slow, why it operates at the speed it does, and how it will scale. Posted August 23, 2019.
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin’s energy consumption is justified. Posted August 16, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile
Parker Lewis explains volatility and why it’s important to understanding Bitcoin. Posted August 9, 2019.
Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin can never be copied and how a minority is forcing its will upon the masses. Posted August 2, 2019.
We Need Bitcoin Full Nodes. Economic Ones.
Stadicus makes the case for more full nodes. Posted August 1, 2019.
Tweet: Proof of Work Equivalent Days
Bitcoin peaks ATH for PoW equivalent days. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin’s Power Balance
. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Parker Lewis introduces a new series and explains why he believes Bitcoin is money. Posted August 2, 2019.
Tweet: The Times They are a Changing
Matt Walsh posts a chart that details the timeline of Bitcoin opion with bankers. Posted July 11, 2019.
Understanding (and Mitigating) Re-Orgs
Anthony Lusardi explains re-orgs in simple terms. Posted May 21, 2019.
The Race to Acquire One Bitcoin: Time’s Running Out
Jared explains why now is the time to acquire because it won’t get any easier.
Security Budget in the Long Run
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Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
On Schelling points, network effects and Lindy: Inherent properties of communication
Willem Van Den Bergh explains why schelling point, network effects, and Lindy effects make Bitcoin so strong. Posted June 29, 2018.
Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Bitcoin Post-Maximalism
Paul Sztorc lays out what happens after everyone is a Bitcoin maximalist, when the disagreements inevitably creep back in and offers a solution to scale. Pos...
Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
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Back to top ↑Liveliness of Bitcoin
Tamas Blummer explains Bitcoin Liveliness and what it means as an indicator. Posted December 29, 2018.
Bitcoin is a Social Creature (Mushroom) — Part 2/4
By Brandon Quittem, Posted December 28, 2018
Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) — Part 1/4
By Brandon Quittem, Posted December 11, 2018.
Bitcoin’s Incentive Scheme and the Rational Individual
Bitcoin’s Incentive Scheme and the Rational Individual By Hugo Nguyen December 24, 2018
Philosophical Teachings of Bitcoin
Philosophical Teachings of Bitcoin What I’ve Learned From Bitcoin: Part I By Gigi Posted December 21, 2018
The Lightning Network - Evolving Bitcoin into a layered system
By Jordan Clifford, Posted December 19, 2018
Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 3): Dust & Thermodynamics
By Dhruv Bansal, Posted December 18, 2018
Who controls Bitcoin Core?
By Jameson Lopp, Posted December 15, 2018
Introducing Realized Capital
A look at realized capital by the Coinmetrics Team, Posted December 14, 2018
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights A framework for skeptics, part 3 By Su Zhu and Hasu Posted December 13, 20...
Beware of Lazy Research: Let’s Talk Electricity Waste & How Bitcoin Mining Can Power A Renewable Energy Renaissance
Part 2 of a 2 part series that looks at some of the FUD surrounding mining, by Christopher Bendiksen , Posted December 6, 2018
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract A framework for skeptics By Su Zhu and Hasu Posted December 3, 2018
An Honest Explanation of Price, Hashrate & Bitcoin Mining Network Dynamics
Part 1 of a 2 part series that looks at some of the FUD surrounding mining, by Christopher Bendiksen , Posted November 11, 2018
How Cryptography Redefines Private Property
By Hugo Nguyen, posted November 26, 2018. This is part 3 of a 5 part series.
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: An Honest Account of Fiat Money
By Su Zhu and Hasu, Posted November 21, 2018. This is part 1 of a 4 part series.
Cryptic History: The Cypherpunks
A brief look at cypherpunks and Nakamoto by William Smith, posted November 19, 2018
Exploring Liquid Sidechain
An in depth look at Liquid sidechain by Joe Kendsicky, posted on November 15, 2018
How Does Distributed Consensus Work?
By Preethi Kasireddy, Posted November 13, 2018
Transaction count is an inferior measure
By Nic Carter, Posted November 10, 2018
The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument
One of the best arguments for Bitcoin. Pomp is an eternal bull and Murad is a stoic wise man. Together they tell a beautiful story. Read this or click throug...
Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
Bitcoin’s Buyers of Last Resort
By Pierre Rochard, posted October 18, 2018
Bitcoin Network Momentum
Philip Swift Bitcoin Network Momentum is a valuable tool in helping us understand why Bitcoin price is at a particular point in the market cycle and also whe...
Post-Bitcoin-Maximalism: A call for embracing the currency competition
By Ferdous Bhai, posted October 15, 2018
Powered by Lightning — Part 2, Using the Lightning Network as a user
This is part 2 of a 5 part series. By JP Thor, posted October 13, 2018
Work is Timeless, Stake is Not
This is a brief look at some of the arguments of Proof of Stake. By Hugo Nguyen, posted October 12, 2018
Bitcoin Fundamentals: Mining Profitability Ratio & BTC Dominance
By cryptopoiesis, posted October 11, 2018
Introducing … The Bitcoin “MVRV Z” Metric That Predicts Market Tops with 90%+ Accuracy
Awe and Wonder shares a new valuation metric for Bitcoin called MVRV Z, which is an expansion on MVRV . Posted October 9, 2018.
Powered by Lightning - Part 1, Programmable Money
This is part 1 of a 5 part series. By JP Thor, posted October 13, 2018. A quick primer on the Lightning Network and how it is making money programmable.
Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland
Nic Carter looks at the mythical word that has everyone scratching their head… “blockchain”. He proposes what we should do with this word. Posted October 5, ...
Bitcoin’s Distribution was Fair
Dan Held’s take on Bitcoin’s distribution, posted October 4, 2018
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Money Crypto vs. Tech Crypto
An examination at the changing narrative around “crypto”. Erik Torenberg defines two camps in the space that are here to stay. Posted October 1, 2018
Bitcoin Market-Value-to-Realized-Value (MVRV) Ratio
David Puell and Murad Mahmudov propose MVRV as an important mettric for Bitcoin. Posted October 1, 2018
Tweetstorm
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Marketing
Dan Held tweets about Bitcoin and marketing. Posted June 16, 2020.
Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Adversarial Thinking
A tweetstorm on adversarial thinking and Bitcoin from Ragnar. Posted January 12, 2020
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Tweetstorm Bitcoin as super-collateral
Aaron explores Bitcoin as the ultimate collateral in this short tweetstorm. Posted February 5, 2020.
Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Tweetstorm: A forward look at Bitcoin
John Newbery gives a glimpse of what to expect from Bitcoin. Posted December 21, 2019.
Tweetstorm: A Decade in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi hammers out a recap of Bitcoin’s last decade. Posted December 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: How I explain Bitcoin to normies…
Willy Woo breaks down his approach to non-Bitcoiners. Posted November 17, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Plot Twist
Oleg shares a short plot twist. Posted October 29, 2019.
Tweetstorm: On making Bitcoin easier
Small tweetstorm from Beautyon regarding making Bitcoin easier. Posted October 1, 2019.
Tweetstorm: We’ve Built Intermediaries
Meltem Demirors shares her opinion on what’s being built, and why we should rethink things. Posted September 27, 2019.
Tweetstorm: 21 Charts
Hans Hauge shares 21 charts that paint a wonderful picture on the state of Bitcoin. Posted September 10, 2019.
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Performance Against Bitcoin
Willy Woo shares a chart that illustrates alt performance in BTC. Posted August 17, 2019.
Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
Tweetstorm: On Bitcoin Paradigm Shifts
Meltem Demirors lasy out the Bitcoin paradigm shift that is occuring. Posted July 23, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Common Tongue
Robert Breedlove shed’s some light on the Bitcoin and cryptoasset universe in an exoteric nutshell. Posted June 19, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Money is the most important field
Hasu makes the case for money being the most important field of study over the next 20 years. Posted June 6, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Touchpoints
Vijay Boyapati shares a strategy for engaging people with Bitcoin. Posted June 4, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin rescues the human
Conner Brown shares a brief tweetstorm on Bitcoin rescuing humanity from itself. Posted June 3, 2019.
Bitcoin Mining Explained in 15 Tweets
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Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin will usher an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity
Essential tweetstorm from Murad on a great vision of a Bitcoin future. Posted April 14, 2018.
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Back to top ↑A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal
Jameson Lopp has been doxxed and wants to help you stay safe. In this post, he lays out a framework to protect your privacy. Posted September 29, 2018.
Tweetstorm: Mass adoption of Bitcoin is inevitable
A timeline for mass adoption from a maximalist. Misir Mahmudov posted this September 25, 2018.
Bitcoin as a Store of Value
JP Thor makes the case for Bitcoin as a SoV (Store of Value). Posted September 22, 2018.
The Bitcoin Analyst Brain: A Primer
A look into the psyche of a Bitcoin analyst from Christopher Bendiksen. Posted September 22, 2018.
Bitcoin’s Inflation Adjusted NVT Ratio
cryptopoiesis proposes an analysis for the NVT ratio. Posted September 18, 2018.
Electric Money
LaurentMT explains the value in PoW and proposes this piece as an entry piece for further discussion. Posted September 17, 2018.
Statistical Fallacy behind the Lindy Effect
Qiao Wang lays out the case for further examination of the Lindy Effect, maybe we should pump the brakes on referencing it all the time. Posted September 15,...
Bitcoin as a store of energy
JP Thor looks at Bitcoin and makes the case that it is a store of energy. Posted SEptember 15, 2018.
Tweetstorm: The essence of Bitcoin
Inspired Pierre Rochard, David Puell shares a great visual on the essence of Bitcoin. Posted September 14, 2019.
PoW is Efficient
Dan Held makes the case for PoW being an efficient use of energy. Posted September 14, 2019.
Expensive Privacy is Useless Privacy
Paul Sztorc lays out a case for privacy and why it must be a core tenant of Bitcoin. Posted September 11, 2018.
Cliffhangers
Part 3 in a 3 part series, LaurentMT looks at the idea of an optimal age of the UTXOs to measure how far the system is running from its optimum. Posted Septe...
The Yin and Yang of Bitcoin
Part 2 in a 3 part series, LaurentMT examines new metrics regarding mining effects and hodling over the efficiency of PoW. Posted September 3, 2018.
Hodlers are the Revolutionaries
Dan Held explains why hodlers are important to Bitcoin’s network. Posted August 31, 2018.
Gravity
Part 1 of a 3 part series, LaurentMT examines why average cost per transaction isn’t a good way to measure PoW efficiency. Posted August 27, 2018.
Bitcoin, Chance and Randomness
Hugo Nguyen looks at the virtues of randomness and examines how it powers PoW. Posted August 25, 2018.
The Store of Value Thesis
Qiao Wang and Dan McArdle explore their cryptoasset Store of Value Thesis. Posted August 19, 2018.
Bitcoin, Stock & Flow
Hugo Nguyen lays out one of the core fundamentals of Bitcoin’s value proposition, stock to flow. Posted August 15, 2018.
Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
The Bitcoin Second Layer
Nik Bhatia lays out a the baseline for a 4 part series on Lightning Network. In this post, he draws similarities between LN and paper gold, with differences....
The Cost and Sustainability of Bitcoin
Hass MCCook provides a systematic methodology of modelling the environmental and economic costs of Bitcoin. Posted August 2018.
Visions of Bitcoin
Hasu and Nic Carter’s fantastic review of how narrative around Bitcoin usage has changed over time. Posted July 29, 2018.
Cryptocurrencies are money, not equity
Brendan Berstein makes the case for cryptocurrencies being money and explains how investors are helping determine value. Posted July 22, 2018.
The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum
Part 3 of Nik Bhatia’s 4 part Lightning Network thesis. This post looks at the bitcoin risk spectrum. Posted July 9, 2018.
Bitcoin Governance
Pierre Rochard lays out how Bitcoin governance works in a decentralized manner. Posted July 8, 2018.
The Flase Dichotomy of Utility and Store of Value
Qiao Wang breaks down the SoV narrative surrounfing Bitcoin and other digital assets. Posted July 5, 2018.
Crypto-incrementalism vs Crypto-anarchy
Tony Sheng believes all crypto projects fall into one of two camps, which he also believes can coexist. Posted July 2, 2018.
Coin Days Destroyed
Jaoquin Roibal takes to stackexchange to answer. Posted June 20, 2019.
Financial
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
Bitcoin In The Institutional Investment Portfolio
Marcel Burger makes the case for hodling Bitcoin in an institutional portfolio. POsted September 18, 2020.
Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It’s a Safer Asset Than Most
Jill Carlson explains why Bitcoin is not as risky as you think. Posted March 5, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Tweetstorm Bitcoin as super-collateral
Aaron explores Bitcoin as the ultimate collateral in this short tweetstorm. Posted February 5, 2020.
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
Debunking Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Marcel Burger digs into the corridor of growth. Posted November 30, 2019
The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis
Phil Bonello lays out an investment thesis based on principles in the Sovereign Individual. Posted November 12, 2019.
The Investment Case for Bitcoin
Gabor Gurbacs makes the case for holding Bitcoin. Posted October 8, 2019.
Bitcoin’s power oscillator
Harold Christopher Burger introduces the Bitcoin power oscillator. Posted September 20, 2019.
Tweetstorm: How to Outperform Bitcoin
Michiel Lescrauwaet rolls out his tehesis on how to outperform Bitcoin. Posted September 19, 2019.
Floor on Bitcoin’s risk less interest rate
Tamas Blummer makes the case for a floor on Bitcoin riskless interest rates. Posted September 11, 2019.
Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Harold Christopher Burger shares a simple article that uses time-based equations to model Bitcoin’s price. Posted September 4, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops
Renato Shirakashi introduces SOPR, which is a new oscillating indicator that signals when major supply changes occur. Posted April 25, 2019.
The case for a small allocation to Bitcoin
Wences Cesares makes the case for why an allocation of your portfolio must be Bitcoin. Posted April 11, 2019
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Investing in Bitcoin
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Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Finance
Back to top ↑7 Misconceptions about Bitcoin, and Where to Buy
This article answers some popular misconceptions and questions about Bitcoin, and then shows the best place for where to buy Bitcoin.
Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin
Lyn Alden shares an in depth reason for making a position in Bitcoin. Posted July 17, 2020.
Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Tweetstorm Bitcoin as super-collateral
Aaron explores Bitcoin as the ultimate collateral in this short tweetstorm. Posted February 5, 2020.
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Performance Against Bitcoin
Willy Woo shares a chart that illustrates alt performance in BTC. Posted August 17, 2019.
Introducing the Difficulty Ribbon, signaling the best times to buy Bitcoin
Willy Woo introduces a new signal, the Difficulty Ribbon. Posted August 1, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?
Tobias Huber lays out a basic model for predicting bitcoin price bubbles. Posted March 16, 2018.
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Mining
Back to top ↑The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part I.
Leo explores the operation mining hashpower is akin to portfolio management. Posted November 22, 2020.
Visualization of the halving’s supply shock
Croesus shares a visual explanation of how the halving creates a supply shock on Bitcoin. Posted October 23, 2020.
Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part II.
Leo Zhang explores the magic of hashrate and mining in part 2 of a series. Posted September 15, 2020.
The Patoshi Mining Machine
Sergio speculates what Satoshi mined with. Posted August 22, 2020.
Bitcoin mining has the potential to save distressed heavy industrial businesses
Michael Nov and Harry Sudock explain the opportunity of industrial Bitcoin mining. Posted July 31, 2020.
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
There will be bitcoin.
Steve Barbour makes the case that the future of oil and gas is Bitcoin. Posted June 23, 2020.
Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
So You Think Bitcoin Mining is Wasteful?
Daniel compares energy usage of Bitcoin and video games. Posted March 5, 2020.
No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Bitcoin Mining Fees and Storage Costs
Tamas makes the case for miners requiring certain fee threshold in order to include transactions in their blocks. Posted October 14, 2019.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Hedging mining difficulty
Tamas Blummer
Bitcoin Mining Explained in 15 Tweets
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Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
2020 Q3
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Bitcoin as an Antidote to Despair: A Psychological Formulation
Aaron Clendenin explores Bitcoin as a means to modify behavior. Posted October 21, 2020.
Why we may fail Lightning
Antoine Riard explains why Lightning might be doomed or what we can do to push the stack forward. Posted September 28, 2020.
Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
Bitcoin In The Institutional Investment Portfolio
Marcel Burger makes the case for hodling Bitcoin in an institutional portfolio. POsted September 18, 2020.
Things Bitcoiners Don’t Want To Hear
Shinobi discusses the hard reality of thermodynamics. Posted September 16, 2020.
Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part II.
Leo Zhang explores the magic of hashrate and mining in part 2 of a series. Posted September 15, 2020.
MPPs & Wumbo Channels - Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
Roy Sheinfeld explains Wumbo and MPP on Lightning Network. Posted September 14, 2020.
Map of the Bitcoin Network
Gloria explains the Bitcoin network at a high level. Posted July 22, 2020.
Tweet Thread: PUELL’S 21 LAWS OF BITCOIN
David lays out the unwritten laws of Bitcoin. Posted September 9, 2020.
The Patoshi Mining Machine
Sergio speculates what Satoshi mined with. Posted August 22, 2020.
Bitcoin is One for All
Parker Lewis makes the case for Bitcoin for everyone. Posted August 27, 2020.
Tweet Thread: What is an xpub?
Danny lays out the basics of xpubs. Posted August 30, 2020.
Different bitcoins different prices
JP Koning explains why Bitcoins fetch different prices. Posted September 2, 2020.
Once Inflation Starts, It Won’t Be Contained
Gael Sannchez Smith explores how and why inflation can’t be stopped. Posted June 12, 2020.
Lightning is the Better Way to HODL
Roy Sheinfeld shares the case for keeping your Bitcoin in Lightning Network. Posted August 31, 2020.
In Memory of Hal Finney, RIP — Builder of a More Trusted World
Bill Buchanan shares a thoughtful piece about our friend, Hal. Posted August 22, 2020.
Balinese Cockfights & Bitcoins
Mick Morucci draws the comparison between cockfighters and Bitcoiners. Poseted August 17, 2020.
Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
Tweet Thread - Bitcoin and NoSQL
Dhruv Bansal compares Bitcoin and NoSQL. Posted August 3, 2020
The AlienCoin Attack Vector
Knut Svanholm explores the idea of a better alien money that could disrupt Bitcoin. Posted July 29, 2020.
Misjudging Bitcoin
Beautyon explore how a court ruling on Bitcoin mischaracterizes it. Posted July 27, 2020.
2020 Q4
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy: Part II
In this part, we continue to follow the energy and speculate about how money and society coevolve as humanity expands through space.
Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
7 Misconceptions about Bitcoin, and Where to Buy
This article answers some popular misconceptions and questions about Bitcoin, and then shows the best place for where to buy Bitcoin.
Tweetstorm - Bitcoin and the power of incentives
Brandon Quittem explores the incentives of Bitcoin. Posted November 14, 2020.
An Open Letter to Friends and Family
James O’Beirne pens an open letter to his loved ones about Bitcoin. Posted November 29, 2020
Tweet Storm - About Schnorr Sigs
Ben Carman explains Schnorr Signatures at a high level. Posted November 22, 2020.
The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part I.
Leo explores the operation mining hashpower is akin to portfolio management. Posted November 22, 2020.
Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Exploring Bitcoin’s core values and why we defend them
Why does Bitcoin have value and why do we defend it’s value? Posted November 10, 2020.
Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
The Costs that Haunt Your Dreams of Hyperbitcoinization
Emil explores what’s standing in the way of hyperbitcoinization. Posted September 3, 2020.
Our Most Brilliant Idea
Robert expands on the philosophy of Bitcoin. Posted November 1, 2020.
Bitcoin at 12
Nic Carter reflects on 12 years of the white paper. Posted October 31, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History
Brandon explores how humanity repeats itself and what role Bitcoin plays in the current world. Posted October 29, 2020.
Visualization of the halving’s supply shock
Croesus shares a visual explanation of how the halving creates a supply shock on Bitcoin. Posted October 23, 2020.
Home On The Range
Sovereign.615 outlines a framework for a Bitcoin citadel charter. Posted October 21,2020
Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
The intrinsic value of Bitcoin (II)
Manuel examines the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, which has been debated many times but lays out a clear framework. Posted October 5, 2020.
SNARKs and the future of blockchains
Ruben Somsen explains what SNARKs can and can’t do for blockchain. Posted October 3, 2020.
Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
Freedom
Back to top ↑Masters and Slaves of Money
Robert Breedlove explains how masters of money are the real problem and how Bitcoin is the path to freedom. Posted July 5, 2020.
Freedom Money – Bitcoin and the First Amendment
Hector Rosenkrans makes the case for Bitcoin as an essential liberty like the First Amendment. Posted July 4, 2020.
Bitcoin Has to Be for Everyone
Brian Harrington makes a bullish case for everyone. Posted June 13, 2020.
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
The rise of the individual.
Aleksander Svetski shares his thoughts on the rise of self sovereignty as a revolutionary idea, all made possible by Bitcoin. Posted December 31, 2019
The cat is out of the bag
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is here to stay and it’s free to use. Posted December 29, 2019.
Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Matrix
Meltem gets us questioning if we’ve actually taken the “red pill”. Posted October 25, 2019.
Bitcoin Equals Freedom
Ross Ulbricht makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate form of freedom. Posted September 25, 2019
The Moral Case for Lightning
Alex Gladstein makes the moral case for Lighning. Posted July 25, 2019.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
Why Bitcoin Matters
Posted March 15, 2019 by Aleks Svetski, this article explains why Bitcoin matters.
A Human Rights Activist’s Response to Bitcoin Critics
Alex Gladstein responds to critics and makes the case for Bitcoin. Posted February 19, 2019.
Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin
Beautyon explains why Bitcoin is unregulatable. Posted March 15, 2018.
How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
Politics vs Technology
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Privacy
Back to top ↑The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
How to Resist Censorship with Bitcoin
Elaine shares how to destroy financial censorship is simply by using Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Matrix
Meltem gets us questioning if we’ve actually taken the “red pill”. Posted October 25, 2019.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
How Blockchains Will Enable Privacy
Shaan Ray describes a private future enabled by blockchain. Posted March 3, 2018.
Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
Politics vs Technology
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CY18 Q1
Back to top ↑Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin
Posted March 28, 2018, Alex Svetski gives an explanation of why Bitcoin exists.
The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i)
Nick Szabo examines the traditions and history of non-governmental money. Posted March 23, 2018.
Maduro’s Mint of King Cnut
Beautyon makes the case that Maduro’s attempt to create a new money will fail and any distraction to Bitcoin is a good thing because it gets stronger over ti...
Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
Hugo Nguyen explains why PoS is flawed. Posted March 18,2018.
Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?
Tobias Huber lays out a basic model for predicting bitcoin price bubbles. Posted March 16, 2018.
Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin
Beautyon explains why Bitcoin is unregulatable. Posted March 15, 2018.
How Blockchains Will Enable Privacy
Shaan Ray describes a private future enabled by blockchain. Posted March 3, 2018.
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Seven Myths of Bitcoin
George Kikvadze kills some common FUD. Posted March 2, 2018.
Crypto Innovation Spotlight: Schnorr Signatures
Spencer Bogart highlights some key features in Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 22, 2018.
The Anatomy of Proof-of-Work
By Hugo Nguyen, posted February 10, 2018. This is part 1 of a 5 part series.
Bitcoin turning into a multi layered system is the most interesting thing in crypto in 2018
Ber Kessels shares his opinion and excitement about Lightning network.
Rethinking Network Value to Transactions (NVT) Ratio
Dmitry Kalichkin describes NVT Signal, a new approach to NVT Ratio. Posted February 3, 2018.
Excited for Schnorr signatures
Murch recaps the pending BIP technology, Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 3, 2018.
Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
Grisha Trubetskoy explains how a PoW blockchain is a clock. Posted January 23, 2018.
Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
Stop comparing Bitcoin to the internet
Dhruv Bansal explains why 1 BTC will be worth $1M. Posted January 19, 2018.
My Plan for Hyperbitcoinization
Elaine lays out her plan for hyperbitcoinization. Lookout Captain Kirk! Posted January 13, 2018.
How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Nic Carter
Back to top ↑Bitcoin at 12
Nic Carter reflects on 12 years of the white paper. Posted October 31, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
The cat is out of the bag
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is here to stay and it’s free to use. Posted December 29, 2019.
A most peaceful revolution
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the revolution we have been waiting for. Posted September 7, 2019.
Tweet: Opinion on Wealth Concentration
Tweets on Wealth Concentration. Posted by Nic Carter on August 14, 2019.
Tweet: Proof of Work Equivalent Days
Bitcoin peaks ATH for PoW equivalent days. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
Tweet: Bitcoin’s Power Balance
. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
A modest proposal regarding Bitcoin mining
Nic Carter trolls us all with a proposal to organize miners for a pro-reorg future. Posted May 9, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Adoption by number of users
A tweetstorm from Nic Carter that looks at user adoption. Posted April 24, 2019.
How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Unpacking Bitcoin’s Assurances
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Transaction count is an inferior measure
By Nic Carter, Posted November 10, 2018
Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland
Nic Carter looks at the mythical word that has everyone scratching their head… “blockchain”. He proposes what we should do with this word. Posted October 5, ...
Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
Visions of Bitcoin
Hasu and Nic Carter’s fantastic review of how narrative around Bitcoin usage has changed over time. Posted July 29, 2018.
2020 Q1
Back to top ↑The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Value Proposition – Is It Truly the Best Currency?
BTChap looks at Bitcoin versus the alternatives. Posted March 22, 2020.
Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Bitcoin is good for your government’s treasury
FF2K puts it simply, Bitcoin is good for Government. Posted January 26, 2020.
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Bitcoin has already succeeded
Acrual posts why Bitcoin has already suceeded. Posted January 12, 2020.
Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World
Pascal Hügli tells us of the growing inportance of the digital world, where digital bit become more important than physical atoms. Posted January 8, 2020.
Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
How to Resist Censorship with Bitcoin
Elaine shares how to destroy financial censorship is simply by using Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Monetary Policy
Back to top ↑Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
A Peaceful Protest - Opt-Out, Buy Bitcoin
Adam Pokornicky makes the case to opt out. Posted June 8, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Humans Can’t Be Trusted To Govern Over Our Money
Nik shares a quick read on why man can’t be trusted with monetary policy. Posted April 24, 2020.
Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
Bitcoin is good for your government’s treasury
FF2K puts it simply, Bitcoin is good for Government. Posted January 26, 2020.
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
Digital Money
Phil Bonello reviews the importance of Bitcoin I’m a world of digital money. Posted November 26, 2019.
Bitcoin Is The Only Way To Opt-Out
Rhythm shares why Bitcoin is so important regarding privacy and opting out. Posted November 19, 2019.
Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
Bitcoin is for Stackers
Elaine shares why Bitcoin is growing slowly, namely Gresham’s Law. Posted October 17, 2019.
The Monetary Case for Bitcoin
Ben Kaufman makes the case for Bitcoin as a monetary system. Posted October 5, 2019.
Bitcoin Recapitulation
Mircea Popescu tells us about Bitcoin’s smallest unit, the satoshi. Posted July 15, 2019.
Crypto Voices 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base
Crypto Voices publishes their quarterly look at the Global Monetary Base. Posted May 22, 2019.
Maduro’s Mint of King Cnut
Beautyon makes the case that Maduro’s attempt to create a new money will fail and any distraction to Bitcoin is a good thing because it gets stronger over ti...
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
CY18 Q2
Back to top ↑The “Bitcoin mining death spiral” debate explained
By Arjun Balaji, Posted December 4, 2018
On Schelling points, network effects and Lindy: Inherent properties of communication
Willem Van Den Bergh explains why schelling point, network effects, and Lindy effects make Bitcoin so strong. Posted June 29, 2018.
Bitcoin Investment Theses (Part 2)
Pierre Rochard outlines Part 2 of 3 Bitcoin investment theses. Posted June 24, 2018.
The Bitcoin Lightning Network: A Technical Primer
Joe Kendzicky lays out the technical fundamentals of Lightning Network. Posted June 5, 2018.
Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Gigi makes the case that proof of work IS worthwhile and not a waste. Posted June 10, 2018.
Bitcoin Investment Theses (Part 1)
Pierre Rochard outlines Part 1 of 3 Bitcoin investment theses. Posted June 9, 2018.
The Time Value of Bitcoin
Part 2 of a 4 part series, Nik Bhatia’s thesis on the Lightning Network. In this post he explains the time-value of bitcoin. Posted June 8, 2019.
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Bitcoin: Past and Future
Posted May 30, 2018 by Adam Tache and Murad Mahmudov, this article will analyze these perspectives by discussing trade-offs, philosophical divides within the...
Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 2): The Geology of Lost Coins
By Dhruv Bansal, Posted May 29, 2018
Rethinking Metcalfe’s Law applications to cryptoasset valuation
Posted May 21, 2018 by Dmitry Kalichkin, his goal was to estimate whether current Bitcoin price is supported by activity on the network.
The Internet’s Magna Carta Moment: Bitcoin & The Value of Strong Assurances
Posted May 20, 2018, Spencer Bogart explains the importance of Bitcoin, “networks like Bitcoin offer a fertile foundation for economic growth in the digital ...
The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like
Posted May 2, 2018, Aaron van Wirdum looks at the potential for Bitcoin Lightning Network.
The Long Game in Crypto: Why Decentralization Matters
Spencer Bogart shares his opinion why decentralization matters. Posted April 25, 2018.
Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 1): HODL Waves
By Dhruv Bansal, Posted April 17, 2018
A Guide To Bitcoin’s Technical Brilliance (For Non-Programmers)
Lucas Nuzzi attempts to provide a semi-technical guide to key aspects of Bitcoin’s technology. Posted April 15, 2018
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin will usher an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity
Essential tweetstorm from Murad on a great vision of a Bitcoin future. Posted April 14, 2018.
Meditations on Fraud Proofs
Paul Sztorc explains the ins and outs of Fraud proofs. Fraud Proofs address the problem of learning that a Bitcoin header is invalid (despite it being PoW va...
The Many Faces of Bitcoin
Adam Taché and Murad Mahmudov discuss four schools of thought related to Bitcoin. Posted April 10, 2018.
Bitcoin Post-Maximalism
Paul Sztorc lays out what happens after everyone is a Bitcoin maximalist, when the disagreements inevitably creep back in and offers a solution to scale. Pos...
Philosophy
Back to top ↑Exploring Bitcoin’s core values and why we defend them
Why does Bitcoin have value and why do we defend it’s value? Posted November 10, 2020.
Our Most Brilliant Idea
Robert expands on the philosophy of Bitcoin. Posted November 1, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History
Brandon explores how humanity repeats itself and what role Bitcoin plays in the current world. Posted October 29, 2020.
Bitcoin is One for All
Parker Lewis makes the case for Bitcoin for everyone. Posted August 27, 2020.
Masters and Slaves of Money
Robert Breedlove explains how masters of money are the real problem and how Bitcoin is the path to freedom. Posted July 5, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
The Halving or Halvening
Aleksander Svetski posts another epic piece
The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Oxhearding
Dennis Reimann applies the 10 Buddhist Oxhearding principles to Bitcoin. Posted November 4, 2019.
The Theological Conquest of Money
Erik Cason explores the messianic creation of Bitcoin as our hope to end the tyranny of central banking. Posted August 26, 2019.
Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach
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Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman pens the Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 19, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman lsays out the framework for his interprutation of a Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 18, 2019.
Sovereignty
Back to top ↑Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
The rise of the individual.
Aleksander Svetski shares his thoughts on the rise of self sovereignty as a revolutionary idea, all made possible by Bitcoin. Posted December 31, 2019
The Rise of the Sovereign Individual
Gigi tells us how the current times are enabling individuals to take back their sovereignty. Poseted August 22, 2019.
The Sovereign, the Subject, and Crypto-power
Erik Cason describes the power crypto brings to the individual. Posted June 24, 2019.
Cryptosovereignty
Erik lay’s out the framework for a future based on crypto rather than man’s subjective views. Posted February 3, 2019.
Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
The Most Dangerous Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede shares a quick reflection on Bitcoin as a major threat to governments. Posted May 26, 2011.
Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
History
Back to top ↑Bitcoin at 12
Nic Carter reflects on 12 years of the white paper. Posted October 31, 2020.
In Memory of Hal Finney, RIP — Builder of a More Trusted World
Bill Buchanan shares a thoughtful piece about our friend, Hal. Posted August 22, 2020.
Ten Years of Bitcoin Market Data
Clark Moody
Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
The Perfect Storm: Why Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2020 is different from Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2017
Marc van der Chijs explains the difference between Bitcoin today and in 2017, hint, lots. Posted February 13, 2020
Tweetstorm: A Decade in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi hammers out a recap of Bitcoin’s last decade. Posted December 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
Johannes Trithemius, Archmage of Secrets
David Morris shares the story of the first known cryptographer. Posted November 6, 2019.
Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin
Posted March 28, 2018, Alex Svetski gives an explanation of why Bitcoin exists.
Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
Bitcoin, what took ye so long?
Nick Szabo talks about hindsight and Bitcoin. Posted May 2011.
Bitcoin, what took ye so long?
Nick Szabo talks about hindsight and Bitcoin. Posted May 2011.
Value
Back to top ↑Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
Exploring Bitcoin’s core values and why we defend them
Why does Bitcoin have value and why do we defend it’s value? Posted November 10, 2020.
Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
The Costs that Haunt Your Dreams of Hyperbitcoinization
Emil explores what’s standing in the way of hyperbitcoinization. Posted September 3, 2020.
The intrinsic value of Bitcoin (II)
Manuel examines the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, which has been debated many times but lays out a clear framework. Posted October 5, 2020.
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
Sven Scnieders points out some of Bitcoin’s antifragile properties.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
Why Bitcoin’s volatility can only decrease, but it will take a bit longer
acrual explains why Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time. Posted February 19, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Money is about credibly representing value transactions
acrual explains what money represents. Posted February 5, 2020.
Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin is the ultimate store of wealth BECAUSE it has no intrinsic value. Posted May 8, 2019.
Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
2011 Q2
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Resource Allocation And Interest Rate Distortion
Michael Suede examines interest rates in a Bitcoin standard. Posted July 6, 2011.
Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – How Bitcoins Act As Money
Michael Suede looks at monetary properties of Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2011
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Libertarian Goldbugs Hating On Bitcoin – Free Market Money
Michael explains why Libertarian Goldbugs are hating on Bitcoin. Posted June 6, 2011.
Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
The Most Dangerous Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede shares a quick reflection on Bitcoin as a major threat to governments. Posted May 26, 2011.
Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
Bitcoin, what took ye so long?
Nick Szabo talks about hindsight and Bitcoin. Posted May 2011.
Gigi
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
The Bitcoin Journey
Gigi shares his idea of the Bitcoin journey and the steps along the way. Posted June 15, 2020.
Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Dear Bitcoiners
Gigi pens an optimistic letter to Bitcoiners around the world. Posted March31, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Habitats
Gigi lays out the three realms where Bitcoin exists. Posted March 1, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
The Rise of the Sovereign Individual
Gigi tells us how the current times are enabling individuals to take back their sovereignty. Poseted August 22, 2019.
Proof of Life
Gigi makes the case for Bitcoin being a living organism. Posted August 7, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Gravity
Gigi explains ideas and Bitcoin and lays out the challenges of changing Bitcoin. One does not simply change Bitcoin. Posted May 1, 2019.
Technological Teachings of Bitcoin
Part 3 of 3 from Gigi, Posted April 2, 2019.
Economic Teachings of Bitcoin
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Philosophical Teachings of Bitcoin
Philosophical Teachings of Bitcoin What I’ve Learned From Bitcoin: Part I By Gigi Posted December 21, 2018
Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Gigi makes the case that proof of work IS worthwhile and not a waste. Posted June 10, 2018.
Hasu
Back to top ↑Exploring Bitcoin’s core values and why we defend them
Why does Bitcoin have value and why do we defend it’s value? Posted November 10, 2020.
Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Tweetstorm: How do you know it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin now?
Hasu makes the case on why it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin. Posted September 12, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Money is the most important field
Hasu makes the case for money being the most important field of study over the next 20 years. Posted June 6, 2019.
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Investing in Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Why Monetary Maximalism could fall short of expectations
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Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights A framework for skeptics, part 3 By Su Zhu and Hasu Posted December 13, 20...
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract A framework for skeptics By Su Zhu and Hasu Posted December 3, 2018
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: An Honest Account of Fiat Money
By Su Zhu and Hasu, Posted November 21, 2018. This is part 1 of a 4 part series.
Visions of Bitcoin
Hasu and Nic Carter’s fantastic review of how narrative around Bitcoin usage has changed over time. Posted July 29, 2018.
Parker Lewis
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is One for All
Parker Lewis makes the case for Bitcoin for everyone. Posted August 27, 2020.
Bitcoin is Antifragile
Parker Lewis descirbes how Bitcoin is antifragile. Posted June 12, 2020.
Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
Bitcoin Cannot be Banned
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin cannot be banned. Posted November 8, 2019
Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme
Parker Lewis addresses yet more FUD. Posted October 18, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis demystifies Bitcoin inherent values and explains how things work. Posted September 27, 2019.
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
Parker Lewis makes a strong case on why it’s all about Bitcoin, not blockchain. Posted September 6, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin is not too slow, why it operates at the speed it does, and how it will scale. Posted August 23, 2019.
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin’s energy consumption is justified. Posted August 16, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile
Parker Lewis explains volatility and why it’s important to understanding Bitcoin. Posted August 9, 2019.
Bitcoin Can’t Be Copied
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin can never be copied and how a minority is forcing its will upon the masses. Posted August 2, 2019.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Parker Lewis introduces a new series and explains why he believes Bitcoin is money. Posted August 2, 2019.
2020 M7
Back to top ↑Bitcoin mining has the potential to save distressed heavy industrial businesses
Michael Nov and Harry Sudock explain the opportunity of industrial Bitcoin mining. Posted July 31, 2020.
Bitcoin: Separating Money From State
Pedro Febrero covers Bitcoin’s role in separating
Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
Ten Years of Bitcoin Market Data
Clark Moody
3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin
Lyn Alden shares an in depth reason for making a position in Bitcoin. Posted July 17, 2020.
Taproot: Why Activate?
almkglor makes the case for Taproot now. Posted June 15, 2020.
The Path to Taproot Activation
almkglor provides an overview of how we will enable Taproot. Posted June 13, 2020.
Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation
Reed Womack shares a meditation on scarcity and Bitcoin. POsted July 11, 2020.
Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet
JP Koning makes the case that Bitcoin is so early, it is much more like a hobby than revolutionary money at this point.
Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Masters and Slaves of Money
Robert Breedlove explains how masters of money are the real problem and how Bitcoin is the path to freedom. Posted July 5, 2020.
Freedom Money – Bitcoin and the First Amendment
Hector Rosenkrans makes the case for Bitcoin as an essential liberty like the First Amendment. Posted July 4, 2020.
There will be bitcoin.
Steve Barbour makes the case that the future of oil and gas is Bitcoin. Posted June 23, 2020.
Security
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Security Budget in the Long Run
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FUD
Back to top ↑Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
Bitcoin mythbusting
David shares a thoughtful piece on Bitcoin FUD. Posted April 14, 2020.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme
Parker Lewis addresses yet more FUD. Posted October 18, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis demystifies Bitcoin inherent values and explains how things work. Posted September 27, 2019.
Bitcoin and Energy Consumption - Rebuttal
Dr. C lays out rebuttals to several Bitcoin energy consumption arguments. Posted July 16, 2019.
Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
Seven Myths of Bitcoin
George Kikvadze kills some common FUD. Posted March 2, 2018.
I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Scaling
Back to top ↑SNARKs and the future of blockchains
Ruben Somsen explains what SNARKs can and can’t do for blockchain. Posted October 3, 2020.
2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
Ten Million Bitcoiners
Cory Klippsten makes the case for on-boarding the next 10million Bitcoiners. Posted February 21, 2020/
A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
Bitcoin is Not Too Slow
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin is not too slow, why it operates at the speed it does, and how it will scale. Posted August 23, 2019.
Statechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin Transfer
Ruben Somsen lays out his proposal for statechains, a novel way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain. Posted June 4, 2019.
How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Crypto Innovation Spotlight: Schnorr Signatures
Spencer Bogart highlights some key features in Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 22, 2018.
Bitcoin turning into a multi layered system is the most interesting thing in crypto in 2018
Ber Kessels shares his opinion and excitement about Lightning network.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Erik Cason
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto
Erik shares some glorious opinions on Satoshi Nakamoto. Posted October 24, 2019.
Crypto without Criticisms
Erik Cason explains how semantics matter and how we can build a better future with crypto. Posted October 7, 2019.
The Encrypted Meaning of Crypto
Erik Cason
The Theological Conquest of Money
Erik Cason explores the messianic creation of Bitcoin as our hope to end the tyranny of central banking. Posted August 26, 2019.
The Sovereign, the Subject, and Crypto-power
Erik Cason describes the power crypto brings to the individual. Posted June 24, 2019.
The Political Theology of Crypto
Erik Cason examines the power of crypto’s political theology. Posted June 11, 2019.
Cryptosovereignty
Erik lay’s out the framework for a future based on crypto rather than man’s subjective views. Posted February 3, 2019.
Dan Held
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Marketing
Dan Held tweets about Bitcoin and marketing. Posted June 16, 2020.
Information Theory of Money
Dan Held explains how Bitcoin will reshape our society. Posted December 27, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Security is Fine
Dan Held examines the growing Bitcoin network and explains how it’s security is growing and how it will be sustained over time via fees rather than block sub...
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin as SoV
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Planting Bitcoin — Species
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Planting Bitcoin — Soil
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Planting Bitcoin — Season
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Planting Bitcoin — Gardening
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Bitcoin’s Distribution was Fair
Dan Held’s take on Bitcoin’s distribution, posted October 4, 2018
PoW is Efficient
Dan Held makes the case for PoW being an efficient use of energy. Posted September 14, 2019.
Hodlers are the Revolutionaries
Dan Held explains why hodlers are important to Bitcoin’s network. Posted August 31, 2018.
Beautyon
Back to top ↑Misjudging Bitcoin
Beautyon explore how a court ruling on Bitcoin mischaracterizes it. Posted July 27, 2020.
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On making Bitcoin easier
Small tweetstorm from Beautyon regarding making Bitcoin easier. Posted October 1, 2019.
When the Price of Bitcoin Rises
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The Bitcoin Light Bulb Moment
Beautyon shares thightbulb moment for Bitcoin compared to the evolution of lightbulbs. Posted January 8th 2019.
Bitcoin is the “c” of Money
Beautyon explores Bitcoin as a monetary standard. Posted June 13, 2018.
Maduro’s Mint of King Cnut
Beautyon makes the case that Maduro’s attempt to create a new money will fail and any distraction to Bitcoin is a good thing because it gets stronger over ti...
Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin
Beautyon explains why Bitcoin is unregulatable. Posted March 15, 2018.
Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
The Bitcoin Future: Super Cell London
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Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Blockchain
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - Bitcoin and NoSQL
Dhruv Bansal compares Bitcoin and NoSQL. Posted August 3, 2020
The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Falling empires, Corporate Fiat and the fate of Bitcoin
Mariana Trip pens a solid read on the coming Bitcoin revolution thanks to loose monetary policy from central bankers. Posted April 7, 2020.
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
Parker Lewis makes a strong case on why it’s all about Bitcoin, not blockchain. Posted September 6, 2019.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland
Nic Carter looks at the mythical word that has everyone scratching their head… “blockchain”. He proposes what we should do with this word. Posted October 5, ...
Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
Grisha Trubetskoy explains how a PoW blockchain is a clock. Posted January 23, 2018.
Tamas Blummer
Back to top ↑How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer explains how soft forks might work. Posted April 17, 2019.
Bitcoin Mining Fees and Storage Costs
Tamas makes the case for miners requiring certain fee threshold in order to include transactions in their blocks. Posted October 14, 2019.
Floor on Bitcoin’s risk less interest rate
Tamas Blummer makes the case for a floor on Bitcoin riskless interest rates. Posted September 11, 2019.
Full Reserve Banking with Bitcoin
Tamas Blummer makes the case for full reserve banking with Bitcoin as the reserve asset. Posted June 28, 2019.
There Can Be Only One
Tamas Blummer makes his case for Bitcoin’s strongest argument, the definition of time with computation. Posted June 18, 2019.
Hedging mining difficulty
Tamas Blummer
How to bribe miners to re-org?
Tamas Blummer shares a scenario of a Bitcoin reorg. Posted May 8, 2019.
Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Liveliness of Bitcoin
Tamas Blummer explains Bitcoin Liveliness and what it means as an indicator. Posted December 29, 2018.
Michael Suede
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Resource Allocation And Interest Rate Distortion
Michael Suede examines interest rates in a Bitcoin standard. Posted July 6, 2011.
Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – How Bitcoins Act As Money
Michael Suede looks at monetary properties of Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2011
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Libertarian Goldbugs Hating On Bitcoin – Free Market Money
Michael explains why Libertarian Goldbugs are hating on Bitcoin. Posted June 6, 2011.
How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
The Most Dangerous Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede shares a quick reflection on Bitcoin as a major threat to governments. Posted May 26, 2011.
Lightning
Back to top ↑MPPs & Wumbo Channels - Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
Roy Sheinfeld explains Wumbo and MPP on Lightning Network. Posted September 14, 2020.
Lightning is the Better Way to HODL
Roy Sheinfeld shares the case for keeping your Bitcoin in Lightning Network. Posted August 31, 2020.
The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
The Moral Case for Lightning
Alex Gladstein makes the moral case for Lighning. Posted July 25, 2019.
Bitcoin turning into a multi layered system is the most interesting thing in crypto in 2018
Ber Kessels shares his opinion and excitement about Lightning network.
The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
Robert Breedlove
Back to top ↑Our Most Brilliant Idea
Robert expands on the philosophy of Bitcoin. Posted November 1, 2020.
Masters and Slaves of Money
Robert Breedlove explains how masters of money are the real problem and how Bitcoin is the path to freedom. Posted July 5, 2020.
The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Tyranny of Time Scarcity
Robert Breedlove makes the case for harnessing time scarcity as a means to break free of the monetary shackles put upon us by the state. Posted December 19, ...
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove addresses macro investing legend, Ray Dalio, regarding his position on Bitcoin. Posted November 8, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Common Tongue
Robert Breedlove shed’s some light on the Bitcoin and cryptoasset universe in an exoteric nutshell. Posted June 19, 2019.
Money, Bitcoin and Time: 3 of 3
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Money, Bitcoin and Time: 2 of 3
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Money, Bitcoin and Time: 1 of 3
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Fiat
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Once Inflation Starts, It Won’t Be Contained
Gael Sannchez Smith explores how and why inflation can’t be stopped. Posted June 12, 2020.
Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
What Does Bitcoin Really Represent?
Sylvain Saurel examines what’s really behind Bitcoin. Posted May 15, 2020.
Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
Falling empires, Corporate Fiat and the fate of Bitcoin
Mariana Trip pens a solid read on the coming Bitcoin revolution thanks to loose monetary policy from central bankers. Posted April 7, 2020.
The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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CY20 Q2
Back to top ↑Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
A Rebels Renaissance
Stefen Reid shares a great article about the Bitcoin revolution. Posted April 23, 2020
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
THE HONEY BADGER
A Man in Black shares a short story about Bitcoin. Posted April, 2020.
21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
Choose your Fiction
Arthur Hayes writes an epic opinion piece on the current markets and whats to come. Posted April 9, 2020.
Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
Markets
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is One for All
Parker Lewis makes the case for Bitcoin for everyone. Posted August 27, 2020.
Different bitcoins different prices
JP Koning explains why Bitcoins fetch different prices. Posted September 2, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
The Complex Market Hypothesis
In which I hypothesise that markets are subjective, uncertain, complex, stochastic, adaptive, fractal, reflexive… — really any clever sounding adjective you ...
Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
Network Effects
Back to top ↑Balinese Cockfights & Bitcoins
Mick Morucci draws the comparison between cockfighters and Bitcoiners. Poseted August 17, 2020.
Bitcoin Needs You As Much as You Need Bitcoin
Sylvain Saurel explains the relationship between the protocol and the individual. Posted June 13, 2020.
The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Parker Lewis demystifies Bitcoin inherent values and explains how things work. Posted September 27, 2019.
On Schelling points, network effects and Lindy: Inherent properties of communication
Willem Van Den Bergh explains why schelling point, network effects, and Lindy effects make Bitcoin so strong. Posted June 29, 2018.
Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Bitcoin Post-Maximalism
Paul Sztorc lays out what happens after everyone is a Bitcoin maximalist, when the disagreements inevitably creep back in and offers a solution to scale. Pos...
Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Price
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
The Many Angles of Bitcoin Adoption
Phil Bonello explains what’s enabling Bitcoin adoption. Posted February 12, 2020.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
The Perfect Storm: Why Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2020 is different from Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2017
Marc van der Chijs explains the difference between Bitcoin today and in 2017, hint, lots. Posted February 13, 2020
Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
When the Price of Bitcoin Rises
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Stop comparing Bitcoin to the internet
Dhruv Bansal explains why 1 BTC will be worth $1M. Posted January 19, 2018.
Consensus
Back to top ↑The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
Sven Scnieders points out some of Bitcoin’s antifragile properties.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Welcome to Bitcoin Club, Here Are the Rules
Sylvain Saurel shares a fun read laying out the unspoken rules of Bitcoin modeled after the movie Fight Club. Posted February 27, 2020.
Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Reddit Response: Question on the Vulnerability of Bitcoin
Greg Maxwell posts a reply to the Bitcoin 51% attack vulnerability. Posted October 10, 2019.
We Need Bitcoin Full Nodes. Economic Ones.
Stadicus makes the case for more full nodes. Posted August 1, 2019.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Cryptography
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Conquest of Privacy
Erik Cason explores the role Bitcoin will play in our struggle to reclaim privacy. Posted May 21, 2020.
The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
Johannes Trithemius, Archmage of Secrets
David Morris shares the story of the first known cryptographer. Posted November 6, 2019.
Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
Monetary Properties
Back to top ↑The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
The Meaningless “Competition Maximalism”
Rollo McFloogle defends maximalism as pro competition. Posted April 6, 2019.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Money is about credibly representing value transactions
acrual explains what money represents. Posted February 5, 2020.
Bending Bitcoin — The Principle of Hard Money
Ben Kaufman explains hard money and why Bitcoin is such. Posted December 30, 2019
Bitcoin is the “c” of Money
Beautyon explores Bitcoin as a monetary standard. Posted June 13, 2018.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – How Bitcoins Act As Money
Michael Suede looks at monetary properties of Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2011
Austrian Economics
Back to top ↑Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
The Costs that Haunt Your Dreams of Hyperbitcoinization
Emil explores what’s standing in the way of hyperbitcoinization. Posted September 3, 2020.
Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Ignorance about Bitcoin Disguised as Caution
Rollo McFloogle debunks a recent piece by Austrian economist Jeffrey Tucker, and in doing so builds a case for Bitcoin. Posted December 7, 2019.
Applying Carl Menger to the Monetization of Bitcoin
Rollo McFloogle the relationship between principles from Carl Menger and Bitcoin. Posted August 25, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
Scarcity
Back to top ↑Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation
Reed Womack shares a meditation on scarcity and Bitcoin. POsted July 11, 2020.
The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Bitcoin, life, and time.
zen ₿ shares a quick read on time a scarcity. Posted November 5, 2019.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Dhruv Bansal
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy: Part II
In this part, we continue to follow the energy and speculate about how money and society coevolve as humanity expands through space.
Tweet Thread - Bitcoin and NoSQL
Dhruv Bansal compares Bitcoin and NoSQL. Posted August 3, 2020
Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 3): Dust & Thermodynamics
By Dhruv Bansal, Posted December 18, 2018
Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 2): The Geology of Lost Coins
By Dhruv Bansal, Posted May 29, 2018
Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 1): HODL Waves
By Dhruv Bansal, Posted April 17, 2018
Stop comparing Bitcoin to the internet
Dhruv Bansal explains why 1 BTC will be worth $1M. Posted January 19, 2018.
Revolution
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
A Peaceful Protest - Opt-Out, Buy Bitcoin
Adam Pokornicky makes the case to opt out. Posted June 8, 2020.
Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
A most peaceful revolution
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the revolution we have been waiting for. Posted September 7, 2019.
Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
Hugo Nguyen
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: Two Parts Math, One Part Biology
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Bitcoin’s Incentive Scheme and the Rational Individual
Bitcoin’s Incentive Scheme and the Rational Individual By Hugo Nguyen December 24, 2018
How Cryptography Redefines Private Property
By Hugo Nguyen, posted November 26, 2018. This is part 3 of a 5 part series.
Work is Timeless, Stake is Not
This is a brief look at some of the arguments of Proof of Stake. By Hugo Nguyen, posted October 12, 2018
Bitcoin, Chance and Randomness
Hugo Nguyen looks at the virtues of randomness and examines how it powers PoW. Posted August 25, 2018.
Bitcoin, Stock & Flow
Hugo Nguyen lays out one of the core fundamentals of Bitcoin’s value proposition, stock to flow. Posted August 15, 2018.
Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
Hugo Nguyen explains why PoS is flawed. Posted March 18,2018.
The Anatomy of Proof-of-Work
By Hugo Nguyen, posted February 10, 2018. This is part 1 of a 5 part series.
Banking
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Religion
Back to top ↑The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Oxhearding
Dennis Reimann applies the 10 Buddhist Oxhearding principles to Bitcoin. Posted November 4, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
The Political Theology of Crypto
Erik Cason examines the power of crypto’s political theology. Posted June 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Conner Brown
Back to top ↑Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin rescues the human
Conner Brown shares a brief tweetstorm on Bitcoin rescuing humanity from itself. Posted June 3, 2019.
Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin is the ultimate store of wealth BECAUSE it has no intrinsic value. Posted May 8, 2019.
Libertarian
Back to top ↑Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
The Meaningless “Competition Maximalism”
Rollo McFloogle defends maximalism as pro competition. Posted April 6, 2019.
Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Libertarian Goldbugs Hating On Bitcoin – Free Market Money
Michael explains why Libertarian Goldbugs are hating on Bitcoin. Posted June 6, 2011.
Deflation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
Why Bitcoin’s volatility can only decrease, but it will take a bit longer
acrual explains why Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time. Posted February 19, 2020.
Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Government
Back to top ↑Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Humans Can’t Be Trusted To Govern Over Our Money
Nik shares a quick read on why man can’t be trusted with monetary policy. Posted April 24, 2020.
Bitcoin is good for your government’s treasury
FF2K puts it simply, Bitcoin is good for Government. Posted January 26, 2020.
The Startup Government
Tim Draper looks at how Bitcoin and other technologies will shape our future. Posted October 10, 2019.
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
Technical Analysis
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Debunking Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Marcel Burger digs into the corridor of growth. Posted November 30, 2019
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Inflation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Once Inflation Starts, It Won’t Be Contained
Gael Sannchez Smith explores how and why inflation can’t be stopped. Posted June 12, 2020.
Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Why Bitcoin Works
Jimmy song makes the case for Bitcoin versus soft money. Posted April 17, 2018.
Pierre Rochard
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is the world’s only independent central bank
Pierre Rochard shares a simple chart that illustrates the title. Posted November 22, 2019.
Tweet: This is my favorite graph, what’s yours?
Pierre Rochard posts his favorite Bitcoin graph. Posted July 31, 2019.
Why learn to program with Bitcoin’s Lightning network?
Very simple fundamentals on why you should pick up Lightning Network. Posted by Pierre Rochard on May 7, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Buyers of Last Resort
By Pierre Rochard, posted October 18, 2018
Bitcoin Governance
Pierre Rochard lays out how Bitcoin governance works in a decentralized manner. Posted July 8, 2018.
Bitcoin Investment Theses (Part 2)
Pierre Rochard outlines Part 2 of 3 Bitcoin investment theses. Posted June 24, 2018.
Bitcoin Investment Theses (Part 1)
Pierre Rochard outlines Part 1 of 3 Bitcoin investment theses. Posted June 9, 2018.
Brandon Quittem
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm - Bitcoin and the power of incentives
Brandon Quittem explores the incentives of Bitcoin. Posted November 14, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History
Brandon explores how humanity repeats itself and what role Bitcoin plays in the current world. Posted October 29, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Bitcoin is the Antivirus (Mushroom Medicine) — Part 3/4
Brandon Quittem expands on his 4 part series drawing comparisons between mushrooms and Bitcoin. Posted June 20, 2019.
Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Bitcoin is a Social Creature (Mushroom) — Part 2/4
By Brandon Quittem, Posted December 28, 2018
Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) — Part 1/4
By Brandon Quittem, Posted December 11, 2018.
Gold
Back to top ↑Different bitcoins different prices
JP Koning explains why Bitcoins fetch different prices. Posted September 2, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Global Standard of Value
Paul Knight makes the case for Bitcoin as a global store of value. Posted February 1, 2020.
The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
The Triumvirate of Liquidity
Nik Bhatia explains how Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world’s next risk-free asset. Posted November 6, ...
Time
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History
Brandon explores how humanity repeats itself and what role Bitcoin plays in the current world. Posted October 29, 2020.
You don’t care about, “The Price of the Internet” so ignore the price of Bitcoin
Beautyon makes the case to ignore Bitcoin price because it is inevitable. Posted March 9, 2020.
Bitcoin, life, and time.
zen ₿ shares a quick read on time a scarcity. Posted November 5, 2019.
Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
Grisha Trubetskoy explains how a PoW blockchain is a clock. Posted January 23, 2018.
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
Fiction
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
THE HONEY BADGER
A Man in Black shares a short story about Bitcoin. Posted April, 2020.
The Last Mortal Man
Part 2 from Hased Entropy’s series of short stories. Posted November 13, 2019.
What Hath Satoshi Wrought
Hashed Entropy shares the first in a future series of short stories. Posted November 2, 2019.
I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
Hyperbitcoinization
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy: Part II
In this part, we continue to follow the energy and speculate about how money and society coevolve as humanity expands through space.
The Costs that Haunt Your Dreams of Hyperbitcoinization
Emil explores what’s standing in the way of hyperbitcoinization. Posted September 3, 2020.
Choose your Fiction
Arthur Hayes writes an epic opinion piece on the current markets and whats to come. Posted April 9, 2020.
The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes
Joe Rodgers explores the idea of the Bitcoin diaspora. Posted March 11, 2020.
My Plan for Hyperbitcoinization
Elaine lays out her plan for hyperbitcoinization. Lookout Captain Kirk! Posted January 13, 2018.
Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
Fees
Back to top ↑The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
Bitcoin Mining Fees and Storage Costs
Tamas makes the case for miners requiring certain fee threshold in order to include transactions in their blocks. Posted October 14, 2019.
The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Security Budget in the Long Run
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The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Charts
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
Tweetstorm: 5 Insanely Bullish Charts for Bitcoin
James Todaro shares a couple charts that show a bullish case for Bitcoin. Posted September 20, 2019.
Tweetstorm: 21 Charts
Hans Hauge shares 21 charts that paint a wonderful picture on the state of Bitcoin. Posted September 10, 2019.
Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Human Rights
Back to top ↑A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
The Moral Case for Lightning
Alex Gladstein makes the moral case for Lighning. Posted July 25, 2019.
A Human Rights Activist’s Response to Bitcoin Critics
Alex Gladstein responds to critics and makes the case for Bitcoin. Posted February 19, 2019.
Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin
Beautyon explains why Bitcoin is unregulatable. Posted March 15, 2018.
How Blockchains Will Enable Privacy
Shaan Ray describes a private future enabled by blockchain. Posted March 3, 2018.
TA
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Performance Against Bitcoin
Willy Woo shares a chart that illustrates alt performance in BTC. Posted August 17, 2019.
Introducing the Difficulty Ribbon, signaling the best times to buy Bitcoin
Willy Woo introduces a new signal, the Difficulty Ribbon. Posted August 1, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?
Tobias Huber lays out a basic model for predicting bitcoin price bubbles. Posted March 16, 2018.
Nik Bhatia
Back to top ↑The Triumvirate of Liquidity
Nik Bhatia explains how Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world’s next risk-free asset. Posted November 6, ...
Bitcoin Is a Human Right
Nik Bhatia makes the case for Bitcoin as a human right. Posted July 12, 2019.
The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
The Bitcoin Second Layer
Nik Bhatia lays out a the baseline for a 4 part series on Lightning Network. In this post, he draws similarities between LN and paper gold, with differences....
The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum
Part 3 of Nik Bhatia’s 4 part Lightning Network thesis. This post looks at the bitcoin risk spectrum. Posted July 9, 2018.
The Time Value of Bitcoin
Part 2 of a 4 part series, Nik Bhatia’s thesis on the Lightning Network. In this post he explains the time-value of bitcoin. Posted June 8, 2019.
David Puell
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: PUELL’S 21 LAWS OF BITCOIN
David lays out the unwritten laws of Bitcoin. Posted September 9, 2020.
Bitcoin Average Dormancy
David Puell and Reginald Smith explore dormancy as a metric of Bitcoin’s long-term economic health. Posted June 20, 2019.
Experiments on Cumulative Destruction
David Puell and Willy Woo lay out new models for the concept of destruction into price analysis. Posted April 9, 2019.
Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Bitcoin Market-Value-to-Realized-Value (MVRV) Ratio
David Puell and Murad Mahmudov propose MVRV as an important mettric for Bitcoin. Posted October 1, 2018
Tweetstorm: The essence of Bitcoin
Inspired Pierre Rochard, David Puell shares a great visual on the essence of Bitcoin. Posted September 14, 2019.
Anthony Pompliano
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
Bitcoin Did The Things That Didn’t Scale Initially, Which Is Why It Remains The King Today
Anthony Pompliano draws comparisons between Bitcoin’s early days and advice to startups from Paul Graham. Posted August 19, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Smarter Than Politicians And Central Bankers
Anthony Pompliano makes the case (again) for Bitcoin. Posted July 8, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Department of Defense: The Case For A Global Reserve Currency With No Guns
Anthony Pompliano rings the bell for a peaceful Bitcoin revolution. Posted July 1, 2019.
Bitcoin fundamentals continue to strengthen
Pomp posts another fire post. If you like charts, you’ll love this one. Posted April 23, 2019.
The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument
One of the best arguments for Bitcoin. Pomp is an eternal bull and Murad is a stoic wise man. Together they tell a beautiful story. Read this or click throug...
Su Zhu
Back to top ↑Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Investing in Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Why Monetary Maximalism could fall short of expectations
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Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Bitcoin and the Promise of Independent Property Rights A framework for skeptics, part 3 By Su Zhu and Hasu Posted December 13, 20...
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract A framework for skeptics By Su Zhu and Hasu Posted December 3, 2018
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: An Honest Account of Fiat Money
By Su Zhu and Hasu, Posted November 21, 2018. This is part 1 of a 4 part series.
Metrics
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Over 75 percent of Bitcoin’s On–Chain Volume Doesn’t Change Hands
Rafael Schultze-Kraft looks at volume on-chain and explains why he thinks Bitcoin is not changing hands. Posted February 13, 2020.
Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Antifragile
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Antifragile
Parker Lewis descirbes how Bitcoin is antifragile. Posted June 12, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
Sven Scnieders points out some of Bitcoin’s antifragile properties.
Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Bitcoin Cannot be Banned
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin cannot be banned. Posted November 8, 2019
Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
Investing
Back to top ↑Bitcoin In The Institutional Investment Portfolio
Marcel Burger makes the case for hodling Bitcoin in an institutional portfolio. POsted September 18, 2020.
Once Inflation Starts, It Won’t Be Contained
Gael Sannchez Smith explores how and why inflation can’t be stopped. Posted June 12, 2020.
3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin
Lyn Alden shares an in depth reason for making a position in Bitcoin. Posted July 17, 2020.
Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Bitcoin As a Startup
Hass McCook lays out his thesis on how Bitcoin is evolving in stages much like a startup raises capital. Posted December 29, 2019
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Investing in Bitcoin
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S2F
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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acrual
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin’s volatility can only decrease, but it will take a bit longer
acrual explains why Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time. Posted February 19, 2020.
Some conclusions after learning Bitcoin
acrual shares some learnings. Posted February 15, 2020.
Money is about credibly representing value transactions
acrual explains what money represents. Posted February 5, 2020.
Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Volatility as information
Acrualdigs into the power of volatility in this quick read. Posted October 31, 2019
Money and time
Acrual shares a quick perspective on why Bitcoin is the best way to value time. Posted October 17, 2019.
PoW
Back to top ↑The Real Wisdom behind Proof of Work
Ferdous Bhai shares a couple thoughts about the magic of PoW. Posted Octover 29, 2019.
Tweet: Proof of Work Equivalent Days
Bitcoin peaks ATH for PoW equivalent days. Posted by Nic Carter on August 1, 2019.
Understanding (and Mitigating) Re-Orgs
Anthony Lusardi explains re-orgs in simple terms. Posted May 21, 2019.
Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
Hugo Nguyen explains why PoS is flawed. Posted March 18,2018.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Competition
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
The Meaningless “Competition Maximalism”
Rollo McFloogle defends maximalism as pro competition. Posted April 6, 2019.
Security Budget in the Long Run
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Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
Design
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Antifragile
Parker Lewis descirbes how Bitcoin is antifragile. Posted June 12, 2020.
Citadels and Pandemics
Yuri de Gaia examines a future of citadels. Posted March 25, 2020.
Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
Fed
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Humans Can’t Be Trusted To Govern Over Our Money
Nik shares a quick read on why man can’t be trusted with monetary policy. Posted April 24, 2020.
Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Spencer Bogart
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Demographic Mega-Trend: Data Analysis
Spencer Bogart takes a look at survey data that shows Bitcoin is top of mind in young adults mind. Posted April 30, 2019.
Lightning is Only the Beginning: The Emerging Bitcoin Stack
Spencer Bogart shares thoughts on the emerging layers in the Bitcoin network, Lightning and beyond. Posted April 25, 2019
The Internet’s Magna Carta Moment: Bitcoin & The Value of Strong Assurances
Posted May 20, 2018, Spencer Bogart explains the importance of Bitcoin, “networks like Bitcoin offer a fertile foundation for economic growth in the digital ...
The Long Game in Crypto: Why Decentralization Matters
Spencer Bogart shares his opinion why decentralization matters. Posted April 25, 2018.
Crypto Innovation Spotlight: Schnorr Signatures
Spencer Bogart highlights some key features in Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 22, 2018.
Vijay Boyapati
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
Tweet Thread - What Bitcoin is
Vijay Boyapati shares a tweet thread on the great debate about what Bitcoin is and why only one of the two major visions makes sense. Posted June 22, 2020.
Tweetstorm: Touchpoints
Vijay Boyapati shares a strategy for engaging people with Bitcoin. Posted June 4, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin’s 10 Year Anniversary
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The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Jimmy Song
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Jimmy on the reorg
Classic Jimmy Song on the Bitcoin reorg conversation. Posted May 8, 2019.
Why Blockchain is Not the Answer
A reexamination at a failed narrative. Jimmy Song makes the case that blockchain is nothing without Bitcoin. Posted May 7, 2019.
Why Bitcoin Works
Jimmy song makes the case for Bitcoin versus soft money. Posted April 17, 2018.
Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Why Bitcoin is Different
Jimmy explains why Bitcoin is different from cryptocurrency. Posted April 2, 2018.
2018 Q2
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin Works
Jimmy song makes the case for Bitcoin versus soft money. Posted April 17, 2018.
Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Why Bitcoin is Different
Jimmy explains why Bitcoin is different from cryptocurrency. Posted April 2, 2018.
Network
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Bitcoin Operating System
Aleksander Svetski makes the case for Bitcoin as a new monetary network, not a payments technology.
Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Security Budget in the Long Run
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Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Murad Mahmudov
Back to top ↑The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument
One of the best arguments for Bitcoin. Pomp is an eternal bull and Murad is a stoic wise man. Together they tell a beautiful story. Read this or click throug...
Bitcoin Market-Value-to-Realized-Value (MVRV) Ratio
David Puell and Murad Mahmudov propose MVRV as an important mettric for Bitcoin. Posted October 1, 2018
Bitcoin: Past and Future
Posted May 30, 2018 by Adam Tache and Murad Mahmudov, this article will analyze these perspectives by discussing trade-offs, philosophical divides within the...
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin will usher an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity
Essential tweetstorm from Murad on a great vision of a Bitcoin future. Posted April 14, 2018.
The Many Faces of Bitcoin
Adam Taché and Murad Mahmudov discuss four schools of thought related to Bitcoin. Posted April 10, 2018.
Rules
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: PUELL’S 21 LAWS OF BITCOIN
David lays out the unwritten laws of Bitcoin. Posted September 9, 2020.
Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Welcome to Bitcoin Club, Here Are the Rules
Sylvain Saurel shares a fun read laying out the unspoken rules of Bitcoin modeled after the movie Fight Club. Posted February 27, 2020.
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Space
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy: Part II
In this part, we continue to follow the energy and speculate about how money and society coevolve as humanity expands through space.
The AlienCoin Attack Vector
Knut Svanholm explores the idea of a better alien money that could disrupt Bitcoin. Posted July 29, 2020.
Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
L2
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Yassine Elmandjra
Back to top ↑Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
Tweet: Bitcoin’s year to year price level
Yassine Elmandjra posts a post that sums it all up. Posted July 23, 2019.
A Conflict of Crypto Visions
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Bitcoin: Winner Takes Most or Winner Takes All?
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Taproot
Back to top ↑Tweet Storm - About Schnorr Sigs
Ben Carman explains Schnorr Signatures at a high level. Posted November 22, 2020.
2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
Taproot: Why Activate?
almkglor makes the case for Taproot now. Posted June 15, 2020.
The Path to Taproot Activation
almkglor provides an overview of how we will enable Taproot. Posted June 13, 2020.
Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
Indicator
Back to top ↑Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops
Renato Shirakashi introduces SOPR, which is a new oscillating indicator that signals when major supply changes occur. Posted April 25, 2019.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Alex Gladstein
Back to top ↑A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
The Moral Case for Lightning
Alex Gladstein makes the moral case for Lighning. Posted July 25, 2019.
Bitcoin could change the game for foreign aid
Alex Gladstein makes the case for Bitcoin as a powerful tool to move money to people in need where they might not be able to receive foreign aid. Posted May ...
A Human Rights Activist’s Response to Bitcoin Critics
Alex Gladstein responds to critics and makes the case for Bitcoin. Posted February 19, 2019.
Stock to Flow
Back to top ↑Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Roy Sheinfeld
Back to top ↑MPPs & Wumbo Channels - Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
Roy Sheinfeld explains Wumbo and MPP on Lightning Network. Posted September 14, 2020.
Lightning is the Better Way to HODL
Roy Sheinfeld shares the case for keeping your Bitcoin in Lightning Network. Posted August 31, 2020.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
Why Bitcoin Needs to Become a Medium of Exchange
Roy Sheinfeld makes the case for why Bitcoin needs to become a MoE asap. Posted July 29, 2019.
Lightning at the End of the Tunnel
Roy Sheinfeld reviews the road ahead for Lightning adoption. Posted May 14, 2019.
Bitcoin Times
Back to top ↑The rise of the individual.
Aleksander Svetski shares his thoughts on the rise of self sovereignty as a revolutionary idea, all made possible by Bitcoin. Posted December 31, 2019
Information Theory of Money
Dan Held explains how Bitcoin will reshape our society. Posted December 27, 2019.
Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
Bitcoin Operating System
Aleksander Svetski makes the case for Bitcoin as a new monetary network, not a payments technology.
Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Sylvain Saurel
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Needs You As Much as You Need Bitcoin
Sylvain Saurel explains the relationship between the protocol and the individual. Posted June 13, 2020.
What Does Bitcoin Really Represent?
Sylvain Saurel examines what’s really behind Bitcoin. Posted May 15, 2020.
Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Welcome to Bitcoin Club, Here Are the Rules
Sylvain Saurel shares a fun read laying out the unspoken rules of Bitcoin modeled after the movie Fight Club. Posted February 27, 2020.
Halving
Back to top ↑Visualization of the halving’s supply shock
Croesus shares a visual explanation of how the halving creates a supply shock on Bitcoin. Posted October 23, 2020.
Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
The Halving or Halvening
Aleksander Svetski posts another epic piece
Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Tweet Thread
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
Tweet Thread: PUELL’S 21 LAWS OF BITCOIN
David lays out the unwritten laws of Bitcoin. Posted September 9, 2020.
Tweet Thread: What is an xpub?
Danny lays out the basics of xpubs. Posted August 30, 2020.
Manifesto
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman pens the Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 19, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman lsays out the framework for his interprutation of a Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 18, 2019.
Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Anarchy
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Anarchy and Monarchy - A Natural State
Yuri de Gaia shares a post that draws comparisons between monarch and anarchy. POsted May 1, 2020.
The Encrypted Meaning of Crypto
Erik Cason
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Canon
Back to top ↑The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Proof of Work
Back to top ↑The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
The Real Wisdom behind Proof of Work
Ferdous Bhai shares a couple thoughts about the magic of PoW. Posted Octover 29, 2019.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Liberty
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Why Bitcoin Matters
Posted March 15, 2019 by Aleks Svetski, this article explains why Bitcoin matters.
Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
The Most Dangerous Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede shares a quick reflection on Bitcoin as a major threat to governments. Posted May 26, 2011.
Gold Standard
Back to top ↑Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
The Ridiculousness Of Demanding Government Return To A Gold Standard
Michael Suede points out the flaws of a return to the gold standard. Posted June 28, 2011.
Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
Elaine Ou
Back to top ↑How to Resist Censorship with Bitcoin
Elaine shares how to destroy financial censorship is simply by using Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020
Bitcoin is for Stackers
Elaine shares why Bitcoin is growing slowly, namely Gresham’s Law. Posted October 17, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
My Plan for Hyperbitcoinization
Elaine lays out her plan for hyperbitcoinization. Lookout Captain Kirk! Posted January 13, 2018.
Schnorr Signatures
Back to top ↑Tweet Storm - About Schnorr Sigs
Ben Carman explains Schnorr Signatures at a high level. Posted November 22, 2020.
Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
Crypto Innovation Spotlight: Schnorr Signatures
Spencer Bogart highlights some key features in Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 22, 2018.
Excited for Schnorr signatures
Murch recaps the pending BIP technology, Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 3, 2018.
Financial Journal
Back to top ↑Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?
Tobias Huber lays out a basic model for predicting bitcoin price bubbles. Posted March 16, 2018.
Network Effect
Back to top ↑Things Bitcoiners Don’t Want To Hear
Shinobi discusses the hard reality of thermodynamics. Posted September 16, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
Security Budget in the Long Run
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Why Bitcoin is Different
Jimmy explains why Bitcoin is different from cryptocurrency. Posted April 2, 2018.
Paul Sztorc
Back to top ↑Security Budget in the Long Run
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Expensive Privacy is Useless Privacy
Paul Sztorc lays out a case for privacy and why it must be a core tenant of Bitcoin. Posted September 11, 2018.
Meditations on Fraud Proofs
Paul Sztorc explains the ins and outs of Fraud proofs. Fraud Proofs address the problem of learning that a Bitcoin header is invalid (despite it being PoW va...
Bitcoin Post-Maximalism
Paul Sztorc lays out what happens after everyone is a Bitcoin maximalist, when the disagreements inevitably creep back in and offers a solution to scale. Pos...
Lucas Nuzzi
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: A Decade in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi hammers out a recap of Bitcoin’s last decade. Posted December 5, 2019.
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi describes what Schnorr Signatures mean for Bitcoin. Posted March 13, 2019.
A Guide To Bitcoin’s Technical Brilliance (For Non-Programmers)
Lucas Nuzzi attempts to provide a semi-technical guide to key aspects of Bitcoin’s technology. Posted April 15, 2018
Incentives
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm - Bitcoin and the power of incentives
Brandon Quittem explores the incentives of Bitcoin. Posted November 14, 2020.
Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Hass McCook
Back to top ↑A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
Bitcoin As a Startup
Hass McCook lays out his thesis on how Bitcoin is evolving in stages much like a startup raises capital. Posted December 29, 2019
The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
The Cost and Sustainability of Bitcoin
Hass MCCook provides a systematic methodology of modelling the environmental and economic costs of Bitcoin. Posted August 2018.
LaurentMT
Back to top ↑Electric Money
LaurentMT explains the value in PoW and proposes this piece as an entry piece for further discussion. Posted September 17, 2018.
Cliffhangers
Part 3 in a 3 part series, LaurentMT looks at the idea of an optimal age of the UTXOs to measure how far the system is running from its optimum. Posted Septe...
The Yin and Yang of Bitcoin
Part 2 in a 3 part series, LaurentMT examines new metrics regarding mining effects and hodling over the efficiency of PoW. Posted September 3, 2018.
Gravity
Part 1 of a 3 part series, LaurentMT examines why average cost per transaction isn’t a good way to measure PoW efficiency. Posted August 27, 2018.
Jameson Lopp
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Who controls Bitcoin Core?
By Jameson Lopp, Posted December 15, 2018
A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal
Jameson Lopp has been doxxed and wants to help you stay safe. In this post, he lays out a framework to protect your privacy. Posted September 29, 2018.
Layer 2
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
2019 Q1
Back to top ↑Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman pens the Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 19, 2019.
How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Governance
Back to top ↑Home On The Range
Sovereign.615 outlines a framework for a Bitcoin citadel charter. Posted October 21,2020
Bitcoin, Not Blockchain
Parker Lewis makes a strong case on why it’s all about Bitcoin, not blockchain. Posted September 6, 2019.
Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach
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Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Attack
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Lightning Network
Back to top ↑Why we may fail Lightning
Antoine Riard explains why Lightning might be doomed or what we can do to push the stack forward. Posted September 28, 2020.
Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Willy Woo
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Performance Against Bitcoin
Willy Woo shares a chart that illustrates alt performance in BTC. Posted August 17, 2019.
Introducing the Difficulty Ribbon, signaling the best times to buy Bitcoin
Willy Woo introduces a new signal, the Difficulty Ribbon. Posted August 1, 2019.
When did Bitcoin’s investment era begin? A study using NVT.
Willy Woo looks at the historical charts on Bitcoin and makes a case for when investing began. Posted April 13, 2019.
Experiments on Cumulative Destruction
David Puell and Willy Woo lay out new models for the concept of destruction into price analysis. Posted April 9, 2019.
Meltem Demirors
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Matrix
Meltem gets us questioning if we’ve actually taken the “red pill”. Posted October 25, 2019.
Tweetstorm: We’ve Built Intermediaries
Meltem Demirors shares her opinion on what’s being built, and why we should rethink things. Posted September 27, 2019.
Tweetstorm: On Bitcoin Paradigm Shifts
Meltem Demirors lasy out the Bitcoin paradigm shift that is occuring. Posted July 23, 2019.
I’m Not an International Drug Dealer
Privacy matters. Meltem delivers a great piece to share with friends and family. Posted April 15, 2019.
Tweet
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - Bitcoin and NoSQL
Dhruv Bansal compares Bitcoin and NoSQL. Posted August 3, 2020
Bitcoin Positive Feedback Loops
Ben Davenport diagrams the multiple Bitcoin positive feedback loops. Posted August 28, 2019.
Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
Tweet: The Times They are a Changing
Matt Walsh posts a chart that details the timeline of Bitcoin opion with bankers. Posted July 11, 2019.
Energy
Back to top ↑Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Bitcoin and Energy Consumption - Rebuttal
Dr. C lays out rebuttals to several Bitcoin energy consumption arguments. Posted July 16, 2019.
Transactions
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Volatility
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin’s volatility can only decrease, but it will take a bit longer
acrual explains why Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time. Posted February 19, 2020.
Volatility as information
Acrualdigs into the power of volatility in this quick read. Posted October 31, 2019
Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin’s energy consumption is justified. Posted August 16, 2019.
Bitcoin Is Not Too Volatile
Parker Lewis explains volatility and why it’s important to understanding Bitcoin. Posted August 9, 2019.
Rollo McFloogle
Back to top ↑The Meaningless “Competition Maximalism”
Rollo McFloogle defends maximalism as pro competition. Posted April 6, 2019.
Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
Ignorance about Bitcoin Disguised as Caution
Rollo McFloogle debunks a recent piece by Austrian economist Jeffrey Tucker, and in doing so builds a case for Bitcoin. Posted December 7, 2019.
Applying Carl Menger to the Monetization of Bitcoin
Rollo McFloogle the relationship between principles from Carl Menger and Bitcoin. Posted August 25, 2019.
Bitcoin History
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Tweetstorm: A Decade in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi hammers out a recap of Bitcoin’s last decade. Posted December 5, 2019.
The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto
Erik shares some glorious opinions on Satoshi Nakamoto. Posted October 24, 2019.
Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network
Giacomo Zucco shares a 7 part series on the history of Bitcoin. Posted September 2019.
Aleksander Svetski
Back to top ↑The Halving or Halvening
Aleksander Svetski posts another epic piece
The rise of the individual.
Aleksander Svetski shares his thoughts on the rise of self sovereignty as a revolutionary idea, all made possible by Bitcoin. Posted December 31, 2019
Bitcoin Operating System
Aleksander Svetski makes the case for Bitcoin as a new monetary network, not a payments technology.
Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Censorship
Back to top ↑The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
How to Resist Censorship with Bitcoin
Elaine shares how to destroy financial censorship is simply by using Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020
Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Trust
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Humans Can’t Be Trusted To Govern Over Our Money
Nik shares a quick read on why man can’t be trusted with monetary policy. Posted April 24, 2020.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Yuri de Gaia
Back to top ↑The Way of the Digital Citadel
Yuri de Gaia explores the creation of digital citadels. Posted June 26, 2020
Bitcoin as a Tool for Secession
Yuri de Gaia explores how Bitcoin can be used as a tool for secession. Posted Summer 2020.
Anarchy and Monarchy - A Natural State
Yuri de Gaia shares a post that draws comparisons between monarch and anarchy. POsted May 1, 2020.
Citadels and Pandemics
Yuri de Gaia examines a future of citadels. Posted March 25, 2020.
Leo Zhang
Back to top ↑The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part I.
Leo explores the operation mining hashpower is akin to portfolio management. Posted November 22, 2020.
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part II.
Leo Zhang explores the magic of hashrate and mining in part 2 of a series. Posted September 15, 2020.
The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
Technical
Back to top ↑2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
Tweet Thread: What is an xpub?
Danny lays out the basics of xpubs. Posted August 30, 2020.
The Path to Taproot Activation
almkglor provides an overview of how we will enable Taproot. Posted June 13, 2020.
Nick Szabo
Back to top ↑Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i)
Nick Szabo examines the traditions and history of non-governmental money. Posted March 23, 2018.
Bitcoin, what took ye so long?
Nick Szabo talks about hindsight and Bitcoin. Posted May 2011.
Intrinsic Value
Back to top ↑The intrinsic value of Bitcoin (II)
Manuel examines the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, which has been debated many times but lays out a clear framework. Posted October 5, 2020.
Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — and That’s Great
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin is the ultimate store of wealth BECAUSE it has no intrinsic value. Posted May 8, 2019.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – How Bitcoins Act As Money
Michael Suede looks at monetary properties of Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2011
Austrian Theory
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
Sound Money
Back to top ↑Bending Bitcoin — The Principle of Hard Money
Ben Kaufman explains hard money and why Bitcoin is such. Posted December 30, 2019
Why Bitcoin Works
Jimmy song makes the case for Bitcoin versus soft money. Posted April 17, 2018.
Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
Interest Rates
Back to top ↑Floor on Bitcoin’s risk less interest rate
Tamas Blummer makes the case for a floor on Bitcoin riskless interest rates. Posted September 11, 2019.
How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Resource Allocation And Interest Rate Distortion
Michael Suede examines interest rates in a Bitcoin standard. Posted July 6, 2011.
Mises
Back to top ↑Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
Tribes
Back to top ↑Why we may fail Lightning
Antoine Riard explains why Lightning might be doomed or what we can do to push the stack forward. Posted September 28, 2020.
The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes
Joe Rodgers explores the idea of the Bitcoin diaspora. Posted March 11, 2020.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Stop and Decrypt
Back to top ↑BetterHash: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining With New Hashing Protocols
Stop and Decrypt makes the case for a new mining protocol that will help to decentralize mining controls away from pool operators. Posted Julyt 14, 2019.
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
That’s not Bitcoin, that’s BCash
Stop and Decrypt takes a critical look at the Bitcoin Cash community and how the branding is misleading on purpose. Posted December 21, 2017.
Surveillance
Back to top ↑In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
Tweetstorm: The Matrix
Meltem gets us questioning if we’ve actually taken the “red pill”. Posted October 25, 2019.
Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
Bitcoin Canon
Back to top ↑The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Modeling
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s power oscillator
Harold Christopher Burger introduces the Bitcoin power oscillator. Posted September 20, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?
Tobias Huber lays out a basic model for predicting bitcoin price bubbles. Posted March 16, 2018.
Decentralization
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Decentralizing Bitcoin’s Last Mile With Mobile Mesh Networks
Richard Myers explains the power of mobile mesh networks and how to further decentralize the Bitcoin network. Posted May 29, 2019.
Why Bitcoin is Different
Jimmy explains why Bitcoin is different from cryptocurrency. Posted April 2, 2018.
Positive Feedback Loop
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Positive Feedback Loops
Ben Davenport diagrams the multiple Bitcoin positive feedback loops. Posted August 28, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Hard Money
Back to top ↑Falling empires, Corporate Fiat and the fate of Bitcoin
Mariana Trip pens a solid read on the coming Bitcoin revolution thanks to loose monetary policy from central bankers. Posted April 7, 2020.
Bending Bitcoin — The Principle of Hard Money
Ben Kaufman explains hard money and why Bitcoin is such. Posted December 30, 2019
Why Bitcoin Works
Jimmy song makes the case for Bitcoin versus soft money. Posted April 17, 2018.
Bitcoin Mining
Back to top ↑There will be bitcoin.
Steve Barbour makes the case that the future of oil and gas is Bitcoin. Posted June 23, 2020.
A Note On Variance in Bitcoin Mining
Christopher Bendiksen explains variance in Bitcoin mining and what it means in relation to the recent VERY temporary drop in hashrate. Posted September 25, 2...
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Hashrate
Back to top ↑The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part II.
Leo Zhang explores the magic of hashrate and mining in part 2 of a series. Posted September 15, 2020.
A Note On Variance in Bitcoin Mining
Christopher Bendiksen explains variance in Bitcoin mining and what it means in relation to the recent VERY temporary drop in hashrate. Posted September 25, 2...
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Joe Kendzicky
Back to top ↑A few thoughts on what bitcoins are
Joe Kendzicky makes a case to define “bitcoins” the noun form. Posted April 17, 2019.
Exploring Liquid Sidechain
An in depth look at Liquid sidechain by Joe Kendsicky, posted on November 15, 2018
The Bitcoin Lightning Network: A Technical Primer
Joe Kendzicky lays out the technical fundamentals of Lightning Network. Posted June 5, 2018.
Qiao Wang
Back to top ↑Statistical Fallacy behind the Lindy Effect
Qiao Wang lays out the case for further examination of the Lindy Effect, maybe we should pump the brakes on referencing it all the time. Posted September 15,...
The Store of Value Thesis
Qiao Wang and Dan McArdle explore their cryptoasset Store of Value Thesis. Posted August 19, 2018.
The Flase Dichotomy of Utility and Store of Value
Qiao Wang breaks down the SoV narrative surrounfing Bitcoin and other digital assets. Posted July 5, 2018.
cryptopoiesis
Back to top ↑The Puell Multiple
Cryptopoiesis looks at several charts from David Puell that help illustrate his ideas on the coming bull market. Posted April 4, 2019.
Bitcoin Fundamentals: Mining Profitability Ratio & BTC Dominance
By cryptopoiesis, posted October 11, 2018
Bitcoin’s Inflation Adjusted NVT Ratio
cryptopoiesis proposes an analysis for the NVT ratio. Posted September 18, 2018.
Misir Mahmudov
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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Bitcoin: Winner Takes Most or Winner Takes All?
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Tweetstorm: Mass adoption of Bitcoin is inevitable
A timeline for mass adoption from a maximalist. Misir Mahmudov posted this September 25, 2018.
Development
Back to top ↑Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
Christopher Bendiksen
Back to top ↑A Note On Variance in Bitcoin Mining
Christopher Bendiksen explains variance in Bitcoin mining and what it means in relation to the recent VERY temporary drop in hashrate. Posted September 25, 2...
Beware of Lazy Research: Let’s Talk Electricity Waste & How Bitcoin Mining Can Power A Renewable Energy Renaissance
Part 2 of a 2 part series that looks at some of the FUD surrounding mining, by Christopher Bendiksen , Posted December 6, 2018
An Honest Explanation of Price, Hashrate & Bitcoin Mining Network Dynamics
Part 1 of a 2 part series that looks at some of the FUD surrounding mining, by Christopher Bendiksen , Posted November 11, 2018
Jill Carlson
Back to top ↑Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It’s a Safer Asset Than Most
Jill Carlson explains why Bitcoin is not as risky as you think. Posted March 5, 2020.
Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Cryptocurrency: The Canary in the Coal Mine
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Censorship Resistance
Back to top ↑The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Unpacking Bitcoin’s Assurances
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Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
JW Weatherman
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is Secure Money
JW Weatherman makes the case for Bitcoin as a secure money in this brief tweetstorm. Posted June 29, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman pens the Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 19, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman lsays out the framework for his interprutation of a Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 18, 2019.
Maximalism
Back to top ↑The Meaningless “Competition Maximalism”
Rollo McFloogle defends maximalism as pro competition. Posted April 6, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman pens the Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 19, 2019.
Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto
JW Weatherman lsays out the framework for his interprutation of a Bitcoin Maximalist Manifesto. Posted January 18, 2019.
Money Production
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Loans
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Power
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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Savings
Back to top ↑Lightning is the Better Way to HODL
Roy Sheinfeld shares the case for keeping your Bitcoin in Lightning Network. Posted August 31, 2020.
Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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51% Attack
Back to top ↑Reddit Response: Question on the Vulnerability of Bitcoin
Greg Maxwell posts a reply to the Bitcoin 51% attack vulnerability. Posted October 10, 2019.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Investments
Back to top ↑Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It’s a Safer Asset Than Most
Jill Carlson explains why Bitcoin is not as risky as you think. Posted March 5, 2020.
The Investment Case for Bitcoin
Gabor Gurbacs makes the case for holding Bitcoin. Posted October 8, 2019.
Skeptic’s Guide to Bitcoin: Investing in Bitcoin
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David Parkinson
Back to top ↑Bitcoin mythbusting
David shares a thoughtful piece on Bitcoin FUD. Posted April 14, 2020.
The Road to $1m per Bitcoin
David Parkinson makes the case for $1m per Bitcoin. Posted April 17, 2019.
Could Bitcoin fix the stagnant political and economic landscape?
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Investment
Back to top ↑Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
The case for a small allocation to Bitcoin
Wences Cesares makes the case for why an allocation of your portfolio must be Bitcoin. Posted April 11, 2019
2019 Q2
Back to top ↑The Meaningless “Competition Maximalism”
Rollo McFloogle defends maximalism as pro competition. Posted April 6, 2019.
We’re All Default Keynesians Now, and How Bitcoin is Changing That
Brady Swenson pens a term that describes all of us, pre Bitcoin, default keynesians. Posted June 21, 2019.
Hedging mining difficulty
Tamas Blummer
Hans Hauge
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: 21 Charts
Hans Hauge shares 21 charts that paint a wonderful picture on the state of Bitcoin. Posted September 10, 2019.
Tweetstorm: HODLer Index & HODLer Network
Hans Hauge introduces 2 new Bitcoin indicators for technical analysis. Posted August 24, 2019.
Introducing Binary Adjusted BDD, VOCD and Reserve Risk
Hans Hauge explains Binary Adjusted Bitcoin Days Destroyed which build on BDD. Posted May 30, 2019.
Political Theology
Back to top ↑The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
The Political Theology of Crypto
Erik Cason examines the power of crypto’s political theology. Posted June 11, 2019.
Allen Farrington
Back to top ↑Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
The Complex Market Hypothesis
In which I hypothesise that markets are subjective, uncertain, complex, stochastic, adaptive, fractal, reflexive… — really any clever sounding adjective you ...
Money, Banking, Bitcoin, and Libra
Allen Farrington paints a dystopian future and makes the case for money that is open, permissionless, neutral, private, and sound. Posted June 22, 2019.
Financial Models
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
almkglor
Back to top ↑Taproot: Why Activate?
almkglor makes the case for Taproot now. Posted June 15, 2020.
The Path to Taproot Activation
almkglor provides an overview of how we will enable Taproot. Posted June 13, 2020.
Technical: A Brief History of Payment Channels: from Satoshi to Lightning Network
Alan Manuel K. Gloria shares the bacakstory of payment channels and makes the case that Bitcoin scales! Posted July 12, 2019.
Harold Christopher Burger
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
Bitcoin’s power oscillator
Harold Christopher Burger introduces the Bitcoin power oscillator. Posted September 20, 2019.
Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Harold Christopher Burger shares a simple article that uses time-based equations to model Bitcoin’s price. Posted September 4, 2019.
Growth
Back to top ↑Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Habitats
Gigi lays out the three realms where Bitcoin exists. Posted March 1, 2020.
Tweetstorm: 21 Charts
Hans Hauge shares 21 charts that paint a wonderful picture on the state of Bitcoin. Posted September 10, 2019.
Physics
Back to top ↑Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
Bitcoin is a information channel
Acrual expands his meaning behind “low entropy carrier”. Posted December 22, 2019.
Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Giacomo Zucco
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network
Giacomo Zucco shares a 7 part series on the history of Bitcoin. Posted September 2019.
Fundamentals
Back to top ↑The Perfect Storm: Why Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2020 is different from Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2017
Marc van der Chijs explains the difference between Bitcoin today and in 2017, hint, lots. Posted February 13, 2020
Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Bitcoin Cannot be Banned
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin cannot be banned. Posted November 8, 2019
Phil Bonello
Back to top ↑The Many Angles of Bitcoin Adoption
Phil Bonello explains what’s enabling Bitcoin adoption. Posted February 12, 2020.
Digital Money
Phil Bonello reviews the importance of Bitcoin I’m a world of digital money. Posted November 26, 2019.
The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis
Phil Bonello lays out an investment thesis based on principles in the Sovereign Individual. Posted November 12, 2019.
Meme
Back to top ↑Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
Marcel Burger
Back to top ↑Bitcoin In The Institutional Investment Portfolio
Marcel Burger makes the case for hodling Bitcoin in an institutional portfolio. POsted September 18, 2020.
Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Debunking Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Marcel Burger digs into the corridor of growth. Posted November 30, 2019
Charles Edwards
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Acrual
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
Bitcoin has already succeeded
Acrual posts why Bitcoin has already suceeded. Posted January 12, 2020.
Bitcoin is a information channel
Acrual expands his meaning behind “low entropy carrier”. Posted December 22, 2019.
Entropy
Back to top ↑Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Bitcoin is a information channel
Acrual expands his meaning behind “low entropy carrier”. Posted December 22, 2019.
Thermodynamics
Back to top ↑Things Bitcoiners Don’t Want To Hear
Shinobi discusses the hard reality of thermodynamics. Posted September 16, 2020.
Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
SixOneZeroTwo
Back to top ↑Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
EMH
Back to top ↑The Complex Market Hypothesis
In which I hypothesise that markets are subjective, uncertain, complex, stochastic, adaptive, fractal, reflexive… — really any clever sounding adjective you ...
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
Pricing
Back to top ↑The Complex Market Hypothesis
In which I hypothesise that markets are subjective, uncertain, complex, stochastic, adaptive, fractal, reflexive… — really any clever sounding adjective you ...
Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
Marty Bent
Back to top ↑Take action. Bitcoin is a vote.
Marty pens a quick note on the importance of voting with your money. Posted April 23, 2020.
The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Zane Pocock
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
The Nature of Bitcoin
Zane Pocock shares an overview of Bitcoin as he sees it. Posted February 13, 2020.
Steve Barbour
Back to top ↑There will be bitcoin.
Steve Barbour makes the case that the future of oil and gas is Bitcoin. Posted June 23, 2020.
The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
Sven Schnieders
Back to top ↑The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Social Antifragility
Sven Scnieders points out some of Bitcoin’s antifragile properties.
Morality
Back to top ↑Our Most Brilliant Idea
Robert expands on the philosophy of Bitcoin. Posted November 1, 2020.
Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Epoch
Back to top ↑Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Citadels
Back to top ↑Anarchy and Monarchy - A Natural State
Yuri de Gaia shares a post that draws comparisons between monarch and anarchy. POsted May 1, 2020.
Citadels and Pandemics
Yuri de Gaia examines a future of citadels. Posted March 25, 2020.
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Citadel
Back to top ↑Home On The Range
Sovereign.615 outlines a framework for a Bitcoin citadel charter. Posted October 21,2020
The Way of the Digital Citadel
Yuri de Gaia explores the creation of digital citadels. Posted June 26, 2020
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
The State
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: Separating Money From State
Pedro Febrero covers Bitcoin’s role in separating
The State vs. Bitcoin
Steve Barbour shares an essay that examines Bitcoin’s resistance to the State. Posted March 15, 2020.
Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Change
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
Take action. Bitcoin is a vote.
Marty pens a quick note on the importance of voting with your money. Posted April 23, 2020.
Tim May
Back to top ↑THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Crypto Anarchy
Back to top ↑THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Anonymous
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin so hard for most people to understand?
A random anonymous comment on a YouTube video sums up a struggle with getting Bitcoin. Posted February 17, 2020.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Encryption
Back to top ↑How Blockchains Will Enable Privacy
Shaan Ray describes a private future enabled by blockchain. Posted March 3, 2018.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Identity
Back to top ↑THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Hal Finney
Back to top ↑In Memory of Hal Finney, RIP — Builder of a More Trusted World
Bill Buchanan shares a thoughtful piece about our friend, Hal. Posted August 22, 2020.
Politics vs Technology
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Satoshi Nakamoto
Back to top ↑The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto
Erik shares some glorious opinions on Satoshi Nakamoto. Posted October 24, 2019.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Ryan Dickherber
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
Early Days
Back to top ↑The Patoshi Mining Machine
Sergio speculates what Satoshi mined with. Posted August 22, 2020.
How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
Time Preference
Back to top ↑The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Free Market
Back to top ↑Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
Libertarian Goldbugs Hating On Bitcoin – Free Market Money
Michael explains why Libertarian Goldbugs are hating on Bitcoin. Posted June 6, 2011.
Goldbugs
Back to top ↑Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Libertarian Goldbugs Hating On Bitcoin – Free Market Money
Michael explains why Libertarian Goldbugs are hating on Bitcoin. Posted June 6, 2011.
Libertarians
Back to top ↑Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Federal Reserve
Back to top ↑Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Open Source
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.
Keynesian
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Fiat Money
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
Rothbard
Back to top ↑What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
Time Travel
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
Declaration
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
CY17 Q1
Back to top ↑The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Psychology
Back to top ↑Bitcoin as an Antidote to Despair: A Psychological Formulation
Aaron Clendenin explores Bitcoin as a means to modify behavior. Posted October 21, 2020.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Bitcoin Core
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Bitcoin Standard
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Fixed Supply
Back to top ↑21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Murch
Back to top ↑2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
Excited for Schnorr signatures
Murch recaps the pending BIP technology, Schnorr Signatures. Posted February 3, 2018.
Dmitry Kalichkin
Back to top ↑Rethinking Metcalfe’s Law applications to cryptoasset valuation
Posted May 21, 2018 by Dmitry Kalichkin, his goal was to estimate whether current Bitcoin price is supported by activity on the network.
Rethinking Network Value to Transactions (NVT) Ratio
Dmitry Kalichkin describes NVT Signal, a new approach to NVT Ratio. Posted February 3, 2018.
Analysis
Back to top ↑An Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners
Nic Carter shares his position on the Efficient Market and Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020.
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Open Letter
Back to top ↑An Open Letter to Friends and Family
James O’Beirne pens an open letter to his loved ones about Bitcoin. Posted November 29, 2020
An Open Letter to Banks about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
In classic Peter McCormack style, he addresses bankers on the state of the market and lobbies for change. Posted March 4, 2018.
Opinion
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World
Pascal Hügli tells us of the growing inportance of the digital world, where digital bit become more important than physical atoms. Posted January 8, 2020.
An Open Letter to Banks about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
In classic Peter McCormack style, he addresses bankers on the state of the market and lobbies for change. Posted March 4, 2018.
Regulation
Back to top ↑The Nature of Bitcoin
Zane Pocock shares an overview of Bitcoin as he sees it. Posted February 13, 2020.
Why America Can’t Regulate Bitcoin
Beautyon explains why Bitcoin is unregulatable. Posted March 15, 2018.
Money Creation
Back to top ↑Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
Maduro’s Mint of King Cnut
Beautyon makes the case that Maduro’s attempt to create a new money will fail and any distraction to Bitcoin is a good thing because it gets stronger over ti...
Alex Svetski
Back to top ↑Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Libra
Alex Svetski looks at Bitcoin in comparison to the blockchain meme and Libra. Posted July 30, 2019.
Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin
Posted March 28, 2018, Alex Svetski gives an explanation of why Bitcoin exists.
Properties
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
Why Bitcoin is Different
Jimmy explains why Bitcoin is different from cryptocurrency. Posted April 2, 2018.
Adam Taché
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: Past and Future
Posted May 30, 2018 by Adam Tache and Murad Mahmudov, this article will analyze these perspectives by discussing trade-offs, philosophical divides within the...
The Many Faces of Bitcoin
Adam Taché and Murad Mahmudov discuss four schools of thought related to Bitcoin. Posted April 10, 2018.
Aaron van Wirdum
Back to top ↑Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like
Posted May 2, 2018, Aaron van Wirdum looks at the potential for Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Tokens
Back to top ↑What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Miners
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Schelling Point
Back to top ↑21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
On Schelling points, network effects and Lindy: Inherent properties of communication
Willem Van Den Bergh explains why schelling point, network effects, and Lindy effects make Bitcoin so strong. Posted June 29, 2018.
Lindy Effect
Back to top ↑Bitcoin has already succeeded
Acrual posts why Bitcoin has already suceeded. Posted January 12, 2020.
On Schelling points, network effects and Lindy: Inherent properties of communication
Willem Van Den Bergh explains why schelling point, network effects, and Lindy effects make Bitcoin so strong. Posted June 29, 2018.
Tony Sheng
Back to top ↑Satoshi’s vision for bitcoin as told by its predecessors
Tony Sheng explores attempts at digital currencies before the Bitcoin experiment and how those projects influenced Bitcoin. Posted May 28, 2019.
Crypto-incrementalism vs Crypto-anarchy
Tony Sheng believes all crypto projects fall into one of two camps, which he also believes can coexist. Posted July 2, 2018.
Brendan Bernstein
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Cryptocurrencies are money, not equity
Brendan Berstein makes the case for cryptocurrencies being money and explains how investors are helping determine value. Posted July 22, 2018.
Media
Back to top ↑Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
Information
Back to top ↑Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
Clark Moody
Back to top ↑Ten Years of Bitcoin Market Data
Clark Moody
Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Ferdous Bhai
Back to top ↑The Real Wisdom behind Proof of Work
Ferdous Bhai shares a couple thoughts about the magic of PoW. Posted Octover 29, 2019.
Post-Bitcoin-Maximalism: A call for embracing the currency competition
By Ferdous Bhai, posted October 15, 2018
Philip Swift
Back to top ↑The Golden Ratio Multiplier
Philip Swift shares the Golden Ratio Multiplier which he believes will be a useful investment tool in this coming market cycle for identifying areas of profi...
Bitcoin Network Momentum
Philip Swift Bitcoin Network Momentum is a valuable tool in helping us understand why Bitcoin price is at a particular point in the market cycle and also whe...
Arjun Balaji
Back to top ↑A Conflict of Crypto Visions
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The “Bitcoin mining death spiral” debate explained
By Arjun Balaji, Posted December 4, 2018
Taylor Pearson
Back to top ↑How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
Features
Back to top ↑Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
Unpacking Bitcoin’s Assurances
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Central Banking
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is the world’s only independent central bank
Pierre Rochard shares a simple chart that illustrates the title. Posted November 22, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Smart Contracts
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
Law
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Cryptosovereignty
Erik lay’s out the framework for a future based on crypto rather than man’s subjective views. Posted February 3, 2019.
Sentiment
Back to top ↑A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Digital Money
Back to top ↑Digital Money
Phil Bonello reviews the importance of Bitcoin I’m a world of digital money. Posted November 26, 2019.
Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Collateral
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm Bitcoin as super-collateral
Aaron explores Bitcoin as the ultimate collateral in this short tweetstorm. Posted February 5, 2020.
Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Risk
Back to top ↑Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It’s a Safer Asset Than Most
Jill Carlson explains why Bitcoin is not as risky as you think. Posted March 5, 2020.
Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Tuur Demeester
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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Michiel Lescrauwaet
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: How to Outperform Bitcoin
Michiel Lescrauwaet rolls out his tehesis on how to outperform Bitcoin. Posted September 19, 2019.
A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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Behavior
Back to top ↑Bitcoin as an Antidote to Despair: A Psychological Formulation
Aaron Clendenin explores Bitcoin as a means to modify behavior. Posted October 21, 2020.
Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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Jack Purdy
Back to top ↑Satoshi’s Rebuttal of Modern Monetary Theory
Jack Purdy makes the case for Bitcoin as a sound money alternative to todays easy money. Posted June 3, 2019.
Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach
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Marketing
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Marketing
Dan Held tweets about Bitcoin and marketing. Posted June 16, 2020.
Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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LN
Back to top ↑A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Difficulty Adjustment
Back to top ↑Hedging mining difficulty
Tamas Blummer
Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
PlanB
Back to top ↑Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Financial Model
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Financial Analysis
Back to top ↑Efficient Market Hypothesis and Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model
PlanB explains that Stock to Flow is priced in and supported by the EMH. Posted January 17, 2020
Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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Thib
Back to top ↑A Monetary Layer for the Internet
Thib pulls back the curtains to look at the emerging layers in the Bitcoin network. Posted April 24, 2019.
Managing Bitcoin and Private Keys
Thib runs through the various ways to secure your Bitcoin. Posted April 1, 2019.
Portfolio
Back to top ↑Bitcoin In The Institutional Investment Portfolio
Marcel Burger makes the case for hodling Bitcoin in an institutional portfolio. POsted September 18, 2020.
The case for a small allocation to Bitcoin
Wences Cesares makes the case for why an allocation of your portfolio must be Bitcoin. Posted April 11, 2019
Rayne Steinberg
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - The Unseizable Asset
Rayne Steinberg lays out a case for Bitcoin surrounding it’s unseizable nature. Posted May 2, 2019.
Crypto - Time to Take it at the Flood
Rayne Steinberg pen’s a quick read on why you should get in sooner than later. Posted April 4, 2019.
Hector Rosenkrans
Back to top ↑Freedom Money – Bitcoin and the First Amendment
Hector Rosenkrans makes the case for Bitcoin as an essential liberty like the First Amendment. Posted July 4, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Weapon
Hector Rosenkrans looks at his own life experiences and tells us why Bitcoin is a weapon to take the power back. Posted April 11, 2019.
Credit
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Sergio Demian Lerner
Back to top ↑The Patoshi Mining Machine
Sergio speculates what Satoshi mined with. Posted August 22, 2020.
The Return of the Deniers and the Revenge of Patoshi
Sergio Demian Lerner shares thoughts and evidence of a single person acting as Satoshi in regarding to mining. Posted April 16, 2019.
Pieter Wuille
Back to top ↑Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Greg Maxwell
Back to top ↑Reddit Response: Question on the Vulnerability of Bitcoin
Greg Maxwell posts a reply to the Bitcoin 51% attack vulnerability. Posted October 10, 2019.
51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Prateek Goorha
Back to top ↑The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Five Fundamental Effects in Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s value comes from supply and demand and this article supports this thesis by looking at 5 fundamentals. By Prateek Goorha. Posted May 19, 2019.
SoV
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Digital Gold
Back to top ↑The Triumvirate of Liquidity
Nik Bhatia explains how Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world’s next risk-free asset. Posted November 6, ...
How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Ruben Somsen
Back to top ↑SNARKs and the future of blockchains
Ruben Somsen explains what SNARKs can and can’t do for blockchain. Posted October 3, 2020.
Statechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin Transfer
Ruben Somsen lays out his proposal for statechains, a novel way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain. Posted June 4, 2019.
Supply
Back to top ↑Visualization of the halving’s supply shock
Croesus shares a visual explanation of how the halving creates a supply shock on Bitcoin. Posted October 23, 2020.
Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
Brady Swenson
Back to top ↑A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
We’re All Default Keynesians Now, and How Bitcoin is Changing That
Brady Swenson pens a term that describes all of us, pre Bitcoin, default keynesians. Posted June 21, 2019.
tweetstorm
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is Secure Money
JW Weatherman makes the case for Bitcoin as a secure money in this brief tweetstorm. Posted June 29, 2019.
On-Chain Analysis
Back to top ↑Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Mohamed Fouda
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
Pathways for DeFi on Bitcoin
Mohamed Fouda explains ways that Bitcoin is being onramped to DeFi. Posted July 10, 2019.
Wiz
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Why Bitcoin?
Wiz shares an excellent piece that recaps Bitcoin security, privacy, and freedom. Posted July 16, 2019.
Oleg Andreev
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Plot Twist
Oleg shares a short plot twist. Posted October 29, 2019.
Symmetrical and asymmetrical power
Oleg Andreev explains the difference betweet symmetrical and asymmetrical power. Posted July 23, 2019.
Joe Rodgers
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes
Joe Rodgers explores the idea of the Bitcoin diaspora. Posted March 11, 2020.
Bitcoin Layers
Joe Rodgers makes the case for defining Bitcoin scaling layers. Posted 8-8-2019.
James O'Beirne
Back to top ↑An Open Letter to Friends and Family
James O’Beirne pens an open letter to his loved ones about Bitcoin. Posted November 29, 2020
Bitcoin for safety
James O’Beirne shares his opinion on where we are headed financially. Posted August 24, 2019.
Bitcoin Philosophy
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
A most peaceful revolution
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the revolution we have been waiting for. Posted September 7, 2019.
Knut Svanholm
Back to top ↑The AlienCoin Attack Vector
Knut Svanholm explores the idea of a better alien money that could disrupt Bitcoin. Posted July 29, 2020.
Mainstream Media of Exchange
Knut Svanholm discusses how Bitcoin is a grassroots movement and is indeed a currency.Posted September 6, 2019
Medium of Exchange
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
Mainstream Media of Exchange
Knut Svanholm discusses how Bitcoin is a grassroots movement and is indeed a currency.Posted September 6, 2019
Economy
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
Gabor Gurbacs
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
The Investment Case for Bitcoin
Gabor Gurbacs makes the case for holding Bitcoin. Posted October 8, 2019.
2019 Q4
Back to top ↑Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
Bitcoin Mining Fees and Storage Costs
Tamas makes the case for miners requiring certain fee threshold in order to include transactions in their blocks. Posted October 14, 2019.
Financials
Back to top ↑Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
Tweetstorm: 5 Insanely Bullish Charts for Bitcoin
James Todaro shares a couple charts that show a bullish case for Bitcoin. Posted September 20, 2019.
Phil Geiger
Back to top ↑21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
All 21 Million Bitcoin Already Exist
Phil goes galactic exploring Bitcoin’s 21m hardcap. Posted October 25, 2019.
Bitcoin Fiction
Back to top ↑The Last Mortal Man
Part 2 from Hased Entropy’s series of short stories. Posted November 13, 2019.
What Hath Satoshi Wrought
Hashed Entropy shares the first in a future series of short stories. Posted November 2, 2019.
Ray Dalio
Back to top ↑A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove addresses macro investing legend, Ray Dalio, regarding his position on Bitcoin. Posted November 8, 2019.
Rafael Schultze-Kraft
Back to top ↑Over 75 percent of Bitcoin’s On–Chain Volume Doesn’t Change Hands
Rafael Schultze-Kraft looks at volume on-chain and explains why he thinks Bitcoin is not changing hands. Posted February 13, 2020.
Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
Rhythm
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Bitcoin Is The Only Way To Opt-Out
Rhythm shares why Bitcoin is so important regarding privacy and opting out. Posted November 19, 2019.
Sidechains
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Legal
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Correlation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Stability
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin’s volatility can only decrease, but it will take a bit longer
acrual explains why Bitcoin volatility will decrease over time. Posted February 19, 2020.
Bitcoin is a information channel
Acrual expands his meaning behind “low entropy carrier”. Posted December 22, 2019.
BIP
Back to top ↑How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer explains how soft forks might work. Posted April 17, 2019.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #78: 2019 Year-in-Review Special
A technical lookback at 2019 from Bitcoin Optech Newsletter. Posted December 28, 2019.
Startup
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown explains why Bitcoin is paving the way for smart contractswith lightning network. Posted January 15, 2020.
Bitcoin As a Startup
Hass McCook lays out his thesis on how Bitcoin is evolving in stages much like a startup raises capital. Posted December 29, 2019
Ben Kaufman
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Bending Bitcoin — The Principle of Hard Money
Ben Kaufman explains hard money and why Bitcoin is such. Posted December 30, 2019
Simple
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Supply and Demand
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Backups
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Slice the Pie
6102 on money production. Posted January 1, 2020?
Digital
Back to top ↑The Way of the Digital Citadel
Yuri de Gaia explores the creation of digital citadels. Posted June 26, 2020
Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World
Pascal Hügli tells us of the growing inportance of the digital world, where digital bit become more important than physical atoms. Posted January 8, 2020.
Future
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World
Pascal Hügli tells us of the growing inportance of the digital world, where digital bit become more important than physical atoms. Posted January 8, 2020.
Community
Back to top ↑Balinese Cockfights & Bitcoins
Mick Morucci draws the comparison between cockfighters and Bitcoiners. Poseted August 17, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Store of Value
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Global Standard of Value
Paul Knight makes the case for Bitcoin as a global store of value. Posted February 1, 2020.
Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
Ethos
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Education
Back to top ↑Some conclusions after learning Bitcoin
acrual shares some learnings. Posted February 15, 2020.
A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
Centralization
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Cooperation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
Per Bylund
Back to top ↑Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
Tweetstorm on Deflation
Per Bylund explains why a deflationy money will not destroy commerce. Posted February 26, 2020.
Taleb
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Antifragile
Parker Lewis descirbes how Bitcoin is antifragile. Posted June 12, 2020.
Ten Million Bitcoiners
Cory Klippsten makes the case for on-boarding the next 10million Bitcoiners. Posted February 21, 2020/
Daniel Frumkin
Back to top ↑Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
So You Think Bitcoin Mining is Wasteful?
Daniel compares energy usage of Bitcoin and video games. Posted March 5, 2020.
Stock-to-Flow
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Virtue
Back to top ↑Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Morals
Back to top ↑Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Fungibility
Back to top ↑Different bitcoins different prices
JP Koning explains why Bitcoins fetch different prices. Posted September 2, 2020.
A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Magic
Back to top ↑The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part II.
Leo Zhang explores the magic of hashrate and mining in part 2 of a series. Posted September 15, 2020.
The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
Nationalism
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
Vlad Costea
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
Cypherpunks
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
The Fed
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
Austrian
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
Letter
Back to top ↑Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Dear Bitcoiners
Gigi pens an optimistic letter to Bitcoiners around the world. Posted March31, 2020.
Anarchism
Back to top ↑The Political Theology of Bitcoin
Erik Cason knocks it out of the park with my favorite article of 2020. This is a piece of Bitcoin Canon. Posted March 31, 2020.
Політична теологія біткойна
Ерік Кейсон вибиває його з парку зі своєю улюбленою статтею 2020 року. Це шматок Bitcoin Canon. Опубліковано 31 березня 2020 року.
Money Supply
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Money Printer Go Brrrrr - Bitcoin’s Solution to the Federal Reserve
Conner Brown shares his thoughts on Bitcoin as an alternative to the USD. Posted March 31, 2020.
Progress
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
UASF
Back to top ↑The Path to Taproot Activation
almkglor provides an overview of how we will enable Taproot. Posted June 13, 2020.
How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer explains how soft forks might work. Posted April 17, 2019.
Speed
Back to top ↑Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
Evolution
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History
Brandon explores how humanity repeats itself and what role Bitcoin plays in the current world. Posted October 29, 2020.
Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Nik
Back to top ↑Lies, Deception, and Unnatural Money
Nik discusses the vile nature of money printing. Posted October 13, 2020.
Humans Can’t Be Trusted To Govern Over Our Money
Nik shares a quick read on why man can’t be trusted with monetary policy. Posted April 24, 2020.
Payments
Back to top ↑2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
Murch explains Pay-to-Taproot. Posted August 18, 2020.
Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
Pedro Febrero
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: Separating Money From State
Pedro Febrero covers Bitcoin’s role in separating
How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
QE
Back to top ↑Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Currency
Back to top ↑The End Of Gold
Sven Schnieders explains why Bitcoin is much better than gold at money. Posted June 17, 2020.
How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Thesis
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Software
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Journey
Back to top ↑Ten Years of Bitcoin Market Data
Clark Moody
The Bitcoin Journey
Gigi shares his idea of the Bitcoin journey and the steps along the way. Posted June 15, 2020.
Lyn Alden
Back to top ↑Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin
Lyn Alden shares an in depth reason for making a position in Bitcoin. Posted July 17, 2020.
Laws
Back to top ↑Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
Misjudging Bitcoin
Beautyon explore how a court ruling on Bitcoin mischaracterizes it. Posted July 27, 2020.
Gael Sanchez Smith
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Once Inflation Starts, It Won’t Be Contained
Gael Sannchez Smith explores how and why inflation can’t be stopped. Posted June 12, 2020.
Shinobi
Back to top ↑Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
Things Bitcoiners Don’t Want To Hear
Shinobi discusses the hard reality of thermodynamics. Posted September 16, 2020.
Sustainability
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
1988 Q2
Back to top ↑The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Cypherpunk
Back to top ↑The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
Pseudonyms
Back to top ↑The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Tim May’s original manifesto. Posted mid-1988.
1994 Q1
Back to top ↑Politics vs Technology
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1994 Q3
Back to top ↑THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
Chypherpunks
Back to top ↑THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
Digital Signatures
Back to top ↑THE CYPHERNOMICON
Tim May’s cypherpunk book and faq. Posted September 10, 1994.
Jon Matonis
Back to top ↑Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
1995 Q2
Back to top ↑Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
Digital Cash
Back to top ↑Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
Electronic Money
Back to top ↑Digital Cash & Monetary Freedom
Jon Matonis pens an early piece on the importance of digital money and freedom. Posted April 1995.
Wei Dai
Back to top ↑b-money
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1998 Q4
Back to top ↑b-money
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2008 Q4
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Whitepaper
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Timestamping
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The whitepaper.
Fedcoin
Back to top ↑Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
Protocol
Back to top ↑Alternative Bitcoins in a Market of Currencies
Ryan Dickherber explains the idea of competing currencies. Posted May 18, 2011.
Gwern
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
Improvements
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Gwern’s 2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex...
How to
Back to top ↑How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
Wallet
Back to top ↑How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man
Michael Suede walks through a couple steps to use Bitcoin. Posted May 31, 2011.
Singularity
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Gravity
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Economic
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Mind Virus
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity
Ryan Dickherber pens an early take on Bitcoin’s gravity. Posted June 4, 2011.
Economists
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Austrian Business Cycle
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation
Michael Suede looks at deflations and Bitcoin. Posted June 11, 2011.
Monetary Metal
Back to top ↑Against the Gold Standard
Michael Suede makes the case against the gold standard. Posted June 21, 2011.
Time Traveler
Back to top ↑Man From The Future Shares His Story
Michael Suede shares a fictional story of a timetraveler from the future. Posted June 28, 2011.
2011 Q3
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
Regression Theorem
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
Menger
Back to top ↑The Economics Of Bitcoin – Challenging Mises’ Regression Theorem
Michael Suede challenges Mises’ Regression Theorem with Bitcoin first principles. Posted July 7, 2011.
Luka Magnotta
Back to top ↑I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
2013 Q2
Back to top ↑I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
Satire
Back to top ↑I am a time traveler begging you to stop what you are doing
A fictional read from a time traveler. Posted August 30, 2013.
CY14 Q2
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Future: Super Cell London
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Mirceau Popescu
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
2014 Q4
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
Bitcoin Foundation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
Taxation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty
Mirceau Popescu pens the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Posted November 8th, 2014.
Peter Surda
Back to top ↑The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Blocksize
Back to top ↑The great Bitcoin blocksize debate as an ideological battle
Peter Surda outlines the two tribes of the Bitcoin blocksize debate. Posted March 21, 2017.
Alex Berge
Back to top ↑The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
Jevons Paradox
Back to top ↑The Lightning Paradox
Alex Berge makes the case that Lightning Network will eventually lead to MORE mining revenue. Posted March 21, 2017.
CY17 Q4
Back to top ↑That’s not Bitcoin, that’s BCash
Stop and Decrypt takes a critical look at the Bitcoin Cash community and how the branding is misleading on purpose. Posted December 21, 2017.
Trace Mayer
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Mayer Multiple
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Financial Indicatior
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Trading
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mayer Multiple
Trace Mayer describes the Mayer Multiple, a way to look at Bitcoin price multiples. Unsure on post date.
Larry White
Back to top ↑How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Scarce
Back to top ↑How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Electronic Gold
Back to top ↑How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Price Elasticity
Back to top ↑How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard
Larry White describes similarities between a Gold and Bitcoin standard. Posted Januaey 11, 2018.
Planning
Back to top ↑My Plan for Hyperbitcoinization
Elaine lays out her plan for hyperbitcoinization. Lookout Captain Kirk! Posted January 13, 2018.
Naasim Nicholas Taleb
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
Hedge
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - It may fail but we now know how to do it
Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares the forward he wrote for the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. Posted January 22, 2018.
Grisha Trubetskoy
Back to top ↑Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
Grisha Trubetskoy explains how a PoW blockchain is a clock. Posted January 23, 2018.
Clock
Back to top ↑Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
Grisha Trubetskoy explains how a PoW blockchain is a clock. Posted January 23, 2018.
Decentralized Time
Back to top ↑Blockchain Proof-of-Work Is a Decentralized Clock
Grisha Trubetskoy explains how a PoW blockchain is a clock. Posted January 23, 2018.
Ethics
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Surveillance: an Ahistoric Market Error
Beautyon calls out the emergence of surveillance tools being developed for the Bitcoin network. Posted January 30, 2018.
Ber Kessels
Back to top ↑Bitcoin turning into a multi layered system is the most interesting thing in crypto in 2018
Ber Kessels shares his opinion and excitement about Lightning network.
George Kikvadze
Back to top ↑Seven Myths of Bitcoin
George Kikvadze kills some common FUD. Posted March 2, 2018.
Myths
Back to top ↑Seven Myths of Bitcoin
George Kikvadze kills some common FUD. Posted March 2, 2018.
Essential Reading
Back to top ↑The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Asymmetric Bets
Back to top ↑The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Posted March 2, 2018 by Vijay Boyapati. Essential reading for anyone interested in Bitcoin.
Peter McCormack
Back to top ↑An Open Letter to Banks about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
In classic Peter McCormack style, he addresses bankers on the state of the market and lobbies for change. Posted March 4, 2018.
Shaan Ray
Back to top ↑How Blockchains Will Enable Privacy
Shaan Ray describes a private future enabled by blockchain. Posted March 3, 2018.
Tobias Huber
Back to top ↑Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable?
Tobias Huber lays out a basic model for predicting bitcoin price bubbles. Posted March 16, 2018.
PoS
Back to top ↑Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
Hugo Nguyen explains why PoS is flawed. Posted March 18,2018.
Monetary History
Back to top ↑The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i)
Nick Szabo examines the traditions and history of non-governmental money. Posted March 23, 2018.
Mining Centralization
Back to top ↑Mining Centralization Scenarios
Jimmy Song shares his thoughts on mining centralization and how game theory plays into the many scenarios. Posted April 10, 2018.
Fraud Proofs
Back to top ↑Meditations on Fraud Proofs
Paul Sztorc explains the ins and outs of Fraud proofs. Fraud Proofs address the problem of learning that a Bitcoin header is invalid (despite it being PoW va...
Shitcoins
Back to top ↑ Back to top ↑Poverty
Back to top ↑ Back to top ↑Invalid Blocks
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
Segwit
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply
Stop and Decrypt lays out the case for full nodes being the backbone of the Bitcoin network and miners simply provide blocks. Posted June 1, 2018.
CY18 M6
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the “c” of Money
Beautyon explores Bitcoin as a monetary standard. Posted June 13, 2018.
Standards
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the “c” of Money
Beautyon explores Bitcoin as a monetary standard. Posted June 13, 2018.
Willem Van Den Bergh
Back to top ↑On Schelling points, network effects and Lindy: Inherent properties of communication
Willem Van Den Bergh explains why schelling point, network effects, and Lindy effects make Bitcoin so strong. Posted June 29, 2018.
Jaoquin Roibal
Back to top ↑Coin Days Destroyed
Jaoquin Roibal takes to stackexchange to answer. Posted June 20, 2019.
Journalists
Back to top ↑Media Coverage of Bitcoin Is Still a Total Disaster
Nic Carter looks at the current state of media coverage for Bitcoin and outlines what they are getting wrong. Posted August 11, 2018.
Dan McArdle
Back to top ↑The Store of Value Thesis
Qiao Wang and Dan McArdle explore their cryptoasset Store of Value Thesis. Posted August 19, 2018.
Christopher Bendiknsen
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Analyst Brain: A Primer
A look into the psyche of a Bitcoin analyst from Christopher Bendiksen. Posted September 22, 2018.
Erik Torenberg
Back to top ↑Money Crypto vs. Tech Crypto
An examination at the changing narrative around “crypto”. Erik Torenberg defines two camps in the space that are here to stay. Posted October 1, 2018
Block Time
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Galactic
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Signal Latency
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Transaction Speed
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Interplanetary Frontier
Clark Moody explores Bitcoin and space, how it would function in multiplanetary economics. Posted October 2, 2018.
Awe and Wonder
Back to top ↑Introducing … The Bitcoin “MVRV Z” Metric That Predicts Market Tops with 90%+ Accuracy
Awe and Wonder shares a new valuation metric for Bitcoin called MVRV Z, which is an expansion on MVRV . Posted October 9, 2018.
Leadership
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
Decentralizatiuon
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis
By Nic Carter, posted October 31, 2018
Preethi Kasireddy
Back to top ↑How Does Distributed Consensus Work?
By Preethi Kasireddy, Posted November 13, 2018
William Smith
Back to top ↑Cryptic History: The Cypherpunks
A brief look at cypherpunks and Nakamoto by William Smith, posted November 19, 2018
Coinmetrics Team
Back to top ↑Introducing Realized Capital
A look at realized capital by the Coinmetrics Team, Posted December 14, 2018
Jordan Clifford
Back to top ↑The Lightning Network - Evolving Bitcoin into a layered system
By Jordan Clifford, Posted December 19, 2018
Selectorate of Money
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
The Selectorate
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin Valuable?
Taylor explains why Bitcoin is valuable.
Hodling
Back to top ↑How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Metric
Back to top ↑How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Liveliness
Back to top ↑How profitable was HODLing?
Tamas Blummer explains the concept of LIveliness. Posted January 10, 2019.
Assurances
Back to top ↑Unpacking Bitcoin’s Assurances
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O₿iWan
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Bailouts
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is better money
O₿iWan explains why Bitcoin is better money in a fantastic tweetstorm. Posted January 18, 2019.
Schnorr
Back to top ↑Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
MAST
Back to top ↑Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum covers scmart contract and privacy benefits of Taproot. posted January 24, 2019.
Culture
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Forking
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Forks
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Culture Wars: What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes you Stronger
Brandon Quittem shares details on Bitcoin’s governance model. Posted January 28, 2019.
Cryptosovereignty
Back to top ↑Cryptosovereignty
Erik lay’s out the framework for a future based on crypto rather than man’s subjective views. Posted February 3, 2019.
David Nage
Back to top ↑Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Back to top ↑Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Back to top ↑Demystifying Blockchain Not Bitcoin
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Human Right
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a hedge against the cashless society
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Back to top ↑Bitcoin Delta Capitalization
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Subsidy
Back to top ↑Security Budget in the Long Run
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Back to top ↑Security Budget in the Long Run
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Block Subsify
Back to top ↑Security Budget in the Long Run
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Securtity Budget
Back to top ↑Security Budget in the Long Run
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Patrick Dugan
Back to top ↑Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Rehypothecation
Back to top ↑Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral
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Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Power and Money
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Back to top ↑A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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Back to top ↑A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior
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Human Action
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Incentive System or When The Stars Align
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Herd
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
Herd Immunity
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Herd Immunity
Elaine Ou describes Bitcoin’s network effect and herd immunity.
Crypto Governance
Back to top ↑Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach
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Bitcoin Governance
Back to top ↑Crypto Governance: The Startup vs. Nation-State Approach
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Timestamp
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Timestamp Security
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Timestamp Security
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Ryan Radloff
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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Branding
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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Personal Finance
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Has a Branding Problem - It’s Evolution, Not Revolution
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Eric Wall
Back to top ↑Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?
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Pseudonymous
Back to top ↑Privacy and Cryptocurrency, Part I: How Private is Bitcoin?
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Lightning Network Reference Rate
Back to top ↑The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
L2 Fees
Back to top ↑The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Routing
Back to top ↑The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Channels
Back to top ↑The Lightning Network Reference Rate
Part 4 of 4 in Nik Bhatia’s piece defining and laying out proposed guidelines for measuring Lightning Network fees. Posted March 11, 2019.
Yan Pritzker
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mining Explained in 15 Tweets
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Aleks Svetski
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin Matters
Posted March 15, 2019 by Aleks Svetski, this article explains why Bitcoin matters.
Timechain
Back to top ↑Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
Measurment
Back to top ↑Measuring Time with chain of blocks
Tamas Blummer examines block height as a means of telling time.
Kay Kurokawa
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Cult
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Philisophy
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is a Cult, Fiat Is a Religion
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Fundamental Analysis
Back to top ↑Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity
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ElSeidy
Back to top ↑On Bitcoin’s Academic Lineage
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Nicolas Dorier
Back to top ↑The Ethics of Money and Bitcoin
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Travis Kling
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: An insurance policy against the largest monetary and fiscal policy experiment in human history
We’re in a transformational time which calls for new financial models. Enter Bitcoin. Travis lays out a case for holding Bitcoin. Posted April 1, 2019.
Wences Cesares
Back to top ↑The case for a small allocation to Bitcoin
Wences Cesares makes the case for why an allocation of your portfolio must be Bitcoin. Posted April 11, 2019
Banks
Back to top ↑How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Proof of Reserves
Back to top ↑How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Lending
Back to top ↑How to scale Bitcoin (without changing a thing)
Nic lays out a future where Bitcoin banks earn their keep. Posted April, 14 2019.
Jared
Back to top ↑The Race to Acquire One Bitcoin: Time’s Running Out
Jared explains why now is the time to acquire because it won’t get any easier.
Tahas Blummer
Back to top ↑How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer discusses soft fork mechanics. Posted April 17, 2019.
Joseph Dallago
Back to top ↑An open letter on scaling bitcoin
Joseph Dallago replies to Nic Carter’s piece on scaling Bitcoin. Posted April 22, 2019.
Kyle Torpey
Back to top ↑This Key Part Of Bitcoin’s History Is What Separates It From Competitors
Kyle Torpey reminds us of Bitcoin history and why it’s so different from the competition. Posted April 23, 2019.
Renato Shirakashi
Back to top ↑Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops
Renato Shirakashi introduces SOPR, which is a new oscillating indicator that signals when major supply changes occur. Posted April 25, 2019.
Models
Back to top ↑Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops
Renato Shirakashi introduces SOPR, which is a new oscillating indicator that signals when major supply changes occur. Posted April 25, 2019.
SOPR
Back to top ↑Introducing SOPR: spent outputs to predict bitcoin lows and tops
Renato Shirakashi introduces SOPR, which is a new oscillating indicator that signals when major supply changes occur. Posted April 25, 2019.
Valentin
Back to top ↑BTC Long/Short MVRV difference indicates an end of the bear cycle
Valentin expands on the MVRV ratio and adds insight to the data that indicates an end to the bear market. Posted May 7, 2019.
Ari Paul
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Ari Paul on the reorg and it’s feasibility
Ari Paul lays out the feasibility of a Bitcoin chain reorg. Posted May 8, 2019.
Eric Olszewski
Back to top ↑No, You Can’t Just ‘Rollback Bitcoin’
The reorg FUD is real and Eric Olszewski sets the record straight. Posted May 9, 2019.
Fernando Nieto
Back to top ↑51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Re-org
Back to top ↑51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Rollback
Back to top ↑51% attack - apparently very easy? refering to CZ’s “rollback btc chain” - How to make sure such corruptible scenario can never happen so easily?
Great discussion regarding 51% attack and reorg. Comments from Peter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, and Fernando Nieto. Posted May 11, 2019.
Sourabh
Back to top ↑Differentiating Against Bitcoin
Sourabh lays describes why differentiating against Bitcoin is really hard. Posted May 11, 2019.
Deniz Özgür
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrencies & Their Effects On Monetary Policy
Deniz Özgür shares a report that lays out crypto from start to finish. Posted May 14, 2019.
Merwane Draï
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the worst enemy of communism and dictatorship
A short essay from Merwane Draï on the power of Bitcoin over the state. Posted May 18, 2019.
Permabull Nino
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: an Accounting Revolution
Permabull Nino explains why cryptocurrencies are fundamentally valuable from the absolute first principles.
Anthony Lusardu
Back to top ↑Understanding (and Mitigating) Re-Orgs
Anthony Lusardi explains re-orgs in simple terms. Posted May 21, 2019.
Re-Org
Back to top ↑Understanding (and Mitigating) Re-Orgs
Anthony Lusardi explains re-orgs in simple terms. Posted May 21, 2019.
Crypto Voices
Back to top ↑Crypto Voices 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base
Crypto Voices publishes their quarterly look at the Global Monetary Base. Posted May 22, 2019.
Report
Back to top ↑Crypto Voices 2019 Q1 Global Monetary Base
Crypto Voices publishes their quarterly look at the Global Monetary Base. Posted May 22, 2019.
Douglas French
Back to top ↑The World Is Growing Tired of Government-Controlled Fiat Currencies
Austrian economist, Douglas French, discusses the people’s desire to get out of fiat and governments trying to keep their power. Posted May 23, 2019.
Anthony Elia
Back to top ↑Golds Best Use Case Is Bitcoin
Anthony Elia discusses the gold industry’s attempt at spreading FUD and why Bitcoin is here to stay.
Neil Woodfine
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Bitcoin Culture
Neil Woodfine cranks out a noteworthy tweetstorm that disects Bitcoin culture. Posted May 24, 2019.
Mining Difficulty
Back to top ↑Hedging mining difficulty
Tamas Blummer
Timeline
Back to top ↑How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Fiat Peg
Back to top ↑How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Digital Currency
Back to top ↑How Fiat Could Fall and Bitcoin Could Soar
Taylor Pearson makes the case for Bitcoin to rise and fiat crumble. Posted May 28, 2019.
Richard Myers
Back to top ↑Decentralizing Bitcoin’s Last Mile With Mobile Mesh Networks
Richard Myers explains the power of mobile mesh networks and how to further decentralize the Bitcoin network. Posted May 29, 2019.
CU19 Q2
Back to top ↑Decentralizing Bitcoin’s Last Mile With Mobile Mesh Networks
Richard Myers explains the power of mobile mesh networks and how to further decentralize the Bitcoin network. Posted May 29, 2019.
Mesh Networks
Back to top ↑Decentralizing Bitcoin’s Last Mile With Mobile Mesh Networks
Richard Myers explains the power of mobile mesh networks and how to further decentralize the Bitcoin network. Posted May 29, 2019.
Humanity
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin rescues the human
Conner Brown shares a brief tweetstorm on Bitcoin rescuing humanity from itself. Posted June 3, 2019.
Off-Chain Transactions
Back to top ↑Statechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin Transfer
Ruben Somsen lays out his proposal for statechains, a novel way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain. Posted June 4, 2019.
Statechains
Back to top ↑Statechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin Transfer
Ruben Somsen lays out his proposal for statechains, a novel way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain. Posted June 4, 2019.
Tradeoffs
Back to top ↑Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
Monetary Police
Back to top ↑Bitcoin bites the bullet
Nic Carter reviews some tradeoffs and how Bitcoin doesn’t take the easy road. Posted June 19, 2019.
Reginald Smith
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Average Dormancy
David Puell and Reginald Smith explore dormancy as a metric of Bitcoin’s long-term economic health. Posted June 20, 2019.
Default Keynesians
Back to top ↑We’re All Default Keynesians Now, and How Bitcoin is Changing That
Brady Swenson pens a term that describes all of us, pre Bitcoin, default keynesians. Posted June 21, 2019.
Secure
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is Secure Money
JW Weatherman makes the case for Bitcoin as a secure money in this brief tweetstorm. Posted June 29, 2019.
Off-Chain Analysis
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
MVRV
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Financial Journal
A comprehensive collection of on and off chain indicators and valuation models for Bitcoin.
Caitlin Long
Back to top ↑Bitcoin, The Dollar And Facebook’s Cryptocurrency
Caitlin Long breaks it down in plain english, “traditional financial markets may be more price-stable than Bitcoin short-term, but will periodically face sys...
Georgios Konstantopoulos
Back to top ↑Tweetsorm: SIDECHAINS ARE NOT LAYER 2
Georgios Konstantopoulos shares a much needed tweetstorm where he describes the difference between sidechains and L2. Posted July 4, 2019.
Jake Chervinsky
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Founders and Cryptocurrency
Jake Chervinsky shares his thoughts on what our founders would thijnk of cryptocurrency. Posted July 4, 2019.
Ben Prentice
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Inflation is Cruel
Ben Prentice lays out a fire tweetstorm putting inflation on blast. Posted July 6, 2019.
Peter Van Valkenburgh
Back to top ↑The differences between Bitcoin and Libra should matter to policymakers
Peter Van Valkenburgh draws a line in the sand between Libra and Bitcoin. Posted July 8, 2019.
Matt Walsh
Back to top ↑Tweet: The Times They are a Changing
Matt Walsh posts a chart that details the timeline of Bitcoin opion with bankers. Posted July 11, 2019.
Adam Paul Moore
Back to top ↑Why God Loves Bitcoin
Adam Paul Moore makes the case for Bitcoin’s morality. Posted July 12, 2019.
Mircea Popescu
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Recapitulation
Mircea Popescu tells us about Bitcoin’s smallest unit, the satoshi. Posted July 15, 2019.
Recapitulation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Recapitulation
Mircea Popescu tells us about Bitcoin’s smallest unit, the satoshi. Posted July 15, 2019.
Dr. C
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and Energy Consumption - Rebuttal
Dr. C lays out rebuttals to several Bitcoin energy consumption arguments. Posted July 16, 2019.
Angela Walch
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Why People Think Bitcoin Miners Are Not Intermediaries
Angela Walch works through a thought experiment as she explores why people thinks people think Bitcoin miners are not intermediaries.
On-Chain Settlement
Back to top ↑It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Ledger Value
Back to top ↑It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
ASsurances
Back to top ↑It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the fastest cryptocurrency when using settlement as the core metric. Posted July 22, 2019.
Brandon Arvanaghi
Back to top ↑Breaking Down the Bitcoin Lightning Network: eltoo
Brandon Arvanaghi dives into an update to the Lightning Network via proposed updates in eltoo. Posted July 25, 2019
Jeff Dorman
Back to top ↑Every Investment is Speculation - Move on
Jeff Dorman debunks fud on Bitcoin investment and speculation. Posted July 29, 2019.
Stadicus
Back to top ↑We Need Bitcoin Full Nodes. Economic Ones.
Stadicus makes the case for more full nodes. Posted August 1, 2019.
Validate
Back to top ↑We Need Bitcoin Full Nodes. Economic Ones.
Stadicus makes the case for more full nodes. Posted August 1, 2019.
Don't Trust, Verify
Back to top ↑We Need Bitcoin Full Nodes. Economic Ones.
Stadicus makes the case for more full nodes. Posted August 1, 2019.
Science
Back to top ↑Proof of Life
Gigi makes the case for Bitcoin being a living organism. Posted August 7, 2019.
The Bitcoin Observer
Back to top ↑Projection and Throwness
The Bitcoin Observer describes an overlooked advantage that Bitcoin has over traditional forms of commodity money. Posted August 11, 2019.
Safety
Back to top ↑Shallow Safety vs. Deep Safety
Nick Szabo breaks down the difference between deep and shallow safety. Posted August 17, 2019.
Startup Advice
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Did The Things That Didn’t Scale Initially, Which Is Why It Remains The King Today
Anthony Pompliano draws comparisons between Bitcoin’s early days and advice to startups from Paul Graham. Posted August 19, 2019.
Paul Graham
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Did The Things That Didn’t Scale Initially, Which Is Why It Remains The King Today
Anthony Pompliano draws comparisons between Bitcoin’s early days and advice to startups from Paul Graham. Posted August 19, 2019.
Jesse Lawler
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin/Government Battle is Vaporware
Jesse Lawler explains why the Government will not be able to take down Bitcoin. Posted August 21, 2019.
Carl Menger
Back to top ↑Applying Carl Menger to the Monetization of Bitcoin
Rollo McFloogle the relationship between principles from Carl Menger and Bitcoin. Posted August 25, 2019.
2019 Q3
Back to top ↑The Theological Conquest of Money
Erik Cason explores the messianic creation of Bitcoin as our hope to end the tyranny of central banking. Posted August 26, 2019.
Theology
Back to top ↑The Theological Conquest of Money
Erik Cason explores the messianic creation of Bitcoin as our hope to end the tyranny of central banking. Posted August 26, 2019.
Ben Davenport
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Positive Feedback Loops
Ben Davenport diagrams the multiple Bitcoin positive feedback loops. Posted August 28, 2019.
Values
Back to top ↑A most peaceful revolution
Nic Carter explains why Bitcoin is the revolution we have been waiting for. Posted September 7, 2019.
Network Health
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: 21 Charts
Hans Hauge shares 21 charts that paint a wonderful picture on the state of Bitcoin. Posted September 10, 2019.
Cy19 Q3
Back to top ↑Floor on Bitcoin’s risk less interest rate
Tamas Blummer makes the case for a floor on Bitcoin riskless interest rates. Posted September 11, 2019.
Etymology
Back to top ↑The Encrypted Meaning of Crypto
Erik Cason
On-Boarding
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: How do you know it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin now?
Hasu makes the case on why it’s not too late to buy Bitcoin. Posted September 12, 2019.
Bitcoin in Space
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Hash Horizon
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
Hash War
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy
Dhruv Bansal explores the idea of Bitcoin in a future where humans are multiplanetary. Posted September 13, 2019.
indicator
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s power oscillator
Harold Christopher Burger introduces the Bitcoin power oscillator. Posted September 20, 2019.
Bitcoin's Power Oscillator
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s power oscillator
Harold Christopher Burger introduces the Bitcoin power oscillator. Posted September 20, 2019.
Variance
Back to top ↑A Note On Variance in Bitcoin Mining
Christopher Bendiksen explains variance in Bitcoin mining and what it means in relation to the recent VERY temporary drop in hashrate. Posted September 25, 2...
Lightning Service Providers
Back to top ↑Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
LSP
Back to top ↑Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy
Roy Sheinfeld shares a vision of a Lightning enabled future and what Lightning Service Providers might look like. Posted Septemeber 25, 2019.
Intermediaries
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: We’ve Built Intermediaries
Meltem Demirors shares her opinion on what’s being built, and why we should rethink things. Posted September 27, 2019.
Ross Ulbricht
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Equals Freedom
Ross Ulbricht makes the case for Bitcoin as the ultimate form of freedom. Posted September 25, 2019
Consumers
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On making Bitcoin easier
Small tweetstorm from Beautyon regarding making Bitcoin easier. Posted October 1, 2019.
Ben kaufman
Back to top ↑The Monetary Case for Bitcoin
Ben Kaufman makes the case for Bitcoin as a monetary system. Posted October 5, 2019.
Criticisms
Back to top ↑Crypto without Criticisms
Erik Cason explains how semantics matter and how we can build a better future with crypto. Posted October 7, 2019.
Tim Draper
Back to top ↑The Startup Government
Tim Draper looks at how Bitcoin and other technologies will shape our future. Posted October 10, 2019.
Security Budget
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mining Fees and Storage Costs
Tamas makes the case for miners requiring certain fee threshold in order to include transactions in their blocks. Posted October 14, 2019.
Gresham's Law
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is for Stackers
Elaine shares why Bitcoin is growing slowly, namely Gresham’s Law. Posted October 17, 2019.
James Todaro
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: 5 Insanely Bullish Charts for Bitcoin
James Todaro shares a couple charts that show a bullish case for Bitcoin. Posted September 20, 2019.
Maximilian Fiege
Back to top ↑A Fossil Fuel Future for Bitcoin Mining
Maximilian Fiege explores the future of Bitcoin mining. Posted October 22, 2019.
CY19 M10
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Matrix
Meltem gets us questioning if we’ve actually taken the “red pill”. Posted October 25, 2019.
Deflationary Spirals
Back to top ↑Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
The Bitcoin Times
Back to top ↑Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary.
Conner Brown makes the case for Bitcoins monetary policy as being programmed rather than deflationary. Posted October 29, 2019.
Fantasy
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Plot Twist
Oleg shares a short plot twist. Posted October 29, 2019.
Circularity
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
Disciplines
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
Rabbit Hole
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
Reflection
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Circularity
Gigi goes cosmic in this epic tweetstorm about Bitcoin and the self. Posted October 30, 2019.
Andrew Chow
Back to top ↑Why does hashing public keys not actually provide any quantum resistance?
Andrew Chow explains how and why public key quantum resistance is not something to worry about. Posted October 16, 2019.
Quantum Resistance
Back to top ↑Why does hashing public keys not actually provide any quantum resistance?
Andrew Chow explains how and why public key quantum resistance is not something to worry about. Posted October 16, 2019.
HasedEntropy
Back to top ↑What Hath Satoshi Wrought
Hashed Entropy shares the first in a future series of short stories. Posted November 2, 2019.
Dennis Reimann
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Oxhearding
Dennis Reimann applies the 10 Buddhist Oxhearding principles to Bitcoin. Posted November 4, 2019.
Buddhism
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Oxhearding
Dennis Reimann applies the 10 Buddhist Oxhearding principles to Bitcoin. Posted November 4, 2019.
Bitcoin Religion
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Oxhearding
Dennis Reimann applies the 10 Buddhist Oxhearding principles to Bitcoin. Posted November 4, 2019.
zen ₿
Back to top ↑Bitcoin, life, and time.
zen ₿ shares a quick read on time a scarcity. Posted November 5, 2019.
Tyranny
Back to top ↑In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
China
Back to top ↑In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Alex Gladstein makes the draws a line of distinction betweetn blockchain and Bitcoin. Posted November 5, 2019.
Bitcoin Minimialist Philosophy
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
Minimalism
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin is a minimalist philosophy
Dan Held and Conner Brown share a tweetstorm of thoughts about Bitcoin Minimalist Philosophy. Posted November 5, 2019.
David Morris
Back to top ↑Johannes Trithemius, Archmage of Secrets
David Morris shares the story of the first known cryptographer. Posted November 6, 2019.
Treasuries
Back to top ↑The Triumvirate of Liquidity
Nik Bhatia explains how Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world’s next risk-free asset. Posted November 6, ...
Reformation
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
Bitcoin Thesis
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
Protestant Reformation
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: The Bitcoin Reformation
Tuur Demeester summarizes his thesis about the parallels betweet the Protestant Reformation and the current Bitcoin environment. Posted November 7, 2019.
Macroeconomics
Back to top ↑An Open Letter to Ray Dalio re: Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove addresses macro investing legend, Ray Dalio, regarding his position on Bitcoin. Posted November 8, 2019.
Banning
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Cannot be Banned
Parker Lewis explains why Bitcoin cannot be banned. Posted November 8, 2019
Investment Thesis
Back to top ↑The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis
Phil Bonello lays out an investment thesis based on principles in the Sovereign Individual. Posted November 12, 2019.
Sovereign Individual
Back to top ↑The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis
Phil Bonello lays out an investment thesis based on principles in the Sovereign Individual. Posted November 12, 2019.
On-Chain
Back to top ↑Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
Market Cycles
Back to top ↑Dissecting Bitcoin’s Unrealised On–Chain Profit/Loss
Rafael Schultze-Kraft and the Glassnode team released an interesting look at some new Bitcoin indicators. Posted November 13, 2019.
Hashed Entropy
Back to top ↑The Last Mortal Man
Part 2 from Hased Entropy’s series of short stories. Posted November 13, 2019.
AMERICAN HODL
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
Warfare
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
Idea Warfare
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
Meme Warfare
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
Guerilla
Back to top ↑Tweet: Bitcoin is guerilla warfare
AMERICAN HODL calls it like it is. This is war. Posted November 13, 2019.
willywoo
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: How I explain Bitcoin to normies…
Willy Woo breaks down his approach to non-Bitcoiners. Posted November 17, 2019.
On-boarding
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: How I explain Bitcoin to normies…
Willy Woo breaks down his approach to non-Bitcoiners. Posted November 17, 2019.
Matt Ahlborg
Back to top ↑Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.
Matt Ahlborg shares how Paxful is delivering money services in places you’d never expect. Posted November 25, 2019.
Paxful
Back to top ↑Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.
Matt Ahlborg shares how Paxful is delivering money services in places you’d never expect. Posted November 25, 2019.
International Money Transfers
Back to top ↑Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.
Matt Ahlborg shares how Paxful is delivering money services in places you’d never expect. Posted November 25, 2019.
Immutability
Back to top ↑Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Infrastructure
Back to top ↑Immutability as a Service
Aleksander Svetski describes Bitcoin not as SaaS but as IaaS. Posted November 26, 2019.
Moneytary System
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Operating System
Aleksander Svetski makes the case for Bitcoin as a new monetary network, not a payments technology.
Predictive Analytics
Back to top ↑Debunking Bitcoin’s natural long-term power-law corridor of growth
Marcel Burger digs into the corridor of growth. Posted November 30, 2019
Sidechain
Back to top ↑Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
Reddit Post
Back to top ↑Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
Confidential Transactions
Back to top ↑Could Bitcoin’s privacy benefit from Litecoin’s EB MimbleWimble proposal?
Pieter Wuille shares his thoughts on confidential transactions in a Reddit post. Posted December 2, 2019.
LNP
Back to top ↑A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack
Lucas Nuzzi lays out a comprehensive view of the ever evolving Bitcoin technology stack. Posted December 3, 2019.
Hodl
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
Speculators
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
Missionaries
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Missionaries vs Wall Street’s Mercenaries
Anthony Pompliano lays out the difference between Wall Street speculators and the Missionaries of Bitcoin. Posted December 3, 2019.
Recap
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: A Decade in Bitcoin
Lucas Nuzzi hammers out a recap of Bitcoin’s last decade. Posted December 5, 2019.
Illegal
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Trade off
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
Jill Carlson explains cryptocurrency’s best use case. Posted December 10, 2019.
Technical Indicator
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Pricing Model
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Energy Value
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Energy-Value Equivalence
Charles Edwards shares his model called the energy-value equivalence. Posted December
Production
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Production Cost
Charles Edwards shares his model for Bitcoin valuation based on production cost. Posted December 13, 2019.
Belief
Back to top ↑The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
Hereafter
Back to top ↑The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
Prayer
Back to top ↑The Passion of The Believers
Hass McCook shares perspective about Bitcoin as a religion. Posted December 19, 2019.
John Newbery
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: A forward look at Bitcoin
John Newbery gives a glimpse of what to expect from Bitcoin. Posted December 21, 2019.
Roadmap
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: A forward look at Bitcoin
John Newbery gives a glimpse of what to expect from Bitcoin. Posted December 21, 2019.
Nakamoto Consensus
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Randomness
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Chaos
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Eternal Struggle
Gigi explains Bitcoin’s thermodynamic properties
Rory Highside
Back to top ↑Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
POW
Back to top ↑Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws of Physics And Nature
Rory Highside explains the thermodynamics behind PoW and Bitcoin. Posted December 25, 2019.
Fundraising
Back to top ↑Bitcoin As a Startup
Hass McCook lays out his thesis on how Bitcoin is evolving in stages much like a startup raises capital. Posted December 29, 2019
VC
Back to top ↑Bitcoin As a Startup
Hass McCook lays out his thesis on how Bitcoin is evolving in stages much like a startup raises capital. Posted December 29, 2019
Price Prediction
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s increasing price resistance uphill, short and long-term
Harold Christopher Burger shares his opinion on the decreasing gains for Bitcoin. Postec December 30, 2019.
Dictatorship
Back to top ↑How to Resist Censorship with Bitcoin
Elaine shares how to destroy financial censorship is simply by using Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020
Presentation
Back to top ↑How to Resist Censorship with Bitcoin
Elaine shares how to destroy financial censorship is simply by using Bitcoin. Posted January 4, 2020
Bitcoin Fixes This
Back to top ↑Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
Corruption
Back to top ↑Dear Libertarians: Bitcoin Fixes This
Rollo sounds off on Libertarians to get on board the Bitcoin train. Posted January 4, 2020.
Pascal Hügli
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World
Pascal Hügli tells us of the growing inportance of the digital world, where digital bit become more important than physical atoms. Posted January 8, 2020.
Math
Back to top ↑Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Calculations
Back to top ↑Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Bitcoin Value
Back to top ↑Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Cost of Friction
Back to top ↑Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Justification
Back to top ↑Valuing BTC as a commodity
Acrual makes the case for $5m+ Bitcoin. Posted January 8, 2020.
Winning
Back to top ↑Bitcoin has already succeeded
Acrual posts why Bitcoin has already suceeded. Posted January 12, 2020.
Tipping Point
Back to top ↑Bitcoin has already succeeded
Acrual posts why Bitcoin has already suceeded. Posted January 12, 2020.
Magic Internet Money
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Weird
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Magic Internet Money
Rhythm goes over Bitcoin’s weird history and why he hopes it stays that way. Posted January 13, 2020.
Internet
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Decentralized
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Open Protocol
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Open
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: No one person runs the internet
Wiz talks about the internet and decentralization. Posted January 13, 2020.
Transmission
Back to top ↑Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
txCast
Back to top ↑Introducing txCast
6102 introduces a novel approach to broadcasting Bitcoin transactions in a private manner. Posted January 20, 2020.
Stephan Livera
Back to top ↑What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Token Velocity
Back to top ↑What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Salerno
Back to top ↑What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Fisher Equation
Back to top ↑What Crypto Token Velocity Theorists Can Learn From Austrian Economics
Stephan Livera explains why crypto velocity theorists are getting it wrong and what they could learn from the Austrian School. Posted January 21, 2020.
Value Transportation
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is perfectly suited for value time travel
Acrual describes why Bitcoin is a great way to transfer value. Posted January 22. 2020.
Sovereign Currency
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
Parker Lewis explains how and why Bitcoin will be the winner of the money wars. Posted January 24, 2020.
FF2K
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is good for your government’s treasury
FF2K puts it simply, Bitcoin is good for Government. Posted January 26, 2020.
Treasury
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is good for your government’s treasury
FF2K puts it simply, Bitcoin is good for Government. Posted January 26, 2020.
Building
Back to top ↑How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Response
Back to top ↑How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Move Slow
Back to top ↑How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Slow
Back to top ↑How Not To Critique Bitcoin
Conner Brown defends moving slow. Posted January 28, 2020.
Aaron Fiat Minimalist
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm Bitcoin as super-collateral
Aaron explores Bitcoin as the ultimate collateral in this short tweetstorm. Posted February 5, 2020.
Token
Back to top ↑Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Capital
Back to top ↑Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Distribution
Back to top ↑Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Cryptocurrency
Back to top ↑Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Rights
Back to top ↑Lessons from the uneven distribution of capital
Nic Carter digs into the distribution of capital around the globe and specifically how cryptocurrency challenges the legacy system. Posted February 8, 2020.
Race
Back to top ↑The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Allegory
Back to top ↑The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Fable
Back to top ↑The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Moral
Back to top ↑The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Teachings
Back to top ↑The Tortoise and The Hare
Marty expertly compares Bitcoin and Fiat to Aesop’s fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Posted February 10, 2020.
Elisabeth Préfontaine
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Securities
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Monetary Capital
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is Not a Security
Elisabeth shares an excerpt from a larger paper that explains why Bitcoin is not a security. Posted February 10, 2020.
Usability
Back to top ↑A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
Liquidity
Back to top ↑A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
Minimum ID
Back to top ↑A World Without Bitcoin
Alex Gladstein digs into a future without Bitcoin. Posted February 11, 2020.
Price Action
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Pump
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
Deflationary Crisis
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm The Pump
Brendan makes the case for a pump in price due to Bitcoin’s deflationary monetary policy. Posted February 11, 2020.
On-Chain Metrics
Back to top ↑Over 75 percent of Bitcoin’s On–Chain Volume Doesn’t Change Hands
Rafael Schultze-Kraft looks at volume on-chain and explains why he thinks Bitcoin is not changing hands. Posted February 13, 2020.
Volume
Back to top ↑Over 75 percent of Bitcoin’s On–Chain Volume Doesn’t Change Hands
Rafael Schultze-Kraft looks at volume on-chain and explains why he thinks Bitcoin is not changing hands. Posted February 13, 2020.
Speech
Back to top ↑The Nature of Bitcoin
Zane Pocock shares an overview of Bitcoin as he sees it. Posted February 13, 2020.
Marc van der Chijs
Back to top ↑The Perfect Storm: Why Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2020 is different from Bitcoin at $10,000 in 2017
Marc van der Chijs explains the difference between Bitcoin today and in 2017, hint, lots. Posted February 13, 2020
Observations
Back to top ↑Some conclusions after learning Bitcoin
acrual shares some learnings. Posted February 15, 2020.
Learning
Back to top ↑Some conclusions after learning Bitcoin
acrual shares some learnings. Posted February 15, 2020.
Experience
Back to top ↑Some conclusions after learning Bitcoin
acrual shares some learnings. Posted February 15, 2020.
Complex Market Hypothesis
Back to top ↑The Complex Market Hypothesis
In which I hypothesise that markets are subjective, uncertain, complex, stochastic, adaptive, fractal, reflexive… — really any clever sounding adjective you ...
plasticman2011
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin so hard for most people to understand?
A random anonymous comment on a YouTube video sums up a struggle with getting Bitcoin. Posted February 17, 2020.
Anon
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin so hard for most people to understand?
A random anonymous comment on a YouTube video sums up a struggle with getting Bitcoin. Posted February 17, 2020.
Comment
Back to top ↑Why is Bitcoin so hard for most people to understand?
A random anonymous comment on a YouTube video sums up a struggle with getting Bitcoin. Posted February 17, 2020.
Forecast
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Factors
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Reason
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm My Bitcoin Forecast
Charles Edwards makes a forecast for the future of Bitcoin. Posted February 16, 2020.
Mining centralization
Back to top ↑No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Mining Concentration
Back to top ↑No, Concentration Among Miners Isn’t Going to Break Bitcoin
Hasu digs into mining centralization. Posted February 20, 2020.
Jevon's Paradox
Back to top ↑The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
Fee Market
Back to top ↑The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
Scalability
Back to top ↑The fee market and Jevons Paradox
Marty takes us down a trail about Jevon’s Paradox and the inevitable fee market. Posted February 20, 2020.
51 Percent Attacks
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm On 51 percent Attacks from a Miner
Steve Barbour explains a basic funamental on mining and a 51% attack. Posted February 22, 2020.
Basics
Back to top ↑Ladies, Gentlemen, Welcome to Bitcoin Club, Here Are the Rules
Sylvain Saurel shares a fun read laying out the unspoken rules of Bitcoin modeled after the movie Fight Club. Posted February 27, 2020.
Mantra
Back to top ↑Ladies, Gentlemen, Welcome to Bitcoin Club, Here Are the Rules
Sylvain Saurel shares a fun read laying out the unspoken rules of Bitcoin modeled after the movie Fight Club. Posted February 27, 2020.
Habitats
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Habitats
Gigi lays out the three realms where Bitcoin exists. Posted March 1, 2020.
Survivial
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Habitats
Gigi lays out the three realms where Bitcoin exists. Posted March 1, 2020.
Cover Letter
Back to top ↑A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
Investment Advice
Back to top ↑A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
Consideration
Back to top ↑A Cover Letter to Ray Dalio
Hass McCook sends a cover letter to Ray Dalio regarding Robert Breedlove’s epic piece on Bitcoin. Posted February 26, 2020.
True Believers
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Price Will Always Be Too Expensive if You Don’t Believe in Its Revolution
Sylvain makes the case for Bitcoin as a revolution and how it rewards true believers. Posted March 1, 2020.
Cory Klippsten
Back to top ↑Ten Million Bitcoiners
Cory Klippsten makes the case for on-boarding the next 10million Bitcoiners. Posted February 21, 2020/
cY20 Q1
Back to top ↑Ten Million Bitcoiners
Cory Klippsten makes the case for on-boarding the next 10million Bitcoiners. Posted February 21, 2020/
Recruitment
Back to top ↑Ten Million Bitcoiners
Cory Klippsten makes the case for on-boarding the next 10million Bitcoiners. Posted February 21, 2020/
ADoption
Back to top ↑The Many Angles of Bitcoin Adoption
Phil Bonello explains what’s enabling Bitcoin adoption. Posted February 12, 2020.
Prisoner's Delemma
Back to top ↑The Many Angles of Bitcoin Adoption
Phil Bonello explains what’s enabling Bitcoin adoption. Posted February 12, 2020.
Ragnar Lifthrasir
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Adversarial Thinking
A tweetstorm on adversarial thinking and Bitcoin from Ragnar. Posted January 12, 2020
Adversarial Thinking
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Adversarial Thinking
A tweetstorm on adversarial thinking and Bitcoin from Ragnar. Posted January 12, 2020
Cheating
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Protocal Changes
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Games
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: On Cheating
A quick tweetstorm from Dhruv about cheating and Bitcoin. Posted March 3, 2020.
Waste
Back to top ↑So You Think Bitcoin Mining is Wasteful?
Daniel compares energy usage of Bitcoin and video games. Posted March 5, 2020.
Efficiency
Back to top ↑So You Think Bitcoin Mining is Wasteful?
Daniel compares energy usage of Bitcoin and video games. Posted March 5, 2020.
Cointegration
Back to top ↑Reviewing “Modelling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity” — Part IV: The Theoretical Framework leading to the Error Correction Model
Marcel Burger looks at Stock-to-Flow from PlanB in part 4 of his series. Posted March 7, 2020.
Shameless
Back to top ↑The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Prudence
Back to top ↑The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Temperance
Back to top ↑The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Merit
Back to top ↑The Moral Philosophy of Bitcoin
Prateek Goorha outlines 5 virtues of Bitcoiners. Posted March 7, 2020.
Diaspora
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes
Joe Rodgers explores the idea of the Bitcoin diaspora. Posted March 11, 2020.
Confederation
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes
Joe Rodgers explores the idea of the Bitcoin diaspora. Posted March 11, 2020.
Core
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
PR
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
Pull Requests
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
Jameson Lopp examines Bitcoin Core developers activity. Posted March 14, 2020.
Deniability
Back to top ↑A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Mixing
Back to top ↑A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
DEX
Back to top ↑A Treatise On Bitcoin And Privacy
Giacomo Zucco shares a very thoughtful 2 part series on Bitcoin privacy. Posted March 18, 2020.
Coeli Astrology
Back to top ↑The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
Astrology
Back to top ↑The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
Occult
Back to top ↑The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
Mystery
Back to top ↑The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
Tarot
Back to top ↑The Astrology of Bitcoin
Coeli AStrology shares a fun read on the Bitcoin and astrology. Posted March 18, 2020.
Geopolitics
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
American
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
National Security
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Bold American Future
Conner Brown makes the case that Bitcoin could unlock the future of America’s prosperity. Posted March 23, 2020.
Rally Cry
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Texas
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Alamo
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
Beliefs
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Rally Cry
Parker Lewis channels his inner Alamo battle cry for Bitcoin! Posted March 26, 2020.
CIA
Back to top ↑Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
NSA
Back to top ↑Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
Vlad Costea takes a look at Bitcoin’s history and defends the cypherpunks legacy. Posted March 27, 2020.
Nick
Back to top ↑Stock-to-Flow Influences on Bitcoin Price
Nick attempts to model S2F and Bitcoin price. Posted March 27, 2020
Accounting
Back to top ↑The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
Judgement
Back to top ↑The Number Zero and Bitcoin
Robert Breedlove goes galactic on the importance of the number zero and Bitcoin. Posted March 28, 2020.
Commerce
Back to top ↑Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money
Sven makes the case that free market money alone cannot save us. Posted March 29, 2020.
Optimism
Back to top ↑Dear Bitcoiners
Gigi pens an optimistic letter to Bitcoiners around the world. Posted March31, 2020.
Outlook
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
Van Eck
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Correlation to Gold Jumps in 2020
Gabor models Bitcoin correlation to gold and many other assets. Posted April 3, 2020.
Francis Pouliot
Back to top ↑Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Information Warfare
Back to top ↑Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Narrative
Back to top ↑Controlling the narrative - how defining problems and framing causal stories of harm leads to immutable policy institutions
Francis Pouliot shares an essay on how information is crafted for us by the media. Posted April 5, 2020.
Mariana Trip
Back to top ↑Falling empires, Corporate Fiat and the fate of Bitcoin
Mariana Trip pens a solid read on the coming Bitcoin revolution thanks to loose monetary policy from central bankers. Posted April 7, 2020.
Empires
Back to top ↑Falling empires, Corporate Fiat and the fate of Bitcoin
Mariana Trip pens a solid read on the coming Bitcoin revolution thanks to loose monetary policy from central bankers. Posted April 7, 2020.
Zach of Earth
Back to top ↑Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
Thought Experiment
Back to top ↑Consequences of Money
Zach of Earth shares a couple thought experiments on the morals and nature of money. Posted April 8, 2020.
Arthur Hayes
Back to top ↑Choose your Fiction
Arthur Hayes writes an epic opinion piece on the current markets and whats to come. Posted April 9, 2020.
Post Covid
Back to top ↑Choose your Fiction
Arthur Hayes writes an epic opinion piece on the current markets and whats to come. Posted April 9, 2020.
Collapse
Back to top ↑Choose your Fiction
Arthur Hayes writes an epic opinion piece on the current markets and whats to come. Posted April 9, 2020.
End of an Era
Back to top ↑Choose your Fiction
Arthur Hayes writes an epic opinion piece on the current markets and whats to come. Posted April 9, 2020.
21 Million
Back to top ↑21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
Experiment
Back to top ↑21 Million is Non-Negotiable
Phil shares a great piece on one of the core Schelling Points of Bitcoin. Posted April 9, 2020.
Onion
Back to top ↑The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Cryptographic Guarantees
Back to top ↑The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Economic Guarantees
Back to top ↑The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Consensus Guarantees
Back to top ↑The Onion Model of Blockchain Security – Part 1
Hasu explains the onion security model and how it applies to blockchain. This is foundational for understanding Bitcoin’s security. Posted April 11, 2020.
Anarchist
Back to top ↑Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
Financial System
Back to top ↑Proof of Progress - Bitcoin anarchism meets the establishment
Daniel Frumkin writes a compelling piece about advancing our financial system. Posted April 12, 2020.
Myth
Back to top ↑Bitcoin mythbusting
David shares a thoughtful piece on Bitcoin FUD. Posted April 14, 2020.
Quantatative Hardening
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Highlights the Virtues of Quantitative Hardening
Sylvain outlines QH. Posted April 15, 2020.
Preston Byrne
Back to top ↑Welcome to prepping, Bitcoiners
Preston pens an open letter to Bitcoiners on prepping. Posted March 31, 2020.
Bug Out Bag
Back to top ↑Welcome to prepping, Bitcoiners
Preston pens an open letter to Bitcoiners on prepping. Posted March 31, 2020.
Prepping
Back to top ↑Welcome to prepping, Bitcoiners
Preston pens an open letter to Bitcoiners on prepping. Posted March 31, 2020.
Prepared
Back to top ↑Welcome to prepping, Bitcoiners
Preston pens an open letter to Bitcoiners on prepping. Posted March 31, 2020.
Business Cycle
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Civil Liberties
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and The Business Cycle
Ben Kaufman explains the relationship between Bitcoin and business cycle from the perspective of an Austrian Economist. Posted April 16, 2020.
Soft Fork
Back to top ↑How soft forks might work or fail
Tamas Blummer explains how soft forks might work. Posted April 17, 2019.
Liquid
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
RSK
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
FinTech
Back to top ↑The State of L2 Investments
Mohamed Fouda takes a look at the current state of Bitcoin scaling technologies. Posted April 17, 2020
Confirmations
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
Settlement Assurances
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Is Not Slow - It’s Highly Secure
Vlad makes the case for Bitcoin being highly secure rather than slow. Posted April, 18, 2020.
A Man in Black
Back to top ↑THE HONEY BADGER
A Man in Black shares a short story about Bitcoin. Posted April, 2020.
Independence
Back to top ↑A Declaration of Monetary Independence
Brady pens a revolutionary manifesto for the Bitcoin revolution. Posted 21, 2020.
Katia Dolzhenko
Back to top ↑Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Anarchic
Back to top ↑Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Zone
Back to top ↑Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Autonomy
Back to top ↑Citadels Are Not Just A Meme
Katia explains why citadels are a self fulfilling prophecy. Posted April 21, 2020.
Stefen Reid
Back to top ↑A Rebels Renaissance
Stefen Reid shares a great article about the Bitcoin revolution. Posted April 23, 2020
Renaissance
Back to top ↑A Rebels Renaissance
Stefen Reid shares a great article about the Bitcoin revolution. Posted April 23, 2020
Printing Press
Back to top ↑A Rebels Renaissance
Stefen Reid shares a great article about the Bitcoin revolution. Posted April 23, 2020
Double Entry Bookkeeping
Back to top ↑A Rebels Renaissance
Stefen Reid shares a great article about the Bitcoin revolution. Posted April 23, 2020
Fractional Reserve Banking
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Bailment
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Deposit Banking
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin Compatible with Banking?
Zane Pocock explains how Bitcoin and banking will work together. Posted April 23, 2020.
Mushrooms
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Organism
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Life
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Living
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Mycelium
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
Symbiosis
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution - Symbiosis — Part 4 of 4
Brandon Quittem shares part 4 of his superb series which describes Bitcoin as an organism much like mushrooms. This whole series is cosmic and well worth the...
mtcbtc
Back to top ↑Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Milestones
Back to top ↑Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Epochs
Back to top ↑Hey Bitcoin, Slow Down!
mtcbtc posts a short article explaining how quickly Bitcoin is developing. Posted April 25, 2020.
Money Management
Back to top ↑Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Family
Back to top ↑Dear Family, Dear Friends,
Gigi pens a letter to his loved ones about why Bitcoin. Posted April 27, 2020.
Common Sense
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Thomas Paine
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Monetary police
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
M2
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Common Sense
Parker Lewis channels Thomas Paine in this no BS take on why Bitcoin matters. Posted May 1, 2020.
Pandemics
Back to top ↑Citadels and Pandemics
Yuri de Gaia examines a future of citadels. Posted March 25, 2020.
Engineering
Back to top ↑Citadels and Pandemics
Yuri de Gaia examines a future of citadels. Posted March 25, 2020.
Frank Braun
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
Cyberstatism
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
Toxicity
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
Statism
Back to top ↑Cryptocurrencies as Cyberstatism
Frank Braun takes a critical look at Bitcoin poinitng out centralization of money always leads down the wrong path. Posted January 6, 2020.
Nopara
Back to top ↑Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
Wasabi
Back to top ↑Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
Join Market
Back to top ↑Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
JoinMarket
Back to top ↑Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
E-cash
Back to top ↑Few Words on Decentralization and Anonymous Payments
Nopara discusses the many ways we definie anonymous payments. Posted May 6, 2020.
John Vallis
Back to top ↑The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
4th Epoch
Back to top ↑The 4th Bitcoin Epoch
John Vallis walks us through the momentous halving and into the 4th Epoch. Posted May 7, 2020.
Fabian Jahr
Back to top ↑Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
Coins
Back to top ↑Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
Chain Analysis
Back to top ↑Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
Lost Coins
Back to top ↑Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
Coin Supply
Back to top ↑Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
UTXO
Back to top ↑Where are the coins?
Fabian Jahr examines missing coins. Posted May 8, 2020.
2020 M5
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Quantatative Easing
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Central banking
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
ECB
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Velocity of Money
Back to top ↑How Does Quantitative Easing (QE) Affect the Price of Bitcoin?
Pedro Febrero examines the affect of central banking and QE on Bitcoin. Posted May 11, 2020.
Reflections
Back to top ↑Spiritual Reflections On The Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington looks at the halvening and what it means. Posted May 12, 2020.
Modern
Back to top ↑Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
Critical Thinking
Back to top ↑Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
First Principles
Back to top ↑Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
Austrian School
Back to top ↑Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
Bastiat
Back to top ↑Economics has lost its way
Per Bylund takes a critical look at modern economics. Posted May 14, 2020.
Dhrub Bansal
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
Exponential
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
Resilience
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Resilience to Exponential Change
Yassine Elmandjra and Shrub Bansal discuss first principles and how Bitcoin is resistant to change. Posted May 15, 2020.
Monetary policy
Back to top ↑What Does Bitcoin Really Represent?
Sylvain Saurel examines what’s really behind Bitcoin. Posted May 15, 2020.
Environmental
Back to top ↑The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
Energy Consumptions
Back to top ↑The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
Nic Carter looks at the state of Bitcoin mining and the energy mix used for hash generation. Posted May 19, 2020.
BTChap
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Value Proposition – Is It Truly the Best Currency?
BTChap looks at Bitcoin versus the alternatives. Posted March 22, 2020.
Value Propostition
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Value Proposition – Is It Truly the Best Currency?
BTChap looks at Bitcoin versus the alternatives. Posted March 22, 2020.
Chris Espley
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
Conspiracy
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
Mars
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm - Elon is Satoshi
Chris Espley shares a fun tweet storm that lays out a conspiracy that Elon is Satoshi! Posted May 20, 2020.
Central Banks
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Threat
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Custodial Banking
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard
Hasu examines weighs outcomes in a Bitcoin standard world. Posted May 25, 2020.
Rusty Russell
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Exchanges
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Scam
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Gambling
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Casino
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Coinbase
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Binance
Back to top ↑57 Varieties of Pyrite
Rusty Russell shares why exchanges are casinos and a terrible place to send noobs. Posted May 27, 2020.
Karo Zagorus
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Bitcoin Adoption
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Monetary Nationalism
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Violence
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the Trust Problem - Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust?
Karo Zagorus shares his thesis on Bitcoin and the Trust Problem. Posted June 4, 2020.
Matt Huang
Back to top ↑Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Risk Analysis
Back to top ↑Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Monetary Asset
Back to top ↑Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Assets
Back to top ↑Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Bubbles
Back to top ↑Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic
Matt Huang pens a letter to skeptical investors about the Bitcoin opportunity. Posted in May, 2020.
Industrialization
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
Financialization
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Leo Zhang shares a very thoughtful piece on the landscape of Bitcoin mining and how competition and industrialization will shape the future. Posted June 1, 2...
Monarcy
Back to top ↑Anarchy and Monarchy - A Natural State
Yuri de Gaia shares a post that draws comparisons between monarch and anarchy. POsted May 1, 2020.
Intolerant Minority
Back to top ↑Bitcoin and the intolerant minority
Hasu explains his position on the intolerant minority in Bitcoin and why that plays into less radical changes to the protocol. Posted June 5, 2020.
Adam Pokornicky
Back to top ↑A Peaceful Protest - Opt-Out, Buy Bitcoin
Adam Pokornicky makes the case to opt out. Posted June 8, 2020.
Opt Out
Back to top ↑A Peaceful Protest - Opt-Out, Buy Bitcoin
Adam Pokornicky makes the case to opt out. Posted June 8, 2020.
Sovereign Money
Back to top ↑A Peaceful Protest - Opt-Out, Buy Bitcoin
Adam Pokornicky makes the case to opt out. Posted June 8, 2020.
Diverter "No ID" BTC
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Home brew
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
DIY
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Mining Calculator
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Mining Profitability
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
KYC
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
No KYC
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Fungible
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Antminer
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Whatsminer
Back to top ↑Mining for the Streets
Diverter “No ID” BTC shares a really fantastic report about the realities of mining in 2020. Posted June 8, 2020.
Solairis
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Code
Back to top ↑Bitcoin - Reform or Revolution? Part 1
Solairis compares revolutionary change of the past with the potential of Bitcoin. Posted June 9, 2020.
Brian Harrington
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Has to Be for Everyone
Brian Harrington makes a bullish case for everyone. Posted June 13, 2020.
Sovereignty.
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Has to Be for Everyone
Brian Harrington makes a bullish case for everyone. Posted June 13, 2020.
Stronger
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is Antifragile
Parker Lewis descirbes how Bitcoin is antifragile. Posted June 12, 2020.
Tatiana Koffman
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is a silent protest against corrupt governments everywhere.
Tatiana Koffman pens a piece calling for the separation of state and money. Posted June 13, 2020.
Protests
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is a silent protest against corrupt governments everywhere.
Tatiana Koffman pens a piece calling for the separation of state and money. Posted June 13, 2020.
Governments
Back to top ↑Why Bitcoin is a silent protest against corrupt governments everywhere.
Tatiana Koffman pens a piece calling for the separation of state and money. Posted June 13, 2020.
Spirit
Back to top ↑The Bitcoin Journey
Gigi shares his idea of the Bitcoin journey and the steps along the way. Posted June 15, 2020.
Public Relations
Back to top ↑Tweetstorm: Bitcoin Marketing
Dan Held tweets about Bitcoin and marketing. Posted June 16, 2020.
Mempool
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Order
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Block space
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
Price Discovery
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Town Square
Zane Pocock explores the importance of the pure market developed around mempools. Posted June 18, 2020.
John Cantrell
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Mnemonics
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Brute Force
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Seed Words
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
BIP39
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
GPU
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Azure
Back to top ↑How I checked over 1 trillion mnemonics in 30 hours to win a bitcoin
John Cantrell explains how he checked over 1 trillion mnemonics and won a Bitcoin. Posted June 18, 2020/
Oil and Gas
Back to top ↑There will be bitcoin.
Steve Barbour makes the case that the future of oil and gas is Bitcoin. Posted June 23, 2020.
Paul Knight
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Global Standard of Value
Paul Knight makes the case for Bitcoin as a global store of value. Posted February 1, 2020.
2020 M2
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: A Global Standard of Value
Paul Knight makes the case for Bitcoin as a global store of value. Posted February 1, 2020.
Slavery
Back to top ↑Masters and Slaves of Money
Robert Breedlove explains how masters of money are the real problem and how Bitcoin is the path to freedom. Posted July 5, 2020.
American Hodl
Back to top ↑Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Paradigm
Back to top ↑Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Movement
Back to top ↑Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Woke
Back to top ↑Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Marxist
Back to top ↑Soft money, Soft minds.
American Hodl explains power structure and the fiat mind. Posted July 5, 2020.
Hobby
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet
JP Koning makes the case that Bitcoin is so early, it is much more like a hobby than revolutionary money at this point.
Enthusiasts
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet
JP Koning makes the case that Bitcoin is so early, it is much more like a hobby than revolutionary money at this point.
Reed Womack
Back to top ↑Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation
Reed Womack shares a meditation on scarcity and Bitcoin. POsted July 11, 2020.
Spirituality
Back to top ↑Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation
Reed Womack shares a meditation on scarcity and Bitcoin. POsted July 11, 2020.
Meditation
Back to top ↑Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation
Reed Womack shares a meditation on scarcity and Bitcoin. POsted July 11, 2020.
Infinity
Back to top ↑Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation
Reed Womack shares a meditation on scarcity and Bitcoin. POsted July 11, 2020.
Position
Back to top ↑3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin
Lyn Alden shares an in depth reason for making a position in Bitcoin. Posted July 17, 2020.
Karthik Venkatesh
Back to top ↑The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
Hashpower
Back to top ↑The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
Reflexivity
Back to top ↑The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part I.
Leo and Karthik explore the magic of haspower and it’s economic value. Posted July 20, 2020.
Defend
Back to top ↑Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
Logic
Back to top ↑Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
Arguments
Back to top ↑Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths
Yassine goes FUD-buster in this easy read dismissing several common FUD tactics thrown at Bitcoin. Posted June 26, 2020.
State
Back to top ↑Bitcoin: Separating Money From State
Pedro Febrero covers Bitcoin’s role in separating
Michael Nov
Back to top ↑Bitcoin mining has the potential to save distressed heavy industrial businesses
Michael Nov and Harry Sudock explain the opportunity of industrial Bitcoin mining. Posted July 31, 2020.
Harry Sudock
Back to top ↑Bitcoin mining has the potential to save distressed heavy industrial businesses
Michael Nov and Harry Sudock explain the opportunity of industrial Bitcoin mining. Posted July 31, 2020.
Courts
Back to top ↑Misjudging Bitcoin
Beautyon explore how a court ruling on Bitcoin mischaracterizes it. Posted July 27, 2020.
Characteristics
Back to top ↑Misjudging Bitcoin
Beautyon explore how a court ruling on Bitcoin mischaracterizes it. Posted July 27, 2020.
Alien
Back to top ↑The AlienCoin Attack Vector
Knut Svanholm explores the idea of a better alien money that could disrupt Bitcoin. Posted July 29, 2020.
Galaxy
Back to top ↑The AlienCoin Attack Vector
Knut Svanholm explores the idea of a better alien money that could disrupt Bitcoin. Posted July 29, 2020.
Attack Vector
Back to top ↑The AlienCoin Attack Vector
Knut Svanholm explores the idea of a better alien money that could disrupt Bitcoin. Posted July 29, 2020.
2020 M6
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - What Bitcoin is
Vijay Boyapati shares a tweet thread on the great debate about what Bitcoin is and why only one of the two major visions makes sense. Posted June 22, 2020.
Theory
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - What Bitcoin is
Vijay Boyapati shares a tweet thread on the great debate about what Bitcoin is and why only one of the two major visions makes sense. Posted June 22, 2020.
Database
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - Bitcoin and NoSQL
Dhruv Bansal compares Bitcoin and NoSQL. Posted August 3, 2020
Developer Funding
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
Devs
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
Grants
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
Donations
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
Funding
Back to top ↑Bitcoin’s Patronage System Is an Unheralded Strength
Nic Carter highlights Bitcoin developer funding programs. Posted August 6, 2020.
Bill MacDonald
Back to top ↑A real talk-blocker
Bill MacDonald makes the case for a more civil approach to Twitter, for the benefit of Bitcoin. Posted August 10, 2020.
2020 M8
Back to top ↑A real talk-blocker
Bill MacDonald makes the case for a more civil approach to Twitter, for the benefit of Bitcoin. Posted August 10, 2020.
Thibaud Marechal
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
Reserves
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
Reserve Asset
Back to top ↑Is Bitcoin the world’s safest reserve asset?
Thibaud Marechal makes the case for Bitcoin as the best reserve asset. Posted August 14, 2020
Mick Morucci
Back to top ↑Balinese Cockfights & Bitcoins
Mick Morucci draws the comparison between cockfighters and Bitcoiners. Poseted August 17, 2020.
Bill Buchanan
Back to top ↑In Memory of Hal Finney, RIP — Builder of a More Trusted World
Bill Buchanan shares a thoughtful piece about our friend, Hal. Posted August 22, 2020.
Tribute
Back to top ↑In Memory of Hal Finney, RIP — Builder of a More Trusted World
Bill Buchanan shares a thoughtful piece about our friend, Hal. Posted August 22, 2020.
2020 September
Back to top ↑Bitcoin as a Tool for Secession
Yuri de Gaia explores how Bitcoin can be used as a tool for secession. Posted Summer 2020.
Secession
Back to top ↑Bitcoin as a Tool for Secession
Yuri de Gaia explores how Bitcoin can be used as a tool for secession. Posted Summer 2020.
Danny Diekroeger
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: What is an xpub?
Danny lays out the basics of xpubs. Posted August 30, 2020.
xpub
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: What is an xpub?
Danny lays out the basics of xpubs. Posted August 30, 2020.
Explainer
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: What is an xpub?
Danny lays out the basics of xpubs. Posted August 30, 2020.
Gradually Then Suddenly
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is One for All
Parker Lewis makes the case for Bitcoin for everyone. Posted August 27, 2020.
Satoshi
Back to top ↑The Patoshi Mining Machine
Sergio speculates what Satoshi mined with. Posted August 22, 2020.
Gloria Zhao
Back to top ↑Map of the Bitcoin Network
Gloria explains the Bitcoin network at a high level. Posted July 22, 2020.
Map
Back to top ↑Map of the Bitcoin Network
Gloria explains the Bitcoin network at a high level. Posted July 22, 2020.
Bitcoin Network
Back to top ↑Map of the Bitcoin Network
Gloria explains the Bitcoin network at a high level. Posted July 22, 2020.
Topography
Back to top ↑Map of the Bitcoin Network
Gloria explains the Bitcoin network at a high level. Posted July 22, 2020.
Wumbo
Back to top ↑MPPs & Wumbo Channels - Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
Roy Sheinfeld explains Wumbo and MPP on Lightning Network. Posted September 14, 2020.
MPP
Back to top ↑MPPs & Wumbo Channels - Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network
Roy Sheinfeld explains Wumbo and MPP on Lightning Network. Posted September 14, 2020.
Alchemy
Back to top ↑The Alchemy of Hashpower, Part II.
Leo Zhang explores the magic of hashrate and mining in part 2 of a series. Posted September 15, 2020.
Adoption
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
UX
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread on the Lightning Network User Experience
Giacomo lays out perception and reality of Lightning Network adoption. Posted September 15, 2020
Institutional Investor
Back to top ↑Bitcoin In The Institutional Investment Portfolio
Marcel Burger makes the case for hodling Bitcoin in an institutional portfolio. POsted September 18, 2020.
Chad
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
Circular Economy
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
Balance Sheet
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
MoE
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread: Chad money
Gigi digs into what happens to balance sheets as Bitcoin makes it’s way. Posted September 19, 2020.
Antoine Riard
Back to top ↑Why we may fail Lightning
Antoine Riard explains why Lightning might be doomed or what we can do to push the stack forward. Posted September 28, 2020.
Bitmex
Back to top ↑Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
DLC
Back to top ↑Thinking Beyond BitMEX: DLCs
Shinobi looks at the future of DLCs. Posted October 1, 2020.
Virtual World
Back to top ↑The Way of the Digital Citadel
Yuri de Gaia explores the creation of digital citadels. Posted June 26, 2020
SNARKs
Back to top ↑SNARKs and the future of blockchains
Ruben Somsen explains what SNARKs can and can’t do for blockchain. Posted October 3, 2020.
Manuel Polavieja
Back to top ↑The intrinsic value of Bitcoin (II)
Manuel examines the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, which has been debated many times but lays out a clear framework. Posted October 5, 2020.
Tyler Bain
Back to top ↑Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
CPBI
Back to top ↑Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
Index
Back to top ↑Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
Electricity Consumption
Back to top ↑Introducing CBEI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
Tyler Bain shares the CBEI as a way to measure network energy consumption. Posted October 19, 2020.
Aaron Clendenin
Back to top ↑Bitcoin as an Antidote to Despair: A Psychological Formulation
Aaron Clendenin explores Bitcoin as a means to modify behavior. Posted October 21, 2020.
Psychotherapy
Back to top ↑Bitcoin as an Antidote to Despair: A Psychological Formulation
Aaron Clendenin explores Bitcoin as a means to modify behavior. Posted October 21, 2020.
Sovereign.615
Back to top ↑Home On The Range
Sovereign.615 outlines a framework for a Bitcoin citadel charter. Posted October 21,2020
Croesus
Back to top ↑Visualization of the halving’s supply shock
Croesus shares a visual explanation of how the halving creates a supply shock on Bitcoin. Posted October 23, 2020.
White paper
Back to top ↑Bitcoin at 12
Nic Carter reflects on 12 years of the white paper. Posted October 31, 2020.
Climate Change
Back to top ↑Bitcoin is the Most Sustainable Money The World Has Ever Seen
Gael Sanchez Smith explores why bitcoin is the most sustainable known to man. Posted September 15, 2020.
Civilization
Back to top ↑Our Most Brilliant Idea
Robert expands on the philosophy of Bitcoin. Posted November 1, 2020.
Emil Sandstedt
Back to top ↑The Costs that Haunt Your Dreams of Hyperbitcoinization
Emil explores what’s standing in the way of hyperbitcoinization. Posted September 3, 2020.
Valuation
Back to top ↑Tweet Thread - The Four Valuation Frameworks for Bitcoin
Vijay lays out 4 valuation frameworks for Bitcoin. Posted November 9, 2020.
Defense
Back to top ↑Exploring Bitcoin’s core values and why we defend them
Why does Bitcoin have value and why do we defend it’s value? Posted November 10, 2020.
Jason Deane
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Environment
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Power Consumption
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Innovation
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Power Generation
Back to top ↑How Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Good for the Planet
Jason makes the case for Bitcoin driving power generation innovation.
Money Printer
Back to top ↑Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
MMT
Back to top ↑Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Lyn lays out how and why QE is happening. Posted November 22, 2020.
Mining Operations
Back to top ↑The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part I.
Leo explores the operation mining hashpower is akin to portfolio management. Posted November 22, 2020.
Operations
Back to top ↑The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part I.
Leo explores the operation mining hashpower is akin to portfolio management. Posted November 22, 2020.
Ben Carman
Back to top ↑Tweet Storm - About Schnorr Sigs
Ben Carman explains Schnorr Signatures at a high level. Posted November 22, 2020.
Tech
Back to top ↑Tweet Storm - About Schnorr Sigs
Ben Carman explains Schnorr Signatures at a high level. Posted November 22, 2020.
lynalden
Back to top ↑7 Misconceptions about Bitcoin, and Where to Buy
This article answers some popular misconceptions and questions about Bitcoin, and then shows the best place for where to buy Bitcoin.
Jeffrey Tucker
Back to top ↑Why does Bitcoin have value?
Think of a world without essential third parties, including the most dangerous third party ever conceived of by man- the state and the central bank. Imagine ...
Exploration
Back to top ↑Bitcoin Astronomy: Part II
In this part, we continue to follow the energy and speculate about how money and society coevolve as humanity expands through space.
Social Attack
Back to top ↑Refuting the attacks on Bitcoin’s design
13 minute read
Beautyon pushes back on common FUD from Libertarians on Bitcoin’s design. Posted June 10, 2011.