Bitcoin

But apparently Bitcoin is too expensive...

Slowly but surely, Bitcoin seeps further and further into the consciousness of the masses.

Want to see how crowded the transaction mempool is? Here's a great tool from Twitter user @0xB10C to help get a visualization and recognize some transaction patterns.

The 10th anniversary of the first ever purchase of bitcoin occurred over the weekend. Check out the block that recorded the creation of the UTXOs.

For the next two weeks Real Vision will be airing a Gold v. Bitcoin series. Check it out if you want to learn more about Bitcoin's position in an uncertain financial world.

The Electrum team, which has been building Bitcoin wallet software since 2011, announced that they will be releasing their own Lightning Network implementation written in Python.

While we can't be sure who is in control of these wallets, it is certainly still very intriguing.

The team at Zap is pushing a new desktop app update this week that will allow users to sign messages with their Lightning Node private keys. Check it out!

Dan McArdle educates the Twittersphere about the best buying opportunities throughout Bitcoin's history.

Afghans, like many people in other underdeveloped countries, don’t typically save their hard earned money in the local currency. It works fine for spending but for saving, they almost always exchange the Afghani note to the US dollar.

KYCP is a Bitcoin privacy explorer which lets you Know Your Coin Privacy. Based on OXT blockchain explorer which provides Boltzmann analysis for Bitcoin transactions.

Learn how trading options using Bitcoin may help cut costs and settlement times for traders.

Here's an interesting outlook for Bitcoin and how it may react in a deflationary economic environment.

The team from Casa dropped their much awaited Casa Node 2, which is more powerful and comes with new integrations. Check it out!

Find out what three cryptocurrencies are the most accepted on the dark web. The answer may surprise you.

This tutorial teaches you how to receive payments from a BTCPay Server instance directly to your Coldcard hardware wallet without ever connecting it to an Internet-connected device.

"Bitcoin is free speech money. It is now approximately 30% of Gab’s operating revenue as of this writing. We expect this to grow going into 2020 and beyond."

Ethan Heilman tells some scary stories from Bitcoin's past and how we can use these stories to avoid disasters in the future.

Many people talk about potential mining cartels, 51% attacks, and attacks from nation states on Bitcoin, but very few talk about this threat.

ABCore is a is an Android app that fetches bitcoin core daemon built for Android using the NDK and is meant to make it easier to run Bitcoin Core daemon node on always on Android set top box devices and home appliances as well as mobile devices.

Dan Held walks readers through the reasons why Bitcoin's Proof of Work mechanism is efficient despite what some naysayers would have you believe.

Learn why Bitcoin is considered a "push system" and how it differs from the payment systems that we are accustomed to today.

Curious how one would go about killing Bitcoin? Peep this.

Jared Dillian explains why he is changing his mind about Bitcoin. Find out why he thinks it's so important for the future of money.

Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, explains why bitcoiners come to find Austrian economics so fascinating and how the subject sharpens their understanding of the nascent digital currency.

The definition of life has been a challenge for scientists and philosophers alike. While many definitions have been put forward, what precisely differentiates the living from the non-living remains elusive. Are viruses alive? DNA molecules? Computer viruses? Biologically produced minerals?

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this timeless classic from Michael Goldstein warning the world of the inevitable proliferation of scammers looking to acquire your bitcoins.

Learn about Bitcoin's difficulty, how it is adjusted every 2016 blocks, and how it affects bitcoin mining.

Hector Rosekrans shares his experience as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy and draws parallels between the weapons of war he was exposed to and Bitcoin.

Trace Mayer walks us through the seven distinct network effects of Bitcoin and how they contribute to Bitcoin's feedback loop.

Find out why YouTube beauty star Michelle Phan is excited about Bitcoin and the possibilities it enables.

In just 26 pages, Hans-Hermann Hoppe does an incredible job of describing the path from which fiat money comes to be, why a monopoly on money production is a detriment to society, and why the current form of currency barter makes the global economy inefficient.

Get a peek into the mind of a bitcoiner who's been around the block a few times.

Here's a cool calculator that helps you conceptualize dollar cost averaging; the practice of buying small amounts of something on a consistent schedule. What if you started buying $5 of BTC a week one year ago? What would that be worth today? Find out here.

Join Matt Odell as he walks through the basics of using an Opendime: the bitcoin stick. Opendime allows you to spend and gift bitcoin without an internet connection.

Here's a great resource from Matt Ahlborg that helps to quantify and visualize the amount of USD trading volume on P2P exchanges like LocalBitcoins and Paxful.

Here's a great ~30 minute documentary that dives into the history of money and answers the question, "Why Bitcoin?" A great introduction to the concept of Bitcoin as money.

Carl Menger explains how there is initially an asymmetry of knowledge in regards to monetary goods as they begin to proliferate throughout a market.

A group of bitcoiners got together to launch Host4Coins, a hosting service payable only in BTC. Check it out!

Russell O'Connor explains why it always feels like the block to confirm your transaction takes an unusually long time.

Samourai Wallet is a bitcoin wallet for the streets that has an extreme focus on privacy. For a limited amount of time Samourai Whirlpool CoinJoins will be discounted.

Conflicts raging within “crypto” are endless. Heated debates take place on a wide spectrum of issues, with little attempt to devise compromises acceptable to both sides. Interestingly, it is the same people who consistently position themselves on opposite sides of these issues.

"BitcoinSocialSync is an off-chain centralized proof aggregator for the Bitcoin (BTC) UTXO set." A creative way of helping others quickly bootstrap Bitcoin nodes. What do you think?

Ukraine adds itself to the list of nation states coming out and endorsing Bitcoin. Whether it be for skirting sanctions, using excess energy to mine it, or making it outright legal; Bitcoin has received the stamp of approval from a few rogue nations.

Alexander Lukashenko recently posited using Belarus' excess nuclear energy to mine bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Talk about a bad look. Luckily it doesn't seem that too many people were affected by the exploit, but this is the type of bug you do not want to see in the wild.

Contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is in fact backed by something. It is backed by the only thing that backs any form of money: the credibility of its monetary properties.

Using data from LocalBitcoins and on the Internet penetration level of individual governments this researcher was able to prove that Bitcoin is working as Satoshi intended.

As sanctions are taken to their extreme and as their native currency plummets in purchasing power, some are speculating that the Venezuelan government is hodling bitcoin on their balance sheet. Welcome to the cypherpunk future. The countries with the weakest currencies and under the strictest sanctions will be the first to turn to Bitcoin.

One of the biggest hurdles to running a full node is the amount of bandwidth it takes to relay and receive transactions and block data. Erlay could potentially reduce bandwidth requirements by 40%.

When Wikileaks was blacklisted by payment processors Julian Assange turned to Bitcoin. Check out Satoshi's reaction.

Get a glimpse into the mind of a bitcoiner as the price of bitcoin fluctuates.

This is a step towards increasing the connectivity of the network for almost no bandwidth cost. Gleb Naumenko and Pieter Wuille officially dropped a BIP for the upgrade today.

The Fold team just announced early access to their new app that let's you get bitcoin back when you shop at places like Amazon and Starbucks. On top of bitcoin back, the Fold app will allow consumers to shop in incognito mode.

Eh, not really. It's hard to measure the amount of hashrate at any given block. And if you look at a small data set with blocks with longer than average block intervals included it can skew the set. Check out James Prestwich's explanation here.

What tradeoffs did Satoshi make when he set Bitcoin's monetary policy in stone?

What lengths would governments go to to squash Bitcoin if it ever became successful and out of their control?

You hate to see it.

John Doe, an ex-Silk Road vendor sits down with Marty and Matt from TFTC to discuss what it was like for a vendor on the Silk Road and much more.

This paper from Max Raskin, Fahad Saleh, and David Yermack explores how private digital currencies like Bitcoin affect government policy. The results may surprise you.