Showing posts from October, 2024
It has now been sixteen years since the original publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list. Satoshi went and dropped the paper in the place it would be best received, where all of the cypherpunks and cryptography nerds w…
A press release circulating yesterday proved yet again that there’s nothing the mainstream media loves more than some crazy nut claiming to have created Bitcoin. Follow Rizzo on X. https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/ In honor of White Paper Day, the late…
Follow Aaron on Nostr or X . Some things in Bitcoin are just not up for debate. The plural of bitcoin is also bitcoin— not bitcoins. (One bitcoin, two bitcoin, three bitcoin…) Bits is a better sub-denomination than sats. (100 sats is actually …
Follow Mark on X . Ah, Halloween. The one night a year where we’re supposed to be scared of things that go bump in the night. You know, your classic cast of characters: Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, your weird neighbor who leaves their Christm…
David Marcus is taking his experience as the former head of PayPal and Meta Messenger and applying it to building on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. At Lightspark’s first partner summit, Lightspark Sync , he and his team rolled out new capabilities for…
I know, it’s a big statement, but really, the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced – looking back, 2024 will be remembered as the defining year for Bitcoin, the year Bitcoin transformed from magic internet money into a real institutional in…
Having invested in startups for over twenty years I have deep respect for entrepreneurs trying to build a company. It is so difficult. And more often than not, it doesn’t work out. Developing a whole country, of course, is much more difficult. Many le…
Look, I like a certain kind of Bitcoin shirt. Follow Rizzo on X https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/ Yes, the tacky ones with famous one-liners are fine , and so are the conference hand-outs. I, too, collect relics from crypto tragedies, holding on to my …
Follow Aaron on Nostr or X . This weekend I finally got around to watching Money Electric, the HBO documentary that “reveals” Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd as the true identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s three weeks old by now and alre…
Ark is the third major Layer 2 protocol with some form of unilateral exit or enforcement mechanism on the base layer to approach the point of launching on Bitcoin. Lightning came first when C-Lightning went live in the Reckless campaign in 2018, Sta…
We can’t transcend politics ‘because we have bitcoin now, bro’. Sometimes I see this kind of t-shirt or sentiment being shared online, but it’s simply misguided. Just to prove I’m not strawmanning, here’s another similar example: If you just m…
Today, the city of Lugano in Switzerland unveiled an incredible statue honouring Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's anonymous founder. I found this tribute incredibly inspiring and beautiful. The statue was revealed at Lugano's Plan B conference…
At Lightspark Sync, Lightspark’s first partner summit on Thursday, the company announced new products and features that will allow users to make global payments with both bitcoin and fiat. The company announced that it has launched an alpha version o…
Bitcoin’s price cycles have long been a source of intrigue for investors and analysts alike. We can gain insights into potential price movements by comparing current trends to previous cycles, especially with Bitcoin seemingly coming to an end of its …
Follow Nikolaus On X Here Ever since BlackRock filed for its spot Bitcoin ETF last year, Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart have been providing valuable insights and data regarding everything Bitcoin ETFs. If you’re not a…
Follow Aaron on Nostr or X . Earlier this month, the European Central Bank (ECB) published a paper in which the authors claim the existence of Bitcoin could impoverish non-holders and latecomers. Specifically, they wrote: “Since Bitcoin doe…
WHAT WE ARE READING: Funding Bitcoin I recently stumbled upon a fantastic report from 1A1z on "Funding Bitcoin." I was surprised to learn that Jack Dorsey funds over 60% of Bitcoin Core's development via different organizations: over…
Introduction Bitcoin development today focuses on two major issues: (1) scaling and (2) privacy. The usual proposals to Bitcoin involve adding new opcodes and scripting tools. But an old idea is coming back, one that could make transactions more priv…
