What Are Bitcoin Prediction Markets?
We’ve all sat around the dinner table with friends and family before, predicting everything from sporting events and political outcomes to movie box office performances, or even something as simple as “I bet 10 bucks I can flip this bottle over and have it land upright”? It’s in our nature to love placing little bets […]
How Expensive Is It To Be Your Own Bank?
Every month, millions of people quietly hand over their hard-earned money to banks through fees that have become so normalised we barely notice them. Account maintenance fees, overdraft charges, ATM surcharges, wire transfer costs—these seemingly small amounts compound into substantial sums over time. Meanwhile, the infrastructure to become your own bank through Bitcoin has never […]
What Is Proof of Liabilities?
Two cycles ago, few in the Bitcoin community knew or cared about Michael Saylor and his software analytics company, Microstrategy (now renamed to just “Strategy”). But what has become a stock market darling in 2024/25 started as a stagnating company trying to figure out what to do with $500 million in cash equivalents at a […]
Why Corporate Bitcoin Competition is Good for Plebs
The Bitcoin space is buzzing with news of yet another corporation announcing its “Bitcoin treasury strategy.“ It’s the hottest trend since slapping an AI on your business and is starting to approach the phase where fundamentals don’t matter, drum up a Bitcoin SPAC and let’s start selling bonds or preferred equity. Every week seems to […]
Should Public Companies Share Their Bitcoin Addresses?
This cycle has seen corporate stackers entering the chat. While Strategy had a head start, a few more companies have joined the group chat, including listed companies such as MetaPlanet, Kulr, Rumble, GameStop, and Tesla, all of which have allocated some of their balance sheets to Bitcoin. While these companies make their purchases public and […]
Bitcoin Adoption Through Cash Balances
The traditional narrative around Bitcoin adoption has often centred on metrics like the number of wallets downloaded, nodes running, or merchants accepting Bitcoin as payment. While these indicators certainly matter, they miss a more profound shift occurring in the global financial landscape: Bitcoin’s growing role as a store of value and its increasing share of […]
Why Altcoins Have Not Performed As Well As BTC This Cycle
The 2024/5 post-halving market cycle has been a weird one for the bottom feeders who ride Bitcoin’s coattails; Bitcoin has demonstrated remarkable strength, significantly outperforming most alternative cryptocurrencies. If you’ve been around the block or hung out with your friendly neighbourhood crypto bro, you should be familiar with the narrative. A few months after the […]
Can Bitcoin Go To Zero?
Bitcoin’s journey from an obscure whitepaper to a trillion-dollar asset class has been remarkable, but questions about its long-term viability persist. These objections to Bitcoin’s staying power come mostly from those who feel they missed the boat. Bitcoin derangement syndrome is a potent and toxic state of mind and can get you to rationalise avoiding […]
Bitcoin Treasuries Aren’t An Infinite Money Glitch
A slowly growing trend has emerged among corporate treasuries: adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets. This strategy has garnered significant attention, with MicroStrategy leading the charge and other companies like Metaplanet, Kulr and Rumble following suit. MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor’s software company turned bitcoin-holding vehicle, is now worth $88 billion, making it one of America’s largest […]
What Are Bitcoin Company ETFs?
Saylor has been shouting from the rooftops, that is, every podcast or CNBC interview that will have him on, about his Bitcoin strategy; if you haven’t heard of this guy or MSTR in the last 3 years, you’re probably too busy crying about trading JPEG rocks or smoking rocks. While he seemed like a madman […]