What Are Options On Bitcoin ETFs?
The arrival of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US in January 2024 was a big deal for many boomers, traditional investors, and those who feel the technical self-sufficiency aspect of Bitcoin is out of their league. The spot ETF offers mainstream investors a regulated way to gain exposure to the best-performing asset of the last decade; in […]
Why Bitcoin ETFs Are Sharing Public Addresses
The recent launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US has brought a new wave of excitement to the financial world. The approval saw ten different ETFs go live in January, and competition within the ETF space is heating up, with fees being the major differentiator between the various issuers. Competing on fees eventually reaches […]
What Are Taproot Swaps?
Bitcoin has become a victim of its success as more people regularly use the network to settle transactions. Bitcoin has a hard limit on the number of transactions it can settle per block, and as demand for the asset increases, the resulting network congestion drives up fees. Increased fees optimise blocks for the transactions that […]
What Is A Bitcoin Spot ETF?
Bitcoin has come a long way since the days of P2P trades via forums and, later, the first “formal” exchange platform, Mt. Gox, in 2010. As the demand for Bitcoin grew globally, attracting hundreds of millions to the asset and network, on-ramps sprung up to meet this demand. Centralised exchanges sprung up and became the go-to […]
A Guide To Essential Bitcoin Charts
Bitcoin might have introduced us to digital scarcity, but what isn’t scarce is the number of charts circulating the internet all about Bitcoin. These charts are used to stir up social media engagement to drive bullish or bearish sentiment in the market, and they do work. Have a look at some of the Bitcoin chartists […]
Why Are Exchanges Avoiding CoinJoined Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a pseudonymous payment network; if you only use the data that’s available on-chain, it doesn’t provide you with any personal information on transacting partners or who the user is that owns that specific Bitcoin. As the market matured and large trading platforms with ties to traditional financial rails like banks became the biggest […]
How South African Bitcoin Arbitrage Works
As a South African earning in Rands, you might have noticed over the past 25 years that your Rands aren’t going as far as they used to. We’ve all sat around the braai revealing stories of Oupa and Ouma buying, walking out with a trolly full of groceries using only a handful of Rands. Those […]
What Is A RoboSats Federation Coordinator?
RoboSats is a P2P marketplace that began as a Lightning native way to trade Bitcoin using hodl invoices but has since expanded to supporting trades on the Bitcoin base chain as well as the Liquid Network, with the launch of swapping services. The application is a free and Open Source project; anyone can spin up a new RoboSats […]
What Is The Blockstream ASIC (BASIC) Note?
ASIC miners help to secure the Bitcoin network by validating transactions. ASICS generating hash power is a necessary part of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Still, the most important aspect for the average person is that these noisy computer boxes can generate new Bitcoin. Each year, individuals and businesses try their hand at this digital gold rush […]
What Are Bitcoin Perpetual Futures?
As Bitcoin matures as an asset class, it has migrated from the shady corners of the internet and P2P markets into shady crypto exchanges and now into shady public companies and shady regulated entities. It’s all still shady; the only thing that changes is the clientele using various onramps and the amount of capital they […]