What Is BitNames?
Bitcoin has made ownership of a digital value a reality, yet the concept is still something the majority of the world continues to ignore, wrestle with or struggle to understand. We’ve become accustomed to anything digital that can be copied millions of times for little to no increase in cost; anything that became digital went […]
What Are Zero Confirmation Transactions?
When you broadcast a transaction to the bitcoin blockchain, it goes through several stages before it becomes a confirmed transaction. This can be a nerve-wracking process for anyone who has moved their first UTXO on chain, and you’re checking the wallet or the block explorer and wondering where your money has gone. What makes this […]
What Are Slashtags?
The bitcoin network has brought self-custody and self-sovereignty to money, should you choose to hold and spend your bitcoin using your own infrastructure. Once you set up a bitcoin node and connect it to a wallet, no one stands between you and broadcasting transactions directly to the network. The concept of taking control of your […]
Bitcoin App: SatsPay
Bitcoin payments on the Lightning network are built for speed, but using the service is not as intuitive for the masses; despite huge improvements in UX and wallets doing great work onboarding users, the process is still rather clunky. For example, if you would like to request a payment from a user, you would need […]
The Dangers Of Using A Shitcoin Casino
Bitcoin might be censorship-resistant and money without counterparty risk; however, these attributes don’t automatically apply to bitcoin if you’re not using it directly on chain with a set of private keys. If you’re using a custodian, you’re as good as using a promise to manage your bitcoin. A reality that many will have to fund […]
Why Exchanges Keep Listing Shitcoins
The launch of the first digital-only peer-to-peer currency is a revolutionary idea, and with every innovation, it will rub some the wrong way, which is evident in the divisiveness in the sentiment around bitcoin. Some people like myself love it and see it as the foundation for a new healthy monetary ecosystem, while others see […]
Bitcoin App: Suredbits
The line between investing and gambling has always been thin, and in the current state of fiat, where you have to be “risk on” to try and outcompete inflation losses, that rather thin line continues to blur. This is especially true for prediction markets, which have started to gain retail adoption. Prediction markets used to […]
What Is The Bitcoin Ring?
As bitcoin adoption continues to grow year after year, more people are starting to hold a portion of their savings in bitcoin, but eventually, people will want to spend their satoshis. Currently, spending bitcoin is more trouble than it’s worth; you either need to use some custodial service or convert it back into fiat to […]
What Is BiFrost?
One of the most common critiques of bitcoin is that it is old technology. It’s the “boomer coin”; it can’t do smart contracts or whatever weird and wonderful tech jargon or acronym the crypto space comes up with to drive their next round of investment narratives. Those who critique bitcoin solely on a tech play […]
Forget Credit Scores; Embrace Equity Scores
Fiat isn’t going away anytime soon, and credit will be part of our lives if we choose to use it or not. Under the fiat system, expanding credit is fundamental to keep it going; it allows consumers and businesses to borrow money to generate economic transactions that hopefully increase productivity at a rate higher than […]