Can Bitcoin Transactions Be Censored?
Ever since payments became digital, we’ve seen an increase in the ability to censor transactions; financial institutions and payment intermediaries shut down accounts or inhibit transactions daily. As custodians of other people’s funds, these platforms require the ability to reverse transactions, as they custody funds and take the risk of moving them; when fraud occurs, […]
Bitcoin Business: BTC Publish
Bitcoin is about building generational wealth, and also generational bitcoiners, as the first children to be born during bitcoins existence, start to learn to read and write. If there’s one topic I think many of us feel we didn’t spend enough time on growing up, then it’s the topic of money. We were kept in […]
Bitcoin Business: Bad Boating Club
Bitcoin is a grassroots movement, taking hold in all parts of the world, and as it begins to sink into the minds of those looking for a better form of money, it attracts people with different views, skills and motivations. Despite these differences in culture, language, in economic realities, we all agree on one thing, […]
Bitcoin App: Laisee
Bitcoin is programmable money, and when you take control over your funds, you can program it to do a host of different things, from locking your funds until a future date, providing liquidity for second-layer services or gifting bitcoin in unique ways. Giving someone bitcoin can be as easy as sending funds to a wallet […]
Bitcoin App: Satsoverflow
Forums, discussion boards, and question-and-answer sites are as old as the internet itself; thousands of these websites exist, all tackling different niches; there are a few generalist sites that have gotten mainstream attention using this format. When we think of question-and-answer sites that provide reliable user-generated content, domains like Quora and Stackoverflow come to mind. […]
What Is A Bitcoin Interest Rate?
In the fiat system, we’ve all become accustomed to the idea of interest rates; we’ve all been taught that you could save your money in a bank and in return for trusting the custodian with our funds, we would be paid an interest rate. An interest rate is an amount a lender charges a borrower […]
Bitcoin App: Jam
Bitcoin is built on a public and pseudonymous blockchain, which grants strong privacy to users who remain inside the network. Privacy on bitcoin is not guaranteed by default, and because privacy is optional, many bitcoiners have used it in a way that has limited their ability to remain private. In a perfect world, we would […]
What Is A Bitcoin Decoupling?
Bitcoin is a technology; it’s formalised the use of a distributed ledger and used that as a basis to create a decentralised payment network. When you first begin to learn about bitcoin, a large portion of your focus will be on the technology, how it works, why it’s different and how it improves on current […]
Using ZCash Privacy Tech On Bitcoin
It’s been a while since we heard about ZCash, one of the many early forks of bitcoin. To take the source code and add a feature to it instead of getting merged into bitcoin, a new chain was launched based on one additional feature. In the case of ZCash, it was all about privacy. ZCash […]
What Is A UtreeXO?
Bitcoin’s promise is to provide its users with an open monetary network that has no centralised control and can be independently verified; when bitcoiners refer to being your own bank, they mean it quite literally since every computer running a full node checks every block against the consensus rules and stores all transactions since the […]