Bitcoin App: Lightning Gifts
Getting your friends, family, customers or strangers at a dinner party into bitcoin through sheer orange pilling is a tough task. Despite how good your arguments might be, normies have to see it in action to believe it, and rightly they should. When it comes to bitcoin, you “don’t trust, you verify” so what better […]
How To Speed Up A Bitcoin Transaction
If you have ever made payments using the bitcoin network, you may have noticed how long it takes for the network to confirm transactions, depending on how long your transaction sits in the mempool it can be picked up in 10 minutes or much longer. In extreme cases, it can go days before you receive […]
How To Buy Bitcoin With PayPal
Today PayPal is a household name around the world, the original founders have moved on to launch several other big tech companies, and yet the online payment gateway has gone from strength to strength since its launch back in 1998. Before having internet native money like bitcoin, we needed a centralised payment provider to be […]
What Are Bitcoin Circular Economies?
Bitcoin is a grassroots movement; what began as an alternative payment system run on cryptography enthusiasts’ computers has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar network that clears billions in value daily. As more value is stored in the network and transferred worldwide, more people can tap into that liquidity to fund projects, circumvent financial repression and […]
Ways To Repurpose Bitcoin Miner Heat
Bitcoin mining is undeniably an energy-intensive industry; miners worldwide are looking for the cheapest forms of energy they can get their hands on to remain competitive and keep more of the profits from their operations. However, energy cost reductions can only go so far, and if you have sunk costs involved in your setup, it’s […]
How To Reduce Bitcoin Transaction Fees
Bitcoin is the first form of digital money where you not only have custody of the asset yourself, but you can control the conditions in which it is spent; when you broadcast to the network, you can use the default rules of the wallet, or you can customise it to your needs, that is the […]
6 Alternative Ways Of Mining Bitcoin
To many, an onlooker who has not taken the time to learn about bitcoin, it looks crazy; why do people have to build special computers to solve specific math problems to generate money? When you’ve lived in a world of fiat money where units can be created at will and capital flow is decided by […]
4 Ways To Use Your Bolt Card
The Lightning Network (LN) continues to push consumer payments forward; it feels like the critique, bitcoin isn’t money because I can’t buy coffee with it, has become somewhat of a “challenge accepted” moment, and while the achievement has been unlocked, detractors are still not happy. Previously bitcoin merchants only needed to generate a QR code […]
The Bitcoin Tail Emissions Debate
It’s almost seen as a fact of life at this point, death, taxes and 21 million, right? To any bitcoin maximalists, there will be only 21 million coins in existence. Its hard cap, fixed supply, and known issuance rate are one of bitcoins’ major selling points. If we are to get technical, there isn’t exactly […]
How Bitcoin Can Enable Chat-Commerce
Today the world runs on text messaging; it’s no longer a place for teenagers, weird niche interest chat rooms or shadowy super coders to communicate. It has become ubiquitous, and every Normie mc norman and their grandmother now have one or more chat apps on their phones. The SMS replacement has taken off like wildfire, […]