What Is A Blockstream JadeLink?
Bitcoin self-custody is all about getting to grips with the concept of “air-gapping”, which is the gold standard for security—keeping your seed in complete physical and wireless isolation from potentially compromised systems. While many hardware wallets offer air-gap capabilities through QR codes, Blockstream’s JadeLink takes this concept further, offering a specialised tool that transforms the […]
What IS BIP-360?
In June 2024, a Bitcoin developer named Hunter Beast introduced BIP 360, also known as “Pay to Quantum Resistant Hash” (P2QRH), a new address format aimed at future-proofing Bitcoin transactions and ensuring your hodl assurances remain secure on the blockchain, as they have for over a decade. While debates over block sizes, spam transactions & lower block rewards […]
What Is A Blockstream Jade Plus?
On January 3, 2025—Bitcoin Genesis Day, marking the 16th anniversary of Bitcoin’s first block—Blockstream unveiled the Jade Plus, a significant evolution of their popular open-source hardware wallet. Building on the success of the original Jade, launched in 2021, the Jade Plus represents more than a fresh lick of paint and has a few features that […]
What Is Burning Your Bitcoin Keys?
As a Bitcoin maxi who takes self-custody of their Bitcoin, you are in complete control of your money; you can choose to spend it, save, you can mess up your custody and lose your coins, or make a choice to destroy your keys and remove your coins from future circulation. If you’re not a maxi, […]
What Is A Bit-life Crisis?
It starts innocently enough. A casual mention at a dinner party. A cryptic tweet. A late-night YouTube video that somehow keeps you scrolling until 3 AM. Before you know it, you’re neck-deep in technical whitepapers, arguing with strangers on Reddit about monetary policy, and calculating your savings in satoshis instead of Dollars. You gobble up […]
How Much Bitcoin Do Governments Hold?
Germany’s latest sale of 50,000 Bitcoin has revealed a number of large Bitcoin holders that very few of us pay attention to. Believe it or not, some governments around the world have quite a healthy Bitcoin balance sheet. As of recent estimates, governments collectively own approximately ₿ 517 414, which accounts for about 2.4% of the […]
What Is BIP39Colours?
Bitcoin is a purely digital currency which means it only exists as information; the digital entries that represent your Bitcoin on chain and in your wallet use cryptography to secure its transactions and prove that you are the only one who has permission to move that value. One of the most important cryptographic concepts in […]
How Is The Bitcoin Price Determined?
I’ve been asked many variations of this question in recent times, usually from those who are still sitting on the sidelines with Bitcoin and are trying to apply normie ways of thinking to it. “How can something that isn’t “tangible” be valued in the tens of thousands?” The hardened Bitcoiners who have been around for […]
What Is The Forever HODL Strategy?
“Surely you must want to sell at some point? You know, take some profits off the table and pat yourself on the back?” Not in the mind of the forever HODLer! This is a set-and-forget strategy where you have an amount in mind to invest and then you wait for 5 or 10 years, maybe […]
The Power Of Compound Interest
Since I immersed myself in to the crypto industry during the retail rush at the end of 2017, I’ve experienced a mindset shift about saving that was brought to the forefront only in the last couple of months. Sure, I always tried to save what I could each month but putting it in to a […]