Streaming Savings Is Bitcoins Killer App
I’ve been messing around with value-for-value apps over the last few months and getting used to the idea of streaming sats and paying based on consumption. For those of you who have not tried the value for value model (v4v), here’s how it works. Instead of paying a subscription model or buying something for a […]
Does The Bitcoin Price Matter?
The more I learn about bitcoin, the less I seem to care about the price of bitcoin, which seems strange since it’s the first thing that lures us into paying attention to it. In the beginning, I spent so much time focusing on the fiat price, is it going up or is it going down; […]
Why Do People Hate Bitcoin?
If you’ve been in bitcoin for a cycle, engaged with people about it, or decided to give your opinion on bitcoin to the wider world on social media, you’ve probably caught some heat for it, right? I know I have; I am the greater fool boomer coin Ponzi bag holder boiling the oceans with something […]
The Shitcoin Colonisation of Africa
Every time I turn on the technology news or check social media, I am faced face-palming narrative that blockchain is going to help Africa leapfrog the legacy financial system and move the continent into a new era. The “blockchain revolution” is often compared to the fact that feature phones, Smartphones and Mobile networks blew up […]
Bitcoin Is Ubuntu
South Africa is a country of rich potential; anyone who lives here or lives here can see it, despite the obvious issues, like the lack of energy, political will and a down-trending economy. When we talk about the failures of South Africa as a nation, we may dismiss it as a simple issue, apartheid; people […]
Inflation Is An Insurance Premium Against illiquid Markets
Bitcoin has given us a new way to store the product of our labour and gamified savings to an extent, a past time that has long since become futile under the fiat regime. As a working pleb, each of us only has a few decades of earning potential based on our labour and time. It […]
What Is A Forced Liquidation In Bitcoin?
The bitcoin market has taken quite the tumble in the last few months, we’ve seen cascading losses and massive sell-offs as the bear market takes hold. When bitcoin markets are volatile, you’ll tend to hear a lot of the blame placed on leveraged traders who were “liquidated” in many of the financial news site headlines. […]
How Does The Howey Test Apply To Cryptocurrency?
The invention of bitcoin took the idea of blockchain, decentralised ledger technology, proof of work, and cryptography and turned it into a brand new asset class. The mining of the genesis block was the day in which cryptographically backed energy money left the theoretical world, leaping from being academic papers to a fully fleshed out […]
The Crab Market Is A Stackers Paradise
The bitcoin bull market has never been my favourite time of the cycle; sure, I love cheerleading the price appreciation and vindication that comes with backing the right horse. In addition, the normie fanaticism that comes with it and the growing interest in the asset I store my productivity in peaking is an exciting time. […]
What Is A Bitcoin Blow-Off Top?
One of the most exciting and yet scary times in a new bitcoiners life has to be their first full recycle resulting in a blow-off top. Watching your net worth skyrocket in unrealised gains and then seeing all those gains evaporate in months is an exhilarating and humbling experience. If it’s your first bitcoin blow-off […]