Bithumbs Fat Thumb
On the evening of February 6, 2026, a Bithumb employee made what can only be described as the most expensive typo in cryptocurrency history. During a promotional “Random Box” event meant to distribute small cash rewards of 2,000 Korean won ($1.37) to users, the employee typed “BTC” instead of “KRW” in the payment unit field. […]
Iran’s Rial Collapse and Why Bitcoin Is the Only Lifeboat
On January 12, 2026, the Iranian Rial crossed a threshold that marked it as one of the world’s least valuable currencies: one million rials to a single US dollar. For context, in 2015—just a decade earlier—the Rial traded at 32,000 to the dollar. The currency had lost 97% of its value, and the acceleration was […]
The Fall of FreeBitco.in
For over twelve years, FreeBitco.in stood as one of Bitcoin’s most enduring success stories—a simple faucet site that paid out free satoshis to millions of users worldwide, becoming synonymous with accessible Bitcoin adoption. Faucets were an early feature of Bitcoin’s distribution model: sites would spin up and offer free Satoshis to attract traffic and users […]
The Bitcoin Treasury Trap
Bitcoiner and Bank to the Future co-founder Simon Dixon has issued one of his most urgent warnings yet: we are entering what he calls “the Wall Street attack phase”—a systematic effort by institutional finance to pull your Bitcoin into custodial wrappers and, in times of crisis, separate you from your coins permanently. While Michael Saylor […]
What Are Liquidity Pools On Rootstock?
The decentralised finance (DeFi) space has primarily remained in the hands of altcoin chains, promoters claim to have brought innovative financial instruments to the broader public within a KYC fee environment. While the barrier to entry is low, these trading platforms have yet to demonstrate a compelling use case beyond swapping between stablecoins, unregistered securities, […]
How Expensive Is It To Be Your Own Bank?
Every month, millions of people quietly hand over their hard-earned money to banks through fees that have become so normalised we barely notice them. Account maintenance fees, overdraft charges, ATM surcharges, wire transfer costs—these seemingly small amounts compound into substantial sums over time. Meanwhile, the infrastructure to become your own bank through Bitcoin has never […]
Why Corporate Bitcoin Competition is Good for Plebs
The Bitcoin space is buzzing with news of yet another corporation announcing its “Bitcoin treasury strategy.“ It’s the hottest trend since slapping an AI on your business and is starting to approach the phase where fundamentals don’t matter, drum up a Bitcoin SPAC and let’s start selling bonds or preferred equity. Every week seems to […]
Bitcoin Adoption Through Cash Balances
The traditional narrative around Bitcoin adoption has often centred on metrics like the number of wallets downloaded, nodes running, or merchants accepting Bitcoin as payment. While these indicators certainly matter, they miss a more profound shift occurring in the global financial landscape: Bitcoin’s growing role as a store of value and its increasing share of […]
Why Have Bitcoin Fees Been So Low?
In a surprising turn of events for Timechain observers, Bitcoin has managed to maintain relatively low transaction fees despite breaking new all-time highs in value, market capitalisation, and hash rate. This phenomenon contradicts the historical pattern where network congestion and fee spikes accompanied Bitcoin’s bull runs. Fees have been lower than a pregnant ant’s stomach! […]
Earn Fees As A Boltz Liquidity Provider
When it comes to the idea of earning a yield on your Bitcoin, one should always trend towards the side of caution; it’s been well documented that trying to lend out Bitcoin to earn a spread using a custodian ended pretty badly, with Billion Dollar businesses like Celsius, BlockFi and Voyager going tits up in […]