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 […]
Bitcoin ATMs Get A Bad Rap
So you want to get some Bitcoin, but you don’t have a bank account or credit card, or you do and don’t want to tie it to a Bitcoin purchase. Where do you go? What if you have cash, physical cash? What do you do? It’s not as if you can walk up to CoinBase […]
Running A Small Business On A Bitcoin Standard
Watching MicroStrategy and, to a lesser extent, MetaPlanet adopt a Bitcoin standard, putting the asset on their balance sheet and raising capital in the public markets with the sole aim of stuffing their coffers with sats has been quite the trade. Their allocations to Bitcoin have never been higher, along with their stock prices and […]
What Are The Costs Involved In Buying Bitcoin?
So you’ve heard about Bitcoin, and you want to acquire some but don’t feel like meeting some random person at your local park to exchange sats for cash, there isn’t a Bitcoin ATM nearby, or you’re just looking for the most convenient option to trade your local currency into Bitcoin. Of course, a regulated exchange […]
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 […]