Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world's next risk-free asset.

This is the first-person account of Dan Conway, an ex-middle manager in corporate America who made a fortune betting his life savings on cryptocurrency.

Tuur Demeester took a deep dive into the conditions that led to The Protestant Reformation and how they relate to The Bitcoin Reformation.

Conner Brown explains why, contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin is not deflationary.

Here's an article that perfectly explains why Bitcoin exists without mentioning Bitcoin.

If these accusations are found by a jury to be true, or even approximately true, then it will immediately go straight to the Hall of Fame level of Largest Frauds of All Time.

Hearing a lot about Tether and how it is used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin? Peep this thread that explains what's really going on.

The Coinmetrics team takes a deep dive into the network data of Bitcoin and some of its forks. What they found may surprise you.

Someone is working on a P2P encrypted messaging app using the Lightning Network as a rail. Slowly but surely…

Catch up with the latest developments on the Lightning Network from this week.

Not a good day for some Bitcoin derivative exchanges out there.

Celebrate the 11 year anniversary of the publishing of the Bitcoin White Paper. Connect with the roots of the project.

The team at BitMEX Research explores the essence of Bitcoin's timestamping function and why it is so important.

The team at Coinmetrics took a deep dive into the nonce data of Bitcoin and other blockchains. Their findings tell a lot about ASIC mining hardware production.

Bitcoin would not have been possible without the breakthroughs that were made in cryptography, distributed systems, and hardware in the decades leading up to its inception. Here's a great timeline showing the breakthroughs of the last half century.

Dan Held explains why Bitcoin's Proof of Work mechanism is efficient and why fears of Bitcoin's energy consumption may be overblown.

In Part III of their Lightning Network research series the BitMEX Research team dives into the intricacies of closing channels and how best to deter bad behavior.

It's refreshing to see a CEO take such a principled stance.

If you blinked this afternoon, you may have missed this price movement.

Read up on how not to CoinJoin your UTXOs.

Bakkt, a new exchange that enables institutional investors to trade Bitcoin futures contracts, had itself a day.

Bitcoin is an open source distributed system dependent on the vigilance of individuals. Here's a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal that could use some review.

Learn how to store and spend your bitcoins like a true cypherpunk.

The team behind the Samourai Wallet is on a mission to educate people about proper CoinJoin UX and best practices. In this piece they explain how their WhirlPool technology approaches CoinJoins.

Iterative Capital announces their latest product, Escher Hub. An exchange that connects directly to personal wallets through which individuals can buy and sell bitcoin.

Justin Moon explains the advantages and nuances of using a multisig setup when storing your Bitcoin. How many bullets can your setup take?

Have you been hearing your friends who are into Bitcoin talk about "seed phrases"? Learn about this important part of Bitcoin here.

You'll probably be hearing a lot more of this moving forward.

The team at BitMex Research continues their research of the Lightning Network and shares their notes from the field about running a routing node.

Is it possible to survive on sats? One man embarked on a journey to prove that, yes. Yes you can.

Christopher Giancarlo, ex-CFTC Chief, admitted that the Trump administration was worried about Bitcoin's popularity and wanted regulators to do something about it.

Check out this introduction to the Lightning Network from BitMex Research. Written almost two years ago, the analysis stands the test of time.

Do you want to learn how Bitcoin works without diving into too many specifics? Check out this book. A great quick read that will take you from zero to basic understanding in less than two hours.

Twitter user @StopAndDecrypt provides a great explanation of the power dynamics between full nodes and miners.

Alexander Liegl explains how Bitcoin creates incentives for oil and gas producers to become insanely efficient.

The team that brought us the Cryptosteel backup wallet has released a new version of their storage product.

This page tracks Bitcoin's price movement and its relation to the Stock to Flow Model made popular by Twitter user @100TrillionUSD as well as many other interesting indicators and stats.

Every 210,000 blocks the amount of bitcoin rewarded to miners every ten minutes gets cut in half by the protocol. Find out how much this will affect new supply after block 630,000.

The founders of Satoshis Games have announced their first game, Light Nite. An open Battle Royale that allows users to win (or lose) BTC over the Lightning Network.

Day 2 of The Lightning Conference is being streamed now. Check it out here.

Haters will say it's photoshop.

Here's one of many games that were demo'd during the first day of The Lightning Conference in Berlin.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Berlin to update the world about the state of the Lightning Network and the new products that are being built with it. Check out the stream to the conference here.

PlanB puts forward that, yes, Bitcoin is an act of free speech. This leads to a few interesting conversations on the subject in the thread.

Last night, as most people were out celebrating the end of the work week, the Bitcoin Network mined block #600,000.

'Phoenix demonstrates what we think is the future of Bitcoin/Lightning UX.'

Learn about the differences between The Gold Standard and The Bitcoin Standard from Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard.

Peep this thread on how the Founding Fathers messed up the first monetary system that existed in the United States of America.

This wiki page is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about how to use Bitcoin privately right now.

"LND's newest release uses a more extensible packet format, improves backup safety, increases watchtower client integration, makes routing more likely to succeed, and includes many other new features and bug fixes." – Bitcoin Optech

"This softfork appears to be a win-win-win for capability, scalability and privacy."

But apparently Bitcoin is too expensive...

Slowly but surely, Bitcoin seeps further and further into the consciousness of the masses.

Want to see how crowded the transaction mempool is? Here's a great tool from Twitter user @0xB10C to help get a visualization and recognize some transaction patterns.

The 10th anniversary of the first ever purchase of bitcoin occurred over the weekend. Check out the block that recorded the creation of the UTXOs.

For the next two weeks Real Vision will be airing a Gold v. Bitcoin series. Check it out if you want to learn more about Bitcoin's position in an uncertain financial world.

The Electrum team, which has been building Bitcoin wallet software since 2011, announced that they will be releasing their own Lightning Network implementation written in Python.

While we can't be sure who is in control of these wallets, it is certainly still very intriguing.

The team at Zap is pushing a new desktop app update this week that will allow users to sign messages with their Lightning Node private keys. Check it out!

Dan McArdle educates the Twittersphere about the best buying opportunities throughout Bitcoin's history.