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Bitcoin’s Correlation To Risk Assets

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While many bitcoin investors look for the asset to behave as a safe haven, bitcoin typically has ultimately acted as the riskiest of all risk allocations.

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Short-Term Price Versus Long-Term Thesis

How bitcoin, the asset, will behave in the future versus how it currently trades in the market have proven to be drastically different from our long-term thesis. In this piece, we’re taking a deeper look into those risk-on correlations, and comparing the returns and correlations across bitcoin and other asset classes.  Read more...

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Finding Bitcoin’s Place In The Talmud’s Investment Teachings

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The Talmud offers investment teachings that have passed the test of time, but where might bitcoin fit into one of its most iconic lessons?

This is an opinion editorial by Konstantin Rabin, a finance and technology writer.

As a huge supporter of all things crypto, and especially Bitcoin, my thoughts often drift to a time before this revolutionary technology appeared on the scene, and I stand in awe of what it is bound to accomplish. I wonder: How would our forefathers have looked at it, and how can we use their teachings, applying the thought of the old thinkers to our modern existence?  Read more...

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POS Giant Clover Teams Up With Strike To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Millions Of Merchants

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A 90-day trial period kicks off Clover’s integration with the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster, cheaper payments at merchants.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers has taken to Twitter to announce that Strike is now an integrated partner with payments giant Fiserv, parent company of Clover. Subsequently, Strike has launched a pilot integration with Clover allowing merchants to accept bitcoin over the Lightning Network.

According to his announcement, the integration is not limited to Strike. Instead, merchants will be able to accept Lightning payments from any source — “From Cash App to a node over Tor. If it can make a Lightning payment, you can use it,” Mallers stated on Twitter.  Read more...

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To Becomes Bitcoin’s Go-To Platform, Nostr Will Have To Solve Its Key Management Issues

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As Bitcoiners turn to Nostr as a censorship-resistant communication platform, user key management problems will arise.

This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host.

I suggest, before reading this, that you read the prior article I wrote explaining what Nostr is and how it works at a high level. You should then have a good idea of the core design of the system at that point, so now let’s take a look at likely problems that are going to occur as it grows in adoption. With the platform becoming a popular one for the Bitcoin community, these problems are ones to be aware of.  Read more...

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Luxor’s Hashrate Index 2022 Mining Year In Review Shows Bitcoin’s Resilience

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Analysis shows that even though the mining industry saw major pressure this year, the network hashrate still grew immensely.

Hashrate Index has released its 2022 Bitcoin Mining Year In Review, an extensive report on the mining industry and markets surrounding it.

2022 was a difficult year for Bitcoin mining, with the bear market leading to a hashprice all-time low, bankruptcies and losses for miners. Despite this, hash rate still grew 41%, and Bitcoin mining still generated nearly double the rewards compared to the previous three years. The report covers all of these topics and more in detail.  Read more...

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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From 2022, Bitcoin’s Year Of The Bear

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For Bitcoin, 2022 was a year of lessons, frustrations, vindications, progress and, in some cases, regress. What should we take with us for 2023?

This is an opinion editorial by Aleks Svetski, author of “The UnCommunist Manifesto,” founder of The Bitcoin Times and Host of the “Wake Up Podcast with Svetski.” It is part four of his “Remnant Series.”

What a year. Many of us said that it would only get stranger, but I’m not sure anyone was truly ready for what would transpire.  Read more...

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Fedi Launches Hackathon Celebrating Bitcoin’s 14th Birthday With 2.5 BTC Prize

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Fedi is teaming up with Epoch to reward 2.54 bitcoin in a hackathon that aims to boost its Fedimint-based community custody and privacy platform.

Technology company Fedi is launching a Bitcoin hackathon that will pay out 2.1 BTC to the winner in celebration of Bitcoin’s 14th birthday.

Fedi, which is focused on building a Fedimint-based community custody platform, wants to encourage developers to build out a Fedimint module that will help bring real world benefits to users.  Read more...

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Layer 2 Labs Raises $3M At Launch To Supercharge Bitcoin’s Ecosystem

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The firm, led by BIP 300 and BIP 301 author Paul Sztorc, is on a mission to bring privacy, scalability and better UX solutions to Bitcoin.

Layer 2 Labs is launching with the goal of scaling and building out drivechains for the Bitcoin Network. The company has closed a seed round at launch, raising $ 3 million in funding.

Layer 2 Labs co-founder and CEO Paul Sztorc said in a statement sent to Bitcoin Magazine that the firm seeks to “make everyone in the world a Bitcoin user.” Sztorc is the author of two Bitcoin improvement proposals (BIPs), BIP 300 and BIP 301, which detail the technical specifications of drivechains. Naturally, drivechains are at the forefront of Layer 2 Labs’ mission.  Read more...

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CoinCorner Partners With Pouch To Bring Instant Remittance Payments To The Philippines Utilizing Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

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The Philippines’ remittance market now has a faster, cheaper option through the use of the Lightning Network.

Customers in the U.K. and Europe can now use CoinCorner’s Send Globally feature to transfer funds to the Philippines after partnering with Pouch, a Lightning service provider based in the Southeast Asian country.

Send Globally utilizes the Lightning Network to convert one fiat currency into bitcoin, which is then sent over the Lightning Network to a receiving entity which converts the bitcoin into another fiat currency, effectively making global payments instant.  Read more...

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Bitcoin’s Trading Has Become “Boring”: Is This a Bad or Good Thing?

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As the price of bitcoin continues on its sideways journey, it’s helpful to consider this volatility compared to previous episodes.

This is an opinion editorial by Francois Moreau, a fintech writer and financial risk analyst based out of Paris.

The Fed’s interest rate spikes are spooking the market, and speculative assets like bitcoin are amongst the hardest hit. Although once-touted as a non-correlative asset compared to equity markets, bitcoin’s beta is ultimately well past one as it falls at a rate nearly twice that of the struggling stock market.  Read more...

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2022 Was Bitcoin’s Year Of Differentiation

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2022 was marked by high-profile financial sovereignty issues and crypto implosions. The case for Bitcoin has never been more clear.

This is an opinion editorial by Mickey Koss, a West Point graduate with a degree in economics. He spent four years in the infantry before transitioning to the Finance Corps.

2022 started with a bang, especially in Canada. Whether or not you agree with the premise behind the Canadian Trucker Protest, I think most can agree that freedom of speech is a keystone right in modern Western Democracies.  Read more...

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How Erlay Helps Preserve Bitcoin’s Decentralization

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Erlay is a new relay protocol that seeks to minimize the bandwidth usage required to connect Bitcoin full nodes.

This is an opinion editorial by Kudzai Kutukwa, a passionate financial inclusion advocate who was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of South Africa’s top-20 young entrepreneurs under 30.  Read more...

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Bitcoin’s Economy Is Already Is Circular

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When viewed through the lens of necessity, we can better understand Bitcoin’s progression toward a broader, circular economy.

This is an opinion editorial by Aleks Svetski, author of “The UnCommunist Manifesto,” founder of The Bitcoin Times and Host of the “Wake Up Podcast with Svetski.”

Bitcoin is the perfect money. It embodies all of the properties and functions of money:

  1. Store of value (SoV)
  2. Medium of exchange (MoE)
  3. Unit of account (UoA)

…and does so in a way that any person or participant, from anywhere in the world can:  Read more...

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Forget Politics, Stop Asking For Permission And Lean Into Bitcoin’s Utility Instead

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When one considers the state of the Union today, it doesn’t really seem like there is a viable path to affect change via the political process.

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Could Rishi Sunak Be Bitcoin’s “October Surprise?”

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The new English prime minister could spark interest in bitcoin within a country that desperately needs it.

This is an opinion editorial by Jacob Kozhipatt, a YouTuber and writer.

The phrase “October Surprise” is used in politics to describe a last minute, paradigm-shifting event that occurs a month before an American election. For example, in 2016, the FBI reopened their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, an event which many argue led to her loss in the 2020 election. In 2020, then-president Donald Trump contracted COVID-19, just weeks before the November election.  Read more...

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Bitcoin’s Utility Is Easy To See When Traveling Around The World

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When visiting emerging markets, it’s easy to observe bitcoin being used by locals. Sometimes it takes getting outside our comfort zone to shed our biases.

This is a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Joe Hall to talk about Bitcoin Amsterdam and his experience seeing bitcoin being used in Africa.

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Bitcoin’s Lightning Capacity Soars, Why The U.S. Plays A Big Role

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One of the largest Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) node operators, River Financial, recently posted a report on this second-layer payment solution. Previously conceived as an experiment used by savvy BTC holders, the LN is quickly becoming a key component in this blockchain’s ecosystem and its potential ticket into the mainstream.

The report defines the LN as a second-layer Bitcoin solution that enables users to send and receive transactions off-chain, “without needing to wait for on-chain settlement”. This solution was created to improve BTC’s payment scalability by allowing entities to quickly transact in small amounts of the cryptocurrency without relying on block settlement.  Read more...

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Block By Block: Facing Life In Prison, Bitcoin’s Resilience Inspires Me

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“Through the rise and fall of Silk Road, through the relentless years of my incarceration … Bitcoin keeps going.”

This is an opinion editorial by Ross Ulbricht, the founder of pioneering Bitcoin marketplace Silk Road, who is currently serving a double life sentence plus 40 years in federal prison.

Much more is being said about Bitcoin these days than when I was put in prison. On October 1, 2022, I started my tenth year locked in this cage. Right now, as I put pen to page, the afternoon sun beams through the bars of my window and the murmur of the other prisoners snakes under my cell door.  Read more...

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