Aaron Van Wirdum

F2Pool — a mining pool representing ~11% of hash power on the Bitcoin network — is censoring OFAC-sanctioned transactions again.

Technically, Donald Trump broke his campaign promise by not freeing Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on day one of his presidency. (No, inauguration day is not “day zero.”) But...

I’m not here to say “I told you so.” In my Take from October 4, I did write that Donald Trump does not give a damn about Bitcoin, and in my Take from November...

In his Take from yesterday, Frank invited bitcoiners to join Nostr: “The world’s biggest bitcoin circular economy.” I endorse this invitation; Nostr aligns much better with Bitcoin’s original values than —...

In return for a loan deal with the IMF, El Salvador had to give up some of its pro-bitcoin policies. It only made the Bitcoin law better.

Governments and institutions buying up large amounts of bitcoin is not without risk, but there is only one thing you can do about that...

Bitcoin Core developers will dedicate their time and energy to whatever part of the codebase they find most interesting or important to work on. So far, that hasn’t really been any of the soft fork proposals.

As the upcoming Trump administration is gearing up to establish a regulatory landscape facilitating full-on anything-goes multicoinery, and with Gary Gensler gone, we could well see the most atrocious scam coins proliferate and soar— before they inevitably implode.

Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share this concern to an extent, I am less convinced this is necessarily true.

I don’t think Donald Trump actually changed his mind on cryptocurrency much at all since three years ago… I think he just wants in on the scam.