Aaron Van Wirdum
Forget About The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve For A Moment — Mining Censorship Is Back
F2Pool — a mining pool representing ~11% of hash power on the Bitcoin network — is censoring OFAC-sanctioned transactions again.
Donald Trump Did The Right Thing By Freeing Ross Ulbricht
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...
Trump Did Not Free Ross On Day One Because Of Course He Didn’t
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...
X Is Fiat
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 —...
The IMF Just Improved El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law
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 Large Institutions Can Buy All The Bitcoin They Want (Except Yours)
Governments and institutions buying up large amounts of bitcoin is not without risk, but there is only one thing you can do about that...
The lack of soft forks is due to a lack of interest— not a lack of process
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.
Gary Gensler’s Departure Is No Triumph For Bitcoin
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.
No, BlackRock Won’t Ossify Bitcoin
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.
Trump’s Coin Is About As Revolutionary As OneCoin
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.
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