Despite $824 million of net inflows since Spot ETF approval, bitcoin fell 19% in part from $4.39 billion bleeding out of GBTC. This is good for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Spot ETFs going live is a signal that Bitcoin isn't going anywhere, and politicians are going to have to start developing strategies to confront that reality.
The OP_CAT meme campaign has undeniably taken on a lot of momentum, but is this really how we want to be deciding consensus changes for a protocol as valuable as Bitcoin?
What realistic implications exist for different facets of global society if Bitcoin were to take over as the gravitational center of the world economy?
Last year FinCEN drafted a rule proposal for mixing services that was so broad, insane doesn't quite cover the degree of overstepping it was. Samourai Wallet has drafted a response to their proposal.
Bitcoin was designed to be a system without middlemen, but unless we stop pretending it is perfect as is and work to improve it, middlemen will be the only way to interact with it for most people.
The third part in an article series by Ivan Makedonski from Breez on how Lightning's instant settlement finality can be a disruptive force fundamentally changing how different industries are organized.
Linus Torvald's philosophy of Linux kernel development is governed by one core principle, "Don't break userspace." How does this philosophy map to development of the Bitcoin protocol?