Opinion

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?

When looking at the raw numbers, when will inscriptions start to become economically non-viable and begin being priced out by regular financial transactions?

Gold is pitched as a natural and proven analog to Bitcoin, but the environmental cost of gold production is materially more damaging than Bitcoin.

MEV, or Miner Extractable Value, is a serious problem that any blockchain is going to have to deal with. The only question is how severe will it get based on what features any given blockchain supports. So how bad can it get?

Managing a fund in the Bitcoin space introduces challenges and complexities that traditional hedge funds from legacy finance do not have to confront.

Lightning has offered a path to massively improve the scalability of transactions conducted using Bitcoin, but has offered no meaningful path to scaling the ownership of coins on the network. CTV opens the door to addressing that missing piece of the scaling puzzle.

Everything you do in life consumes energy from somewhere, it is fundamental to the nature of the universe. This is the key factor that makes Bitcoin a workable system and provides its security.

Bitcoin and every aspect of the protocol that runs it orbits around facilitating one thing: the maintenance and reconciliation of databases.

When the price starts moving people tend to act irrationally and impulsively, it's important to remember to keep your head and think with your brain.

Nostr may not be perfect, but it does represent a massive improvement over existing centralized platforms when it comes to data and identity ownership.