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Riot Blockchain Announces Record High Hash Rate Capacity

Although hash rate capacity is at a record, mining conditions did lead to a relative underperformance in bitcoin received throughout the month. Although hash rate capacity is at a record, mining conditions did lead to a relative underperformance in bitcoin received throughout the month. Riot Blockchain has released its unaudited production and operations updates for […]

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The Everything Bubble: Markets At A Crossroads

The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. Powell’s Speech And Contracting ISM PMI We want to zoom out and revisit the broader macroeconomic […]

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How to Buy Bitcoin With a Credit Card

Introduction Surprisingly, the first time the term “credit card” was used to describe a card for spending was back in 1887, mentioned several times in the utopian science fiction novel “Looking Backward” by Edward Bellamy. Although, in the beginning, the concept was slightly different from today’s and did not include debt in terms of borrowing […]

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Visiting El Salvador, It’s Clear That Bukele’s Bitcoin Country Is Neither Utopian, Nor Totalitarian

This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. I recently spent a week in El Salvador to attend Adopting Bitcoin and decided it might be worthwhile to summarize my perception of things having actually had the chance to visit the country myself. Since the […]

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Goodbye Sats, It’s A ‘Bit’ Of A Bitcoin

This is an opinion editorial by Don McAllister, a technologist who has made several video tutorials on Bitcoin. At its inception, bitcoin was worthless; it had no monetary value. Early adopters could mine hundreds, if not thousands of bitcoin on simple laptops. As such, there was no need to enumerate it in other units than […]

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Data Shows That Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Solved The Scalability Problem

This is an opinion editorial by Stanislav Kozlovski, a software engineer and macroeconomic researcher. Many Bitcoiners have heard of Bitcoin’s “lack of scalability” — it is one of the most common critiques waged against the project by both gluttonous cryptocurrency competitors and incumbent establishment actors. Some oldtimers may remember the heated, bathed-in-controversy Blocksize Wars of […]

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Giving Thanks For Bitcoin And Bitcoiners

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. I wrote earlier this year about how FTX rescuing other companies was not altruism, but rather good for business. I had no idea how essential […]

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Should Full Replace-By-Fee Be Merged Into Bitcoin Core?

Watch This Episode On YouTube Or Rumble Listen To The Episode Here: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn In this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost revisit the replace-by-fee (RBF) node policy. As they mentioned in episode 65, the upcoming Bitcoin Core release — Bitcoin Core 24.0 — includes the option to […]

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Regulations Will Lead To A Two-Tiered Bitcoin Society

This is an opinion editorial by Thibaud Marechal, builder of Knox bitcoin custody provider. There has been a lot of coverage around the FTX catastrophic failure, with current developments and warning signs from the past. Will this have an influence on bitcoin in the coming years? I don’t care about shitcoin casinos, as most of […]

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DC-Based Coffee Company Launches Bitcoin Blend In Honor Of El Salvadoran Farmers

Compass Coffee, a cafe company based in Washington DC, has partnered with the Embassy of El Salvador to launch Bitcoin Blend, a limited-edition roast dedicated to the farmers of El Salvador, per a release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. The company hosted a conference and panel discussion on Bitcoin and El Salvador, featuring the Ambassador of […]

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