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Welcome bonus for Steemians on Uptrennd!

This is a nice opportunity for Steem users to join Uptrennd: As a welcome bonus you will receive points (1UP tokens) in the amount of 10x your current Steem lev...

Bitcoin's Declaration of Independence

One of the founding documents of the United States is the Declaration of Independence, in which the American states declare themselves to be independent of the ...

Magical Internet Money

You may have heard that Bitcoin is "magical internet money", implying that it isn't real money. The thing, how real is "real" money? What makes it real? Isn't i...

Steemians, are you using multisig?

My key takeaway from the podcast "Every Bitcoin Wallet Sucks" (see my post here), was the following: Everyone should use multisig. "Multisig" stands for Multipl...

Hype cycle -- where are we for crypto and blockchain?

New technologies usually follow the "Gartner hype cycle". When a technology first comes out, there is a bubble-like frenzy because many people explore different...

FIAT or BTC? (version 2)

Should I hodl FIAT or BTC? Hmm such a difficult decision......

Which should I hodl -- FIAT or BTC?

Hmm I can't decide....

Goldman Sachs bullish on Bitcoin

Goldman Sachs is recommending to buy the dip! Are things heating up? https://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-analysts-note-says-nows-a-good-time-to-buy-bitcoin...

BTC the new NPT?

In a world where currencies are Weapons of Mass Destruction, and currency manipulations are beginning to look like tactical nuclear attacks, (the populations be...

How much Bitcoin should you HODL?

Image taken from [here] According to this article, the global money supply is estimated to be around $90 Trillion. Here is a rationale that you may want to cons...

Coinbase LTC/BTC manipulation: investigations by JohnRusso007

I came across the YouTube channel "JohnRusso007", it is quite fascinating, happening right now! John has posted many videos about market manipulation of the LTC...

Tally sticks -- split tally

Image taken from [here] Have you ever heard of tally sticks? They were a form of money, used in many different places throughout history. One very interesting t...

Trustless: episode 6 -- trustless science

In the previous episode we discussed politics, where trustlessness has been put to very good use. Another area that is moving into this direction is science. Yo...

HODLER TA: macro view

If anyone was not fully convinced by our previous article on the HODLER Technical Analysis approach (based on the paintings of Ferdinand Hodler), let us demonst...

Trustless: episode 5 -- trustless politics

In the previous episode, we wondered whether trustlessness would be a good thing to aspire to in society, and were not so convinced. However, there are definite...

HODL! (r/Bitcoin #258)

Pic: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XCfKznCinQ DTube: https://d.tube/!/v/bitcoinjake09/QmeUPiWWcQ9cNC3DGsVAQVUVuBVAgR4baP2dMCQUPAf4uh 10: Native SegW...

HODLER TA

My personal style of Technical Analysis (TA) is based on the paintings of Ferdinand HODLER. It is very clear that these paintings contain the full knowledge of ...

Trustless: episode 4 -- trustless society?

We've established that the Bitcoin network is trustless in some sense. We still trust in some aspects of it, but typically we don't have to place our full trust...

Quotes from the Bitcoin white paper (Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008)

Some nice quotes from Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 white paper. On the goal: What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of t...

Trustless: episode 3 -- in mathematicians and developers we trust

In the previous episode we saw that Bitcoin works on the basis of trust in mathematicians. Here is a tiny bit more detail on this, as well as on developers! The...