On March 28, 2025, one of the most severe earthquakes of the 21st century devastated Myanmar (Burma). The death toll from the 7.7 magnitude tremor is now over 3,600, while more than 5,500 have been injured and 17.2 million are currently living in the affected areas. To make matters worse, the country is under military […]

We’re less than a week away from OPNEXT, the tech-focused, scaling conference from Blockspace Media.  Hosted on April 11 and 12 at the Strategy HQ in Tysons, VA, this year’s OPNEXT will feature presentations on Bitcoin’s cutting-edge tech proposals from leading developers like Jameson Lopp, Jeremy Rubin, James O’Beirne, and many more.  Bitcoin needs an

BitGo and Voltage have announced a new partnership aimed at transforming Bitcoin payments by integrating the Lightning Network into BitGo’s digital asset infrastructure, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. The collaboration will allow exchanges, neobanks, payment providers, and fintech firms to execute instant Bitcoin and stablecoin transactions with greater efficiency and security.

America is the envy of the world, underpinned by our unparalleled economic power, and derived from the supremacy of the US dollar as the currency of choice. In recent times, however, our dominance has been eroded. Whether due to negligence by former administrations or economic aggression from adversaries, other forms of currency have risen in

Last month, the Treasury lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash. In response, many rekindled their calls for the Trump administration to drop the charges against Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the developers of Samourai Wallet who are currently being prosecuted in the Southern District of New York. What many appear to have missed is that

It is the prospect of the sovereign individual that seems to most trouble the nation-state today. This odd threat perception has been the outgrowth of a political genealogy that, in the generations since the American Revolution, has increasingly come to equate the state with society while constellating the individual as the enemy of both. This

At a recent keynote delivered at the MIT Bitcoin Expo, Phong Le, CEO of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), made a bold case for Bitcoin as a core component of modern corporate treasury strategy. With over 528,000 BTC on its balance sheet, Strategy has become the most visible—and arguably the most successful—public company to adopt Bitcoin as

In a recent video interview by Bitcoin Magazine, Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College, delves into the topic of his latest article for Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Mining Issue,” titled “Why the Future of Bitcoin Mining is Distributed.” Watch the full discussion here. In the interview, Troy explores the centralization vectors in

This is the second article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in-depth breakdown.  CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS), put forward by Brandon Black and Jeremy Rubin with BIP 348, is not a covenant. As I said in the introductory article to this series, some of the

Bitcoin has seen an institutional capital influx on a scale previously unfathomable. Billions of Dollars are flowing into Bitcoin ETFs, reshaping the liquidity landscape, inflow-outflow dynamics, and investor psychology. While many interpret this movement as smart money executing complex strategies backed by proprietary analytics, a surprising reality surfaces: outperforming the institutions might not be as