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Wow, we finally hit $100,000 bitcoin. What a time to be alive! A cypherpunk experiment started as magic internet money is now the 7th largest asset globally, surpassing a $2 trillion market cap. But make no mistake — we're just getting started. 2025 will be the year of Bitcoin. $100K feels like the mere beginning.

Follow Frank on X. (Author's note: In this Take, I offer an interpretation of recent events in Guatemala through the lens of someone on the ground in the country.) On November 10, the X account for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office posted the following meme: The meme that spread like wildfire in Guatemala. It seemed harmless enough. I

November 2024 will be remembered as one of the most significant months in Bitcoin's history. With its value surging from $67,000 to just shy of $100,000, Bitcoin achieved its largest dollar growth in a single month. This performance was bolstered by record-breaking ETF inflows of $6.562 billion, institutional accumulation led by MicroStrategy’s massive acquisitions, and

Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts When Bitcoin was first launched by Satoshi Nakamoto, there was no price. It was literally worth $0. The price of bitcoin first broke over $100 in April of 2013 and was captured on film as it rose to an all time high of $111. Later that year

Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Today, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said in an exclusive interview with CNBC that Bitcoin is in competition with gold, not the U.S. dollar. BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Fed Chair Jerome Powell says #Bitcoin is a competitor to gold, not the US dollar. pic.twitter.com/YQHFiThTBo— Bitcoin Magazine

A small, but significant development in Bitcoin’s much-debated decentralized consensus process is taking place, with some developers moving to publicly gauge sentiment of warring soft fork proposals that would augment the software rule set. Follow Rizzo on X.https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/ More specifically, the effort began today with the creation of a page on the Bitcoin Wiki website

Company Name: Heatbit Founder: Alex Busarov Date Founded: April 2020 Location of Headquarters: Remote Number of Employees: 25 Website: https://heatbit.com/ Public or Private? Private In early 2020, Alex Busarov was stuck in his Shanghai apartment during COVID. To quell his boredom, he ordered an Antminer S9, a Bitcoin mining machine, to toy around with. After

Follow Frank on X. Bitcoin is its own network state, to borrow a term from Balaji Srinivasan. That is, while Bitcoin proponents aren’t bound to one geographical region (quite the opposite, actually) they have collective power and can enact change. We just saw some version of this power exercised in the U.S. political sphere, as

The public discussion around scaling in the last few years has become poisoned and captured by an incredibly toxic and defeatist attitude: “Why bother?” “Why bother trying to scale? Basic napkin math shows it's impossible no matter what we do for everyone to self custody.” “Why bother trying to scale? People are stupid and lazy

For centuries, self-custody has symbolized financial autonomy, enabling individuals to secure their wealth—from gold to cash—without intermediaries. Bitcoin extends this principle into the digital realm, offering a censorship-resistant, decentralized way to hold assets. Yet, upcoming European regulations under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and the Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) threaten to complicate self-custody