Soteria has announced the forthcoming launch of USDS, a USD-pegged stablecoin that is 100 percent backed by bitcoin, meaning that users can issue or redeem it in exchange for BTC. Testing of the product has concluded and Soteria expects to launch it in the near future. Stablecoins are digital currencies built to retain stable value, […]
Discussing Compact Client Side Filtering (Neutrino)
Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed compact client-side filtering, also known as Neutrino. Compact client-side filtering is a solution to use Bitcoin without needing to download and validate the entire blockchain, and without sacrificing your privacy […]
GameStop Is The Market Crying Out For Bitcoin
“The tour we’ve taken through the last century proves that market irrationality of an extreme kind periodically erupts — and compellingly suggests that investors wanting to do well had better learn how to deal with the next outbreak.” Warren Buffet Irrational markets are a given these days. For retail, fundamentals often do not drive investment […]
After Elon Musk Changes Twitter Bio To “#Bitcoin,” BTC Price Surges
Early this morning, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, as well as the richest person in the world, changed his Twitter profile to read “#bitcoin” and tweeted a cryptic message that many in the Bitcoin space interpreted as advocacy for the technology or acknowledgment that his tacit endorsement was bound to happen. In […]
Debunking Misconceptions From “The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine”
As long time Bitcoiners, we are not shocked by the ongoing confusion around the nature of the bitcoin market. The reality is that, unlike other public markets, the bitcoin market has significantly more noise. There is noise around price valuation, noise around use cases, noise around data and noise from skeptics. It is very difficult […]
3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Price Will Continue Rising
Institutional demand, subsiding price volatility, and the Federal Reserve having no plans to taper its economic relief spending are 3 reasons why Bitcoin will continue to rise. (Read More)
DeFi and Crypto Community Explode as Robinhood Halts GameStop (GME) Trades
Robinhood’s decision to stop the purchases of GameStop (GME) shares, along with AMC and Blackberry (BBE), has spurred outrage from the cryptocurrency community. (Read More)
Bitcoin is the Answer to True and Free Capitalism, Following Wall Street Bets Short Squeeze
With the recent Gamestop stock soaring due to the Wall Street Bets group, this brought up a lot of discussion regarding Bitcoin and DeFi in the community, (Read More)
US Congress Planned Hearings on GameStop Market Conditions Shows Value of Bitcoin
The US House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committee has announced that it will hold hearings on the chaos surrounding GameStop stocks. (Read More)
Is Dogecoin (DOGE) the New GameStop?
As retail Reddit and Twitter investors are being barred from trading GameStop on trading apps like Robinhood, a shift to Dogecoin is pumping the altcoin (Read More)