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Can Bitcoin help you escape fiat inflation?

The 20th century saw government currencies abandon the gold standard, instead pegging themselves to the gold-backed US Dollar until 1971, when the United States followed suit and put the final nail in the gold standard coffin. Since then, the amount of a currency in circulation has become arbitrary, determined by central bank policies which have…
The Blocksize War: Who Makes the Rules in a Decentralized Network?

Decentralization is an often underappreciated and misunderstood feature of Bitcoin. Achieving consensus without a trusted third party was the biggest technical hurdle to the invention of a peer-to-peer electronic cash. While centrally controlled monetary networks can be corrupted or shut down, Bitcoin’s decentralized nature makes it permissionless, uncensorable and immutable. However, decentralization is a design…
Play Online Poker on the Bitcoin Lightning Network with Lightning-Poker.com

Lightning-Poker.com is an open-source web-app where users can play No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker on 12 different cash game tables using Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Bitcoin’s permissionless nature and the Lightning Network’s very low cost enables anyone to play anonymously without any account creation. Users can deposit and withdraw money from a wallet they…
Peach Bitcoin: a new mobile app for private bitcoin exchange

We recently had the opportunity to try out the Beta version of Peach Bitcoin, a new mobile app for buying and selling bitcoin in a fast and private way. What is Peach Bitcoin? Peach is a mobile app for matching together users who wish to buy or sell bitcoin in a peer-to-peer (P2P) way. The…
RoboSats Guide: Private P2P Bitcoin Exchange the Lightning Way

RoboSats isn’t just about cute randomly generated avatars. It is leading the way for faster and cheaper peer-to-peer exchanges built on Bitcoin’s Lightning network. In this article we decided to take a look at RoboSats and show you how we bought some sats from a fellow robot. Built on Lightning ⚡ RoboSats is a Bitcoin…
Adopting Bitcoin as a small business: an interview with The Suffolk Jungle Room

The Suffolk Jungle Room is an independent coffee shop in rural England that also showcases and sells house plants. The owners Sam and Tony have recently decided to start accepting Bitcoin payments and they kindly accepted to answer a few questions about their experience. In this interview they tell us why they decided to adopt…
How to buy bitcoin privately using Bisq in 2023

Today more and more individuals are becoming concerned about their financial privacy. Financial censorship is on the rise around the world as the financial system becomes increasingly weaponized. Bitcoin is a censorship resistant tool which can be used in an anonymous way as long as a user’s privacy can be ensured. Bisq is a decentralised…
How to use Hodl Hodl

Whether you are unable to use a Bitcoin exchange in your country or have concerns over your privacy, there are many ways you can buy bitcoin anonymously over the internet. Hodl Hodl is known as one of the fastest and easiest non-KYC platforms to use. In this article, we’ll be reviewing Hodl Hodl and show…
The Genesis Block

Today marks the 14th anniversary since the launch of the Bitcoin network. Now come to be known as the Genesis block, it refers to the first block ever mined on the Bitcoin network by anonymous computer scientist Satoshi Nakamoto on 3rd January 2009. 14 years after its inception, the Bitcoin network has lived up to…
Michael Saylor’s outlook for 2023

After stepping down as CEO of MicroStrategy to become the Executive Chairman in 2022, a role he created to be able to operate the company’s new business strategy, Michael Saylor, an entrepreneur and vocal supporter of Bitcoin, has spoken about his plans for the company in 2023. In a recent interview with Eric Weiss hosted…