Category: Cryptocurrency

  • Are Elon Musk’s Dogecoin Tweets Misdirections? Or Just Bad Jokes?

    Are Elon Musk’s Dogecoin Tweets Misdirections? Or Just Bad Jokes?

    At the outset of this article, let’s start with the fact that Tesla’s purchase of bitcoin was in the best interest of the company. It is the most effective way CEO Elon Musk and company could — in the short term — fortify their balance sheet and position Tesla to execute its long-term vision.  We’re…

  • Interview: Trading Our Time To Earn Bitcoin With Math Cannot Be Banned

    Interview: Trading Our Time To Earn Bitcoin With Math Cannot Be Banned

    Listen To This Episode Apple Spotify Libsyn For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by fellow pleb Math Cannot Be Banned (@beeforbacon1) for his first-ever podcast appearance. We started off this conversation with the guest sharing his rabbit hole story and how he found Bitcoin. He explained that being…

  • “Layered Money” With Nik Bhatia

    “Layered Money” With Nik Bhatia

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Fed Watch” podcast, Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner interviewed Nik Bhatia, author of “Layered Money: From Gold And Dollars To Bitcoin And Central Bank Digital Currencies.” Bhatia has a diverse background from a U.S. treasuries trading desk of a large…

  • Balancing Calls For Bitcoin Regulation While Preserving Satoshi’s Dream

    A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cost because of all the companies that failed since the 1990s.  I hope it’s obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them.  I think this is the first time we’re trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system. Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin was…

  • Avoid hosted crypto wallets ‘at all costs,’ warns Elon Musk

    Avoid hosted crypto wallets ‘at all costs,’ warns Elon Musk

    One crypto wallet provider’s marketing interaction with Elon Musk has backfired with the Tesla CEO roundly criticizing the company.

  • Crypto Financial Services Firm Blockfi Launches Competitive Bitcoin Trust

    Crypto Financial Services Firm Blockfi Launches Competitive Bitcoin Trust

    The cryptocurrency financial services firm Blockfi has launched a bitcoin-based trust that offers custody from Fidelity Digital Asset Services. Blockfi’s investment vehicle aims to give investors exposure to the leading crypto asset as bitcoin assets under management (AUM) was over $29 million on February 8, 2021. Blockfi Launches a Competitive Bitcoin Trust With a Sponsor…

  • Interview: Bitcoin Adoption With Quontic Bank

    Interview: Bitcoin Adoption With Quontic Bank

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Overcast Libsyn This week for the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host Christian Keroles sat down with CEO of Quontic Bank Steven Schnall to discuss Quontic’s recent move to offer a bitcoin-back debit card. The bitcoin-back debit card offer users 1.5 percent cash back on their purchases in the form…

  • Bitcoin ‘Can’t Be Stopped’: Nigerians Look to P2P Exchanges After Crypto Ban

    Some Nigerians plan to continue using bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies despite a directive issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week ordering banks to close down accounts associated with cryptocurrencies.

  • How Bitcoin Optimizes Human Resourcefulness

    Curiously enough, the structures that humanity relies upon have been upended by humanity itself. The monetary system, much of our social fabric and our relationship with the State at large have been fractured by problematic abuse. And yet, Bitcoin promises something different through the various ways in which it optimizes human resourcefulness. By eliminating inflation,…

  • The Emergence Of Bitcoin Through The Lens Of Austrian Economics

    While many Austrian economists disagree on various topics regarding the origin of money, the most notable and agreed-upon theory on the origin of money is Carl Menger’s theory of salability.  Bitcoin arose in a world that was long past the barter phase. Since bitcoin was never used for barter, it did not face the problems…