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In a 2010 Bitcointalk forum post, Hal Finney, a cypherpunk involved in Bitcoin from day one, described the way he sees the emergence of Bitcoin banks in the future. He believed that peer-to-peer Bitcoin transactions would be rare. Instead, people…

Mortgage-backed securities massively contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. According to some observers, Bitcoin, created as a response to this crisis, started to resemble MBS as a large part of the Bitcoin market is now represented by “paper” Bitcoin or…

May 22, 2025, marks the 15th anniversary of a now legendary first purchase made with Bitcoin: on that day in 2010, early Bitcoin developer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas. What happened to Hanyecz and Jeremy Sturdivant,…

Bitcoin was conceived as the first sustainable electronic commerce network independent of financial institutions. Fifteen years later, there is much talk about how Bitcoin will strengthen the American dollar, while financial institutions are investing in cryptocurrency. At the same time,…

Bitcoin maxis say, “Never sell your Bitcoin.” They repeat it when the market crashes to urge people not to dump their BTC in a loss out of panic and fear. They repeat it when the price is going up because…

Crypto just keeps dropping — what’s driving the crash, and what’s next? Bitcoin (BTC) plummeted below $88,000, marking its lowest level in three months. The broader crypto market has also taken a hit, with total market capitalization shedding 8%, dropping…