This is a nice opportunity for Steem users to join Uptrennd: As a welcome bonus you will receive points (1UP tokens) in the amount of 10x your current Steem level. Check out the post here: I've been on

One of the founding documents of the United States is the Declaration of Independence, in which the American states declare themselves to be independent of the British Crown. What is Bitcoin's Declaration

You may have heard that Bitcoin is "magical internet money", implying that it isn't real money. The thing, how real is "real" money? What makes it real? Isn't it like Monopoly money?

My key takeaway from the podcast "Every Bitcoin Wallet Sucks" (see my post here), was the following: Everyone should use multisig. "Multisig" stands for Multiple Signatures. It means

New technologies usually follow the "Gartner hype cycle". When a technology first comes out, there is a bubble-like frenzy because many people explore different possibilities for applying the

Should I hodl FIAT or BTC? Hmm such a difficult decision...

Hmm I can't decide.

Goldman Sachs is recommending to buy the dip! Are things heating up?

In a world where currencies are Weapons of Mass Destruction, and currency manipulations are beginning to look like tactical nuclear attacks, (the populations bearing the brunt of the toxic/lethal side

[Image taken from here] According to this article, the global money supply is estimated to be around $90 Trillion. Here is a rationale that you may want to consider: what is your current net worth, in

I came across the YouTube channel "JohnRusso007", it is quite fascinating, happening right now! John has posted many videos about market manipulation of the LTC/BTC pair on Coinbase. He has been

[Image taken from here] Have you ever heard of tally sticks? They were a form of money, used in many different places throughout history. One very interesting type of tally stick was the split tally,

In the previous episode we discussed politics, where trustlessness has been put to very good use. Another area that is moving into this direction is science. You may have heard that science has a replicability

If anyone was not fully convinced by our previous article on the HODLER Technical Analysis approach (based on the paintings of Ferdinand Hodler), let us demonstrate its power again here by looking at the

In the previous episode, we wondered whether trustlessness would be a good thing to aspire to in society, and were not so convinced. However, there are definitely great applications for trustlessness.

Pic: YouTube: DTube: 10: Native SegWit is now available on Ledger Live 9: Happy Bitcoin independence day! 8: Something tells me that this guy here in Poland paid off his Corvette out of BTC 7: Bitcoin

My personal style of Technical Analysis (TA) is based on the paintings of Ferdinand HODLER. It is very clear that these paintings contain the full knowledge of Bitcoin price history, into the very far

We've established that the Bitcoin network is trustless in some sense. We still trust in some aspects of it, but typically we don't have to place our full trust in an intermediary, like we do with our

Some nice quotes from Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 white paper. On the goal: What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust. On mining difficulty: The work required

In the previous episode we saw that Bitcoin works on the basis of trust in mathematicians. Here is a tiny bit more detail on this, as well as on developers! The cryptographic building block used in Bitcoin