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Buying Bitcoin: Direct Purchase vs. Indirect Investments Compared
"Buying Bitcoin" sounds like a single decision, but it's actually the outcome of several different questions. Do you want to own and store bitcoin yourself, or…
Bitcoin: The Most Honest Measure of Political Success?
How do you actually tell whether a government is doing a good job? By growth figures partly financed by its own central bank? By unemployment rates that can be…
5 Mistakes You Can Make With Your Bitcoin Investment
Buying Bitcoin takes a few minutes, handling it correctly takes a bit longer. Most costly mistakes in a Bitcoin investment don't happen at the moment of…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (8/8): The Blockchain's Memory: How Nodes Keep Track
A Bitcoin node by default stores only as much as it genuinely needs to check the rules and serve its own wallet. Certain genuinely useful questions ("exactly…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (7/8): The Wire to the Outside: How Apps Talk to a Bitcoin Node
A Bitcoin node doesn't come with a graphical interface, no app-style visuals, no clickable "Send" button. And yet block explorers, wallet apps, payment…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (6/8): Your Wallet From the Inside: How It Selects Funds and Builds Payments
When you tap "Send" in your wallet app, more happens behind the scenes than you might expect. Your wallet has to decide which of your "bills" it uses for this…