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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…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (5/8): No Central Server: How Bitcoin Nodes Find Each Other
There's no Bitcoin headquarters to call, no server you could shut down. And yet tens of thousands of Bitcoin nodes worldwide reliably find each other and…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (4/8): The Waiting Room Before the Blockchain: Mempool, Fees and RBF Explained
Between "transaction sent" and "transaction confirmed" lies a place few Bitcoin users ever consciously notice, even though practically every payment passes…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (3/8): From Scripts to Taproot: How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works
When you send bitcoin, you're not really "transferring" money in the classic sense, you're satisfying a small, self-contained puzzle. Every bitcoin output is…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (2/8): The Incorruptible Rules: Bitcoin's Consensus Mechanism Explained
Any claim about Bitcoin that starts with "that can't be changed" should survive a simple follow-up question: where exactly in the code does it say that, and…
100 Bitcoin Quotes You Need to Know: Who Said Them and What They Really Mean
Warren Buffett called Bitcoin "rat poison squared." Satoshi Nakamoto vanished after laying the groundwork for what is now a trillion-dollar asset class. And…
Storing Bitcoin Securely
Buying Bitcoin itself is fairly straightforward today. The harder question is: how do you store your Bitcoin over many years so that it is neither stolen nor…
Bitcoin Deep Dive (1/8): How Bitcoin's Code Actually Works
"Don't trust, verify" is one of the most quoted phrases in the Bitcoin world, but what does it actually mean in practice? The honest answer: it means that…
Bitcoin - the Best Store of Value in History?
This article expands on a central point from our article Properties of a Good Store of Value A good store of value should have several important properties in…
Bitcoin21st.de - Communication strategy
How do you stay informed about Bitcoin and expand your knowledge of Bitcoin? We would like to outline our communication strategy here so that you know which…
Financial freedom through Bitcoin, possible?
Definition of financial freedom What financial freedom means for each individual, depends on their individual goals and vision. In principle, we mean the…
FTX exchange - billions of customer funds embezzled?
Definition of FTX Exchange FTX Exchange was a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang in 2017 and quickly grew to become one of the…
Bitcoin - Investment Strategy - When is the best time to buy Bitcoin?
Investment Strategy (Amount, Regularity, Liquidity) Before making a purchase decision, it is advisable to consider how much capital you want to exchange into…
Hardware Wallet - How can Bitcoin be securely stored?
Definition of Terms Ownership of Bitcoin is proven through a private key. The private key is a secret cryptographic string that corresponds to the Bitcoin…
51% Attacks - Threat to the Bitcoin Network?
Definition of a 51% Attack A 51% attack refers to a potential security threat to the Bitcoin network. In this type of attack, a single validator (miner) or a…
What problem does Bitcoin solve?
To truly understand the added value Bitcoin can bring to society, it is first advisable to look at the current problems prevailing in today's society. Problem…