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MINING MISINFORMATION:⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (2/9/2024) - Revealing the junk science used by the United Nations University to attack bitcoin mining. The first report from the “FUD Fighters” series. Continue Reading

Bank Runs Are Back On The Menu⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (2/8/2024) - The sector of the economy that seems to be on the top of everyone's mind is commercial real estate. The combination of economic lockdowns driving people out of their expensive office buildings and into their home offices and a precipitous increase in the cost of capital has created a perfect storm. Continue Reading

Block 828828: Important News of the Week⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (2/5/2024) - News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know. Continue Reading

Bitcoin — The Natural Choice For Artificial Intelligence⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/28/2024) - Bitcoin is permissionless. It is a bearer asset and requires no identity, so AI agents can autonomously send and receive it. In contrast, fiat money is debt-based which means it requires an identity to use. Fiat money excludes machines and many people (over 1b humans are unbanked today). Oh, and did I mention the halving… Continue Reading

GBTC OUTFLOWS: FORECASTING TOTAL BITCOIN SELLING PRESSURE & MARKET IMPACT⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/26/2024) - While it will take time to digest the rest of the GBTC outflows, and there will likely be a long tail of people exiting their position (mentioned previously), bitcoin will have plenty of room to run when the Spot ETFs settle into a groove. Oh, and did I mention the halving is coming? But that’s… Continue Reading

The SEC’s Bitcoin ETF Approvals Have Forever Altered The Global Monetary System⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/25/2024) - The most far-reaching consequence of the ETF-driven institutionalization of bitcoin is that it will become extremely difficult for the U.S. to ban the digital asset, enabling bitcoin to permanently push forward the evolution of how money fundamentally works. Continue Reading

Bitwise Is the First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF To Reveal Bitcoin Holding Addresses⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/25/2024) - Bitwise, a cryptocurrency asset management firm, has established a new standard as the first U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to openly reveal its Bitcoin address holdings..... Continue Reading

Stranded: How Bitcoin is saving wasted energy and expanding financial freedom in Africa⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/24/2024) - Bitcoin is often framed by critics as a waste of energy. But in Bondo, like in so many other places around the world, it becomes blazingly clear that if you aren’t mining Bitcoin, you are wasting energy. What was once a pitfall is now an opportunity. Continue Reading

Assessing the Health of Bitcoin⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/22/2024) - When investing in bitcoin as an asset, or companies that build on top of the Bitcoin network as part of an asset mix, we need some set of metrics with which to evaluate the progress of the investment thesis, and by extension, the health of the Bitcoin network. Continue Reading

Bitcoin Mining Using Sustainable Energy With a Record High of 54.5% in 2023⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (1/22/2024) - Sustainable energy use for Bitcoin (BTC) mining reached an all-time high of 54.5% in 2023, a 3.6% increase throughout the calendar year. The analysis, conducted by The Bitcoin ESG Forecast, compared Bitcoin’s sustainable energy mix to other industries using publicly available data over the past four years. Continue Reading