How Bitcoin works, from the blockchain, mining, the 21 million cap and the halving to cold storage, seed phrase backups and passing bitcoin on to family.
Hardware wallet: check. Handwritten seed phrase: check. Every security rule seemed covered, yet he woke up to find 80 bitcoin gone. Where did it go wrong? We retrace the path the coins took and expose the blind spots most people miss.
David Mitchell · 7 min read
When exchanges get hacked, customers' coins can disappear overnight. Yet self-custody holders have been tricked out of thousands of bitcoin too. What is crypto's most famous saying really warning us about, and what's the part it leaves unsaid?
David Mitchell · 6 min read
"ETFs pull in $500 million." "Three straight days of outflows." Headlines like these appear almost daily. What exactly is a spot bitcoin ETF, how do fund flows relate to the price, and which numbers are worth your attention?
Michael Carter · 6 min read
No company, no central bank, no off switch. Here's how Bitcoin actually works, from the double-spend problem to mining and the 21 million cap, in plain English.
David Mitchell · 7 min read
Every halving year, "the halving rally" becomes crypto's hottest topic. Bitcoin's new supply drops by half roughly every four years, and every past halving was followed by a major bull market. But can a pattern built on just four examples be trusted? We look at the data and its limits.
David Mitchell · 5 min read
Bank accounts go through probate. Houses get transferred by deed. Bitcoin only answers to private keys. When the one person holding them is gone, where does the money go, and what can the family do?
Michael Carter · 6 min read
The coins are right there on the blockchain, and you still can't touch them. The law says they're yours; the code only recognizes private keys. Here's who really owns lost bitcoin, and what recovery options you may still have.
David Mitchell · 7 min read
Thousands of machines hum day and night, using as much electricity as a small country. What are they calculating? Why do bitcoin blocks keep arriving about every 10 minutes? And can an ordinary person still profit from a miner at home? We go from the basics to the bottom line.
David Mitchell · 5 min read