Experience from storing bitcoins with a very long term mindset — Recently I’ve been tasked to gift some satoshis to a newborn baby, who is supposed to redeem them when he grows up, about 18 years from now. …

Locks made large human communities possible and money made trade scale. Bitcoin is an improvement on both technologies, and will therefore significantly contribute to advance human civilisation. In our modern society, we use locks to protect wealth in all of its forms, whether it is our house, our car, family…

From the very early days of Bitcoin, multiple attempts of at least partially replicate its success, by coping its codebase with some slight modifications, took place. …

Blockchain tokens have been around for a while, but only recently the market demand for them emerged. Before wide adoption is possible, many challenges are ahead, and technological maturity is one of them. …

As soon as Bitcoin started to trade, a “flaw” that could jeopardise its ambitions became evident: the new born trustless cryptocurrency was very volatile. …

In early human history money did not rely on trusted entities, but this pattern changed when more efficient fiduciary systems emerged. Bitcoin, thanks to its electronic nature, could bring back trustless money to the masses. Money, together with writing, is probably one the biggest invention in human history. While writing…

Off-chain transactions seem to be the best option for Bitcoin scaling, while multiple companies are building and testing off-chain transaction infrastructures, few people have ever experienced how they work. The problem First, why do we need to do transactions outside the blockchain anyway? People that use Bitcoin are looking for security, and…

Introduction to the art of hodling — DISCLAIMER: this post is not to be intended as an investment advice, but as a guide on how to protect investment once you already decided to put money in Bitcoin You may have heard a lot of stories of people who bought bitcoins a few years ago and got astonishing…

We lived the block size drama for more than two years, and every time it seems to have ended, after few months we are back in another Bitcoin civil war. Even if the block size debate splits the community and reduce confidence over the future of the protocol, I still…