Day: January 8, 2025

Don't Buy The Bitcoin Dip

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Follow Frank on X. With bitcoin’s price dipping significantly below $100k again, the “buy the dip” cheerleaders are out in full force. But I’m here to offer a different perspective: Don’t buy the dip. Before I continue, let me please make it clear that nothing that I write in this Take is investment advice. Why would I say such a thing? Is it that I hate bitcoin all of a sudden? No. I have other reasons for making such a statement. The first is that I’m trying to keep you…

PEPE In Jeopardy? Bearish Momentum Drives Price Toward $0.00001731

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PEPE is under pressure as its price approaches the critical $0.00001731 level, a support zone that has repeatedly tested bulls’ resilience. The renewed bearish momentum highlights growing concerns about the token’s ability to maintain stability in the face of intensified selling activity. Recent attempts to spark a recovery have been met with resistance, leaving PEPE vulnerable to further declines if the current trajectory persists. The $0.00001731 level has emerged as a key battleground, with its ability to hold determining whether PEPE can stage a comeback or succumb to deeper corrections.…

The Lightning Network Privacy Big Picture: Don't Forget the NSA

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One of the secondary benefits of how the Lightning Network works as a scaling solution is privacy. It’s by no means perfect or undefeatable privacy, but it is a better than naive use of the base layer blockchain itself. It’s also not perfectly balanced. The sender learns a good many details about the receiver, but the receiver learns nothing about the sender. For casual payments it is a big improvement for consumers over on-chain payments. It does have one big problem though, something not unique to Lightning, but a problem…

Buying Greenland Would Be A Huge Boost to US Bitcoin Mining

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Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts In less than two weeks, the United States will have a new administration in office, but there’s already much debate about President-elect Donald Trump and his policies. One of the most controversial — his expressed interest in purchasing Greenland for strategic, economic and political reasons. Trump claims that buying Greenland would be vital to U.S. national security, both for monitoring and defense purposes given its location near Canada and Russia, as well as its energy. On that note, Greenland is of interest given its…