Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin a Monetary Policy Hedge? AI Offers Clues
Bitcoin and the Fed: Why Rate Expectations Matter Bitcoin operates without a central bank, but its investors do not operate outside the financial system. That distinction helps explain why a currency with a predictable supply can still fall when markets…
Can Bitcoin Gain Zcash-Style Privacy Without a Fork?
Bitcoin has always offered pseudonymity rather than complete privacy. Anyone can create a wallet without attaching a legal name, but every confirmed transaction becomes part of a permanent public record. Amounts, addresses, timing, and transaction relationships can all be examined.…
Is Bitcoin Really a Safe Haven During Global Crises?
Bitcoin is often assigned a fixed identity. Supporters call it digital gold, while critics describe it as a speculative risk asset that is likely to fall when investors become cautious. Both descriptions can appear correct because Bitcoin does not respond…
When Bitcoin Mining Becomes Energy Infrastructure
Bitcoin was introduced as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system capable of operating without a central financial intermediary. Over time, its role has expanded beyond payments, with many investors treating it as “digital gold” and a potential reserve asset for the…
Jonathan Schramm
Bitcoin Halving Cycles May Spill Into Stock Markets
Bitcoin halvings are usually described as internal network events. Approximately every four years, the reward paid to miners is cut in half, slowing the creation of new bitcoin. The schedule is built into the protocol, so the event arrives without…
Can Bitcoin Mining Make Renewable Energy More Profitable?
Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) security model requires massive energy use, as miners compete computationally to validate blocks, a competition that has now reached an industrial scale. Electricity alone represents over 80% of miners’ cash-based operating expenses. While hardware has become more…
Can Adaptive Regulation Make Bitcoin Markets Safer?
Bitcoin has matured into a globally significant financial asset, solidifying its place in individuals’ and institutions’ minds and portfolios. And while the regulatory landscape has also evolved and become clearer, Bitcoin in 2026 reflects the problem regulators struggle to solve.…
Has Bitcoin Become an Institutional-Grade Market?
Bitcoin , blockchain, and cryptocurrencies were born as a conceptual thought about the nature of money and an almost anarchist experiment in creating new currencies for the digital age, free of the traditional shackles of state and financial institutions. Many…
Jonathan Schramm
Why Cheaper Power May Make Bitcoin Mining More Wasteful
As AI mania takes over the world, the technology is dominating headlines for its insatiable appetite for electricity. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), data centers powering AI consumed over 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2025, equivalent to…
What a Bitcoin Blackout Reveals About Mining Resilience
The pioneering digital asset, Bitcoin , is decentralized at the protocol layer. However, mining remains physically concentrated around low-cost power. The Xinjiang blackout demonstrated just how a local energy disruption can temporarily become a network-wide stress event, raising settlement costs,…
Bitcoin ETFs Have Not Made BTC a Safe Haven
The approval of US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) marked one of the biggest milestones in Bitcoin’s history. With this approval, the cryptocurrency got a seat at the mainstream finance table. For the first time, institutional investors gained exposure to…
Strategy’s Bitcoin Pivot: Inside the New MSTR Playbook
Ever since adopting Bitcoin as the primary treasury reserve asset six years ago, Strategy has announced one of the most significant changes to its capital allocation philosophy. The world’s largest publicly traded company holding Bitcoin will no longer be aggressively…
Bitcoin Mining Could Help Wind Farms Monetize Wasted Energy
Bitcoin mining has long been criticized for its massive electricity consumption. That is because the decentralized network uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism to secure the blockchain. In PoW, you need a lot of computational power to run specialized computers…
Bitcoin’s Derivatives Market Is Changing Spot Price Formation
Initially, Bitcoin was envisioned as a “simple” currency, with its fixed supply cap designed to make it a superior alternative to both fiat currencies and gold. But as the years passed, the way to use Bitcoin and the market for…
Jonathan Schramm
Bitcoin Market Reality Check: Has Sentiment Gone Too Negative?
The digital asset market has experienced a dramatic shift in investor sentiment. Just months after widespread optimism pushed Bitcoin into new valuation territories, intense caution has swept the industry. Volatility has returned, corrections have deepened, and many market participants are…
