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Bitcoin needs a network of keys
For many bitcoin holders, custody comes down to one of two choices: do it yourself or trust a custodian. If…
Dhruv Bansal
Co-Founder & CSO
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HODL Cave
Analyzing the spread of historical returns for investors who held bitcoin for a given duration over the course of its…
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Bitcoin Astronomy: Beyond Humanity
A future history of first contact between human and alien blockchains. This is Part III in a series of speculations…
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Bitcoin Astronomy: Kardashev Money
This is Part II in a series of speculations about the hyperbitcoinized future. In Part I, we defined the First…
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Bitcoin Astronomy: The Law of Hash Horizons
The desire to travel far away and start a new currency will become a powerful driver of human expansion into…
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Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 3): Dust & Thermodynamics
We examine the history and future of dust: containers (UTXOs) of bitcoin that cost more to spend in fees than…
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Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 2): The Geology of Lost Coins
There are many stories of people losing BTC in large amounts – especially in the early days – when BTC wasn’t worth…
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Bitcoin Data Science (Pt. 1): HODL Waves
Bitcoin uses a curious accounting structure called a UTXO — an Unspent Transaction Output. All UTXOs are timestamped by the transaction/block in which…
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Stop Comparing Bitcoin to the Internet
The market cap of cryptocurrencies dropped almost 50% from ~$820B to ~$420B in the last month. This is not the…
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Why It’s Hard to “Get” Bitcoin: The Blockchain Spectrum
This article was prompted by the overwhelming response to an earlier version of the diagram below as tweeted by our…