The number of Bitcoin transactions has nothing to do with energy consumption — Every four years when Bitcoin re-enters its bull market a host of uneducated media pundits, climate journalists, economics professors, and other detractors blindly point to Bitcoins' excessive energy consumption as the biggest threat facing the earth. When you spend barely 5 minutes reading poorly researched opinion articles on Bloomberg or…

Comparing Bitcoin to other wastes of energy — Bitcoin is often touted as a complete waste of energy and therefore a climate emergency, while it does use a lot of electricity the exact number is not easy to accurately calculate as we’ll discuss later. Bitcoin also makes for an easy target as its energy consumption can be estimated…

How to use bitcoin to its full potential: Take advantage of near instant and almost free bitcoin transactions with Umbrel OS. — The first time you use the lightning network you’ll be blown away at how quick you can send bitcoin for next to no fees. Especially if you’ve heard the old and tired critique that “it can’t scale as a payment network” or “VISA processes 60,000 transactions per second to bitcoins…

Buckle up, Bitcoin is about to go mainstream as a reserve asset for the world — With all the craziness that happened in 2020, it doesn’t seem as if 2021 will be any less dramatic if January is anything to go by. Governments have injected trillions of dollars of capital into their economies over the past 12 months and they don’t plan on slowing down this…

By Luka B on The Capital — There’s been a lot of buzz about the upcoming bitcoin halving and the impact it will have on price for quite some time now and for good reason, as the last two halvings have resulted in exponential price runs for bitcoin. As a result of these previous runs, many have…