Getting close to two decades after the Bitcoin Whitepaper was published by Satoshi Nakamoto, how much bearing does the document have at this point? Today marks seventeen years since Satoshi Nakamoto’s publication of the Bitcoin Whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list in 2008. Back then Bitcoin was nothing more than […]
The first of ten Bitcoin privacy focused videos. Yuval Kogman joins Shinobi to discuss privacy in the digital era. This is the first in a 10-episode video series focusing on Bitcoin privacy, filmed at bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga and elsewhere. Each episode will touch on some aspect of Bitcoin privacy, tools […]
Bitcoiners need to stop begging the government for permission to exercise their rights. They are not our friends. Yesterday’s guilty verdict for Roman Storm on the count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money service business is absolutely insane. FinCEN, the regulator responsible for licensing, monitoring, and enforcement actions concerning criminal activity […]
I’m starting to understand that many pro-Bitcoin congressmen and congresswomen aren’t even aware of prosecutions against developers, let’s fix that. It has recently come to my attention that multiple U.S. Congressmen who have taken very public pro-Bitcoin stances are not even aware of the currently unfolding prosecution of Samourai Wallet developers Keonne […]
A republication of a series of posts by Shinobi from January 2020, predicting the course of Bitcoin through the 2020s. Bitcoin Banks (or Binks). It’s happening. Guaranteed. Done deal. In the bag. It’s just a question of when? Germany cleared banks to custody and handle Bitcoin and Bitcoin accounts for customer […]
Bitcoiners shouldn’t sit around and wait for fiat banks and financial companies to offer services built on Bitcoin, we should do it ourselves. Bitcoin banks are going to happen. We already have a few of them. We’re going to have more of them. Existing legacy banks are going to start […]
Privacy is a very important issue. It can be how you manage keeping parts of your life separate. It can be how you maintain your sense of dignity. It can be how you respect someone else’s trust. It can be a matter of your safety, even your life. At the […]
A letter to “Bitcoin” about the lessons an impetuous teenager should take heed of in their teenage years. Shinobi, Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin, you are 16 years old now, well into your teenage years. These are usually the years during which, for many people without even being aware of it consciously, […]