When the Bitcoin protocol began running in January 2009, about 50 new bitcoins were produced every 10 minutes from “miners” verifying a new block of bitcoin transactions on the network. […]

Through a combination of first-mover advantage and smart design, Bitcoin’s network effect of security and the network effect of user adoption makes it very, very hard for other cryptocurrencies to catch up with it at this point which is another compelling reason to buy bitcoin.

The bitcoin price has been quiet in recent months. Hovering in a tight band between $9,000 and $10,000 for nearly all of the last three months, until a sudden breakout over the weekend sent it soaring above $11k.

Bitcoin has long been considered to be a safe haven asset, long-term investment and digital gold. However, how practical is it to live on Bitcoin, in particular how easy is […]

On August 1st this year (2017) there is a chance Bitcoin will experience a chain-split. A significant portion of all Bitcoin users are committed to activate a user activated soft fork (UASF) […]