Focus On The Signal
Challenges that Bitcoin faces, and problems with the network.
Everyone wants to buy bitcoin at the right time, so naturally, you'd like to know if bitcoin is going to crash so you don't buy the top, and you can get some coin at a good price. The good news is that there's a straightforward answer to your …
Haven't you heard? Bitcoin is dead. Actually, it's not even close to being dead, but what's weird is that if you only read mainstream news articles, you might be tempted to think it is. The truth is that after 13 years of expert opinions and …
Bitcoin's price action is volatile – very volatile. It's not uncommon to have violent price swings to the upside and downside over short periods of time. When the price drops precipitously, you probably want to figure out why your net worth was …
When I recommend buying bitcoin to my friends and family, probably the second most common pushback is that they think the government is going to ban it (the #1 reason is that it's too risky). In a time where the government can tell us it's illegal to …
Bitcoiners are very excited about bitcoin, so we tend to see the future world of bitcoin adoption through orange colored glasses. The enthusiasm gets even worse during a bull market, when vibes are high and it seems like hyperbitcoinzation is here. …
ATTN: I typically try to avoid calling bitcoin an “investment” because I'm not an investment advisor, CPA, or any other type of qualified investor/advisor. However, in this article I compare bitcoin to a number of other types of …
Bitcoin is made of software and hardware. Software comes and goes in popularity, and you can hack anything from a payphone to the US DoD servers, so why would bitcoin be any different? Could bitcoin fail, and is this a risk worth considering before …
FOMO is the “fear of missing out”, and there are a lot of people who fear they are missing out on bitcoin. People who don't have bitcoin are worried that the bitcoin revolution is happening without them. People with bitcoin are worried …
Bitcoin is no stranger to critiques. Since the first email that Satoshi sent to the Cryptography Mailing List in 2008, even those who had been literally trying to create cyber cash for decades said that it wouldn't work. Well, it does work, and has …
