Bitcoin Foqus
Focus On The Signal
You may have gotten into an argument with someone on Twitter, or seen a salty nocoiner say something about bitcoin, and then a large group of laser-eyed accounts left hundreds of responses with the acronym H.F.S.P. What does HFSP mean? Much like …
When the bitcoin whitepaper was launched, there was no currency symbol for bitcoin. Originally, it was just a simple “BC”, as in “Bit-Coin”. Now, the pretty universally accepted symbol for Bitcoin is a “B” with two …
One of the common bits of dismissive criticism I hear from time to time is that Bitcoin is a fad. They say It's new and it's cool, so it's bound to go out of style sooner or later! In fact, my dad even told me that that he's not so sure about this …
As you get deeper into bitcoin culture and bitcoin memes, you may have heard bitcoin called “corn” before. You may have heard shilling the corn, or don't short the corn. You may also see some profile pictures on social media accounts with …
More than a decade after the invention of bitcoin, nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Where he came from, what were his motivations, and what he's doing right now still remain a mystery, and that's a good thing. So while the mainstream media is …
A surprising number of people still think that Bitcoin is a company. To be clear, Bitcoin is not a company. The confusion is understandable though. Bitcoin, as a concept, is something completely new, so it's reasonable to use language with which we …
To “hodl” is one of the oldest memes around in Bitcoin Land, but what does HODL mean? As with all the best memes, it was unintentional, and its use grew organically because it was a fun, inside joke. A full decade later, there are …
Watching bitcoin documentaries is basically the opposite of Netflix and chill. You're either going to put a nocoiner to sleep, or you're going to put a bitcoin on the edge of their seat. These are definitely not date movies, but they are great, and …
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 …
