Hitashi curates the most important Bitcoin-related news each week so you can stay up-to-date without scouring the interwebs.
Weekly News Highlights
Legendary Investor Adopts Bitcoin - Add Stanley Druckenmiller to the list of billionaire institutional investors adopting Bitcoin. Institutional FOMO is real.
Secure Your Bitcoin - With $7.6B in stolen crypto, custody and security should be top of mind for all investors.
Bitcoin ATM Growth Soars - Growing by more than 85% globally, BTC ATMs allow people to change their local fiat for Bitcoin. Are fiat holders beginning to rush for the only exit?
China Accepts Bitcoin - State-owned China Construction bank accepts Bitcoin in exchange for ownership of the new $3B bonds.
Bitcoin Becomes 42% More Secure - Hashrate, a measure of Bitcoin security, jumped by 42% last week as more miners came online. Miners secure Bitcoin transactions in exchange for minting new Bitcoin.
Best Bitcoin Tweets
Not your keys, not your coins. It’s an expression Bitcoiners are fond of saying, but for no-coiners it doesn’t make a lot of sense. The idea is simple: holding your private keys is the same as holding your Bitcoin. Whoever has them, owns the Bitcoin.
Bitcoin spawned the blockchain movement, and it’s common for many people to become enamored with the blockchain instead of realizing it really is about Bitcoin.
Bitcoin can be an upside-down world! In the last couple of months with major institutional investors adopting Bitcoin, it’s clear that Bitcoin is making it’s way from the niche edges of the internet to center stage. The beautiful part about Bitcoin is that it’s the first financial innovation that anyone can participate in, not just the wealthy.
Podcast of the Week
Peter McCormack sits down with Adam Curry, the original podcaster, to discuss his new project. Podcasting is the last medium of publication outside a centralized social platform and Adam’s latest project will keep it that way by using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to reward content creators. It’s a bold, quickly growing project — and right in line with the ethos of Bitcoin’s censorship-resistant design.
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It’s Evolution!
Hitashi is making a 90-degree turn and next week’s newsletter will come to you as DCATracker. What what?! Walk-in our shoes a moment here and we think you’ll agree we’re making a wise decision:
The automated cost averaging strategy for Bitcoin is picking up steam globally, but with each country having its own complex banking rules, it’s a fragmented industry. We realized we could fill this gap and provide the unbiased education resource the market needs. DCATracker will highlight all the companies providing automated cost averaging services, provide reviews, and help educate an on why now is the right time to start the transition to Bitcoin.
HODL on Bitcoiners,
— Hitashi Team