A Noble Metal Supplanted by Paper Fictions — This article originally appeared on Bankless Publishing. “Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold” — John Muir Eyes Wide Open I vividly remember first learning about Fort Knox. I wasn’t more than a waist-high boy of five or six, but the memory has stuck with me. “A room filled with gold?!”, I…

An Elemental Journey on the Current of Financial Progress — This article originally appeared on Bankless Publishing. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” — Yogi Berra What Is Money? Is money not simply an instrument that people agree to pay attention to? Whether it’s seashells in Papua New Guinea, Grecian coins made of precious metals, tobacco sticks in a prison yard, or…

Bankless Publishing Has Published 200+ Articles — Cover Page After reading and shipping more than 200 articles over the last couple of years, the Bankless Publishing team decided we would each pick out a few favorites. The seven featured here are my choices — articles that impressed me because they guide the reader towards something new. The through line…

Bitcoin is Booming, So What Can You Do About It? — Bitcoin Half-Mooning With bitcoin half-mooning, and investors clamoring over a forthcoming bitcoin ETF, you may feel like you’re a little late to the game. But as of today, bitcoin is only sitting at half its all-time high (ATH). If it continues to appreciate in value following each halving, like it has done…

With a Movie in the Works, This Filmmaker Is Planning to Orange-Pill the Masses — Meet Luke After listening to Luke Broyles’ appearance on Robert Breedlove’s What is Money? podcast, I knew I wanted to learn more about what this guy is doing. Before diving into all of that, and strictly speaking about information-delivery techniques, Broyles’ processing power felt reminiscent of Saylor, stacking meaning-like functions that elucidate…

An Interview With the Creator of Chippi, the Highly Collectible Bankless Location NFTs, and a Head Writer at The Rug — gm Perchy! I remember the first time I laid eyes on one of Perchy’s Bankless Locations. I immediately jumped into my MetaMask wallet to buy — it was the first time I had looked at art in the cryptoverse and thought, “I must have this. This is me.”

Can Bitcoin Survive Once There Are No More Block Rewards? — “Bitcoin reaching its upper supply limit is likely to affect Bitcoin miners, but how they are affected depends in part on how Bitcoin evolves as a cryptocurrency. If the Bitcoin blockchain in 2140 processes many transactions, then Bitcoin miners may still be able to generate profits from only transaction processing…

Understanding the Price Impact of a 50% Reduction in BTC Emissions Every Four Years — Approximately every four years the amount of bitcoin released to the world is cut in half — which is known as the halving. The time between halving events is approximate because of the slight variation in hash rates, which affect the time it takes to complete each new block on…

Hash Rates Are the Number of Guesses Per Second Competing to Add a Block to the Timechain — As of today, July 17, 2023, Bitcoin’s hash rate is 367.06 EH/s or 361,920,000 TH/s. The highest the Bitcoin hash rate has ever reached is 538.05 EH/s, or 538,050,000 TH/s. But what does that even mean and why does it matter? Before we break down these cryptic numbers, let’s discuss…