Bitcoin Halving
Allen Farrington: Capital in the 21st Century
In the same way Bitcoin mining incentivizes more energy, cheaper energy and new energy, Bitcoin can also incentivize the building of more products, cheaper products and new products.
Bitcoin Halving Has Crypto Miners Racing for 'Epic Sat' Potentially Worth Millions
Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and collectible fragment of a bitcoin known as an "epic sat."
Why Bitcoin Halving Calculators Are Out of Sync
The famously pre-planned, programmatic event, currently predicted for April 19, is surprisingly hard to predict at minute scales.
The Halving Highlights Why Bitcoin Needs to Upgrade
Higher fees from Ordinals and BRC-20 may be good for miners but they risk pushing activity to the fragmented world of L2s and harming adoption of Bitcoin around the world. Proposals for “OP_CAT” and CTV would upgrade the network and allow more innovation at the chain-level, says Bob Bodily, CEO of Bioniq, an Ordinals marketplace.
Willem Schroé: Building Botanix, a Bitcoin Layer 2 That Brings the EVM to Bitcoin
A Belgian polymath and his team are building a “spiderchain” network that harnesses both bitcoin’s sound money properties and Ethereum’s technological capabilities.
The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own
Bitcoin's supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week's "halving" arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. Blockchain tech is enabling all sorts of monetary strategies.
BTC Halving: Sell-The-News or Buy-The-Alt-Rotation
Contrasting Bitcoin derivatives with Ethereum’s tells us a story around the potential opportunity for a post-halving rotation.
Did Strong Bitcoin ETF Demand Kill Halving's Potential Bullish Rally?
The much stronger-than-expected inflows into the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have already caused concerns about a supply shock in the bitcoin market, potentially taking away some of the impacts of the halving.
Shinobi: How Covenants Help Scale Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine’s technical editor says it’s necessary to implement covenants - which allow joint ownership of UTXOs - if Bitcoin is to fulfill its promise of bringing financial self-sovereignty to people globally.
Bitcoin’s Future as Currency
Bitcoin has flourished as digital gold. But, in the long-term, its biggest impact will be in denominating business and trade, says Zac Townsend, CEO of Meanwhile.
