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Brian has been involved with the technology of Bitcoin for over 10 years and has been writing about it for more than 5 years.
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Bitcoin’s Role in the Future of Finance: Sovereignty, Freedom, and Individuality
What is Bitcoin's role in the future of finance? Over the last 12 months, we’ve witnessed a litany of financial catastrophes. From the collapse of the LUNA cryptocurrency and UST stablecoin in May 2022 to the bank failures of March 2023 and everything in between, it...
Why Bitcoin Maximalists Have Tragically Been Proven Right: 2022 Marks the End of an Era
2022 was a difficult year for many people. So much money has been destroyed at the hands of centralized altcoins and crypto platforms. So many have suffered as a result of placing blind faith in these projects. Stories abound of people losing their life savings after...
Why Bitcoin is the Most Secure Blockchain and Will One Day Make Altcoins Obsolete
Dog coins. DeFi. NFTs. Utility tokens. More dog coins… You get the picture. To date, there have been over 20,000 altcoins created. 99.9% of them have no legitimate use case. Their main purpose is to enrich their creators. Over time, most have seen their values tank by...
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Bitcoin’s Role in the Future of Finance: Sovereignty, Freedom, and Individuality
What is Bitcoin's role in the future of finance? Over the last 12 months, we’ve witnessed a litany of financial catastrophes. From the collapse of the LUNA cryptocurrency and UST stablecoin in May 2022 to the bank failures of March 2023 and everything in between, it...
Why Bitcoin Maximalists Have Tragically Been Proven Right: 2022 Marks the End of an Era
2022 was a difficult year for many people. So much money has been destroyed at the hands of centralized altcoins and crypto platforms. So many have suffered as a result of placing blind faith in these projects. Stories abound of people losing their life savings after...
Andrew Tate: Misogynist or Marketing Mastermind? The Process Behind the Most Successful Marketing Campaign of All Time
For those unaware, Andrew Tate became the most Googled person on the planet earlier this year. Names like Donald Trump and Joe Biden became less interesting to internet searchers than Andrew Tate. Everyone seems to be talking about how much they love or hate this guy,...
How to Market Yourself as a Freelance Writer
Building Your Brand, Using Multiple Mediums, and Networking Consistently Starting out as a freelancer can be difficult. So difficult, in fact, that many never even get started. I have a friend who works as a programmer and coding tutor, and while he doesn’t want a new...
Why Bitcoin is the Most Secure Blockchain and Will One Day Make Altcoins Obsolete
Dog coins. DeFi. NFTs. Utility tokens. More dog coins… You get the picture. To date, there have been over 20,000 altcoins created. 99.9% of them have no legitimate use case. Their main purpose is to enrich their creators. Over time, most have seen their values tank by...
The Best Bitcoin Conference in 2022 – Unconfiscatable
Bitcoin is the hardest money we’ve ever known, with only 21 million BTC to ever be mined. Importantly, Bitcoin is also unconfiscatable. That happens to be the title of the best Bitcoin conference in 2022. Held in Las Vegas at The D Hotel on Fremont Street,...
Interview with Joel Dietz, Co-Founder of Art Wallet and MetaMask Contributor
I had the opportunity to speak with a developer who worked on MetaMask in its early days and is also working on a new wallet designed specifically for NFTs. In this video, we explore the question "what is a crypto wallet?" This chat was for a Business Insider piece....
How to Buy Bitcoin and Store it Securely: The Ultimate Guide
Wondering how to buy bitcoin for the first time? It’s not as hard as you think. Many people tend to be intimidated when even thinking about how to buy bitcoin. After hearing some unfamiliar terms like “crypto wallets” or “crypto exchanges,” they lose interest and give...
Corporate Bitcoin Investment: Why Are Multi-Billion Dollar Companies Suddenly Rushing to Bitcoin?
The Days of Cash Balance Sheets Are Gone If you're like most people, you might be struggling to understand the recent rush of corporate bitcoin investment. Corporate bitcoin holdings have soared in recent months. Only a year ago, few even imagined such a scenario....
Content Marketing Questions – Who & What
Here I discuss the two most basic content marketing questions: who is your audience, and what is your goal?
Will the Silver Squeeze Work? You Might be Surprised – Silver Squeeze Explained
The silver squeeze is far from over. Here's a bit of the silver squeeze explained. The near-total media blackout on this topic ever since the COMEX price of silver tanked supports the notion that something real is happening that “they” don’t want anyone to pay...
7 Reasons Bitcoin Dominance Rose to 70% in 2020
2020 has been the year of the long-awaited beginning of mass adoption. Bitcoiners have always known that the time would eventually come when growing numbers of people and organizations would begin to understand the technology of bitcoin and realize the extraordinary...
The Value of Content Marketing for Financial Companies
I spoke to a real human being the other day who said that they could only pay so much for free content marketing for financial companies because it doesn't bring in any money. I still can't believe this really happened. It blew my mind to learn that not everyone...
One Metric by Which Bitcoin Still Beats the Market: Volatility
“Bitcoin is too volatile – it’s craziness.” “Something so volatile can never be a store of value.” “Bitcoin is no longer a safe-haven.” Have you called into question the safe-haven status of Bitcoin recently? If so, you’re not alone. And also…you’re wrong. A big...
What Does Coronavirus Mean for Crypto?
It has been thought that bitcoin would be an uncorrelated asset class and one that would thrive during a time of crisis. As the first few weeks of the latest financial crisis have shown, this may not be true (for now). Of course, we don’t want to draw definitive...