Follow Frank on X. Before I even arrived at this year’s Africa Bitcoin Conference, I saw attendees posting about Tando, a new Kenya-based payments app that allows...
If you’ve bought bitcoin, chances are that you want to self-custody. Without self-custody, you don’t really have bitcoin, so why wouldn’t you? Using a hardware device...
The Islamic conceptualisation of finance is built around a set of core principles which give primacy to honesty, fairness and accountability in trade and transactions. As...
So, now we know. Operation Chokepoint 2.0 was real. There really was a co-ordinated federal government effort to de-bank crypto following the collapse of three mid-sized...
Cryptocurrency users who crave privacy protections had a lot to be thankful for this past Thanksgiving. Two days before the holiday, a unanimous three-judge panel of...
Early in our thinking about the interaction between bitcoin and energy it became obvious to me that the value of bitcoin was fundamentally underpinned by the...
Follow Frank on X. (Author’s note: In this Take, I offer an interpretation of recent events in Guatemala through the lens of someone on the ground in the...
Wow, we finally hit $100,000 bitcoin. What a time to be alive! A cypherpunk experiment started as magic internet money is now the 7th largest asset...