The Canadian Bitcoiners

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The (Fortunate) Perils of Encryption

There’s a video (old, I think) of former president Obama discussing the nature of encryption, impenetrable devices and the dangers of “Swiss bank accounts” in everyone’s pockets, as well as the problems for governments if they aren’t allowed or are unable to “get in”. Take a look – https://x.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1755227792604639698?s=20 Now at first glance, the normie […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Feb 04, 2024

Blockheight: 828908   Howdy Bitcoiners,   Another week of high and low fees. If you have been keeping an eye on the mempool over the past few days, it was like watching a rollercoaster. As I am typing this out, I see that fees have jumped 10x from one block to the next (pending block […]

Bitcoin ETF Review

Friends and enemies, I had some time this weekend to do a little research on the state of the US ETFs. I tried (with a little AI help) to put together the latest info in a way that might be shareable/digestible for a new entrant to Bitcoin via these new vehicles. TLDR: They are taking […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Jan 28, 2024

Blockheight: 827813   Howdy Bitcoiners, Is it just me, or is the frequency and quality of clown world news increasing? I noted that in the first week of 2024, clown world was at an unmatched pace and things haven’t changed to date Considering that we have a bunch of elections taking place worldwide this year, […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Jan 21, 2024

Blockheight: 826685 Howdy Bitcoiners,   With respect to Bitcoin, this has been the slowest new week that we have experienced for several weeks. Those who were excited by the ETF, it is no surprise that it could not maintain the hype and we transition back to what matters the most – development on Bitcoin. The […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Jan 14, 2024

Blockheight: 825831 Howdy Bitcoiners,   Well the spot Bitcoin ETF has turned into a reality. This is after a false start by the SEC, which released a tweet on Tuesday that was approved, but that announcement was quickly rescinded. They corrected the error by approving the ETF the following day. We got a bit of […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Jan 7, 2024

Blockheight: 824753   Howdy Bitcoiners, Are you ready for another week of Bitcoin ETF hype? The SEC is taking their sweet time on releasing a decision on the bitcoin ETFs, but we should hear something this week as one of the ETFs, ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF, has a January 10, 2024 deadline for some sort […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Dec 17, 2023

Blockheight: 821630 Howdy Bitcoiners,   Another interesting week in the world of Bitcoin. We lost our battle with $44k but there is a silver lining as the price seems to be settling in the low 40s. It was not too long ago that we were stuck in the high 20s for a long time. As […]

The (Ten?) Trillion Dollar Question

How much money is sitting in the global ETF market, exactly, and why should we care? These days, most of the Bitcoin (and some of the trad-fi) world are drinking the four-sugar, four-cream extra caffeinated hype sauce coming from the excitement around the pending ETF approval(s) in the United States. If you’re reading this, you […]

Upcoming Week For The CBP – Dec 10, 2023

Blockheight: 820580 Howdy Bitcoiners,   Hope you had as great a week as Bitcoin experienced. We got to experience $44K once again for the first time in 1.5 years. There seems to be more signaling that rates will be decreasing sometime in 2024, and this is making a bunch of people throw more of their […]