📈 The Retirement Strategy

Bitcoin Is The New Retirement Strategy
By Robert Hall

Bitcoin is the only retirement asset designed to appreciate in perpetuity and is capable of withstanding the challenges of the future. Even though we know that such a statement might sound too good to be true, we also also know that Bitcoin is a newly discovered asset class with fundamental characteristics never seen before or experienced by humanity.

In the history of mankind, we have never come across something so scarce. Bitcoin is the first and only asset that has a limited and unalterable supply. Nothing else in the universe has a maximum supply. Bitcoin is also the only asset class that is literally non-confiscatable. A memorized private key is impossible to detect. And if that was not enough, bitcoin is already the best performing asset of the decade.

Americans Just Don’t Understand The Importance Of Bitcoin
By Daniel Feldman

Daniel Feldman, CEO of Green Block Mining narrates three fascinating anecdotes that changed his way of thinking and expanded his perspective about money. By living outside the United States, as a student and then as an expat worker in Moscow, he realized that Americans don’t really understand the importance of Bitcoin.

From an illegal black market currency trader in a dorm room, then to a bank run and finally to an oligarch's exile testimony, these stories are an example of life in a country where the government-controlled currency cannot be trusted, of living in a society where banks cannot be trusted and of the difficulties that not being able to store value represents. These issues are taken for granted by North Americans, but are common concerns in many other countries.

1. Drivechain, a proposed soft fork via BIPs 300 and 301, could introduce a portfolio of sidechains to Bitcoin and replicate any altcoin use case.

2. Bitcoin mining operations are finding profitable ways to power up and down intermittently to match their energy sources.

3. Ukrainian tech retailers Techno Їzhak and Stylus now accept bitcoin online and in-store as demand for bitcoin as a daily currency grows amid war efforts.

4. Policy is beginning to creep against bitcoin and it may affect the bitcoin price in the future so there are specific issues Bitcoiners should focus on.

5. Crypto privacy advocates were appalled when U.S. authorities sanctioned and shut down Tornado Cash. Could Bitcoin survive a similar attack?

6. Bitcoin is capable of reducing energy costs for consumers as opposed to the opposite-of-intended effects that renewables have.

7. Bitcoin offers the opportunity to present a new version of reality inextricably tied to a new way of determining value, especially for artists.

8. Developers are working out ways to brainstorm potential problems and test their solutions for certain shortcomings of the Lightning Network.

Is BlackRock’s Partnership With Coinbase Good For Bitcoin?
By Peter Conley

BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation based in New York City. During the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, BlackRock got bailed out. It was one of the institutions that benefited from indiscriminate money printing, inflation and, hence, the impoverishment of the people. BlackRock and similar hedge funds produce nothing and benefit from the Cantillon Effect.

Recently, BlackRock announced a partnership with Coinbase, one of the most well-known cryptocurrency exchange platforms, to offer Bitcoin services to their clients. But is this partnership good for Bitcoin? Contrary to what most Bitcoiners might think, this partnership is not just good for bitcoin, it is great for bitcoin. Bitcoin is for everyone — even your enemies.