Bitcoin adoption may be growing every day, but it's still a challenge to live exclusively using BTC. On this episode, Peter Chawaga asks Colin Harper about his recent trip to Europe where he did just that, paying for everything from food to souvenirs with the original cryptocurrency.


Beyond China and North America: The Decentralization of Bitcoin Mining 
by Jessie Wilms

Most of what you’ll read about bitcoin mining will be about mining operations in China and North America, but there is a small, growing sector of active mining operations in parts of the world that you don’t often hear about, in countries like Norway, Russia, Venezuela and Paraguay.
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Top Bitcoin Magazine Artices

BitMEX Compromises User Data in Email Gaffe

By Jimmy Aki

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Market Is Set for Deeper Tests
By Bitcoin Schmitcoin

Bisq Unveils New Trade Protocol Promoting Principles of Decentralization
By Landon Manning

Op Ed: In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
By Alex Gladstein
Bitcoin Fundamentals
The price of bitcoin has been relatively unchanged over the last week, sitting around the mid-$9,000s since its historic 40 percent run. The price is currently $9,312.12.
The Bitcoin hash rate, after recently reaching an all-time-high two weeks ago, has fallen slightly to 98.52 EH/s.

Tweet of the Week

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire addressed news reports covering an updated academic paper that claims a single whale propped up bitcoin's price rise in 2017. Using on-chain data, the academic paper draws the conclusion that USDT flows from Bitfinex to other exchanges points toward manipulation from a single source.

"[A]n analysis that shows that 'a single wallet' was involved in flows from Bitfinex to other exchanges is meaningless. All it shows is that traders were trading," Allaire tweeted.
Rabbit Hole Read Of The Week

This week's Rabbit Hole Read is "The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken" by world-renowned investor and thought leader Ray Dalio. Over recent months, Dalio has published several writings that paint a resounding picture of our global economy as one that is facing a paradigm shift in the near future. This shift revolves around the collapse of fiat money and the debt structure that monetary policies all around the world currently embrace with open arms... Sound familiar? Dalio's recent works have presented a compelling case for bitcoin as an investment without ever mentioned the word "bitcoin."
 
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