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Editorial 6 March 2023

Even BTC is a security

To be classified as a security, the "investment," the "efforts," and the "third party" identified in the Howey test should not be completely unrelated to any interest in the "common enterprise."

Kurt Wackert Jr., Ordinals
Editorial 6 February 2023

Inordinate Ordinals for ordinary Bitcoiners

Twetch came out with a bunch of tooling within 48 hours of the public explosion of Ordinals NFTs and launched a mint of 69 “Planetary Ordinals” to kick off the party.

New Year 2023 replace 2022 on the sea beach concept. — Photo
Editorial 2 January 2023

Farewell to 2022… Hello 2023!

2022 witnessed the dashing dreams of BTC loyalists who called for the price to hit $100k, given their infallible plan to get rich by HODLing, while the Defi crowd got their time in the sun.

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Editorial 29 December 2022

Understanding Bitcoin energy consumption

Proof of Work gives a trustless model for resilience and security, including identifying assets and preventing fraud and risk, protecting critical infrastructure, detecting activities on a network, and more.

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Editorial 28 December 2022

Bitcoin Association letter to Governor Hochul

In this letter to Hochul, the Bitcoin Association highlights its efforts to reduce emissions associated with Bitcoin mining while urging the city to explore other utilities to slash carbon footprints.