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Bitcoin is very different from all other cryptocurrencies. In fact, it shouldn’t even be considered the same asset class.

To further improve your Bitcoin self-sovereignty, it's essential to learn to use Bitcoin with your node.

The rise and fall of an empire: It is a story that has repeated itself throughout human history. Where does Bitcoin fit in?

The Lightning Network: Cheap Global Payments for All

Dissecting some of Satoshi's Whitepaper to make it easier to understand.

Some challenging stories are begging to be properly investigated and told. The question is always which investigative journalists have the willingness, integrity and editorial freedom to take these on?

Bitcoin Basics: Easy Lessons About How Bitcoin Works

Heads They Win, Tails You Lose. You’ve been told you should be investing in stocks & bonds – a game full of world-class professionals playing against you. Bitcoin is the fair game, and an easy one to play.

Bitcoin Is Here To Stay. This Is What It Means.

Bitcoin is a brand new technology that differs from anything else that has come before or after it. But where the beginners run into confusion is how Bitcoin differs from other cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin Is Here To Stay. This Is What It Means.

Specter is an ideal desktop wallet for Swan users. The purpose is to give customers a seamless stacking experience into their Bitcoin wallets, especially into their multi-sig cold storage.

The Window of Oppor­tu­nity to Buy Bitcoin Closes a Little More Every Single Day.

As many people discover, convincing a friend or family member to buy Bitcoin can be a challenging task. Swan Bitcoin makes it easier than ever with their gifting program.

Bitcoin is a brand new technology that differs from anything else that has come before or after it. But where begin­ners run into confu­sion is in how Bitcoin differs from other cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin will be consid­ered the safest asset in human history, thanks to its resis­tance to debase­ment, censor­ship, and confiscation.

We must compare Bitcoin’s environ­mental and socio-economic impacts to the finan­cial systems it aims to replace.

One of the most persis­tent false­hoods propa­gated by goldbugs is the idea that monetary goods must have direct utility. 

Bitcoin is the system that can make millen­nials’ hopes and dreams come true, and this is becoming increas­ingly clear to more of them each day.

Growing up marked by a decaying finan­cial system, we have the chance to change the narra­tive set before us and create a world worth growing up in for future generations.

Read how Bitcoin is unique and powerful property, which also comes with certain responsibilities. 

A quick and accurate expla­na­tion on how Bitcoin really works. Suitable for begin­ners and experts alike. 

The HODLday season is a time for remem­bering the impor­tant things in life like family and friends and, of course, Bitcoin! Which is why we created the perfect gift guide for bitcoiners. 

You should be investing in Bitcoin for its volatility — able to wait out price dips, even to accumu­late during them, and celebrate the dramatic rises when they take place.

Bitcoin miners have relocated to safer pastures within the US because the values and goals of America and Bitcoin are much more aligned compared to Commu­nist China. 

While the internet is by far the most efficient system of commu­ni­ca­tion for the Bitcoin network to use, it could continue on with reduced speed and function­ality on any commu­ni­ca­tions system known to man. 

We will be deliv­ering the industry’s best educa­tion team to advisors and their clients so that when they’re ready to withdraw their coins to cold storage or engage in collab­o­ra­tive custody, they’ll be armed with the knowl­edge to do so safely.

Swan Advisor Services tailors Swan’s best-in-class purchase and custody platform to the needs of finan­cial advisors and wealth managers. 

Bonds are not as safe today as they are marketed to be. It’s time bond investors begin to protect themselves against the Fed policies that are leading to erosion of the real value of their bond holdings. 

Bitcoin is for everyone. Bitcoin is for YOU. 

Whether Bitcoin continues to be successful or fails, there’s no risk of the network using too much energy in the grand scheme of things.

What if I told you that there are ways you can earn extra bitcoin or get off zero if you don’t own any? Whether you are someone that is just starting to stack some sats, or a Bitcoin veteran that is a relent­less stacker, here are 5 ways that you can add more bitcoin to your freedom stash.

The price of any asset is deter­mined by its supply and demand. Bitcoin’s programmed halving of supply has a dimin­ishing effect on its price.

One of the biggest blindspots that investors have when they first come across Bitcoin is that they view it solely as an asset. Bitcoin is digital gold that you can send over the internet. Now to be clear if you think this you’re not wrong. 

It doesn’t matter if you’re a young person starting to invest, a parent saving for their kid’s educa­tion, or a retiree protecting your nest egg, Bitcoin has a place in everyone’s portfolio. 

Whenever someone discovers Bitcoin there are two phases that typically occur, the first is that they wish they could buy it cheaper, and the second is that in hindsight, they should have bought more. 

The money stealing time machine is called “govern­ment deficits and debt”. Each annual theft is called the deficit, and the total amount stolen across history is called the debt.

There’s an insatiable need to know more and to be certain in the Infor­ma­tion Age. I hear a lot of people say they don’t know enough to buy Bitcoin. With this kind of thinking no one would’ve ever shared personal details on Facebook or banked electronically. 

Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $62,000 this past month, pulled back to $48,000 and is now right back up to $59,000. Histor­i­cally, in bull markets, this means Bitcoin is about ready to start another leg up.

The ideal state for the bitcoin network in the future is to reach equilib­rium in the fee market such that blocks are consis­tently full, mostly with large trans­ac­tions, and fees are substan­tial in absolute terms but low in percentage-of-value terms.

The Internet of Money transcending borders protects people of all nations from resource wars, exploita­tion and dicta­tor­ship. Bitcoin surrounding us every­where ²⁴⁄₇ can guard us against hyper­in­fla­tion, theft and wealth confis­ca­tion, helping us steward this precious planet for the Seven Gener­a­tions to come.

Corpo­ra­tions are rapidly adopting Bitcoin. This will lead to price appre­ci­a­tion and make Bitcoin even harder to stop. Square ($SQ) recently purchased 3,318 BTC (worth $170M) for their corpo­rate treasury. Combined with their October 2020 Bitcoin purchase, Square now has $396M worth of BTC on their balance sheet. 

There is a sacred realm of privacy where essen­tial rights and liber­ties into which the law, gener­ally speaking, must not intrude.

Sover­eignism is a seemingly unstop­pable mega-polit­ical transi­tion: each market actor can either antic­i­pate and embrace it or be forced to when the global fiat currency complex inevitably collapses.

It is clear that Tether is not the driver of Bitcoin’s rallies. Rather, Tether’s growth is evidence of the very real demand for a digital dollar that arose naturally in the world’s first ²⁴⁄₇ global finan­cial marketplace. 

Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $42,000 in early January and has since pulled back to $33,000. Is this a buying opportunity? 

Exploring the digital disrup­tion of the nation-state and the subse­quent ampli­fi­ca­tion of individual sover­eignty during the digital age.

Bitcoin looks a lot more rational when you look at the long-term logarithmic chart, especially as it relates to Bitcoin’s 4‑year halving cycle.

The entire way that the legacy system evolves is going to become an entirely different system… Bitcoin is going to displace all of those things that exist in the system that we have today. It’s going to completely remake it.

The truth is that there are different levels of Bitcoin adoption. By segmenting Bitcoin adoption it becomes easier to see not only why the wide range in estimates exists, but more impor­tantly, how early adoption of Bitcoin as a preferred store of value still is. 

The relent­less beating of this clock is what gives rise to all the magical proper­ties of Bitcoin.

Lyn Alden compares and contrasts Bitcoin to systems that have Ponzi-like charac­ter­is­tics, to see if the claim that Bitcoin is a Ponzi holds up.

The top Bitcoin invest­ment sites for buying Bitcoin. Going Bitcoin-only with automatic recur­ring purchases is a smart business decision.

Earlier this month Bitcoin broke through the all-time high price, and psycho­log­ical barrier, of $20,000.The 2017 bull run where Bitcoin reached $20,000 was driven by short term retail trader speculation. 

he HODLdays are a time for friends, family and gift-giving, but as good Bitcoiners, we already know that the best gift of all is bitcoin.

But for somebody who runs a business and creates value, they could care less if there’s a lot of volatility. He banked it on his balance sheet.

Bitcoin flattens, in some sense, the space-time continuum in its hash horizon. Because either you are on a certain time or you aren’t. Only the block time, only the block height counts.

Bitcoin has certainly made steady incre­mental improve­ments since 2017 such as more users, better onramps, improved custody solutions, new bitcoin-only compa­nies, more educa­tion, improved scala­bility, Light­ning Network devel­op­ment, and more. However, the big story in 2020 is how the world around Bitcoin has changed.

He pointed out that if every million­aire put 1% of their net worth in a Bitcoin, the market cap would have to be huge. It would have to be like $75,000 per coin in order to accom­mo­date that flow of money.

A funda­men­tally dishonest money, fiat currency ruins our relation­ships with the intrinsic entropy of nature and our fellow humans. To rejuve­nate hope for more harmo­nious human action in the world, we must set our sights upon the invalu­able aims of honest money, entre­pre­neur­ship, and civilization.

Alex Adelman, cofounder and CEO of Lolli, and Desiree Dickerson, VP of Business Opera­tions at Light­ning Labs, discuss light­ning, Bitcoin as a payments infra­struc­ture, and Bitcoin’s personal impacts on their lives.

I do think that this was a message to other well-known leaders of offshore exchanges that may be servicing US customers, that if they don’t cooperate with the US govern­ment, it doesn’t matter where they are in the world, right?

What are extended public keys, or XPUBs? What problems do they solve for Bitcoin’s users?

Connecting it back into Breedlove’s recent piece, Bitcoin empowers the three princi­ples that underpin capitalism: honest money, property rights, and rule of law. Bitcoin is that distilled down version of capitalism.

Bitcoin TV makes it easy to sit back and learn all about this revolu­tionary new money.

Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Founda­tion, and Marty Bent, Host of Tales from the Crypt, discuss democ­racy, Ameri­ca’s election, and Bitcoin as a tool to defend individual freedom.

Naturally, we serve clients wishing to purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin, but even more impor­tantly we help great-grandmas, college students, veterans, and fast-food workers buy their first Bitcoin and begin saving for their future.

Ideation and wealth creation are mere expres­sions of life’s central impulse: growth.

At some point on everybody’s Bitcoin journey, they begin to realize that Bitcoin may actually be a better form of money.

Yan Pritzker, CTO of Swan Bitcoin, and Will Reeves, CEO of Fold App, discuss entre­pre­neur­ship in the emerging Bitcoin-only industry and the future of Bitcoin.

Jeff Deist, Presi­dent of the Mises Insti­tute, and Stephan Livera, host of a famous Bitcoin Podcast, held a fasci­nating discus­sion about Austrian Economics, Bitcoin, and the immorality of central banking.

Michael Saylor, CEO of Micros­trategy, and Danielle DiMartino Booth, Founder of Quill Intel­li­gence, discuss Fed policies, price discovery, and Bitcoin as a tool for freedom.

The best way to approach investing in Bitcoin is regular contri­bu­tions over time like a 401k.

When compa­nies like Square and MicroS­trategy start buying Bitcoin, it’s time to pay atten­tion. But smaller private compa­nies are also making this move. Here’s why you should consider doing the same.

What’s the best way to invest in Bitcoin? Some people see price volatility and think the best move is to actively trade BTC. However, the vast majority of traders lose money. Instead, automatic recur­ring Bitcoin purchases are the best approach for 99% of people. 

Robert Breedlove, author of “Masters and Slaves of Money”, and Parker Lewis, author of “Gradu­ally then Suddenly” have a philo­soph­ical discus­sion about he ethics, hard-money, and free-markets.

I believe that a line has been drawn in the sand between people, projects, and compa­nies that support Bitcoin, and those that do not, and in some cases, actively work against it.

Dan Tapiero, the founder of DTAP Capital, and Dan Matuszewski, former Head of Trade at Circle, discuss Bitcoin’s corre­la­tion to tradi­tion assets, liquidity, and gener­a­tional differ­ences in owning Bitcoin.

Raoul Pal, founder of Real Vision, and Vijay Boyapati, author of “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin”, discuss the future of our finan­cial system.

Founder of The Investors Podcast Network, Preston Pysh, and author of Why Buy Bitcoin, Andy Edstrom, reunite their incred­ible camaraderie to discuss Micros­trategy adding even more Bitcoin to their balance sheet. They disucss how Michael Saylor’s made these purchase, why he made the purchases, and why this was such an impor­tant devel­op­ment for Bitcoin. As always Brady Swenson, Swan Bitcoin’s Head of Educa­tion, hosts the lively discussion.

The reason why the internet doesn’t feel as clumsy anymore is twofold: (1) people got used to a lot of the novel concepts the internet brought with it, and (2) count­less layers of abstrac­tion make inter­acting with the base protocol easier

Many people continue to associate Bitcoin with unlawful behavior, but in reality, less than 1% of Bitcoin trans­ac­tions are actually for illegal activities. 

Max Keiser, host of the Keiser Report, and Tone Vays, longtime Bitcoin trader, discuss price predic­tions, bitcoin ending poverty, and Bitcoin’s hard-forks fading into oblivion.

Erik Townsend, host of the vener­able MacroVoices Podcast, and Yan Pritzker, author of Inventing Bitcoin and Cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, held a lively discus­sion about central bank digital curren­cies and govern­ment responses to Bitcoin. Erik argued that Silicon Valley will create a new currency that govern­ments will foist on their citizens, whereas Yan argued that Bitcoin would outcom­pete any other currency.

Lyn Alden and Nic Carter sat down for a lively conver­sa­tion about the future of transi­tioning the world away from dollars and onto a Bitcoin standard. They discussed what a free-banking Bitcoin system could look like, the drawbacks of central bank digital curren­cies, and why Bitcoin will never suffer the same fate as gold.

Business intel­li­gence software company MicroS­trategy, a public company traded on NASDAQ, announced in August that it has adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset.

Bitcoin is the answer to this runaway global policy and broken incen­tive structure.

Preston Pysh, founder of the investor network, and Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin discuss debt cycles, Micros­trategy switching to a Bitcoin standard, and rumors of wealthy individ­uals buying Bitcoin.

Jameson Lopp, Founder and CTO of Casa, and Eric Martin­dale, founder of Fabric Protocol, discuss the state of Bitcoin tech, cutting edge layer 3 devel­op­ment, and predic­tions for transi­tions onto a Bitcoin standard. 

Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, and George Gammon, Rebel Capitalist, discussed gold, central banking, and the deval­u­a­tion of all fiat currencies.

I feel blessed to be part of something so monumental, so profound, so optimistic as Bitcoin. An orange beacon of hope, in a world that seems to be split­ting apart at the seams. I feel blessed that I can work along­side so many amazing bitcoiners — inside and outside of Swan — people that tirelessly work towards a bright orange future.

In Episode 22 Cory Klipp­sten (CEO of Swan) and Robert Breedlove (CEO of Parallex Digital) joined our host Brady Swenson to discuss how Central banking steals human time and corrupts human values. They also discuss Nassim Taleb’s ideas, ancient wisdom, and the future of the world under a Bitcoin standard. 

On July 27^th, Bitcoin broke out of a 2‑year downtrend, sending the price up to $11,400. BTC closed up 11% on the day, causing a frenzy of excite­ment. Let’s examine Bitcoin from a risk vs reward standpoint.

Lyn Alden, invest­ment manager and macro­eco­nomic thinker, and Jeff Booth, technology entre­pre­neur and author of Price of Tomorrow, held a lively discus­sion about technology as a defla­tionary force, long-term debt cycles, and Bitcoin as a solution to unpayable sover­eign debt. 

Samson Mow, Chief Security Officer at Block­stream, and Parker Lewis, Head of Business Devel­op­ment at Unchained Capital, joined Swan Signal Live to discuss geopol­i­tics, Bitcoin mining, the integrity of Bitcoin businesses, and their expec­ta­tions for the next bull run. Brady Swenson and Yan Pritzker hosted this lively conversation.

You may have wondered “How do I get my money out of Coinbase?” This guide is focused on how to transfer Bitcoin from Coinbase, and then delete your account.

Join Mark Moss, famous investor and host of the Market Disrup­tors Podcast, and Ben Prentice, creator of WTFhappenedin1971.com, as they discuss how they got inter­ested in Bitcoin, defla­tion, the role of money in an economy, govern­mental pushback on Bitcoin, and Bitcoin’s game theory. 

The concep­tual world is governed by scarcity. This scarcity is most obvious in the physical realm: there is a physical limit to the size of our universe, the width of our solar system, the diameter of our Earth, the length of your street, the height of your spouse, and the size of an atom.

This week we are joined by Preston Pysh, cofounder of The Investors Podcast Network and Dr. Adam Back, cypher­punk legend, co-founder and CEO of Block­stream, and author cited in both the Bitcoin and Tor white papers.

Join two of the best Bitcoin devel­opers, Rockstar and Jeremy Rubin, as they discuss their most recent work, the state of the Bitcoin code, working on different levels of Bitcoin and hyperbitcoinization. 

Join Chris­tian Keroles (CK Snarks), editor of Bitcoin Magazine, and Bitcoin TINA (a famous perma-bull) to discuss the inevitability of Bitcoin, future price predic­tions, and a transi­tion to a Bitcoin economy. 

Swan Signal Live Episode 8 was broad­cast live on April 29^th. It featured a lively discus­sion between Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin, Ansel Linder, host of the popular Bitcoin and Markets Podcast, and Cory Klipp­sten, Swan Bitcoin CEO.

This week we are joined by Knut Svanholm, author of Sover­eignty through Mathe­matics and the new Indepen­dence Reimag­ined, and Gigi, author of 21 Lessons and creator of the projects bitcoin-resources.com and bitcoin-quotes.com. They, along with Brekkie Von Bitcoin and host Brady Swenson, discuss frame­works for under­standing Bitcoin as well as what they believe Bitcoin’s future will hold.

Gigi, author of 21 Lessons, and Udi Wertheimer, indepen­dent software consul­tant joined Brady Swenson and Cory Klipp­sten to discuss virtual reality, Bitcoin nodes, memes, and the geopo­lit­ical conse­quences of Bitcoin.

Jimmy Song, Bitcoin educator, devel­oper and entre­pre­neur, and Aleks Svetski, the Australian founder of Amber App, join Brady Swenson and Cory Klipp­sten to talk about Bitcoin’s morality, immune system, toxicity, and Bitcoin funding.

Bitcoin Podcasters Stephan Livera and Marty Bent join Brady and Cory to discuss every­thing from dominant Bitcoin narra­tives and the state of mining to Austrian economics liter­a­ture and the future of Bitcoin.

Episode 14 was broad­cast on June 17^th, 2020 at block height 635,216. We were joined by Isaiah Jackson, author of Bitcoin and Black America, and Max Keiser, host of the Keiser Report. Swan Creative Director Jason Don joined and Head of Educa­tion Brady Swenson hosted.

In Episode 14 we were joined by Tuur Demeester, Founding Partner of Adamant Capital, and Robert Breedlove, CEO and CIO of Parallax Digital. 

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the midst of civil unrest, Alex and Matt discuss surveil­lance, privacy, Bitcoin as a toolkit for change, and the prospect of the govern­ment crack­down on Bitcoiners.

What Bitcoin wallet should I choose? Although it seems like a straight­for­ward question, there is a surprising amount of nuance to consider.

Massive govern­ment inter­ven­tion in markets is underway, but what happens to Bitcoin as a result?

Once people realize what’s happening to their money, they’re going to start buying Bitcoin.

A round­table conver­sa­tion about the current epidemic chaos and how it will impact Bitcoin, the global finan­cial system, remote working, and more.

We are living in hyper­bit­coiniza­tion, a process which is basically repricing the world in Bitcoin. This is because Bitcoin is actually much better than gold as a store of value. For the same reasons that many people like holding gold, I think it’s a reason­able propo­si­tion that Bitcoin will wind up being valued at least as highly as gold.

The next Bitcoin halving is almost here. We explore whether the halving is priced in, if other coins are a model for Bitcoin, and fears of a mining death spiral.

Competing on the sound money front requires an above-all commit­ment to decen­tral­iza­tion and proper­ties that are truly hard to change and attack. Unfor­tu­nately coins cannot compete on this front by virtue of the fact that they are built typically by central­ized teams with a profit motive, and not a happy accident of a slowly growing ecosystem that was built by cypherpunks.

Unlike a stock split, where the resulting shares still refer to the original company, a Bitcoin fork is much more analo­gous to creating new unrelated digital assets out of thin air at zero cost, and gifting them to existing holders of Bitcoin. A Bitcoin fork does not affect the 21 million supply limit of Bitcoin itself.

Bitcoin repre­sents economic liberty. If you own Bitcoin, you have portable wealth. You can walk away from a failing regime and not lose your life savings.

As money rapidly turns digital, we must contem­plate three possible futures of money: central bank managed, corpo­rate issued, and decentralized.

Is Bitcoin’s price in a bubble? Is this the Dutch Tulip Craze all over again? The answer might surprise you…

Find out why Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin to solve the problems of the modern finan­cial system including lack of privacy and monetary debasement.

We’re in the midst of two great economic exper­i­ments. The Keyne­sian ideal of central control of money is being challenged by a novel money called Bitcoin.

Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners in the United States of America will cross ten million. When we hit that milestone, it’s game over: Bitcoin wins.