If You Think It Can’t Go Higher It Probably Can — Bitcoin investors should have felt their stomachs in their throats on Dec. 17, 2017, when BTC hit a high of nearly $20,000. The 2017 crypto-coaster had finally reached its top — and bitcoin was about to drop. During the 2018 bear market that followed, BTC fell by 84%. Meanwhile, bitcoin…

Maybe Not For Much Longer… — The geothermal spas of Grindavík are a great way to relax after spelunking through the Skaftafell Ice Cave, but aside from Iceland’s many tourist attractions, there’s another reason people are flocking to “The Land of Fire and Ice”: Bitcoin mining. In fact, to the Bitcoin-mining firms that profit from Iceland’s…

Instead of hooks for hands and cannonballs, “biopirates” use patent lawyers in big-city office suites to pilfer biological riches while destroying the rainforests of the world. In this article, I’ll explain how blockchain technology — the technology responsible for bitcoin — could stop biopirates in their tracks and save the…

If the market price of bitcoin doesn’t make your jaw drop, its energy expenditure will. Bitcoin consumes an astounding 1 percent of the global energy supply. But before you dim the screen on your laptop to keep the oceans from boiling away, let’s put this number into perspective. Bitcoin’s environmental…