Bitcoin Rabbit Holes
These aren’t articles — they’re threads. Pick a topic, follow the questions, and see where it takes you.
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What are Bitcoin miners literally doing, second by second?
- So Bitcoin mining is just… guessing billions of times? There’s no shortcut?
- Who decided Bitcoin blocks take 10 minutes? Could it have been 5?
- How does Bitcoin mining difficulty actually adjust — what’s the real math?
When I press send on my Bitcoin wallet, where does my transaction actually go?
- So my Bitcoin transaction just… floats in the mempool? Who’s actually holding it?
- Why do some Bitcoin transactions confirm in 10 minutes and others take days?
- How do I know what Bitcoin transaction fee to set? Is there even a right answer?
What is a Bitcoin private key — what actually is it?
- What’s the difference between a Bitcoin private key and a seed phrase?
- So my Bitcoin wallet doesn’t actually hold any Bitcoin?
- What is a Bitcoin address and how does it come from my private key?
How does the Bitcoin blockchain actually work — what is it, really?
- What’s actually inside a Bitcoin block?
- Why are Bitcoin blocks “chained” — what does that actually mean?
- What is a Bitcoin Merkle tree and why do we need it?
Who created Bitcoin?
- Who made Bitcoin and why?
- Why is the creator of Bitcoin a secret?
- So Satoshi just… vanished? What actually happened?
How to invest in Bitcoin — where do you even start?
- Is Bitcoin a good investment?
- How much Bitcoin should you buy for the first time?
- When to buy Bitcoin — is there a right time?
What is Bitcoin, actually?
- How does Bitcoin work — what’s actually happening when someone sends it?
- What is Bitcoin and how does it work?
- Why does Bitcoin have value — what backs it?
Can governments ban Bitcoin?
- China banned Bitcoin — so why does Bitcoin still exist?
- What can governments actually do to Bitcoin — and what can’t they do?
- Will government regulate Bitcoin?
Who is Michael Saylor and why does every serious Bitcoin person know his name?
- What is MicroStrategy — and how did a software company end up with more Bitcoin than anyone?
- Didn’t Michael Saylor say Bitcoin was going to die — back in 2013?
- So what changed his mind — what actually happened?
Where does new money actually come from — and why does the system work against whoever's holding it?
- What's a government bond — and why does a government borrow money at all?
- If the government can just create money, why does it borrow instead?
- So does the government just go to Wall Street for a loan?
How did home loans nearly crash the whole world in 2008 — and who really paid to clean it up?
- What actually happened in 2008 — how did home loans crash the whole world?
- Why would a bank hand a loan to someone who clearly couldn't pay it back?
- If the loans were bad, who on earth was buying them?
Where did all the Covid stimulus money actually go — and why did your grocery bill explode afterward?
- Where did the government get trillions of dollars so fast?
- The stimulus checks felt like free money. Were they?
- What does "printing money" actually do to prices?
One country's currency runs the entire planet's money — what does that actually cost everyone else?
- How did one country's money end up as the entire planet's money?
- Then in 1971 the US cut the dollar's link to gold — so why did the world keep using it?
- What's the "petrodollar," and how did oil lock the world in?