Miners Receive Boost from Price Ramp in 2023 and Higher Fees This blog is a summary of a research report published on orionx.net/research, and freely downloadable. It is not, and must not be considered as, financial, investment, or legal advice. …

And yet Bitcoin’s electricity input is Greener than Tesla’s charging In this article, I use minting and minters to describe what happens when Bitcoin is created, rather than mining and miners, because it is a more accurate analogy. Nothing in this article should be construed as investment advice. No AI…

Previously I have written about the possibility of primordial black holes as the explanation for dark matter, and on the observational constraints around such a possibility. But maybe it is dark energy, not dark matter, that black holes explain. More precisely, it would be dark energy stars (or gravatars, or…

Which Q? Scientific, Engineering, or Commercial This article was written by a human, no AI was utilized. The Big Bang was the original fusion ‘reactor’ The original fusion power, you may not be aware, was during the first 20 minutes of the universe’s history. Cosmological nucleosynthesis converted 25% of the…

This is a discussion of the technology of money; it is not investment advice. Long-range Money, in Space, and in Time Bitcoin provides a quantum leap in monetary technology, and is naturally suited to the new era driven by electric power from renewables rather than from high carbon-content sources. Key advances in information technology and cryptography made…

Total Bitcoin dominance of POW supercomputer mining — This article and the full research report for the ninth CryptoSuper 500 list (available at orionx.net/research-reports) provide an analysis of the technologies and trends surrounding proof-of-work cryptocurrencies. This is not, and must not be considered as, financial, investment, or legal advice. …

This is not investment advice. It is a discussion of Bitcoin’s superior attributes of monetary technology and its climb toward a dominant position in the monetary regime. Paraphrasing Satoshi Nakamoto: It might not be a bad idea to put some aside, in case it catches on. Introduction There have been many…

This is not investment advice. Bitcoin is highly volatile. Past performance of back-tested models is no assurance of future performance. Only invest what you can afford to lose. You must decide how much of your investment capital you are willing to risk with Bitcoin. No warranties are expressed or implied. Don’t confuse buying time with selling time …

The US now has a 38% share of Bitcoin mining This article summarizes a research report and analysis of the technologies and trends surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This article and the full research report are not, and must not be considered as, financial, investment, or legal advice. The US has…