Articles tagged Bitcoin
6 articles tagged Bitcoin, newest first, on technology, money and the internet.
- Investing35 min read
Mining a Zcash coin costs $639, and $476 of that is the machine
Electricity is the small half of mining Zcash, and the discount against the $1,129 market price is 8% to 43%, not the 93% it looks like. Also: why that price already assumes most of the success Zcash needs, and what the 2026 Orchard flaw revealed about auditing a fixed supply.
- Investing12 min read
What crypto to buy in September 2026: the boring half and the lottery half
Bitcoin at $78,300, Ethereum at $2,470, and Zcash up more than twentyfold on the year after the first US spot ETF for a privacy coin. What belongs in the boring half of a crypto allocation, what belongs in the lottery half, and how much of each before three catalysts land in one week.
- Investing8 min read
Which crypto benefits from the CLARITY Act? Not Bitcoin
The CLARITY Act faces its Senate test on 15 September. It answers "is this a security" with a four-part maturity test and a 20% control threshold — so the assets it helps most are the contested middle, not Bitcoin.
- Trading6 min read
Why crypto prices differ between exchanges, and what the gap measures
Five venues priced Bitcoin within 0.042% of each other and Zcash within 0.426% — ten times wider, at the same instant. The gap is not error. It is a liquidity reading, and it is the most useful number on the screen.
- Engineering10 min read
Someone took 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network without breaking anything
No key was stolen and no signer was tricked. A withdrawal from the Liquid Network, Bitcoin's largest sidechain, looked like every other withdrawal and took 95% of the reserve. Most of it came back a day later. The 602 BTC that did not is now every holder's problem, in equal share.
- Engineering4 min read
Crypto amounts are integers: 1 ETH is 1000000000000000000 wei
A balance of 1 ETH is not 1.0 — it is 1000000000000000000 wei, an exact whole number. Every protocol that matters works this way, and the bugs appear the moment a decimal point gets involved. Why the integer representation exists and what breaks without it.