The April 2024 halving cut bitcoin's block subsidy from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC. Network data show how miners absorbed the revenue shock and what to watch next.
A market order fills immediately at the best available price while a limit order fills only at your price or better — and the difference shows up directly in…
US spot bitcoin ETFs accumulated over $100 billion in combined net assets within roughly their first year of trading, per issuer filings and exchange data…
The mechanism that keeps a spot bitcoin ETF's share price tied to bitcoin itself, and what changed when regulators let authorized participants trade the coin…
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals are the numbered design documents through which the protocol evolves — from wallet backup words to SegWit and Taproot — reviewed…
A bitcoin transaction is never declared final by decree; each added block multiplies the cost of reversing it, and the conventional answer for large amounts is…
A breakdown of how market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders execute on crypto exchanges, and the tradeoffs traders weigh between execution speed, price…
Paper trading executes simulated orders against live prices with no money at risk, which makes it excellent for testing mechanics and worse than useless for…
A look at the mechanics behind staking rewards on proof-of-stake networks, and why U.S. securities regulators concluded in 2025 that those rewards are…
An audit is a time-boxed review of specific code by a specific firm — valuable, but not a guarantee: most major exploits happened in audited or partially…
Public Law 119-27 caps reserve tenor at 93 days and puts monthly reserve figures under an outside examiner and officer certification. Treasury's August 2026…
A $606.3 million single-day inflow into spot bitcoin ETFs, led by BlackRock's IBIT, followed a week in which the same funds shed $389.7 million amid miner…
Merkle-tree attestations can show an exchange controls the coins it claims to hold, but the same reports say nothing about its liabilities or the quality of its…
The July 29 statement kept the range unchanged for the year's fifth straight hold — with three dissents marking the Committee's widest split of 2026.
Form 1099-DA is the IRS information return digital-asset brokers file on their customers — first used for 2025 transactions, with the earliest copies landing in…
Every Ethereum action is priced in gas — a unit of computation — with fees split into a burned base fee set by protocol demand and a priority tip paid to…
Lightning moves bitcoin through pre-funded payment channels hop by hop, with hash-locked contracts ensuring every intermediary either delivers or refunds.
Leverage lets a trader control a position many times larger than the collateral posted; margin is the collateral itself, and the exchange takes it when the…