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  • How to Store Bitcoin Safely: Hold Your Own Keys

    How to store bitcoin safely How to store bitcoin safely comes down to one skill, not one gadget. You hold the keys, you keep a backup offline, and you never let anyone else near either one. The tools will change over the years; the skill does not. Here is what it means to hold your…

  • The Coldcard seed vulnerability and what the advisory says

    The Coldcard seed vulnerability and what the advisory says On 30 July 2026, bitcoin began draining out of Coldcard wallets. The first wave lasted about 41 minutes; over the following days the total climbed, wave after wave, past 116 million dollars as of publication and was still rising. Coinkite, which makes the Coldcard hardware wallet,…

  • Shakespeare on money: the quotes everyone shares come from fools and villains

    Shakespeare Money Quotes: Who Actually Said Them | All Roads Lead to Bitcoin Perspectives · Money in Literature Shakespeare on money: the quotes everyone shares come from fools and villains Shakespeare’s most quoted money lines come from a windbag, a con man, and a villain mid-manipulation. Checking the source changes what the quotes mean, and…

  • Did You Know? Bitcoin Has Never Priced Anything in Dollars.

    Short Answer Is anything priced in Bitcoin? Yes, Bitcoin itself. Every transaction fee, mining reward, and Lightning payment on the network is denominated in satoshis, and the protocol has never quoted a dollar in its life. Out in the world, contracts, salaries, and aid are already fixed in Bitcoin where official money has failed. The…

  • Bitcoin Cannot Be a Unit of Account

    Bitcoin Myths · #20 of 20 Bitcoin Cannot Be a Unit of Account The twentieth and final myth in this series is the one that quietly concedes the other nineteen. Nothing is priced in Bitcoin, the critic says, so it fails money’s last test. This article at allroadsbitcoin.com explains why that test comes last, where…

  • Did You Know? Bitcoin’s Busiest Checkouts Are Not Where You Think.

    Short Answer Does anyone use Bitcoin? About 365 million people own it, and its busiest users are not in your checkout line. Usage concentrates where money is failing, from market stalls in Malawi to savings in Buenos Aires, while at home it arrives quietly, inside brokerage accounts and payment terminals. The Checkout Lines You Never…

  • No One Accepts Bitcoin

    Bitcoin Myths · #19 of 20 No One Accepts Bitcoin So, who accepts Bitcoin? Fewer than the believers claim, and far more than the skeptics admit. This article at allroadsbitcoin.com counts the owners, maps the merchants, and explains why the gap between the two is a stage of monetary history, not a verdict on the…

  • Did You Know? People Send Bitcoin on Feature Phones with No Internet.

    Short Answer Is Bitcoin hard to use? No. Buying it takes a few taps in apps people already trust, and at the far end of the spectrum, people across Africa send Bitcoin on basic feature phones with no internet connection on the device. The complexity lives in the protocol, not in your hands. The People…

  • Bitcoin Is Too Complicated for Mass Adoption

    Bitcoin Myths · #18 of 20 Bitcoin Is Too Complicated for Mass Adoption Is Bitcoin too complicated for ordinary people to adopt? This article at allroadsbitcoin.com separates the complexity of the protocol from the experience of the user, and shows that the test a money has to pass has never been whether people understand it,…