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Weekly Onchain Watch #20: 5 Bitcoin Metrics to Watch After August’s Rally
August closed with Bitcoin meaningfully higher than where it started, and the first full week of September is a natural point to check whether the metrics that mattered through the rally are still telling the same story. Here are five worth checking this week. 1. Exchange reserves The multi-month drain… Read ⇢
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Self-Custody vs. Exchange Custody: How to Actually Hold Your Own Bitcoin
“Not your keys, not your coins” gets repeated so often in crypto that it can start to sound like a slogan rather than a real operational choice. It is worth unpacking what it actually means, because the decision between self-custody and exchange custody is one of the few Bitcoin-related choices… Read ⇢
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Lightning Network Explained: Bitcoin’s Layer-2 for Fast, Cheap Payments
Bitcoin’s base layer settles a block roughly every ten minutes and can only fit so many transactions into each one, which makes it a poor fit for small, frequent payments like buying a coffee or tipping a creator. The Lightning Network was built to solve exactly that problem, by moving… Read ⇢
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What Is a Bitcoin ETF? How Spot ETFs Actually Work
A Bitcoin ETF is a regulated fund that trades on a stock exchange and tracks the price of Bitcoin, so an investor can get exposure through a normal brokerage account instead of buying and storing the asset directly. The label covers two very different products, and the difference matters more… Read ⇢
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Onchain Pulse #24: Bitcoin Heads Into September on a Rally
Bitcoin closes out August 2026 in a very different place than it started. After chopping through June’s drawdown and July’s low-$60Ks consolidation, price pushed back through the $70Ks and toward multi-month highs late in the month, helped along by a Treasury repurchase announcement that put risk assets broadly in a… Read ⇢
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PepeBoost Portfolio and PnL Tracking Explained: How to Monitor Your Trades
It is easy to remember your winners and forget your losers. Tracking PnL honestly is the only way to know whether your strategy actually works. Read ⇢
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Weekly Onchain Watch #19: 5 Bitcoin Metrics to Watch in Mid-August
Mid-August is where a consolidation either proves durable or starts to fray. Five metrics and the levels that signal a change. Read ⇢
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Bitcoin Spent Volume Explained: What Transfer Volume Reveals
How much value actually moved on-chain today? Spent volume answers that, but raw numbers mislead until change outputs and internal transfers are stripped out. Read ⇢
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Ethereum Gas and the EIP-1559 Burn Explained
Every action on Ethereum costs gas. Since EIP-1559, part of every fee is burned, reshaping the fee market and how ETH supply behaves. Read ⇢
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