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Ordinals and Bitcoin NFTs Explained: What They Are and Why They’re Controversial
In short: Bitcoin Ordinals is a protocol that gives every satoshi a unique serial number and lets data such as images, text or code be inscribed onto an individual satoshi, creating Bitcoin-native NFTs called inscriptions. It launched in January 2023 and needed no change to Bitcoin’s rules, because inscriptions are… Read ⇢
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MVRV Z-Score vs. NUPL: Two Ways to Read the Same Bitcoin Cycle
MVRV Z-Score and NUPL are the two most widely cited Bitcoin valuation metrics, and they are built from almost the same raw ingredients: market cap and realized cap, the aggregate value the market has assigned to Bitcoin versus what holders actually paid for their coins on average. Given how similar… Read ⇢
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Onchain Pulse #25: The First Full Week of September
One week removed from August’s close, the first real test for Bitcoin’s rally is whether it holds. Fast, news-driven moves like the one that carried price into the high $70Ks and beyond often give back a portion of the gain in the days that follow, simply as short-term traders take… Read ⇢
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PepeBoost Slippage Settings Explained: Avoiding Failed Trades and Sandwich Attacks
Slippage is one of those settings that is easy to ignore until a trade fails, or worse, until it succeeds at a much worse price than expected. On a fast-moving Solana meme coin, getting slippage tolerance wrong in either direction can cost real money, and PepeBoost gives you direct control… Read ⇢
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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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