The crypto world is a tempting tune that promises a fortune. A new frontier, they say. As with any frontier, it comes with danger. The biggest danger? These are the blind spots we prefer to overlook in our eagerness to get rich quick. That’s why the Bitcoin Insider is here...

Fixed yield DeFi. The very name must sound to you like an oxymoron! In today’s wild west of crypto, fortunes are won or lost with a single tweet. That’s indeed why these big promises of everything being solved feel a little suspect. Like an informal handshake deal, offered by the...

Now, Revolut’s jumping on the Lightning Network bandwagon, too, with a promise for faster and cheaper Bitcoin transactions. Sounds great, right? Maybe not. Even as the headlines shout “adoption!” I don’t resist this instinctive tightening of my stomach into a ball of dread. This sounds a lot less like a...

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is revolutionizing the way individuals manage and grow their wealth at a blistering pace. It’s the nascent peer-to-peer system seeking to eliminate old third parties and centralized institutions from financial transactions. Instead of relying on banks and other financial intermediaries, DeFi uses blockchain technology to enable...