Background & Current State: Bitcoin was born during the 2008 financial crisis, designed to address trust issues in the centralized financial system. Seventeen years later, global debt crises have intensified (U.S. national debt stands at $38 trillion, with annual interest payments of $1.2 trillion), exposing the fragility of the traditional financial system. Core Value:Decentralization & Inflation Resistance: With a fixed supply of 21 million coins, Bitcoin cannot be over-issued, offering an ...

Background & Current State: Bitcoin was born during the 2008 financial crisis, designed to address trust issues in the centralized financial system. Seventeen years later, global debt crises have intensified (U.S. national debt stands at $38 trillion, with annual interest payments of $1.2 trillion), exposing the fragility of the traditional financial system. Core Value:Decentralization & Inflation Resistance: With a fixed supply of 21 million coins, Bitcoin cannot be over-issued, offering an ...

0. 30-Second TL;DRSegWit v1 (2017) – move signatures out of 1 MB block → 4 MB weight, fix malleability, enable Lightning.SegWit v2 = Taproot (2021) – new sig algorithm (Schnorr), Merkelise scripts (MAST), shrink multi-sig, hide complex contracts, make Ordinals possible.SegWit v3 = Taproot Assets (2024-25) – keep asset data off-chain in “Universes”, anchor only proofs on-chain, give assets their own VM (TAP-VM) that can evolve toward Turing-complete while Bitcoin stays unchanged. → Path: pure ...

0. 30-Second TL;DRSegWit v1 (2017) – move signatures out of 1 MB block → 4 MB weight, fix malleability, enable Lightning.SegWit v2 = Taproot (2021) – new sig algorithm (Schnorr), Merkelise scripts (MAST), shrink multi-sig, hide complex contracts, make Ordinals possible.SegWit v3 = Taproot Assets (2024-25) – keep asset data off-chain in “Universes”, anchor only proofs on-chain, give assets their own VM (TAP-VM) that can evolve toward Turing-complete while Bitcoin stays unchanged. → Path: pure ...

1. The Cycle That Doesn’t Feel Like One From the April 2024 halving to the October 2025 all-time high of $125 k, Bitcoin took 18 months—right on schedule if you still count in “halving time”. But the ride was eerily calm: no 30 % daily candles, no taxi-driver shills, no Coin App store-top downloads. The blow-off top lasted three weeks and gave back 25 % in a single month. Retail never showed up; dominance is still 59 %. Alts rotated, but in short, disjointed bursts. Net result: a 7-8 × bounce...

1. The Cycle That Doesn’t Feel Like One From the April 2024 halving to the October 2025 all-time high of $125 k, Bitcoin took 18 months—right on schedule if you still count in “halving time”. But the ride was eerily calm: no 30 % daily candles, no taxi-driver shills, no Coin App store-top downloads. The blow-off top lasted three weeks and gave back 25 % in a single month. Retail never showed up; dominance is still 59 %. Alts rotated, but in short, disjointed bursts. Net result: a 7-8 × bounce...