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The 21 million cap was never voted on or decreed — it's the sum of a geometric series anyone can check with paper and a pencil. Where the number actually comes from, and why it can't quietly be changed.
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What actually changes when a currency's supply is fixed instead of managed — the honest case for both sides, argued fairly, with no verdict forced on you.
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One Hundred Million Satoshissoon
Why the satoshi, not the bitcoin, is the unit that actually matters once you do the arithmetic on global population.
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Blocks: Bitcoin's Clocksoon
Bitcoin doesn't track time — it tracks blocks. How a ten-minute average becomes the clock the entire schedule runs on.
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The Halving Schedulesoon
Every halving in history, and every halving still to come, laid out on one table.
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Why Miners Bothersoon
The reward keeps shrinking. Why does anyone still spend real electricity chasing it?
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Scarcity You Can Auditsoon
Anyone with a laptop can count every coin ever issued and check it against the schedule. What that actually buys you.
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Keys, Custody, and the Only Rule That Matterssoon
The one rule that outranks every other rule in Bitcoin, and why it can't be delegated to a website — including this one.
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UTXOs: Bills, Not Balancessoon
Bitcoin doesn't have account balances. It has something closer to bills in a wallet — and that changes how transactions actually work.
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Lightning: Small Change for a Heavy Coinsoon
Why a tip jar needs a second layer, and how it keeps Bitcoin's ledger from having to record every cup of coffee.
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The Coins That Are Gone Foreversoon
Millions of bitcoin are provably unspendable. What that does to the real, spendable supply.