bitcoinphile.com
Four chapters on what people have used to settle debts and store value — starting with Bitcoin, then the metal that did the job for millennia, then money as an idea, then the noisy category that borrowed the word.
What this site is. Original notes on bitcoin, gold, money, and the calendar around them.
What it is not. Not a broker. Not a token board. Not a signal service. Not someone else’s wire copy.
This week · news
Whitepaper, genesis block, first transaction, 21 million, and the years after Satoshi left.
Why a scarce, durable metal kept being money — from weighed dust to the gold standard to 1971.
From obligations and cattle to coin, paper, bank ledgers, and fiat — the jobs money has to do.
Ethereum, smart contracts, tokens, and why most of that list is a different design.
Who holds bitcoin in the United States and abroad — surveys, ETFs, and the El Salvador experiment.
What the open ledger changed for people at the edges — and what banks copied without being replaced.
Open rails, cheaper sends, and what actually helps people with no bank account — plus what still doesn’t.
Dated items that actually touch Bitcoin — votes, the Fed, flows. Not a live ticker.
Bitcoin and a few other units from a public data feed — delayed, not a broker quote.
Third-party videos as links only — not hosted here, not our forecasts.