Author: Shane Neagle

The following is a guest post from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist. The steady Bitcoin trickle into the mainstream consciousness since 2009 mainnet launch had many cascading effects. First, it served as a revelatory vehicle by exemplifying the nature of money; why it should be outside of central banking…

The following is a guest post from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist. In the digital age, financial privacy has become a pressing issue because surveillance is ingrained in all electronic transactions. Each one generates bits that can be aggregated, stored, revisited, abused, funneled and manipulated…

The following is a guest post from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist. Half a year after Bitcoin ETFs launched, it is safe to say that they have been the most successful ETF launch in history, having generated a $309.53 billion volume. Just within the first day of trading…

The following is a guest post from Shane Neagle. Regardless of an asset’s fundamentals, its value is governed by one underlying feature – market liquidity. Is it easy for the wider public to sell or buy this asset?  If the answer is yes, then the asset receives high trading volume…

Bitcoin’s 4th halving event is scheduled to occur on April 22nd, at event block height 840,000. As each block, containing executed transactions, is mined, it is stamped with a block height, noting how many blocks have been generated before the latest one.  This way, block heights create a chronologically ordered digital ledger…