Top Ten Questions About Bitcoin
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Top Ten Questions About Bitcoin

The Bitcoin blockchain has now been active for over 12 years. In that time, it has gone from fractions of a cent and being used to buy pizza, to a store of wealth compared to gold. We answer some of the most common questions about Bitcoin here.

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Jacinda Brown on Mining Bitcoin with Natural Gas
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Jacinda Brown on Mining Bitcoin with Natural Gas

Jacinda Brown from CryptoKnight Energy joined us to talk about her experience of developing bitcoin mining farms alongside oil and gas wells. Jacinda brings her decades of experience as a geologist and working with oil companies to the relatively new space of using bitcoin miners to create more efficiencies within the systems of oil and gas extraction.

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Mining Bitcoin with Hut 8
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Mining Bitcoin with Hut 8

We had Sue Ennis, the vice president of corporate development from Hut 8 Mining on our podcast. Hut8 is a bitcoin mining company that is publicly traded on the NASDAQ and the TSX. Sue brought up a number of great points worth highlighting from the episode. There are two in particular that Go Full Crypto would like to focus on. The first is that bitcoin has a much larger potential to affect financial markets than people may realize. The other is that bitcoin has a specific role to play in acting as a buffer with its use in balancing energy grids.

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Get Bitcoin in Canada with #ShakingSats
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Get Bitcoin in Canada with #ShakingSats

People approach us all the time to ask us how they can get Bitcoin. In Canada, Bitcoin is relatively easy to acquire, especially with a service called ShakePay. Bitcoin doesn’t have to be complicated, and thats the main reason we like ShakePay, they make acquiring Bitcoin in Canada extremely easy! To top it all off, they have a rewards program called #ShakingSats that lets you shake your phone once per day and earn Bitcoin. Lets break this down so you can start shaking your phone!

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Isaiah Jackson - Bitcoin and Black America
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Isaiah Jackson - Bitcoin and Black America

Isaiah Jackson unites two seemingly unrelated topics in his book titled Bitcoin and Black America. The book is an excellent resource for learning about Bitcoin, but also about the plethora of economic injustices felt by the community of black american people. It is not immediately clear how Bitcoin, the dominant internet money can help with solving these problems. Fortunately, Isaiah Jackson is a master of breaking down the technical aspects of Bitcoin, and connecting them with articulate solution statements.

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Do I Have to Buy a Full Bitcoin?
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Do I Have to Buy a Full Bitcoin?

You do not have to buy a full bitcoin to hop aboard the most popular money train on the planet. You can buy fractions of a Bitcoin. One Bitcoin can be divided into 100 million separate pieces. Each piece, is called a Satoshi. The easiest way to conceptualize the Satoshi is by thinking of the smallest unit of your country’s currency. I live in Canada, so my currency units are called Dollars, or “Loonies”. The smallest unit of a dollar, is a penny, and there are 100 pennies in a dollar. This divisibility is one of the aspects that makes currencies so flexible.

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Turning Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin
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Turning Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin

It was quite the day when I woke up to find that a publicly traded company called MicroStrategy had turned $425 million dollars of cash reserves into bitcoin. To be honest, this came out of left field. I had a feeling this would happen someday, I just didn’t think it would be so soon. Just eleven years after the launch of Bitcoin, and companies are already buying it as a wealth preservation strategy. BUT WHY!?

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Bitcoin, The Land Amongst the Sinking Titanic
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Bitcoin, The Land Amongst the Sinking Titanic

This thing (Bitcoin) that emerged out of nowhere in 2009, invented by someone(s) who has no identity, is Bitcoin. We're now at a point where it has become worth several hundred billions of dollars. It's not like in 2017 when this price was fragile, Bitcoin has never been stronger. How ridiculous is it that the world is turning to this esoteric form of money in favour of their government sponsored money? The answer, in my estimation, is quite ridiculous. Yet, here we are.

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Getting Paid in Bitcoin
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Getting Paid in Bitcoin

Go Full Crypto explores how they keep their own Bitcoin reserves for various reasons. The underlying company to Go Full Crypto is The Atlantic Blockchain Company, and so we will be referring the company when talking about how we expensed a business purchase with Bitcoin.

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Three Points of Analysis for Any Cryptocurrency
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Three Points of Analysis for Any Cryptocurrency

These three questions will end up revealing a lot about the nature of your investment, and whether or not it is a good one. These aren’t all of the questions you may want to ask, but they are a good start. It is certainly enough to get acquainted with the project to know whether or not you would like to invest.

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