River Intelligence – Bitcoin Research & Analysis (Page 2)

🤯 How Much Bitcoin Is Gone Forever?

We explore estimates on the amount of lost bitcoin and provide actionable advice on how you can protect your stack.

🗳️ Presidents Are Talking Bitcoin

Bitcoin ascends into the political main stage with multiple candidates crafting their stances on it. Let’s break it down.

Market Insights

What do Altcoins, Venture Capitalists, and CBDCs have in common?

We provide context on the latest eyeball-scanning fiasco coming out of Silicon Valley and share a new Bitcoin partnership.

Product News

River's Zero-Fee Dollar-Cost Averaging Explained

Insights on the "what", "why", and "how" behind our Zero-Fee Dollar Cost Averaging product.

Market Insights

What should you do with this ETF news?

We keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings of financial institutions' Bitcoin adoption.

Market Insights

How Many People Hold Bitcoin Today? 🤔

Sharing our latest research report "Bitcoin vs the $150 Trillion Global Payments Industry", a recent blog post about our cold storage model, and the best of Bitcoin Twitter.

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Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry

Bitcoin's use case for payments has grown, but why have business and consumer adoption been slow so far?

How River Secures Client Funds

When deciding which Bitcoin brokerage to do business with, and to potentially store funds with, it is important to understand the custody model that an organization employs. Is the firm

Market Insights

New Bitcoin Tech & What’s Going On With Ledger

We examine the fallout from Ledger's recent feature announcement and explore some highly anticipated bitcoin developments.

Market Insights

Busting Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Usage FUD

We walk you through how bitcoin mining actually works, discuss an interesting way mining is being utilized in Ireland, and highlight the best of bitcoin Twitter.

Market Insights

Taking a hands-on approach to The Lightning Network ⚡

We introduce some media-focused Lightning applications that you can use today, and share some of Bitcoin Twitter’s best stories.

Market Insights

What does money printing & 400 Exahash mean for Bitcoin?

Comparing the Fed's recent money printing resulting from the March 2023 bank runs against past campaigns. Plus a review of the continually increasing hash rate despite market headwinds.

Market Insights

Making Bitcoin less overwhelming 🤯

Sharing the results of a round of subscriber feedback. Plus sharing some insights on market concerns with U.S. banks, and a look at the OP_VAULT proposal.

Market Insights

Ordinals: A new NFT protocol on Bitcoin, hype or a distraction?

Reviewing the recent trend of the ordinal inscription protocol being used to store large amounts of data onto the bitcoin blockchain.

Market Insights

Nostr, Transparency, and an Eventful 2023

This release announces River's presence on Nostr, the decentralized communications protocol. Additionally provides an overview of "How Bitcoin Flows through River", and provides a list of Bitcoin events in 2023.

How Your Bitcoin Flows Through River

As a (potential) client, you may be wondering how the buying and selling of bitcoin works behind the scenes at River. Are you being offered a fair price? What happens

River Research

What Could Bitcoin Mining Look Like at One Zettahash?

In April 2022, we launched a hosted mining product to help anyone who does not want to physically run their own mining operation enter the Bitcoin mining industry. We have

Security best practices to consider

Security has always been an important topic in regards to Bitcoin. Believe it or not, employing average security measures would protect users from most mishaps that occur.

Market Insights

Can Bitcoin Level Up?

There’s over a dozen proposed BTC upgrades. See our favorites in the latest River Intelligence

Market Insights

What Bear Market?

The builders of the Bitcoin network are experiencing the exact opposite of a bear market as more BTC miners continue to stack up and join the network

Company Announcements

Announcing River Lightning Services (RLS)

TL;DR we’re launching RLS to power the future of payments on the Internet. At River we believe that Bitcoin is on a trajectory to become the reserve currency

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Insights From the 4th Largest Lightning Network Node

River has been a participant in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network since 2019. As of 2022 we have grown into the fourth largest node on Lightning by bitcoin capacity. We now

A snapshot of the past, and a glimpse into the future

See where we’ve been and where we might be headed in this edition of River intelligence

Would a Chinese Chip Ban Impact Bitcoin Mining?

With recent tensions between the United States and China over chip production, would a Chinese mining chip ban impact Bitcoin mining?

Is the dollar setting the tone in global markets?

The United States is slightly benefiting from a strong dollar at the expense of overseas economies while energy and gas prices appear to cool off for the first time in 2022. Meanwhile, inflation persists and regulators across the EU push to regulate cryptocurrencies and fight money laundering.