Bitcoin Brief

How to buy and sell bitcoin, bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold and other crypto currencies. This is not investment advice, but rather a guideline on how to do these things correctly. Storage: (Private - Hardware) https://trezor.io (Mixed - Phone) https://airbitz.co (Custodial - Web, App) https://www.coinbase.com (Private - Desktop) https://electrum.org (Private - Cold paper) https://www.bitaddress.org Buy and Sell: (Bank Transfer, Decentralised) https://bisq.network (Bank Transfer, Custodial) https://bitbargain.co.uk (Debit Card, SEPA, Custodial) https://www.coinbase.com (Cash, ATM) https://coinatmradar.com (In person) https://localbitcoins.com (Spend, Debit Card) https://wirexapp.com/ Research: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin+Bitc... https://www.bitcoin.com https://www.bitcoin.org I am not responsible for these services, and so cannot guarantee their security - use at own risk.

If you're new to Bitcoin, this is another attempt to explain what's wrong with British money in the first place, why bother with something like Bitcoin, and an explanation about how each of the systems work in some detail. References for these ramblings: Bank of England, about QE (So you know it's true, because these are the people responsible for doing it!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9wRq6C2fgo Positive Money, about UK banking system (They have a socialist agenda to do QE for the people, which is very anti liberty, but their revulsion at the current system and their research seems solid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8i-4HpKlM Princeton University, about Bitcoin under the hood - (for the techie folk watching, this is a good place to start understanding bitcoin right down to the fundementals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOMVZXLjKYo Andreas Antonopoulos - Cypherpunk guidance https://www.youtube.com/user/aantonop Stefan Molyneux - Philosophical guidance http://cdn.media.freedomainradio.com/f

Bitcoin's block reward is about to perform a scheduled drop from 25BTC to 12.5BTC which will mark the protocol's four year cycle. Last time this happened - bitcoin doubled in price within a four month period. Related? I think so. Can't prove it. Lets see what happens this time! Check out twitter #halvening to follow the news and http://www.thehalvening.com/ to watch the count down and https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bit... to watch the price action. Happy Halvening Bitcoiners!

By accepting your local fiat currency you are condoning the continuation of the actions of your government, Bitcoin presents a new option for those who disagree with the actions of their government. Accept bitcoin for your products and services, and you will then transfer your value into an economy based entirely on voluntary transactions, without taxation, without bombs. Lead the way.

You can join the peaceful revolution by accepting bitcoin for your own products and services, or simply transferring some of your wealth into the bitcoin economy by purchasing some on an exchange or from a bitcoin atm near you. I believe in a world where money cannot be printed or typed into existence; it must be earned. I believe that one day there will be no war. The initiation of force will cease, as there will be no incentive. I believe there is a fundamental flaw in the way our monetary systems operates, and that that flaw is the root cause of a huge amount of unnecessary suffering. Real money is a durable, divisible, portable, distinguishable, discretionary, and most importantly scarce. In the last six years our central bank has typed 375 billion pounds into existence. This exhibits an abundance of money, the very opposite of scarcity, and is equivalent spending now and allowing an asteroid of debt to annihilate our unborn children. I refuse to believe anyone who tells me “you must vote to change so

A summary of the Scotpound proposal, and why bitcoin adoption is the smarter option for Scotland's future. The New Economics Foundation and Common Weal have just released a proposal to create a new digital currency for Scotland - the Scotpound. Having read the 64 page document and attended the launch event with one of the authors, I’d like to summarise the content for you: Firstly, there’s some fantastic information on the current UK monetary system in there, and it echoes a lot of the information previously circulated by positive money, which is a group which proposes a similar solution for the UK as a whole. What is the Scotpound? It’s a digital currency, not unlike the pounds you have in your bank account right now. The difference being, it would be controlled by Banca Alba, instead of private banks, and it would be digital only without and paper cash equivalent. The proposal is to spend 3.71 million pounds of tax revenue setting up a payment network, central authority, and cross-platform apps; then

The big news for UK bitcoiners this week is that Coinbase - a San Francisco based bitcoin exchange, has just started accepting 3D secure card payments. What that means is that you can now buy bitcoin with your debit or credit card online instantly, just like you would buy pizza. It take about 5 minutes to set up your account, and then it’s a case of plugging in the amount you want to spend, selecting your card as payment method, and pressing the buy button. Personally I then prefer to send my bitcoin to a secure wallet of my own so that coinbase no longer have to look after it for me. Why should you care? This service has been running in the USA for a good while now, and is considered one of the most prominent services worldwide. The big 5 UK banks have refused to give them access to the faster payments network, just like they’ve refused to give a corporate bank account to any bitcoin related company thus far, and so until now we have been limited to using wire transfers which take a few days to clear, and

This introduction to Bitcoin Brief aims to prime non-bitcoiners for the rest of the content on the channel.