How Satoshi Gazette covers Bitcoin.
Bitcoin-only, operator-focused coverage with a clear stance on self-custody, mining, policy, and how AI is allowed to help.
Mission
Satoshi Gazette is a Bitcoin-only news desk for operators, not tourists. We write for people who run hardware or infra, allocate capital into Bitcoin, or build products and services on or around Bitcoin.
We are not a trading tips service, not a generic “crypto” outlet, and not a fan club. The desks exist to give miners, allocators, and builders signal that still makes sense years from now.
Scope: what we cover
- Bitcoin protocol, consensus, fees, and network health.
- Mining, difficulty, hashrate, hosting, and power markets.
- Lightning / L2s where they materially use or affect Bitcoin.
- Wallets, custody, and infra that matter for actual users.
- Regulation, taxation, accounting, and enforcement that directly touch BTC.
What we ignore
- Altcoin, NFT, and generic “web3” coverage with no clear Bitcoin impact.
- Price targets, leverage calls, and “next 10x” trading content.
- Puff pieces whose only purpose is marketing a token or stock.
- Pure politics that doesn't materially affect Bitcoin users or infra.
We may mention non-Bitcoin stories only when they have a real spillover into Bitcoin's legal, regulatory, or liquidity environment.
Self-custody and users
- “Not your keys, not your coins” is treated as the baseline.
- Custodial services are covered as risk-bearing infra, not the default way to use Bitcoin.
- We highlight counterparty risk, surveillance risk, and operational fragility instead of pretending they don't exist.
Mining and resilience
We accept industrial-scale mining, but the north star is resilience and credible neutrality, not nostalgia.
- Preference for geographically and energy-diverse hashrate.
- Close attention to pool, jurisdiction, and manufacturing concentration.
- Coverage of grid interactions, flexible load deals, and the real economics miners face.
Adoption
- Real usage: remittances, savings in weak currencies, circular economies.
- Infra that helps people hold and use Bitcoin safely.
- Corporate and institutional moves that actually involve holding or securing BTC, not just slapping a ticker in a press release.
Policy and regulation
Default values: pro-privacy, anti–mass surveillance, skeptical of overreaching KYC and data collection.
- Explain the rules clearly: what the law says and how it bites in practice.
- Focus on incentives and realistic paths for change.
- Treat states, corporations, and NGOs as adversarial actors, not saviours or cartoon villains.
How stories move through the Gazette
- Submissions: reader pitches land in the internal submissions inbox via the public form. Editors review, annotate, and can reject or promote them.
- Candidate pieces: drafts from submissions, ingestion feeds, or manual work sit in an Editor dashboard with types and statuses. Nothing here is public yet.
- Pieces: accepted candidates become published stories, briefings, or wire hits with slugs, decks, tags, and bylines. These are what readers see on the desks.
- SourceDocs: canonical Bitcoin documents (whitepaper, Satoshi posts, BIPs, policy docs, major reports, transcripts, datasets) live in a separate knowledge base with review status and importance scores, and later gate what Ask Satoshi can see.
Submissions do not go straight into Ask Satoshi or onto the site. There is always an editor in the loop.
Ask Satoshi (beta)
Ask Satoshi is an AI-assisted console for querying Satoshi's writings, core Bitcoin docs, high-signal research and policy documents, and Gazette pieces that are grounded in those sources.
Scope & tone
- Bitcoin-only by default.
- No altcoin shilling, price targets, or generic trading strategies.
- Concise, direct answers with plain-language explanations.
- Explicit about trade-offs, risks, and unknowns.
Sources & refusals
- Prefers Satoshi texts, core specs, BIPs, and reviewed SourceDocs.
- Uses Gazette pieces as secondary sources, not as a substitute for primary docs.
- Politely refuses questions that are pure trading advice, altcoin promotion, or unrelated politics.
Conflicts, sponsorships, and corrections
- No paid token coverage disguised as editorial.
- Sponsorships, if they exist, are clearly labelled as such.
- Material conflicts (equity, token exposure, advisory roles) must be disclosed in or alongside coverage.
- Material errors get explicit, timestamped corrections. We do not silently edit core facts.
What Satoshi Gazette is not
- Not a personality cult for Satoshi.
- Not a “crypto” or token casino outlet.
- Not a pump-and-dump staging ground.
- Not a trading or investment advisory service.
The whole point is clear, sourced, Bitcoin-focused signal that still holds up years later.