Jamie Redman
Jamie Redman is a long-tenured bitcoin specialist whose reporting stays close to the protocol, its data, and the politics around uncensorable money. As News Lead at Bitcoin News, he focuses on bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency markets through onchain metrics, open-source infrastructure, and the practical impact of decentralized applications. His distinguishing trait is volume and depth on the same core subject over more than a decade, linking technical details, economic theory, and freedom-tech themes rather than cycling through short-lived token narratives.
Bitcoin network, markets and onchain data
Redman’s core coverage centres on the bitcoin network itself: hashrate, difficulty, revenue, and activity across major layer-1 blockchains.
Recent work includes tracking slowdowns in L1 blockchain activity in 2024, where he treats declining onchain engagement as a primary signal rather than simply following price action. He regularly reports when bitcoin’s hashrate nears record levels, setting changes in network difficulty and miner revenue against longer-term security and investment trends in the protocol. His reporting on dormant bitcoin awakenings – including large batches of “sleeping” coins that move after years of inactivity – shows a recurring interest in wallet histories, coin age, and the behavioural data embedded in the chain.
Articles that examine bitcoin’s path to money through Menger’s theory and the debate over medium of exchange versus store of value reflect an effort to connect live market behaviour to classical monetary thought. Across these pieces, he treats block-level data, miner economics, and historical flows as the backbone of market coverage, distinguishing his work from more price-driven crypto reporting.
Protocol changes, forks and open-source infrastructure
Redman covers bitcoin as an open-source project, following forks, upgrades, and code-level disputes with close attention to how they are tracked and implemented.
In work on protocol forks such as the BIP-110 showdown, he guides readers to live monitoring tools and explains how consensus changes move from proposal to activation across the ecosystem. His beat has long included mining infrastructure and hardware, including pieces on major GPU manufacturers entering the mining business and on hardware scam operations dressed up with a veneer of legitimacy. He writes frequently about decentralized applications built on and around bitcoin and other chains, treating them as extensions of the protocol’s design rather than standalone consumer products.
This emphasis on forks, mining hardware, and the functioning of open-source code underpins his broader coverage of decentralized systems, making the technical substrate and its governance processes central to his reporting.
Regulation, censorship and freedom technology
Alongside data and protocol work, Redman consistently reports on how governments, platforms, and intermediaries respond to bitcoin and related technologies. His archive includes coverage of proposed legal frameworks for bitcoin in emerging markets, showing an interest in how authorities move from informal tolerance to formal regulation. He has written on legislative efforts that target bitcoin-using cybercriminals and the gradual criminalization of peer-to-peer transfers, framing these developments as constraints on the original design goals of permissionless value exchange.
Articles on social media profile removals for libertarian activists and on big tech censorship highlight his focus on speech, association, and financial access in the context of crypto. He pairs this with work on the value of uncensorable technology and the role of decentralized tools in resisting deplatforming and surveillance.
Taken together, these strands position his coverage at the intersection of crypto, civil liberties, and the regulatory state, where freedom-tech capabilities and the limits imposed on them are treated as a core news story rather than a side issue.
Long-run output and wider crypto ecosystem
Redman has covered bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets since 2011 and has been writing professionally since 2010, giving him a long view on the evolution of the sector.
He has contributed more than 13,900 articles to Bitcoin News since July 2015, making sustained, high-frequency coverage of disruptive protocols a defining feature of his work. His output spans news, analysis, and features, from early pieces on families living entirely on bitcoin to open letters connected to landmark cases in the community, reflecting a persistent engagement with the culture around the technology as well as the markets themselves. Beyond Bitcoin News, his reporting has appeared in other crypto-focused outlets such as Cointelegraph, Let’s Talk Bitcoin, Bitcoinist, and Coingecko, and has been cited in broader technology media including Motherboard Vice.
Recognition within the crypto blogging world and the scale of his archive mark him out as a long-running observer of bitcoin’s technical, economic, and ideological development, offering continuity and institutional memory that a more generalist crypto reporter typically lacks.
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