The year 2026 has brought – and continues to bring – rapid changes across the globe, from the wider macroeconomic landscape down to the many small details that shape, assist and – for better or worse – influence our daily habits.
While the “AI revolution” continues to eat its way through bloated corporate structures, with both expected fallout and a range of not-so-expected second- and third-order effects for economy and society alike, the “Petrodollar” era, too, seems to be drawing ever closer to the point where it no longer has sufficient ammunition to defend itself against the challengers of the hegemonic post-1971 monetary order.
Against this backdrop, we at BitcoinVN are also in the process of various internal restructurings to account for the changing competitive and regulatory landscape from here on out.
While our firm has its beginnings in Vietnam, over the past several years it has taken on a far more international shape and increasingly shifted away from a purely retail-facing service towards one that operates more and more on an institutional scale – an expected transition for a firm with more than a decade in the business and a probably above-average reputation in the space.
BitcoinVN News began publishing in the second half of 2019, largely out of a recognized sense of urgency that entrusting centralized, “Big Tech”-owned distribution channels with the dissemination of information was a trap.
While initially incredibly powerful in helping people connect with audiences around the world, the Social Media algorithms quickly shifted from “rewarding” users by surfacing people, ideas, and topics that might genuinely interest them to pushing very specific narratives that certain stakeholders in the global system want them to see, consume, and keep at the forefront of their minds.
And, of course, the algo rewards you for “posting along” with the prevailing narrative – while punishing you for spreading “dangerous information”: deboosting, shadowbanning or outright disabling your account for telling people things that may actually benefit them, rather than what benefits entrenched stakeholders.
In effect, a more sophisticated and more targeted form of broadcast television for a new generation.
This is, of course, to be expected:
In the old days, industrialists and financiers also spent significant sums to control old-school media empires in order to own the distribution channels and thereby gain access to the minds of the public at scale – and “program” them to their liking.
They did not spend that money to benefit readers, but to advance their own interests.
That is a rational course of action for people in that position. It is irrational to expect them to sacrifice their own interests in order to empower “the common man.”
This is also not to say that the controllers of today’s most powerful distribution channels will always seek to crush everyone else at all times. Sometimes their interests may align with those of certain parts of the public; at other times, they will not.
But posting on a platform whose owners have made it very clear that your message is not one they want to see spread – and then not expecting them to act against you for doing so – is naive.
And yes, that is a dependency – one against which you should hedge by:
- a) being active on more than one social media platform, ideally ones that are not all politically aligned with each other
- b) and, even better, owning your own distribution channels (Nostr, personal websites, email lists, etc.)
In that sense, what we are aiming for is, in part, a return to “the old internet” – a time when people had their own private websites and blogs, and used them to connect with one another directly, sharing their ideas, observations and views on their own terms.
So much for the “philosophical” background, now to the rebranding itself:
“BitcoinVN News” had become a rather ill-fitting name for the type of content platform the site had in practice evolved into. We were never really in the “breaking news” business, but rather in-depth reporting, analysis and commentary held to a higher standard.
The platform is not a business in itself – it is subsidized by our other service offerings – but rather a place where we can distribute our content without fear of censorship and deplatforming, and offer the same to our close partners in the community and the wider ecosystem.
If you do not have such places in 2026 – you are entirely at the mercy of the “big bad Big Tech Overlords”.
And however true that moral judgement may be, the practical judgement for each business and organization is clear:
You must own your own media and distribution channels.
The usual Big Tech platforms might accompany it – if useful – but they should not and can not be the place you actually build on.
It is a sand castle – and will go the way of all sand castles.
What does not change?
BV Insights is operated by the same team as usual. We are not journalists, and we are not making our money from “publishing content”.
We are operators, entrepreneurs, business builders and investors – getting our hands dirty “in the trenches”.
We pride ourselves on collaborating closely with other – generally reputable – operators in the space, and want to give them that space as well, as our time allows for it.
We won’t flood you with clickbait content or “AI slop” – what we publish is generally drafted and edited by actual humans on our team.
Yes, we use technology to enhance our productivity – but we won’t let machines do our thinking for us. 🙂
You will have access to the same team, the same standards – and growing experience year by year as this small planet circles around the sun.
Thank you for your support across all these years, welcome to the new BV Insights, and please let us know if you run into any issues while using the website – our team is happy and ready to adjust.
Your (newly named) BV Insights team
- part of Team BitcoinVN / BVN Group
