Month: May 2021

The 7 Primal Elements of Bitcoin

“one of the main reasons for Bitcoin’s success is something that resonates with us as humans on a much deeper level: the primal elements of its brand, which when combined, turn it into a belief system.” – Paulo Sacramento

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Guy’s Take #45 – A Mental Framework for Scaling

No matter how often we cover these ideas, it still seems astonishingly common for new people to fall into the same old fallacies and the same misguided thinking. In this episode I try to cover all the major problems with the “raise the blocksize” mentality, and why its thinking incorrectly about what the system even provides, and most importantly how it provides it.

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Fiat, Fascism, & Communism

“Bitcoin’s security guarantee comes from the direct conversion of unforgeable energy into a fixed supply unit on an incorruptible monetary network. There is no alternative that exists that is more sound, efficient, effective and rooted in the physical laws of the very universe itself.” – Aleks Svetski

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The Hidden Costs of the Petrodollar System

“It is truly impossible for the petrodollar system to be green when it is based on black gold.” – Alex Gladstein

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