“devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app” – Colin Harper As part of Bitcoin Magazine’s excellent set of articles on “The Technology of Dissent,” we get a great piece by Colin Harper on the state of encrypted messaging over the Lightning Network. With both Shpinx…

“To fully understand any organism, we must not only look at the organism itself, but examine the organism-environment holistically.” – Gigi If Bitcoin is a new organism, then where exactly does it live? Is it in cyberspace, the human realm, in financial markets and value… or all 3? Find out in Gigi’s excellent new piece…

“A volatile currency for volatile times” – Timour Azhari When the banks become the volatile alternative, when your rights and control over what’s in “your” bank account are a fleeting daydream, when the banks abuse your trust, take your money, and then try to sell it back to you; a volatile, independent, decentralized digital money,…

Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal, decentralized system secured by Bitcoin, for managing and proving identities available to the globe. What are the goals and mindset behind this project, and how is Microsoft planning for its…

Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system that secures the most sound money in the world? This was a fascinating Twitter thread by Udi Wertheimer that explores what I find to be an interesting perspective on the…