“It is understandably difficult for most of us to imagine a monetary world aside from the one in which we’ve lived for generations. After all, the U.S. dollar has served as the world’s leading reserve currency since 1919, when Britain was forced off the gold standard. There are only a handful of people living who…

“The fight that the cypherpunks mounted was one of the main reasons that the U.S. government lost the Crypto Wars. The authorities tried to stop the code and failed. This realization would loom large in Back’s mind 15 years later, in the summer of 2008, as he worked through that first email from Nakamoto.” –…

“Nodes are the law, and miners are the muscle.” – Harry Sudock Harry Sudock, Vice President of Strategy at Griid, and I have a chat about the challenges of energy production, grid capacity, and the energy infrastructure and how so many can be addressed by the incredible opportunity of Bitcoin mining. How and why are…

“The precise magnitude and schedule for the westward move is currently unknown, but all signals seem to be indicating the greatest shakeup in the geographic makeup of bitcoin mining since the start of the industrial mining era.” – Nic Carter Today we cover an article about the largest shift in mining infrastructure the Bitcoin network…

“Wake up people, this is not a drill. Contagion risks are increasing due to potential global stagflation… The intrinsic value of BTC has increased from the beginning of this year when I originally calculated the value to be over $150,000 per coin.” – Greg Foss If we removed the global payments network, we removed the hardest monetary…

“Using Bitcoin can level the playing field for the world’s poor as we work toward economic justice.” – Bradley Rettler Author Bradley Rettler returns in today’s read with a concise piece on the nature of our systemic problems of economic inequality, their unjust cause, and why Bitcoin is the key to leveling the playing field….

“Not only is the world experiencing greater dispersion of outcomes, it is also changing at an increasingly faster pace. Raw data is pouring torrentially down upon us, overwhelming our neural capacity more each day. We are confused, overwhelmed and looking for anchors, answers, and authority.” – Aaron Segal Continuing with Part 2 of yesterday’s amazing…

“The individual investor is professionalizing at the end of one of the biggest, most Homeric blow-out parties of all time. Forgive the cliched baseball metaphor, but this is like a player being called up from the minor leagues right before the off-season, after a seven-game dramatic World Series finale.” – Aaron Segal An incredible piece…

“In this piece we discuss our concerns around the broader “crypto” space beyond Bitcoin. Our arguments revolve around three primary themes: Philosophical, Technical, and Economic. From a philosophical perspective, we discuss the core properties that make Bitcoin work and that make it unique, in our view. From a technical perspective, we evaluate how these properties…