“Historically, what do nations do when they’re on a gold standard and they need to fight a war? They just suspend the gold standard. The difference is that what Bitcoin brings is this decentralization, where

“Something else has to go down in order for something to go up. That’s why it is specifically a relative weight between all of these things… You can’t just charge $100,000 dollars for something if

“Only the giant corporations are gonna have this and anybody less than a billion dollars, these won’t exist. And that was scary, I was like, this can undo what Bitcoin is doing unless we get

“You eliminate 99% of the attack surface to a single moment in time, which is the beginning. And when you do that, would-be attackers are forced to take risks and make mistakes. You know, when

“When you have a child, you care more than anyone else about that child. You’re caring about their long-term success and happiness and their health. If you look at just a first principles basis, what

This chat episode is a riveting conversation which was originally featured on The Staying Free Podcast with my friend jonnyhodl.I delve deep into libertarian ethics, anarchism, and the necessity (or lack thereof) of the state.

“The most powerful thing that Bitcoin did was establish a monetary foundation, a monetary policy that was not alterable through a shallow, short term social consensus. That the protocol determines the rules, and then everyone

Today we dive into an amazing chat around the complexities and shifts in law enforcement in a world with Bitcoin, as well as breaking down the nuances and difficulties in both the defense and prosecution

“We have the fork wars, we have a culture that understands the importance of nodes and widespread enforcement of a protocol and its rules. Unlike shitcoins, which couldn’t care less about it… So this node

“What are we actually about? It’s to an extent an open question. It’s not like the Cypherpunks knew at all. It’s part of our job to continue to try and figure it out. In a

“Hedgehog uses relative time locks. So that if they don’t have to worry about closing that channel with a relative time lock, it’s whenever you do close the channel, now you’ve got 2016 blocks to

“People that are in the Western world and specifically in the United States, what they’re realizing, whether they can say it this way or not, is you’re watching the end of an empire. I said

Guy Swann and Preston Pysh explore the dramatic shifts in global finance and the pivotal role of Bitcoin amidst rising inflation and the banking sector’s vulnerabilities. They discuss how Bitcoin’s growing influence could recalibrate financial

“As far as I’m concerned, there’s no obvious increased danger from the CCP having control over our access or our information or even modifying the algorithm, than it is the alphabets of the world or