“Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues

“If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying

“Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That’s not what this is, and

“This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of

“It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to:

Independently calculate the price of bitcoin using only your

“Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is in controlling your experience, what

“When discussing consensus mechanisms for different cryptocurrencies, one issue that often causes arguments is a lack of understanding (and definition) of the security model that

“I believe it’s important to go back to what this sovereignty is made of. Bitcoin works because an economic majority is aligning incentives for every

“To not die, Bitcoin must become more used. The current thesis accepted by most “maximalists” is that Bitcoin will continue to be thought of as