“Talk to a bitcoin maximalist – someone who believes that bitcoin is the only digital asset with innate value – and, more likely than not,

“Bitcoin is often referred to as a secure timestamping service. We never had a global record of truth with trustworthy timestamps, so how did this

“Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It’s not just software — it is a Schelling point and a

“Some networks are “smart.” They offer sophisticated services that can be delivered to very simple end-user devices on the “edge” of the network. Other networks

“The obsession with consumer payments in the Bitcoin community is an unfortunate relic of the fiat money era. Generations that have only known monetary hot

“To do our best to minimize the economics jargon once again, we might simply ask: what are you going to do with your time? Are

“While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this point. By tracing this history,

“Since 1800, in 51 out of 52 cases where a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The only exception is current Japan,

“Today Americans celebrate 246 years of independence from the British Empire. On this day in 1776 the Founding Fathers made a declaration. It was a