
Read_543 – There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]
“For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the

“For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the

“Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right combination

“Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”, as

“Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and that

We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some major Bitcoiners and Libertarians together to talk about the tools available to us in the

“Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on the

We’ve all heard the criticism, sound money can’t work because people will simply “hoard it.” Obviously, per the Keynesians’ demands, it is critical that we

“As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is

“Monetary repression continues to be hidden, and not spoken of in polite circles. The reality today for the 182 million people living in CFA nations

“A deflationary monetary system of absolute hard money acts as a mirror for value creation. It is a compass to guide us toward a better

“A network effect is an attribute of a company or other system such that as more people use the network, the network becomes exponentially more

“All this to say, there is no optimistic version of the future in which humanity does not use significantly more energy than it does today.”
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