“Early alchemy was concerned with purifying and perfecting certain materials, such as transmuting base metals like lead into noble metals like gold, creating an elixir

“The world’s national currencies will offer Bitcoin only a sputtering resistance — more in word than deed — and they’ll dwindle into irrelevance as their

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“Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology.” – Phil Bonello

“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial

“In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further.” – Dominik Stroukal
Because I love discussion of markets, prices,

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

“It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does nothing to generate economic activity; it only shifts the balance of powers as to

“As a friend of mine likes to say: Bitcoin is pieces of super-gold flying inside an unstoppable PayPal. It is the best money we ever