With the banking crisis just getting started, with the SEC going after Binance and Coinbase, with rumors of Prime Trust declaring bankruptcy, it is no better time than now to take advantage of the most

Bitcoin is a public good. The maintenance and stewardship of the network rests on the conviction and work of 10s or 100s of thousands of node operators who work to validate and ensure consistency among

Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes resilience in the markets, and so much more. Today we dive into a bit of

There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or “depositors” for billions of dollars, someone else LOSES billions of dollars worth

Today we break into the racket that is the IMF and World Bank monetary imperialism. Piggy backing off Gladstein’s remarkable piece detailing the horrific consequences of this system and the clear intent and disregard for

How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter Zeihan confidently embarrassed himself on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently by going on a short rip

There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to unlock your house, and how DAOs will be used to

Today we explore a highly earned Guy’s Take for Dergigi’s “Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity” as well as using a core part of his framing to make sense of a few fundamental ideas behind Bitcoin. Recently

“Bitcoin is not merely a network, it’s a foundation for an anti-authoritarian political movement in an increasingly authoritarian world. If you’re looking for why so many people are deeply passionate about Bitcoin & nothing else,

“I think there are some important economic errors in the stories I see people telling about crypto, on Twitter and elsewhere — errors that have important implications for how we should think about the value

What if, sitting in the middle of a chaotic monetary environment, increasing capital controls, balkanizing political regimes, a failing petrodollar hegemony, collapsing institutional trust, increased sanctions & weaponized infrastructure, & aggressive, widespread inflation… there sat

I promised, and it’s finally here. It’s time to get a little perspective, with the price at all time lows, exchanges and lending platforms imploding, a massive crypto deleveraging event, the Fed tightening, and the

So what exactly did I get wrong in Guy’s Take #54, and why? Let’s dig back into the economic of CTV and transaction commitments, to clear up what I was misunderstanding around unrolling large batch

[Caveat – A critical piece of the puzzle I lay out in this episode was something I incorrectly understood, which makes this entire thought experiment moot. I explain further in Guy’s Take #55]

Today I

Everybody take a deep breath! Right now all the drama on Twitter and the Bitcoin community is all about CTV. What is it? Is this an attack on Bitcoin? Is it going to destroy Bitcoin

This episode is because the previous read by Steve Barbour deserved a Guy’s Take. Before we change topics to privacy in the episode coming later this week, “The State vs Bitcoin” deserves a solid shake

With Twitter up in arms about a potentially invasive privacy measure and compliance for an invasive regulatory requirement, it’s time to break down exactly what is going on, and what we should or should not

In a follow up to the State of Lightning Report from Arcane Research and OpenNode, we dive into the possibilities for how Lightning will change the global market, the potential for truly on-demand services, streaming