“Bitcoin is a lifeline. It is a money that cannot be shut down. Native money for the internet. But what happens when the internet gets shut off?”
Iran’s currency collapses 98%, the government kills

“You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar.”
~ Roy Sheinfeld
Stablecoins are booming, but are they building toward something bigger

“Imagine the Stanford marshmallow experiment in reverse. Instead of getting a second marshmallow for waiting, the children are told that every fifteen minutes they wait, the marshmallow in front of them will shrink one tiny

“The end of mankind wouldn’t even be biological in such an instance. It would be neurological.”
~ Copernican
What if AI’s biggest flaw – training on its own recycled data – isn’t just

“To describe what’s coming as “impossibly borked” is charitable. This is going to be an unholy mess of indiscernible media, messaging, photography, and fakery. … “reality fade” into fractal digital fog will stress even the

“If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is control over you.”
What if a “free” digital currency

“Today’s the day.”
~ Mel Fisher
Why does a reinsurance company’s annual letter get me this fired up? Ross Stevens weaves together treasure hunting, Bayesian statistics, and the raw reality of Bitcoin as

What if prosecuting innovative Bitcoin developers like Rodriguez and Burroughs signals the death of American entrepreneurship?
In this episode, I read Beautyon’s “American Bitcoin Suicide” and dive into how activist judges and unchecked fraud

Merry Christmas! Working with the amazing crew at Braiins, we are happy to share the full audiobook of Bitcoin: The Ultimate Collateral free for all. You can find the ebook as well as the video

“We have entered a space where we literally own nothing.”
~ Guy
What happens when 25 years of digital identity vanishes overnight because of a $500 gift card?
This jaw-dropping story exposes

“The broad point is that only the strong survive was correct. We are entering the endgame of crypto having any reason to exist.
My thesis as to why it exists at all is a

“If you think they’ll have restraint, I think you’re making a grave error.”
Can your wallet, your node, or even your hardware become “unlicensed financial activity” overnight? I walk through HRF’s latest Financial Freedom

“What role do intermediaries—such as merchants, distributors, and traders—play in the market? Far from being mere profiteers, these intermediaries play an essential role in the division of labor. Without them, society as a whole could

“Bitcoin will fail.Because it is a lie… Because it claims truths that cannot be. That trust is defect. That property is virtue. That law, shared meaning should not supervene…I used to see value. Now I

“The best, simplest, ultimate form of collateral is something that can instantly be claimed and sold at any time when the debtor fails to make their payments. A house can take months, even years to

“This analysis has demonstrated through 30 universal laws, empirically validated across 16 years and $1.83 trillion in market capitalization, that Bitcoin represents a genuine phase transition in monetary coordination. It is the first system deriving

I dive into Adam Mastroianni’s piece “Thank You for Being Annoying” and use it as a launchpad to rant about work, love, and why being constantly irritated might be a feature, not a bug. From

Is ARK the missing piece that lets Bitcoin scale without sacrificing sovereignty? Or is it just a confusing mess that you can’t make sense of? Hopefully this episode helps as I unpack Paco VM’s brilliant