“Residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles, or $19.7 billion in January, desperately turning to cash amid increased state controls.”
As governments push CBDCs to clamp down on dissent and capital flight, is Bitcoin our

“The seed phrase has been a barrier to self-custody since day one. It’s what scares normies away from keeping their own bitcoin, and it’s a legitimate reason why people accept the counterparty risk of exchanges

“Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion that AI is going to kill the vertical and functional software business model simply makes no sense. The truth is that AI simply isn’t going to

“The cypherpunk principle that ‘cypherpunks write code’ takes on revolutionary meaning when writing code no longer requires programming knowledge. Eric Hughes meant that political freedom comes through building systems without requesting permission, and now that

“The people who figure that out first won’t just ship faster – they’ll build things that others can’t even spec, because the spec emerges last from a process that only exists in the doing of

“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, ‘The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists’, and that we are in a period of ‘great power politics.'”
“He made clear that freedom ‘is

“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