“The system is rigged.” – Jimmy Song

How does out monetary system work and what does it even mean for the government and central bank to have printed trillions of dollars to hand out to

“Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated.” – Zane Pocock

Today we dig into a unique mental framework of the Bitcoin mempool and how to understand its significance

“Distorting supply only serves to distort a currency’s ability to perform its job of storing and communicating value; it can’t make a currency more valuable or secure.” – Phil Geiger

Digging back into the Unchained

“#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it’s like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet.” – Elizabeth Stark
Today we read an article from earlier this year on the

“Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you ever want to send anyone.” – Rusty Russell

A sobering and important

“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin recognized the potential fate that would befall the world’s first global Fourth Estate.

“the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society.” – Vijay Boyapati

Rebooting one of the most essential Bitcoin works out there. If

“We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1962” – Roy Sheinfeld

If we look at the history of the most influential

“While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the network, it has no control over the number of users accessing the network through custodial banks. The growth of this banking layer is outside of

“ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged.” – ION Announcement

With the help of Casa and a number of other partners, Microsoft finally releases the beta of their

“What doesn’t kill the legacy monetary system only makes it weaker. What doesn’t kill bitcoin only makes it stronger. “ – Parker Lewis
If you were hoping for another installment of the incredible Gradually,

“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is far from as usable and private as it needs to be with authoritarianism and surveillance on the rise in many countries,” – Alex Gladstein

“Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught between Central Banking and Cryptography, or between accountants and programmers, there is a grave danger that efforts

“Users can now create a transaction without a signature in the Bitcoin Core GUI using the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) format” – Aaron Van Wirdum

A great piece by Aaron & the Bitcoin Magazine

“VCs are a group of people demonized in the Bitcoin industry for not understanding Bitcoin’s value proposition. Well, how do you expect a VC to value Bitcoin if they’re only used to valuing startups?” –

“authority, not truth makes legitimacy… it is truth, not authority that makes legitimacy with Bitcoin.” – Erik Cason
Today we dive into a fascinating piece at cryptosovereignty.org by Erik Cason diving into the very

“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of the token-based authentication schemes that we already have with centralized providers but do it with self-sovereign identity, which is pseudonymous and which is persistent across

“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 of immortality, or creating panaceas to cure any disease.” –