“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.” –

“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 defenders fail to defend, their battlements go unmanned, and the

Full nodes without even needing the internet? That’s right. A massive improvement to the decentralization & alternatives for securing Bitcoin validation infrastructure just dropped from the team at Blockstream.

Announcing Blockstream Satellite 2.0! Check out

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

With the foundations of the our societal structures shifting, and

“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 institution.” – Satoshi Nakamoto
To kick off the Third

“In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further.” – Dominik Stroukal
Because I love discussion of markets, prices, and the EMH, I couldn’t avoid one last article before

“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. If there were, the government would have to make its

“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 who allocates the money and prices risk. It strips power

“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 had.” – Gigi

Another great piece by Gigi (@Dergigi on

“Mycelial networks act as a resource transport layer and communications network connecting organisms in the biosphere. This enables organisms to voluntarily trade resources and knowledge across species lines. Increasing trade leads to increased specialization (division

“What the State fears above all, of course, is any
fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence”
– Murray N. Rothbard

The epic conclusion to Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the

“The greatest danger to the State
is independent intellectual criticism.”
-Murray N. Rothbard

Another piece made available thanks to the amazing team over at the Mises Institute, we dive into the first half