“A distant digital descendent of zero, the invention of Bitcoin represents the discovery of absolute scarcity for money: an idea as equally unstoppable.” – Robert Breedlove

A new piece by Breedlove exploring the discovery and

“In the wake of the enormous money tsunami unleashed onto economies and societies, people have begun (rightfully) to start asking the question: What has become of money? Is money even worth anything any longer?” –

“One of the biggest lies in recent times is that inflation is good and necessary for a healthy economy.” – Mcfloogle

It was once understood that money was owned by the individual. Merely an extension

“It was a plea to all those that valued the fight for liberty and freedom. Outnumbered ten-to-one, Travis responded to a demand for surrender with a cannon shot.” – Parker Lewis

The 13th installment in

“The Federal Reserve’s market operations are ramping up by the day, and it’s using more tools simultaneously to “fix” markets than ever before. So what are these tools and how is the Fed using them?”

“I didn’t believe it when I first heard people saying that most crypto projects will fail.
Boy was I wrong.” – @Vanalli

Take it from someone who has seen “Crypto” from the inside, searching

“Make no mistake: the EARN IT Act is a vehicle to undermine end-to-end encryption.” – Elliot Harmon

A very important episode on a topic that people need to be aware of. There is a bill

“Keeping the Bitcoin network private can be thought of as an act of unity by Bitcoiners in America to help keep the network useful for Bitcoiners in Venezuela and Hong Kong — indeed, around the

“Every single co in the industry invested badly at the same time… every single competitor made the exact same mistake, in the same direction.” – Caitlin Long

If you missed the epic Twitter Thread from

“Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners in the United States of America will cross ten million. When we hit that milestone, it’s game over: Bitcoin wins…” – Cory Klippsten

Diving into

“We, Bitcoiners, are all dissidents in the Old World of trusted third parties. […] Laws of nature that are higher than man-made laws, being enforced by mathematics, have begun to reorganize a society.” – Nozomi

“Bitcoin can’t be a little bit censorship resistant in the same way that you can’t be a little bit pregnant.” – Parker Lewis.
Continuing the Gradually then Suddenly series from Parker Lewis with another

“devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app” – Colin Harper

As part of Bitcoin Magazine’s excellent set of articles on “The Technology of Dissent,” we

“To fully understand any organism, we must not only look at the organism itself, but examine the organism-environment holistically.” – Gigi

If Bitcoin is a new organism, then where exactly does it live? Is it

“A volatile currency for volatile times” – Timour Azhari

When the banks become the volatile alternative, when your rights and control over what’s in “your” bank account are a fleeting daydream, when the banks abuse

Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal, decentralized system secured by Bitcoin, for managing and proving identities

Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system that secures the most sound money in the world?

This

“If you ask me how much trust is right for the Lightning economy, the answer will always be less.” – Roy Sheinfeld

Today we dig into the recently implemented reverse submarine swaps in the breez