What if the true barrier to a world of seamless micropayments isn’t technological, but psychological? In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, we revisit Nick Szabo’s classic essay, “The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments,” exploring why

New technologies demand a better imagination. Old models will break, and new, unexpected, and wild ideas will replace them. In this episode, I dive into David Bennett’s wild “Forest Walker” concept. Can Bitcoin mining actually

“This over-developed brain wiring supercharged our interest in scarce assets and our drive to obtain them. Behaviorally, this may have amounted to making us weirdos who collected seashells, simply because we couldn’t help but value

What does financial repression look like in real time — and how are people fighting back with Bitcoin?
In this episode, I read the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom Report #67, a roundup of

Have you ever felt lost in the rabbit hole of Bitcoin? In this episode, I revisit Gigi’s “21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” diving deep into Chapter 3, which focuses on technology.
What

In this episode, I revisit Chapter 2 of Gigi’s “21 Lessons from the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” taking another look at the core principles of economics through a Bitcoin lens.
We’ll explore concepts like inflation,

Returning to a classic! I revisit Gigi’s “21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” starting with Chapter 1: Philosophy. What does Bitcoin have to teach us about immutability, scarcity, and identity? Can a digital creation

What is capital, really? And what happens when Bitcoin forces a repricing of everything we think we know about it?
In this reboot episode we’re bringing back Capital in the 21st Century by Allen

“Not your keys, not your coins.”I posit that the corollary to this principle is:’Your keys, only your coins.’
A quantum capable entity breaks the corollary of this foundational principle. We secure our bitcoin with

Bitcoin’s strength lies in its core properties—trust minimization, decentralization, censorship resistance, and more. But what exactly defines these principles, and why do they matter? In this episode, I revisit Jameson Lopp’s What Are the Key

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I revisit an important concept that deserves more attention: timeout trees and their potential to revolutionize scaling for the Lightning Network.
Based on Shinobi’s article, “A Solution to

What if your heating system could pay you in Bitcoin? In this episode, I read an article exploring the concept of “heat punks”—Bitcoin miners who use their rigs not just to earn sats, but to

Nicholas Dorier brings us a short piece that is very relevant to many of our challenges today, being clear and precise about the definition of the word custody. As we have seen for decades, the

Did you know that the value and utility of Bitcoin can be trivially duplicated? At least this is what the increasingly bitter buttcoiners of the world seem to espouse, even when proven wrong over and

Tired of app stores controlling what you download and who gets paid? What if there was a way to directly connect with developers, verify the authenticity of their apps, and support them directly using Bitcoin?

I’ve wanted for a long time to understand how a DHT works, and how a P2P network is able to establish connections in a resilient, scalable, and decentralized way. So diving into it on the

We are all addicted to digits. Fiat digits, loyalty points, social media likes, stock prices—everywhere we turn, someone is trying to hook us. But what if the biggest addiction of all is the illusion of

“We owe it to ourselves.”
I truly hope you aren’t so stupid as to believe this statement when it is uttered by the frauds running the financial and political establishment. But if you never