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

What if exploitation and war weren’t merely anomalies of human society, but there was something inherent to the incentives of the fiat system, that made them inevitable?
In today’s Read we dive into Petter

“The Bitcoin community possesses a unique advantage that will ultimately allow us to prevail: not only do we have skin in the game, we have soul in the game.Our tribe of a few thousand cypherpunk

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I read James O’Beirne’s “Bitcoin Core’s Loss of Focus” and offer my perspective on its critical arguments.Has Bitcoin’s development strayed from its core mission of empowering trustless self-custody for

While impatiently waiting for my Jade Plus I started digging into the Jade docs and found a unique idea for securing a hardware wallet using a blind oracle. In the theme of our adventures breaking

What happens when the Fed’s one tool for controlling inflation, stops working? The conditions in the market and in our political institutions is such that this may be where we find ourselves. If they lower

“Imagine waking up in a world where every piece of information you encounter is carefully filtered by faceless algorithms. Your online interactions are curated not by your preferences, but by the agendas of corporations and

“Bitcoin is the most potent device ever invented for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. Be patient.” — Ross StevensRoss Stevens brings us back another brilliant piece in the Stone Ridge investment letter

“Ecash got reintroduced with the two open source projects Fedimint and Cashu. In my opinion, the main reason for this revival is the following fact: Unlike an implementation of ecash in the fiat world, that

“Ossification is complacency. Yes, we all agree that Bitcoin is great. But _I do not agree_ that Bitcoin has reached its full potential. I think complacency is one of the greatest threats to Bitcoin –

“Imagine a sports game where different players are motivated by distinct incentives, defenders aiming to pull the ball outside the field, midfielders prioritizing maximum passes, attackers focused on scoring the most goals, goalkeepers rewarded for

“This is also an interesting case study in how Bitcoin resists duplication. You can create something which looks cosmetically similar to Bitcoin, but you cannot replicate the settlement assurances which derive from the costliness of

“Panic is rising. Bitcoin, the way out of their giant Ponzi scheme, does not want to die, but the survival of the fiat system depends on the lack of an alternative. The entire system is

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and in the grand tradition of civil disobedience declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need

“How could any financial system avoid being captured by those who already hold the most power and wealth? Won’t it just lead to the same unequal system again, only in a new form?” you might

“The server owns your data, owns your account, and owns the cryptographic keys used to secure it.
That last bit is obscure, but important. Cryptographic keys are how we enforce security, privacy, ownership, and

“The market of bitcoin holders will ultimately expand to be larger than the size of any single country, and direct exchange will be possible by and between more people than ever before. That itself might