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How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom

“It had a big impact on May, who melded the “Other Plane” with “Galt’s Gulch” from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which was a safe haven for rational and productive people protected from government coercion and taxation by an invisible shield. Instead of the Colorado mountains, May’s cyberspace Galt’s Gulch would exist on the internet, with cryptography providing protective cover.” – Jim Epstein

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Multisig Appreciation Day

“When compared to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds or “fine art” that act as stores of value for many individuals, bitcoin that is held in a multisig wallet is an obvious step-function improvement in many regards.” – Marty Bent

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Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover

Breez wallet makes some major announcements today with their first release candidate of the wallet into the wild. Bringing the dream of a fully non-custodial, user-friendly, super easy to use Lightning wallet for anyone coming into Bitcoin. So many new features to go over in this one and talking about the future of lightning and how we can close the UX hurdle. This is not to be missed. Follow Roy Sheinfeld and Breez on Twitter so you dont miss future announcements!

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Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole

“Value is a strange concept because while it is arguably very real, it is entirely subjective, and because of this there is no yardstick or kilogram to measure it against.” – Knut Svanholm
Another from the amazing collection over at Citadel21.com , we dive even deeper down the rabbit hole with Knut’s piece. What does it even mean to measure value with Bitcoin as our totem? What happens to prices in a perfectly finite monetary good? What would a future where the growth and productivity of the economy were captured by the money, rather than stolen by our money masters?

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Crypto, Truth & Power

“I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto, Whoever he/she/it/them is/was, was first and foremost a strategist of the cypherpunk traditions. This is extremely important because we need to understand the motivational ideology was not one of any sort of state capitalist nature, or idiotic wealth fantasies of lambos and other childish bullshit, but an explicit crypto-anarchist one .” – Erik Cason

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Bitcoin Isn’t Slow, Its Highly Secure

“So the next time somebody says that “shitcoin X” is faster than Bitcoin or claims that Bitcoin is slow, show them the criteria that truly count in a decentralized network.” – Vlad Costea

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The Great Plague of Shitcoinery

“Battles in the money market aren’t about incremental technology features, but fundamental monetary properties. Bitcoin is a pragmatic monetary evolution, which contrasts with shitcoin issuers misrepresenting a delusional technology revolution.” – Thibaud Marechal

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A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics

“Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with all of their scary language about fraud and risk, when I send an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to you, it will get to you, no matter what. There is no point of censorship, seizure, or control.” – Alex Gladstein

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Things Bitcoiners Don’t Want to Hear

“I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surfaces that are not being worked on in terms of creating solutions and defenses.” – Shinobi

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On Bitcoin’s User Experience

“Some concepts are essen­tial, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” – Gigi

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