“If you control the money, you control the purchasing power. Which, in turn, allows you to control most other things. […] In short: you can decide who will be deplatformed from society. In the most

Sometimes a story isn’t what it seems… and that’s exactly what happened in Take_100.
In this follow-up, I revisit the mysterious movement of 80,000 Bitcoin and unravel the confusion sparked by a misleading legal

Almost $9 Billion in Bitcoin just moved for the first time in 14 years, and it seems like the person who moved them, are not the original owners. Did quantum just break something in Bitcoin?

What if everything you think you own in the financial system—your stocks, your retirement, your savings—could be taken away in an instant, not because of your own mistakes, but because the institutions holding them are

In this episode, I break down one of the most contentious mempool debates in Bitcoin’s recent history — the proposed removal of OP_RETURN limits. I explore what the change actually means, why it’s causing such

Life has been hectic lately, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging! While I navigate the joys of parenthood, I’m bringing back a classic – Guy’s Take #44 – Bitcoin is Not What you

It’s easy to complain about what hasn’t happened yet or what problems are still to be solved. And it’s also hard to have humility, recognizing that maybe how and when we imagined a problem would

Today, Ross Ulbricht breathes the free air again. What does the story of Ross Ulbricht reveal about justice, freedom, and the early ethos of Bitcoin? I thought I would take a little time to delve

Roger Ver went on tucker carlson recently to discuss how the government infiltrated Bitcoin development, took over the protocol, and killed its potential to ever be electronic cash. He wrote a book titled Hijacking Bitcoin

“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 –

“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.”— Ron Swanson
Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that Bitcoin teaches, and one that is more clearly true the older I get,

Was a recent break-in at a luxurious hotel just a coincidence, or a targeted attack on a Bitcoiner? We should expect that bitcoiners will be targeted. If not by governments, then simply by thieves, scammers,

You’ve likely been fed the narrative that inflation stimulates spending, benefits the economy, and that government expenditures have a profound ‘multiplier effect.’ This is often accompanied by an oversimplified explanation of how a money printer