“Dark merchants would never use Lightning, right? Because well, you need a node ID, an entity… Versus Ark, you’re not a node or entity. All you are is entropy. You’re just a public key with

“The government is more than half of the economy. They control everything.What this new battleground is showing is that in the Bitcoin world, within the Bitcoin environment, they’re going to have to Samourai Wallet every

“The government and the corporate environment so desperately want us to centralize so they can they can have total surveillance and they can have backdoors into everybody’s stuff.They’re abusive and everything, but not everything’s imploded

“My thinking is always resilience. How did I make Proton resilient? And the conclusion I came to after thinking about it for a long time is actually the best way to be resilient is to

“Historically, what do nations do when they’re on a gold standard and they need to fight a war? They just suspend the gold standard. The difference is that what Bitcoin brings is this decentralization, where

“Something else has to go down in order for something to go up. That’s why it is specifically a relative weight between all of these things… You can’t just charge $100,000 dollars for something if

“Only the giant corporations are gonna have this and anybody less than a billion dollars, these won’t exist. And that was scary, I was like, this can undo what Bitcoin is doing unless we get

“You eliminate 99% of the attack surface to a single moment in time, which is the beginning. And when you do that, would-be attackers are forced to take risks and make mistakes. You know, when

“When you have a child, you care more than anyone else about that child. You’re caring about their long-term success and happiness and their health. If you look at just a first principles basis, what

This chat episode is a riveting conversation which was originally featured on The Staying Free Podcast with my friend jonnyhodl.I delve deep into libertarian ethics, anarchism, and the necessity (or lack thereof) of the state.

“The most powerful thing that Bitcoin did was establish a monetary foundation, a monetary policy that was not alterable through a shallow, short term social consensus. That the protocol determines the rules, and then everyone

Today we dive into an amazing chat around the complexities and shifts in law enforcement in a world with Bitcoin, as well as breaking down the nuances and difficulties in both the defense and prosecution

“We have the fork wars, we have a culture that understands the importance of nodes and widespread enforcement of a protocol and its rules. Unlike shitcoins, which couldn’t care less about it… So this node

“What are we actually about? It’s to an extent an open question. It’s not like the Cypherpunks knew at all. It’s part of our job to continue to try and figure it out. In a