“The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of the
“Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open financial
“Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side,
“For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and
“This context highlights the importance of the 1920–1921 depression. Here the government and Fed did the exact opposite of what the experts now recommend. We
“But for me, when I think about what Bitcoin’s properties are as a store-of-value asset and then compare those properties to the existing store-of-value assets
“People are very quick to project technology adoption curves onto Bitcoin. But the problem is that Bitcoin is not just a technology. It’s not just
I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted about the challenges and future
Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how do they relate to your
Nostr, OP_VAULT, decentralized media, privacy, the incredible progress of the past few years, the challenges of making Bitcoin hardware, why bear markets are the best
“Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users at the time running on
Not your keys, not your coins. What does this mean? Your Bitcoin keys are literally the keys to the kingdom. They are everything, they are
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