
Chat #46 – Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property in the age of Bitcoin
“I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I’m like ‘I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,’ it’s ingenious right?” – @NKinsella

“I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I’m like ‘I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,’ it’s ingenious right?” – @NKinsella

“Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply schedule. Any alteration produces something that is decidedly non-Bitcoin.” – Nic Carter
Nic does it

“As we conclude our “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the use of digital signatures and of the CoinJoin paradigm to explore concepts of

“The same is not true of the current monetary system. In the current structure, dollars can either be earned by delivering value to others within

“By manipulating price levels, the Fed isn’t just preventing smaller intermittent fires from naturally running their course while creating larger fires down the road. Instead,

Bringing back an old post for Hal’s Day. 6 years ago today we lost Hal Finney. This post was one of his last on the

“In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the idea of using digital puzzles as a way to reproduce scarcity, and

“Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and

“We need to be able to disassociate from our identities to protect ourselves. We need the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves. We need the possibility

“ignorance or delusion is one of the three causes of our suffering (the other two are attachment and aversion). So when we are deluded about

Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it’s “hardness.” By

“We find the global acceptance, brand recognition, ecosystem vitality, network dominance, architectural resilience, technical utility, and community ethos of Bitcoin to be persuasive evidence of
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