“I am illustrating the horror and simplicity of the lie. You are led to believe that you own something, but someone else secretly controls it as collateral, and they have now established legal certainty that

“It is important to note that what is exposed here is not conjecture. It is found in authentic primary source documents, in which the planners themselves lay out their plans. … You are about to

What if the real issue is actually much deeper than how to deal with spam? Everyone is arguing about mempool settings, who gets to decide the policy, what spam is, can it be filtered, and

Have you ever been tempted by the glittering world of crypto, with promises of easy money and astronomical gains? This week, I’m diving into a thread from someone who’s been in that world for 12

What if the true barrier to a world of seamless micropayments isn’t technological, but psychological? In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, we revisit Nick Szabo’s classic essay, “The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments,” exploring why

New technologies demand a better imagination. Old models will break, and new, unexpected, and wild ideas will replace them. In this episode, I dive into David Bennett’s wild “Forest Walker” concept. Can Bitcoin mining actually

“This over-developed brain wiring supercharged our interest in scarce assets and our drive to obtain them. Behaviorally, this may have amounted to making us weirdos who collected seashells, simply because we couldn’t help but value

What does financial repression look like in real time — and how are people fighting back with Bitcoin?
In this episode, I read the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom Report #67, a roundup of

Have you ever felt lost in the rabbit hole of Bitcoin? In this episode, I revisit Gigi’s “21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” diving deep into Chapter 3, which focuses on technology.
What

In this episode, I revisit Chapter 2 of Gigi’s “21 Lessons from the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” taking another look at the core principles of economics through a Bitcoin lens.
We’ll explore concepts like inflation,

Returning to a classic! I revisit Gigi’s “21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole,” starting with Chapter 1: Philosophy. What does Bitcoin have to teach us about immutability, scarcity, and identity? Can a digital creation

What is capital, really? And what happens when Bitcoin forces a repricing of everything we think we know about it?
In this reboot episode we’re bringing back Capital in the 21st Century by Allen

“Not your keys, not your coins.”I posit that the corollary to this principle is:’Your keys, only your coins.’
A quantum capable entity breaks the corollary of this foundational principle. We secure our bitcoin with

Bitcoin’s strength lies in its core properties—trust minimization, decentralization, censorship resistance, and more. But what exactly defines these principles, and why do they matter? In this episode, I revisit Jameson Lopp’s What Are the Key

In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, I revisit an important concept that deserves more attention: timeout trees and their potential to revolutionize scaling for the Lightning Network.
Based on Shinobi’s article, “A Solution to

What if your heating system could pay you in Bitcoin? In this episode, I read an article exploring the concept of “heat punks”—Bitcoin miners who use their rigs not just to earn sats, but to

Nicholas Dorier brings us a short piece that is very relevant to many of our challenges today, being clear and precise about the definition of the word custody. As we have seen for decades, the

Did you know that the value and utility of Bitcoin can be trivially duplicated? At least this is what the increasingly bitter buttcoiners of the world seem to espouse, even when proven wrong over and