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Why Bitcoin is the Most Islamic Money

[Dec 10 5:30 PM] The Islamic conceptualisation of finance is built around a set of core principles which give primacy to honesty, fairness and accountability in trade and transactions. As such, Islamic finance seeks uphold justice, transparency, and shared…

JIPPI IS POKÉMON GO FOR BITCOIN

[Nov 20 6:12 PM] Today’s modern Bitcoin exchanges have drastically improved access to Bitcoin ownership in 2024. Gone are the days of janky peer-to-peer (P2P) trade forums and questionably secure early exchanges like Mt Gox. Instead, a legion of Bitcoin on-ramps…

The Consensus Conundrum

[Nov 15 5:00 PM] A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it's scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more tractable. I won’t rehash them here, you’re probably already…

A Nation of Individuals?

[Nov 14 6:35 PM] It is the prospect of the sovereign individual that seems to most trouble the nation-state today. This odd threat perception has been the outgrowth of a political genealogy that, in the generations since the American Revolution, has increasingly…

Will the Second Crypto President Be Like the First?

[Nov 13 5:31 PM] This is the dawning of the Age of Crypto. Again.Number 47. The Bitcoin President. The Crypto President. The Cryptocurrency President.But not: The Cryptography President.Back when the word “crypto” meant “cryptography”, the personal computer and th

I Bought Bitcoin Today – And Felt Nothing

[Nov 13 4:44 PM] I looked at my wallet and saw a sad six digits. It used to be seven, or such was the case after I rolled over the balance of my monthly expenses, dollar cost averaging into Bitcoin and then sending it to my Casa cold storage. Follow Rizzo on…

The Digit Addiction Pandemic

[Nov 12 7:02 PM] The Dystopian Present – Fiat Has Made Us All Digit AddictsEveryone wants to make you an addict. Some people sell illicit drugs on the black market and want you to become addicted to them so they can profit from you. The dealers naturally focus on…

Bhutan - Another Country Using Bitcoin To Escape Poverty

[Oct 29 4:55 PM] Having invested in startups for over twenty years I have deep respect for entrepreneurs trying to build a company. It is so difficult. And more often than not, it doesn’t work out. Developing a whole country, of course, is much more difficult. Many…

Bitcoin’s False Dichotomy between SoV and MoE

[Oct 16 1:00 PM] This post is long overdue. I talk about Bitcoin a lot. In any given week, I’ll have dozens of conversations about bitcoin with various people across different sectors. And like a pendulum oscillating every other year, the narrative of bitcoin not…

The Memecoin Supercycle Thesis Is Bitcoin Aligned

[Oct 10 2:44 PM] Murad Mahmudov is back igniting our X timelines, but you may have noticed these days the “former” Bitcoin maximalist isn’t posting much about Bitcoin. For the uninitiated, Murad is a Bitcoin maximalist, albeit one who has run the ire of the culture

Asian Bitcoiners Are Profit Maximalists

[Oct 9 12:55 PM] WHAT WE’RE READING: Blockspace Media A recent Blockspace article deeply resonated with me as someone who's lived in Asia and the West. It examined how Asia-based Bitcoiners are mostly profit maximalists, not philosophically driven Bitcoin…

Reminder to Update Your Bitcoin Wallet's Firmware

[Oct 8 12:07 PM] The smell of fall in the air, this weekend I indulged in apple delicacies, watched the changing leaves, and oh yeah, traveled to make sure my Bitcoin custody is up to date… If you follow me on X, you know that I hold Bitcoin with Casa, a multisig…

No, You Won't Find Out Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is Next Week

[Oct 4 2:46 PM] As a longtime Bitcoiner, I had to roll my eyes when I saw HBO release a trailer for an upcoming documentary, teasing to reveal Satoshi's identity. Speculation arose that it would reveal who is Satoshi Nakamoto. After seeing many half-baked attempts…

VIVEK: Bitcoin Lightning Payments Has a Long Way To Go In India

[Oct 3 12:50 PM] As an Indian Bitcoiner returning home recently, I found myself using UPI digital payments repeatedly for everyday spending. UPI (Unified Payments Interface) is India's real-time bank-to-bank payment system that has become ubiquitous for making…

Inside Lebanon’s Currency Crisis: How Hyperinflation Feels

[Sep 30 4:44 PM] Lebanon is back in the headlines as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies. Before these latest developments, Lebanon had already become a symbol of how quickly a seemingly stable society can descend into chaos. If you follow major events in…

The Three Doors: Which One Will Bitcoin Step Through?

[Sep 25 6:25 PM] Mircea Popescu is a mostly forgotten figure in this space, but he was once a very impactful cultural figure early on before he slowly faded out of the wider public sphere to eventually “accidentally” drown off the coast of Costa Rica. He was quite…

Un Ode de l’Provocateur du Bitcoin

[Sep 10 5:59 PM] Out of the ashes emerged a snarling rodent dubbed Max Punk.Open conflict, Whales besting Bored-Apes, the social layer manifest.Bitcoin leaders sent to prison, then freed by massive strike waves.HODL’ers fighting in the streets, power cuts…

Bitcoiners and Wobblies: Labor Day Edition

[Sep 2 1:47 PM] Recently, I’ve been reading about the foundations of the American Labor Movement. Specifically, the birth of the Industrial Workers of the World and a group called the Wobblies, a nickname given to IWW Members. At its peak, the IWW had over 150,000…

An Untold Story of Bitcoin in Thailand

[Aug 27 4:20 PM] In the rapidly expanding global Bitcoin community, Western biases often dominate the narrative, overlooking diverse stories from around the world. One such story belongs to Didier Somnuke, a small business owner in the heart of Bangkok, a city…