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Scaling Liberty: Bitcoin's Tension Between Ideology and Adoption

[Feb 23 9:30 AM] Since its inception over 15 years ago, Bitcoin has captured the imagination of libertarians, anarchists, and a variety of other advocates of individual liberty and financial sovereignty. To them, Bitcoin represented a revolutionary challenge to…

Why I Bitcoin

[Feb 22 9:00 AM] Readers of my blog know that I started dabbling in buying Bitcoin in late 2022.In fact, it was the best performing asset out of any of the names I wrote that I was watching for 2023. Similarly, and not to give away the suspense, I added Bitcoin…

Fiat Is Artificial Money And Bitcoin Is Natural Money

[Feb 15 11:47 AM] I attended the Bitcoin Freedom Festival in Uvita, Costa Rica from January 18th through 20th. It was a unique event that was unlike any bitcoin gathering I’ve ever attended. There were over 30 speakers during the festival so I won’t try to cover…

The No-coiner Texts Arrive: A Bull Market Beckons

[Feb 9 9:47 AM] The subtle shift in social media conversations. The mentions in the mainstream media: “Bitcoin will now be available for Wall Street investors!”. All the text messages arriving with questions about bitcoin from your no-coiner friends. Bitcoiners…

Bitcoin ETF: A Decade Of Struggle For Legitimacy

[Feb 8 11:00 AM] The crypto revolution was finally taken to new heights when the SEC approved 11 Bitcoin spot ETFs in January 2024. Global investors flooded in like never seen before, adding almost $5 billion of inflows on the first day of trading. As a result, the…

Rubin's Reubens And The Push For CTV

[Feb 7 9:34 AM] You may have noticed a new trend on bitcoin twitter lately, people changing their profile pictures to some form of a Reuben sandwich. I am going to explain what this means, why you should care and why you should consider also becoming a Reuben…

Bitcoin Is Pure Anarchy

[Jan 30 8:34 AM] Anarchy is a very dividing word to many people, inherently drawing the idea into peoples’ heads of complete and unbridled chaos. This is not on any level what Anarchy means. It is simply a system lacking rulers or a central authority, where all…

A Bitcoin Standard Unleashed

[Jan 25 10:30 AM] IntroductionThe transition from Fiat Standards to the Bitcoin Standard, though highly desirable, is not inevitable or necessarily imminent. The timing and occurrence of these changes hinge on the adoption choices made by individuals, organizations…

Don't Break Userspace!

[Jan 19 9:46 AM] “Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never…

Energy And Bitcoin: An Integrated Analogy

[Jan 12 9:30 AM] Have you ever looked at the stars and noticed how everything in the universe seems connected? Famous inventor and engineer, Nikola Tesla, thought that this connection is all about energy, how often things vibrate, and the way they move. I believe…

Surviving The Bull Run

[Jan 11 10:45 AM] We all have a journey to Bitcoin. Some started as sound money advocates who adored Austrian economics and gold. Others fell out of the TradFi world when they knew something wasn’t quite right. Most Bitcoiners have gone through trials and…

Why I Am Already A Nostr Maximalist

[Jan 10 12:45 PM] After being inspired by a podcast with Preston Pysh and Will Casarin in January of 2023 I experienced my first interaction with ‘the nostr’ using a rather clunky interface. Since that time, nostr has gradually become more user friendly and an…

Blue Check Manifesto

[Jan 8 3:00 PM] This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Click here to download a PDF of this article. Click the image above to subscribe! Freedom is not granted; it is taken…

Then They Fight You

[Jan 8 7:30 AM] All great revolutions encounter resistance as social change moves its way through the people. This can happen gradually then suddenly, but resistance will be there. People do not easily change their world views. We (Americans) are about to…

Developers Don't Work For You

[Jan 5 11:46 AM] I have a feeling that I am going to be writing a lot on this topic in general for the foreseeable future, but the philosophical and existential crisis currently confronting the Bitcoin space over what constitutes “spam” is starting to have massive…

Bitcoin As A 21st Century Piece Of Eight

[Jan 4 9:00 AM] Many commentators compare Bitcoin with gold, the idea being that its finite supply makes it an attractive long-term store of value. There have been historical examples of broad adoption of gold currencies, such as the British Empire’s sovereign and…

What Gen Z Thinks About Bitcoin

[Jan 1 11:40 AM] One of us is from Kentucky and the other from China. We both attend Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Last summer, we assisted Professor Seth Cantey, also a co-author of this piece, with research on the roles of bitcoin and Tether in…

Quality Or Equality?

[Dec 30, 2023 8:00 AM] This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Click here to download a PDF of this article.Which way Western Man?“Equality… belongs essentially to decline: the cha