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A Perfect Fight: The Battle Against The Machine

[Dec 25, 2023 11:01 AM] In 1997, history was written when the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Humanity had sent its greatest warrior, a Russian, who had been world champion for a record number of years. Garry was no one…

Desert Mysteries: The Great Oil Game

[Dec 24, 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.Come with me to the land of saffron and rosewater for a story lost in the…

Fuck The Fed, Go Local

[Dec 23, 2023 11:00 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.On November 6, 2012, Washington and Colorado became the first two states in

Bitcoin As A CBDC

[Dec 20, 2023 1:00 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."What luck for rulers that men do not think.” – Adolf HitlerBitcoin will

21 Reasons To Be Optimistic About Bitcoin In 2024

[Dec 18, 2023 9:00 AM] It is hard to overstate how optimistic Bitcoin’s outlook for 2024 is. While many people may feel like they are too late (why didn’t I buy it under $100?), like they missed the opportunity, it has likely never been a better time to jump in. More…

The Difficult Adjustment

[Dec 16, 2023 7:00 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.Well, here we are. Block 800,000. None of us reading this will ever see…

Self Custody: The Future Of Defense

[Dec 14, 2023 9:00 AM] Imagine a hypothetical world where there is no established medium of exchange. In this imaginary world, people are simply bartering. However, someone approaches you and tells you, "Hey, you know tomorrow we all move to using gold as money, right?…

Bitcoin Is Koscher

[Dec 13, 2023 9:00 AM] IntroductionJudaism is based on a construct of ethical codes of conduct that are taught at weekly gatherings. Each week on Saturday mornings, Jews come together to read a weekly portion of the Torah (Old testament) to learn about the tenets of…

The Funniest Anon on Crypto Twitter

[Dec 5, 2023 2:57 PM] Gwart has the ear of DeFi’s elite. What they don’t know is that crypto’s truth-telling, funnyman is secretly a Bitcoiner.

Bitcoin vs. Marx: Two Competing Geopolitical Domino Theories

[Dec 5, 2023 11:31 AM] Marx tells us the revolution will be decentralized. The Have-nots will tire of the great inequity of capitalism, and the few thousand Haves will suffer from the worldwide rebellion they encouraged through their greed.Building central banks and…

A Bitcoin Fictional Anthology Review

[Dec 5, 2023 8:30 AM] “It’s hard,” Harry Turtledove declared in 2001, in his Introduction to The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, “to write about the effects of technology before there’s much in the way of technology to write about.” Two decades

Vote With Your Money, And Your Feet

[Dec 4, 2023 8:02 AM] Individual voting, often considered a civic duty, has a statistically negligible impact on election outcomes. Studies show minimal difference between Republican and Democratic state governments on various policy outcomes.Politicians often declare…

Everyone Needs An Uncle Jim

[Nov 29, 2023 11:54 AM] The recent decision by Wallet of Satoshi to stop serving customers in the United States brings us to a crossroads in the evolution of Lightning’s use as a consumer tool. While it is trusted and custodial, Wallet of Satoshi has been invaluable in…

Everyone Needs a Manifesto

[Nov 28, 2023 2:13 PM] Vitalik Buterin's thoughtful musings on techno-optimism contrast with VC Marc Andreessen’s recent writings.

Bitcoin: The Future Of Money Or The Esperanto Of Money?

[Nov 24, 2023 9:02 AM] Some fifty-odd years ago, I purchased a small pamphlet that promised to teach me the rudiments of “the international language” – Esperanto. The shirt-pocket sized booklet contained a half-dozen pages of grammar and a vocabulary of a few hundred…

Bitcoin: The World's First Decentralized Organization

[Nov 23, 2023 10:03 AM] Comparisons between the market capitalization of Bitcoin and publicly traded companies used to make me wince in frustration. Trying to contrast the world’s first successful digitally native currency to a single industry is narrow minded, let alone…

What Is A Bitcoiner?

[Nov 22, 2023 11:30 AM] When bitcoin adoption reaches a global scale, it is likely there will no longer be bitcoin podcasts, bitcoin conferences or even, sorry to say this, a need for a Bitcoin Magazine. However, until this point, people interested in bitcoin will be…

1 Way to Revive Dead NFT Wallets

[Nov 22, 2023 10:02 AM] Conceptual artist and legal scholar Brian Frye says inaccessible crypto tokens cannot be sold, but can be donated — with potentially significant tax benefits.

Why You Should Read 1984 (Again)

[Nov 20, 2023 8:30 AM] Despite being published in 1949 at the tail end of World War II, I think George Orwell's fictional novel, 1984, is still as relevant today as it was back then. The book is set in the fictional state of Oceania, where a dystopian future has taken…

Trump, Tucker, and Bitcoin: A Winning Ticket for America

[Nov 16, 2023 8:30 AM] If you want to trigger the establishment right and left in American politics, mention these two names together and see what happens: Donald Trump & Tucker Carlson. Now run the mental model of a Trump-Tucker ticket for a 2024 presidential bid and…