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Satoshi's Mistake

[Dec 6, 2023 12:00 PM] Satoshi Nakamoto is God and Bitcoin’s design is perfect. Or is it? There's one feature of the protocol that keeps bugging me: the Halvening (halving, whatever). I'm sure Naka thought this over. His first Bitcoin must have had an incremental…

Bitcoin: The Gold Standard For A Digital Age

[Dec 6, 2023 9:30 AM] The nature of money is tragically one of the most unexamined and vital questions in modern society. Over the course of history, different monetary systems have risen and fallen as technology progressed and new forms of money emerged that were…

The Most Influential Folks in Crypto Regulations

[Dec 6, 2023 12:15 AM] CoinDesk published its annual Most Influential list (it's not a ranking, except for the top 10 being maybe more influential than the other 40). I wrote a few pieces (I had nothing to do with the art and didn't know about it when I wrote the…

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

An Ocean Launch Post-mortem

[Dec 4, 2023 12:33 PM] Well, let’s just say the launch of Ocean from the social perspective was anything but smooth. The decision to filter out transactions conducting inscriptions should have been communicated clearly on launch day, instead speculation lead to a chaotic…

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…

Crypto for Advisors: Investing in Web3

[Nov 30, 2023 10:45 AM] Alex Tapscott, author of the recently published book Web3: Charting the Internet’s Next Economic and Cultural Frontier, takes us through Web3 investment opportunities in today’s Advisors.

The Rise Of Ordinals And NFTs On The Medium Of Bitcoin

[Nov 30, 2023 9:00 AM] The Ordinals protocol was introduced to Bitcoin in early 2023 at a most opportune time. Bitcoin had nearly two years of low transaction fees from the lack of demand to actually send Bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin is considered to be the most secure…

The Benefits of Building Apps On-Chain

[Nov 30, 2023 6:33 AM] Blockchain networks are information networks, which can be leveraged to build new types of tools and experiences, Variant's Alana Levin writes.

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…