"Today no money in the world fully performs all three services. National currencies are being used as means-of-payment and standard-of-value... more

Sure, everyone tells me that bitcoin is a new technology. That it's magic money for the internet and tokens you... more

"All of this is important because there has been a resurrection of Burns-type positions in the current debate about the... more

"Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything... more

"But as with all new technology, it can be incredibly hard to explain what’s actually happening, without getting too complex.... more

Today we break into the racket that is the IMF and World Bank monetary imperialism. Piggy backing off Gladstein's remarkable... more

"Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological... more

The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts... more

Bringing back one of my favorites today that I mention often but we haven't covered in a very long time.... more

How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter... more

"Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation; it is the permanent solution to inflation, and those are two very different... more

"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it... more

"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could... more

"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization... more

This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR... more

"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows... more

"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system... more

"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more... more

"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3... more

"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in... more

There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are... more

"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov... more

“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few... more

"We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of... more

"One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant... more

"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level... more

On the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended... more

"As the Web became much more complex, we now engage with multiple companies for each of those functions. Including all... more

"The primary work undertaken by thieves to maintain their systems of thievery is manipulation. Deceit and lies are the tools... more

"They used to own everything, and in a way they still do; the media, the banks, the NGOs, the international... more