"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is... more

"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same... more

Bitcoin is ultimately just a piece of software, the network – the global, censorship resistant, immutable system – is ultimately... more

"The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further,... more

"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can... more

I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade... more

There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution,... more

"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated... more

"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment... more

"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across... more

"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re... more

"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there... more

"For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-understood... more

"This context highlights the importance of the 1920–1921 depression. Here the government and Fed did the exact opposite of what... more

"But for me, when I think about what Bitcoin’s properties are as a store-of-value asset and then compare those properties... more

"People are very quick to project technology adoption curves onto Bitcoin. But the problem is that Bitcoin is not just a technology.... more

I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted... more

Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how... more

Nostr, OP_VAULT, decentralized media, privacy, the incredible progress of the past few years, the challenges of making Bitcoin hardware, why... more

"Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users... more

Not your keys, not your coins. What does this mean? Your Bitcoin keys are literally the keys to the kingdom. They... more

"If Fedipools prove to be viable we could find ourselves in a world where bitcoin mining pool centralization risk is... more

"This is the end of Lightning as a niche technology and the beginning of Lightning as a (ubiquitous) Service. In a... more

"Furthermore, when Bitcoiners develop privacy and scaling technology for Bitcoin, we make it substantially more challenging for anti-coiners to make... more

One thing to make abundantly clear: Nostr is a protocol. It’s a set of rules that servers and clients use to communicate... more

In order to truly understand why Bitcoin works, we must understand a fundamental tool that operates at basically every level... more

"But, I keep coming to the same conclusion: We are here for this movement. We are here to build a... more

"To wit, we have raised the debt limit 22 times from 1997 to 2022. Yep, we’ve raised the limit 22 times... more

Mathias and Paolo join us for a Twitter Spaces AMA to answer all of your questions about this cutting-edge technology.... more

WEN MOBILE!? No more do we have to ask because Keet mobile has finally arrived! Download from the App Store... more

"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