The Best in Bitcoin made Audible. Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring... more
"As we discussed in Entering the Bitcoin Renaissance, our last edition, Lightning Labs CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark told The Block, “a major... more
"What are we actually about? It's to an extent an open question. It's not like the Cypherpunks knew at all.... more
"I'm a Bitcoin skeptic. I'm not buying Bitcoin in 2024, even if it goes back to its recent all-time highs,... more
"If you care about your...country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school." ~ Renato Moicano With... more
Many people make the serious miscalculation, that if the CPI isn't too high, then printing money isn't a problem and... more
"That dogma was necessary — without it the people who have built this ecosystem into what it is today wouldn’t... more
"On the face of it, Bitcoin’s existence seems to violate Mises’s theorem, unless a preceding non-monetary use can be demonstrated.... more
"Hedgehog uses relative time locks. So that if they don't have to worry about closing that channel with a relative... more
"It's going up forever, Laura." ~ Michael Saylor I know to many people that sounds crazy, and I can still see in... more
"People that are in the Western world and specifically in the United States, what they're realizing, whether they can say... more
"We know the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows we know the law is unconstitutional.... more
"You have to decide how to move forward. You have to decide what game you want to play; how much responsibility you... more
Guy Swann and Preston Pysh explore the dramatic shifts in global finance and the pivotal role of Bitcoin amidst rising... more
Fiat money has a collection of malincentives and consequences for the degrading and rotting of society. As we covered in... more
"The mechanisms enforcing this modern censorship are not confined to private sectors or individual platforms but are significantly directed and... more
"As far as I'm concerned, there's no obvious increased danger from the CCP having control over our access or our... more
"In a system that depends on irresponsible government spending (especially for perpetual war) and fiat printing to cover that irresponsibility,... more
"Bitcoin will probably crash again but it is neither a Ponzi scheme nor a bubble – it’s something far worse:... more
"Of all measurement instruments, the clock is the most valuable because so many of the things we sacrifice to create... more
"From an engineering perspective the mechanical clock with its novelty, the escapement, was by far the more important invention. In... more
I'm sure you have heard the claim that without inflation and the good people running the counterfeit machine, people would... more
"Whether you're a rekt crypto bro or a friend of fiat, there is one thing that is especially difficult to... more
"It might feel as if the promised future is perpetually out of reach, but building Lightning is a lot like... more
"Izzy said there could be inflation in a hyperbitcoinized world. And she's right. Calm down, maxis, calm down! Explaining why... more
"I'm super confident that lightning is not just the present but also the future of lightning. It is the interoperability... more
"The foregoing considerations are by no means an exhaustive account of the cultural and spiritual legacy of fiat inflation. But... more
"During the peak transaction fee times over the past month, our example transaction would be dust even for .001 BTC.... more
We had an awesome chat on Twitter Spaces where we discuss the launch of Pear Runtime, bringing Paolo Arduino, Mathias... more
"For too long, the world has had to endure the fallout of subpar academic research on bitcoin mining’s energy use... more
"NWC is useful for far more than simply integrating Lightning into Nostr applications as well. The entire design philosophy of... more
"I'm super confident that lightning is not just the present but also the future of lightning. It is the interoperability layer between... more