"This is a fancy way of saying that you need money to make markets, and you need decentralized, open, digital money to make decentralized, open, digital markets. Furthermore, higher layers require lower layers to exist, but lower layers benefit from

"I think Americans are used to seeing people arrested for bullshit technicalities and thrown in jail for long periods of time. But in the rest of the world, it is quite uncommon. For a non-US Bitcoin entrepreneur, the US is a scary and dangerous plac

"The Samurai wallet developers have been arrested. The government has responded with their opposition to the motion of dismissal in the tornado cash case. Phoenix wallet has withdrawn from the United States. Does one need to have control over the fun

"The internet assumed NOTHING and it won because it had the basic, robust, open building blocks upon which all the innovation actually occurred. The same thing has happened with Bitcoin over the last 15 years and is now starting to happen with Nostr.

"As we discussed inEntering the Bitcoin Renaissance, our last edition,Lightning Labs CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Starktold The Block, a major narrative of the next cycle will be the bitcoin renaissance, and it has already begun in full swing. O

"What are we actually about? It's to an extent an open question. It's not like the Cypherpunks knew at all. It's part of our job to continue to try and figure it out. In a way we've been given this Arthurian sword or something. This v

"I'm a Bitcoin skeptic. I'm not buying Bitcoin in 2024, even if it goes back to its recent all-time highs, or higher. Here's why."~ Ben GranBen breaks down his view of Bitcoin and why he cannot see or understand any reason it woul

"If you care about your...country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school."~ Renato MoicanoWith a surge in interest thanks the UFC fighter Renato Moicano, Mises's Six Lessons is suddenly in the popular l

Many people make the serious miscalculation, that if the CPI isn't too high, then printing money isn't a problem and doesn't really cost them anything. This couldn't be further from the truth. All it means is that the cost is just that muc

"That dogma was necessary without it the people who have built this ecosystem into what it is today wouldnt have had the motivation to do so. Without that dogma, those people would not have had customers and users to build anything for in the firs