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Mark Cuban had quite the encounter with Bitcoiners on Saturday. What was astonishing wasn’t his opposition to Bitcoin or even his promotion of Doge, bu…
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Vitalik Buterin made the news again, criticizing Bitcoin Maximalists about their support of El Salvador. The post is obviously a way to rationalize his…
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Janet Yellen made some noise earlier this week about a possible unrealized capital gains tax. To the uninitiated, a capital gain is made whenever a goo…
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Rent-seeking is a common feature of any fiat economy. This is because there’s a large pot of money to be gained through Cantillon effects, and that mea…
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I had a really interesting conversation with some people the other day about something I really know very little about: dating apps. Dating apps are a …
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Trust is a weird thing. We in Bitcoin preach that you should aim for trustless systems, and indeed, that’s what Bitcoin offers. It is a monetary system…
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I left my church about a year ago in large part because of their promotion of some doctrine that I disagreed with. I recently met with some people that…
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The hero’s journey for every Bitcoiner follows a certain arc. You learn about it, then go down the path of trying to figure out how to get it, maybe ta…
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One of the most interesting essays I read the past few years is this one by Paul A. Cantor, which is, surprisingly, a literary critique about a short s…
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The biggest “DeFi” “hack” ever was on the Poly Network across multiple chains that amounted to $600M in value. The smart contract was obviously flawed …
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The infrastructure bill has a Bitcoin clause in it and the clause has absolutely blown up. The particulars of the clause and the various amendments the…
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Bitcoiners like to say “verify, don’t trust.” This is not just lip service, as thousands of users all over the world run full nodes. Unfortunately, the…
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