A Bitcoin Fictional Anthology Review
“It’s hard,” Harry Turtledove declared in 2001, in his Introduction to The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, “to write about the effects of technology before there’s much…
Vote With Your Money, And Your Feet
Individual voting, often considered a civic duty, has a statistically negligible impact on election outcomes. Studies show minimal difference between Republican and Democratic state governments on various policy outcomes. Politicians…
ZBD Launches Bitcoin Prize Pool For 1047 Games’ FPS ‘Splitgate’
ZBD, a New Jersey-based gaming technology company built on the Lightning Network, has announced a partnership with indie gaming studio 1047 Games to enable bitcoin payments for players of Splitgate,…
Everyone Needs An Uncle Jim
The recent decision by Wallet of Satoshi to stop serving customers in the United States brings us to a crossroads in the evolution of Lightning’s use as a consumer tool.…
Bitcoin: The Future Of Money Or The Esperanto Of Money?
Some fifty-odd years ago, I purchased a small pamphlet that promised to teach me the rudiments of “the international language” – Esperanto. The shirt-pocket sized booklet contained a half-dozen pages…
Bitcoin: The World’s First Decentralized Organization
Comparisons between the market capitalization of Bitcoin and publicly traded companies used to make me wince in frustration. Trying to contrast the world’s first successful digitally native currency to a…
What Is A Bitcoiner?
When bitcoin adoption reaches a global scale, it is likely there will no longer be bitcoin podcasts, bitcoin conferences or even, sorry to say this, a need for a Bitcoin…
State Adoption: A Trojan Horse Challenging Core Tenet’s Of Personal Liberty
The saying “government will ban Bitcoin” is one of the most frequently used pieces of FUD. It is something that every Bitcoiner intellectually wrestles with on their journey down the…
Milei’s Presidency: Implications For Argentina, El Salvador, And Bitcoin Adoption
On November 19, 2023, Argentine voters elected Javier Gerardo Milei, an Austrian economist known for his candid and unconventional style, as their new president. He ran on a platform promising…