A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it’s scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more tractable.…

It is the prospect of the sovereign individual that seems to most trouble the nation-state today. This odd threat perception has been the outgrowth of a political genealogy that, in…

The Dystopian Present – Fiat Has Made Us All Digit Addicts Everyone wants to make you an addict. Some people sell illicit drugs on the black market and want you…

BTCPay Server has just released a new documentary covering the use of bitcoin as a means of exchange this summer during the Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville. The documentary by Parker Worthington…

Introduction Introducing the Bitcoin Popularity Index (BPI), the first comprehensive search study of its kind. This index has been curated in an attempt to measure the global reach and impact…

Having invested in startups for over twenty years I have deep respect for entrepreneurs trying to build a company. It is so difficult. And more often than not, it doesn’t…

Look, I like a certain kind of Bitcoin shirt. Follow Rizzo on X https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/ Yes, the tacky ones with famous one-liners are fine, and so are the conference hand-outs. I, too,…

This post is long overdue. I talk about Bitcoin a lot. In any given week, I’ll have dozens of conversations about bitcoin with various people across different sectors. And like…

Ripcache, a pseudonymous artist, explores themes of surveillance and privacy through a 1-bit pixelated aesthetic. By examining the impact of modern surveillance in centralized and decentralized systems, Ripcache’s work examines…

CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD. Some say we live in the golden age of documentaries – certainly they are being created at a volume far higher than at any point in history,…