US Government Frames Bitcoin Privacy As “Criminal”
In another unfortunate turn of events for anyone hoping their right to privacy to be protected as guaranteed by the US Constitution, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, or applicable…
Bitcoin Is A Possession, Not Property
Property arises naturally, through labour (transformation of matter) and through the peaceful exchange of individuals. It is a foundational concept that enables human action by allowing individuals to satisfy needs…
Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Server Now Easier to Integrate with React Apps
BTCPay Server has come a long way since Nicolas Dorier first decided to build out a software project with the goal of obsoleting the payment processor BitPay in response to…
Runes: An Attempt At A Serious Protocol, Or Another Children’s Toy?
Casey Rodamor, the creator of the Ordinals protocol and reference implementation, recently dropped a proposal for a replacement to the BRC-20 fungible token protocol: Runes. It took roughly seven hours…
Digital Asset Infrastructure as a Success Factor for Financial Institutions
Andy Flury is founder and CEO of Wyden, a company providing institutional trading technology for digital assets. Over the past nine months, Bitcoin has seen a surge of around 50…
The Future Of Energy: Bitcoin Mining
“Time-series analysis (Stern, 1993, 2000) shows that energy is needed in addition to capital and labor to explain the growth of GDP. But mainstream economics research has tended to downplay…
Energy And GDP: You Have To Consume To Grow
This piece continues from A Most Ridiculous World: The Politicization of Energy from yesterday. Feeding the Grown and the Growing Stern, Burke and Bruns (2016)7 concluded in their analysis that…
A Most Ridiculous World : The Politicization Of Energy
“That Would Be The Road To Hell For America.” I will never not enjoy that clip. “Clown world” has become so much more than just a meme. Here in the…
French Restaurant Seeks to Drive Bitcoin Adoption, Accepting Only BTC for High End Menu Item
Can Bitcoin possibly rhyme with tradition? This new currency is so young and so different from the usual dollars and euros, that for most people it seems disconnected from the…
The Subtle Art of Orange Pilling
Throughout the years, I have presented the case for Bitcoin to a lot of people from a wide range of backgrounds. The list includes curious cab drivers, financial advisors, young…