More Markets, Less Regulators
If nice flowers cost a dollar would you buy them more often? If it costs $5 for someone to mow your lawn, would you outsource your lawn mowing? How many vehicles would you purchase if a nice car only cost 500 USD, or better yet, would you spend $5,000 on a jetpack that flies you […]
Have No Fear, ‘The Mandibles’ Is Here
If one has followed Bitcoin privacy advocate and podcast host, Matt Odell, then they will have certainly seen him promote the book, The Mandibles. Released in 2016, The Mandibles was the 14th novel by acclaimed writer Lionel Shriver, detailing a wealthy family’s descent into poverty as they contend with hyperinflation in 2030s America. Odell often […]
Bitcoin Busts ‘Big Brother’ Fantasy Of Billionaires
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four the totalitarian government of Oceania employs “re-education” camps to “cure” individuals deemed “thought criminals.” By erasing their citizens’ existing beliefs and replacing them with the party’s ideology, the party effectively brainwashes them into accepting the party’s doctrines and becoming experts at doublethink — the ability to simultaneously hold two contradictory […]
When A One-Armed Bandit Stole My Bitcoin
It was the fall of 2008. The iPhone was new, Flo Rida was a musical icon, and everyone under 25 was on Facebook. I was attending Tufts University as a sophomore studying International Relations. Being a lover of history and politics, my plan was to get my degree and find a job with the U.S. […]
Bitcoin And Self-Custody In The Cashless Society
An odd yet more common occurrence happened to me recently – my physical dollars were refused. As I attempted to buy lunch I was informed that the hip establishment I was at only accepted credit cards or other forms of digital payments. As someone who believes strongly in the importance of civil liberties, this movement […]
The Race to Avoid the War
This article was originally published by Cory Klippsten on SwanBitcoin.com Let us proceed — together, united, yet decentralized — and win this race, for one and all, so that we may never have to fight the war. We Bitcoiners are in a race. Perhaps the most important race we will ever run. We are racing against time to drive the adoption of bitcoin as fast as we can. We are racing toward a future […]
