There’s a lot of crazy things happening in the world right now. Between random shortages of everyday goods, official inflation rates peaking above 6% on a year over year basis, the persistent threat of business lockdowns, and a national shift in the make up of the labor force, it’s hard…

During Bitcoin 2021 I had many long conversations about the future of bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Lightning seems to be on the verge of massive (dare I say mainstream) adoption. Lightning payments are fast, cheap, and easier than Venmo. Strike is indistinguishable from magic. Entire countries have started betting…

While bitcoiners have been arguing about the merits of the bitcoin protocol’s energy efficiency and debating bitcoin skeptics out of existence, a new threat is emerging against bitcoin’s narrative. And it’s happening right under our noses. That threat is Ethereum. With Ethereum’s price skyrocketing due to the protocol’s biggest upcoming…

It recently occurred to me just how legitimate the bitcoin space has become. For years, interacting with bitcoin felt sorta risky. Exchanges were constantly getting hacked. Offline bitcoin storage was mostly reserved for hardcore tech geeks. Knowledge highlighting bitcoin’s value proposition circulated through unknown chat forums. And there wasn’t much…

The best way to win a nuclear war is by preemptively striking your opponent before they are prepared, hitting them so hard that they have no ability to respond with a counter-strike. This is a 0 to 100 total war event, where one day everything is “normal” and the next…

For nearly a decade, 100,000 has held an indomitably divine standing among many in the bitcoin ecosystem. It is, perhaps, the turning point for the industry as a whole. The fulfillment of a centuries old prophecy. The moment when traditional finance will have no other option but to admit that…

Bitcoin’s price rise over the last decade has started to mint a new class of elite. This is an elite that is on the precipice of owning some serious “fuck you money” — an amount of capital that makes the holder entirely unbeholden to anyone or anything. Bitcoiners are mercenary…

Perhaps one of the largest power distorters on planet earth is money. If you own a bunch of it you have significantly more power than a neighbor who owns none of it. Like they say, money talks. And in America, it doesn’t just talk, it bites. The United State’s position…

Before the media swoops in over the coming weeks to label the January 6th protestors who broke into the U.S. capitol building as “fascists” or “radical terrorists”, or “conspirators in a coup”, I think it’s important to catalogue what we really saw. And that starts with the events of the…