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Issue #1355: Is there a potential inflationary lagging effect on the horizon?
Something to pay attention to as Summer rolls on.
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Issue #1354: The weather is affecting hashrate again
It will be interesting to see how much downtime miners involved with demand response programs experience this Summer.
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Issue #1353: Beware of fake apps trying to take your bitcoin
Securing bitcoin is a very serious matter that should not be taken lightly. Take your time. Do your research.
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Issue #1352: Here's a periodic reminder that you live in a two-tiered society
The dominant power structure of the world is currently run by a bunch of criminals who have the ability to do what they want with impunity.
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Issue #1351: BlackRock has filed for a bitcoin trust
The old dogs haven't proven that they're able to understand the power of bitcoin and the unique properties it possesses.
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Issue #1350: We're in the boring part of the bear market
Embrace the prolonged bear market. It will be remembered as one of the greatest opportunities to convert your fiat to bitcoin that has ever existed.
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Issue #1349: When everyone fears their government, their government has fallen
Bitcoin is the most just system that has been brought to humanity in centuries, probably ever.
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Issue #1348: The revolving door between Chainalysis and the government
Roman's fate seems to be in the hands of a well connected group of individuals who are incentivized to make Chainalysis look like an omniscient crime fighting machine.
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Issue #1347: Bitcoin transaction relay over Nostr gaining some attention
No matter what comes of this, I think it is encouraging to see bitcoin beginning to experiment with alternative communications protocols like Nostr to create some redundancies so t…
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Issue #1346: We're in the boring phase of bitcoin's build out
If bitcoin, or any of the affinity scams created in its wake, strive to be pillars of the global economy at some point this century it is imperative that the boring, un-sexy things…
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Issue #1345: Mike Green still doesn't get it
No amount of collaboration with the government and the Federal Reserve would result in a digital currency that respected liberty and kept central planners away from the levers of c…
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Issue #1344: Telling the truth will have asymmetric returns over this decade
Keep telling the truth. It's going to pay off massively for you as the fiat system crumbles.
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Issue #1343: Take on the burden now so our children don't have to
It is time for our generation to come to grips with reality.
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Issue #1342: Bitcoin doesn't come out of thin air
Luckily for us, bitcoin is here to de-fang their ability to debase our savings and self-fund their sadistic war mongering across the world.
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Issue #1341: Your mempool is full, bro.
Each individual making these decisions independently, at the same time, all across the world. It really is a beautiful thing. Truly free markets for block space with real-time, dyn…
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Issue #1340: This feels like the endgame
Everywhere one looks things look absolutely terrible for the US financial system. This feels like the endgame.
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Issue #1339: Bull market for alternative tx relay and broadcast mechanisms
To any of the freedom hating governments out there reading this on our dirty corner of the internet, good luck!
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Issue #1338: Hyperbitcoinization starts at the edges
Bhutan going public with their bitcoin accumulation strategy is a data point that lends credence to the belief that hyperbitcoinization is likely to start at the edges.
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Issue #1337: Fed Speak narrative violation
"Fed speak" is something that is taken very seriously.
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Issue #1336: They're telling you to have fun staying poor
This comment from the Bank of England may seem like an overt acknowledgement that a central bank has complete control over your purchasing power, because it is.
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