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Issue #1335: We live in an era bereft of accountability
Bitcoin is a forcing function for accountability.
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Issue #1334: I am here once again asking you to stop catering to desperate bloggers
Do not bend the knee. Ridicule the Maoists and do it with pride.
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Issue #1333: Live Not By Lies
Do not remain a witting servant of the lies you are fed.
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Issue #1332: There is blood in the water
The United States federal government may be a lost cause, but many of us Americans have a lot left to give in terms of innovation, productivity and prosperity.
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Issue #1331: "risk-free" doesn't exist
The idea that treasuries are "risk-free" stems from the brain dead Keynesian theory that debt is just "money we owe ourselves".
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Issue #1330: Focus is Key Right Now
In the midst of all of the bank failures and the ensuing chaotic scramble by governments and central banks bitcoin has performed like a true risk-off asset.
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Issue #1329: Musings on the bank runs
Essentially, the Fed's chaotic policy bakes in sudden cascading sells into the balance sheets of the banks.
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Issue #1327: A reminder that shrinkflation isn't included in the CPI
It's much worse than they're leading on and it's happening across the world right now.
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Issue #1326: A good primer on the path from Bretton Woods to the Dollar Endgame
As Peruvian Bull highlights in his series, there is no way of solving this debt problem.
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Issue #1325: Mastercard is falling prey to the innovator's dilemma
The bitcoin network has provided the world with a closed loop payments and settlement network that can do what Mastercard does in a peer-to-peer fashion.
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Issue #1324: Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Protecting Incumbents, Not Consumers
It's time to begin pushing back against the ghouls at FATF. They should not be able to restrict financial freedom while consolidating power among those who are the biggest facilita…
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Issue #1323: Interesting joint statement on banking the bitcoin industry
I can say that this type of statement was something I was not expecting.
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Issue #1322: Debt slavery via treasuries
A slave to the whims of the tax man and his money printer.
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Issue #1321: Inscriptions and the chain state
The decision to activate SegWit, which increased the block size limit to 4MB, coupled with the decision to activate Taproot, which made it cheaper to create certain transactions, m…
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Issue #1319: Reminder: there are no reserve requirements in the banking system
A textbook "blind leading the blind" scenario.
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Issue #1318: Fedipools as a potential solution to centralization risk
It is still early days and this is nothing more than an idea at the moment. But your Uncle Marty thinks it is a very good idea that should gain traction.
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Issue #1317: NFC is allowing for more robust security models
When it comes to the potential impact a product like TAPSIGNER can have for bitcoin security I think it is going to be massive.
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Issue #1316: Bitcoiners are changing the way we interact with applications
Our excitement over this development has only grown since we first wrote about it in May of 2020.
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Issue #1315: The deepfakes are coming faster than you realize
This is a very creepy trend that will only continue to escalate from here.
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