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Issue #1228: Deleveraging bitcoin before the world de-levers
The price drop is definitely a bit jarring, but it's nothing new.
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Issue #1227: If at first you don't succeed, blame the productive class
People are too busy waving the flag of the month, judging other people, and spouting nonsense to take the time to realize that the world is crumbling apart around them.
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Issue #1225: Confidence is dropping quickly, is hyperinflation around the corner?
I am in no way predicting that we will see hyperinflation in the near-term.
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Issue #1224: A consumer credit crisis seems to be building
A precarious predicament at best and the set up for a violent doom loop at worst.
3 min read
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Issue #1222: The Fed is officially scared of bitcoin (or quietly trying to endorse it)
Maybe it's a low-key veiled endorsement of the next reserve currency of the world.
4 min read
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Issue #1219: They're either incompetent, liars, or incompetent liars
Either way you slice it, the situation seems pretty... bad.
3 min read
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Issue #1218: Bitcoin awareness is very high. Better education is needed.
Shoutout to Block Inc. for putting together this research and sharing it with the public.
3 min read
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Issue #1217: Q1 2022 Monetary Base update
This is an extremely impressive feat for an alien monetary technology that was dropped on humanity a little over thirteen years ago.
3 min read
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Issue #1216: Stop seething, start acting
I'll be the first to admit it, I often find myself mad as hell online. Raging into the void against the machine.
4 min read
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Issue #1215: The central bankers are filled with nervous laughter
In the last decade and a half the central bankers have proven to be completely incompetent.
4 min read
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Issue #1214: Silent payments
This would provide increased utility for those looking to receive bitcoin payments with better privacy assurances and less interactivity with the chain.
2 min read
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Issue #1212: Save a friend, tell them to get out of the Coinbase casino
I would call it a shame, but it's really worse than that.
3 min read
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Issue #1211: The competition isn't very transparent
The public should know how decisions are being made because those decisions have material effects on the ability for people to save or simply operate within the economy.
4 min read
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Issue #1210: Bitcoin gives you control. That's the fundamental value.
Knowing that I actually control my money is a type of peace of mind that a fully "stable" monetary good being controlled by corrupted middlemen simply cannot provide.
3 min read
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Issue #1208: What you're witnessing is the cascading of interconnected risk
This is getting crazy...
7 min read
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Issue #1205: The IMF is extorting countries and pushing them to ban bitcoin
These people are ruining humanity.
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