Guy's Take #66 - Pooping in the Park
Bitcoin is a public good. The maintenance and stewardship of the network rests on the conviction and work of 10s or 100s of thousands of node operators who work to validate and ensure consistency amon...
3 Maj 20231h 3min
Read_727 - The Banking Crisis Stays, & the Treasury is Broke [Nik Bhatia, Joe Consorti]
"The fall of First Republic Bank was the second-largest bank failure by assets in US history, putting us in the 2008 conversation. Times are different, but the bank failures are relatable in size. The...
3 Maj 202339min
Read_726 - The Nostr Privacy Paradox [L0LA L33TZ]
"If Tor is an anonymous remailer, meaning a protocol facilitating the anonymous forwarding and receiving of messages between peers, Nostr can function as an anonymous bulletin board. CoinJoin coordina...
2 Maj 20231h 8min
Read_725 - Operation Choke Point 2.0 is Underway [Nic Carter]
"Banks are highly regulated public-private partnerships in an environment where new charters are excruciatingly hard to obtain, and as such remain de facto arms of the state. It has been and remains t...
27 Apr 20231h 46min
Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand]
"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that i hear once in a while: "Why do you use the word 'selfishness' to denote virtuous qualities of character, when that word antagonizes so many...
26 Apr 20231h 52min
Read_723 - Alchemy - Everything Divided By 21 Million [Knut Svanholm]
"Central Banking is successful alchemy in this sense. The money- issuing institutions of the world have found a way to create new money with no cost. No mining is required. They are the alchemists of ...
24 Apr 202334min
Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi]
"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation, dissemination, and transmission of information, not the exclusive ow...
19 Apr 20231h 6min
Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden]
"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already used your “carbon credits” for the month? Your “financial privileges” could potentially be re...
18 Apr 202352min
