• 21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin
    Chapter Zero

    From Gigi’s 21 Ways Project. “Above all, Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological innovation that isn’t really about technology. You can’t touch it, yet it is hard money. You can’t see it, yet it will show you a vision of the future …

    April 23, 2022
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  • 21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin
    Introduction

    Gigi’s introduction to his 21 Ways to Look at Bitcoin project. “Bitcoin is different things to different people”. The first time I’ve heard this sentence, I immediately realized its profound truth. How you look at Bitcoin – and how you understand and describe it – depends largely on your view of the world …

    April 23, 2022
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  • Bitcoin is hope

    Great place to start with a selection of awesome videos from Michal Saylor’s resources website.

    March 19, 2022
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  • Alex Gladstein – Bio & Essays

    Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009 …

    January 22, 2022
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  • Why Bitcoin is Not a Ponzi Scheme: Point by Point.

    LYN ALDEN,  NOV 1, 2021 @Swanbitcoin – One of the concerns I’ve seen aimed at Bitcoin is the claim that it’s a Ponzi scheme. The argument suggests that because the Bitcoin network is contin­u­ally reliant on new people buying in, that eventu­ally it will collapse in price as new buyers are exhausted.

    So, this article takes a serious look at the concern by comparing and contrasting Bitcoin to systems that have Ponzi-like charac­ter­is­tics, to see if the claim holds up.

    The short version is that Bitcoin does not meet the defin­i­tion of a Ponzi scheme in either narrow or broad scope, but let’s dive in to see why that’s the case.

    December 26, 2021
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  • Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma

    LYN ALDEN – Originally published: November 2021 I’ve been asked a number of times for an update for my views on Ethereum since my January 2021 article on the topic, which received over a quarter million reads. In that prior article, I described Ethereum, explained areas where I was bullish, but also expressed my fundamental concerns with it. The overall …

    December 23, 2021
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