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Bitcoin’s Economy Is Already Is Circular

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When viewed through the lens of necessity, we can better understand Bitcoin’s progression toward a broader, circular economy.

This is an opinion editorial by Aleks Svetski, author of “The UnCommunist Manifesto,” founder of The Bitcoin Times and Host of the “Wake Up Podcast with Svetski.”

Bitcoin is the perfect money. It embodies all of the properties and functions of money:

  1. Store of value (SoV)
  2. Medium of exchange (MoE)
  3. Unit of account (UoA)

…and does so in a way that any person or participant, from anywhere in the world can:  Read more...

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Forget Politics, Stop Asking For Permission And Lean Into Bitcoin’s Utility Instead

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When one considers the state of the Union today, it doesn’t really seem like there is a viable path to affect change via the political process.

The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1281: “Posture from a position of strength.” Sign up for the newsletter here.

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Could Rishi Sunak Be Bitcoin’s “October Surprise?”

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The new English prime minister could spark interest in bitcoin within a country that desperately needs it.

This is an opinion editorial by Jacob Kozhipatt, a YouTuber and writer.

The phrase “October Surprise” is used in politics to describe a last minute, paradigm-shifting event that occurs a month before an American election. For example, in 2016, the FBI reopened their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, an event which many argue led to her loss in the 2020 election. In 2020, then-president Donald Trump contracted COVID-19, just weeks before the November election.  Read more...

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Bitcoin’s Utility Is Easy To See When Traveling Around The World

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When visiting emerging markets, it’s easy to observe bitcoin being used by locals. Sometimes it takes getting outside our comfort zone to shed our biases.

This is a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Joe Hall to talk about Bitcoin Amsterdam and his experience seeing bitcoin being used in Africa.

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Bitcoin’s Lightning Capacity Soars, Why The U.S. Plays A Big Role

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One of the largest Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) node operators, River Financial, recently posted a report on this second-layer payment solution. Previously conceived as an experiment used by savvy BTC holders, the LN is quickly becoming a key component in this blockchain’s ecosystem and its potential ticket into the mainstream.

The report defines the LN as a second-layer Bitcoin solution that enables users to send and receive transactions off-chain, “without needing to wait for on-chain settlement”. This solution was created to improve BTC’s payment scalability by allowing entities to quickly transact in small amounts of the cryptocurrency without relying on block settlement.  Read more...

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Block By Block: Facing Life In Prison, Bitcoin’s Resilience Inspires Me

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“Through the rise and fall of Silk Road, through the relentless years of my incarceration … Bitcoin keeps going.”

This is an opinion editorial by Ross Ulbricht, the founder of pioneering Bitcoin marketplace Silk Road, who is currently serving a double life sentence plus 40 years in federal prison.

Much more is being said about Bitcoin these days than when I was put in prison. On October 1, 2022, I started my tenth year locked in this cage. Right now, as I put pen to page, the afternoon sun beams through the bars of my window and the murmur of the other prisoners snakes under my cell door.  Read more...

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Bitcoin’s Accumulated Momentum Is Going To Be Hard To Stop

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While “the smartest people in the room” scan the horizon, bitcoiners are out there actually building the future they want to live in.

The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1259: “Bitcoin is action. The accumulated momentum is going to be hard to stop.” Sign up for the newsletter here.

This morning I listened to a recent Macro Voices podcast with Brent Johnson from Santiago Capital. It was a very good conversation about the state of the global economy, particularly focused on the dollar’s relative strength against other currencies and how things may play out as the dollar continues to strengthen as prophesied by the “Dollar Milkshake” theory. Here’s a link to the episode for those interested.  Read more...

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Understanding Our Current Monetary System And Bitcoin’s Value Proposition

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In order to understand Bitcoin’s potential role in the future, we must understand the monetary system of the present.

This is an opinion editorial by Taimur Ahmad, a graduate student at Stanford University, focusing on energy, environmental policy and international politics.

Author’s note: This is the first part of a three-part publication.

Part 1 introduces the Bitcoin standard and assesses Bitcoin as an inflation hedge, going deeper into the concept of inflation.

Part 2 focuses on the current fiat system, how money is created, what the money supply is and begins to comment on bitcoin as money.  Read more...

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Bitcoin’s Incentives Are Perfect

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Bitcoin’s incentives are clear and fair, while proof-of-stake has contrasting incentives that are the same as the current system where the rich get richer.

This is a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Tomer Strolight and Nico to discuss the Ethereum merge and how it proves that bitcoin and eth are completely different assets and whose networks have very different architectures.

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Bitcoin’s Quiet Revolution: The New Renaissance

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Bitcoin offers the opportunity to present a new version of reality inextricably tied to a new way of determining value, especially for artists.

This is an opinion editorial by Stefan Dzeparoski, an award-winning international director and creative producer.

This article owes its inspiration to the essay “A Quest for Social Truth” from “Bitcoin is Venice” by Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers.

“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.” — Morpheus  Read more...

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With Accelerating China Issues, What Is Bitcoin’s Place In Macro?

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Pakistan is facing a similar fate as Sri Lanka and the Taiwan situation is heating up. Geopolitics can give us a glimpse into bitcoin’s role in macroeconomics.

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“Fed Watch” is a macro podcast, true to bitcoin’s rebel nature. Each episode we question mainstream and bitcoin narratives by examining current events in macro from across the globe, with an emphasis on central banks and currencies.  Read more...

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Building Nigeria’s Bitcoin’s Village

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Entrepreneurs in Nigeria are building on the country’s growing interest in BTC and establishing Bitcoin Village, a safe haven for Africa.

Nigeria is a unique country in West Africa, geographically situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. Inflation is currently over 18%, and money debasement is sometimes a daily occurrence. If you’ve never had a backpack full of useless naira, you wouldn’t understand.  Read more...

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Galoy Brings U.S. Dollars To Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

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In addition to its new bitcoin-backed U.S. dollar balance on Lightning, Galoy also announced a $ 4 million raise.

Galoy Inc., the team behind the wallet of El Salvador’s Bitcoin circular economy Bitcoin Beach, is adding a new feature to that infrastructure: bitcoin-backed synthetic U.S. dollars.

Often seen as a need among citizens of developing countries, a representation of the U.S. dollar backed by BTC promises to enable anyone to hedge against the daily volatility of bitcoin. While it can be argued that bitcoin is the better currency and could be used as such in daily transactions, some see value in saving in BTC and spending in USD –– and Galoy’s new product feature, Stablesats, allows users to do that all on Bitcoin.  Read more...

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Honey Badger Should Care: Why Bitcoin’s Price Action Does Matter

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Despite repeated statements from Bitcoiners that price does not matter, the price of bitcoin is fundamentally a measure of its success.

This is an opinion editorial by Joakim Book, a Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, contributor and copy editor for Bitcoin Magazine and a writer on all things money and financial history.

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