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Issue #1313: The production does not justify the subsidies

With significantly less subsidies fossil fuels are producing far more reliable energy. These are the facts.

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Issue #1312: The Lightning network is gaining momentum during the bear market

Most of the world may be fading bitcoin and the layered stack being built on top of it at the moment, but it doesn't seem like those who realize its potential really seem to care all that much.

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Issue #1311: When money breaks down so does the social fabric

Fix the money, fix the world.

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Issue #1310: The potential power of Nostr

This is what the "Web 3.0" bros think they're building, but instead it's enabled by open-source protocols that make sense for the use cases and not some Frankenstein blockchain with a speculative token attached to it.

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Issue #1309: The CBDC will be significantly more inconvenient than bitcoin

In recent months I have thoroughly convinced myself that bitcoiners really need to stop running with the narrative that the CBDC world will be more convenient because it is patently false.

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Issue #1308: More discrimination against bitcoin miners

This type of repulsive and counterproductive discrimination needs to end.

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Issue #1307: Momentum is building in the bear market

If you're paying attention you should be more bullish than ever.

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Issue #1306: The evolution of miner debt financing

Here's a great piece to check out when you get a spare ten minutes. Drew Armstrong, President and COO of Cathedra Bitcoin, wrote a guest piece on Braiins' blog laying

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Issue #1305: A few notes on the Gathering of the Ghouls

This is why I write the rag. This is why I bitcoin. This is why I am building and investing in companies that bring more sovereignty to the individual.

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Issue #1304: Subsidized "renewable" energy is not sustainable

How long can the state sustain the grift?

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Issue #1303: The Saudis are looking to diversify

This move officially broke the severely cracked dam preserving the petrodollar's dominant position in the world of international oil trade.

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Issue 1302: The signs of economic stress are everywhere

Despite what many pundits would lead you to believe, the signs of overwhelming stress throughout the economy are staring you right in the face.

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Issue #1301: New difficulty and hashrate all time high

Bitcoin is reliable and in a world of increasing chaos that reliability is a godsend. I am of the opinion that the world is not properly pricing that reliability at the moment.

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Issue #1300: OP_VAULT: a new vault proposal

With OP_VAULT James is attempting to find a happy medium that makes different tradeoffs that he seems to believe is a more palatable solution than those that have been proposed before it.

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Issue #1299: The carnage is not over

When the dust settles those who decided to take the tactical approach of being focused on bitcoin-only, took manageable risk and provide actual utility to users will be cemented as the blue chip companies in bitcoin and begin to outshine the "leaders" in "crypto".

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Issue #1298: Hashrate recovered from the arctic blast

Bitcoin is beautiful. Most don't realize this yet.

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Issue #1297: Reminder: use a dedicated hardware device

There are simple ways to have an extremely high degree of security with your set up and they are getting simpler every year.

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Issue #1296: 2022 - The Year of Unraveling Scams

A lot of hard lessons were learned by people across the world in 2022.

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Issue #1295: The arctic blast affected Bitcoin's hashrate

As residential demand for electricity jumped some miners shut down their operations to ensure that residential demand could be met without throwing the grids they're mining on into crisis territory.

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Issue #1294: They're mocking you with their shameless greed

This is where your tax dollars are going, freaks.

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Issue #1293: Replit + Lighting could open the floodgates to app building

What an exciting time to be alive!

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Issue #1292: Perfectly Perverse Incentives

When people can't save their hard work in a good money they will find themselves living lives filled with bad things.

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Issue #1291: Breakaway interest payments

Be aware, freaks.

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Issue #1290: China is making a move against the petrodollar

At the end of the day, it only makes sense to settle these types of international trades in an apolitical currency that cannot be controlled by any one party or cabal of parties.

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Issue #1289: Listen carefully to the word play of the unproductive class

If you take the time to listen to the speech I hope that astonishment washes over you by the end.