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Issue #594: Einstein was wrong

It appears that when other Central Bankers break the x-axis below 0.0% it creates a dash for dollars that causes things to speed up, forcing the Fed's hand with more force as the delta between the strengthening dollar and its weakening counterparts is pried open.

Issue #593: Don't fuck up the money, exhibit 147

Here's a great thread from our boi Conner Brown in which he recounts the way the founding fathers fucked up the money quickly after establishing their independence from England.

Issue #592: Good piece on Schnorr + Taproot

Learn how Schnorr signatures differ from ECDSA signatures, the current algorithm used to generate Bitcoin private-public key pairs. What a Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree is and how Taproot's construction is different.

Issue #591: A call for a return to quality aesthetics

Aesthetics in literature and art seem to be at an all time low as the masses become consumed by porn fiction like 50 Shades of Gray and a cycle of different iterations of the same superhero movies.

Issue #590: Another Lightning implementation appears in the wild

The fact that a Python implementation now exists, again, means that there are now more potential people that can build on LN.

Issue #589: Surveillance creep, so hot right now

We are witnessing the slow slide down the slippery slope towards the Chinese surveillance state. Be aware. Stay vigilant. Engage.

Issue #588: Well this is pretty dope

We may be witnessing the nascent stages of reputation systems being built on top of Bitcoin/LN that could change the dynamic of commerce and account management in the Digital Age.

Issue #587: A lesson from history

Liberty is something that must be fought for constantly. The forces of human nature are such that a few of us will be sociopathic and try to control others by taking away some of their liberties.

Issue #586: Bitcoin scary stories

Take some time to learn about the bugs that have been found in the Bitcoin codebase over the years. Problems that, if exploited, did and/or could have led to node denial of service attacks, inflation bugs, and inevitable network splits.

Issue #585: Apathy + ignorance = Bitcoin killer?

The lesser discussed Bitcoin killer, as Greg Maxwell points out, is the combination of apathy and ignorance that may lie ahead.

Issue #584: Let's all just walk away

We can build better systems. We ARE building better systems. This is why we Bitcoin. The sooner more people realize this, the sooner we can escape the insanity.

Issue #583: An anonymous hosting service emerges

I expect these types of services to become more popular in the future as the push by the politically correct tech elite to silence opposing opinions only gets stronger over time.

Issue #582: An attempt to measure real use

Useful Tulips is here to help give this fundamental more coverage. The site currently has a robust set of LocalBitcoins data that will soon be joined by a robust set of data from Paxful, the second largest P2P exchange behind LocalBitcoins.

Issue #581: Continuing that thought

While the G10 countries scramble to keep the facade of the dominant monetary system in tact as they simultaneously isolate more and more people from said system by the day, we believe that Bitcoin’s apolitical nature will shine and its digital essence will enable it to succeed where gold has failed.

Issue #580: Hoarding bitcoins is becoming part of the strategy

Behind the scenes and under the radar, smaller countries with little to lose are slowly but surely incorporating Bitcoin into their play books. Preparing for a future with a distributed apolitical censorship-resistant sound digital currency.

Issue #579: Is the Venezuelan government hoarding bitcoins?

At the end of the day, this is the uncomfortable reality of Bitcoin. It will be used by tyrants and refugees. The network has no idea who is sending messages within it.

Issue #578: Erlay may be on the way

Erlay would be a huge level up for Bitcoin's P2P layer as it would help reduce bandwidth requirements by 40% (!!), increase network connectivity, and increase privacy.

Issue #577: Was there a hashrate crash yesterday?

Yesterday's "hashrate crash" is probably more accurately described as "normal and expected interblock time variance".

Issue #576: A note on BTCPay Server

I think a lot of people in "crypto" are missing the forrest for the trees by focusing on crazy "DeFi" schemes and novel applications of "blockchain technology".

Issue #575: Bitcoin's success in perspective

The haters want to paint Bitcoin as some craze destined to collapse. They don't want you to see that the common man is participating in the greatest wealth transfer that humanity will ever see.

Issue #574: Olympus has risen

I can see this particular feature being utilized by dedicated Bitcoin pubs looking to prove a use case, but also by companies and influencers who have been deplatformed by payments providers and need a way to monetize.

Issue #573: Recent hashrate surge in perspective

Despite what some might say about Bitcoin's "shortcomings" and immaturity for the world stage, the Wiley entrepreneurs in the mining industry seem not to care one bit.

Issue #572: Signs of a liquidity crunch

The Fed feels compelled to intervene within hours to a market hiccup and continue that accommodation into a second day. Essentially conducting QE without officially conducting QE.

Issue #571: Who's going to do it?

Hey Bloomberg (I know you're reading), this is a win-win for you. If it works, you're making more money and driving more traffic to your writers. If it doesn't, you get to write another hit piece on how Bitcoin is bad.

Issue #570: Square grants BTCPayServer $100k

Many do not realize it, but the emergence of Bitcoin has enabled a very similar explosion of free innovation that is going to change the landscape of our reality.