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Issue #657: Bitcoin, The Real Green New Deal

Don't fall for the empty platitudes of woke chainers looking to scam you out of a glorious future.

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Issue #656: Don't let them control you

The attacks on your Liberty are coming from every angle. The clock is ticking. United we stand. Divided we fall.

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Issue #655: In defense of assholes

Nice people looking to "do good things" should be met with heavy skepticism. They trend to ruin good things.

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Issue #654: POWSWAP, REAL DeFi

Truly smart contracts and DeFi brought to Bitcoin. Done correctly with minimalist design that doesn't rely on a 3rd party oracle. Bitcoin is the oracle. The haters are in disbelief!

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Issue #653: Truly smart contracts

Don't let the shiny toys distract you. Think.

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Issue #652: Fundamental refresh Wednesday

Why do individuals decide to put in the effort to acquire hardware to mine bitcoin?

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Issue #651: They're not even hiding it anymore

After reading the above blurb, I was half expecting Ashton Kutcher to knock on my door, ball tap me and scream "Punk'd!" in my face.

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Issue #650: Soft fork activation talk begins to simmer

Hopefully this stokes conversations about other potential improvement proposals that many are anticipating may be activated.

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Issue #649: Widening the bottom of the funnel

The amount of quality content available for people looking to learn about the how and WHY of bitcoin is bountiful.

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Issue #648: Hardware is key for this revolution

Everything is all well and good until Amazon is forced to stop running code associated with any GitHub repository holding code that makes cryptocurrencies operational.

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Issue #647: A good "is the halving priced in" take

Bitcoin isn't priced in because most of the world doesn't understand bitcoin.

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Issue #646: Some action on the Liquid sidechain

We may be witnessing the beginning of another Tether migration from ERC20 to Liquid.

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Issue #645: Laws that are too dumb to enforce

Fortunately, bitcoin is here to fix this. But only if we fight for it and, most importantly, use the privacy preserving tools that come with it and can make the current laws in place too dumb to enforce

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Issue #644: The year of PSBT?

Incredible signs that this tech is interesting to work with and, more importantly, extremely useful for people. Expect the proliferation of innovation around PSBT to pick up exponentially in 2020.

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Issue #643: Shedding the booster rockets

We are still very much in the middle of "The Great Build Out". Luckily, the booster rockets are helping to secure the network as The Great Build out of the Cypherpunk Field of Monetary Dreams is underway.

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Issue #642: Oh how far we've come

Take a step back. Put things in perspective. Think. You'll realize Bitcoin's success may be inevitable.

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Issue #641: The capital controls get tighter

Do you really have control? Or are you passively wandering through a labyrinth designed to make you act in certain ways?

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Issue #640: A peek into the future

Don't let the haters scare you when it comes to the future of bitcoin's fungibility. If you're paying attention, the future is bright.

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Issue #639: Run Bitcoin from space: a tutorial

We could be sent to the Stone Ages for an extended period of time with very little effort.

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Issue #638: The War on CoinJoins is here?

Time and time again throughout Bitcoin's first decade, we have seen exchange after exchange pop up that promise a service without any KYC/AML compliance only to attain a certain scale, draw the ire of regulators, and force the compliance restrictions on their users.

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Issue #637: We may be too far gone

We need to build systems that give users control of their data. We need to create a social movement towards personal data storage.

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Issue #636: Again, why do we put up with this?

Psssst... Bitcoin gives you control.

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Issue #635: Opportunity costs exist

The Scambrian Explosion isn't going to fizzle out because people suddenly come to the realization that world built on barter tokens doesn't make any sense.

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Issue #634: Check in on corporate debt

As the debt fueled system continues to become more fragile and as those in control of the system continue to loot from the masses, I find solace in the fact that we are able to find safety in sats.

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Issue #633: They're scared of... stablecoins

Respectfully, I think the ECB should allocate any resources they're thinking about spending on creating a stablecoin and use them to fund a local Bitcoin dev.