This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.

PoS chains will naturally centralize validation among exchanges, ETFs, and other custodians resulting in chains secured by the easiest companies to regulate.

Thought of the week from Marty Bent: Open source distributed systems take a lot of time and effort to build. Thought of the week from Matt Odell: The trick is

The powers that be are beginning to clamp down on capital. Make sure you have bitcoin before you need it.

Enjoy the holiday season with your family and friends. Have some good conversations. Good conversations are good for the soul.

Attacks against bitcoin users, businesses, and infrastructure by major world governments should be expected. They should also be in the threat model of any other network that dreams of competing with bitcoin.

Bitcoin will usher in an era of energy efficiency the likes of which the world has never seen.

This is the time to start carefully noting the people who have come out of the woodwork to let us all know that Bitcoin is, in fact, dead.