"I'm a Bitcoin skeptic. I'm not buying Bitcoin in 2024, even if it goes back to its recent all-time highs, or higher. Here's why."~ Ben GranBen breaks down his view of Bitcoin and why he cannot see or understand any reason it woul

"If you care about your...country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school."~ Renato MoicanoWith a surge in interest thanks the UFC fighter Renato Moicano, Mises's Six Lessons is suddenly in the popular l

Many people make the serious miscalculation, that if the CPI isn't too high, then printing money isn't a problem and doesn't really cost them anything. This couldn't be further from the truth. All it means is that the cost is just that muc

"That dogma was necessary without it the people who have built this ecosystem into what it is today wouldnt have had the motivation to do so. Without that dogma, those people would not have had customers and users to build anything for in the firs

"On the face of it, Bitcoins existence seems to violate Misess theorem, unless a preceding non-monetary use can be demonstrated. That is, Bitcoin would have to be first valued for its direct utility before it could hold indirect exchange value. So

"Hedgehog uses relative time locks. So that if they don't have to worry about closing that channel with a relative time lock, it's whenever you do close the channel, now you've got 2016 blocks to sweep the money using the pre-image. Other

"It's going up forever, Laura."~ Michael SaylorI know to many people that sounds crazy, and I can still see in my mind why it sounds crazy. Today, I'm going to make the argument for why it isn't crazy, but both natural and intuiti

"People that are in the Western world and specifically in the United States, what they're realizing, whether they can say it this way or not, is you're watching the end of an empire. I said this for a long time, and it's not the empire is going to collaps

"We know the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows the law is unconstitutional. FinCEN knows we know the law is unconstitutional. And yet we're supposed to pretend like nothing happened and comply with an illegal law."~ Jameson LoppWha

"You have to decide how to move forward. You have to decide what game you want to play; how muchresponsibilityyou are willing to shoulder. Do you want to stay stuck in the machine? A machine that uses and abuses you? A machine that feeds itself by