Here’s our response to the NYtimes’ “investigation” of bitcoin miners.
Enjoy.
https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/the-absurdity-of-the-nyts-latest-bitcoin-hit-piece
Thanks for sharing it 😊
When electricity arrived on scene in the 19th century, many people were afraid to use it.
U.S. President Harrison was one of them.
Harrison ordered White House staff turn the lights on/off because he believed he’d be electrocuted.
#bitcoin
- Lisa Hough
MiniBolt
Build your own “do-everything-yourself” Bitcoin full node on a personal computer, that will make you a sovereign peer in the Bitcoin and Lightning network.
No need to trust anyone else. Don’t trust, verify!
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Purchases 45,000 ASICs
American Bitcoin miner CleanSpark stated on April 11th that it purchased 45,000 Antminer S19 XP ASIC mining rigs for $144.9 million. According to CleanSpark, Antminer will complete all ASIC deliveries before the end of September.
https://www.btctimes.com/news/bitcoin-miner-cleanspark-purchases-45000-asics
How Argentina went from one of the world's richest nations to 100 per cent inflation, with 'mountains of money worth nothing'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-11/argentina-100-per-cent-inflation-crisis/102179458
Bitcoin will hit $100k in 2024, $10 million as U.S. dollar collapses, CBDCs roll out - Larry Lepard
Larry Lepard, Managing Partner and Founder at Equity Management Associates and Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News, discuss Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and how the U.S. government is going after cryptocurrencies by choking off crypto's access to traditional finance. Lepard explains how this helps pave the way for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Lepard discusses his outlook for the U.S. Dollar and provides his short term , 2 year and long term price forecast for the Bitcoin.
Bitcoin development philosophy
Bitcoin Development Philosophy is a guide for new Bitcoin developers who already understand the basics of concepts and processes such as Proof-of-Work, block building, and the transaction life cycle, and who want to level up by gaining a deeper understanding of Bitcoin’s design trade-offs and philosophy. It should help new developers absorb the most important lessons of over a decade of Bitcoin development and discussion, and provide a context for evaluating new ideas (good ones and bad ones!).
Small Transactions
Satoshi, for all his genius, made some strange choices. If we could hard fork, we could shrink most transactions by about 20%.
Exploring the Synergies Between Bitcoin Mining and Renewable Energy on Energizing Bitcoin
Justin Ballard (@JLB_Oso) and Jake Corley (@jacobcorley) talk with Foundry’s Cameron McDonald, and CWP’s Chris O’Donnell and Kieran Kemmerer about the role mining plays in stabilizing the grid and managing curtailment issues as well as being recognized as a legitimate and profitable off-take for renewable groups, utilities, and the power grid.
US Government Holds More Bitcoin Than MicroStrategy And Tesla Combined
The United States government now holds over 205,000 bitcoin, according to reports. This makes the U.S. government a bigger bitcoin holder than MicroStrategy and Tesla, with over 1% of the total current bitcoin circulating supply in its coffers. At current market prices it is worth about $ 5.7 billion.
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IMF unveils Unicoin: A global, legal tender settlement CBDC
https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-10/IMF-unveils-Unicoin-A-global-legal-tender-settlement-CBDC.html
Bitcoin Ownership: Your Private Keys to Financial Sovereignty - May 2018
There are a lot of people people who own cryptocurrencies, and then there are those who think they own these digital assets, but in actuality don’t possess the private keys because they are held with a third party. Learning how to securely archive records that hold private keys like a JSON file or exporting, importing, and sweeping can provide people with the basic steps towards really owning bitcoin.
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-ownership-your-private-keys-to-financial-sovereignty/
LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?
Do dandelions help against lions?
Escape to El Salvador
IT’S EASY TO APPLY FOR LEGAL RESIDENCY AND RELOCATE TO
EL SALVADOR
We must become barbarians
Jellyfish tribes will save humanity
The Art of Not Being Governed
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia is a book-length anthropological and historical study of the Zomia highlands of Southeast Asia written by James C. Scott published in 2009.
Brazil’s Bitcoin Beach Says Lightning Network Works Better Than Visa
A group of bitcoin true believers, and cryptocurrency newcomers, have come together in Brazil for a bitcoin experiment. It’s called Praia Bitcoinbitcoin +2.7%, which simply means Bitcoin Beach in Portuguese. In the idyllic tropical beach town of northeast Brazil called Jericoacoara, small donors and business owners try flipping the local economy from one reliant on the local currency, or the dollar, to bitcoin. This is Brazil’s version of the El Salvadoran bitcoin beach project that began on the shores of El Zonte around 2019.
Wallet of Satoshi just topped 8,000,000 LN payments to date.
It’s pretty incredible to see how quickly they’ve gone from making 10,000 payments/day to over 30,000 payments/day.
It took 3.5 years to get to 10,000 payments/day, and then only 6 months to triple that number.
Gradually, then suddenly.
Nostr: A Revolutionary Communication Protocol
As censorship throughout the world continues to escalate, freedom tech provides hope for individuals around the world who refuse to accept the status quo. This movement will succeed on the shoulders of those who choose to stand up and contribute. We will build our own path. A brighter path.