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A Response to Sir Tim Berners-Lee: We Can Fix the Web Without Regulation

Conor Mulcahy -
Tim Berners-Lee suggests the web’s flaws requires regulation to fix. But the problem doesn't lie in design alone: The entire fiat-based monetary system exerts pressure that distorts incentives and has shaped the web’s trajectory in ways Berners-Lee may not fully appreciate.
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A Circular Economy and the Four Archetypes of Bitcoiners

Fernando Motolese -
Trying to build a Bitcoin circular economy in Brazil and lobbying politicians led me to uncovering four archetypes of Bitcoiners: the coordinators, the market pragmatists, the monetary purists, and the Bitcoin minimalists. Here’s what I’ve learned.
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The Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere

Steven Reiss -
Bitcoin did not emerge in isolation. Its logic — consensus over authority, rules over rulers, time as structure — belongs to a century of experiments once carried out in the avant-garde. Bitcoin wasn’t an accident of code but a century-long attempt to imagine systems beyond authority.
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The Ethics of Immutability

Mark Stepheny -
Bitcoin’s unalterable ledger is a technological mirror of the philosophical idea that our actions, once done, become part of the tapestry of history and of who we are: The concept of immutability calls us to an ethics of accountability as well.
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Freedom of Mind and Freedom of Money: Inside Costa Rica’s Growing Bitcoin Circular Economy

Gabriel Kurman -
An extract from the newly released book "Bitcoin Circular Economies," the Costa Rica chapter discusses Bitcoin Jungle, a circular economy in Uvita, Costa Rica, and Bitcoin as a spiritual path. Like all the stories in this book, it’s a story of hope built on the sovereign money of the future.
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How to Think About Bitcoin Treasury Companies: A Bitcoiner’s Dilemma in the Age of Rampant Speculation

Joakim Book -
With bitcoin treasury companies bringing Wall Street into hype mode and new Saylor contenders launching weekly, what's a Bitcoiner supposed to do? At this, our fiat end times, mNAVs games and regulatory arbitrage are either a recipe for disaster or the blueprint for unbelievable wealth.
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Even Robinson Crusoe Understood the Price and Value of Money

Knut Svanholm -
Money is key to markets, enabling trade and economic calculation. Its value, its purchasing power, is eroded by inflation, which benefits the connected at the expense of savers.
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When Bitcoin Picks a Political Side: Faith, Freedom, and the Fault Lines of Political Power

Jason Maier -
When Evangelical Christians got Reagan elected in 1980, it didn't end well for them. Bitcoiners supporting Trump can learn from this historic partisan capture.
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Pooling in OP-CAT’s World

Walt Smith -
BM Big Read: If Bitcoin wants to become more than a store of value, it can’t rely on just five mining pools; opening the door to even-handed satsflow to miners is critical.
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Bitcoin and the Next Wave of Institutional Capital

André Dragosh -
BM Big Read: Adoption, valuation, and the lay of the financial land in bitcoin and institutional capital.
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How CoinJoin Anonymity Can Be Undermined Using Clustering

Yuval Kogman -
BM Big Read: CoinJoins, Bitcoin's most established anonymity feature, leaks more information than people think.
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Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Bubbles

Joakim Book -
BM Big Read: You are the yield that the bitcoin treasury companies are chasing. Their earnings stem not from revenue but from new investors.
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