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Cypherpunks (Don’t Just) Write Code

HeidE -
If they wish to be effective in enacting change in the world, cypherpunks must do more than just write code.
NEWS

Maria Corina Machado Wins Nobel Peace Prize — Could She Become the First ‘Bitcoin Nobel’ Winner?

Micah Zimmerman -
Venezuelan opposition leader and pro-Bitcoin advocate María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for democracy.
PRINT

The Biggest Bitcoin Pizza Day Celebration Ever

Shinobi -
Bitcoin is an extremely powerful tool, that can genuinely change a person's life. Brindon Mwiine tells a story of how it did so for orphaned children in Uganda.
TECHNICAL

Why “Ecash Coffee Day” Is No Longer Just a Celebration but a Call to Action

Obi Nwosu -
Four years after someone bought a cup of coffee with ecash, the privacy technology being built on top of Bitcoin continues to improve. From Fedimint and Cashu to new protocols like BitVM, developers, activists, and users are uniting to ensure that transactional privacy with Bitcoin is available to all.
CULTURE

Bitcoin Gives Me Hope, Says Knut Svanholm in Bitcoin Magazine Exclusive Interview

Joakim Book -
To Knut Svanholm, Bitcoin is an agreement on a fixed set of rules that’s costlier to break than to follow. All human action is ultimately a conversation about resolving conflicts over perceived scarce goods. What both Bitcoin and reality teaches us is that it’s so much better to cooperate than to use violence to solve those conflicts.
CULTURE

Bitcoin Core vs. Bitcoin Knots: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Shinobi -
Knots proponents claim to be supporters of Bitcoin's decentralization and its use as censorship resistant money, but their actions do not align with that claim.
The BM Big Read

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.
CULTURE

The Feed Isn’t the Future: Rethinking Nostr Through Tools, Places, and Real-World Use

Aleksandar Svetski -
Nostr has the potential to become the social layer of the internet and beat the incumbents at their own game. Despite early momentum from figures like Jack Dorsey, Nostr usage is flatlining in 2025. What's the killer app?
The BM Big Read

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.
The BM Big Read

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.
CULTURE

Satlantis is the Discovery App I’ve Been Looking For My Whole Life

Jordi Llonch Esteve -
Traveling, digital reviews, flyer miles and an ad-infested internet are all broken systems. At Satlantis, we’re building the Nostr-fueled app for all travel-hungry Bitcoiners that fixes all of that.
The BM Big Read

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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