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A Circular Economy and the Four Archetypes of Bitcoiners

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 Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere

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.

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

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 Ethics of Immutability

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.

Freedom of Mind and Freedom of Money: Inside Costa Rica’s Growing Bitcoin Circular Economy

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.

Bitcoin Circular Economies and a Bridge Between Las Vegas and Peru

To anyone stuck thinking bitcoin is only for speculators or tech bros: come to Peru. The real Bitcoin story isn’t only written in conference halls — it’s unfolding in circular economies forgotten by the banks, but now remembered by Bitcoin.

Stop Pretending Bitcoin Self Custody Is Easy, It’s Not

Bitcoin self custody is a bedrock principle of the system, and while the ease of it has greatly improved in the last decade, it is not a solved problem.

Nobody Orange-Pilled You — Or Me, Or Anybody

Everybody’s Bitcoin journey is different, and yet for most of us it’s difficult to find a specific moment that changed us — there was no orange-pill moment.

How Companies Are Adding Bitcoin Art to Their Corporate Collections

Bitcoin art and Bitcoin corporations don't seem to mix. But for decades — indeed centuries — companies have collected art to express their role...

Which Way, Bitcoiner? On Purism vs Impact and Size vs Irrelevance

Purists always accuse the successful of ”selling out.” But success means mainstreaming, and we need Bitcoiners at every level of the orange-pilling funnel.

Bitcoin Independence Day: Is Bitcoin History Being Forgotten?

Is Bitcoin history being forgotten, and the lessons of events like the UASF being forgotten? Do people remember Bitcoin Independence Day?

Copycats and Builders: Bitcoin Adoption in Africa And What Must Change

Africa: There are currently 150+ Bitcoin adoption and education initiatives across the continent, many of them look impressive online but only a few lead to actual Bitcoin adoption.

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