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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.
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.
The BM Big Read

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.
CULTURE

Bitcoin Circular Economies and a Bridge Between Las Vegas and Peru

Pachamada -
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.
TECHNICAL

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

Shinobi -
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.
CULTURE

Nobody Orange-Pilled You — Or Me, Or Anybody

Joakim Book -
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.
CULTURE

How Companies Are Adding Bitcoin Art to Their Corporate Collections

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

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

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