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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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