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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.

Comparing Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to legacy credit card processing makes it clear that Lightning settles payments much more efficiently and affordably.

History is not always some ancient moment in time. It is constant and changes rapidly over the course of time. We get to witness some of it in the present.

If money is language, then bitcoin is English. It has a potential to scale that no other currency has and is the native currency of the internet.

By replacing reliance on third parties in a trustless way, Bitcoin adds a layer of non-intermediated trust to the infrastructure of the internet.

Lightning is poised to seamlessly integrate into our everyday operations much in the same way the internet has.

The competition breaks the first rule that makes Bitcoin so powerful in the first place.

Could Bitcoin stick it out like a roach, or would a worldwide collapse lead to the inevitable demise of Bitcoin?

Like the printing press before them, the internet and Bitcoin’s blockchain innovation are irrevocable forces driving the end of nation-state power.

There are monumental changes coming to the world, and Bitcoin serves to defend the individual’s interest.