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The Guatemalan Government Is Taking A Closer Look At Bitcoin — All Because Of A Meme

Frank Corva -
A Nayib Bukele Bitcoin meme posted by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office went viral in Guatemala last month, and, from what I’m told, it’s prompted the powers that be in the country to begin doing their homework on Bitcoin so to craft better policy around the asset.
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Want Another Bitcoin Country? Do Something About It.

Frank Corva -
For the first time in history, you have the opportunity to support a presidential candidate who wants to put her country on a bitcoin standard.
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Why Bother Trying To Scale Bitcoin?

Shinobi -
Bitcoiners need to find a balance between pessimism and optimism when looking at Bitcoin's future, rather than embracing one or the other to an extreme.
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The lack of soft forks is due to a lack of interest— not a lack of process

Aaron van Wirdum -
Bitcoin Core developers will dedicate their time and energy to whatever part of the codebase they find most interesting or important to work on. So far, that hasn’t really been any of the soft fork proposals.
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Some Bitcoiners Need To Grow Up And Focus On Their Own Shit

Shinobi -
Stop worrying about what other Bitcoiners are doing with their own bitcoin, worry about how to accomplish what you want with your own.
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Here’s How To Talk About Bitcoin At The Thanksgiving Table

Frank Corva -
Share Resources; Don't Give Advice
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No, Michael Saylor Doesn’t Control Bitcoin

Vivek Sen -
his notion that Michael Saylor can single-handedly decide Bitcoin's fate just because of MicroStrategy's stack is simply ridiculous.
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Bitcoin Script: Focus On The Building Blocks, Not The Wild Geese

Shinobi -
Conversations around script upgrades to Bitcoin have become unfocused, irrational, and lost all serious context in the public square.
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Remembering John McAfee’s Bullish Bitcoin Price Bet as we near $100K Milestone

Mark Mason -
As Bitcoin teeters on the brink of $100,000, we revisit John McAfee's audacious $1 million prediction, exploring whether the maverick's wild foresight was sheer madness or a stroke of genius—and if his timing was the only thing he got wrong.
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Jason “Spaceboi” Lowery’s Bitcoin “Thesis” Is Incoherent Gibberish

Shinobi -
This space is full of incoherent nonsense paraded around as deep and insightful analysis, but nothing is as absurd as Jason Lowery's Softwar "thesis."
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Legacy Media’s Transformation: Why Evolution Beats Extinction

Kristyna Mazankova -
Legacy media is evolving as audiences demand transparency and independence. Bitcoin is paving the way for a new era of decentralized, trustworthy journalism.
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Gary Gensler’s Departure Is No Triumph For Bitcoin

Aaron van Wirdum -
As the upcoming Trump administration is gearing up to establish a regulatory landscape facilitating full-on anything-goes multicoinery, and with Gary Gensler gone, we could well see the most atrocious scam coins proliferate and soar— before they inevitably implode.
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