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In his State of the State speech last month, Gov. Kevin Stitt praised the diversified economy of Oklahoma as an achievement and a goal for his administration. And while the governor strives to make Oklahoma the “most business-friendly state,” it’s not difficult to see how that reputation has wavered. Oklahoma is ranked 42nd in Forbes’ recent list…
Joe Biden’s 2024 budget wants higher taxes on Bitcoin mining firms, more IRS surveillance, and wants to ax tax-loss harvesting for crypto traders. At a staggering $31.6 trillion, the United States is the single most indebted entity in the history of Earth. Unless there are still some highly leveraged firms on Jupiter HODLing trillions in…
In this article, BPI Visiting Fellow and Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski illuminates the evolution of state level Bitcoin policy. As legislators focus on Bitcoin, they attempt to balance policy with various entrenched interests. Because it separates state from money, Bitcoin is inherently a political animal. Bitcoiners may not want to interact with…
If I were to venture a guess, would you consider yourself a HODLer? For most of you, that’s probably a solid hell yes. You probably have a well-guarded stash of Bitcoin in cold storage with geographically distributed private keys, or a solid hardware signing device with your seed phrase engraved into metal and locked away….
Block height: 776352 This episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the Podcast Index. Subscribe in your podcast player by adding the direct RSS feed. https://www.fixthemoney.net/p/ftm8-lol-you-cant-unsubscribe-cbdcs#details Niko and Yaël broadcast from Vienna, running through the latest happenings on the Fix The Money substack, the casino clown world, and Bitcoin in action: Recent Fix The Money articles:…
One of the most powerful books I’ve read in the past decade is likely not well-known by Bitcoiners, but it should be. Rather than yet another tome on monetary economics, timechain basics, or the history of seashells or rocks as money, this book is about control and authority. More specifically, it’s about the governing class…
When Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced lawsuits against fossil fuel companies in 2020, the moment was ripe. Reports on elevated greenhouse-gas emissions were stark, demonstrating both a warming planet and causal evidence that fossil fuels were a lead culprit. The lawsuit led by Ellison’s office aims to hold accountable “companies responsible for harms associated…
Sometimes free individuals just need a monetary alternative they don’t need to trust One of the more apt points made by Bitcoiners is that people in stable-monied nations with functioning markets and the rule of law aren’t the target market for a decentralized digital money based on proof of work. At least until this point,…
The green candles are adding up and another block has cleared the mempool. For this edition of the Fix The Money podcast, Niko and Yaël cover the latest articles from the Substack: Recent articles: Getting ‘Down and Dirty’ on the Bitcoin Lightning Network May the fireworks continue: three trends in Bitcoin that will strengthen in…
In the blocksize wars of 2015-2017, the Bitcoin protocol became trapped in opposing manifestations. The quandary? Could Bitcoin scale effectively scale to compete with Visa, Mastercard, and the traditional banking and credit system while still providing its decentralized, cryptographic benefits? As Blocksize War author Jonathan Bier explains, the more corporate-aligned “big blockers” — Coinbase CEO…
The degrowther cacophony of environmentalists, bureaucrats, and supposed consumer advocates has found a new enemy to protect you from: the gas stove in your kitchen. As spelled out by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. in a recent Bloomberg interview, a federal “ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern…
https://fixthemoney.substack.com/p/ftm2-bitcoin-is-the-internets-native?sd=pf It’s January 3rd, Happy Birthday Bitcoin! 🎉 Today we open a new chapter on this newsletter/podcast. I sit down with my good friend Yaël Ossowski who has been the second author on “Fix the Money” for a while. Yaël is a long-term Bitcoiner and freedom advocate who’s been actually using Bitcoin in his daily…
Bitcoin is a savings technology. The paradigm shift afforded by Satoshi’s innovation was the ability to claim absolute and sovereign ownership. A major cryptocurrency exchange on the brink. Another shuttered after outright fraud, deception, and criminal behavior. Yet more feeling the heat of digital bank runs. To outside observers, the world of Bitcoin and its…
In a courtroom in San Joe, California today, the US government squared off against a social media company and grilled that company’s CEO about its investments in another technology company, and its general business strategy for the new field of wearable virtual reality. The app in question, the fitness VR app Within, is poised to…
CCC Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski interviewed on Hot Talk 99.5FM (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) by host Joe Catenacci. -The story of Krampus and other fun Christmas traditions -The FTX fraud and fractional reserve banking -Bitcoin will keep calm and carry on, block after block December 19. 2022
When the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried this week, it ended a nearly 2-month-long drama. Bankman-Fried’s unethical business setup between his hedge fund Alameda Research and crypto exchange FTX (including the 130 related companies now in bankruptcy) were enough of a worry for the broader cryptocurrency economy and devotees…
Canadian forest management is an envy of the world, routinely atop the global standings for stewardship and sustainability, writes Yaël Ossowski and David Clement. With an immense land mass filled to the brim with natural resources, Canada is bountiful with energy and industry that provide dividends for its citizens. Whether that means reserves of oil,…
This week I was invited on the podcast and live YouTube show “Wednesday Night Live,” talking all things vaping, harm reduction, innovation, and advocacy. It was a fun, live chat that lasted 2 hours! Oh boy. Enjoy below:
When political progressives address topics like inflation, taxes, or corporate wrongdoing, they claim to speak for the people. Whether it’s the working class or minorities, progressives aim to shape government policy to protect those at constant risk for exploitation. But when these same individuals, such as U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), turn their focus to…
I’m invited on HeardTell with madman Andrew Donaldson to discuss the collapse and fraud of the crypto exchange FTX.