fix the money
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The Great Argentine Central Bank Smash
Latin America is a messy, culturally-rich, and prickly place. Though it is blessed with bountiful resources in its sprawling jungles, deserts, and jagged mountains, it has for most of its history been caught in the oscillating winds of colonial powers and external forces. While the 19th century saw the withering influence of Spanish colonialism against…
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Crypto Voices Episode 148: Fix The Money
This week I appeared on the Crypto Voices podcast w/ madmen Matthew Mežinskis and Alec Harris. We talked about Bitcoin and the Uniform Commercial Code, the Catawba Digital Economic Zone, bank money apps, Operation Choke Point 2.0, the events in France, and the Fix The Money newsletter. https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
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The US Treasury is Pinched for Cash and Wants Bitcoin Miners and Traders to Pony Up
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…
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Nostr: a funky decentralized protocol as the ultimate Bitcoin playground
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.…
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FTM8: “LOL you can’t unsubscribe from CBDCs”
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:…
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FTM4: The Davos crypto-crowd and the rise of Bitcoin maximalism
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…
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Getting ‘Down and Dirty’ on the Bitcoin Lightning Network
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…
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FTM2: Bitcoin is the Internet’s Native Currency
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…