We’ve all heard the slogan, “United we stand, divided we fall” hundreds of times. It is portrayed as wisdom, but in fact it’s generally false. If you require a mass of bodies to charge another mass of bodies on a battlefield, unity matters. But when you want…

Block hits 800K merchants. Aven launches BTC credit up to $1M. DOJ backs off developers. Musk v Altman begins.

(Originally published October 12, 2022.) I prefer to focus on building the good rather than identifying the bad. But there is also a place for understanding what is happening in the world. (“Wise as serpents, innocent as doves.”) This piece, written by one…

Late last week, the US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released more than 100 pages of formerly-classified documents, showing that then-President of the United States, Barack Obama, ordered intelligence reports to be manufactured and to…

Cashu creator Calle: ecash mints inside enclaves mean operators can't access the bitcoin. Hal Finney's RPOW vision, finally realized.

The dominating systems of our world require us to feel weak, afraid, and insufficient. They couldn’t continue if most of us didn’t feel that way. And so the friends and operators of these systems must suppress the opposite thought: that we are not inadequate.…

(Originally published in October of 2022, and tragically still necessary.) This is not something I ever wanted to write or even imagined writing. And yet, here we are. I’ve been receiving a stream of reports from wildly divergent sources, all saying the same…

40,000 customers. 7 merchants. Every $1 in BTC rewards returns $10+. Small business owners, pay attention.

Yes, I know that it seems the Internet has swallowed the world, but that isn’t quite true. What actually happened was the opposite: The world captured the Internet. If that still sounds backwards to you, please stay with me. I’ll begin making sense of it…