Iran chose Bitcoin over stablecoins because it can't be frozen. The sovereign debt crisis just entered a new phase.

Civilization is produced by us, not by dominance hierarchies.  Rulership survives on human vulnerabilities. Civilization survives on human virtues. No matter how much publicity equates rulership with civilization, they are fundamentally opposed. The Fundamentals…

I’ve advised people to get and stay out of debt for a long time, but even so, I didn’t fully understand the affects of debt until the Covid time. As the mayhem spread, I struggled to understand the level of compliance with what would have been, at any other…

US yields screaming. Japan breaking. Bitcoin at $76K. On a risk-adjusted basis, it has never been cheaper.

While most people missed it, there was a thriving gold economy in the early 2000s. It was centered around e-gold (a system for trading digital gold) and it involved billions of dollars per year in transactions. It was also a magnificent adventure. Below you’ll…

People remember Bruce Lee as a fighter or as a movie star. But as it happens, he was also a thoughtful man. Bruce had his gaps and flaws, of course, but he also left behind a lot of useful thoughts. And since so few people know about these ideas, I’ll cover…

Everything we do changes the world, of course, and I remain a strong advocate for kindness. Nonetheless, we need to face the fact that the children’s book version of “be kind and change the world” hasn’t worked. Wars and crime proceed as they have since the…

“Love one another.” You hear it all the time. But while it’s nice that it’s said, people don’t do it terribly well. It’s a hard thing for them to hold in mind. They can get serious about it from time to time (and again, a good thing), but doing it consistently…

AI data centers aren't raising your bill. State energy policy is. Bitcoin miners already learned the playbook AI companies are fumbling.

Most people know the what about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks – that they publish secret information – but they don’t know the why. And that’s a great loss, because the reason behind all the leaks is both brilliant and illuminating. It Usually Starts with…

ARMA bill: revalue gold from $42.22 to $4,528, buy 200K BTC/year for 5 years, lock for 20 years. Budget-neutral. 21 cosponsors.

Things have begun turning around, but I’m leaving this up.  Christianity, as people in their 60s and 70s have observed, was pushed off the public stages of the West over the past two generations. At this point, whoever speaks well of it in such places must…