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1/ My essay "Fighting Monetary Colonialism with Open Source Code" is live.France controls 15 African nations and 180M+ people through the CFA franc currency. The details are shocking.Can Bitcoin be

1/ It is *really important* to understand that Bitcoin is very different from Dogecoin.Some are making jokes comparing the two, especially as Doge has outperformed BTC + ETH this year.Many

1/ While doing research for my essay on the negative externalities of the petrodollar, I learned a huge amount. Much of it was shocking or surprising.Here's a thread with a

1/ In a new @Telegraph column @jamestitcomb claims that it is "hard to argue that Bitcoin has lived up to its mysterious inventor’s early intentions as a world-changing financial protocol"

Thread on the folly of fighting COVID-19 w/ surveillance: 1/ Is there an independent study showing that digital contact tracing has, all things equal, been a big help? As opposed

1/ I just finished reading The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver. It is probably the single greatest work of recent fiction that helps you understand why we need Bitcoin and decentralized,