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Bitcoin Is Koscher

Introduction Judaism is based on a construct of ethical codes of conduct that are taught at weekly gatherings. Each week on Saturday mornings, Jews come together to read a weekly portion of the Torah (Old testament) to learn about the…

Inscriptions: The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease

Ever since the infamous Taproot Wizard 4mb block bitcoiners have been alight, fighting to try and stop inscriptions. Inscriptions are definitely not good for bitcoin, but how bitcoiners are trying to stop them will be far worse than any damage…

An Interview With KPMG’s Brian Consolvo

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. Click here to download a PDF of this article. Tuesday, August 29th @ 11:36 AM The following is an interview with…

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Are Coming Soon. How Will They Be Redeemed?

BlackRock and Grayscale recently met with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), presumably to discuss the approval requirements for their spot Bitcoin ETF applications. Coinbase, which offers both Bitcoin custody and Bitcoin brokerage products, has emerged as the proposed custodian…

Defending The Undefendable: The Censoring Miner

What do prostitutes, blackmailers, slumlords, and Bitcoin miners who censor transactions all have in common? What if I told you that they are modern-day heroes of the free market economy, bravely providing their economic services despite facing universal scorn and…

Preston Pysh: How To Actually Get Free Speech

Like most things, it’s hard to talk about the solution if we don’t properly define the problem first. So, let’s start there. Last week, Elon Musk and Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted an hour-long interview full of awkward and strange moments.…

Cash App Releases Its First Ever Bitcoin Focused Magazine

In an era desperate for financial literacy, Cash App has taken a “kneaded” step with the launch of “BREAD,” a free zine that fuses financial education with culture. The inaugural issue, aptly titled the “Bitcoin Issue,” promises to demystify the…

The Money Fight

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. I always find it funny when I am attending a Bitcoin event like Bitcoin 2023 — or next year’s Bitcoin 2024…

Duplex Democracy

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” ― H.L. Mencken Voting is sometimes fake, sometimes real.…

Satoshi’s Mistake

Satoshi Nakamoto is God and Bitcoin’s design is perfect. Or is it? There’s one feature of the protocol that keeps bugging me: the Halvening (halving, whatever). I’m sure Naka thought this over. His first Bitcoin must have had an incremental…

A Bitcoin Fictional Anthology Review

“It’s hard,” Harry Turtledove declared in 2001, in his Introduction to The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, “to write about the effects of technology before there’s much in the way of technology to write about.” Two decades…