fossil fuel subsidies have increased, not decreased, over the last ten years U.S. direct subsidies > $20 billion / year if you want to argue about the environment, start with elected officials spending your tax dollars propping up the fossil fuel industry

Nice layperson’s overview of defi use cases

Truly unprecedented. Very few anticipated a development of this magnitude would happen in 2021. And now listening to the president of El Salvador ready to speak live on Twitter Spaces

Nuanced take from Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ on Bitcoin in El Salvador - why we should laud the *action* to support an open monetary network, but not conflate that necessarily with the *actor*

Thoughtful treatment of the coercion issue in the El Salvador Bitcoin law. Likely no intention of enforcing Art. 7 (mandatory btc acceptance), but removing it would provide certainty

I vividly invite you to read this amazing article written by ⁦⁦Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡⁩ which is a crash course on France’s neocolonialism in #Africa and ties to authoritarianism and poverty. I would like to thank Alex for interviewing me for this piece. bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoi…

Creating a high throughput transactional system isn't new or disruptive (just use PayPal). Having an uncensorable, non-confiscatable store-of-value that cannot be inflated is MASSIVELY valuable and geopolitically significant.

Nigeria is #bitcoin's most elegant use case to date. #Bitcoin solutions in entitled Western countries are the least interesting thing about #bitcoin. This great article in the The Guardian, explains why. Guidefi Black Bitcoin Billionaires theguardian.com/technology/202…

Balaji

Why Wyden over Warner? Warner’s amendment protects traditional finance: intentional chilling of DeFi through bad regulation. Wyden keeps real world crypto devs in the United States. Do we want a strong America? We want the best software builders to stay.

NYT wades into the NFT space: “I Joined a Penguin NFT Club Because Apparently That’s What We Do Now” nytimes.com/2021/08/12/tec…

NFTs seem like expensive jpegs until you see they see the human coordination they incentivize can have real world effects

NFTs continue to merge with the IRL world: Early access to custom apparel exclusively for verified #BAYC cheetah ape NFT holders 👀

This is a 🔥 thread that accurately taps into the perspective of cryptocurrency pioneers who became so disenchanted with the existing financial system that they built a new one from scratch that anyone can participate in

The early cypherpunks were living in the future

Marketing departments everywhere should be paying attention

The prospect of cheap/free permissionless payments globally is what first got me interested in bitcoin and lightning. So happy to see Strike & Twitter rolling this out

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I would have headlined it “There is now very little doubt that Covid leaked from a lab”. There’s always a smidgen of doubt about everything. My spiked article on why scientists won’t debate an accident a thousand times worse than Bhopal. spiked-online.com/2024/09/10/the…

I propose a Public Intelligence, an AI commons owned by everyone, composed of billions of local AIs, needing no permission to join and use, powered and paid for by users, trained on all the books and texts of humankind, operating at the scale of the planet, and maintained by