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Joseph Voelbel
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Author, PAY ATTENTION TO BITCOIN: The Rise of Digital Gold and its Place in the Evolution of Money (2024), NINETEEN STORIES (2017).
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josephvoelbel 2 years ago
This BITCONNED movie on Netflix is a smear piece against bitcoin, both in title and conflating it with the ICO scammers of 2017. Not one mention of any of the decentralized currency’s value prop, and a purposeful conflation of it with shills to restore trust in Wall Street. #bitcoin #bitconned image
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josephvoelbel 2 years ago
Snip of forthcoming book: "Perhaps money’s fluid nature spawned its numerous water-based terminologies. Assets which cannot move are said to be frozen. A person who is highly liquid has lots of cash. Holding an asset valued at less than its initial cost means you’re underwater. Just as boats are collectively stored in the port, a collection of stocks is called a portfolio. Products priced to move are said to be on sale, admittedly a mere homonym, though akin to the sails that move windblown vessels across the seas of commerce. Currency, (from Latin currere, meaning “to run”), shares the same root as current. That’s why we call it cash flow, because it’s made to move. A river’s current is directed by its banks, while currency is controlled by banks. This historical movement of the nature of money, what collectively is deemed money, is like water also directed by the path of least resistance, nature’s propensity to find the fastest way forward. With that in mind, could the current of financial progress, as it has evolved across land, water, air, and wire, be why we’ve found ourselves in this new era of cryptocurrency?”
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josephvoelbel 2 years ago
I just bought 2.4M sats. Few know how early that statement is.
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josephvoelbel 2 years ago
Ordinals night at Bitcoin Amsterdam. Still kind of in the just jpg camp but I like innovative uses of the chain.
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josephvoelbel 2 years ago
Bquittem killin it for #Bitcoin  and Lightning ⚡️at MN Blockchain’s Web3 and Law Symposium image
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josephvoelbel 2 years ago
Bitcoin Amsterdam branding was on point. Take this piece a redux of a 17th century artist, The Milkmade by Vermeer (1658) and now Bitcoin Milkmade (2023).