Just dropped Parts 1 & 2 of my deep-dive into #Softwar by #JasonLowery — the 400-page MIT thesis the U.S. DoD reportedly pulled for national security reasons. This is the start of a 5-part series unpacking bitcoin from a new lens guaranteed to blow your mind! 🤯🧵👇 https://medium.com/@penglunds/softwar-by-jason-lowery-hard-forking-human-civilisation-part-1-5-eb4cf79240fe #Bitcoin #Nostr #growstr #proofofwork #planetarycomputer #btc #thesis #lowery #bitpower #abstractpower #physicalpower

Read my independent contribution to @The Progressive Bitcoiner about everything that’s wrong with banking today! Title is a tribute to Tarek el Diwany’s book by the same name.✊🌟 Link👇

The Progressive Bitcoiner

The Problem with Interest

A rigged financial system that systematically fuels inequality — this is how it work, why it must change, and how we may do just that with Bi...

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The perverse reality is that the hidden tax of monetary debasement fosters the greatest dependency of the people on the government, not when it succeeds, but precisely when it fails to serve them. #nostr #inflation #bitcoin #btc #grownostr #growstr

“When the unstoppable force of AI-driven deflation meets the immovable objective of inflation, we must choose between more for less or less for more.” Read my New Year’s piece!👇🌍 #BTC #bitcoin #deflation #inflation #nostr #grownostr #decentralisation #soundmoney #article https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-defining-test-of-our-time-scarcity-or-abundance-b37a088b7d3a

Check out @npub1e3nc...t37a‘s new episode about one of my articles! Translated into Spanish! 🇪🇸🙏⚡️ It’s available on Fountain and Spotify, and more! Make sure to follow Audiobits and check out all the other episodes! Thank you for sharing! Feliz Navidad!🎄 #grownostr #bitcoin #btc #podcast #nostr #audiobits #grownstr

Fountain

Audiobits - Lecturas sobre Bitcoin • #24. Cómo Bitcoin apela al defecto más profundo del viejo sistema [Petter Englund] • Listen on Fountain

Lectura en español #hispano del artículo: "Cómo Bitcoin apela al defecto más profundo del viejo sistema", por Petter Englund. Este es un aporte...

Merry Christmas from Kenya! 🎄🧑‍🎄

Does anyone have or know of anyone with a spare ticket to Africa Bitcoin Conference? @afrobitcoindotorg Booked my flights yesterday night, only for us to hit 100k while I was asleep and tickets sold out! 😩🇰🇪 Please reach out if you do!! Happy 100k day! ❤️ #bitcoin #btc #help #abc2024 #abc24 #nostr #africabitcoinconference #grownostr #nairobi #kenya

Welcome to the Museum of the Future!

Medium

What is Broken Money?

The hidden truth about the type of money that steals your blood, sweat, and tears and gives it away for free

#brokenmoney #bitcoin #btc #inflation #grownostr #nostr #deflation

“If sound money crystallises your blood, sweat, and tears into a claim with the implied promise that it can be exchanged for future value of your choosing, whenever and however you decide — what is broken money?”

Medium

What is Broken Money?

The hidden truth about the type of money that steals your blood, sweat, and tears and gives it away for free

#BTC #bitcoin #fiat #inflation #brokenmoney #soundmoney #nostr #growstr #grownostr #deflation

Bitcoin’s scalability was always envisioned to be solved in layers: the blockchain for security, Lightning for speed, and Fedimint for privacy. 🌏🚆 Discover how apps like @Fedi, led by @Obi 🔅 Nwosu, are shaping the future of money! https://medium.com/thecapital/bitcoins-transportation-system-how-lightning-fedimint-solve-scalability-5ba5a7fb896b #Fedimint #Lightning #Fedi #FediApp #BTC #Bitcoin #nostr #grownostr #BitcoinLightning

“Imagine a world where people collectively decide not to fund wars—not through tireless protest or legislation—but by peacefully opting into an economic system that makes it not only impossible but irrational to do so.” #theimpossibletrinity #theimpossibletrilemma #fiat #fiateconomy #soundmoney #bitcoin #btc #nostr #grownostr #war #conflict #environment #decentralization

Medium

Island Economics: Why Exploitation & Perpetual Wars are Rational Under FIAT

Why are exploitation and perpetual wars rational choices in today’s economy? I will explain why.

”If the wealthy and powerful can use their wealth to buy Bitcoin, won’t they end up controlling this new system just like they dominate the current one?” #soundmoney #bitcoin #inflation #nostr #grownostr #fiat #btc https://medium.com/@penglunds/opting-in-how-bitcoin-appeals-to-the-old-systems-deepest-flaw-to-peacefully-transform-it-910cd1b4ed62

”The question you have to ask yourself at the end of all this is: Are these values — this incorruptible system that offers a paradigm shift by inherently incentivising sustainability — worth protecting? If you care at all about the environment, the answer isn’t just a modest “yes” — it should also include an acknowledgment that nothing has probably been more worthy of protection than this, which means no use of energy has ever been more justified.”

Medium

If You Care At All About the Environment, You Must Support Bitcoin

It’s time to set the record straight about Bitcoin’s revolutionary transformation of environmental sustainability.

#environment #bitcoin #mining #bitcoinmining #climatechange #nostr #sustainability #nature #virungapark

“In All Along the Watchtower, by Bob Dylan, the joker and the thief ride against the establishment. This time, they’re not alone.” Read & share my latest piece on why Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for Peace! ☮️🌏🌎🌍🙏 https://medium.com/@penglunds/satoshis-gift-to-the-world-a-trojan-horse-for-peace-199402d548d8 #bitcoin #btc #soundmoney #fiat #satoshi #immaculateconception #art #nostr #growstr #grownostr #inflation #freespeech

@Saifedean Ammous Just watched the pod with Michael. As far as I’m concerned, you are on the same page about borrowing, but Michael doesn’t seem to get your point. If I’m not mistaken, you’re just pointing out that it’s realistic that nominal interest rates will go to 0% under BTC, but that doesn't mean the real interest rate will be zero. Because BTC is deflationary, the real interest rate under 0% nominal rate will be whatever the deflation rate is. So let's say it's 3%, that means the borrowers will earn 3% a year by borrowing their money for 0% nominal interest rate. Wasn’t that the point you were trying to make?

“We have a situation today where we’re all running around like headless chickens trying to inject sustainability back into the system, while every economist from the South to the North Pole with an actual say cheers for us to burn through every last resource, as if that somehow was the secret to achieving it. It’s an absurdity so profound, it completely lacks comparison.” #soundmoney #bitcoin #nostr #grownostr #inflation #deflation #gold #fiat #fiatsystem https://medium.com/@penglunds/from-harmony-to-greed-humanitys-fall-and-potential-return-to-sustainability-ccb8edb16ce1

Do I need one lightning wallet for every client I’m using w. #Nostr? #asknostr #lightningwallet

In the future, when Bitcoin layer 1 fees become too expensive for the average person and are only financially justifiable for large companies and banks, am I correct in my understanding that newcomers will still be able to open a wallet and receive and transfer funds directly on the Lightning Network (layer 2) without ever needing to settle or fund a layer 1 wallet? That’s how it scales without necessarily involving counterparty risk, right? #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #BTC #Scaling #BitcoinScaling #Layer2