Hard money is a necessary condition for long-term thinking, not a sufficient one.

My latest newsletter is out! 🧡 Periods of uncertainty tend to reveal how systems function. Geopolitical conflict, fiscal pressure, and monetary expansion are not isolated events, they are part of a recurring cycle that has shaped financial systems throughout history. In this 36th edition, I examine how these dynamics affect property, wealth preservation, and why Bitcoin’s design offers a different framework for navigating an increasingly uncertain world.

Why Bitcoin’s Properties Matter in Uncertain Times

TBN 36 - In this issue, I explore why Bitcoin's design offers a different framework for dealing with uncertainty.

My written pieces are finally also available on Nostr. Big thanks to @paul keating for setting up @OwnYourPosts.com 🫡💫 View article →

In this edition of my newsletter, I explore why bear markets are not a failure of Bitcoin, but a prerequisite for its survival.

Bitcoin Cycles: How Resilience Is Built

TBN 35 - In this edition, I explore why bear markets are not a failure of Bitcoin, but a prerequisite for its survival.

"A 'cosmic accounting' system incorporates the survival values of a life-sustaining environment, the values, in energy and time, of the production of fossil fuels by nature, and the values of a regenerative and adaptive energy system and of renewable materials. Using this system, our present ways of utilizing energy are seen to be ridiculously wasteful."—R. Buckminster Fuller on Bitcoin

Money shapes civilization long before politics reacts to it. Bitcoin’s trajectory does not depend on ideology or permission, but on its ability to coordinate human action more honestly than the systems it replaces.

My upcoming newsletter “Bitcoin Cycles: How Resilience Is Built” will be released early next week. 🤝

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On route.

Back at it. 🥊

HNY.

We had a good run. Time to get back to work.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

My newsletter "The Connection Between Money and Building Culture" is out! This essay is also part of my upcoming book 'Digital Real Estate', a project I've been working on for over 2.5 years. The writing process took far longer than expected, as I’ve tested every idea and strategy in practice—but the book is finally scheduled for release in Q2 2026.

The Connection Between Money and Building Culture

TBN 34 - In this edition I explain why modern architecture often resists timeless principles of beauty seen in the Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, or the ...

Poor design has always existed, but fiat amplifies it by fueling mass production through artificially cheap credit, rigid regulation, and political capture.

Mein Vortrag „Die Zukunft von Bitcoin & Immobilien“ vom 3. Bitcoin Forum Bayern ist jetzt als PDF-Slides & Transkript auf meiner Website. Dort findet ihr alle meine bisherigen Vorträge, Artikel, Podcasts etc. rund um Bitcoin & Immobilien usw., gesammelt aus den letzen Jahren.

Leon A. Wankum

Die Zukunft von Immobilien und Bitcoin - Leon Wankum

Im Oktober 2025 hatte ich die Freude, auf dem Bitcoin Forum Bayern zu sprechen.In meinem Vortrag zeigte ich, wie Bitcoin die Rolle von Immobilien als

My newsletter “Bitcoin’s Impact on Global Markets” is out!

Bitcoin’s Impact on Global Markets

TBN 33 - In this edition, I explore Bitcoin’s economic and social impact through the lens of its influence on global markets.

I’ve postponed my newsletter on architecture to first tackle the bigger question: What is Bitcoin’s impact on global markets? I’ll dive into that in next week’s issue before zooming back into the micro-level of architecture, construction, and design. Out next week 📧

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The entire world lives in a perceived reality