Information Wants To Be Free—But Governments Want To Control It Throughout history, those in power have sought to control information. Books have been burned. Newspapers have been censored. Radio stations have been shut down. Websites have been blocked. Each new communication technology has been met with attempts to regulate, license, and restrict it. The justifications […]
The Internet Ruined By Advertising The early internet was a wonderland of creativity. Personal blogs flourished. Forums thrived with genuine discussion. Artists shared their work directly with fans. Then the advertising model took over. Content became clickbait optimized for engagement rather than value. Pages became bloated with tracking scripts and pop-ups. User attention was harvested […]
The Surveillance State Of Commerce Every time you swipe your credit card, you’re creating a permanent record. The merchant knows what you bought. Your bank knows where you bought it. The payment processor knows when and how much. This data is stored indefinitely, analyzed, and often sold. Your purchasing history reveals your location, your habits, […]
A Global Experiment Running 24/7 For Over A Decade Bitcoin isn’t just a currency or a payment system—it’s the largest, longest-running experiment in distributed consensus ever conducted. Thousands of computers worldwide, operated by strangers who don’t trust each other, agree every ten minutes on the exact state of a shared ledger without any central coordinator. […]
Bitcoin Needs Builders, Not Speculators The Bitcoin space has no shortage of people trying to get rich quickly. Speculators chase price movements. Traders gamble on leverage. Influencers shill coins for profit. This isn’t unique to Bitcoin—every emerging technology attracts opportunists. But unlike other technologies, Bitcoin’s success depends on genuine decentralization and robust infrastructure. It needs […]
Banks Can’t Innovate Even When They Try Major banks spend billions on technology every year. They hire armies of developers. They launch “innovation labs.” They acquire fintech startups. Yet their products remain fundamentally unchanged—checking accounts, savings accounts, loans, credit cards, all wrapped in slightly prettier mobile apps. Why can’t banks innovate? Because their business model […]
The Absurdity of Banking Delays In an age where you can stream a movie in 4K from a server on the other side of the world instantaneously, where video calls connect people across continents in real-time, where information moves at the speed of light, we still accept that moving your own money takes three to […]
The Internet Transforms Everything It Touches In 1995, the internet was a curiosity—slow, unreliable, used mainly by academics and hobbyists. Mainstream media dismissed it as a fad. Bookstores were thriving. Newspapers were profitable. Television networks controlled entertainment. Music came on CDs from record stores. Then the internet did what the internet does—it made everything faster, […]
The Dollar’s Dominance Is Unraveling For nearly a century, the US dollar has reigned supreme as the world’s reserve currency. Oil is priced in dollars. International trade is settled in dollars. Central banks hold dollars as reserves. This exorbitant privilege has allowed the United States to run massive deficits, export inflation, and impose sanctions on […]
Politics Corrupts Everything It Touches History is a graveyard of currencies destroyed by political interference. Roman emperors debased their coinage to fund wars. Weimar Germany printed marks until they were worth less than the paper they were printed on. Zimbabwe’s trillion-dollar bills became laughingstocks. Venezuela’s bolivar evaporated despite having the world’s largest oil reserves. In […]