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In 1992, Judith Milhon gave the cypherpunks their name in a fictional nightclub scene. Their goal was simple: encrypted communication, private digital money, and systems nobody could take over. This i
Zachary Addair argues that America's bank count has collapsed from 17,901 in 1984 to 4,238 today, roughly one bank gone per day for four decades. FDIC data shows only about 17 percent of the vanished
Canada's 2022 account freezes exposed what happens when someone else controls your money. The article contrasts that crackdown with bitcoin delivered directly to truckers, arguing that self-custody re
Real bitcoin is coming to your retirement account. The Bitcoin Well IRA launches this fall for American customers, with Traditional and Roth accounts administered by Heritage IRA, custody by BitGo, an
Zachary Addair traces his path from questioning 9/11 and opposing war to holding his own bitcoin keys. His argument: you do not need to settle every historical dispute to choose money governments cann
In 1992, cypherpunk Judith Milhon laid out how powerful technology spreads: build in private, then put it in everyone’s hands. Bitcoin followed that playbook. Open code and people running it can sprea
Over $100 million walked out of hardware wallets and Lightning nodes in August, mostly through Coldcard seeds generated with weak randomness years ago and an unauthenticated BTCPay Server bug that let
Governments keep building lists that ordinary people cannot inspect, escape, or trust, then acting surprised when those lists leak or trap innocent people. DAAMLA would drag self-custody bitcoin into
Adam draws a straight line from the 120,000 licence plate cameras Flock Safety runs across the US to the bank account you use every day. Both watch by default, both share data without a warrant, and n
BIP-110 hit its activation height on Saturday, mined exactly two blocks, and stopped. No CEO intervened, no regulator ruled, no vote was held. A year of spam-war arguing got settled by arithmetic in a
Coldcard’s random-number bug is a brutal reminder that self-custody tools can fail, but it is not an argument for handing your bitcoin to a custodian. The point of bitcoin is still holding money that
Attackers guessed their way into roughly 1,367 bitcoin across more than 4,500 addresses because a 2021 firmware bug quietly cut ColdCard seed randomness to about 40 bits. The users who added their own
The Coldcard theft is the scariest kind of Bitcoin loss: the victims did almost everything right. A firmware bug quietly swapped true hardware randomness for a predictable software fallback, so 500 seeds could be computed rather than guessed. I broke down the full timeline, both technical reports, and the safety habits (passphrases, multisig, verifying your own entropy) that protect any wallet regardless of maker.
Bitcoin Well is pulling support and ATM operations back into its own stack instead of renting the middle layer from vendors. Wade, the native multilingual knowledge base, and GhostOps are built to cut
For four years the market assumed the biggest corporate Bitcoin holder would only ever buy. This month it paused, and filings showed it sold a $216M sliver. Everyone braced for the floor to give way. It didn't. Price climbed back to $64K while the Fear and Greed Index stayed pinned at 28. That gap between price and belief is the whole story, and it comes down to one line Wall Street would rather you didn't think about: access is not ownership.
Two events, three months apart. In January 2026 the US captured Venezuela's president and said the prize was oil. Then came fresh strikes on Iran and a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Most people file these as separate messes. I don't think they are. My new piece argues they're two jaws of the same vise on China's energy, and that the "disastrous" closing of the Strait may have been the objective all along, because planners knew it was coming before the first bomb fell. From there it goes to the bigger question: what actually backs the dollar now, why every modern war is a money story, and the one asset the machine can't print or freeze. Follow the money.
Under-35s today earn more nominal dollars than their parents did in 1980, yet the median home has gone from 3.5 years of income to a record 5.1, and the typical first-time buyer is now 38 years old. That isn't a discipline problem, it's a measurement problem: real wages have grown about 18% in 44 years while the dollar's purchasing power kept falling. Our new piece traces where the ground shifted for a whole generation, why the money itself is the root cause, and what it looks like to stop saving in a unit designed to shrink.
Bitcoin sold off hard, but Bitcoin Well's June numbers moved the other way: gross profit up 32%, registrations up 22%, and active customers over 2,000. The point is simple: price gets the headlines, b
A StarkWare co-founder floated replacing Bitcoin's 21 million cap with 4% annual issuance to offset lost keys and keep coins flowing. The post argues that misses the point: the fixed cap is Bitcoin's
I live in Florida, where "for sale" signs are piling up and some sellers are cutting six figures off their asking price. But here's the tell: the statewide median is still technically "up" about 1.8 percent, while inflation ran 4.2 percent. That gap is the whole story. My new piece on how your house became a broken savings account, why flat prices are a real loss you can't see, and what actually fixes it.
