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Pepe Escobar: Meet the New, Resource-Based Global Reserve Currency, Strategic Culture, 2022-03-31

“Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.”
― Vaclav Smil

In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism, Vitalik Buterin, 2022-04-01

"As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand."
— Vitalik Buterin

April Fool’s Day Joke? Ethereum (ETH) Creator Vitalik Buterin Defends Bitcoin (BTC) Maximalism in New Blog Post, the Daily HODL, 2022-04-02

“To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.”
― George Leonard (1923-2010)

Building Applications on Top of The Bitcoin Protocol, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-02

"Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced applications to be built on top."
— Vitalik Buterin

More Than 90% of All Bitcoin Is Now in Circulation. What's Next?, Decrypt, 2022-04-02

“By placing a hard cap on the total supply of bitcoins, Nakamoto was clearly unpersuaded by the arguments of the standard macroeconomics textbook and more influenced by the Austrian school, which argues that the quantity of money itself is irrelevant”
—Saifedean Ammous

Rishi Sunak asks Royal Mint to create NFT, the Guardian, 2022-04-04

"All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion."
― Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

Here are the biggest data breaches as Meta and Apple fall victim to hackers again, Bankless Times, 2022-04-05

"People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems."
— Bruce Schneier

Meme stocks and Bitcoin will not redistribute wealth, Noahpinion, 2022-04-06

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography, Quanta Magazine, 2022-04-06

"Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design."
— Jacob Appelbaum

Amid Sanctions Against Russia, BRICS Can Lead the Change Towards National Currency Payments, the Wire, 2022-04-07

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency"
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)

Eric Weinstein at Bitcoin 2022: Breaking Physics and Changing the World, Nasdaq, 2022-04-08

"The most important ideas are likely to be the ideas that are most disruptive."
—Eric Weinstein

Ex-Citi digital assets leaders launch crypto assets investment firm, Ledger Insights, 2022-04-08

"What makes disruptions so disruptive is that they turn the assets of incumbents into potentially life-threatening liabilities.”
—John Hagel

Building New Grids to Support Local Communities and Strengthen the Bitcoin Network, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-08

“Bitcoin is the hardest money ever invented: growth in its value cannot possibly increase its supply; it can only make the network more secure and immune to attack”
—Saifedean Ammous

Why Can't Politicians Lead With Crypto?, Decrypt, 2022-04-09

“Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.”
― Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950)

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”
—Henry Ford (1863-1947)

US Banking Giant Issues Dire Economic Warning, Says Shock Wave Could Send Crypto and Commodities Soaring: Report, Daily HODL, 2022-04-10

"The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself."
― George Soros

David P. Goldman: Doing without the dollar, Asia Times, 2022-04-13

"The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency."
― Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

Matthew Shillito: Plan to become a ‘cryptoassets hub’ may just be the UK government hedging its bets, the Conversation, 2022-04-14

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Bitcoin 2022: Welcome to the Revolution, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-13

"The most critical function of modern technology must be to keep the doors of the revolution open forever!"
― Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)

Hyperledger unveils FireFly SuperNode, middleware for blockchain consortia, Ledger Insights, 2022-04-13

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution."
—Astro Teller

Warner Music partners with POAP for event NFTs, Ledger Insights, 2022-04-14

"What is right is not always the same as what is legal"
― Edward Snowden

Five Reasons Bitcoin Will Replace Credit Cards, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-15

"Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information."
― Douglas Rushkoff

Russia finalizes bill on crypto, potentially accepting it as legal tender, Bankless Times, 2022-04-17

"The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens."
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The big idea: should we embrace a cashless society?, the Guardian, 2022-04-18

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
― Plato (428-348BC)

Cryptoverse: Gold coins glimmer amid the global gloom, Reuters, 2022-04-19

"The entire purpose of a blockchain data structure is to enable decentralized control, and so is nonsensical when deployed by a central authority."
— Ben Jarvie

Bitcoin Mining Around The World: Norway’s Outsized Presence Relative to its Size, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-20

"Look to Norway…"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Andreessen Horowitz Launches A16z Crypto Research Lab, Bitcoin.com, 2022-04-24

"Playing is the highest form of research"
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The Swiss Tradition is a Perfect Match for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-24

"When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything."
—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

Fidelity’s New 401(k) Offering Will Invest in Bitcoin, New York Times, 2022-04-26

"I hate hearing people who say they invested their life savings in bitcoin. Don't do that. And I have not done that personally, bitcoin is an experiment."
— Gavin Andresen

Central African Republic adopts bitcoin as legal currency, Digital Journal, 2022-04-27

"The constitutional structure of the authority behind the euro is of the “paper money” character in that nothing is really guaranteed as far as the value of the euro is concerned. But this is typical of all currencies used in the world nowadays."
― John Nash (1928-2015)

An Intersection of Bitcoin and Health, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-04-30

"The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas"
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)