Kjedebrev februar 2022
Manchester United to unveil new £20m-per-year training kit sponsorship with blockchain platform Tezos, the Athletic, 2022-02-03
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting."
— George Orwell (1903-1950)
The Future is Decentralized - Are we on the brink of a second enlightenment?, the Ideas Institute, 2022-02-04
Distributed! - the present system is decentralized…
—Tor Guttorm
Will Disney Join The NFT Party? New Job Posting Revealed, Blockonomi, 2022-02-04
"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."
— Tony Robbins
Pricey pixels: Why people spend fortunes on NFT art, Japan Today, 2022-02-06
"Kunst er det man ikke kan. Hvis man kunne, var det jo ingen kunst."
—Storm P. (Robert Storm Petersen, 1882-1949)
The currency of empires, Asia Times, 2022-02-07
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency"
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)
Bitcoin er et historisk vendepunkt. Så hvorfor selge?, Adressa, 2022-01-08
“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
Crypto, the Left, and Techno-Feudalism | Yanis Varoufakis & Evgeny Morozov in dialogue, MetaCPC, 2022-02-??
"The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge."
— Yanis Varoufakis
NFT Drops Amid Beijing Winter Olympics Event, Blockonomi, 2022-02-09
“I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and—regardless of their political or cultural differences—accuse each other of cheating.”
― Dave Barry
Against the Inevitability of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-02-10
“Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose...”
― Neil Postman (1931-2003)
The History & Future of DeFi Lending, Blockonomi, 2022-02-10
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest”
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
We Need Our Farmers, Our Farmers Need Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-02-10
"The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be"
― Mark Bittman
Moss.Earth sells NFTs for ownership of Amazon forest to prevent deforestation, Ledger Insights, 2022-02-11
“Life is a planetary level phenomenon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”
― Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)
Wells Fargo: Cryptocurrency Has Entered 'Hyper-Adoption Phase', Bitcoin.com, 2022-02-13
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Cryptocurrency's Robinhood effect, Molly White, 2022-02-17
“Where there is society, there is no need for charity.”
― Heather Marsh
Alaska’s largest rural airline creating a cryptocurrency for its frequent flyer program, Seattle Times, 2022-02-20
"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
― John Locke (1632-1704)
China’s SWIFT alternative may undercut US sanctions, Asia Times, 2022-02-25
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency"
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)
$500K In Bitcoin Donations Flow to Ukraine as Russia Invades, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-02-24
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
— George Orwell (1903-1950)
China Mining Ban Worsened Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint, Study Claims, Bitcoin.com, 2022-02-27
"Everything is underlied by energy. As I always say, there is no economy, there is only energy conversion. Money is only a very imperfect way how to measure energy flows in society. So what happens is we got this supercheap energy — both the fuel, and electricity, and the food energy."
― Vaclav Smil
I Want Scotland to Prosper, And Bitcoin is the Answer, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-02-27
“Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Governments Have Been Seizing Stolen Bitcoin and Ethereum. How?, Decrypt, 2022-02-27
“Bureaucracy is undoubtedly the weapon and sign of a despotic government, inasmuch as it gives whatever government it serves, despotic power.”
—Lord Acton (1834-1902)
Longer term impact of SWIFT ban on Russian banks, Ledger Insights, 2022-02-27
“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)