Kjedebrev august 2022

Aisha Khan: Blockchain could enhance protection of police records, Asia Times, 2022-08-02

"When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies."
— Phil Zimmermann

Economies Are Much Too Complicated to Plan and Control, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-08-03

"One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved."
― Scott Adams

What Happens to My Bitcoin When I Die?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-08-04

“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Brazil Sees The Backend Tech Of Bitcoin As A Better Payment System, Bitcoinik, 2022-08-07

“The Bitcoin ledger of transactions might just be the only objective set of facts in the world”
—Saifedean Ammous

Tom J Velk: Bitcoin no panacea, Asia Times, 2022-08-09

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Iran using cryptocurrencies for imports, Tehran Times, 2022-08-10

“Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments”
— Charles Lee

Gartner’s latest hype cycle rates metaverse as 10 year+ journey, Ledger Insights, 2022-08-12

"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."
― Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

How To Protect Yourself With A More Secure Kind Of Multi-Factor Authentication, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-08-13

“Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The internet has not just open-sourced information, it has also open-sourced insecurity, self-doubt, and shame.”
― Mark Manson

More than 700 new digital assets launches in the third quarter of 2022, Bitcoinik, 2022-08-15

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

Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate & The Dollar Are About To Get "Vaporized", QTR's Fringe Finance, 2022-08-17

"Imagining that central banks can “prevent,” “combat,” or “manage” recessions is as fanciful and misguided as placing pyromaniacs and arsonists in charge of the fire brigade”
—Saifedean Ammous

For all the hype around Bitcoin, Salvadorans just want digital banking, Rest of World, 2022-08-17

“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)

What Gives NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) Their Value?, Mind Matters, 2022-08-18

"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing".
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Is The Fight For US Dollar Hegemony A Lost Cause?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-08-25

"Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation."
― Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

Mastercard Partners With Binance To Boost Crypto Purchases, Blockonomi, 2022-08-26

“Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.”
― Douglas Rushkoff

Bitcoin Is Freedom From The Fiat System’s Walled Garden, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-08-28

"The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage."
— Thucydides (460-400BC)

Stablecoins Market Cap of $153B Would Make Them the 40th Country by Money Supply, Bankless Times, 2022-08-30

"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."
—Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)

Crypto Farms Mining at Russian Oil Fields Reach 85 MW of Capacity, Analysts Say, Bitcoin.com, 2022-08-31

"high quanta of energy degrade social relations just as inevitably as they destroy the physical milieu."
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)