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Building Balanced Exposure to the Blockchain Economy, Visual Capitalist, 2022-04-28
“A non-Bitcoin blockchain combines the worst of both worlds: the cumbersome structure of the blockchain with the cost and security risk of trusted third parties”
—Saifedean Ammous
Kjedebrev mai 2022
Italian Serie A football broadcasts game in the metaverse, Ledger insights, 2022-05-06
"Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal."
— Johan Cruyff (1947-2016)
Bitcoin Promises a Future of Abundant Energy, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-05-08
“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
How Portugal became Europe’s accidental ‘bitcoin heaven’, Digital Journal, 2022-05-08
“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”
― Desmond Tutu (1931-2021)
Bitcoin falls to lowest since January, in line with tumbling stock markets, Reuters, 2022-05-09
"Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits."
— Hyman Minsky (1919-1996)
Analysis: Lessons learned from the Terra UST stablecoin crash, Ledger Insights, 2022-05-12
"Stability can only be attained by inactive matter."
— Marie Curie (1867–1934)
Emirates to accept BTC payments and launch NFTs, Bankless Times, 2022-05-13
“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
― Frank Zappa (1940-1993)
Major US healthcare provider OSF explores cryptocurrency for health compliance incentive, Ledger Insights, 2022-05-13
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The Financial Dark Ages are Ending Thanks to Bitcoin, Bitcon Magazine, 2022-04-14
“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)
An Open Letter to a Bitcoin-Doubting Friend on Wall Street, Bitcon Magazine, 2022-04-14
"Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done."
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
How a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion Crash, New York Times, 2022-05-18
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)
Ethereum’s Merge is Due in August, Barring Any Problems, Blockonomi, 2022-05-20
"In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to - you need to have incentives."
— Vitalik Buterin
UK’s Wembley Stadium adopts blockchain ticketing TIXNGO starting with Sheeran concert, Ledger Insights, 2022-05-20
“Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center."
— Vitalik Buterin
7 Surprising Facts About Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-05-21
"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing".
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
What’s a Web3 Project Really Worth? Here’s How to Tell., Decrypt, 2022-05-22
“A non-Bitcoin blockchain combines the worst of both worlds: the cumbersome structure of the blockchain with the cost and security risk of trusted third parties”
—Saifedean Ammous
We're Ready for the Metaverse but the Technology Is Not. Here's Why., Decrypt, 2022-05-22
"Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected."
― Merlin Mann
The Oslo Freedom Forum Asks, Is Bitcoin Compatible with Democracy?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-05-27
"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class— whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
― Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
Could Quantum Computers Defeat Bitcoin? Not So Fast, Decrypt, 2022-05-29
"Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design."
— Jacob Appelbaum
Building Bitcoin to Last for Centuries, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-05-29
“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)