Kjedebrev mars 2022

Chinese state media on SWIFT ban: “wanton manipulation by the West”, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-01

"Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet".
― Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

No, Bitcoin Won’t Save Russia from Western Sanctions, Bitcoin Policy Institute, 2022-03-01

“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
― Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Driving Bitcoin Donations, Ukraine-Russia Conflict Showcases Separation of Money and State, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-02

“Which is why Bitcoin is an excellent idea. It fulfills the needs of the complex system, not because it is a cryptocurrency, but precisely because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users. And it has now a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.”
—Nassim Nicolas Taleb

Singapore to Impose Restrictions on Russian Financial and Crypto Transactions, Bitcoin.com, 2022-03-06

“You can’t stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust”
— John McAfee (1945-2021)

Sony, Universal Music partner with Snowcrash NFT platform. Plans Bob Dylan NFTs, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-03

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"
— Bob Dylan

Possible End to Dollar Dominance?: Permanent Alterations to the World Order Post-Ukraine, the Wire, 2022-03-07

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”
― John Muir (1838-1914)

On the Cusp of an Economic Singularity, the Ideas Institute, 2022-03-07

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."
—Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993)

Bitcoin Was Made For This: The Apex of Apolitical, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-10

“Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Adobe moves to ‘sustainable’ blockchains, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-10

“Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)

Stripe launches payment services for crypto businesses, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-11

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

Just Say No to CBDCs, the Upheaval, 2022-03-11

“Whereas in a modern central bank the new money created goes to finance lending and government spending, in Bitcoin the new money goes only to those who spend resources on updating the ledger”
—Saifedean Ammous

Bitcoiners Are Building Mesh Networks in Ukraine, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-11

"Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own."
—Satoshi Nakamoto

Is That You Satoshi? Over $20,000,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) Suddenly Moves After Lying Low Since 2010, Daily HODL, 2022-03-11

"The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine."
— Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)

Bitcoin Exchange Reserves Drop to Lowest Point in 3 Years, Bitcoin.com, 2022-03-12

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

John Naughton: Are blockchain-based DAOs really a utopian revolution in the making?, the Guardian, 2022-03-12

“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”
― Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)

“It’s a mess”: How crypto mining went from boom to bust in Kazakhstan, Rest of World, 2022-03-13

“Cryptography can make possible a world in which people have control over information about themselves, not because government has granted them that control, but because only they posses the cryptographic keys to reveal that information …This is the world we are working to create.”
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

Pepe Escobar: Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan, the Cradle, 2022-03-15

"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)

Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling, Rest of world, 2022-03-15

"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

Bitcoin Lightning Network Continues to Grow, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-18

“Bitcoin itself cannot scale to have every single financial transaction in the world be broadcast to everyone and included in the block chain. There needs to be a secondary level of payment systems which is lighter weight and more efficient.”
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

Bitcoin Can Be the Foundation of Human Rights, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-18

“Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.”
― Joichi Ito

Blockchain interoperability framework Hyperledger Cactus goes into production, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-18

“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

The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto, New York Times, 2022-03-18

“Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world’s most important developments.”
— Leon Luow

Peter Thiel Says His ‘Biggest Mistake of the Decade Was Getting Too Late and Too Little Into Bitcoin’, Bitcoin.com, 2022-03-19

"When it comes to bitcoin adoption, there are generally two rules that never seem to fail. Everyone always feels late, and everyone always wishes they had bought more bitcoin."
— Parker Lewis

Kenyans Lose Millions of Dollars to yet Another Cryptocurrency Scam: Bitstream Circle, Bitcoin.com, 2022-03-20

"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."
— Livy (59BC-17)

Avast acquires second blockchain decentralized identity provider SecureKey, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-24

“Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.”
— Bruce Schneier

Report: Gas Giant Exxon Is Running a Gas-to-Bitcoin Mining Pilot Program in North Dakota, Bitcoin.com, 2022-03-25

“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

David P. Goldman: Dollar reserve system frays with India-Russia currency deals, Asia Times, 2022-03-26

“…for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”
― Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

Bitcoin is on Fire, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-26

“After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)

Spanish Retailer El Corte Ingles Launches Crypto Exchange in Partnership With Deloitte, Bitcoin.com, 2022-03-27

"Without real exchange, you can’t create knowledge."
― Ikujiro Nonaka

African Digital Art Network Launches Nandi NFT Marketplace on Celo, Decrypt, 2022-03-27

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
― Desmond Tutu (1931-2021)

Three Months In Web3: What I Learned, Heisenberg Report, 2022-03-26

“We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality.”
—Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004)

Academia Excludes Bitcoiners and Supports Tyranny, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-30

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

Bitcoin's Code is Immutable and Can Withstand Attempts to Make it Proof of Stake, Bitcoin Magazine, 2022-03-30

“Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center."
— Vitalik Buterin

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark to Add 500 MW of Mining Power, Expand to Texas, Decrypt, 2022-03-31

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

Messi joins blockchain fan token platform Socios as brand ambassador, Ledger Insights, 2022-03-31

"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing."
—Lionel Messi