Januar 2024

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Visa launches web3 loyalty engagement offering in battle for wallets, Ledger Insights, 2024-01-05

"Capital acquires a dynamic of its own and the leading members of society are quite simply its most loyal servants, its most servile courtiers."
― John Holloway

Turkey: Israel Used Crypto to Recruit Spies and Hunt Hamas, Bankless Times, 2024-01-05

“These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.”
― Edward Snowden

Mysterious Million-Dollar Bitcoin Transfer Sparks Wave of 'Dust' to Satoshi's Genesis Wallet, Bitcoin.com, 2024-01-07

"There are some questions I'm sick of giving answers to. Don't ask me if I'm Satoshi."
— Gavin Andresen

Cryptoverse: Bitcoin derivatives traders bet billions on ETF future, Reuters, 2024-01-09

"[Vietnam] only made billionaires out of millionaires. [Iraq] is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress."
— Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

Bitcoin Is A Database, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-01-11 (UTXO=Unspent Transaction Output)

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

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink on Bitcoin: I'm a Big Believer — Its Bigger Than Any Government, Bitcoin.com, 2024-01-14

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

Energy And Bitcoin: An Integrated Analogy, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-01-12

“One of the greatest achievements of modern science was, that it proved the indestructibility of energy through all the ceaseless transformations which it undergoes in the universe.”
― Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)

Alexandros Mandilaras: Why the world is turning away from the buck, the Conversations, 2024-01-12

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

The U.S. Finally Started to Crack Down on Crypto in 2023, OilPrice, 2024-01-25

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

Digital RMB CBDC now deeply integrated into Huawei’s phone, IoT devices, Ledger Insights, 2024-01-26

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
― Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)

Spot Bitcoin ETF set to galvanize HK’s status as crypto hub, Asia Times, 2024-01-30

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει".  (panta rhei kai ouden menei)

(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)”

— Heraclitus (535-475BC)

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