November 2024

Kjedebrev November 2024

Huawei mobile OS Harmony embeds digital yuan so don’t need CBDC app, Ledger Insights, 2024-11-01

“Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong.”
― William T. Powers (1926-2013)

Trillion-Dollar Banks Sound Alarm As Sophisticated New Fraud Technique Bypasses Security Measures: Report, Daily HODL, 2024-11-03

"As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand."
— Vitalik Buterin

Half Way Through The 4 Year Bitcoin Cycle, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-11-08

"Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."
― Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

Glenn Diesen: BRICS Stockpiling Gold as the G7 Weaponised Finance, Glenn's Substack, 2024-11-13

"Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth."
—William Rees-Mogg (1928-2012)

See How Fast Your Savings and Salary Are Collapsing Against Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-11-14

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

How Public Key Cryptography Really Works, Using Only Simple Math, Quanta Magazine, 2024-11-15

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

Indrajit Samarajiva: How China Could Re-Dollarize The World, indi.ca, 2024-11-19

“The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years.”
― James Dale Davidson

Jamie Bartlett: Donald Trump’s cryptopia, Engelsberg Ideas, 2024-11-21

"A coherent marketplace is a true market economy coupled with a diverse, open society online. People will be paid for their data and will pay for services that require data from others. Individuals’ attention will be guided by their self-defined interests rather than by manipulative platforms beholden to advertisers or other third parties."
― Jaron Lanier

Bitcoin at record highs, sets sights on $100,000, Reuters, 2024-11-22

“Mining should not be too profitable (because nothing should be too profitable, the world doesn’t leave free money lying around). Therefore the price of Bitcoins can’t rise too much above the cost of mining (counting equipment depreciation among the costs of course).”
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

Top 10 Largest Corporate Holders of Bitcoin, Visual Capitalist, 2024-11-28

“The danger is if people are buying bitcoins in the expectation that the price will go up, and the resulting increased demand is what is driving the price up. That is the definition of a BUBBLE, and as we all know, bubbles burst.”
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

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