Mars 2024
Milton Friedman's 1999 Vision: Predicting Bitcoin Before the Digital Age Dawned, Bitcoin.com, 2024-03-03
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
―Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Banking on the next US financial crisis, Asia Times, 2024-03-04
“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
― Paul Romer
Understanding Your Bitcoin Keys: Bip39 Seed Words, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-03-08
“The security of Bitcoin lies in the asymmetry between the cost of solving the proof-of-work necessary to commit a transaction to the ledger and the cost of verifying its validity”
—Saifedean Ammous
David P Goldman: Gold, Bitcoin surges show black swan risk rising, Asia Times, 2024-03-09
“Remember that you are a Black Swan.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The 4th Bitcoin Halving Explained, Visual Capitalist, 2024-03-11
“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)
Countries closing in on digital currencies but US lagging, study shows, Reuters, 2024-03-14
“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”
― Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
Japan’s largest mobile phone firm NTT Docomo launches web3 wallet, Ledger Insights, 2024-03-13
"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution."
—Astro Teller
Robert Huish: Vladimir Putin’s gold strategy explains why sanctions against Russia have failed, the Conversation, 2024-03-18
"Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth."
—William Rees-Mogg (1928-2012)
El Salvador Moves Bitcoin Reserves to Cold Storage Vault, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-03-18
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
― Tacitus (56-120)
The £2bn Bitcoin Bust: How a Takeaway Worker Laundered a Fortune, Blockonomi, 2024-03-21
"I rob banks because that’s where the money is"
— John Dillinger (1903-1934)
On the Brink of a Dramatic Change: The Digitalization of Money, Bitcoin Magazine, 2024-03-27
“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)