August 2025

Kjedebrev august 2025

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Bitcoin Independence Day: Is Bitcoin History Being Forgotten?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-08-01

"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
— Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

FedEx adopts Kinexys by JP Morgan for blockchain-based payments, Ledger Insights, 2025-08-01

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

Accumulating Bitcoin A Risky Digital Rush By Companies?, Barron's, 2025-08-08

"In the end, the most important thing is to learn to live with uncertainty and have the courage to form an individual opinion."
— Gerd Gigerenzer  

Knut Svanholm: Even Robinson Crusoe Understood the Price and Value of Money, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-08-09

"Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing."
― Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

Crypto Kings: The Largest Cryptocurrency Fortunes Ever Amassed, Visual Capitalist, 2025-08-10

“The poor lack much, the greedy everything.”
― Publilius Syrus (85-43BC)

Michael Roberts: Dollar decline; the failures of mainstream economics and epochal crisis – reviews, the Next Recession, 2025-08-18

“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)

Hani Qarmoot: This is what happens when money dies, Al Jazeera, 2025-08-23

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”

― Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

US Dept of Commerce to publish GDP data on blockchain, Ledger Insights, 2025-08-29

“If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency.”
—Donella Meadows (1941-2001)

OCBC launches $1 billion blockchain commercial paper program, Ledger Insights, 2025-08-30

"Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders."

—John Le Carré (1931-2020)

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