…
What are ‘crypto kidnappings’ and why are they on the rise?, Al Jazeera, 2025-06-06
"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
Bitcoin Layer 2: Ark, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-06-06
“Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.”
— Bruce Schneier
Law Commission proposes radical approach for decentralized digital assets, Ledger Insights, 2025-06-06
“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things.”
— Peter Diamandis
Moscow Exchange to Begin Calculating and Publishing Bitcoin Index, TASS, 2025-06-10
“someday consumers and businesses won’t hold bitcoins for their account but will unknowingly access the bitcoin network whenever payments are made.”
― Paul Vigna
Bitcoin Layer 2: Statechains, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-06-13
“Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.”
— Bruce Schneier
Satyajit Das: Looking at the dollar as reserve currency when Trump is floating his "big and beautiful" agenda, the New Indian Express, 2025-06-14
"A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
― Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
China talks up digital yuan in push for multi-polar currency system, Reuters, 2025-06-18
"The entire purpose of a blockchain data structure is to enable decentralized control, and so is nonsensical when deployed by a central authority."
— Ben Jarvie
Thomas Fazi: Christine Lagarde’s ‘global euro’ is a fantasy, UnHerd, 2025-06-19
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
― Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
What Happens to Bitcoin When Quantum Computers Arrive?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-06-20
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
― Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)
A Seed Phrase Isn’t Self Custody, It’s A Liability, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-06-20
”Sanity is a handicap and liability if you’re living in a mad world.”
― Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Anthony William Donald Anastasi: New tech, old hurdles: Why digital yuan won’t dethrone the dollar, Asia Times, 2025-06-27
"Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face."
― Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
How The IMF Prevents Global Bitcoin Adoption (And Why They Do It), Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-06-27
“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)
…