Februar 2025

Kjedebrev februar 2025

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​​David P. Goldman: Three reasons why gold’s record run is different, Asia Times, 2025-02-01

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”
— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

Bitcoin’s Core Remains Unbreakable, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-02-06

"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail."
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

Szabo’s Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs: 25 Years Later, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-02-11

"Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy."
—Nathan Myhrvold

Henry Farrell: What happens when economic coercion meets the bitcoin bros?, Programmable Mutter, 2025-02-17

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

Argentina’s Javier Milei faces fraud allegations over cryptocurrency post, Al Jazeera, 2025-02-18

"The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception."
― Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

Bybit crypto exchange suffers largest ever hack of more than $1 billion, Ledger Insights, 2025-02-21

"Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business."
—Kevin Mitnick​ (1963-2023)

Gabriella Legrenzi, Reinhold Heinlein, Scott Mahadeo: Trump’s claim that US debt calculation may be fraudulent could put the economy in danger, the Conversation, 2025-02-25

“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)

Dave Karpf: The Three Types of Money Behind Silicon Valley's Rise to Dominance, The Future, Now and Then, 2025-02-25

"Money, having freed itself from the physical universe, has become number itself, and finance a strange form of mathematical alchemy."
— David Orrell

Iran’s government hits out at crypto again as currency freefalls, Tehran Times, 2025-02-27

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993)

Money and bookkeeping, Delancey Place, 2025-02-27

"Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping."
― Howard Rheingold

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