Januar 2025

Kjedebrev januar 2025

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Richard Douthwaite: The Ecology of Money, Website book

“Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion.”
― Mark Bittman

Jeffrey Race: The inflation ruination to come, Asia Times, 2025-01-02

“Hyperinflation is a form of economic disaster unique to government money. There was never an example of hyperinflation with economies that operated a gold or silver standard”
—Saifedean Ammous

Owning 1 Bitcoin Is Better Than Being a Millionaire, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-01-02

" A billionaire to me is not someone who has a billion dollars, but someone who has positively impacted the lives of a billion people. A trillionaire to me is someone who is positively impacting lives of a trillion things."
— Brock Pierce

Nick Giambruno: 2025: The Year the Federal Debt Bubble Bursts, the International Man, 2025-01-18

US Debt Clock 

David P. Goldman: Gold glitters at end of the world as we know it, Asia Times, 2025-01-25

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

The Cynics and Idealists of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-01-24

“Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.”
― Hugh MacLeod

BIS paper on payment privacy tech offers a fresh perspective, Ledger Insights, 2025-01-24

“Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.”
― Bruce Schneier

The Bitcoin And Cypherpunk Spirit Is Alive And Well In Africa, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-01-30

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
― Desmond Tutu (1931-2021)

IMF outlines many benefits of tokenization. But also risks, Ledger Insights, 2025-01-30

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Czech National Bank To Assess Bitcoin as Part of Reserve Strategy, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-01-30

"The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism."
—Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993)

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