Exploring Bitcoin as Medium of Exchange: Op-Codes, Soft-Forks and Layer Two (Lightning, Sidechains, Statechains, Joinpools, E-Cash, NOSTR)

What are the chances?! (source) Introduction Having dedicated the last decade of this blog to exploring Bitcoin’s store of value properties and journaling its monetisation phase from under $200 to $100,000, we are now reaching the scale where its medium of exchange and unit of account properties are being designed and built out to facilitate […]

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The Bitcoin Halving Redux: 2024 and Revisiting 2020 and 2016 – The End of Bitcoin’s Boom and Bust Cycles?

A recent meme within Bitcoin Twitter: three green years followed by one red. The patterns they keep repeating! Introduction This post will revisit my previous halving posts from 2016 and 2020, beginning with brief overviews of what was written eight and four years ago, and compare with today’s 2024 hindsight, before using what we can […]

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Bitcoin Kills Banking Bolt On: Banks vs Central Banks, Eurodollar vs Dollar, and Bitcoin Collateralisation

The Great Collateral Reset: Fiat Currencies and Bonds > Bitcoin and Gold. Courtesy of Mark Jeftovic at Bombthrower.com Introduction This post will bolt on to my previous trilogy, and is an extension to discuss the emerging wars inside the banking system, between private banks and public (central) banks, will go into the history of banking […]

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From Barter To Bitcoin Revisited: The History of Credit and Money, Part 1 – Antiquity To Reformation

This post will revisit an old favourite of mine beginning with a brief re-telling of the original post From Barter To Bitcoin – The Theory of Credit and Money, and the journey from the most self sufficient and isolated barter economies to the modern globalist digital credit and payment processing technologies that connect, control and […]

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The History of Money and Sport – The Collapse of Professionalism, and the Return to Amateurism

I have been planning to write this post for the last few years, but had put it on the long term back burner due to my belief that debt collapse was a few years in the future, however in the wake of the Covid19 “pandemic” and government created “crisis” which also very conveniently doubles up […]

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Gold And The Blockchain Redux: Trump, Q, The Gold Standard And Ending The Fed

Following on from my last post and the conclusion of my Bitcoin Kills Banking Trilogy, this post will conclude my Gold And The Blockchain Trilogy with an extensive discussion on the only thing in my opinion that can substantially alter the direction and speed of Bitcoin Killing Banking, and that one thing being Gold… This […]

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Bitcoin Kills Banking Redux: Exchanges, DEXes, Cash Apps, Derivatives (Futures and ETF’s), Banking Protocols, Stablecoins

This post will conclude the trilogy of my Bitcoin Kills Banking posts and will again visit the discussion of the present in the dying throes of the fiat banking system that has ruled this last five centuries since the Reformation, and the rise of its nascent rival and eventual nemesis in Bitcoin, and will concentrate […]

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Bitcoin, Litecoin, Lightning Network And Cross Atomic Swaps – Two Become One

This post is the anniversary of the Segwit Activation post I published in August 2017 and will provide a recap of the events leading up to SegWit before discussing the year since and the developments we are starting to see as adoption creeps above 50%, including the highly anticipated Lightning Network for transactions and micro-payments… […]

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