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  • Bitcoin and the Diamond-Water Paradox
  • For the love of money: Bitcoin courts $1 trillion by 2027.
  • With fiat currency, the failure of individuals in baked in, like a global game of musical chairs
  • Fee market does not mean free market.
  • Central banks hand bitcoin an unlikely slogan.
  • "It should be safe to keep at least $1M in breadwallet."
  • The anatomy of a currency
  • Four bubbles and a bomb. How 2015 will reset the financial landscape.
  • Why GDP doesn't measure standard of living, and a proposal for GDL (Gross Domestic Leisure).
  • Scammers are a constant. Even in highly regulated environments they find their place.
  • Satoshi chose a logarithmic mining rate. Should he have gone with an S-curve instead?
  • Blockchain technology and bitcoin the currency cannot be separated and it's time to settle this issue.
  • Look out! Things are not always as they seem.
  • Proof of reserves, born out of tragedy, will slowly become the global gold standard for financial auditing.
  • Credit cards vs. Bitcoin (Part Two)
  • Credit cards vs. Bitcoin (Part One)
  • Why you need dollars.
  • Merchants are already currency speculators. They just don't know it yet.
  • Bitcoin is already backed by gold... sort of.
  • When will the hash rate level out?
  • For Bitcoin to succeed, the money that people use must rot. Coincidentally, it will.
  • I've got a psychological disorder. It's called hoarding bitcoins and it's making you rich.
  • We're still here.
  • May you live in interesting times and have the wits to recognize it.
  • Bitcoin compared to the most exotic alternative investments.
  • The Gini-coefficient and why you only have yourself to blame.
  • Is your bank solvent? How Bitcoin cuts through the 30-year fog of financial complacency.
  • In the wake of the Silk Road bust the US government has transferred a cache of bitcoins to a government-controlled bitcoin address. How long until they are stolen by a savvy employee?
  • Silk toad owner Dread Pirate Roberts nabbed after investigators identify the owner of alias "altoid." Charges include conspiracy to murder. Mixed reaction from Bitcoiners.
  • The new pseudo-bubble: Bitcoin mining.
  • Don't spend them. Hold them tightly.
  • Coinlock: Giving you the app without the Apple.
  • Three ways to position yourself if you expect higher inflation.
  • Transition time: In 1971 the world realized that it wasn't necessary to exchange dollars for gold. Within 5 years the world will do the same with Bitcoin.
  • Bitcoin vs. the regulators. Now, it's a lot of posturing, but someday somebody with a lot of bitcoins is going to say "no."
  • How Bitcoin can allow a political compromise that makes (almost) everybody happy.
  • Money laundering is a made-up crime.
  • Bitcoin reminds us to chose our own destiny.
  • Bitcoin luminary series: Jeffrey Tucker.
  • Prediction for a future event: The spike.
  • Bitcoin luminary series: Jaron Lukasiewicz.
  • Bitcoin brings people of different political ideologies together and sparks meaningful discussion.
  • You don't own your house, or your car, or your labor. Everybody should have some bitcoin because it's one of the things you can truly own.
  • Prepare for the Bitcoin doldrums.
  • Bitcoin breakups: A tale of two soured relationships.
  • Tell your friends about Bitcoin.
  • Bitcoin provides and opportunity to expose financial regulation as political favoritism and not consumer protection.
  • Bitcoin luminary series: Jeff Berwick.
  • The alt-coin conundrum: Same-same but different.
  • 21,000,000,000,000,000 currency units will never be enough to fuel an economy.
  • Bitcoin security and brain wallets.
  • Tell your kids to be coders.
  • Bitcoin: The beautiful bubble machine.
  • The book, the pen, and the ink.
  • If green pieces of paper were doing fine, then Bitcoin would wither and die.
  • Who's afraid of the big bad Bitcoin?
  • The biggest spread in history.
  • How Bitcoin will protect the poor.
  • Eight Bitcoin inventions that will change the world.
  • Goxxed: Stop whining.
  • Don't be weird: The siren call of conventional wisdom.
  • I trust my banker completely.
  • Getting educated by the school of Bitcoin.
  • The global battle for money's soul.
  • Six things that normal people (and Bitcoiners) get dead wrong about Bitcoin.
  • Bitwealthy: The new nouveau riche.
  • Topsy-turvy: Bitcoin and the morality of free exchange.
  • How everybody can win with Bitcoin.
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