December 2023 Digest

This review examines the role of Bitcoin mining as a possible catalyst for accelerating the global shift towards clean energy and effective power grid managemen

No one has found the bottom of the Bitcoin rabbit hole.

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The American dollar will be displaced as the global reserve currency by 2040, and the unipolar superpower of the United States will be but one player in a multipolar world.

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“If I’m not wrong about Bitcoin, then I believe this is the most radical apparatus that has ever put its hands in humanity and that is the only thing that can save us from the potential annihilation of total war that we are eeking towards closer and closer every day.” — Erik Cason Erik Cason is a cypherpunk and author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss his book, philosophy, censorship in academia, and Erik’s personal journey from socialism to anarchism. We also talk about technology’s use for state control and violence, the potential of Bitcoin to decentralize power, the philosophical implications of Bitcoin, the potential of living in a virtual world and the nature of consciousness. - - - - Erik Cason is a philosopher, cypherpunk, crypto-anarchist, educator and author. He has just published a book exploring the intersection of Bitcoin, sovereignty, and cryptography in the 21st century. The book’s basis was…