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In the first part, we looked at Bitcoin’s success criteria. The path to adoption for me is – how do people that want to use Bitcoin for some reason get their hands on it? I don’t care about the numbers – how many countries, institutions or individuals are using it, or what monetary unit the […]

Debates about how wider adoption of Bitcoin will occur are popular among bitcoiners, though not all that useful. Personally, of course, I have no idea how it will happen, but it’s nice to talk about a few schools of thought as they have a broader worldview connections. And since our eyes only see and our […]

I used to develop and publish a mobile app that enabled access to my courses from smartphones and tablets. However, it’s time to say goodbye to it. You can read about the reasons and the alternative in the form of Progressive Web Apps in this blog post. Progressive Web Apps In my short e-book Cypherpunk […]

This is a chapter of my book Cryptocurrencies – Hack your way to a better life (my eshop, Amazon, Slovak version, Spanish version my e-shop, Spanish version Amazon). In this chapter I talk about the fact that you can buy different “versions” of what businesses sell as Bitcoin – for the same price – but […]

As Bitcoin blocks are being filled and fees rise astronomically, it has become too expensive to open channels for many day-to-day use-cases. In this block I want to build a case for expanding the Lightning network beyond the bloated Bitcoin time-chain, to give people more options. First, let’s look at how Lightning actually uses Bitcoin […]

Synchronous communication is, for example, a physical meeting, a phone call or a video call. While it has its advantages (for example, we can expect to resolve whatever the reason for the call during the call), it also has its disadvantages. For example it takes two or more people to coordinate on a time for […]

Internet (cyphersphere), Bitcoin and AI thread. What do these have in common? In the late 1990s, we started to interconnect. Mailing lists, news, IRC. These were the first social networks, later converging around free and open-source projects. Not only software, but content. We also created a parallel communication networks, something I call cyphersphere. We used […]

In this video I describe how you can profit by depegging events such as the one that occured on March 11, 2023, if you are shorting fiat. How to short fiat? Learn more in: This video is part of the course. On my e-shop, you can use a coupon “CRASH” for additional discount.

I often find myself in discussion with either hardcore Monero fans, or hardcore Bitcoin Lightning fans. As a fan of both technologies, I see that people locked in an echo chamber often get things wrong. A prominent bitcoiner that I otherwise like bullshitting about Monero on a mainstream podcast made me feel “shared embarrassment”. I […]