66 entries.
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No one can block your transaction, and no one can take your assets without your key. The deepest reason Bitcoin truly matters - what censorship resistance is and how it works.
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CBDC is often called 'the government's bitcoin,' but it is in fact the opposite. What programmable money issued and controlled by a central bank actually is, and why it is Bitcoin's mirror image.
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The money you deposit at a bank is not sleeping in a vault. The bank lends most of it out, and in the process it creates new money. How most of the world's money is born from 'a loan.'
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On October 31, 2008, a paper just 9 pages long changed the history of money. A start-to-finish reading of 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' - what it solved, and how its core sections fit each piece together.
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We don't know who created Bitcoin. And they chose to vanish. This is not a gap in the story but the core of Bitcoin's design - the credible neutrality created by a fair launch and the absence of a founder.
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Bitcoin will never exceed 21 million coins. Where the number comes from, who enforces it, and whether it can really be changed - the nature of the first absolute scarcity in human history.
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How 12 or 24 words stand in for an unlimited number of Bitcoin keys. BIP-39 mnemonics, BIP-32 HD wallets, derivation paths, and the practical rules for backing up a seed safely.
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Bitcoin has no usernames, no passwords, and no banks. Ownership is proven by knowing a single number - the private key. A guide to the public-key cryptography that the entire system rests on.
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How SHA-256 underpins proof of work, Merkle trees, address generation, and the chain of blocks itself. The four properties that make a hash function useful and exactly where Bitcoin uses each.
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Mainstream economics treats falling prices as a catastrophe. History and logic tell a different story - one where deflation often signals prosperity, not collapse.
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How Child-Pays-for-Parent (CPFP) works in Bitcoin - package relay mechanics, fee calculation, use cases for recipients and senders, comparison with RBF, and practical wallet examples.
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How specialized chips designed solely for SHA-256 hashing transformed Bitcoin mining from a hobby into an industrial operation.
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A comprehensive guide to Bitcoin dominance - its definition, historical trends, what drives shifts, metric flaws, and why it remains the most watched indicator in crypto markets.
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A deep technical exploration of Schnorr signatures in Bitcoin - from mathematical foundations and advantages over ECDSA to key aggregation, MuSig2, batch verification, and Taproot integration via BIP-340.
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A detailed technical breakdown of Bitcoin's block structure - from the 80-byte header to the coinbase transaction, SegWit witness data, and block weight. Includes hex analysis of a real block header.
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A comprehensive technical guide to Bitcoin address types - P2PKH (1...), P2SH (3...), P2WPKH (bc1q...), P2TR (bc1p...). Covers Base58Check vs Bech32/Bech32m encoding, checksum mechanisms, key derivation, and why Bech32m is superior.
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A deep technical guide to Bitcoin Script - the stack-based programming language that defines how bitcoin can be spent. Covers opcodes, standard script types (P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, P2TR), execution traces, timelocks, multisig, and Tapscript.
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How miners combine their hashrate to earn more consistent rewards, and the tradeoffs between convenience and centralization.
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A technical deep-dive into Bitcoin's Replace-By-Fee mechanism - BIP-125 opt-in RBF, full RBF, wallet usage, mempool dynamics, and merchant implications.
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CoinJoin is a Bitcoin privacy technique that combines multiple users' transactions into one, making it difficult to trace who sent to whom.
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What happens when one entity controls majority hashrate - theoretically possible, practically impossible on Bitcoin.
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The fundamental challenge of digital money - how Bitcoin prevents the same coins from being spent twice without a trusted third party.
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The classic distributed computing problem that Bitcoin elegantly solves through proof of work, enabling trustless consensus.
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Strategies for safely storing seed phrases and transferring assets upon owner death or incapacity. The final puzzle of Bitcoin self-sovereignty.
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Bitcoin manages balances not as account totals but as sums of unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs). The coin model's principles and its privacy and security advantages.
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Anarcho-capitalism is a philosophy that advocates for the complete abolition of the state, with all services including law, security, and national defense entrusted to free market competition.
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Why do booms and busts repeat? The false prosperity created by artificial credit expansion.
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Newly issued money does not reach everyone simultaneously. This is the mechanism that creates inequality.
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Why rational economic management is impossible without market prices.
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Currency that has value only by government decree, and the world it created.
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Every 4 years, Bitcoin's new issuance is cut in half. The strictest monetary policy in history.
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The government can take your wealth without raising taxes. An invisible tax not found in law.
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When law becomes a tool for taking away property instead of protecting it, it is called legal plunder.
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The value of the first glass of water and the tenth glass of water are different. The most important insight in economics.
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When people can pass the cost of failure to others, they become more reckless.
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August 15, 1971, the day the dollar's link to gold was severed. The pivotal turning point that marked the beginning of the modern fiat currency era.
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The core principle of libertarianism that coercion against others' bodies and property is unjust.
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The core mechanism that enables security and sound money in the Bitcoin network.
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Every person is the owner of their own body and labor. The starting point of libertarian ethics.
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The meaning and importance of currency that governments cannot arbitrarily print.
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The principle of complex order that forms naturally without anyone designing it.
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The value of things does not exist in the things themselves. It is always human beings who assign value.
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The human nature of preferring the present over the future, and its impact on civilization.
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Bitcoin is not just an investment asset. It is a fundamental alternative to the structural problems created by the fiat currency system.
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Praxeology is a deductive science of human action systematized by Ludwig von Mises.
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SegWit (Segregated Witness) is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade activated in 2017 that increases the practical capacity of blocks by separating signature data from transactions.
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Minarchism is the position that the state's role should be limited to the minimum functions necessary to protect individual rights.
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Multisig is a security mechanism that requires signatures from multiple private keys in Bitcoin transactions, with a threshold number of signatures needed for approval.
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A bird's-eye view of 200 years of the Austrian School's intellectual lineage - from Bastiat to Rothbard, including Böhm-Bawerk and Hazlitt.
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An economics rooted in the logic of human action. Understanding the core of the Austrian School.
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Understanding the basics of Bitcoin - uncensorable digital Sound Money.
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Understanding libertarianism - the political philosophy centered on individual freedom and property rights.
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An overview of how money became entangled with state power and why that is a problem.
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A Node is software that stores a complete copy of the Bitcoin blockchain and independently verifies the validity of all transactions and blocks.
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Natural Rights are inherent rights that originate from human existence itself, not granted by the state or laws.
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Voluntary Exchange is a transaction conducted through the free consent of both parties without coercion or fraud.
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Mempool is a space where unconfirmed transactions that have not yet been included in a block wait.
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Private Property Rights are the rights of individuals to exclusively use, dispose of, and exchange their property.
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The Regression Theorem of Money is Mises' theory that argues the value of all money originally originated from non-monetary uses.
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Difficulty adjustment is a mechanism that automatically adjusts mining difficulty every 2,016 blocks to maintain an average block generation time of 10 minutes.
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A free market is an economic system in which prices and production are determined by the voluntary exchange of individuals without government intervention.
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A Merkle tree is a binary hash tree structure that efficiently verifies data integrity by summarizing large amounts of data into a single hash value.
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Methodological individualism is the principle that all social phenomena should ultimately be explained by reducing them to the actions, choices, and value judgments of individuals.
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The hardness of money is a property measured by the Stock-to-Flow ratio, which represents the ratio of existing monetary stock to new production.
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The Lightning Network is a layer 2 payment network built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, enabling small instant payments.
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Satoshi (sat) is the smallest unit of bitcoin, where 1 BTC = 100 million satoshis (100,000,000 sats).