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(21 articles)

Stop #308 - The Guilty Victim

Mario Roggero's conviction - Italy's biggest news lately - is positive law applied to the letter. How would his case be judged in a free society?

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Stop #306 - Presidential Oxymoron

Trump declares $1.4 billion in digital asset income in his first year in office. But "Bitcoin president" is a contradiction as big as a house

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Stop #305 - The Regulator's Barrier

Binance withdraws from the European Union after the ECB allegedly pushed Greece to reject its license. The regulator calls what is actually a barrier to entry consumer protection.

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Stop #303 - The Attack Surface

Artificial intelligence is breaking software that had resisted for decades and one shitcoin after another. Bitcoin remains intact and the reason is the very thing they have criticized it for over the years

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Stop #302 - Open Letter to the Disillusioned

The price of bitcoin is at its lows, the Fear & Greed Index reads 11 out of 100, and capital is rushing toward the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Amid the panic, it is necessary to anchor oneself to the fundamentals

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Stop #301 - Nothing is more permanent than the temporary

Bitcoin Mechanic defends BIP 110 as a surgical cleanup of Bitcoin with an expiration date. But the only permanent effect would be a very dangerous precedent: an unacceptable moral blackmail

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Stop #299 - The American Clarification

The Clarity Act opens the door to digital assets for institutions. Bitcoin is not directly involved, but it could benefit in terms of institutional access.

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Stop #300 - Here comes the digital euro

The legislative process for the digital euro has entered its final phase. In a few weeks, the ECON committee of the EU Parliament will vote on the Regulation, the ECB has opened the selection of partners

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Stop #298 - Saylor's House of Cards

Strategy will sell bitcoin to pay dividends. The proportions are symbolic, but the gesture reveals the financial engineering built by Michael Saylor's company

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Stop #297 - In fork veritas

Three fork proposals in nine months, all destined to fail: the latest one is from Paul Sztorc. At this point in history, whoever tries to rewrite Bitcoin does it for ego or for money.

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Stop #296 - The Code on Trial

On December 19th, Keonne Rodriguez turned himself in to serve five years in prison. His crime? Having written Samourai Wallet. And his story is inseparable from that of another developer

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Stop #295 - Quantum Collectivism

Six developers sign BIP-361 to freeze bitcoins potentially vulnerable to the future quantum threat. A senseless precedent that Bitcoin cannot afford

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Stop #294 - Quantum Readiness

Just a few days after the release of the Google Quantum AI paper on the theoretical threat to Bitcoin cryptography, it turns out that the solution is already within the protocol, without any soft-fork to be scheduled

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Stop #293 - Terrorism Q.B. (Quantum Basta)

Google announces a new milestone in quantum research, but the computer that breaks Bitcoin in nine minutes does not exist. Anyone telling you otherwise has pockets full of reasons to do so

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Stop #292 - The Orphan Block

On March 23rd, Bitcoin did exactly what it was designed to do. Someone saw a disaster in it.

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Stop #291 - Everyone's Weapon

Bitcoin doesn't choose sides. In Iran, the regime uses it to circumvent sanctions and civilians use it to escape the war. Is this a problem? No: it's one of its crucial features

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Stop #290 - LLM's favourite money

If an artificial intelligence could decide how to store and spend value, it would choose Bitcoin, confirms the Bitcoin Policy Institute. There's just one problem: machines don't decide

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Stop #289 - The Bitcoin Speakeasy

In a world dominated by CBDCs and AI agents, would Bitcoin become the exclusive domain of the wealthy? History suggests otherwise.

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Stop #288 - The Last Scarcity

Block cuts 40% of its workforce in one fell swoop to improve efficiency through automation. In a world where artificial intelligence will make everything abundant, what will retain value?

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Stop #287 - The Manhunt

KYC is not protection: it's an infrastructure for crime. In France, where bitcoiners' tax data ends up in the hands of gangs, it's already evident

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Stop #285 - The Ghost of Epstein

The American Department of Justice has released over 3 million documents on the pedophile financier. Links emerge with key figures in the Bitcoin ecosystem. How much did it influence its development?

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