Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
There’s a lot of talk these days about “digital scarcity”, in the context of blockchain and NFTs. Because now we can access content protected with our cryptographic keys, on decentralized databases, instead of accessing them with password stored on centralized servers, the predominant train of thought is that we can create “true ownership”. And because … Read more
In a natural move, Jack Dorsey, the iconic founder of Twitter, and its CEO, stepped down today, handing the role to Parag Agrawal. It was a nice, transparent action – as transparent as you can be if you’re the CEO of one of the largest centralized social media networks in the world. There was also … Read more
It took about 11 years until a project started on some mailing list after the big 2008 crisis stormed our planet. I’m not backing up from my words, it literally disrupted the whole concept of money, created countless millionaires and billionaires, forced states to adjust their legislation just to make sense of it and created … Read more
Money printer go “brrr”. That’s an almost classic way of referring to the current financial system. If you’re not familiar with this saying, it basically means that, for the last decades, a strong decoupling between currency and the value it represents is unfolding. Up until recently, there was a certain cap for the amount of … Read more
If you ever dreamed to run your own Bitcoin / Lightning node on a tiny Raspberry Pi, you have a handful of alternatives. Depending on your level of geekiness, you can go with RaspiBlitz, or you can settle for a slicker UI, like the one in Umbrel. Before going further with more details, here are, … Read more
In a press conference a few hours ago, El Salvador’s president, Nayim Bukele, announced something that would have been no less than Science Fiction just a few months ago: every citizen of El Salvador will receive $30 equivalent in Bitcoin, by using a wallet called Chivo. It is not the biggest airdrop in history, far … Read more
10 years ago, an open-source project that nobody would have given any serious chances to, stormed the world. Bitcoin, a combination of cryptography, economics and peer-to-peer communication, became in just a decade a serious contender for gold, as a store of value. Whether or not you “believe” in it is not a question anymore, the … Read more
Some of you may know that I’m somehow involved in cryptocurrencies. My focus is not in the speculative part of it, or trading. My interests are mostly in cryptography – and how it can be used to solve real world problems. Also, I’m interested in blockchains which have something in common with writing: blogging or … Read more
