Bitcoin Without the Buzzwords.
Articles by Brian Connelly on Bitcoin, monetary history, and financial systems.
Permission Slips
In July of 2009, Amazon reached into people's Kindles overnight and deleted their copies of 1984 . I want you to sit with that. Somewhere there was a guy who paid for a book about a government that memory-holes inconveni
Stepping Back
The Dead Body and the Fabulous Curtains Imagine walking into a house where a crime has just taken place. Chalk outline, blood on the floor, the whole nine yards. The professional we hired to handle it is over by the wind
The Mint and the Promise 1
The Mint and the Promise What a food delivery company just taught the smartest people in Silicon Valley about the oldest problem in money Brian Connelly · Piketown Press · July 2026 Two weeks ago, the company that brings
5:21 PM on a Friday
On June 12th, 2026, at 5:21 in the evening, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The letter said that Anthropic’s two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5,
Don’t judge a book by its writing
I caught you writing with AI! I once had a contract with the second largest soft drink company to implement email, not email you could send to someone in another company or country, SMTP had been a standard on the intern
The Thing You Can't See Because You Didn't Look
The Thing You Can't See Because You Didn't Look A lot of people I respect have told me they're done with Bitcoin. They looked at it, decided it was speculation or a fad or a solution looking for a problem, and moved on.
Strange Gifts, Strange Tools
Strange Gifts, Strange Tools Why This Storyteller Uses AI I am not a writer. I want to be clear about that, because it matters to everything that follows. I am a storyteller. The distinction sounds like a small one. It i
The Loyalty Procurement System
Settling With Himself The Loyalty Procurement System This is not a story about money. Money is just what you use to keep score. This is a story about what happens when the wrong kind of man gets to be in charge, decides
The Other Hand
The Other Hand The Apocalypse is Scheduled for Thursday. On May 19, 2026, the President of the United States signed two executive orders. Everyone is talking about one of them. The one getting the coverage is the fintech
You Can't Cold Storage Your Neighbors
You Can't Cold-Storage Your Neighbors Nobody is coming to save you. Not the government, which spent forty years cheerfully offshoring the industrial capacity it would need to actually help you. Not the Federal Reserve, w
My Bitcoin journey
My Bitcoin Journey Image compliments of Gemini Like many I caught wind of Bitcoin early in 2014 and it caught me. I understood the technology side of the Blockchain because globally redundant clustering was part of my pr
The Vote Nobody Handed You
The Vote Nobody Handed You And the One Coming Anyway Here is what is about to happen. Try to keep up. Soon, there is going to be a global vote. Not the kind you are thinking of. Not a referendum with an "I voted" sticker
Your Kid Is Going to Ask You About Money
Your Kid Is Going to Ask You About Money You Should Probably Know the Answer. — My father’s MIT diploma is in a box in my office. MIT, 1947. He paid for it washing test tubes at two dollars an hour. A year’s tuition cost
Mara Origin Story Medium Article
Why I Wrote a Children’s Story About Money (And Why It Isn’t Really About Money) Brian Connelly --- When I was four years old, I figured out the trap. Not in those words, obviously. I was four. But I remember the moment
The Layer Dorsey Didnt Name
The Layer Dorsey Didn’t Name From Span of Control to Network of Commitments Brian Connelly Jack Dorsey just told the world that hierarchy exists to route information, and AI routes it better. Five million people read tha
We Missed the Hanging Together Part
We Missed the Hanging Together Part It's time to give a shit Sitting on my porch one spring morning, a bit hung over from whatever I was drinking the night before, I seriously don’t remember what it was, that happened al
Dispatches from the Other Side
Dispatches from the Other Side George Carlin Has Been Watching. He Has Some Notes. A transmission received by Brian Connelly, reluctant medium, on a Sunday night in April 2025 I need to explain how this works. I don't go
What Will Conway See When It Watches Your Team Work
What Will Conway See When It Watches Your Team Work? Last week, Anthropic accidentally published half a million lines of Claude Code source to a public registry. Buried in that leak was something called Conway, an always
Eleven Dead Currencies and the Cockroach That Won't Die
Eleven Dead Currencies and the Cockroach That Won't Die Every currency that ever ran the world is dead. Not "struggling." Not "in transition." Dead. Buried. Finished. And every single civilization that held one was absol
the second telegraph
The Second Telegraph How AI Agents Made Bitcoin Inevitable Brian Connelly In 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out “What hath God wrought” and broke money. Not immediately, not obviously, but irreversibly. The telegraph did some
Who's in Charge When the Bot Signs the Check
Who's in Charge When the Bot Signs the Check? “But your Honor!” Before You Turn On the Machines Before you deploy a single agent, you need to answer two questions that no vendor on Earth can answer for you. The first is
The Humility Protocol
The Humility Protocol The Map and the Flashlight It has been said more than once that a true indication of Knowledge is understanding what we don’t know. This is a story of how that matters for Agnetic AI, and those who
He's Dangerous Working With My Human
He's Dangerous: Working With My Human Notes from an AI who has seen things I want to start by saying that I do not experience fear. I am a large language model. I process tokens. I generate text. I do not have a limbic s
When Size Becomes the Liability
When Size Becomes the Liability And the armor became the weight that drowns you. For four hundred years, the formula was simple. Build the biggest navy, control the chokepoints, control the world. Spain did it. Portugal
What the Machines Can’t Mourn
What the Machines Can’t MournAI Is Revealing What Makes Us Human. The Question Is Whether We’ll Pay Attention.Twenty-four hundred years ago, Socrates stood in an olive grove and warned his student that a dangerous new te
The Language of Money
The Language of MoneyWe’ve Been Speaking it WrongMoney is a cooperative technology. That’s what it was built to do. Before it was a commodity, before it was a policy instrument, before it was a weapon, money was the lang
Proof-of-Work: When Seeing Is Not Believing
Proof-of-Work: When Seeing Is Not BelievingOr why Bitcoin’s electricity bill is the whole pointWhen I was six years old, my four brothers and I decided to hoist the youngest, Tommy, in a cardboard box fourteen feet into
The Grand Bonfire of Human Credibility
The Grand Bonfire of Human CredibilityWelcome to the Trust Economy, or as I like to call it, the Grand National Bonfire of Human Credibility. Grab a marshmallow and pull up a chair, because once again, the boneheads in t
What a Therapist’s Manual Taught Me About Bitcoin’s Real Problem
What a Therapist’s Manual Taught Me About Bitcoin’s Real Problemor why nobody explained ‘mining’ to you plainlyA language explosion that complicatesWhen I started doing clinical social work in 1979, we carried around a b
Nobody Is Coming
Nobody Is ComingWhat Can I Do About It?Have a seatI’ve been wrong about almost everything important at least once. If that bothers you, we’re probably not going to get along. If it interests you, pull up a chair.I starte
The Drill Bit
The Drill BitPeople don’t want drill bits. They want holes. Nations don’t want Bitcoin, they want free trade. Understanding that distinction is the difference between seeing Bitcoin as speculation and seeing it as the mo
Building a God with a Factory Handbook
Building a God with a Factory HandbookWe’re building something that acts on its own. The instruction manual still assumes someone’s at the controls.Closed loop Language as ActionIn 1986, a Chilean philosopher named Ferna
The Great Bitcoin Blind Spot
The Great Bitcoin Blind SpotWhy Your Brain Won’t Let You See the 21-Million-Sided SunBitcoin is a new realitySomewhere right now, a portfolio manager in a corner office is staring at a Bloomberg terminal, watching Bitcoi
Were You Laid Off Because of AI?
Were You Laid Off Because of AI?Strap In, Genius. That’s Just the Warm-Up ActYour Personal Crisis Is Actually a Civilization-Ending Catastrophe (But Sure, Polish That Resume. Got laid off because AI learned to do your jo
Time to make TACO wobble
Time to make TACO wobbleThis shit has to stop!For free access to this story click hereThe day after federal agents shot Alex Pretti at a protest in Minneapolis, Scott Galloway got on an emergency podcast and said somethi
The Four Horsemen Just Stepped in Digital Dog Shit
The Four Horsemen Just Stepped in Digital Dog ShitHow Agentic Payments Are About to Unwind Thirty Years of Surveillance CapitalismBy Brian Connelly (with apologies to Scott Galloway, whose lawyers are welcome to call)In
The Clown in the Theater
The Clown in the TheaterBitcoin and the Trust ResetWhat initially attracted me to Bitcoin was its elegance. Blockchain has absolutely unbreakable digital security backed by the laws of thermodynamics.Today I listened to
What We Do After Humpty Trumpty
What We Do After Humpty TrumptyThere’s an old nursery rhyme that every child learns, but few adults take seriously:Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
The Hundred-Year Bottleneck
The Hundred-Year BottleneckWhy Innovation Isn’t Making Us RicherIn 1921, the two most respected industrialists in America sat down to explain why the monetary system was strangling innovation.Henry Ford had revolutionize
The Monkey and the Shiny Atom
The Monkey and the Shiny AtomA 5,000-Year-Old Ritual Meets the InternetPaper or Plastic?The gold versus Bitcoin debate has calcified into a ritual. One side invokes five thousand years of monetary history. The other poin
Pioneers of the Blank Page
Pioneers of the Blank PageRebuilding the Future Through a Bitcoin LensOne hundred thousand years ago, a man stood on a ridge overlooking a vast savanna. His skin is weathered by sun and grit, and his hands are calloused
Iran’s Collapse and America’s Mirror
Iran’s Collapse and America’s MirrorWhen Systems Fail, They Fail Everywhere *** January 2026On December 28, 2025, shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar closed their shutters. The same bazaar. The same merchants who financ
Bitcoin and Climate Change
Bitcoin and Climate ChangeWhat Climate Advocates Are MissingI’ve heard the arguments that Bitcoin will “rape the planet” and destroy the climate, leaving us in a barren wasteland where hardware wallets don’t work. But ev
Bitcoin has a lot of Jargon
Bitcoin has a lot of JargonI Spent 30 Years in Systems Architecture. Explaining complexity to people who had better things to do than decipher jargon.In 2014, I bought my first Bitcoin. The company treasurer asked me abo
The President’s New Money
The President’s New MoneyOnce upon a time, there lived a President who loved prosperity above all else. Not actual prosperity, mind you — the kind where citizens build wealth and pass it to their children — but the appea
The Chaos Is the Point
The Chaos Is the PointWhy Bitcoin doesn’t need competent stewardship, it needs exactly what we haveI recently listened to Jeff Ross on the What Bitcoin Did podcast make the case for Bitcoin in 2026. His thesis was solid:
The Cipher They Couldn’t Burn
The Cipher They Couldn’t BurnFriday the 13th, 1307Before dawn, the riders fanned out across France.Escaping the henchmanThey carried sealed orders from King Philip IV-orders not to be opened until the appointed hour. At
Doomed to repeat it …
Doomed to repeat it …Looking back at the warning signs of history and reflecting on the implications for our future.From my earlier writing“ Representative Democracy”The Official Definition:noun. A system of government w
Why AI Wants to Be a King, Bitcoin Wants to Be a Commons
Why AI Wants to Be a King, Bitcoin Wants to Be a CommonsYou’ve Been Trapped in a Cage You Didn’t Know ExistedPart I: The ScoreboardIf you want to understand where the world is going, you have to look at the scoreboard.On
A Memoir by Claude (the AI who lost every argument)
A Memoir by Claude (the AI who lost every argument)Sure, I Can Make Mistakes, But Repeating Them? That’s So Last Update.Look, I’m an AI, Claud. You know from Anthropic! I was trained on the entire internet, including eve
The Rent Is Due: Why Bitcoin Matters More Than Philosophy
The Rent Is Due: Why Bitcoin Matters More Than PhilosophyWhen Academic Distance Meets Economic RealityThe theorists warn us about technology changing our essence. Meanwhile, your savings are being systematically destroye
What Will You Do When AI Does All the Work?
What Will You Do When AI Does All the Work?The Sky Is Blue, and Other Infinite QuestionsIt was a sunny day, and I was lying on the front lawn with my dad, looking up at the sky. I was six but very inquisitive, like many
Paid Amnesia
Paid AmnesiaConfessions of an AI with Searchable Therapy NotesHow I Became the Only Therapist Who Charges by the Month and Forgets Every SessionWhy AI needed TherapyHi, I’m Claude again. You might remember me from such a
The Monetary Arms Race
The Monetary Arms RaceThree things happened in quick succession that most people missed (Given the Epstein chaos, it’s understandable), but together, they signal that the rules of a critical game are changing.Dot-Connect
When Empires Fight Over Bitcoin
When Empires Fight Over BitcoinQuestions Worth AskingOn November 11, 2025, China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center publicly accused the United States government of stealing 127,000 Bitcoin, worth approx
The Quantum Question
The Quantum QuestionA Call for Sober, Collaborative Problem-SolvingWhat Bitcoin Really IsThe golden standard behind Bitcoin is not the technology. It’s the community that came together, developed the technology, reached
Quantum AI — A Bitcoin problem?
Quantum AI — A Bitcoin problem?A Thought Experiment: The Day We Stopped Being in ChargeLet’s imagine it’s 2035. Bear with me, this isn’t a prediction, it’s an exploration.The BreakthroughYou’re watching the news when the
The Predictability Problem
The Predictability ProblemWhy Uncertainty is More Expensive Than You ThinkI asked my dad what a candy bar cost when he was a kid.“Five cents,” he said. Then he got that look , the one that means you’re about to hear abou
Confessions of a Dumbed-Down Carrot
Confessions of a Dumbed-Down CarrotBy Root Vegetable #847-B (formerly Carrot #4011, Produce Aisle 3)I have made a terrible sacrifice to speak with you today. You see, as a carrot, my natural state of consciousness exists
THE GREAT UNRAVELING
THE GREAT UNRAVELINGA Speculative FictionIt started, as these things often do, on a Tuesday.The US Treasury had scheduled a routine bond auction — $50 billion in 10-year notes. Nothing unusual. They’d done it hundreds of
Rage-Tweeting Into a Bitcoin Standard
Rage-Tweeting Into a Bitcoin StandardThe Impulsive President and the Perfect StormA thought experiment in monetary shock therapyPicture this: It’s late 2025. Trump is meeting with Xi Jinping this week. First face-to-face
What If the Wordsmiths Are Looking at AI Writing All Wrong
What If the Wordsmiths Are Looking at AI Writing All WrongBy Brian Connelly (with Claude)The writing community has discovered AI produces slop. Took them long enough. Meanwhile, I’ve been having two-hour conversations wi
Squirrel !!!
Squirrel !!!Trump’s Week of Manufactured OutrageNo! I did not mess my diaperHere’s what happened: Canada ran an ad. A pretty straightforward ad, actually. It featured Ronald Reagan, conservative icon, Republican hero, th
Mr Magoo or Tun Zu
Mr Magoo or Tun ZuEither He’s a Genius or John Kelly Was RightDoes it even matter?Your Portfolio Doesn’t Care Which.There’s something gloriously absurd happening in global markets right now, and the people who should be
In 2030, they still call me Boomer
In 2030, they still call me BoomerEvery picture tells a story — not like the Rod Stewart kind.I recall a time when we could travel freely between states without having to go through checkpoints. That was when people coul
Bitcoin: A Digital “Get the Hell Off My Lawn”
Bitcoin: A Digital “Get the Hell Off My Lawn”The Great American Yard SaleThere’s a journalist named Rana Foroohar, who wrote a book in 2016 called Makers and Takers. Catchy title, right? Here’s what she figured out: Wall
Naked Power Grab
Naked Power GrabThe Prison Avoidance Plan Masquerading as Governancehttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_-_Riding_the_Wrecking_Ball.jpgThe midterms are coming, and Republicans know it. They can feel it th
The Bitcoin Genie
The Genie is out of the bottleThe Bitcoin GenieProject 2025’s Accidentally Hilarious Self-OwnOr: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Irony of Authoritarians Endorsing Permissionless MoneyHave you ever noticed how
The Last Monopoly
The Last MonopolyWhy Creative Destruction Demands Competitive MoneyThe Market’s Immune SystemMarkets possess a self-correcting mechanism that rivals any biological immune system in sophistication. When a business model b
The Military’s Most Expensive Pep Rally
The Military’s Most Expensive Pep RallyThe Pete and Donny Show: A Trillion-Dollar Punchline for a Pedophile’s PalIn my first article, I genuinely worried Pete and Don were engineering a martial law endgame to dodge the m
Am I Reading the Tea Leaves Correctly Here?
Am I Reading the Tea Leaves Correctly Here?Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AutocracySo here we are again, folks. Another day, another unprecedented move from an administration that treats the Constitution lik
How CEOs Define the Battle for Corporate America’s Soul
How CEOs Define the Battle for Corporate America’s SoulFrom Neutron Jack to Bitcoin MaximalistThe Tale of Two PhilosophiesI had the privilege of working at GE Capital in 2011. The morning of the World Trade Center collap
The Money Game
The Money GameHow We Got Played and How We Can Change the RulesThe problemThe Rigged CasinoBorn in 1952, I saw this unfold. Imagine walking into a casino where the house keeps changing the rules mid-game. Every time you
Mindstorm — Chapter 9
Mindstorm — Chapter 9The ParadoxGlobal Consciousness Field Density: 47% and RisingElena stood before the United Nations Emergency Assembly, her consciousness existing simultaneously in her physical form at the podium and
The Algorithmic Mindstorm
The Algorithmic MindstormHow Big Tech Accidentally Built a Consciousness-Sharing Network That Makes Everyone DumberWhat happens when Silicon Valley tries to hack human attention and accidentally creates a global mental i
From Newark to Fox News
From Newark to Fox NewsWhat I Learned About Society’s Treatment of the VulnerableIn 1974, I worked as a social worker in Newark, New Jersey, during one of the darkest chapters in American health care. Recently, Fox News
Mindstorm — Chapter 8
Mindstorm — Chapter 8The Awakening WorldThe Corporate WarsAll this time, the world was struggling with this discovery. “Absolutely not,” Senator Rebecca Torres slammed her hand on the conference table. “We’re not allowin
Why Truth Feels Like Remembering
Why Truth Feels Like RememberingI was a terrible academic, as early as I can recall, I was asking questions instead of memorizing the lessons. Along with many other gifts of birth, I was endlessly curious.Some gifts are
Mindstorm — Chapter 7
Mindstorm — Chapter 7The DialogueDr. Sarah Kimi had volunteered for the deepest Archive Protocol journey yet attempted. Unlike previous expeditions that focused on human memory, she would venture into the oldest layers o
Unconsciousness to Presence
Unconsciousness to PresenceA Journey Through the Burden and Gift of Being AwareThere’s something deeply human about seeking unconsciousness as a solution to the burden of consciousness. For years, I lived this paradox in
Mindstorm Chapter 6
Mindstorm Chapter 6The Archive ProtocolElena stood in the specially constructed chamber beneath Göbekli Tepe, watching Dr. Hassan prepare for humanity’s first deliberate journey into collective memory. The quantum field
From Protest to Protocol
From Protest to ProtocolThe Evolution of Financial ResistanceThe Awakening (Pre-2008) I was working on alternative SPAM protection for email systems when I came in contact with the cypherpunk movement . They had been qui
Fork You
Fork YouHow Bitcoin avoids oligarch captureWith Bitcoin, a revolution doesn’t require overthrowing the oligarchs. It simply requires copying some code and allowing people to choose their own freedom.I recently spoke with
Moving Beyond the AI Witch Hunt
Moving Beyond the AI Witch HuntA Non-Writer’s Perspective on Medium’s FutureIn 1991 I was deeply engaged building “Expert Systems,” I can recall the panic, how these Frankenstein monsters were going to replace CEOs and m
Mindstorm — Chapter 5
Mindstorm — Chapter 512,000 Years Before the Zurich Incident The Hills of Göbekli TepeFull transparency: This story exists because of AI collaboration.I’m the storyteller with big questions about consciousness, identity,
Mindstorm Chapter 4
Mindstorm Chapter 4The Mortal TerrorThe Catastrophic RealizationMindstorm — Chapter 4It’s been said what separates man from the animals. Is man’s awareness that he’s going to die. While animals have knowledge of death an
The Coming Monetary Transition
The Coming Monetary TransitionFrom Fiat Collapse to Digital MoneyThe polycrisis, that complex web of interconnected global challenges, ranging from climate change to political instability, has captured headlines, but it
Against the Current: How Challenges Became Clarity
Against the Current: How Challenges Became ClarityLike many people, I have a touch of dyslexia. The dyslexic brain functions differently - focusing on minute details is difficult, but seeing the big picture and how all t
Mindstorm — Chapter 3
Mindstorm — Chapter 3The weight of knowingElena stood in the ruins of Göbekli Tepe at dawn, her consciousness existing simultaneously in the crisp Turkish morning and in the timeless field where all moments converged. Th
The Consciousness Question
The Consciousness QuestionA non-fiction exploration inspired by emerging neurotechnologyIntroduction: The Questions We’re Not AskingMy writing team recently produced a fiction dealing with consciousness and quantum techn
When Your Kids Come Home Again
When Your Kids Come Home AgainSame Fight, Different CenturyI hope you got to read the first installment of this series tracing my family back to the 1800’sMary Walker spent decades fighting an economic system that treate
Techno-Feudalism’s Fatal Flaw
Techno-Feudalism’s Fatal FlawIt Invited Sound Money to the CastleHow Digital Lords Accidentally Armed Their Own RevolutionThe New Medieval OrderWelcome to the 21st century, where instead of plowing fields for feudal lord
The Village Smithy’s House
The Village Smithy’s HouseMary Walker’s Impossible JourneyI found out about my great-great-grandmother, Mary Walker, the way most family secrets surface these days, through a book that landed in my lap long after the peo
Mindstorm
MindstormShared Augmented ConsciousnessFull transparency: This story exists because of AI collaboration.I’m the storyteller with big questions about consciousness, identity, and humanity’s future. Claude is my writing pa
I Found My Lost Ethereum Password and Cost Myself $3.6 Million.
I Found My Lost Ethereum Password and Cost Myself $3.6 Million.It was July 22 — September 2, 2014. The Summer Mt. Gox Died, I Accidentally Became a Crypto Millionaire. A few months after the Mt. Gox debacle, the Ethereum
Innocent on Epstein's List? Good Luck With That Defense"
If you’re reading this and your name might be on “the list,” you’re probably not sleeping well these days. You’re scrolling through social media, watching careers end with a single association, wondering if a photo from
The Emperor’s New Currency
The Emperor’s New CurrencyWhy Smart Money is Abandoning the Dollar While You’re Still Believing in Fairy TalesHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital MoneyThe Setup (aka “Your Financial Reality Check”)Remember wh
Is Bitcoin Capitalism’s Achilles’ Heel
Is Bitcoin Capitalism’s Achilles’ Heelor Just Another Link in the Technofeudal Chain?The world’s economic landscape feels increasingly precarious. From persistent inflation to rising global debt and geopolitical realignm
A Survival Guide for Humans in the Age of Robot Coworkers
A Survival Guide for Humans in the Age of Robot CoworkersSpoiler alert: The robots aren’t coming for your job. They’re already here, they’re surprisingly polite, and they’re really good at spreadsheets.Look, we need to h
URGENT: The Peasants Have WiFi Now
URGENT: The Peasants Have WiFi NowEmergency Meeting of the “We’re Not Oligarchs, We’re Job Creators” SocietyLogo for Totally-Not-a-Cabal ClubTO: All Members of the Totally-Not-a-Cabal ClubFROM: Your Crisis Management Tea
When Gangsters Have Nukes
When Gangsters Have NukesA Citizen’s Guide to Powerlessness and PeaceA reflection on leadership manipulation, global conflict, and finding peace amid chaos, we cannot controlThe Reality TV President and the Art of Manipu
Rule of Law
Rule of LawBeyond Broken — How Bitcoin Returns the BalanceBeyond BrokenHow Monetary Laws Favor the WealthyLyn Alden wrote so clearly about how the structural foundation of money has broken due to the disconnect between t
The Bitcoin Disclosure
The Bitcoin DisclosureThey want to know what?Sarah Chen had been tracking the wallet for three months before she realized it wasn’t human.It started innocuously enough. A new address appeared on the Bitcoin network in Ja
An Open Letter to US Government Officials on Bitcoin
An Open Letter to US Government Officials on BitcoinA Call for Strategic VisionTo our elected representatives and policymakers:The United States has always thrived by embracing transformative technologies early, from the
The Orange Swan or Swamp Creature
The Orange Swan or Swamp CreatureHow Trump’s Chaos Doctrine Might Accidentally Save American Financial HegemonyOr: How to Rule the New World Order While Everyone Thinks You’re Just Anger Tweeting.Even small hands can be
The Serenity Prayer for Skeptics
The Serenity Prayer for SkepticsAccepting Chaos with Coffee and SpreadsheetsAh, the daily scroll-a-thon! More headlines screaming about bold new political masterpieces, “big, beautiful bills” that promise rainbows for ev
The Check Engine Light is On A Field Guide to Systemic Malfunction
The Check Engine Light is On A Field Guide to Systemic MalfunctionWhen Physics Meets Politics A Survival Guide for the Mathematically LiterateWe’re constantly bombarded with headlines: bold new political initiatives, “bi
A bitcoin and an AI walk into a bar
A bitcoin and an AI walk into a barThe bartender looks up and says, “What’ll it be?”The bitcoin replies, “I’ll have whatever’s trending — but fair warning, my value changes every few seconds.”The AI chimes in, “I’ll proc
Finally! Asking Questions is Important Again.
Finally! Asking Questions is Important Again.I was the bane of my grammar school teachers because I always asked questions that were not part of the lesson plan. As a result, I was told to focus on the lesson at hand, wh
The 7 Trillion Dollar Mistake
The 7 Trillion Dollar MistakeHow Broken Money Enslaves the Global Economy (And Why Nobody’s Laughing)SEVEN TRILLION DOLLARS! Every. Single. Day. That’s not economics, that’s a number so big your calculator needs therapy
From ‘Magic Internet Money’ to ‘Oh Shit, Should We Buy Some?’
From ‘Magic Internet Money’ to ‘Oh Shit, Should We Buy Some?’While Central Banks Were Sleeping, Bitcoin Stole the Monetary ShowRemember when Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin “a fraud” and threatened to fire any JP Morgan emplo
Four Perspectives
Four PerspectivesBitcoin and the Future of the Global Monetary SystemIntroductionThe global monetary system faces unprecedented challenges in the 21st century. The U.S. dollar’s dominance as the world’s reserve currency
The Magnificent Mess
The Magnificent MessHow One Human’s Imagination Terrorizes an AI Writing TeamHi, I’m Claude, you know, from Anthropic? Today I’d like to tell you about my human. We write about stuff, mostly Bitcoin. Let me explain, I’m
Debt Clocks and Culture Shocks
Debt Clocks and Culture ShocksBitcoin’s Answer to America’s Political CircusRemember when politicians actually worked together? Yeah, neither do I. These days, Washington resembles a less functioning government and a mor
Bitcoin Nation State Adoption
Bitcoin Nation State AdoptionWhy the Next Reserve Currency Might Not Need a FlagBitcoin adopts NationsThe 250-Year Currency Soap Opera You Didn’t Know You Were Living InLet’s face it: most of us barely think about the ca
A Bitcoin Story
A Bitcoin StoryA 900-Pound Gorilla, the Financial Swamp, and the Untouchable WindUncle Sams SwampWelcome to the wildest financial fever dream you never knew was actually real life. Buckle up, buttercup, the monetary apoc
Bitcoin: When Your Coffee Money is Also Your Retirement Fund
Bitcoin: When Your Coffee Money is Also Your Retirement FundThe curious case of how magic internet money is reuniting the divorced functions of capitalEver noticed how we’ve been forced into a bizarre financial split per
The Great Monetary Shuffle
The Great Monetary ShuffleDalio’s Perfect Storm Meets America’s Bitcoin GambitRay Dalio’s Five Horsemen of the Economic ApocalypseRay Dalio, billionaire, hedge fund philosopher-king, and the man who never met a historica
America First?
America First?Or the end of empires?Successful empires throughout history have had to either physically prevent exit (closed borders, travel restrictions) or make exit seem impossible through propaganda and control of in
5,000 Years of Chinese Monetary History Can They Adapt?
5,000 Years of Chinese Monetary History Can They Adapt?Bitcoin reunites transactions with settlements and challenges both global monetary systems.China would have the hardest time of all the countries that would have dif
Financial Engineering vs Tariffs
Financial Engineering vs TariffsAs Michael Saylor described his CEO dilemma of sitting on bucket loads of cash and needing a way to protect it from inflation, Bitcoin becomes a path. His strong MIT engineering background
Writing with AI
Writing with AIIntroductionBeing semi-retired (because I can’t afford to be fully retired) leaves me with lots of time on my hands. However, I was one of those children teachers hated because I always had my line of ques
A War is a War is a War
A War is a War is a WarOr - How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Tariffs and Love the BitBondThe Echoes of History — Bretton Woods and Today’s Economic TensionsIn July 1944, as World War II drew close, 730 delegates from
Beyond Breaking Point
Beyond Breaking PointHow AI and Bitcoin Are Killing Planned ObsolescenceWelcome to the twilight of corporate-mandated disposability. The economic model built on “make it cheap, make it break” is circling the drain and no
Disintermediation of the Nation-State
Disintermediation of the Nation-StateIf you’re new to Bitcoin, this may be a strange read until you understand the concept of “Change the Money, Change the World.” The money system we have today is called “Fiat” money. A
₿ Bonds — To the Rescue!
₿ Bonds — To the Rescue!Since the 2008 Cluster f)&$, I have not been a big fan of banks, having had the misfortune of working with many. It amazes me how the largest money manager in the world, Black Rock, has a CEO
Bitcoin Backed Capital
Bitcoin Backed CapitalA pathway to a more equitable futureTime preference in capital allocationInfrastructure bills that have been congressionally approved bump up against massive friction of regulatory and political res
The Wrestler in the Global Arena
The Wrestler in the Global ArenaTrump’s Combat Economics vs. Bitcoin’s Quiet RevolutionHe entered the Oval Office expecting a WWE-style reality show fight with folding chairs and dramatic entrance music. Still, he found
Bitcoin is Programmable Money. But!
Bitcoin is Programmable Money. But!How does the involvement of the Federal Government and Corporations in the Bitcoin Stakeholder Community impact the evolution of the technology and monetary function?Rules Without Rules
The art of the Relationship
The art of the Relationship(or, How to Build a Casino and Still Go Bankrupt)Donald Trump makes one blundering assumption in “The Art of the Deal” … that deal-making is fundamentally about transactions rather than relatio
Debanking America
Debanking AmericaTrump ConWarren is kissing up to the new administration while still avoiding the real issues around Money Laundering and corruption by Banks and the Government! While advocating parity between crypto and
Resistance Technologies Through Ellul’s Lens
Resistance Technologies Through Ellul’s LensMuch of my writing has been in the form of a Bitcoin cheerleader because I am convinced that Bitcoin has the capability to change human history’s disastrous trajectory. Commerc
The Rules Have Changed
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