Build and Run the Network

Digital assets live on open networks that thousands of ordinary people help run and build. Our Digital Asset Rights Act would draw a clear line bet...

Be first to try the ABR Espresso Martini. 🍸 It debuts at Fork & Coin on Nov 14 before joining the menu, with 21% of all sales going to the Altgeld Bitcoin Reserve cause. Come raise a glass for the Altgeld Bitcoin Reserve, the nation’s first community-run Bitcoin reserve, and see who’s in the room. 📅 Sat, Nov 14 | 12–4 PM 📍 Fork & Coin, 3938 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL Sip with purpose. Every sip helps a neighborhood build wealth it owns. #Bitcoin #Chicago #ABR

$6.36B in about 20 minutes: what’s actually confirmed about the Binance hack, and what’s still unknown.

Pay and Be Paid

If two people agree on how one will pay the other, the government shouldn’t block the deal because of what they chose to pay with. The Illinois D...

What Did the Bitcoin Whitepaper Actually Say? (In Plain English) Learn more at:

Illinois Bitcoin Council

Illinois Bitcoin Council

Join the Illinois Bitcoin Council for advocacy, education, and resources on Bitcoin adoption in Illinois.

da-ri had AI read more than 7,000 academic papers on Bitcoin and energy. Not a sample - every mention of the two together, about 23,000 statements. Here's what the literature actually rests on:

Second-hand gloom

We had AI read every mention of Bitcoin and energy in more than 7,000 academic papers. Most of the case they make against Bitcoin is second-hand, o...

What Did the Bitcoin Whitepaper Actually Say? (In Plain English) On October 31, 2008, someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto shared a nine-page paper called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." Eighteen years later, most people have heard of bitcoin, but very few have read the paper. In under three minutes, this video walks through what it actually says: the problem it set out to solve, the shared notebook at the center of the idea, why the record is hard to fake, and the fair question of what it means that nobody knows who wrote it.

Digital Property Is Property

The Illinois Digital Asset Rights Act would make sure the government follows the same rules to take your digital assets that it follows to take any...

Why isn’t everything cheaper? H/t - @Jeff Booth

Hold Your Own Keys You can keep cash in a drawer, gold in a safe, or a car title in a filing cabinet without anyone’s permission. The Illinois Digital Asset Rights Act would make sure the same is true of your #Bitcoin.

Hold Your Own Keys

You can keep cash in a drawer, gold in a safe, or a car title in a filing cabinet without anyone’s permission. The Illinois Digital Asset Rights ...

Hold Your Own Keys | Illinois Digital Asset Rights Act

The Missing Piece Illinois has a law that regulates digital-asset businesses and a law that taxes them. It has nothing that says what you’re allowed to do with your own. We’re proposing the IL Digital Asset Rights Act.

The Missing Piece

Illinois has a law that regulates digital-asset businesses and a law that taxes them. It has nothing that says what you’re allowed to do with you...

ILLINOIS IS WRITING THE RULES FOR ITS NEW DIGITAL ASSET TAX, AND THE DRAFT WOULD REQUIRE EXCHANGES TO KEEP RECORDS INCLUDING YOUR PRIVATE KEYS. Comments are due Oct 30. We made a form for you. Pick your issues and send yours in 5 minutes: illinoisbitcoincouncil.org/il-digital-asset-tax

Interested in the Illinois Digital Asset Tax? We're all over it...

Municipal Bitcoin Reserve by ABR Foundation & Tolbyus Shephard https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBd05nGWGNn0&si=cC9HYQOs6iwC2K-S

I had the honor of moderating a fireside chat with Representative John Cabello and IBC vice president Jeff Hilsenbeck at the recent Midwest Bitcoin Summit. The focus of our discussion was the Illinois Digital Asset Tax. 

The Part That Doesn’t Show Up on a Chart Two days in Columbus, and almost none of what mattered was about price.

The Part That Doesn’t Show Up on a Chart

Two days in Columbus, and almost none of what mattered was about price.

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The Rate Was Never the Point Congress’s tax committee just voted 38–5 that some digital asset transactions are too small to be worth tracking. Illinois taxes all of them, and the 0.2% is the cheapest part.

The Rate Was Never the Point

Congress’s tax committee just voted 38–5 that some digital asset transactions are too small to be worth tracking. Illinois taxes all of them, a...