It is saddening to see ppl flocking in queues to hand over their biometrics. Black mirror level dystopian nightmare. #worldcoin

GM! Once you understand Bitcoin, there is no turning back.

GM, in his book Principles of Economics, Saifedean Ammous explains what lawyers have known instinctively for a long time: everyone sells time ;-)

It’s no fun for me to say that #zapplepay makes #Apple look like morons.

Zapple Pay

Thanks to @saunter and @Alby, I converted my business email address gpietras@djp.pl into an LN address. Had to get a little help from my IT department, but surprisingly, it was rather easy. Look forward to a world where all email addresses are LN addresses by default. https://guides.getalby.com/overall-guide/alby-lightning-account/where-to-use-your-lightning-address/how-to-use-your-own-domain-as-your-lightning-address

It will come as no surprise to readers of the ‘Bitcoin Standard’ and the ‘FIAT Standard’ that @Saifedean Ammous 's ’Principles of Economics’ is truly an excellent read. The book is a concise, clear, and engaging representation of the Austrian economic thought. #bookstr

Testing @Plebstr on iOS. It has been working flawlessly so far. Great UI. Zaps still working. (Don’t tell Apple!) I am pretty impressed. Good luck.

I feel like ditching #Apple for the first time ever.

"Now if we turn to the empirical record, we confront the stark fact that, in no period of human history, has paper money spontaneously emerged on the free market.“ Jörg Guido Hülsmann, The Ethics of Money Production #bookstr

Before the White Paper, Jörg Guido Hülsmann explained why #Bitcoin — if invented — would work wonders. "In the High Middle Ages, when large-scale commerce and the interregional division of labor started to flourish, the great merchants of northern Italy found that no government produced money that was suitable for their new needs. The traditional coin system contained only silver coins, virtually all of which were hopelessly debased and, what is more, were debased to different degrees. The merchants then set out to produce their own money, new and sound gold coins, which at first they used only within their own circles. And because the other governments tolerated this practice—because for once they did not stand in the way—by the thirteenth century the fiorino d’oro from Florence became a generally accepted medium of exchange in central and eastern Europe. A little liberty of this sort could work wonders in our age, which from a technological point of view is so much better endowed than the medieval merchants were.“ Jörg Guido Hülsmann, The Ethics of Money Production

@jb55 Why not let #Apple have their 30% share of #zaps using prism? This would at least compel them to establish an LN wallet. @Damus

#Keynesianism is essentially a legalised form of counterfeiting money sold under the guise of the necessity to stabilise prices and provide cheap credit for the economy.

"(...) Particularly, systems based on proof-of-stake protocols and controlled by specific individuals or institutions lose in this competition from the very beginning. The need to trust the entities controlling the protocol, who can make changes to it, is not an advantage but rather a disqualifying flaw of these systems."

Bitcoin as a Communication Protocol: Security, Stability, and Immutability

In the world of software, you have to run to stay in the same place. But Bitcoin is different.

"As a communication protocol, classical chess has withstood the challenges of time because it fulfils its task better than other protocols, which is to enable an engaging, unpredictable, tactically and strategically complex gameplay based on deceptively simple rules."

Bitcoin as a Communication Protocol: Security, Stability, and Immutability

In the world of software, you have to run to stay in the same place. But Bitcoin is different.

"Bitcoin as a Communication Protocol: Security, Stability, and Immutability" is an English version of my new piece for #iMagazine 6/2023. Have a good read.

Bitcoin as a Communication Protocol: Security, Stability, and Immutability

In the world of software, you have to run to stay in the same place. But Bitcoin is different.

#StrefaBitcoina

Happy Pizza Day to you all, nostriches.

Bitcoin is literally power that people choose to treat as information. #Softwar

Truth and Time on the Bitcoin Network. The English version of my latest article for #iMagazine 05/2023 is now live on Substack. I explore how Bitcoin ensures verifiable truth and an autonomous chronology, independent of external authorities. Read it here:

Truth and Time on the Bitcoin Network

In a world where information is abundant but trust is scarce, Bitcoin stands out as a unique source of verifiable truth and sovereign time measurin...

#Bitcoin #StrefaBitcoina #iMagazine

"When it comes to the first encounter with Bitcoin, everyone has their own story. However, a certain motif often repeats itself." Here is a piece on how it started for me. More to come.

Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole

When it comes to the first encounter with Bitcoin, everyone has their own story. However, a certain motif often repeats itself.

Utility instead of ideology. Instead of proselytising, we need to built LN in all applications we can think of. This is the way. Great one by #[0]​ #[1]​ https://medium.com/breez-technology/we-need-more-apps-with-lightning-not-more-lightning-apps-b5f37f9ac8bd