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Frank Corva
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Content Producer at Fedi | Host at new renaissance capital | Contributor at Bitcoin Magazine and Forbes Digital Assets
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frankcorva 1 week ago
Earlier this year at Bitcoin Medellín, I watched one of the best Bitcoin presentations I'd ever seen. It was delivered by Tom Benner (head of product at Lunar Rails), a name you may not be familiar with, but someone who has a firm grasp on Bitcoin's potential to change the world. Tom's presentation drew from the work of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D, author of the landmark book Power vs. Force. In Power vs. Force, Dr. Hawkins lays out the map of human consciousness, which groups our psychological, spiritual, and emotional states into three paradigms: survival, reason/integrity, and spiritual. These different states exist on different frequencies and these frequencies can be calibrated via kinesiology, according to Dr. Hawkins. The frequency at which people, institutions, ideas, and physical entities exists can be calibrated via the methodology Dr. Hawkins lays out in the book. And Dr. Hawkins shares the consciousness frequency/level of people like Gandhi as well as concepts like capitalism and communism in the book. One thing he did't calibrate, though, was money. This is where Tom's work comes in. Tom has worked with kinesiologists to calibrate both Bitcoin and fiat currencies, and he's found that Bitcoin exists at the frequency of love, while fiat currencies calibrate around the frequency of fear. In this podcast episode, Tom breaks this all down in greater detail, and we discuss the implications of his findings for the world. Of the hundreds of articles I've written and podcast episodes I've created, I believe that this is one of the most important pieces of content I've ever taken part in creating. Enjoy.
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frankcorva 3 weeks ago
Sure, cry for Paris, but don't forget about Gaza. And be sure to take note of why so many people are immigrating from the "third world" to France in the first place. View article →
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frankcorva 1 month ago
“…it has become my firm conviction that it is not good to run public institutions on permanent funds. A permanent fund carries in itself the seed of the moral fall of the institution. A public institution means an institution conducted with the approval, and from the funds, of the public. When such an institution ceases to have public support, it forfeits its right to exist. Institutions maintained on permanent funds are often found to ignore public opinion, and are frequently responsible for acts contrary to it.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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frankcorva 1 month ago
Yesterday at the UN’s Digital Cooperation Day event, Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond spoke about the need for Bitcoin in today’s digital labor environment and made the point that Bitcoin is an important tool for financial inclusion. Alexandra Navarro, who was also present at the event, reinforced Almond’s point about Bitcoin and financial inclusion, citing evidence from her work as Paystand.org’s Chief Impact Officer. And H. E. Bilal Bin Saqib explained why Pakistan 🇵🇰 has created a strategic bitcoin reserve. More in my latest for Forbes Digital Assets https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankcorva/2026/09/22/bitcoins-promise-highlighted-at-united-nations-digital-cooperation-event/
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frankcorva 4 months ago
I’ve recently opened my mind to BIP 110 for the sake of trying to hear where supporters for it are coming from, as I believe many of them care about Bitcoin as much as I do. I get some of the arguments, but what I can’t wrap my head around are notions like the one below. Are BIP 110 supporters okay with getting rid of Bitcoin’s PoW algorithm? I’m asking this out of genuine curiosity, not trolling. image
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frankcorva 4 months ago
YIL that Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker, who just signed a bill that mandates a 0.2% tax on companies transacting with or storing crypto, once had five toilets removed from his second mansion as part of a tax fraud scheme. He had the mansion rendered “uninhabitable” so to pay significantly less in property taxes. He ended up not paying over $500k he otherwise would have had to have paid (until he got caught and had to pay some of that money back). The point is that the person who wants to make it more costly for reputable Illinois-based Bitcoin companies like @npub1ex7m...vyt9 to do business is also the person who isn’t a fan of paying taxes himself. https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654201077/illinois-gov-candidate-removed-mansions-toilets-to-dodge-taxes-report-finds
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