Nov 2, 2024

• article
• bitcoin
• monies
• shitcoins
• altcoins

All good monies are alike; each bad money is bad in its own way

As soon as the spot Bitcoin ETF was approved by the SEC in January this year, I wrote here about this important step for the institutional adoption of Bitcoin in the United States, also addressing the short- and long-term risks involved with this type of financial product. Now that, unexpectedly and through political pressure, the SEC has also approved the spot Ethereum (ETH) ETF, I will go into detail about how I believe the competition between these different ETFs will play out in the market.

Oct 24, 2024

• interview
• bitcoin
• time

From Time to the Timechain

An interview with Philip Charter, author of 15 Shades of Time.

Oct 17, 2024

• bitcoin
• fiction

Legacy

When my father died, an entire ecosystem system of beneficiaries withered. Moussa Ag El Khir funded scholarships and community projects, paying thousands of Dinars monthly to stop the oasis town of In Salah from burning up. The few families we knew operating outside the oil-field economy would be forced to flee to the Mediterranean coast, along with just about every other Berber.

Oct 10, 2024

• bitcoin
• fiction

The Construct

He had been sent to this forgotten part of the country by his employers at The Deep Sea Construction Company to examine blueprints for a construct that he would never fully understand. They were building something big on the seabed of the lake next to the village, but his security clearance curtailed any specific details about the project.

Oct 3, 2024

• bitcoin
• fiction

The Noderoid Saga: Dreamers

I am a noderoid, a half-flesh, half-machine creature harnessed to propagate and store the timechain. My life is a ceaseless cycle of handling and relaying bitcoin data. Approximately every ten minutes, a binary flash sears through my circuits. It is the price I pay for my existence.

Sep 27, 2024

• bitcoin
• fiction

Doxa

South of the Aleutian Chain and over the trench a man is reminded of how central the sun is to his life. At all times of the day, it pulls him upward and sets its eye upon the dark things that cast shadows on the earth and cause him to yearn for a day when he himself will no longer cast shadows but rays of glory