Can Grandmas Be Bitcoin Cypherpunks? Q&A With Jameson Lopp
In October 2017, a SWAT team showed up at Jameson Lopp’s house in North Carolina, allegedly because of a fake complaint called in by someone angered by a tweet. So Lopp posted a video of…
June 2023
‘The Hillywood Show’ Interview: Hilly & Hannah Talk the ‘Good Omens’ Parody, Working with Neil Gaiman, ‘Twilight’ Beginnings, & More!
The Hillywood Show is a YouTube channel that was started at the end of 2006 that features musical parodies of shows and movies, set to songs that will be on repeat in anyone’s head. Beginning with…
‘Gotham Knights’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 12 “City of Owls”
The Bad Guy Wins Cheering opens the episode. Lincoln March — confirmed bad guy — proclaims to a crowd, “Isn’t it great when the good guy wins?” He was the only mayoral candidate in Gotham…
She's Suing the Fed To Open a Rothbardian Bitcoin Bank
Caitlin Long wants to start a new kind of bank…based on a very old model. “A 100 percent reserve bank that would keep all of our cash at the Fed,” she says. She was influenced by…
Europe's Bitcoin-Busting Mistake
The European Union’s recent adoption of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) into law represents a huge, and foolish, step in how Europe approaches the regulation of crypto. Given recent regulatory actions by the Securities…
Bitcoin's Greatest Test
Fifteen years after Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a nine-page white paper on an obscure email list sketching out an idea for a new peer-to-peer digital currency, bitcoin has become a global phenomenon. And nowhere is its…