Bitcoin Mining & The Electricity Grid: A Quiet SaviorMagic internet money Bitcoin may be, but its positive spill-over effects on electricity grids around the world might be even more important than the asset itself... Feb 15 26February 15, 2026Article at Zero Hedge
As Energy Costs Soar, Home Bitcoin-Mining Is Going To Heat EuropeZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero Aug 17 25August 17, 2025Article at Zero Hedge
How To Think About Bitcoin Treasury Companies: A Bitcoiner's Dilemma In The Age Of Rampant SpeculationZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero Aug 17 25August 17, 2025Article at Zero Hedge
In Defense Of Bitcoin CultureVia BitcoinMagazine.com, A response to the recent piece "Reflections on Bitcoin Culture" by Margot Paez, by Joakim Book. Bitcoin changes our lives. It’s an almost spiritual observation that we’ve all seen within ourselves. After acquiring some,… Jul 21 24July 21, 2024Article at Zero Hedge
Anarchy In The UKAuthored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, Anarchism [an·ar·chism] n. 1. “a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free… Jul 11 24July 11, 2024Article at Zero Hedge
Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization ItselfAuthored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, I live in a small village at the edge of lands surrounded by very harsh nature. Those who occupied these valleys in ages past lived ruthlessly dangerous lives, where starvation was a constant worry,… Apr 19 24April 19, 2024Article at Zero Hedge
Eating The Rich Won't Feed The BeastAuthored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Wealth in a free society is a rough tallying score of how much economic value someone has provided to the rest of us. A rich person’s wealth — bar inheritance and cronyism — is… Apr 02 24April 02, 2024Article at Zero Hedge
How The Fed Broke The BanksAuthored by Joakim Book via Reason.com, The Fed's anti-inflation measures had to hurt someone... The Federal Reserve is in the unenviable position of achieving its mandate by crashing the economy. It's not something it wants to do, as Fed Chair… Mar 15 23March 15, 2023Article at Zero Hedge
The Four Worst Ways To Attack BitcoinIn his latest book, Nouriel Roubini demonstrates the worst ways to try and attack Bitcoin... Finding fault with Bitcoin and Bitcoiners is easy. Every schmuck, stick, know-it-all pundit, wise-ass and establishment elite has a handful of complaints… Feb 01 23February 01, 2023Article at Zero Hedge
The West Must Never Again Go TotalitarianThe West can never again go totalitarian. We saw it happen generations ago. We fought two of humanity’s most destructive wars and faced the horror of industrial-scale extermination. Never again, said the world’s peoples in the late 1940s, and they… Jan 28 23January 28, 2023Article at Zero Hedge
They Won't Leave Us Alone: The Invasion Of PoliticsThe temptation and crucial flaw of a totalitarian mind are that everyone must play a part in a superstructural battle between good and evil. Standing on the sidelines or taking a neutral position on present topics is not allowed; one may not merely… Jan 23 23January 23, 2023Article at Zero Hedge
The Senator Who Didn't Know (But Thought She Did)Authored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, Legislators have a strange relationship with magic. To achieve that which physically cannot be done, they like to wave magic wands and pretend that it can. Reality puts a limit on political power, a… Jan 11 23January 11, 2023Article at Zero Hedge
How To Talk To Family Members About Bitcoin This ThanksgivingI don’t... That’s it. That’s the article. In all sincerity, that is the full message: Just don’t do it. It’s not worth it. You’re not an excited teenager anymore, in desperate need of bragging credits or trying out your newfound wisdom. You’re not a… Nov 24 22November 24, 2022Article at Zero Hedge
No One Understands The Monetary System, And That's Not OKBitcoin is freedom money for a century of liberty. But to truly grasp why that is, you need to see what’s wrong with the system it attempts to overthrow... Understanding the monetary system is foundational to seeing what’s wrong with the current… May 12 22May 12, 2022Article at Zero Hedge
Lighting The Gas Under European Feet: How Politicians & Journalists Get Energy So Wrong“We live in a time where few understand how things get made. It is fine to not know where stuff comes from, but it isn’t fine to not know where stuff comes from while dictating to the rest of us how the economy should be run." Eighty-five percent of… May 12 22May 12, 2022Article at Zero Hedge
How Bubbles, Price, & COVID-19 Changed Bitcoin For MeBitcoin is not a bubble. It’s the monetary escape hatch we need now that the COVID-19 cat is out of the bag... I trained as a financial historian. My academic work focused on banks and financial markets in the past, and I was always fascinated by… Jan 01 22January 01, 2022Article at Zero Hedge
Crypto Company Creates Architecture For A Self-Sovereign EconomyIn a moment of balance and strength, I felt my muscles stiffen, the pressure against my right triceps increasing. Flirting with gravity, I engaged my core like I had a hundred times before, raised my hips a little higher, and started angling my upper… Nov 18 21November 18, 2021Article at Zero Hedge
Icelandic Study Suggests Government Workers Are UnnecessaryAuthored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, A lie can get around the world faster than truth can get its pants on, according to the adage apocryphally connected to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill (or Jonathan Swift). One… Jul 14 21July 14, 2021Article at Zero Hedge
Dissenters, Unite!Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Being contrarian is hard work. You need to withstand ridicule, the loss of friends, employment, and acquaintances, face the imminent possibility that most of the time you’ll be… May 11 21May 11, 2021Article at Zero Hedge
Bitcoin & A Lesson In Electricity MarketsAuthored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, In their desperation to find a reason for why bitcoin is terrible-bad-destructive-awful and morally reprehensible, the crypto-obsessed authors of the Financial Times blog… May 02 21May 02, 2021Article at Zero Hedge
