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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

What is Bitcoin?

I recently emailed someone who has a website that keeps a running record of returns (i.e., equities, bonds, gold, etc) with nearly 100 years worth of data and asked if he could start tracking Bitcoin from 2009. The person responded, "As what? A...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Pizza priced in Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, compa...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

I’ve been involved since 2017, run my own Lightning node, and even get a salary to manage a data center mining Bitcoin, but I still need to learn. I should’ve picked these up a long time ago. Better late than never.

I have discovered that to really understand why bitcoin is so amazing, it really helps to have a better understanding of how our current system works (or does not). Further, just understanding money itself is kind of useful. Debt by David Graber was...