August 13, 2024 Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True? Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and…
March 23, 2024 How 1990s Libertarians Laid the Groundwork for Cryptocurrency The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wanted to denationalize money. David Chaum, an innovator in the field of cryptography and electronic cash, wanted to shield…
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April 6, 2023 Debate: Bitcoin Is the Future of Free Exchange Bitcoin Is an Effective Tool for Liberty Affirmative: Alex Gladstein Joanna Andreasson There was a time when it was fair to question whether bitcoin…
February 21, 2023 Nostr and the Decentralized Future of Social Media Is Here: Live with NVK, Will Casarin, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller What is Nostr, the fledgling software project to which Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey gave 14 bitcoin (worth approximately $245,000 at the…
