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This is a book I finished reading today 2026, 21st of March. It was very well written with tons of sources and footnotes, documenting old letters and history. Not at all as controversial as I imagined. Not a very fun read, but interesting still.

Eine Bitcoin-Wallet ist im Grunde wie die Banking-App auf deinem Smartphone. Wenn du deine Banking-App öffnest, stecken die Euro-Scheine ja auch nicht in deinem Handy. Die App verbindet sich lediglich mit der Bank, überprüft den Kontostand und lässt dich Überweisungen tätigen. Genau das tut eine Bitcoin-Wallet: Sie schaut im weltweiten Kassenbuch nach, wie viel Guthaben dir gehört, und zeigt dir das als Kontostand an.

Ein Gedicht von Erich Mühsam.

Wer als Anfänger anfängt, sich mit eigenen Krypto-Geldbörsen (sogenannten "Wallets") zu beschäftigen, stößt sofort auf zwei zentrale Begriffe: den „Public Key“ und den „Private Key“.

Bitcoin doesn't choose sides. In Iran, the regime uses it to circumvent sanctions and civilians use it to escape the war. Is this a problem? No: it's one of its crucial features

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When Wall Street burned the world in 2008 and walked away without a single prosecution, the public shrugged and went back to the casino. When COVID-era health authorities censored their own scientists, moved goalposts without apology, and retired with carefully managed reputations while billions suffered the consequences, the public shrugged again and kept watching CNN doctors. Two historic crises. Two perfect opportunities to evolve. Two collective failures of memory so staggering they can no l...

Forecast of the economic development of Western Asia.

Many applications claim to support offline usage, but what they actually provide is temporary caching layered on top of a fundamentally network-dependent system. This chapter examines why most “offline modes” fail under real-world conditions and clarifies the difference between cache-based resilience and true local-first architecture.

the fundamental structural problem isn't whether we regulate Section 230 or not—it's that we've built an entire system where profit maximization is legally mandated, externalities are socialized (costs paid by the public), and accountability is designed to be impossible.

I didn't leave the internet. The internet left me.

When’s the last time you thought about your thymus? The post The Shrinking Gland That Helps You Live Longer (https://nautil.us/the-shrinking-gland-that-helps-you-live-longer-1279121/) appeared