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The AI Agent Bitcoin Thesis Is Backwards (opens the original)
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Let’s investigate an increasingly popular idea: that the rise of artificial intelligence could create a massive new source of demand for Bitcoin.Somebody can love Bitcoin, understand Bitcoin extremely well, and still be completely wrong about one particular thing.Money for the internetLast weekend, I was on stage at the Bitcoin Helsinki Conference, and the subject of artificial intelligence came up.AI agents are going to make payments. Lots of payments. They’ll buy compute, data, access to APIs,
THE SIX GREAT GAMES OF BITCOIN (opens the original)
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Game theory studies decisions where the outcome depends on what other people choose, and on how they respond to one another. I studied it at the University of Chicago. That was so long ago that I barely remember the lessons.Bitcoin rekindled my interest. Its survival depends on incentives that have to keep working long after the people who built it are gone. Few understand how much goes into making it work.Here are the six great games of Bitcoin.The first game: minersIf you’re a miner, expanding
What Politicians Leave Out When They Promise Cheaper Prices (opens the original)
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What sounds pretty, but is actually one of the ugliest things a government can do to its people? Price controls.We’re heading into another election in the USA, which means lots of politicians are once again promising to make expensive things cheaper. It’s one of the easiest promises in politics. Groceries cost too much, so they’ll lower grocery prices. Rents are too high, so they’ll cap rents. Whatever people are struggling to afford, somebody eventually proposes a law limiting what it can cost.
When Does Bitcoin Become a Unit of Account? (opens the original)
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I’ve spent years explaining why Bitcoin has to become widely held as a store of value before it will become widely used as a medium of exchange. But here’s something I haven’t spent much time talking about.When does Bitcoin become a unit of account? When do people stop saying a house costs a million dollars and start saying it costs some number of Bitcoins or Satoshis? And when do businesses start thinking about revenue, wages, debts, and returns in Bitcoin terms, instead of constantly translati
The People You'll Spend Your Life With (opens the original)
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For years now, I’ve been sharing something very important with my kids, my cousins, my friends, my colleagues at Swan, and sometimes our clients.Earlier this week, a good friend told me he’d used it to explain to his kids how he does business. They asked him why he didn’t just steal and grift to get money, like so many people they read about in the news.He told them something he’d heard from me: Money is only as good as the story you can tell about how you got it.Two kinds of peopleIf you get yo
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