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Long-form arguments with charts, history, and primary sources. Read once, refer back forever.

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economics

The Case

A seven-chapter guided tour for the Bitcoin-skeptical. Fiat debasement, frozen accounts, 21 million, and what to do about it.

Read → 60 min

history

A Brief History

Forty years from cypherpunk mailing lists to a trillion-dollar network. The events, the artifacts, the people — chronological, no hagiography.

Read → 25 min

mining

Stranded Energy

A long-scroll argument: Bitcoin mining as the interruptible buyer for curtailed renewables. With real CAISO and hashprice data.

Read → 40 min

lightning

Lightning, honestly

Payment channels, HTLCs, routing, and liquidity — with three interactive visualizations and a steel-manned take on what Lightning hasn't solved.

Read → 25 min

philosophy

The Bitcoin Whitepaper · Annotated

Satoshi's nine pages, rendered with margin annotations and cross-links to the rest of Block Zero. The canonical text — what aged well, what aged poorly.

Read → 35 min

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