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Bitcoin Unlocked

Andrew Keir

A daily letter about bitcoin & the future of money unlocked.substack.com

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#112 Streaming Sats With Fountain

Bitcoin Unlocked ·

2022/06/24

Good Morning Everyone,Over the last few days I’ve been playing around with a podcasting 2.0 app called fountain. The app has a slick and familiar UI, and offers a custodial lightning wallet built into the app. While this is suboptimal ultimately, in order to onboard people initially and get people playing with the app it is likely the right move in the short term. For a fully noncustodial solution i recommend checking out BREEZ.Having an alternative business model to that of the advertising model is

3:39

#111 Show Me The Incentives, I'll Show You The Outcome

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2022/06/23

Good Morning Everyone,The US continues its decent into the depths of clown world™️, dragging most other developed nations with it. At a time when any sane human would think the rhetoric would have reached peak absurdity, things seemingly continue to become more insane.Old mate sleepy Joe has been asking gas companies to reduce their prices as the pain from decades of irresponsible monetary policy and naive interventionism hits a critical point seeing record high fuel prices across the country

4:08

#109 The Great Race

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2022/06/21

Good Morning Everyone,“Fiat money is a type of currency that is not backed by any commodity such as gold or silver, and typically declared by a decree from the government to be legal tender. Throughout history, fiat money was sometimes issued by local banks and other institutions. In modern times, fiat money is generally established by government regulation.”- WikipediaThe majority of people still do not understand why bitcoin is so important. Most people do not realise what is actually happening at

4:19

#108 Bitcoin Is Dead

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2022/06/20

Good Morning Everyone,The macro environment has clearly changed over the last 8 months. We’re in the middle of a global energy crisis. The trend of globalisation appears to have come to an end, and de-globalisation looks to be underway. Inflation is at 40 year highs in the US, and there are many indicators suggesting things within the TradFi system are breaking. The fed is posturing like they are going to raise rates until they win the battle against inflation. The costs of living have skyrocketed

2:26

#107 The Energy Crisis

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2022/06/16

Good Morning Everyone,While in the US the fed has hiked rates by a further 75bps, in Australia the beginning of the energy crisis seems to have begun with the government regulator suspending the energy market nationally. Channel 9, one of the major legacy propaganda outlets in Australia issued a warning urging NSW residents to reduce their electricity consumption immediately to avoid a blackout last night.Only a few days prior this same regulator enforced pricing controls in the state of Queensland

7:04

#106 The Confidence Game

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2022/06/15

Good Morning Everyone,Feelings and emotions are fascinating phenomena, but how we interpret them is perhaps even more so. What is a feeling? Where do they come from? Where do you experience them from? Some would consider these extremely esoteric and “woo-woo” type enquiries but i would postulate that a focussed attention toward these appearances in consciousness are of critical importance in cultivating our ability to maintain a more sophisticated mode of operation as humans, and to prevent us from

5:45

#105 Web5: Because Higher Number Better

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2022/06/14

Good Morning Everyone,I hope those in Australia enjoyed a long weekend despite some wild market price action and volatility. Another “crypto” scam called Celsius blew up in recent days limiting all trading, withdrawals and transactions. Binance also had a 3h block on bitcoin withdrawals! Binance CEO CZ came out and responded with the following tweet:I would be very wary if you use Binance’s shitcoin carousel. Bitcoin has been working flawlessly this entire time. It could be an internal issue at

3:07

#104 Inflation: The New Normal

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2022/06/09

Good Morning Everyone,It’s incredible to see how the tables have turned in relation to the clown-world narrative about inflation. A couple of short years ago i recall Jerome Powell come out saying we need to generate higher than normal inflation. That they planned to generate significantly above the 2% norm, and would let it run hot for longer than normal. A string of articles followed making this point, and the incredible claim that persistent low inflation was the real danger.Fast forward to the

3:04

#103 Monetary Misinformation

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2022/06/08

Good Morning Everyone,The technology we call money is fundamentally a system of information. It is a ledger, that assigns who has what. Bitcoin does not send “money” from one side of the planet to another to enable the transfer of value - it is simply updating information. Modifying numbers between one pigeon hole and another on an open, public, immutable ledger. It does so in a way that ensures no errors can exist in this system of information. A system of pure signal - completely free of noise. A

3:47

#102 Growing At The Speed Of Lightning

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2022/06/07

Good Morning Everyone,The lightning network continues to experience incredible growth. In my opinion most people are completely unaware of the significance of what is happening on top of bitcoin on the second layer. At the protocol layer transaction volume and speed is limited by block space (the number of transactions that can fit in a block), and the speed at which blocks are mined, and thus transactions added to the blockchain - which is on average every 10minutes. The lightning network is how

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#101 You Can't Print More Energy

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2022/06/06

Good Morning Everyone,It feels like the US Political apparatus could be about to go full-blown hysteric-mode toward bitcoin mining, in the face of the energy crisis which for the most part is self-inflicted. In an effort to save face in the minds of those still trapped in normie land, i get the sense they are seeking to provide a political sacrifice to the gods, and bitcoin is on their radar.The state of New York has passed a bill to ban bitcoin mining, specifically proof-of-work mining. The bill

4:51

#100 Mobiles Phones, The Internet & Bitcoin

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2022/06/03

Good Morning Everyone,Jurrien Timmer is the Director of Global Macro at Fidelity, which is one of the largest Asset Managers on the planet with an estimated $4.5T assets under management (AUM). He shared a fascinating thread this morning where he revisits the supply/demand dynamics of bitcoin, following the deviation of bitcoins price from Plan B’s stock-to-flow model; and compares network growth to that of mobile phones as well as the internet as a useful analog to help model the exponential growth

5:46

The Art Of Persuasion

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2022/06/02

Good Morning Everyone,The act of intentionally persuading people, or influencing them has long been something i’ve been somewhat allergic to. It’s always felt somewhat disingenuous to me and i’ve opted to take a more neutral approach. One where I’m less inclined to convince others or feel compelled to change their mind on a given topic, while being willing to provide the information that has led me to arrive at a certain position if asked.In thinking more deeply about the current situation we are

4:16

What Is Money.. What Is Energy?

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2022/06/01

Good Morning Everyone,The base layer of everything is energy. The universe and its contents are all made from energy. You are energy. Everything you acquire is energy, and made from energy. We consume it, and we generate it. Currently within clown world there is a malware installed which seems to imply using energy is bad, and we should try and use less of it. The counter to this would be that the effective harnessing of denser and denser energy sources (hydrocarbons) is what has enabled us to

4:17

Global Monetary Base

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2022/05/31

Good Morning Everyone,The history of money is a deep and fascinating rabbit hole. In order to understand the primary dimension of bitcoin, this knowledge is fundamental and helps to provide much insight as to why many of us believe bitcoin is the most pristine iteration of money ever invented and why, when referring to money, bitcoin truly “fixes this”, This morning I stumbled upon an incredible resource (shout out to Marty Bent!) that has been created by a guy named Matthew Mežinskis at

2:33

The El Salvador Experiment

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2022/05/30

Good Morning Everyone,Earlier this month saw a major milestone moment occur in the small country of El Salvador. According to a tweet from President Bukele:The countries represented were all developing nations. I won’t read through the list, but you can take a look below.While we do not know the specifics of their discussions or any outcomes from the meeting, it’s an incredible thing to witness as 44 nations are on the brink of unlocking financial sovereignty, perhaps the first time. Some people

6:07

Keep Them In The Dark & Feed Them S#!t

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2022/05/26

Good Morning Everyone,Back in 2019 there was a leadership change within the European Central Bank. The leadership role transitioned from Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde. Wikipedia describes Mario Draghi as:“an Italian economist, banker, academic and civil servant who has been Prime Minister of Italy since 13 February 2021. He previously served as President of the European Central Bank (ECB) from 2011 until 2019. Draghi was also Chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2009 to 2011 and Governor

6:18

Diametrically Opposing Forces

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2022/05/25

Good Morning Everyone,Stories of good and evil have been told all throughout time by humans. This dichotomy is baked in deeply to us all and thus is reflected in most religions and cultures throughout history. From psychology to the arts - the story of diametrically opposed forces continues to be reverberate through time, evident by the endless list of books and movies based around it; be it The Lion King with Scar and Simba, Gladiator with Maximus and Commodus, Superman with Clark Kent and Lex

5:54

You Get To Choose [Your Network]

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2022/05/24

Good Morning Everyone,Toward the end of my letter on Friday I touched on a point that I believe is extremely important to bring to the surface, and largely goes un-noticed by most at present. That in order to survive in the world you must choose a monetary network. Let me quickly recap for anyone that missed it:“For centuries fiat currencies have been created and destroyed, and many lives along with them. Never in our civilizations history was there a viable alternative that would sustain through

1:50

Your Pizza Is Bad For The Environment 🙃

Bitcoin Unlocked ·

2022/05/23

Good Morning Everyone,Yesterday May 22nd, was bitcoin pizza day. The story goes that on this day 12 years ago a person by the name of Laszlo Hanyecz made it known on an internet forum called bitcointalk.org, that he was willing to purchase 2 large pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin.At the time the value of the bitcoin was $41. Four days later, the transaction took place. Jeremy, another user on the forum took Laszlo up on his offer, and had two large pizzas delivered to him in Florida in exchange for the

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