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The 2 minute summarized first principles driven bitcoin thesis of Stone Ridge Asset Management. A tour of money, monetary history, and the 'aha moments' needed to understand Bitcoin

How Greed and Leverage Destroyed the Crypto Tulip Market Cryptocurrencies were supposed to offer a new, virtual alternative to the current, mundane, "corrupt" system, in which a few dozen bureaucrats in conference rooms around the world - central bankers - manipulate the most important commodity of all - interest rates - the price of money.

Everything you need to build your truth about Bitcoin and stop trusting others without verifying.

The longstanding compromise on transaction sizes, how Taproot accidentally blew it up, and the nascent NFT protocol emerging in its wake