I'm an engineer who came in during the COVID bull run, survived the LUNA crash, was stupid enough to stick around during the bear, and am now earnestly studying "crypto philosophy". What the hell is that, you ask? I just made it up. I think about cryptocurrency systems, financial systems, why they do what they do, whether they're fair, and whether they can be made better. I'm just a regular old dumbass trying to learn and run commentary as cryptocurrencies go mainstream and evolve as they do....

I'm an engineer IRL. Engineers examine system characteristics. Here are the objective facts about Bitcoin, undistracted by controversial headlines, haters screaming "scam" and crypto bros screaming "number go up". As we go through each system characteristic, I'm going to explain to you why your intuition will work against you to derail your understanding of Bitcoin, and why understanding Bitcoin requires work. This effort threshold often leads people to take the easy way out and scream "scam"...

My crypto journey for this bull run has continued to gravitate towards DePIN. I'm so intrigued by the topic. Honestly, my husband saw its potential f...

Messari recently dropped a free report on DePIN, predicting it to be the next big narrative in crypto. The report outlines the bull case for several ...