Bitcoin in Times of Adversity (Part 1)

Just after Bitcoin's 13th birthday, the industry faces its most challenging time yet, smeared with scams, ponzis, and bad actors. Let’s remind ourselves where Bitcoin comes from and why we need it.

Private, decentralized, digital money

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― George Orwell, 1984

The idea of a private, state-independent currency originated from the early innings of the “Cypherpunk” movement. Cypherpunk refers to a group of people in the late 1980s and 1990s, …