🔬Science & Technology

Mastering the Lightning Network is a technical explanation of why Bitcoin's base layer, secure and decentralized by design, cannot by itself handle the transaction volume of a global, everyday payment system, and how the Lightning Network solves that problem by moving most…

The Bitcoin Standard spends most of its pages not on Bitcoin but on money itself: what money is, why certain goods historically became money, and why some forms of money survive while others collapse. Ammous, an Austrian-school economist, argues that the deciding factor across…

Virtual Society, written by Herman Narula (founder of the virtual-world infrastructure company Improbable), argues that the metaverse and other immersive digital environments aren't a new, unprecedented cultural development but the latest expression of a capacity humans have…