Tag: Life

The 9-minute read that could change your life – Cointelegraph Magazine

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[ad_1] By now, you’ve probably heard of Bitcoin. You may have heard that it has made some people rich. You may also have heard that it’s a new form of digital money and that it’s the future of commerce, or that it’s a criminal enterprise and that it’s bad for the planet. The messaging is confused and confusing, which is partly because no one person controls it — just like Bitcoin, which belongs to… well, all of us. In this short essay, I want to help the Bitcoin-curious understand a…

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Bitcoin Will Change Your Life

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[ad_1] Like many people, I first became interested in bitcoin after numerous contact points. I had first heard about it in 2013 when I discovered that you could purchase drugs through the Silk Road on the dark web. I looked into buying some bitcoin for this purpose, but the only way I could figure out how to get some was by using LocalBitcoins to meet some random person in a coffee shop to make the dollars to bitcoin exchange. It seemed about as sketchy as buying drugs from the internet,…

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Bitcoin And Me A Life In Fiat Recovery

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[ad_1] Instead of asking, why am I an alcoholic? I prefer to ask, how? As in, how did I become as hopeless as I once was and then how did I miraculously — slowly — progress to where I am today? What were the actions I took, the motivations for those actions, and the destructive patterns that arose and shaped the incentive structure for my reality? Most importantly, now that I am years into recovery and free of the bondage of active addiction, I constantly have to ask: What am…

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Crypto leaders are obsessed with life extension. Here’s why – Cointelegraph Magazine

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[ad_1] Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is on a mission to make humans immortal. Buterin, 27, proposes the idea that “aging is an engineering problem.”  He is not alone in his combined interest in Bitcoin and biohacking. Famous biomedical aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, Xanadu architect and Agoric chief scientist Mark Miller, Bitcoin Cash billionaire Roger Ver and former chief technology officer of Coinbase and a16z general partner Balaji Srinivasan, are all fascinated by the pursuit of longevity. De Grey recently helped launch VitaDAO, a “decentralized collective funding longevity research.” He…

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Bitcoin Artwork Makes Life Beautiful

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[ad_1] Rule VIII: Add Bitcoin Artwork to Your Life to Make It As Beautiful As Possible A REIMAGINATION OF “BEYOND ORDER” BY JORDAN PETERSON THROUGH THE LENS OF BITCOIN. Preface This writing mirrors the exact chronological structure of Beyond Order offering reflection through a Bitcoin lens. This is chapter 8 of 12. If you read the book it adds a second dimension. All quotes credited to Jordan Peterson. All reflections inspired by Satoshi Nakamoto. Cleaning Your Room Is Not Enough “Making something beautiful is difficult, but it is amazingly worthwhile.…

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