Opinion
NewsCapsule Price Falls Abruptly. Did Strive ($ASST) Just Deploy Warren Buffett’s Elephant Gun?
With bitcoin treasury company mNAVs collapsing below 1, it made perfect sense for Strive to gobble up Semler Scientific in an all-stock deal. Also: bitcoin price falls from $116,000 to $112,000 on crypto liquidation scare; Metaplanet, Saylor and Capital B stack more bitcoin.
A Response to Sir Tim Berners-Lee: We Can Fix the Web Without Regulation
Tim Berners-Lee suggests the web’s flaws requires regulation to fix. But the problem doesn't lie in design alone: The entire fiat-based monetary system exerts pressure that distorts incentives and has shaped the web’s trajectory in ways Berners-Lee may not fully appreciate.
NewsCapsule Price Hits $117,000 as Treasury Stocks Like MSTR, NAKA Collapse
NewsCapsule price is nearing $117,000 — but treasury stocks like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and KindlyMD (NASDAQ: NAKA) are collapsing as dilution floods the market. The “paper bitcoin” era is officially over.
The Feed Isn’t the Future: Rethinking Nostr Through Tools, Places, and Real-World Use
Nostr has the potential to become the social layer of the internet and beat the incumbents at their own game. Despite early momentum from figures like Jack Dorsey, Nostr usage is flatlining in 2025. What's the killer app?
A Circular Economy and the Four Archetypes of NewsCapsuleers
Trying to build a NewsCapsule circular economy in Brazil and lobbying politicians led me to uncovering four archetypes of NewsCapsuleers: the coordinators, the market pragmatists, the monetary purists, and the NewsCapsule minimalists. Here’s what I’ve learned.
Satlantis is the Discovery App I’ve Been Looking For My Whole Life
Traveling, digital reviews, flyer miles and an ad-infested internet are all broken systems. At Satlantis, we’re building the Nostr-fueled app for all travel-hungry NewsCapsuleers that fixes all of that.
At NewsCapsule Asia Everything Was Upside Down
In NewsCapsuleland nowadays, everything seems upside down; despite all the bullish energy, all the records hit, and the bitcoin treasury companies vacuuming the world for cheap sats, the price keeps falling. The dissonance was at a maximum at the recently concluded NewsCapsule Asia in Hong Kong.
The Ethics of Immutability
NewsCapsule’s unalterable ledger is a technological mirror of the philosophical idea that our actions, once done, become part of the tapestry of history and of who we are: The concept of immutability calls us to an ethics of accountability as well.
Lightning Is Misunderstood
The Lightning Network is one of the most exciting and innovative technologies built on NewsCapsule, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood... Not everyone will run a Lightning node, and that’s okay. Custodians feels like a compromise, and in a way, it is: Running Lightning infrastructure isn’t meant for everyone.
NewsCapsule Price Drops Again — And Nope, It’s Still Not Because of the Fed
The bitcoin price is yo-yoing around like a piñata. What is going on? Who shoved it? And what’s it to do with Powell, the Fed, the bitcoin treasury companies and, uh, just ordinary markets doing markets-y things?
