Jordi Visser argues in Bitcoin’s Silent IPO: Why This Consolidation Isn’t What You Think that Bitcoin’s stagnant price is not a sign of weakness but of maturity. “What if Bitcoin isn’t broken, what if it’s finally having its TradFi version of an IPO?” he asks. Visser compares today’s market behavior to post-IPO distribution phases, where early investors methodically sell into strength while new holders accumulate patiently. He cites Galaxy Digital’s $9 billion Bitcoin sale as evidence of large-scale, orderly exits by decade-plus holders. On-chain data show long-dormant coins moving, suggesting a shift from concentrated to distributed ownership. Visser concludes this “changing of the guard” strengthens Bitcoin’s structure, transitioning it from volatile speculation to a durable, institutionally held monetary asset. “The excitement of concentration,” he writes, “is being replaced by the durability of distribution.”
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Job interviews, Paul Skallas observes, are “a gauntlet,” a ritual of repetition and rejection that reveals how much of life depends on gut instinct. In The Lindy Newsletter essay Trust Your Intuition, he explores why both hiring managers and executives often rely on feelings they later rationalize with data. Drawing on psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, Skallas defines intuition as “compressed experience,” or unconscious intelligence shaped through pattern recognition. He argues that intuition thrives under uncertainty, where metrics and models fail to predict outcomes. “You’re only truly free,” he writes, “when you don’t have to explain why you did something.” Experts, he notes, should trust their first instinct; novices must train theirs through heuristics, rules of thumb that evolve into skill. By framing intuition as a disciplined, teachable process, Skallas restores legitimacy to human judgment in a data-obsessed age.
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Three decades after founding the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle says his dream library has survived, but just barely. “We survived, but it wiped out the Library,” he told Ars Technica, reflecting on legal defeats that forced the removal of over 500,000 books from the Open Library. The Archive’s decade-long copyright battle ended with confidential settlements, preserving its operations but crippling one of its core lending models. Kahle argues that “massive multibillion-dollar media conglomerates” have tightened control over digital knowledge, turning libraries into subscription services. Yet the organization presses ahead with Democracy’s Library, an open repository of global government research. Advocates warn that without reforms to “re-architect” copyright, digitization could stall under legal risk. For Kahle, preserving public access remains existential: “We’re just trying to be a library, and it’s getting hard.”
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In an inventive twist on sustainability, open-source hardware collective Bee Evolved has turned Bitcoin mining waste into a functioning beehive. The group’s S21 Pro Honey Bee Hive project repurposes Bitmain S21 Pro ASIC chassis, normally used for industrial-scale Bitcoin mining, into ecological shelters for honey bees. “Pulling chips from a brand new fully functional hashboard… comes at a wasteful cost,” the team admitted, urging collaboration with chipmakers like Block and Auradine to source affordable, sustainable ASICs. Each retrofitted unit features beeswax-coated hashboards, observation windows, ventilation systems, and beetle traps to minimize stress on colonies still recovering from Colony Collapse Disorder. The initiative reflects a broader goal: cleaning up Bitcoin’s hardware footprint while proving that open-source design and environmental stewardship can coexist. All schematics are freely available via Bee Evolved’s GitHub repository.
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