In his essay Notes from the Asylum, Andrew Doyle portrays social media as “a madhouse of mutual incomprehension,” where public discourse has fractured into self-affirming chaos. He argues that online conflict stems from distorted language and moral certainty, observing that “antagonists in every faction believe they are on the side of the angels.” Using examples such as a protest song targeting imagined “fascists,” Doyle critiques the redefinition of political terms to fit personal virtue narratives. He warns that debate has lost coherence: “Logging on to these sites is like entering an asylum.” Doyle urges a return to reasoned exchange grounded in shared definitions, proposing that interlocutors summarize opposing views “to their satisfaction before we begin.” His essay highlights the danger of mistaking digital echo chambers for discourse and the urgent need to revive intellectual good faith.
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My First Bitcoin, El Salvador’s pioneering Bitcoin education nonprofit, is expanding its mission globally. Founded by John Dennehy in 2021, the project has grown from a single four-student class to teaching more than 27,000 students and creating the world’s first public-school Bitcoin Diploma. “We want to help others succeed in their own communities and link them together,” Dennehy told Bitcoin Magazine, explaining the organization’s pivot from direct teaching to empowering educators worldwide. The group is closing its El Salvador office and shifting to a decentralized, fully remote model using open-source curricula and community-led meetups. Supported by a $1 million grant from Jack Dorsey’s Start Small fund, My First Bitcoin will continue developing digital tools, teacher workshops, and its global Node Network. The move marks a new phase for independent, Bitcoin-only education aimed at fostering sovereignty through knowledge.
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In a technical post on Delving Bitcoin, developer theStack analyzed a decade of ECDSA signature validation performance between OpenSSL and Bitcoin’s purpose-built cryptographic library, libsecp256k1. With Bitcoin Core’s v31.0 release approaching, marking ten years since replacing OpenSSL, the study found that libsecp256k1 now verifies signatures over eight times faster. Using dynamic library loading to benchmark historical versions, theStack showed that OpenSSL’s performance on the secp256k1 curve has barely changed, while libsecp256k1 has achieved steady gains through optimizations such as the GLV endomorphism and safegcd-based modular inverses. Pieter Wuille, the library’s creator, once reported a 2.5–5.5x advantage in 2015; today, that margin has significantly expanded. TheStack recommends integrating benchmarking into Bitcoin Core’s release process to track future gains and extending tests to Schnorr signature verification and other performance-critical functions.
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Taylor Barkley of the Abundance Institute argues that Ohio’s proposed “Right to Compute Act” would secure a fundamental freedom: the right to use advanced computing and artificial intelligence without government interference. Modeled after Montana’s pioneering law, the act would ensure that individuals and organizations can own and operate hardware, software, and algorithms unless regulators demonstrate a compelling reason to restrict them. “The government must justify restrictions, not the other way around,” Barkley writes. He warns that other states, including California and New York, are considering licensing or usage caps that could stifle innovation. With Amazon, Intel, Google, and Meta already investing heavily in Ohio’s data infrastructure, Barkley urges lawmakers to safeguard computational freedom as a foundation for economic growth, declaring that “Ohio can set a global standard for freedom, innovation, and competitiveness.”
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