Scott Wolfe – The Progressive Bitcoiner

The Next Mantra: Spend and Replace

Scott Wolfe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:49:34 +0000

There is an ongoing tension that runs through Bitcoin culture and the Bitcoin movement globally—one that is often misunderstood, but deeply felt. Save it, or spend it? For many Bitcoiners, the answer seems obvious. You save it. You never “sell” your Bitcoin. You accumulate. You stack sats. You don’t part with an asset that you believe will appreciate dramatically over time.

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Stablecoins & New Monetary Empires: Why Bitcoin Matters More Than Ever

Scott Wolfe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:15:21 +0000

To call something a stablecoin is to embed a promise into the name. It suggests permanence, reliability, and the absence of monetary turbulence. But as with many euphemisms in modern finance, this term conceals more than it reveals. Stablecoins are not inherently stable; they are merely pegs to existing fiat currencies whose real purchasing power is declining year after year. Currently…

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What Would St. Jude Think About Bitcoin?

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:20:27 +0000

Before she became a hacker, a cypherpunk, or the figure later known as “St. Jude,” Judith Milhon was a civil rights activist in the segregated American South. That experience exposed her to injustice in its most visible forms—explicit discrimination, enforced segregation, and open coercion—but also to the quieter mechanisms that sustained it. Power, she learned, does not operate only through laws…

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Quantum Computing and Bitcoin: Separating Real Risk from Manufactured Panic

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:32:39 +0000

Over the years, various commentators have speculated about the potential impact that quantum computing may have on Bitcoin. These stories can often be dramatic and attention-grabbing, but they rarely reflect the state of actual quantum research, the nature of Bitcoin’s cryptography, or the incentives and practical capabilities of the entities building quantum technologies.

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Fix the Money, Heal the System

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:56:03 +0000

Read the Full Paper Across Canada and around the world, progressive political parties and movements are at a defining crossroads. Growing wealth gaps, housing unaffordability, food insecurity, the erosion of pensions and retirement savings, and many other signs of social distress are not isolated policy challenges—they are symptoms of a deeper systemic disorder: a…

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Bitcoin over Gold: An Ethical, Ideological, and Strategic Case

Scott Wolfe — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:44:30 +0000

I hold and spend Bitcoin, not gold. This choice is not about speculation or short-term financial returns, although Bitcoin does appreciate significantly in value over time, making it a powerful savings tool. It is more so about my commitment to the liberal democratic principles that underpin a free and open society. In an era of growing authoritarianism and geopolitical instability…

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From the Heart and for the Heart (of Africa), a Call to Action

Scott Wolfe — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:38:37 +0000

This article will reflect on some of those messages and outline some commitments and donations that I am making today. I am also using this as an appeal to others – especially people outside the African continent – to join in donating to important projects throughout the continent. Before getting to that though, I want to situate this all against a backdrop, one that I hope can set a tone for…

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