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I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Meta: Post #1000

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This is the one thousandth post to this blog in the 212 months since the first post . That is an average of 4.7 posts per month, or just ov...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Sabotaging Bitcoin

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Source I find myself in the unusual position of defending Bitcoin from its critics, if only reluctantly. In 2024 Soroush Farokhnia & ...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Data Centers In Spaaaace!

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Pigs in Spaaaace! The AI bubble has been kept inflated by journalists uncritically reporting whatever CEOs say as they frantically pump the...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Mind The GAAP

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Senator Everett Dirksen is famously alleged to have remarked " a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real mon...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Metastablecoins Are Go!

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Source Terra (UST) was suppposed to be a "stablecoin", trading very close to $1. It rapidly became the third largest such coin. F...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The Bathtub Curve

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The economics of long-term data storage are critically dependent not just upon the Kryder rate, the rate at which the technology improves co...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Depreciation

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Source More than three years ago, based on Paul Butler's The problem with bitcoin miners , I wrote Generally Accepted Accounting Princi...
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