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Read_783 - Ordinals Are Fiat, Inscriptions Aren't Rare from 2023-12-11T09:00
"Nothing in the ordinal logic requires inscriptions to be linked to the “first” sat. So why is it the first sat of the first output? Why not the second sat of the first output? Why ...
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Read_782 - The Ethics of Emergencies from 2023-12-08T09:00
The principle that one should help men in an emergency cannot be extended to regard all human suffering as an emergency and to turn the misfortune of some into a first mortgage on the li...
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Read_781 - The Censorship Industrial Complex, CTIL Files 01 from 2023-12-06T08:00
"Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or...
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Read_780 - Lightning is Doomed! from 2023-12-05T15:25:27
"A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability. No, it's not doomed, but it probably won't be used the way...
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Guy's Take_076 - Fiat Money's Dark Secret from 2023-12-04T08:03
The free market works because economic decisions are made by people who have skin in the game. When you spend $100 you have earned, you understand the cost. It was your sweat the created the gai...
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PSA - Farewell Nodeless from 2023-11-30T01:39:43
Nodeless is dead. Long live Nodeless. Unfortunately the Nodeless payment service has had to shut down, but for anyone who needs to get in touch for any issues then feel free to contact me or UTX...
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Read_779 - A Network of Keys from 2023-11-29T13:00
"Clients applying this reasoning should remember that, in bitcoin, no one is too big to fail. There is no government or money printer capable of restoring lost coins, so there are n...
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Read_778 - Durabit, Incentivizing Torrent Seeders from 2023-11-27T18:09:13
"A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files.&qu...
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Reboot - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity from 2023-11-24T13:00
"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in scale, not in nature. While V-Bucks are created and controll...
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Guy's Take_075 - A Global Monetary Rebellion from 2023-11-22T13:00
The election of Javier Milei is unlikely the be the next El Salvador, but I don't think it needs to be in order to be significant. There is something deeper going on for Javier to win on the...
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Read_777 - The Inevitable Bust from 2023-11-20T13:00
"The recurring cycle of economic booms followed by inevitable busts has remained a puzzle for generations of observers. While mainstream Keynesian and monetarist theories propose mo...
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Chat_87 - Coinos & Merchant Onboarding with Adam & Cole from 2023-11-16T19:13:31
"Ultimately, my goal with Coinos is to make Bitcoin a super simple user interface for "normies" to be able to come on and not have to understand how things are working und...
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Guy's Take_074 - Banks Without Bankers from 2023-11-15T18:37:34
Is Bitcoin destined to become another fiat system? Where we end up in a world where the dominant instrument isn't Bitcoin at all, but just more IOUs? Where Bitcoin substitutes replace real B...
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Read_776 - Banks Without Bankers from 2023-11-09T19:19:02
"Unique to the emergent Bitcoin financial system is the application of cryptography to fundamental financial functions. Novel technologies exist, are being built, and have been theo...
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Guy's Take_073 - Lightning is Dead, Long Live Lightning! from 2023-11-07T00:32:20
LIGHTNING IS DEAD! Did you hear about the new exploit discovered that may be the "nail in the coffin" of the broken and defeated Lightning network? I bet you did, but did anyone you he...
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Read_775 - The Fed Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine from 2023-11-04T00:07:40
"We have no interest in causing confusion, mistakes, or deception. That sounds more like a job for those responsible for telling the market they wouldn’t raise rates after a massive...
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Chat_86 - Everything on Bitcoin with Robin Linus & Super Testnet from 2023-11-01T04:42:07
It's often said that Bitcoin is too limited, that you can't build anything interesting on top of the Bitcoin chain... what if that was not only true, but that there were no limits? What ...
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Read_774 - Bitcoin Won't Fix the Federal Reserve from 2023-10-26T13:46:03
"Will Bitcoin adoption improve the monetary policy behaviors of the Federal Reserve? I submit that it won’t. I do not see the incentive for the Federal Reserve to give into anyone o...
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Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning from 2023-10-24T05:23:32
"Timeout Trees is a very concrete and specific proposal for a channel factory design that actually attempts to address the real issues of use and implementation instead of a half-de...
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Basics_008 - How to Buy Bitcoin from 2023-10-18T20:30:12
We are diving back into the Bitcoin basics series today! Now that we understand how bitcoin works, what is important, how to stay safe, and how to use it, it's time to answer the most basic ...
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Read_772 - Easier Way to Bootstrap the UTXO Set from 2023-10-17T19:01:45
"After four years of work, James O'Beirne's assumeutxo option to allow instant UTXO set bootstrapping for your Bitcoin node is merged into Bitcoin Core." — Shinobi Listen
Read_771 - Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK from 2023-10-13T00:50:04
"There used to be tradeoffs between Lightning and fiat: UX vs. sovereignty; UX vs. speed; UX vs. cost; off-the-shelf fiat payment widgets vs. coding a node into an app. With the Bre...
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Read_770 - The Big Deal with BitVM from 2023-10-11T20:20:08
"It requires no consensus changes to Bitcoin at all. The trick is lifting all of that logic off-chain and being able to challenge a few steps of the computation on-chain if the othe...
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Guy's Take_071 - But Bitcoin Doesn't Innovate from 2023-10-10T19:36:28
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FEATURING AI Unchained #008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu from 2023-10-09T02:02:44
Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in decentralising the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible...
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Reboot - Bitcoin & Software Reliability from 2023-10-05T23:03:30
"With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended consequences for potentially millions of people and billions of...
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Read_769 - Orange is the New Green from 2023-10-03T23:59:13
"Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever-expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as the ultimate shield against the inevitable reckon...
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Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta from 2023-09-29T05:21:16
In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for decentralized ...
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Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome from 2023-09-28T03:09
"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctiona...
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Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory from 2023-09-25T22:38
"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying your valued vendors in bitcoin is the opposite of mu...
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Read_766 - Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2 from 2023-09-20T17:47
"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to ...
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Read_765 - "Hoarding" is a Keynesian Slur from 2023-09-15T04:08
"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of central banking started running wi...
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Chat_84 - Layers, Payments, and Relays with Utxo from 2023-09-14T05:11
Today we sit down with Utxo, founder of Nodeless, on understanding the design space for Bitcoin services, the challenges of making Bitcoin accessible and streamlined for everyone, and a vision o...
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Read_764 - UTXOracle, Decentralizing the Oracle Problem from 2023-09-11T16:50
"It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to:
- Independently calculate the price of bitcoin using only your ... Listen
Guy's Take #70 - But Deflation is Bad from 2023-09-07T14:00
A deflationary money is going to destroy the economy! If the value of money keeps going up, then no one will ever spend it! If no one spends it, then the economy will fall into a depression and ...
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Read_763 - Evils of THE ALGORITHM from 2023-09-06T22:21:42
"Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is in controlling your experience, what content you see, and how yo...
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Read_762 - Bitcoin's Security Model Deep Dive from 2023-09-01T22:28
Read_761 - A Sound Bitcoin Financial System [Alex B] from 2023-08-29T23:58
"I believe it’s important to go back to what this sovereignty is made of. Bitcoin works because an economic majority is aligning incentives for every constituent of the network. The...
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Read_760 - Drivechain's Place in Bitcoin's Future from 2023-08-25T04:59
"To not die, Bitcoin must become more used. The current thesis accepted by most “maximalists” is that Bitcoin will continue to be thought of as an investment and its price will keep...
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Read_759 - Increasing Interoperability in Second Layer Protocols [Chase Smith] from 2023-08-24T03:35
"Often overlooked is the importance of interoperability between not only the second-layer protocol and Bitcoin but the layer-2 protocols themselves. A second layer, where end-users ...
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Read_758 - Scaling and Consensus Changes [James O'Beirne] from 2023-08-21T23:10
"When reading a draft of this post, my wife got kind of depressed right around here. Her macabre question, basically, is: “if everyone just winds up interacting with sidechains, and...
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Read_757 - Putting the B in BTC [Anthony Towns] from 2023-08-18T02:20
"The headroom there isn’t unlimited — expect it to show up as fee pressure and backlogs and less ability to quickly resolve transaction storms. And that will in turn make it hard an...
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Read_756 - Bitcoin, The Trust Anchor in a Sea of Blockchains [Jameson Lopp] from 2023-08-17T01:00
"While bitcoin is still mainly seen as digital currency, it’s essentially a timestamped log with special properties. As such, it can be utilised for far more things than payments an...
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Guys Take #69 - But It's Just Digital Points... from 2023-08-14T23:15
With so many common misconceptions about money, how can we possibly make sense of Bitcoin for customers who have spent their entire lives using only a single product, and know almost nothing abo...
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Read_755 - Drivechains from 2023-08-11T11:00
"A successful blind merge mined sidechain with significant MEV opportunities could offer Bitcoin significant benefits, which could more than offset the disadvantages." - "...
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Chat_83 - Decentralizing Global Markets with Nostr, Pablof7z from 2023-08-08T19:42:15
We have an incredible chat today with Pablof7z who is on a mission to make Nostr the global, decentralized marketplace. With highlighter for integrated, universal note taking, data vending machi...
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Read_754 - Bitcoin Is Not Crypto, The SEC Confirms from 2023-08-04T06:03:41
"Talk to a bitcoin maximalist – someone who believes that bitcoin is the only digital asset with innate value – and, more likely than not, they’ll tell you the world’s oldest crypto...
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Read_753 - Bitcoin Timestamp Security [Jameson Lopp] from 2023-07-27T16:07:28
"Bitcoin is often referred to as a secure timestamping service. We never had a global record of truth with trustworthy timestamps, so how did this come about? It’s generally due to ...
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Read_752 - Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology [Balaji S. Srinivasan] from 2023-07-26T15:20:17
"Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is a Schelling point and a symbol. As such, it will be...
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Read_751 - Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better [Andreas Antonopolous] from 2023-07-21T01:18
"Some networks are “smart.” They offer sophisticated services that can be delivered to very simple end-user devices on the “edge” of the network. Other networks are “dumb” — they of...
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Read_749 - Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network [Saifedean] from 2023-07-18T23:15:07
"The obsession with consumer payments in the Bitcoin community is an unfortunate relic of the fiat money era. Generations that have only known monetary hot potatoes that need to be ...
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Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington] from 2023-07-16T18:57:45
"To do our best to minimize the economics jargon once again, we might simply ask: what are you going to do with your time? Are you going to create or consume? And how do the charact...
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Read_748 - Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp] from 2023-07-13T22:04:39
"While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this point. By tracing this history, we can understand the motivations behind the m...
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Read_747 - The Bondholder's Burning Platform [Croesus] from 2023-07-11T21:33
"Since 1800, in 51 out of 52 cases where a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The only exception is current Japan, who is frankly in the fin...
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Guy's Take #68 - Lightning & the Ai Economy from 2023-07-06T20:25:08
Ai agents are going to be able to seek out, delegate, and pay for micro services from an ecosystem of other agents & services. But the resources being share will be delivered instantly, and ...
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Reboot - Bitcoin and The American Idea [Alex Gladstein] from 2023-07-04T20:30:52
"Today Americans celebrate 246 years of independence from the British Empire. On this day in 1776 the Founding Fathers made a declaration. It was a bold and risky action. Never befo...
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Read_746 - Orange Pilling Your Barber [Hector Alvero] from 2023-06-30T03:13:40
"Your barber or stylist likely has the broadest network of anyone you know. People from every walk of life, including business owners, accountants, teachers, firefighters and politi...
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Chat_82 - The Spirit of Satoshi from 2023-06-29T02:59:31
We recently had Aleks Svetski back on at Ai Unchained to discuss the project we hinted at in episode 2 that he made public at BTCPrague. The Spirit of Satoshi. A bitcoin centered, custom built L...
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Read_745 - Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company [Graham Krizek] from 2023-06-28T01:39:28
"Neither a startup nor a bank will ever be able to cost-effectively compete on a global scale with the Lightning Network." — Listen
Read_744 - How To Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 2 [Adamant Research] from 2023-06-24T01:16:49
"Investing in bitcoin, we believe, is like having the ability to buy shares of a general “Internet ETF” back in the early 1990s, or like being able to buy undeveloped land on Manhat...
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Read_743 - How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom, Part 1 [Adamant Research] from 2023-06-22T23:14:54
"bitcoin is a protocol stack which we can expect to be expanding for many decades, and its foundation is that lean, simple database defended by the world’s strongest firewall; the b...
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Chat_81 - An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge from 2023-06-21T03:30:12
"...At some point the entire financial system becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of the Federal Reserve" — Listen
Read_742 - Trust Me Bro [Allen Farrington] from 2023-06-20T01:00:48
"Expect BlackRock to turn around and shill this to banks, and in particular big banks, such that JPMorgan, for example, can itself turn around and offer “Bitcoin” to its own client...
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Read_741 - Much Ado About Ordinals, Inscriptions, and BRC20 [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2023-06-15T23:47:24
"The more wonderful something is, the more passion it will arouse. Bitcoin is among the greatest wonders of the late-modern world, so Greg Foss is understandably very passionate abo...
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Read_740 - What Are the Key Properties of Bitcoin [Jameson Lopp] from 2023-06-15T01:04:49
"What is Bitcoin? Many have attempted to answer this question, but I believe that our quest to do so is Listen
Read_739 - The State of Zapvertising [The Same Cat] from 2023-06-12T23:58:33
"Zapvertising has two forms, and I believe there is a crucial difference between the two. In one version, a company or creator zaps a ton of notes on the Nostr feed. Blockstream has...
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Guy's Take #67 - Withdraw Everything from 2023-06-09T01:40:30
With the banking crisis just getting started, with the SEC going after Binance and Coinbase, with rumors of Prime Trust declaring bankruptcy, it is no better time than now to take advantage of t...
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Read_738 - The Fruit of the Nostr Tree [Guy Swann] from 2023-06-07T22:30:02
"Nostr isn't just a social network, in a similar way that Bitcoin isn't just a transaction network. Both of these things are true, but they each miss the more significant el...
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Read_737 - Is Your Money Safe During the Banking Crisis, Part 2 [Brad Mills] from 2023-06-06T22:09:15
"Much like how two nuclear bombs ended World War II, capital-crushing central bank policy rate hikes and Russian sanctions were like two nuclear bombs dropped on the economy and the...
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Read_736 - Is Your Money Safe during the Banking Crisis, Part 1 [Brad Mills] from 2023-06-02T18:28:43
"Price inflation is the highest it’s been in decades. Labor participation is the lowest it’s been in decades. Wealth inequality is continually going in the wrong direction since 197...
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Read_735 - When Bitcoin Meets AI [Svetski] from 2023-06-01T22:35:46
"The idea of a language user interface as the next step from the thumb tapping we’ve become used to over the past decade is fascinating, and what we should be thinking about is how ...
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Chat_80 - Building the Ark with Burak from 2023-06-01T00:11:22
With the Introduction of Ark, the new 2nd layer payments and privacy protocol introduced with ...
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Basics_07 - The Basics of Key Management from 2023-05-26T00:57:13
This episode will be part review, and part just going over some very practical, step by step ways to think about managing your keys with a hardware wallet. What you always need to do, how to not...
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Read_734 - Introducing Ark [Burak] from 2023-05-25T01:27:22
"Ark is a trustless, distinct layer two protocol with unilateral exit. ASPs cannot steal users’ funds or link senders & receivers. Users retain self-custody and can revert their...
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Read_733 - Mint the Future With Taproot Assets [Ryan Gentry] from 2023-05-23T15:41:44
"an unbounded number of assets can be minted and/or moved in a single on-chain transaction. This off-chain first design enables asset minters and transactors to enjoy the permission...
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FEATURING - AI Unchained_001 - A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth from 2023-05-16T03:25:55
Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system of control, and all the tools and perspecti...
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Read_732 - We Need More Apps With Lightning, Not More Lightning Apps [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2023-05-12T21:24:46
"Permission can only be denied if it is requested. Direct, peer-to-peer interaction obviates permission and equalizes market power. Don’t request permission to transact; transact. Don’t tinker with...
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Read_731 - Let's Grow Nostr [Jack Spirko] from 2023-05-11T00:59:58
"The biggest complaint members of my audience make about Nostr is the sheer dominance of Bitcoin content. This is understandable. Nostr uses a means of identification and account management very si...
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Read_730 - High Fees? Bitcoin is Working as Designed [Matt Odell] from 2023-05-10T00:52:15
"Bitcoin transaction fees limit network abuse by making usage expensive. There is a cost to every transaction, set by a dynamic free market based on demand." — Matt Odell Is Bitcoin broken, are th...
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Read_729 - BRICS, USD, and a Multipolar World [James Lavish] from 2023-05-09T01:51
"This very dominance is causing certain countries to seek a way to be less dependent on the USD and the UST. To extract themselves from the whims and needs of a central bank that lives a world away...
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Read_728 - Who Controls Bitcoin Core [Jameson Lopp] from 2023-05-06T16:48:01
"The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin Core’s GitHub repository tends to come up on a recurring basis. This has been cited as a “central point of control” of t...
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Guy's Take #66 - Pooping in the Park from 2023-05-03T23:47:48
Bitcoin is a public good. The maintenance and stewardship of the network rests on the conviction and work of 10s or 100s of thousands of node operators who work to validate and ensure consistency a...
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Read_727 - The Banking Crisis Stays, & the Treasury is Broke [Nik Bhatia, Joe Consorti] from 2023-05-03T15:58:13
"The fall of First Republic Bank was the second-largest bank failure by assets in US history, putting us in the 2008 conversation. Times are different, but the bank failures are relatable in size. ...
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Read_726 - The Nostr Privacy Paradox [L0LA L33TZ] from 2023-05-02T00:00:22
"If Tor is an anonymous remailer, meaning a protocol facilitating the anonymous forwarding and receiving of messages between peers, Nostr can function as an anonymous bulletin board. CoinJoin coord...
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Read_725 - Operation Choke Point 2.0 is Underway [Nic Carter] from 2023-04-27T19:17
"Banks are highly regulated public-private partnerships in an environment where new charters are excruciatingly hard to obtain, and as such remain de facto arms of the state. It has been and remain...
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Read_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand] from 2023-04-26T20:19:39
"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that i hear once in a while: "Why do you use the word 'selfishness' to denote virtuous qualities of character, when that word antagonizes so m...
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Read_723 - Alchemy - Everything Divided By 21 Million [Knut Svanholm] from 2023-04-24T20:29:27
"Central Banking is successful alchemy in this sense. The money- issuing institutions of the world have found a way to create new money with no cost. No mining is required. They are the alchemists ...
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Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi] from 2023-04-19T02:35:10
"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation, dissemination, and transmission of information, not the exclusive...
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Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden] from 2023-04-18T01:19:05
"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already used your “carbon credits” for the month? Your “financial privileges” could potentially b...
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Basics_06 - The Lightning Network from 2023-04-14T14:10:01
The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions, and the node, we can finally take a dive into Lightning...
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Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp] from 2023-04-13T03:12:38
"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the past. The old enemies were replaced with new enemies wh...
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Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell] from 2023-04-11T00:54:58
"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the tops of beer barrels. You’d be surprised how much fun that was. Somehow it made old men feel young ...
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Read_718 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_} from 2023-04-06T20:28:13
"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how electricity works, how markets work, an...
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Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO] from 2023-04-06T00:36:56
"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Banking” assets. In 2021, these OFI Assets scatter...
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Guy's Take #65 - Banks, Digital Money, and a Cat from 2023-04-04T01:10:20
Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes resilience in the markets, and so much more. Today w...
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Read_716 - How to Fix Banking & Money - PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato] from 2023-04-01T02:52
"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is an existential threat to their aristocratic and unaccountable powers. sure, this all sound...
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Read_715 - Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman] from 2023-03-31T00:12:44
"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same year when he dissented in Abrams v. United States (1919). The Justice ...
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Basics_05 - The Node from 2023-03-30T02:16:48
Bitcoin is ultimately just a piece of software, the network – the global, censorship resistant, immutable system – is ultimately just a collection of millions of people individually confirming and ...
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Read_714 - Bitcoin's Meme Wars [DerGigi] from 2023-03-27T23:40:12
"The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further, who is allowed to have access to money, and who isn't? The answer is poli...
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Read_713 - How the Fed "Went Broke" [Lyn Alden] from 2023-03-23T02:13:19
"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can basically be thought of as an Excel spreadsheet managed by the Federal Reserve. That’s all it ...
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Chat_79 - The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis from 2023-03-22T13:04:01
I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade offs of those in the past, the consequences of changes - even those considered well a...
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Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out from 2023-03-20T22:46:02
There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors" for billions of dollars, someone else LOSES billions of dollars worth of wea...
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Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi] from 2023-03-17T02:10
"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payment splits do exist, we are undoubtedly still tra...
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Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines] from 2023-03-16T00:10:41
"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking (including the trust not to violate territorial integr...
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Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines] from 2023-03-14T01:01:31
"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of the Earth. Moreover, the same technology mad...
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Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model from 2023-03-10T01:10:16
"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open financial services to everyone. And we’re scaling Lightning by i...
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Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden] from 2023-03-08T22:14
"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there is the development of Big Data and automated data surveilla...
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Read_707 - Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks, Part 1 [Lyn Alden] from 2023-03-07T02:52:59
"For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-understood by the public." – Lyn Alden Today Lyn Alden ...
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Read_706 - The Depression You've Never Heard of, 1920-21 [Robert P Murphy] from 2023-03-04T05:10:37
"This context highlights the importance of the 1920–1921 depression. Here the government and Fed did the exact opposite of what the experts now recommend. We have just about the closest thing to a ...
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Read_705 - Bitcoin's Full Potential Valuation [Croesus] from 2023-03-02T22:30:09
"But for me, when I think about what Bitcoin’s properties are as a store-of-value asset and then compare those properties to the existing store-of-value assets out there… Bitcoin is by far the best...
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Read_704 - The Three Generations Theory [Aleks Svetski] from 2023-03-01T02:43
"People are very quick to project technology adoption curves onto Bitcoin. But the problem is that Bitcoin is not just a technology. It’s not just a smartphone, or a computer, or a social network, ...
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Chat_78 - To Nostropolis & Beyond! with BitKarrot from 2023-02-27T22:44:37
I recently had an awesome two-hour marathon chat about P2P social media with BitKarrot from the Nostrovia podcast. We chatted about the challenges and future of decentralized social media, touched ...
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Basics_04 - Wallets & Transactions from 2023-02-24T04:10:55
Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how do they relate to your keys and your bitcoin? That is what we are co...
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Chat_77 - NVK on Stone Cold Storage in a Fiat World from 2023-02-21T20:23
Nostr, OP_VAULT, decentralized media, privacy, the incredible progress of the past few years, the challenges of making Bitcoin hardware, why bear markets are the best time in Bitcoin, and of course...
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Read_703 - The Banks Are So F**ked – [Callebtc] from 2023-02-21T03:33:15
"Here is a little story of how I built a #Bitcoin Lightning payments app used by more than 10,000 users at the time running on two Raspberry Pi's from my bedroom... My conclusion: The banks are so...
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Basics_03 - Keys, Everything You Need to Know from 2023-02-18T01:46:10
Not your keys, not your coins. What does this mean? Your Bitcoin keys are literally the keys to the kingdom. They are everything, they are the sole arbiter of ownership of the bitcoins behind them ...
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Read_702 - FediPools as a Solution to Centralization Risk [Marty Bent] from 2023-02-17T02:01
"If Fedipools prove to be viable we could find ourselves in a world where bitcoin mining pool centralization risk is significantly reduced and the worries that many have today cease to exist. By cr...
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Read_701 - Lightning for Everyone in Every App [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2023-02-15T02:30:47
"This is the end of Lightning as a niche technology and the beginning of Lightning as a (ubiquitous) Service. In a few years, Lightning functionality will be so universal that nobody will even noti...
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Read_700 - The Race to Avoid the War [Cory Klippsten] from 2023-02-13T22:57:37
"Furthermore, when Bitcoiners develop privacy and scaling technology for Bitcoin, we make it substantially more challenging for anti-coiners to make the case that a war on Bitcoin is winnable. When...
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Read_699 - What is Nostr? How Does it Work? And Why Does it Matter? [BTCtimes} from 2023-02-11T02:18
One thing to make abundantly clear: Nostr is a protocol. It’s a set of rules that servers and clients use to communicate (just like Bitcoin, email or Bittorrent). Nostr is not an app nor a “platfor...
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Basics_02 - Hashes & Proofs of Work from 2023-02-10T02:31:31
In order to truly understand why Bitcoin works, we must understand a fundamental tool that operates at basically every level of the system. The hash function. And using the hash function, we can bu...
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Read_698 - An Orange Pill for Bitcoiners [Austin Herbert] from 2023-02-07T17:00
"But, I keep coming to the same conclusion: We are here for this movement. We are here to build a parallel economy that will eventually take over the old fiat system. I’m not a dev, I don’t have a ...
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Read_697 - The Trillion Dollar Coin, Genius or a Joke? [James Lavish] from 2023-02-06T23:26:11
"To wit, we have raised the debt limit 22 times from 1997 to 2022. Yep, we’ve raised the limit 22 times in 25 years. Let that sink in for a moment. OK, so now that we’re all on the same you’ve-got...
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Keet AMA - Twitter Spaces on January 30th from 2023-02-02T00:31:58
Mathias and Paolo join us for a Twitter Spaces AMA to answer all of your questions about this cutting-edge technology. Plus, don't forget to check out KEET's mobile release! The app is available on...
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Chat_76 - Keet, The Next Level from 2023-01-31T00:48
WEN MOBILE!? No more do we have to ask because Keet mobile has finally arrived! Download from the App Store or Google Play to check it out and join us in the P2P revolution. This is only the beginn...
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Read_696 - Currencies Today are "IOU Nothings" [John Exter] from 2023-01-27T05:37:44
"Today no money in the world fully performs all three services. National currencies are being used as means-of-payment and standard-of-value money, b u t none in this inflationary age is an assured...
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Basics_01 - Bitcoin... What is it? from 2023-01-26T03:10:53
Sure, everyone tells me that bitcoin is a new technology. That it's magic money for the internet and tokens you can buy and stick in an app that will probably be worth more later. But seriously... ...
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Read_695 - Central Banks are Inflation Creators, Not Inflation Fighters [Josh Hendrikson] from 2023-01-24T22:42
"All of this is important because there has been a resurrection of Burns-type positions in the current debate about the cause of higher inflation rates. Senator Elizabeth Warren blames the rising i...
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Read_694 - Locked Out of My Digital Life [edent] from 2023-01-24T03:11:07
"Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A smoulderin...
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Read_693 - Lightning & The Airport Analogy [Danny Scott] from 2023-01-19T21:57
"But as with all new technology, it can be incredibly hard to explain what’s actually happening, without getting too complex. This got me thinking about Bitcoin education and how to ELI5 (Explain L...
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Guy's Take #63 - Anatomy of a Scam, The IMF and World Bank Empire from 2023-01-19T04:23:53
Today we break into the racket that is the IMF and World Bank monetary imperialism. Piggy backing off Gladstein's remarkable piece detailing the horrific consequences of this system and the clear i...
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Read_692 - A Quick & Dirty Explanation [DerGigi] from 2023-01-17T01:46:02
"Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological innovation that isn't really about technology. You ca...
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Read_691 - A Native Protocol for Social Media [Jack Dorsey] from 2023-01-13T02:02:16
The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definitio...
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Reboot - The Use of Knowledge in Society [F.A. Hayek] from 2023-01-11T18:43
Bringing back one of my favorites today that I mention often but we haven't covered in a very long time. This is an essential piece diving into the complexities and profound depth in the market est...
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Guy's Take #62 - Dear Peter Zeihan... from 2023-01-10T03:36:43
How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter Zeihan confidently embarrassed himself on Joe Rogan's podcast recently by going on a sho...
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Read_690 - Bitcoin is Not a Hedge [Parker Lewis] from 2023-01-07T17:03:12
"Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation; it is the permanent solution to inflation, and those are two very different things." - Parker Lewis Parker Lewis is back in action with the 18th installm...
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Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi] from 2023-01-05T02:15:52
"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not money—but credit. If your money steals from you, it is not your money—but a cont...
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Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes] from 2023-01-04T01:54:50
"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The enemy is now reactively defending themselves, not...
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Green Eggs and Ham - Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly from 2023-01-03T03:48:07
"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to reconcile with this core purpose of s...
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Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-12-31T04:36:40
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES TO RICH ONES" published with Bitc...
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Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-12-30T02:55:49
"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease in GDP, the mortality rate increased by 1%. Now c...
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Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-12-28T13:50:17
"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes in “Lent And Lost,” a straightforward Ponzi sc...
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Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-12-20T03:04:27
"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, of forgiving interes...
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Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-12-15T05:11:56
"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid and investment. But that same year, more than $3.3 t...
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Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-12-13T03:52
"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years, a historic increase. Countries like Jamaica, Greece and Cyprus have ...
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Guy's Take #61 - Blockchains, A Square Peg for Round Holes from 2022-12-09T03:32
There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to unlock your house, and how DAOs will be used to enforce and decide laws, but...
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Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski] from 2022-12-07T00:43
"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov Kozlovski Check out the original article at: https:/...
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Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi] from 2022-12-06T01:42
“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no on...
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Read_680 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 2 [Farrington & Big Al] from 2022-12-03T04:58
"We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of bitcoin is to definancialize, the ethos of crypto is to financialize. We r...
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Read_679 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 1 [Farrington & Larson] from 2022-12-01T04:32
"One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant could, at the same time, be said to give it practical grounds to become ...
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Read_678 - Toward a Node World Order [Micheal Goldstein] from 2022-11-29T03:59:53
"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level of certainty about a monetary network that no human had prior to bitcoin’s existence. Every other...
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Chat_75 - Opting Out with Matt Hill from 2022-11-26T04:34
On the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended upon our lives, and on the tools and systems we need (and are building) in order to ensure we...
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Read_677 - Maturation of Lightning, Growing Up By Going Vertical [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2022-11-24T00:07
"As the Web became much more complex, we now engage with multiple companies for each of those functions. Including all the writing, editing, commenting, revising, and so on, even a simple post like...
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Read_676 - The State of Man - Proclaim Your Bitcoin, Part 2 [Simply Bitcoin] from 2022-11-23T01:54:38
"The primary work undertaken by thieves to maintain their systems of thievery is manipulation. Deceit and lies are the tools of the trade for the thief. And there is no grander system of theft than...
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Read_675 - Stop Drinking the Elite's Kool-aid [Nayib Bukele] from 2022-11-18T01:18
"They used to own everything, and in a way they still do; the media, the banks, the NGOs, the international organizations, and almost all the governments and corporations in the world. And with tha...
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Read_674 - FTX & Alameda, Through the Looking Glass [NYDIG] from 2022-11-16T00:20
"I will start with the conclusion: my piece failed. Nothing has changed. DeFi-driven blowups have continued. Therefore, in the strongest possible terms, I repeat, with humility: do not invest in no...
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Read_673 - Crypto is Peak Silicon Valley [Allen Farrington] from 2022-11-15T01:31
"My learned opinion is that although your average toxic Bitcoin maximalist might be able to sniff out this bullshit a mile away, Silicon Valley cannot, because Crypto is peak Silicon Valley, and Si...
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Read_672 - No, Let's Not: Perpetrators of Pandemic Authoritarianism Cannot Be Forgiven [Allen Farrington] from 2022-11-09T05:48:21
“It must become embarrassing to admit one ever supported uninformed and nonconsensual participation in a medical experiment or mass house arrest and coerced isolation.” - Allen Farrington Amnesty ...
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Chat_74 - Synonymous with Sovereignty, with John Carvalho from 2022-11-08T02:42:53
Today we bring John Carvalho back on to talk about Bitkit and the release of Synonym's first major product in the BitKit wallet and Slashtags. Re-Decentralizing the internet with serverless identit...
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Read_671 - Greenpeace Attacks Only Galvanize Bitcoiners [Daniel Batten] from 2022-11-04T01:57:23
"They will come to understand that Bitcoin is hope for non-violent revolutionaries in the environmental movement who seek to end the petrodollar, usher in a world that is not based on the excessive...
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Read_670 - Capital Misallocation, Bitcoin Fixes this - Part 2 [Steven Lubka] from 2022-11-02T22:16
"The creation of new money by insiders debases the savings ability of the existing money. It is critically important for money to maintain value, as it reflects work which was performed but not red...
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Read_669 - Capital Misallocation, Bitcoin Fixes this - Part 1 [Steven Lubka] from 2022-11-02T01:37
"Money facilities a system — the economy — that is too complex, too unpredictable and too uncertain to be modeled or reduced to neat quantifiable units. Expanding humanity’s productive resources — ...
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Read_668 - Why Proof of Stake Wont be Used for Intergalactic First Contact [Buck Perley] from 2022-11-01T01:41
"A universal law can be understood to be an objective, observable, and eternal description of some facet of the universe. As such, they can be independently discovered by disparate societies living...
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Read_667 - The Final Bubble is Bursting [Myrmikan Research] from 2022-10-26T02:39:14
"One might ask: if much of the U.K. pension money was about to vanish, where was it going? Partly to the bankers, of course, but mostly, as with any bubble, the value was simply illusory. In 2001, ...
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Reboot - Wittgenstein's Money [Allen Farrington] from 2022-10-25T04:30:42
"Imagine if all respectable business knowledge had been derived from studying large, established companies because there had never been a start-up in living memory. If a start-up then came along, p...
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Read_666 - Debunking the ESG Attacks on Bitcoin [Spencer Nichols] from 2022-10-21T01:34:25
"While Bitcoin does not litigate the ethics of hydrocarbon production, it is not controversial to point out that the dollar, in that it is sustained by the continuation of the US military-industria...
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Read_665 - The Nature of Man, Proclaim Your Bitcoin Part 1 [Simply Bitcoin] from 2022-10-19T04:29:03
"to survive and prosper in this world, man can either make the things he needs and wants, or he can take them. This was true thousands of years ago and it is true today. To use a modern linguistic ...
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Read_664 - Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law - Part 2 [Dhruv Bansal] from 2022-10-18T02:55:36
"But if technological civilizations are more common, then we must resolve the Fermi Paradox in a different way. We know that any “solution” is really an a reflection in the mirror of universality, ...
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Read_663 - Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law - Part 1 [Dhruv Bansal] from 2022-10-15T03:35
"Astrobiologists increasingly believe that conditions are frequently right for life. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and the life-sustaining molecules they form are the most common substances in the unive...
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Guy's Take #60 - Digital Money from 2022-10-14T03:58:54
Today we explore a highly earned Guy's Take for Dergigi's "Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity" as well as using a core part of his framing to make sense of a few fundamental ideas behind Bitcoin. Recently...
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Read_662 - Wrestling With the Truth [Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers] from 2022-10-12T02:02:16
"The power of prices is the process of dynamic discovery that underpins their emergence, not the fleeting consensus of a specific moment in time. The price is never right, but prices are as right a...
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Read_661 - Five Examples of Bitcoin's Real World Utility [Trent Dudenhoeffer] from 2022-10-11T01:08:47
"Today, it’s a trucker protest. What if it’s a women’s rights protest next? A protest against abuses by a country you’re allied with? Who decides? Bitcoin sure as heck doesn’t. Bitcoin doesn’t care...
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Chat_73 - WTF is Happening in 2022? With Greg Foss, Clint Russell, & Guy Swann from 2022-10-07T20:49:31
We dive into the chaotic world of 2022 with the insanity of the financial markets, the bond markets cracking apart, the political sphere going nuclear, & the steady tick tock next block of Bitcoin ...
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Read_660 - Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity [Dergigi] from 2022-10-05T23:51:52
"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in scale, not in nature. While V-Bucks are created and controlled by Epic Games...
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Read_659 - Adoption & Digital Freedom Will Happen Through Lightning [Paolo Ardoino] from 2022-10-04T02:42:43
"Lighting Network adoption is scaling Bitcoin around the world. And it will be key to protecting our freedoms in the digital age as well." - Paolo Ardoino Today we hit another awesome Bitcoin Maga...
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Read_658 - Bitcoin Will Replace SWIFT Before VISA [Shinobi] from 2022-09-29T01:52:42
"Bitcoin is ripe for a massive disruption of systems like SWIFT, and at the rate the world is becoming both politically and economically unstable, I think that time is going to come sooner rather t...
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Read_657 - Price Deflation & The Horrors of Falling TV Prices [Kyle Ward] from 2022-09-27T06:31:36
"Given two competing views of the world, the state will always promote the one that increases its power to extract wealth from its citizens. The choice between inflation and deflation is an easy on...
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Read_656 - No, We Are Not Going to "Tokenize Everything" [Niko Jilch] from 2022-09-23T03:05
"The whole tokenize-everything-thing so far is one fast hype train. It is exciting not for the technical efficiencies it may provide but for the exact opposite: rent seekers seeking rent. Actually,...
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Read_655 - The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto [Tomer Strolight] from 2022-09-22T02:28:58
"Everyone loves a good origin story. Some are true, some made-up, and some a mix of the two. The true origin story of Bitcoin’s appearance in the world is one of the most fascinating mysteries ever...
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Guy's Take #59 - We're Not Going Anywhere from 2022-09-19T23:52:24
"Bitcoin is not merely a network, it's a foundation for an anti-authoritarian political movement in an increasingly authoritarian world. If you're looking for why so many people are deeply passiona...
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Read_654 - A Bitcoiner's Guide to Proof of Stake [Scott Sullivan] from 2022-09-16T03:30:56
"This brings us to our fourth principle behind PoS, which is that **PoS relies on subjective truth**. There is simply no objective way to pick between two competing blockchains, and any new nodes t...
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Read_653 - Finding Signal in a Noisy World [Jeff Booth] from 2022-09-13T03:23:53
"That misinformation in the form of money wouldn’t just create polarization. Because money connects value between people and nations, it would drive a tremendous misallocation of capital and resour...
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Read_652 - Setting the Record Straight [Nic Carter] from 2022-09-09T04:28:23
"I’m going to clear things up here because most of the people piling on were deeply confused about me, my firm, and what I do. And yes, I’m including some choice words for the self-described Bitcoi...
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Read_651 - The Path to a Bitcoin Standard in Africa [Charlene Fadirepo] from 2022-09-08T02:58:20
"I believe Africa represents the most elegant use case for a Bitcoin standard in existence. In the paragraphs that follow I will explain why." - Charlene Fadirepo Africa is a hugely under-apprecia...
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Read_650 - How to Be a Bitcoin Maximalist [Pete Rizzo] from 2022-09-06T22:42:41
"Cryptocurrency market-isms are built on claims about the economic and computer science advances Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have achieved, and thus have a direct relationship to those claims. Whi...
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Read_649 - The Continual Power of Intermittent Mining [Zack Voell] from 2022-09-03T19:27:49
"Many aspects of the Bitcoin mining industry are poorly understood and often misrepresented. But one practice in this sector stands apart for the misunderstandings and under-appreciation that surro...
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Read_648 - Bitcoin is the Hills [Captain Sidd] from 2022-09-02T02:45:51
"A study of the hill tribes of Southeast Asia titled “The Art Of Not Being Governed” provided a fresh take. The author, James C. Scott, posits that the hill tribes were not “left behind” by the val...
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Read_647 - Understanding Decentralization in Bitcoin [Arman the Parman] from 2022-08-30T23:12:33
"The answer that matters depends on the context. The context you need to have is that cryptocurrency, i.e. Bitcoin, was invented/discovered initially to allow a money by the people that cannot be s...
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A Look at the Lightning Network [Lyn Alden] from 2022-08-30T00:50
"I think too many people in those early years interpreted “e-cash” to mean quick-and-easy payments for everyday goods using the base layer, when a better way to think of cash today is as a private ...
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Chat_72 - The UnCommunist Manifesto, The Swann Brothers chatting with Mark Moss and Aleks Svetski from 2022-08-27T02:47:17
Tearing down the fallacies of the collective, and digging through the principles of liberty and personal responsibility with the one and only Aleks Svetski and co-author Mark Moss. My brother also ...
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Read_646 - A Look at the Lightning Network - Part 3 [Lyn Alden] from 2022-08-24T04:00:45
"Back when the iPhone was introduced in 2007, few people thought, “wow this could really disrupt the taxi industry a decade from now.” A few technologies had converged by that the point to where ev...
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Read_645 - A Look at the Lightning Network - Part 2 [Lyn Alden] from 2022-08-22T23:55:55
"But more broadly, one must ask, “at what point would someone want to permanently exchange their self-custodial scarce money (bitcoin) that has a 1.8% annual supply inflation rate that is exponenti...
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Read_644 - A Look at the Lightning Network - Part 1 [Lyn Alden] from 2022-08-19T03:23:53
"Simple “bubbles” don’t survive through several 70%+ drawdowns over a period lasting thirteen years and counting; it looks more like Metcalfe’s law of network adoption at this point. That doesn’t m...
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Read_643 - Bitcoin and the True Meaning of Inflation [Steven Lubka] from 2022-08-18T04:29:40
"Today, people use inflation to refer to two separate things, and whenever you hear someone saying inflation it’s not always clear which definition they are referring to. One definition is “the pri...
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BONUS - Shitcoin Insider #7 - How Many Degrees Celsius is a Lunatic? with Cory Klippsten from 2022-08-18T04:29:27
WE ARE BACK! Were you wondering about everything that happened in the collapse of TerraUSD, the algorithmic stablecoin that got algonniahilated? And how exactly did one project's failure create suc...
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Guy's Take #58 - "Rent-Seeking Savers!" Misconceptions in Noahpinion's Crypto Misconceptions from 2022-08-13T04:42:05
"I think there are some important economic errors in the stories I see people telling about crypto, on Twitter and elsewhere — errors that have important implications for how we should think about ...
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Read_642 - Losing Your Keys Without Losing Your Coins [Block] from 2022-08-12T04:46:49
"These two jobs are almost always in tension. Any added protection to keep a bad actor out adds a risk that it may also trip up the owner, and any new backup or alternative way to access creates a ...
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Chat_71 - Redesigning the Internet for Fun & for the Revolution, with Mathias Buus and Paolo Ardoino from 2022-08-09T00:30:31
Following up on the release of Keet.io and a simple to use, responsive, encrypted, & scalable P2P data sharing protocol in Holepunch, its network backend, we bring the CEO of Holepunch Mathias Buus...
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Read_641 - Bitcoiners Are Not Utopians [Aleks Svetski] from 2022-08-04T03:25
"It’s not and never was about equality or perfection. It’s about fairness and consequence. Bitcoin is “Responsibility go Up” technology." - Aleks Svetski The principles and rules of Bitcoin do not...
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Chat_70 - Mashing it with Magic Internet Money, Jesse Berger & Jared Nusinoff from 2022-08-02T04:38:09
Orange pilling the everyday user with Mash. Combining simple, fast onboarding into the Lightning ecosystem and enabling a unique monetizing experience with micropayments and payment flows to any co...
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Read_640 - Keet, P2P Encrypted Communications To Integrate Lightning [Namcios] from 2022-07-29T03:54:18
"Holepunch makes Hypercore more accessible by abstracting away low-level technical details of the protocol. It takes Hypercore one step further by simplifying the architecture and enabling more peo...
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What is Money, Anyway? [Lyn Alden] from 2022-07-27T05:33
"If a money (the most salable good) is easy to create more of, then any rational economic actor would just go out and create more money for herself, diluting the whole supply of it. If an asset has...
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Read_639 - How Fedimint Scales Bitcoin Custody [Namcios] from 2022-07-26T02:11
“Fedi and Fedimint will help put monetary power back into the hands of everyone, everywhere,” said Fedi Inc. co-founder and CEO, Obi Nwosu, in a statement. “This creates brighter futures for billio...
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Read_638 - What is Money Anyway? Part 3 [Lyn Alden] from 2022-07-20T21:32:10
"Like any powerful technology, bitcoin can be used for good or ill. As proponents of the technology like to say, bitcoin is “money for enemies” because it’s a bearer asset that can be verified rath...
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Read_637 - What is Money Anyway? Part 2 [Lyn Alden] from 2022-07-18T23:51
"To put it into perspective, this international monetary system based around centrally-managed fiat currency is only 16 years older than me. My father was 36 when the US went off the gold standard....
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Read_636 - What is Money Anyway? Part 1 [Lyn Alden] from 2022-07-15T02:43:36
"If a money (the most salable good) is easy to create more of, then any rational economic actor would just go out and create more money for herself, diluting the whole supply of it. If an asset has...
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Read_635 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Zach_of_Earth] from 2022-07-12T02:39:12
"Imposing limitations on monetary goods has always required tremendous amounts of time and energy, and trust. And yet, with all our efforts, we still have been unable to fix the supply of any of th...
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Read_634 - The Words we Use in Bitcoin [DerGigi] from 2022-07-07T02:33:06
"In a world awash in euphemisms and blatant lies, calling something by its proper name is rebellious in itself. Bitcoin is about freedom and self-sovereignty, not about asking for permission. It is...
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Read_633 - The Utility of Saving [Pierre Rochard] from 2022-07-01T21:34:48
"People hold money to hedge against future uncertainty. This is why it is so crucial for a monetary system to optimize for minimizing its own uncertainty. Bitcoin’s purchasing power is an external ...
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Guy's Take #57 - Bitcoin Domino Theory from 2022-06-30T03:05:44
What if, sitting in the middle of a chaotic monetary environment, increasing capital controls, balkanizing political regimes, a failing petrodollar hegemony, collapsing institutional trust, increas...
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Guy's Take #56 - The Cascading Dominoes - Part 1 from 2022-06-24T02:22:28
I promised, and it's finally here. It's time to get a little perspective, with the price at all time lows, exchanges and lending platforms imploding, a massive crypto deleveraging event, the Fed ti...
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Read_632 - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-06-21T01:54:38
"Coding, mining, infrastructure, and markets are all independent, happening in competing jurisdictions and geopolitical rivals, often done by anonymous or pseudonymous actors, all with different ph...
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Read_631 - The ECB is Trapped, Here's Why [Lyn Alden] from 2022-06-16T01:23:27
"Base money is a liability of the central bank, and it’s used as a reserve asset by commercial banks. Broad money is the liability of commercial banks, and it’s used as a savings asset by the publi...
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Reboot - Everyone's A Scammer [Michael Goldstein] from 2022-06-14T03:56:42
With the markets in chaos, with services halting withdraws, & Everyone's a Scammer" by Michael Goldstein, is one of those works. Another piece that stood the test of time made available by the Naka...
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Read_630 - Cry Harder [Francis Pouliot] from 2022-06-10T17:38:41
"Bitcoin is a lifeboat on the sinking fiat ship. Lifeboats on a sinking ship don’t need a marketing department." - Francis P. As New York puts a ban on Bitcoin mining in the state, as the white ho...
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Read_629 - On Impossible Things Before Breakfast [NYDIG] from 2022-06-08T04:54:35
"The reverse of that process – a so-called “death spiral” – was inevitable. Any time the immeasurably over-levered global fiat monetary system, for whatever reason, experienced one of its periodic ...
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Chat_69 - An Energy Revolution with Nathaniel Harmon from 2022-06-02T03:15:34
This episode is partly a follow up from Read_628 on reviving a promising renewable energy technology. Partly a discussion of the incredible economic subsidy that Bitcoin mining provides to bridge t...
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Read_628 - How Bitcoin Can Unlock the Energy of the Ocean [Level39] from 2022-05-31T21:04:44
"A typical Bitcoin mining operation will spend considerable amounts of time, energy and money cooling their ASIC miners with air conditioning or liquid immersion cooling, and these costs eat into p...
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Read_627 - Why and How to Get a Bitcoin Job [Stephan Livera] from 2022-05-26T02:55:04
"Coming off the Bitcoin 2022 conference, you might feel a little down from the high of meeting and spending time with Bitcoiners. I've also found that going to these events leaves you with an addit...
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Reboot - Why the Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin [Croesus] from 2022-05-23T15:40:25
"When I thought about what is the defining difference between the Bitcoin maximalists and my yuppie elite friends, the surface level distinctions that popped out were political (e.g., libertarianis...
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Read_626 - Digital Alchemy, A Post-Mortem of the Crypto Crash [Lyn Alden] from 2022-05-19T02:32:32
"Several exchanges in the industry fuel bubbles for a quick buck as well. If something starts to get momentum, including meme coins like DOGE or SHIB that don’t realistically have a substantial fut...
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Read_625 - The Cascading of Interconnected Risk [Marty Bent] from 2022-05-16T21:35:16
"This created a ticking time bomb with a very short timer. That money was going to "work" in completely artificial markets that were being driven by pure central planning insanity instead of actual...
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Guy's Take #55 - On the Economics of CTV Batching, & Where I was Wrong from 2022-05-12T01:33:16
So what exactly did I get wrong in Guy's Take #54, and why? Let's dig back into the economic of CTV and transaction commitments, to clear up what I was misunderstanding around unrolling large batch...
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Read_624 - Riding the Lightning Network [Sam Callahan] from 2022-05-10T01:10:19
"Despite all of these constraints, the free market finally provided the competition these incumbent banks so desperately needed. Bitcoin and the Lightning Network have arrived to show the world tha...
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PSA - Price Be Crashin 2022! from 2022-05-09T23:36:04
Welcome to Bitcoin! 😆 For the best products and services to get you started in Bitcoin, our sponsors are literally a handful of those that I use most in this space: • Get Bitcoin rewards on liter...
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Guy's Take #54 - CTV, Blockspace Debt, & TX Grenades from 2022-05-05T20:40
[Caveat - A critical piece of the puzzle I lay out in this episode was something I incorrectly understood, which makes this entire thought experiment moot. I explain further in Guy's Take #55] Tod...
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Read_623 - Response to the Huffman Letter to the EPA [Bitcoin Mining Council] from 2022-05-04T05:10:49
"It is imperative that elected officials in the United States recognize that bitcoin, and the innovation of Proof of Work, is the most important financial, economic, and accounting innovation in th...
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Guy's Take_53 - Let's Talk CTV from 2022-05-02T02:48:10
Everybody take a deep breath! Right now all the drama on Twitter and the Bitcoin community is all about CTV. What is it? Is this an attack on Bitcoin? Is it going to destroy Bitcoin fungibility? Ar...
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Read_622 - Silent Payments & Secret Blinding Keys [Shinobi] from 2022-04-28T02:21:26
"One issue with Bitcoin’s privacy, the ability to receive funds without giving up valuable information, is addressed with 'silent payments.'" - Shinobi Today we dive back into privacy with payment...
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Read_621 - I Finance the Current Thing [Allen Farrington] from 2022-04-26T04:03:53
"Even if you knew this was complete and utter bullshit, and that being an agent and not a principal ethically and legally precludes you from pretending your politics is your job, can you imagine, d...
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Read_620 - Reading of the Transcription of the Recording of the HODL vs DeaterBob "Debate" [Stephen Chow] from 2022-04-21T21:06
"You’re a thirsty bitch. You like to gargle Peter’s balls." - DeaterBob This is happening and there is nothing I can do about it at this point. Enjoy. You can earn Bitcoin by Donating Plasma in a...
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Read_619 - Bitcoin Mining & The Gird, Part 1 - Generators [Blake King] from 2022-04-20T00:58
"Bitcoin miners are unique because of how fast, transparent, and flexible their response can be to pricing fluctuations. Riot’s Whinstone mining farm in Texas is a perfect example of miners poweri...
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Read_618 - Expanding Functionality in Lightning Implementations [Shinobi] from 2022-04-19T01:31
"There are still many extensions to build out in the protocol and areas with unsolved scaling issues. In general, the Lightning protocol itself still has a long way to go in terms of solving existi...
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Read_617 - Announcing Taro, Multi-Asset Bitcoin & Lightning [Ryan Gentry] from 2022-04-14T21:51
"Taro enables bitcoin to serve as a protocol of value by allowing app developers to integrate assets alongside BTC in apps both on-chain and over Lightning. This expands the reach of Lightning Netw...
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Chat_68 - Keysend Maximalism & LNpay with Bootstrap Bandit from 2022-04-11T23:30
LNpay, LNURL, LNauth, streaming sats, Bolt12, the past and future of Lightning. We dig into tons of great stuff around Lightning and discuss Keysend Maximalism with my good friend and the creator o...
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Read_616 - Current State of Lightning Privacy [Tony] from 2022-03-31T22:23:21
"Besides the advantage of near-instant payments, there can be privacy improvements to Lightning as well. Unfortunately, there are scenarios where Lightning is not great for privacy. I’d like to une...
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Guy's Take #52 - Follow up to Read 615 - The State vs Bitcoin from 2022-03-30T02:52:57
This episode is because the previous read by Steve Barbour deserved a Guy's Take. Before we change topics to privacy in the episode coming later this week, "The State vs Bitcoin" deserves a solid s...
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Read_615 - The State vs Bitcoin [Steve Barbour] from 2022-03-26T04:33:41
"As with freedom and oppression, Bitcoin and State money may exist in a perpetual tug of war between ideals. Where State money relies on compulsory participation, Bitcoin offers completely voluntar...
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Read_614 - ...and Then They Fight You [SovrynMindset] from 2022-03-23T23:49
"Much more to say. This is just a starting point, but I'm interested in Bitcoin for its potential to reorient civilization to an existence rooted in truth. If adoption comes at the cost of that, al...
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Read_613 - Against the Inevitability of Bitcoin [Ariel Deschapell] from 2022-03-22T22:38
"...This purpose flounders, however, if their own evangelists and the community at large fails to lay the groundwork and impetus to push ever deeper. As a community, we fail when, in chasing the ma...
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Read_612 - Energy Cancelled [Arthur Hayes] from 2022-03-19T02:15
"On a medium-term basis, it is time to back up the John Deere excavator and scoop up as much gold and Bitcoin as you can afford. This is it, the start of a monetary regime change. Nothing lasts for...
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Read_611 - The Freedom of Value [Dergig] from 2022-03-17T04:38:26
"Thus, given enough time and popularity, every movie, every song, and every document will be available to the general public for free. The nature of information does not allow for another outcome. ...
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Read_610 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 2 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-03-15T03:03:48
"In sum, the U.S. government has shown that — through the GFC, repo spike crisis in 2019 and pandemic crisis in 2020 — it is willing to do anything to keep interest rates down: start an experimenta...
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Read_609 - The Invisible Cost of War - Part 1 [Alex Gladstein] from 2022-03-11T02:53
"As detailed in Saifedean Ammous’s “The Fiat Standard,” in November 1914 the British government “issued the first war bond, aiming to raise 350 million pounds from private investors at an interest ...
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Read_607 - Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin [Dergigi] from 2022-03-01T04:03:07
"If having 12 words in your head is illegal, something is terribly wrong with the law. If the police storm your building because you are finding or creating a random number in the privacy of your o...
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Read_606 - Lightning is a Liquidity Network [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2022-02-24T04:39:34
"Only liquid, flowing capital generates a return. Unlike a bank account, capital on Lightning is productive when it is mobile, not at rest. That’s why flow is so essential. The more capital flows, ...
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Read_605 - Bitcoin Behind the Veil [Craig Warmke] from 2022-02-23T06:27:06
"People tend to favor proposals that would benefit themselves and reject proposals that, at their own expense, would benefit others. If you were wealthy, you’d probably reject calls for higher taxe...
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Read_604 - I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto [David Hansson] from 2022-02-22T01:15:29
"Now what's that saying again. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. It's starting to smell like that. Just because Bitcoin's most virtuous argument was presented – in if...
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Read_603 - If Russia Invites Bitcoin Adoption, The Global Arms Race Begins [Mike Hobart] from 2022-02-18T01:41
"The U.S. and its allies are now effectively backed into a series of corners. Can the U.S. attempt to ban Bitcoin and its transactions? It can try, but will fail. China has already tried to do so, ...
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Read_602 - Bitcoin's Peaceful Revolution, A New Hope for Humanity [Peter St Onge] from 2022-02-14T22:34:13
"By taking away their printing presses, Bitcoin stops the creeping totalitarianism that weaponizes our own blood, sweat and tears against us. It stops governments’ escalating ability to control all...
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Read_601 - Bitcoin First [Fidelity] from 2022-02-11T00:34:24
“Bitcoin as a superior monetary good is more valuable than a better payment network . This leads us to another point as to why we believe bitcoin should be considered primarily as a monetary good r...
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Read_600 - The Separation of Money and State [Allen Farrington] from 2022-02-08T02:15
"That is not to say that Bitcoin will lead us to a pacifist utopia in which any attempt at violence suffers metaphysical intervention by the spirit of Satoshi. That money can grant power is clear e...
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Chat #67 - Pioneer Species with Brandon Quittem from 2022-02-04T05:57:10
Today we have an incredible chat as a followup to the recent piece Read_596 - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species. We have author Brandon Quittem joining us today to dive deeper into the concept he lays o...
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Read_599 - Why Every Fixed Income Investor Should Consider Bitcoin - Part 3&4 [Greg Foss] from 2022-02-02T13:38:41
“And finally, given its asymmetric return distribution I believe It is more risky to have zero exposure to bitcoin than it is to have a 5% portfolio weight. If you are not long bitcoin, you are irr...
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Read_598 - Why Every Fixed Income Investor Should Consider Bitcoin - Part 1&2 [Greg Foss] from 2022-02-01T03:35
“General Motors, Ford, AT&T and GE have cumulative debt that is larger than the entire HY market. Downgrades of any one of these names likely imply a downgrade of the others. The forced selling wou...
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Guy's Take #51 - AOPP&the Travel Rule from 2022-01-30T01:02:30
With Twitter up in arms about a potentially invasive privacy measure and compliance for an invasive regulatory requirement, it's time to break down exactly what is going on, and what we should or s...
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Read_597 - The 7th Property Ch1 - The Dimensions of Money [Eric Yakes] from 2022-01-28T04:47:22
"What is money? Why is it used? Which type of money is best? And why?" - Eric Yakes Today we are diving into the foundational chapter of Eric Yakes' book The 7th Property. What are the characteris...
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Read_596 - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species [Brandon Quittem] from 2022-01-26T05:48:29
“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving as “demand response” partners. If energy is ever in short supply, people get priority over Bitcoin miners. However whenever t...
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Read_595 - Money Messiah: Part 2 [John Vallis] from 2022-01-19T23:48:07
"Money, in the ideal (which we’ll likely always only ever strive for, and not achieve), turns a portion of ‘our work, here and now’, into a portion of ‘everyone’s work, anywhere and forever’." - Jo...
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Read_594 - Money Messiah: Part 1 [John Vallis] from 2022-01-18T06:32:17
“Sacrifice is thus a critical component of value, as it is the use of one’s own limited resources, as that against which all action is measured and justified.” - John Vallis Why does it always see...
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Read_593 - Bitcoin Heading to $30k? [Nik Bhatia] from 2022-01-14T05:13
"This confluence of Fed hikes and investor naivety “presents the setup for a severe washout” as the “pernicious effects of rising interest rates on future cash flows will likely prompt speculators ...
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Read_592 - First Impressions of Web3 [Moxie Marlinspike] from 2022-01-12T03:31
“The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they care about where the money is.” - Moxie Marlinspike...
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Chat #66 - Will the Real Web3 Please Stand Up, with John Carvalho from 2022-01-11T01:19
"Our goal is basically to realize this concept we have created called the atomic economy. This is just my way to create a narrative and mental model to represent hyperbitcoinization, or a future wo...
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Guy's Take #50 - Lightning and the Web from 2022-01-06T03:26:04
In a follow up to the State of Lightning Report from Arcane Research and OpenNode, we dive into the possibilities for how Lightning will change the global market, the potential for truly on-demand ...
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Read_591 - The State of Lightning - Part 2 from 2021-12-31T23:41
"What the Internet has done for information, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network will do for money. " - Elizabeth Stark Finishing the amazing report from Arcane Research on the state of the lightnin...
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Read_590 - The State of Lightning - Part 1 from 2021-12-29T05:00
“The Lightning Network, and the possibility to perform micropayments instantaneously, will most likely change how we pay for certain services. We already see the first steps, but the alternative to...
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Read_589 - Proof of Stake&Stablecoins - Part 2 [Lyn Alden] from 2021-12-22T03:18:54
“Crypto exchanges with numerous coins have an incentive to get you excited about new coins, because they make money from trading volumes. Even if it’s just meme-coins like Doge or Shiba Inu with br...
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Read_588 - Proof of Stake&Stablecoins - Part 1: A Centralization Dilemma [Lyn Alden] from 2021-12-21T00:35:05
"If Bitcoin were built on a proof-of-stake model, where the more coins you have the more votes you have on how the network functions, the large exchanges and custodians could have used the millions...
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Read_587 - Bitcoin&The American West [Croesus] from 2021-12-18T00:11:49
"These pioneers are akin to the Bitcoiners who showed up post-Mt. Gox, through to the Class of 2020. These are the individuals who saw the promise and opportunity of Bitcoin and seized it, despite ...
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Read_586 - Bitcoin&Tesla's Peaceful Energy Vision [Level39] from 2021-12-16T02:59:44
"If Bitcoin had existed in Tesla’s time, it would have removed the need for a corrupted monetary arrangement. Bitcoin mining is a permissionless and censor-resistant reward mechanism that incentivi...
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Read_585 - Your Money AND Your Life [Edward Snowden] from 2021-12-13T23:32:45
"Neither is a Central Bank Digital Currency a State-level embrace of cryptocurrency—at least not of cryptocurrency as pretty much everyone in the world who uses it currently understands it. Instead...
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Chat #65 - To Airgap, Or Not to Airgap? ...&Other Hardware Challenges with Lixin Liu&Douglas Bakkum from 2021-12-11T04:31
If you missed the awesome Twitter spaces we had with Lixin Liu from Keystone and Douglas Bakkum from Shift Crypto, you can't stop crying because we have it here on Bitcoin Audible for your listenin...
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Read_584 - Yes, Bitcoin is a Smart Contract Platform [Shinobi] from 2021-12-08T22:01
“'Smart contracts' as a term was coined by Nick Szabo back in 1996 before the idea of a blockchain was even a twinkling in Satoshi’s eye. They had nothing to do with DAOs, or decentralized exchange...
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Read_583 - Libertarianism&the Bitcoin Strategy [Stephan Livera] from 2021-12-07T04:53
"Even if we could somehow convince the world or the U.S. government to adopt a gold standard, there’s not really anything stopping them from claiming “it’s an emergency” and that we need to drop th...
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Read_582 - The World Bitcoin Will Build [Cory Klippsten] from 2021-12-03T04:38
“Money appreciates in value over time so that individuals can plan their future knowing their wealth will be protected. This leads to market participants’ time horizons lengthening, creating more i...
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Read_581 - The Vaccine Moment, Part 1 [Paul Kingsnorth] from 2021-12-01T06:12
“Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it is even understood. So it is here. The divisions ...
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Read_580 - Bitcoin and Crypto Aren't the Same [Nik Bhatia] from 2021-11-30T05:07
“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over $1 billion for over 100 different cryptocurrencies tells a story: we live in a multicoin world. But does that mean that bitcoin has competit...
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Read_579 - Our Best Shot at Liberty [Dr. Wolf Von Laer] from 2021-11-26T22:17
"The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin is an act of peaceful rebellion against the fiat money system." - Dr. Wolf Von Laer There are a million different ways to discuss the...
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Read_578 - The Irrelevance of Experts [Willem Van Den Bergh] from 2021-11-25T02:33
“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle of restricted information access in the past decades, the limiting factor for an individual to make intellectual progress merely shifted f...
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Read_577 - The End of Super Imperialism [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-11-18T00:34
"Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system, but enforced without military occupation. “This ...
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Chat #64 - Greg Foss&Preston Pysh on Bitcoin&the Bond Blowup from 2021-11-16T02:25
Today we have an incredible conversation with Preston Pysh and Greg Foss on the Bond markets, the shifting sands of the global financial world, and the incredible impact that Bitcoin will have on o...
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Read_576 - Bitcoin Changes Our Perception of Money [Mike Hobart] from 2021-11-12T00:09:53
"The passage of time is one thing that we can never get back. Once it has been spent, there’s no refund. Time is the ultimate currency, forever passing without the ability to return to a prior mome...
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Read_575 - Wonder if Bitcoin is Alien Technology? [Tomer Strolight] from 2021-11-05T00:46
“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting, self-governing, and ever-lasting. But nobody has engineered anything to do even one of these, and then along comes Bitcoin a...
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Read_574 - Lightning&The Internet - Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2021-11-01T21:53:28
"We’re revolutionaries. There’s no reason to be coy about it. Our goal is to replace fiat with bitcoin. “Disruption” is almost a quaint term for a change of the magnitude we’re bringing about. We’r...
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Read_573 - Why You Cant Have a PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin [Hass McCook] from 2021-10-26T22:13:10
“Freedom, transparency, honesty, meritocracy, fairness, voluntaryism and hard work are great things one should strive toward, whether it is in developing money or living life and setting a good exa...
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Read_572 - Bitcoin&the US Fiscal Reckoning [Avik Roy] from 2021-10-22T23:06
"It is understandably difficult for most of us to imagine a monetary world aside from the one in which we've lived for generations. After all, the U.S. dollar has served as the world's leading rese...
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Read_571 - The Quest For Digital Cash [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-10-20T20:10
"The fight that the cypherpunks mounted was one of the main reasons that the U.S. government lost the Crypto Wars. The authorities tried to stop the code and failed. This realization would loom lar...
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Chat #63 - Hashing it Out with Harry Sudock from 2021-10-19T03:49:27
"Nodes are the law, and miners are the muscle." - Harry SudockHarry Sudock, Vice President of Strategy at Griid, and I have a chat about the challenges of energy production, grid capacity, and the ...
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Read_570 - Unpacking the Great Hashrate Migration [Nic Carter] from 2021-10-15T02:29:11
"The precise magnitude and schedule for the westward move is currently unknown, but all signals seem to be indicating the greatest shakeup in the geographic makeup of bitcoin mining since the start...
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Read_569 - Calculating the Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin [Greg Foss] from 2021-10-13T03:02
"Wake up people, this is not a drill. Contagion risks are increasing due to potential global stagflation... The intrinsic value of BTC has increased from the beginning of this year when I originall...
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Read_568 - The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Bitcoin [Bradley Rettler] from 2021-10-12T01:50:27
“Using Bitcoin can level the playing field for the world’s poor as we work toward economic justice.” - Bradley RettlerAuthor Bradley Rettler returns in today’s read with a concise piece on the natu...
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Read_567 - Revenge of the Nodes - Part 2 - 21st Century Autonomy [Aaron Segal] from 2021-10-08T01:36:46
"Not only is the world experiencing greater dispersion of outcomes, it is also changing at an increasingly faster pace. Raw data is pouring torrentially down upon us, overwhelming our neural capaci...
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Read_566 - Revenge of the Nodes - Part 1 - 20th Century Authoritarianism... [Aaron Segal] from 2021-10-06T20:52
"The individual investor is professionalizing at the end of one of the biggest, most Homeric blow-out parties of all time. Forgive the cliched baseball metaphor, but this is like a player being cal...
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Only the Strong Survive - Full Audio from 2021-10-05T04:57:10
"In this piece we discuss our concerns around the broader “crypto” space beyond Bitcoin. Our arguments revolve around three primary themes: Philosophical, Technical, and Economic. From a philosophi...
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Read_565 - Isaiah's Job [Albert Jay Nock] from 2021-10-01T03:58:08
"The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these princi...
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Read_564 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 3 [Allen Farrington&Big Al] from 2021-09-28T19:43:47
“As Gall’s Law suggests, we believe the general principle favoring Bitcoin’s layered architecture is not one of software engineering so much as engineering entirely in general, yet as elegantly app...
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Read_563 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 2 [Allen Farrington&Big Al] from 2021-09-25T00:07
"Lyn Alden captured this well in her excellent piece, An Economic Analysis of Ethereum, which we highly recommend in addition to our own. Similarly observing that there does seem to be a lot of “fi...
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Read_562 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 1 [Allen Farrington&Big Al] from 2021-09-23T01:07
"The consensus is what matters. The breakthrough of proof-of-work and the difficulty adjustment is far more about harnessing energy and existing communications infrastructure to calibrate incentive...
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Read_561 - The Village and the Strongman [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-09-21T01:51
“Sandwiched between Guatemala and Honduras, El Salvador — the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, with an average GDP per capita of around $3,500 — is a most unlikely gr...
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Read_560 - The Schumpeterian Bitcoin Cycle [Prateek Goorha] from 2021-09-17T18:58
"Schumpeter would have loved Bitcoin. He would have seen in Bitcoin a living representation of his theory of capitalism, so often quoted but rarely understood. Creative destruction is the process b...
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Read_559 - The Dollar Burden&Why the US Will Adopt Bitcoin [Ansel Lindner] from 2021-09-15T03:22
"we often hear the U.S. dollar called an “exorbitant privilege.” Namely, that the U.S. benefits disproportionately from the dollar’s reserve currency status. This article will detail why the curren...
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Read_558 - Why Bitcoin, The Full Series Audiobook [Tomer Strolight] from 2021-09-14T00:00
"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged as a vast and mysterious space to explore, with treasures, dangers and untold potential. And similar to the Statue of Liberty’s beautiful ...
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Read_557 - The Stairway to Omnipresence [DerGigi] from 2021-09-10T02:22:42
"the fact that bitcoin is now legal tender in a country is absolutely astonishing. Yesterday, some nerds discovered a system that allows magic internet money to emerge by sending messages back and ...
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Read_556 - Bitcoin Has Already Won [Akarsh Nalawade] from 2021-09-07T21:04:45
"There has never been a more secure, scarce, valuable, transportable, decentralized and networked asset in all of humanity’s history. It’s more mobile than gold. It appreciates faster than property...
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Read_555 - The Bitcoin Energy Debate&the Gold Resource Cost Debate [Nic Carter] from 2021-09-04T00:05:09
"Long before we had the Bitcoin energy debate, we had the gold resource cost debate. The contours were similar: the costs associated with gold refining and extraction were a waste; they were too gr...
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Read_554 - Finding Financial Freedom in Afghanistan [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-09-02T01:36
“Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the way, dishonest middlemen and common thieves stole ...
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Chat #62 - Dave Smith&Part of the Solution from 2021-08-30T00:54:43
Dave Smith has finally done a Bitcoin episode! For those of you who missed this, I am making it available on my own feed and for those of you who do not know Dave Smith, he has the best podcast on ...
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Read_553 - Bitcoin's "Naive" Monetary Policy [Natasha Che] from 2021-08-24T01:07:52
"Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary policy. Many people think government printing too much is evil, so a fixed money supply must be good. The reality: a money that cannot expand wo...
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Read_552 - Inside Cuba's Bitcoin Revolution [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-08-19T22:01
“This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows you to move value without trusting anyone, it connects you to the world, and it allows you to empower yourself and do t...
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Read_551 - I Tried Hacking Bitcoin, and I Failed [Dan Kaminsky] from 2021-08-17T23:14:30
"By all extant metrics in security system review, this system should have failed instantaneously, at every possible layer. And, to be fair, it has failed at other layers – BitCoin thefts have occu...
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Read_550 - Bitcoin's Energy Use isn't a Problem, Here's Why [Lyn Alden] from 2021-08-12T07:02:15
"And it’s easier to sensationalize things for pageviews or political gain. For example, it’s commonly said that the Bitcoin network uses more energy than some countries. That’s true, but then so...
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Guy's Take #49 - Backed by Truth from 2021-08-06T21:02:36
"Bitcoin is a network, a money, a language, a system of rules,&a clock. Bitcoin is backed by Truth" - Guy SwannLinks to other works mentioned in the show today for further digging and study of the...
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Read_549 - Fiat Lux: The Origins of Modern Money [HeavilyArmedClown] from 2021-08-03T23:55
The word “fiat” is growing more aggrandized in the modern lexicon, however, despite its increasing popularity it is often ill defined or misused. I regularly observe people falsely call Bitcoin a f...
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Read_548 - This is Not a Drill! [Jake Chervinsky] from 2021-07-31T19:57
"Here's the deal with the US infrastructure bill: A new provision has been added that expands the Tax Code's definition of "broker" to capture nearly everyone in crypto, including non-custodial act...
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Read_547 - Scaling Lightning: To El Zonte... and Beyond! [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2021-07-29T03:26
"Many tellings of El Salvador’s story have largely overlooked and understated the role of the Lightning Network. But make no mistake: any country could have adopted bitcoin five or eight years ago....
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Read_546 - Could Bitcoin Be Palestine's Currency of Freedom? [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-07-26T20:22
“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” - Alex Gladstein Another brilliant addition to the Gladstein series from Bitcoin M...
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Read_545 - The Ultimate Guide to Inflation [Lyn Alden] from 2021-07-22T23:33
A great piece today detailing out the different kinds, the nuances&the long history of inflation. What misconceptions do we still have about inflation? What are the major correlating factors? And w...
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Read_544 - Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value [Bradley Rettler] from 2021-07-20T23:34
"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock in a company that produces a good or service. In virtue of the company producing a good or service and receiving money for the good or servi...
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Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine] from 2021-07-16T21:25
"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident ev...
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Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc] from 2021-07-13T21:50
"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right combination of layer2s." - Paul Sztorc What would it look like if we ...
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Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra] from 2021-07-07T20:20
"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”, as they were called, could ever be plausibl...
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Read_540 - Bitcoin&the American Idea [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-07-05T21:22
"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and that our true march is “of the mind” and not the s...
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Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason] from 2021-07-01T01:56
"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on the planet; but towards an ethics of a commonality of w...
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Guy's Take #48 - But Hoarding Money Destroys the Economy!... from 2021-06-29T03:53
We've all heard the criticism, sound money can't work because people will simply "hoard it." Obviously, per the Keynesians' demands, it is critical that we incentivize consumption and investment or...
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Read_538 - Fighting Monetary Colonialism with Open Source Code [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-06-25T00:52:43
"Monetary repression continues to be hidden, and not spoken of in polite circles. The reality today for the 182 million people living in CFA nations is that while they may be politic...
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Read_537 - Bitcoin is An Idea [DerGigi] from 2021-06-23T22:50:55
"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is now." - Listen
Read_536 - Bitcoin Information Theory B.I.T [Aaron Segal] from 2021-06-21T20:25:17
"A deflationary monetary system of absolute hard money acts as a mirror for value creation. It is a compass to guide us toward a better economic path." - Listen
Read_535 - Analyzing Bitcoin's Network Effect [Lyn Alden] from 2021-06-16T22:13:39
"A network effect is an attribute of a company or other system such that as more people use the network, the network becomes exponentially more valuable for each user. It’s one of th...
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Read_534 - Bitcoin Mining & the Case for More Energy [Caulfield & Lindstrom] from 2021-06-15T00:39:17
“All this to say, there is no optimistic version of the future in which humanity does not use significantly more energy than it does today.” - Listen
Read_533 - Guy's Take on the "Why Bitcoin Series, Part 1" from 2021-06-14T17:24:23
Completely left the intro and guy's take section out of the publishing for last week's episode, so figured I would drop it just for those who might like to listen. No ads or any breaks for this ...
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Read_533 - Why Bitcoin, The Series - Part 1 [Tomer Strolight] from 2021-06-09T22:14:11
"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged as a vast and mysterious space to explore with treasures, dangers, and untold potential." - Listen
Bitcoin Law - The El Salvador Legal Tender Bill from 2021-06-09T04:47:49
I may have gotten ahead of myself but the vote is happening right now in El Salvador's Congress. It's being discussed and read on the floor & in order to get this out as quickly as possible,...
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Guy's Take #47 - Legal Tender... And So It Begins from 2021-06-08T01:19:31
If you haven't seen it, don't miss out on this moment in history. Jack Mallers' announcement and speech at Bitcoin2021 on the massive mo...
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Read_532 - The Humanitarian & Environmental Case for Bitcoin [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-06-02T01:29:04
"If there is ever competition for the energy that the Bitcoin miners are buying, the miners turn off their machines, perhaps to turn them back on later in a real-time response to gri...
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Read_531 - Why Anthropologists are More Interested in Bitcoin than Economists [Mick Morucci] from 2021-05-31T22:34:32
“At the core of economists’ fallacy is the belief that money is money by decree (because the state and its expert economists say so), which means they don’t fully recognise the power...
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Read_530 - Privacy, Fungibility, Anonymity [nopara73] from 2021-05-27T22:43:16
“Technologies of anonymous communication, anonymous currency, and reputation systems have been invented. They cannot be un-invented. These are all the i...
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Read_529 - PART 2: The Inflation/Deflation Debate [Lyn Alden] from 2021-05-26T20:12:15
"deflation is the natural order of a productive economy. If we were using a hard money standard like gold, for example, we would expect products to get cheaper over time relative to ...
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Read_529 - QE, MMT, Inflation & Deflation - Part 1 [Lyn Alden] from 2021-05-24T23:58:14
"Quantitative easing (QE) occurs when central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, create new money to buy government bonds or other securities. Some people fear that it will cau...
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Read_529 - Orange is the New Green [Knut Svanholm] from 2021-05-20T23:21:45
"Money condenses energy. Bitcoin is the first and only tool we have for converting electric energy to monetary energy. Now what does this do to the energy market?" -
Guy's Take #46 - Bitcoin is Dead... Again from 2021-05-20T00:17:33
The price took a near 30% dump today. So let's talk about it.
A short episode today while I take care of my pup. Have you been distraught with the current price swings? That on...
Read_528 - Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for Freedom [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-05-17T23:34:56
“Their goals were to separate money from governments and corporations, check the growth of the global surveillance state, and preserve human rights in an increasingly digital age. Sa...
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Read_527 - Why Layer 2 & Sidechains Will Do All the Things!! [cAPSLOCK] from 2021-05-14T22:31:47
“In my lifetime I have seen many technologies emerge. The Internet. Pocket super computers. Digital music. And the old guard fought it, tried to capture it, a...
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Read_526 - Check Your Financial Privilege [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-05-13T00:35:45
"only 13% of our planet’s population is born into the dollar, euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar or Swiss Franc. The other 87% are born into autocr...
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Read_525 - One Does Not Simply Censor Bitcoin [Grubles] from 2021-05-11T00:48:45
"How does anyone censor something abstract and intangible; something that can consist of an arrangement of numbers and letters, and can be transported via any medium? What do you do?...
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Read_524 - The 7 Primal Elements of Bitcoin [Paulo Sacramento] from 2021-05-06T23:51:51
“one of the main reasons for Bitcoin’s success is something that resonates with us as humans on a much deeper level: the primal elements of its brand, which when combined, turn it in...
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Guy's Take #45 - A Mental Framework for Scaling from 2021-05-05T01:18:29
No matter how often we cover these ideas, it still seems astonishingly common for new people to fall into the same old fallacies and the same misguided thinking. In this episode I try to cover a...
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Read_523 - Fiat, Fascism, & Communism [Aleks Svetski] from 2021-05-04T00:08:28
"Bitcoin’s security guarantee comes from the direct conversion of unforgeable energy into a fixed supply unit on an incorruptible monetary network. There is no alternative that exist...
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Read_522 - The Hidden Costs of the Petrodollar System [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-04-30T23:46:24
"It is truly impossible for the petrodollar system to be green when it is based on black gold." - Alex Gladstein
Read_521 - You Are Not Prepared [Knut Svanholm] from 2021-04-28T22:33:58
Hyperbitcoinization is defined by the Nakamoto institute as “a voluntary transition from an inferior currency to a superior one, and its adoption is a series of individual acts of en...
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Read_520 - The Last Days of Satoshi [Pete Rizzo] from 2021-04-26T14:24:15
"To be sure, by the waning days of 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto was still acknowledged for inventing Bitcoin, and was respected for growing the world's first decentralized digital currency...
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Read_519 - The Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future [Square & ARKinvest] from 2021-04-22T21:00:13
"Bitcoin miners are unique energy buyers in that they offer highly flexible and easily interruptible load, provide payout in a globally liquid cryptocurrency, and are completely loca...
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Read_518 - Two Taproot Activation Clients! [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2021-04-19T21:42:39
"discussion about Taproot activation turned out to be a long and sometimes heated debate. Now, it has resulted in two different Taproot activation paths, embedded in two main softwar...
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Read_517 - Len Sassaman & Satoshi, A Cypherpunk History [Evan h] from 2021-04-16T22:55:35
"Embedded on every single node of the Bitcoin network is an obituary
Chat #60 - Strong Foundations in an Unstable Era, with Cory Tucek from 2021-04-15T21:02:53
A walk through Bitcoin history, the chaos of the early days, the blocksize war, working in film, financial catastrophes, the great reset, the breakdown of collective trust, hyperinflation, &...
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Read_516 - Conclusion of the Long-Term Debt Cycle [Dylan Leclair] from 2021-04-14T20:28:11
"Human civilization is at an inflection point. Inflationary monetary policy against the backdrop of technological deflation means either that ever more power will become concentrated...
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Read_515 - Utopian Dystopias [Alek Svetski] from 2021-04-12T23:13:35
"Bitcoin is the alpha-omega of private property and voluntary exchange. It lowers the cost of defence whilst increasing the cost of attack. As such it is the central tool in helping ...
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Read_514 - The Responsibility of Adopting Bitcoin [DerGigi] from 2021-04-09T01:14:07
"The whole idea of Bitcoin is to remove intermediaries from the equation. Trusted third parties are security holes, and unless we want to repeat past mistakes, it is our collective r...
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Guy's Take #44 - Bitcoin is Not What you Think it is from 2021-04-06T20:14
• Money is not what you think it is
• Great societies are a result of great money
• Money is more foundational than language
• Prices are not arbitrary
• The natu...
Read_513 - Noahbjectivity on Bitcoin Mining [Nic Carter] from 2021-04-06T00:02:49
"...And we’re just considering two sources of nonrival energy: clean energy curtailment in China, and vented/flared gas in the U.S. There are many other sources of stranded and nonri...
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Chat #59 - Skin in the Lightning Game with ZeBeDee Founder from 2021-04-02T22:30:38
The Gaming Universe is about to be Struck by Lightning. We have Simon Cowell on the podcast, CEO and Founder of ZeBeDee and their tools for easily int...
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Read_512 - Why The Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin [Croesus] from 2021-03-31T21:57:59
"When I thought about what is the defining difference between the Bitcoin maximalists and my yuppie elite friends, the surface level distinctions that popped out were political (e.g....
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Read_511 - Debunking the Empty Block Attack [Jimmy Song] from 2021-03-30T20:58:17
"The empty block attack is one where a majority of mining power would be directed at mining only empty blocks and rejecting non-empty blocks. These miners would essentially execute a...
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Read_510 - Bitcoin Will Save Our Earth [Evan Bayless] from 2021-03-27T20:47:55
"Bitcoin is not taking gas from your car or electricity from your house, it is making power production more efficient, utilizing otherwise “stranded” energy sources and helping to fu...
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Read_509 - Fidelity: Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms [Ria Bhutoria] from 2021-03-26T00:04:38
"Bitcoin is a unique digital asset for an increasingly digital world that requires digging deeper than the surface level to understand its core properties an...
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Read_508 - Sovereignism Part 1 - Digital Creative Destruction [Robert Breedlove] from 2021-03-24T02:47:17
"To state it plainly: Bitcoin is a momentous monetary innovation enabling a new mode of non-nation-state human organization, a “purified” form of capitalism free of nat...
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Read_507 - Trust, That we Need More of [Karo Zarogus] from 2021-03-23T04:52:17
“We can already observe some faint light at the end of the tunnel. Savings have been reintroduced into the hands of society. You can save money and the State is unable to influence y...
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Read_506 - Pumping Iron [Arthur Hayes] from 2021-03-19T00:53:01
“40 years of this back and forth has resulted in almost $20 trillion in zero- or negative-yield government and corporate debt, the lowest interest rates in the last 5,000 years, and ...
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Read_505 - The Separation of Money & State [Knut Svanholm] from 2021-03-17T00:19:14
"As long as there are money printers, there can be no freedom of expression. Money is the tool we use to express value to each other. Whoever controls the money supply controls the w...
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Chat #58 - Preston Pysh on Monetary Revolutions from 2021-03-15T20:43:19
"The World is in Denial" - Preston Pysh
Preston Pysh joins Bitcoin Audible to talk the horrible macro env...
Guy's Take #43 - The Sound of Inevitability from 2021-03-11T21:56:29
• Why Matt Odell is wrong about the OCC statement
• Bullish review of the SeeTee Shareholder Letter
• Microstrategy & 0% bonds
• Jack Mallers taking over the world
Read_504 - SeeTee Shareholder Letter [Kjell Inge Røkke] from 2021-03-10T02:20:02
"We are not going to wait for the future - we want to join in building it as well! I encourage entrepreneurs to reach out to Seetee. The bigger the dream, the more we listen... Listen
Read_503 - Bitcoin is Time [DerGigi] from 2021-03-05T02:29:23
“This problem is precisely why all previous attempts of digital cash required a centralized registry. You always had to trust someone to correctly identify the order ...
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Read_502 - LOT true or false? The Last Hurdle for Taproot [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2021-03-04T01:34:13
"As a consensus system without central authority, Bitcoin protocol upgrades can be challenging. If one segment of the network upgrades to a new version of the protocol before another...
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Read_501 - The Capital Strip Mine [Allen Farrington] from 2021-03-03T01:23:57
"The most egregious falsehood regarding economic health that is nonetheless widely believed is surely that we ought to measure it by the magnitude of goods and services consumed...
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Read_500 - Decentralization, Why Dumb Networks are Better [Andreas Antonopolous] from 2021-03-02T03:48:54
"The Internet’s protocol (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, or TCP/IP) doesn’t offer “services.” It doesn’t make decisions about content. It doesn’t distinguish between ph...
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Read_499 - The Bitcoin Black Hole Effect [William Clemente] from 2021-02-26T02:11:54
"If the US Dollar really was to reach an uncontrollable level of inflation, a last move by the Fed may be to do this same trade on a Federal level by printing dollars to acquire Bitc...
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Read_498 - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? [Alex Gladstein] from 2021-02-25T01:06:20
"So far, it seems that when governments try to ban or restrict Bitcoin, it ends up merely accelerating the adoption of the currency inside their countries. Governments that have fail...
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Chat #57 - Bitcoin History with Peter Todd, Brady Swenson, & Guy Swann on Swan Signal Live from 2021-02-24T05:54:23
"Peter Todd, a Bitcoin developer who has been around from the very beginning and even well before Bitcoin was released and Guy Swann who bought his first Bitcoin on Mt. Gox in early 2011, join u...
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Read_497 - Bitcoin is Venice [Allen Farrington] from 2021-02-23T01:41:56
"Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provab...
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Read_496 - Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This [Casey] from 2021-02-19T01:09:17
“When we begin to value things in bitcoin, we can find their legitimate value, as bitcoin is the most legitimately-valued money. There are no manipulations of supply, or buybacks, or...
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Read_495 - An Economic Analysis of Ethereum [Lyn Alden] from 2021-02-16T21:54:12
“The annual issuance rate with all those annotations kind of looks like it was drawn by a Bitcoiner making fun of Ethereum, but instead that’s from an Ethereum source. Various Ethere...
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Read_494 - Lightning Economics: Learning to Love Inbound Liquidity [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2021-02-13T00:59:06
"Supplying liquidity is an investment, and we need to treat it accordingly. Like lending money or buying stock, investors commit capital for a period and expect a return that increas...
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Read_493 - Asset DNA, Explaining Bitcoin's Speculative Attack [Croesus] from 2021-02-10T21:32:52
"if the representation of reality in this article is correct, the highest and best use of a dollar of debt may simply be to buy bitcoin. Many more individuals and entities will lever...
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Guy's Take #42 - Bitcoin's Second Chapter Begins from 2021-02-09T20:23:43
"In Chapter 1 we reached millions. In Chapter 2 we're going to reach billions and we're going to do it quickly. And Chapter 2 starts right now." - Listen
Read_492 - What I Really Think About Bitcoin [Ray Dalio] from 2021-02-06T02:41:21
"I believe Bitcoin is one hell of an invention. To have invented a new type of money via a system that is programmed into a computer and that has worked for around 10 years and is ra...
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Read_492 - What I Really Think of Bitcoin [Ray Dalio] from 2021-02-06T01:41:21
"I believe Bitcoin is one hell of an invention. To have invented a new type of money via a system that is programmed into a computer and that has worked for around 10 years and is ra...
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Read_491 - Bitcoin Astronomy - The Second Law [Dhruv Bansal] from 2021-02-04T00:51:30
"Perhaps one of the great ironies of the future will be the Solcoin alliance between urbane Terrans and hillbilly belters." - ...
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Reboot - Bitcoin Astronomy #1 [Dhruv Bansal] from 2021-02-03T00:04:24
Preparing for the Second Part of Dhruv's incredible series, today we have a reboot of Part 1!
Equal parts entertaining & intellectually intriguing, we start with Part 1 of <...
Read_490 - How this Bull Run is Different [Abhay Aluri] from 2021-02-02T02:28:59
"People aren’t trading bitcoin, they’re accumulating more and more of it over time and holding it long term (aka, “stac...
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Chat_033 - Is Bitcoin Ready for This? [Raleigh Meetup] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
COVID-19
Citadel Preparations
The Great Financial Unraveling
Scared of the virus or government?
Kill Your Heroes
Business as usual?
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CryptoQuikRead_368 - EARN IT Attacks Online Security & Privacy [EFF, Elliot Harmon] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Make no mistake: the EARN IT Act is a vehicle to undermine end-to-end encryption." - Elliot Harmon
A ve...
CryptoQuikRead_364 - Bitcoin, The Technology of Dissent [Nozomi Hayase] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"We, Bitcoiners, are all dissidents in the Old World of trusted third parties. [...] Laws of nature that are higher than man-made laws, being enforced by mathematics, have begun to r...
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CryptoQuikRead_362 - How Lightning Can Improve Encrypted Messaging [Colin Harper] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app" - Colin Harper...
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CryptoQuikRead_355 - How Decentralization Dies [Brandon Arvanaghi] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Decentralization has [...] been a vessel for achieving a concession from a centralized body it is protesting. Every decentralization play has followed a simple pattern: protest a market...
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CryptoQuikRead_353 - We're All Default Keynesians Now [Brady Swenson] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Unless you began your Austrian economic education at birth in some unknown Austrian paradise, on this planet at this particular time in human history, I think we can safely say we’re al...
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CryptoQuikRead_352 - Paying Yourself for Privacy on Lightning? [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"The Lightning Network is best known for its fast and cheap payments. But the Layer 2 protocol could also offer more privacy than on-chain payments [...] the developer thinks that “self-...
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CryptoQuikRead_351 - Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme [Parker Lewis] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Not everyone understands what a pyramid scheme actually is, what the warning signs may be, or why such schemes always fail [...] The distinctions should be glaringly obvious, but becaus...
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CryptoQuikRead_348 - All 21M Bitcoin Already Exist [Phil Geiger] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"we have nearly 11 years of empirical evidence that the network itself has been holding and transacting bitcoin, but instead of with private key signatures, it’s in exchange for hashed electrici...
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CryptoQuikRead_347 - Strike! By Zap [Jack Mallers] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
An exciting development form the extraordinary team over at Zap and the Mallers Fam! The seed of the infrastructure inversion has landed, and its' called Strike!
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CryptoQuikRead_345 - Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money [Parker Lewis] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"Money is an intersubjective problem, and a choice to opt into one monetary medium is an explicit opt out of the other, which in turn causes one network to gain value (and utility) at the direct...
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GuysTake_025 - Money, Networks, Blockchains, & Bitcoin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The much deserved Guy’s Take episode as a dedicated follow-up to the amazing work of "The Bitcoin Time Vol 1." There just wasn’t enough time to do it justice during the read, so today I give my ...
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CryptoQuikRead_115 - Announcing Bitcoin OpTech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“We’re as excited about Lightning, Schnorr signatures, Taproot/Graftroot and scriptless scripts as any other Bitcoin engineers, but the project’s focus is on technology that can be deplo...
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CryptoQuikRead_111 - Genesis Files - With Bit Gold, Nick Szabo Was Inches From BTC [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The 4th in the excellent Genesis Files Series from Aaron Van Wirdum (@AaronvanW) and Bitcoin Magazine (@...
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CryptoQuikRead_304 - Bitcoin Astronomy [Part 2 - Dhruv Bansal] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Continuing the wonderfully fascinating piece from yesterday's episode, all about the dynamics & game theory at play in a hash war between Mars' Muskcoin, and Earth's Bitcoin; as well as the ...
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CryptoQuikRead_101 - How Easy it is to Buy ICO Ratings [Markus Hartmann] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann
Check out the full article and chat logs along with other articles and ICO d...
CryptoQuikRead_099 - Announcing C-Lightning 0.6 [Christian Decker] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!" - Christian Decker & Rusty Russell
Check out the other great work and full arti...
CryptoQuikRead_268 - Major Developments in LND 0.7 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Tomorrow we have an awesome interview with Roy Sheinfeld all about the Breez Lightning service!
To set the stage, today we dive into the recent Lightning Labs Blog post on the incredible imp...
CryptoChat_015 - Alex Adelman on Stacking Sats & Saving Money with Lolli from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
I was lucky enough to get the opportunity at the Bitcoin 2019 Conference to sit down with Alex Adelman, the CEO of Listen
CryptoChat_011 - Lightning, Paywall.Link, & the Bootstrap Bandit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today we bring Tim K (@bootstrapbandit) on the show to talk all about the Lightning Network & a new tool he built at Paywall.Link. Don...
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CryptoQuikRead_220 - Not Breaking Rules? You’re Doing it Wrong: BitTorrent Lesson 2 [Simon Morris] from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today we cover Part 2 of Simon Morris's excellent series on the lessons we can take from BitTorrent to better understand the goals and value of Bitcoin and Crypto. If it doesn't break the rules, t...
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Guy's Take #41 - Gamestop is the Battle, Bitcoin is the War from 2021-01-29T00:57:53
Curious to know what the recent clown show of GameStop and r/WallStreetBets was all about? Well we get into it in today's rant about the phenomenal arrogance and outright manipulation of the maj...
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Read_489 - The Cantillon Effect 2.0 - Bitcoin is the First Truly Fair Money [CK_snarks & Deniz Saat] from 2021-01-27T02:22:46
“Because of Nakamoto’s deliberate actions and Bitcoin’s permissionless, free & open-source nature, bitcoin is the first truly neutral money. Bitcoin eliminates the inherent unfai...
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Chat #56 - DLCs, PTLCs, the Oracle Problem & More with SuredBits' Nadav from 2021-01-26T00:39:24
"Any solution to the oracle problem, makes Bitcoin able to do anything that any other protocol out there can do." - Nadav Kohen
So much cool technology coming to Bitcoin! We div...
Guy’s Take #40 - Double Spends & Wittgenstein’s Money from 2021-01-22T23:12:21
What the hell is everyone squealing about regarding this “critical flaw” and “confirmed double spend” on the Bitcoin network? Is this another 2013 bug, or a giant nothing burger? Guy dives into ...
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Read_488 - Wittgenstein's Money [Allen] from 2021-01-22T03:49:28
"What would it seem like if it did seem like a global, digital, sound, open source, programmable money was monetizing from absolute zero?" - Listen
Read_487 - Winning Hearts & Minds for Bitcoin [Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack] from 2021-01-19T23:29:19
"In a world in which governments and companies continually encroach on personal liberties via surveillance and outright control, Bitcoin shines like a beacon of freedom." -<...
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Read_486 - The Moral Case for Bitcoin [Jimmy Song] from 2021-01-16T00:15:54
“Fiat money is a positivist money, a tool of governments pursuing a utopian vision. Bitcoin is a Natural Law money, a tool to protect individual liberty. Bitcoin is therefore the mor...
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Read_485 - Why Bitcoin Is Not a Ponzi Scheme [Lyn Alden] from 2021-01-14T00:29:35
“From the beginning, Bitcoin has remained an open source and fully transparent project, and has the most organic growth trajectory of the industry. Given available information,...
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Read_484 - Bitcoin & the Printing Press [Anil] from 2021-01-12T23:36:20
“As books became more accessible and affordable, individuals were now personally consuming, reflecting upon and critiquing written texts. It was an idea meritocracy. No longer was “t...
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Chat #55 - Knut Svanholm & Andy Edstrom on Writing, Feedback Loops, & Bitcoin Haters in 2021 from 2021-01-11T22:59:21
An excellent chat today with 2 brilliant, bullish, & amazing writers in the Bitcoin space. Andy Edstrom, author of "Why Buy Bitcoin," and Knut Svnaholm of "Sovereignty Through Mathemat...
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Read_483 - Bitcoin & the Hopf Cycle of the Internet [Giacomo Zucco] from 2021-01-08T20:48:37
“Hard times make strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - Gia...
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Read_482 - The Stone Ridge Letter [Ross Stevens] from 2021-01-07T01:58:32
"Perhaps just in time, each U.S. citizen now has a choice. You can stay on the Fiat Standard, in which some people get to produce unlimited new units of money for free, just not you....
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Read_481 - Bitcoin's Killer App, Skin in the Game [Simon Cowell] from 2021-01-06T02:34:53
"We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. People play games because they are fun, not because they are on a blockchain." - Simon Cow...
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Chat #54 - Part 2 of WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari from 2021-01-04T21:50:12
Closing out our recent chat with Jim & Hari from the "What Do We Know" podcast we have Part 2 of the show digging all into wallets, keys, how to buy Bitcoin, the future potential, & why ...
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Read_480 - The Greatest Game, Part 2 [Jeff Booth] from 2021-01-01T02:30
“Learn about Bitcoin. Learn why its importance is so much greater than the wealth it might create for you and your family. When you do, teach others. Their futures may depend on it.” - Jeff Booth F...
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Read_479 - The Greatest Game, Part 1 [Jeff Booth] from 2020-12-31T01:30:31
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” - Buckminster Fuller
FEATURING Shitcoin Insider #4 - The Ripple Effect from 2020-12-29T22:45:11
Just after the announcement of the SEC lawsuit, a filing that is just full of scammy goodness, the ongoing delistings of XRP, & a massive crash in the price... what better time is there to d...
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Read_478 - Bullish on Bitcoiners [John Vallis] from 2020-12-28T23:11:19
"After all, Bitcoin is just a tool, and it’s only revolutionary in so far as its unique attributes generate novel possibilities for action — that is to say, new behaviors." - Listen
Guy's Take #39 - Bitcoin is the Pin from 2020-12-25T02:39:49
We are in the midst of one of history's greatest financial bubbles, represented both in a global debt crisis, as well as a bloated, subsidized financial sector that is many times greater in size...
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Read_477 - Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization [Parker Lewis] from 2020-12-24T00:48:52
"The greatest trick that central banks ever pulled was convincing the world that individuals must perpetually take risk just to preserve value already created (and saved). It is insa...
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Read_476 - The Legend of Prometheus [Aleks Svetski] from 2020-12-22T23:08:25
"we should all take a moment to be deeply grateful for the introduction of an ark upon which we can board, and from which we can later rebuild.” - Listen
Chat #54 - WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari from 2020-12-19T18:54:12
Today we have a crazy fun show after getting to hang with Jim & Hari (and James)from the What Do We Know podcast! A couple of guys who just wanted to know WTF a Bitcoin was, and we get into ...
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Happy HODL Day! from 2020-12-18T23:28:50
“GF’s out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I’LL TELL YOU WHY…” - Listen
Read_475 - The Sovereign Company Thesis [Christian Keroles] from 2020-12-18T05:22:06
“Today, bitcoin is still an alternative treasury asset, but as larger and more powerful organizations begin to use Bitcoin directly, they will begin to tear away from the overreach o...
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Read_474 - The Fraying of the Petrodollar System - Part 2 [Lyn Alden] from 2020-12-17T00:22:10
"As a decentralized and open source project, adopted by many programmers and proponents around the world, many intelligent people have dedicated their careers to Bitcoin. It’s hard t...
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Read_473 - The Fraying of the Petrodollar System - Part 1 [Lyn Alden] from 2020-12-15T22:46:49
"Taking my view a step further, evidence shows that the global monetary system as currently structured is gradually re-aligning itself, and this fact will have important ramification...
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Guy's Take #38 - An Unstoppable Force from 2020-12-11T21:10:15
"It's not that a government has the ability to ban Bitcoin from their country, I think it's closer to the opposite: A country only has the ability to ban itself from Bitcoin." - Listen
Read_472 - The Fiat Standard - Chapter 1 [Saifedean Ammous] from 2020-12-11T01:18:30
"For the reader who has become familiar with the operation of bitcoin, a good way to understand the operation of fiat is by drawing analogy to the operation of bitcoin using concepts...
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Read_471 - The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard] from 2020-12-09T22:51:50
"My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is on...
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Read_470 - Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? [Jeffrey Tucker] from 2020-12-08T23:22:09
“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means of storing and porting value, which in turn rests on secure titles to ownership of a scarce good.” - Listen
Read_469 - The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo] from 2020-12-07T22:38:04
"With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no longer operated as it did in t...
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Read_468 - Bitcoin is Hope [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-12-04T03:55:12
“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in the world.” - Robert Breedlove
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Read_467 - Bitcoin Doesn't Rely on Utilities [Rollo McFloogle] from 2020-12-02T22:29:08
"But there is something even more interesting that happens with mining and electricity. Not only does Bitcoin mining add revenue to existing locations of energy production, but it al...
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Chat #53 - Bitcoin Security in the Age of Surveillance with Douglas Bakkum from 2020-12-01T21:07:20
Had an excellent chat with the CEO of ShiftCrypto yesterday all about building Bitcoin hardware, the security trade offs, and creating secure tools for a world where security is both foreign and...
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Read_466 - A Note on Bitcoin [James O'Beirne] from 2020-11-30T23:17:27
"And replacing gold is just the start. Bitcoin isn’t just a better gold; because of its programmability, it’s a platform that will host the future of money. It will disintermediate m...
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Read_465 - All the Bullish Cases for Bitcoin [Brandon Quittem] from 2020-11-26T17:39:48
Want to hear all of the bullish cases for Bitcoin? Protection for pensions, the fiscal cliff we are speeding toward, capital movement for the wealthy, a safe haven for corporate treasuries, a do...
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Chat #52 - The Great Reset vs The Great Awakening with Adam Curry from 2020-11-24T04:12:24
The inventor of podcasting, the Podfather himself Adam Curry, joins us today for an incredible chat about Bitcoin and re-decentralizing cyberspace. Th...
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Guy's Take #37 - Dear James Woods, Sincerely Guy Swann from 2020-11-21T01:50:06
"All you can do with Bitcoin once you buy it is sell it, but you need somebody else to buy it from you." - Peter Schiff
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Read_464 - Poolin's Initiative to Activate Taproot [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-11-18T19:57:29
“Taproot will unlock a new range of possibilities for Bitcoin, improving privacy and expanding smart contract possibilities”
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Read_463 - A Symphony of Positivity [Eric Wall] from 2020-11-17T22:16:22
"It takes two nudges to convert a nocoiner. The vast majority of people got their very first nudge in 2017. These people are now p...
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Chat #51 - The Death of Nuance with Aleks Svetski from 2020-11-16T22:45:17
Today's chat is with the brilliant and always entertaining Aleks Svetski (https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski). On the state of the world, our turbule...
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Read_462 - 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin [Lyn Alden] from 2020-11-12T23:20:36
"Bitcoin is more easily verifiable than gold, in terms of being a reserve asset and being used as collateral. It’s more frictionless to transfer than gold, and has a hard-capped supp...
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Guy's Take #36 - Walking Tall from 2020-11-12T01:13:12
What does having savings, & the incentives reestablished by sound money, do to a person's *character?* How does it change who we are when we have something that we know is ours, and frees us...
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Read_461 - When Bitcoin Melts The System, Prosperity Steps In [Thibaud Marechal] from 2020-11-10T23:49:57
"The logical construct behind the dissection of today’s evils is actually very simple: money is broken; fix the money, fix the world." - Listen
Read_460 - The Hard Forks that Didn't Dilute Bitcoin [Nic Carter] from 2020-11-09T19:50:50
"If any of these forks had meaningfully gained ground relative to Bitcoin, the critics would have had a point. What’s the point of a monetary network which is undergoing a constant s...
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Read_459 - Call me Ishmael [BitMex] from 2020-11-06T23:38:08
"One can use a “brainwallet”. Refugees need to carry nothing with them, all they would need to do is remember a Bitcoin wallet passphrase. Funds, potentially millions of US dollars, ...
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Read_458- The Lightning Liquidity Marketplace [Peter Chawaga] from 2020-11-05T02:07:27
“Lightning Labs is positioning this release as a step toward an ecosystem of Lightning-based financial products, which it called “LiFi.” - Listen
Read_457 - Our Most Brilliant Idea [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-11-04T01:45:01
"When governments play God, civilizations burn in Hell."
- Robert Breedlove
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Read_456 - Bitcoin at 12 [Nic Carter] from 2020-11-03T00:38:41
"I believe Bitcoiners have this in common. They recognize that they have undertaken a near-hopeless task. Creating a global, neutral, apolitical settlement medium and standard of val...
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Guy's Take #35 - The Next Domino... from 2020-10-30T19:15:28
We may have just seen the beginnings of central banks entering the Bitcoin game theory. The game is about to get real.
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Read_455 - Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History [Brandon Quittem] from 2020-10-30T00:43:21
"Individuals can opt-out of their local currency by joining the Bitcoin life raft. Protect purchasing power, rather than go down with the sinking ship that is their state." - Listen
Read_454 - The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption [Nic Carter] from 2020-10-27T22:38:24
"If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you cannot sell your energy anywhere, the existence of a global buyer for energy is a godsend." - Listen
Read_454 - The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption [Nic Carter] from 2020-10-27T22:38
"If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you cannot sell your energy anywhere, the existence of a global buyer for energy is a godsend." - Nic Carter What do all the "boiling oceans" ala...
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Read_453 - Lies, Deception, & Unnatural Money [Nik Hoffman] from 2020-10-27T02:45:11
"money printing only “works” if the majority of people don’t even realize that it is steadily devaluing their earnings and savings. People must be deceived into believing a false ide...
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Read_453 - Lies, Deception,&Unnatural Money [Nik Hoffman] from 2020-10-27T02:45
"money printing only “works” if the majority of people don’t even realize that it is steadily devaluing their earnings and savings. People must be deceived into believing a false ideology about thi...
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Read_452 - How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom [Jim Epstein] from 2020-10-23T21:01:51
"It had a big impact on May, who melded the "Other Plane" with "Galt's Gulch" from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was a safe hav...
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Read_452 - How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom [Jim Epstein] from 2020-10-23T21:01
"It had a big impact on May, who melded the "Other Plane" with "Galt's Gulch" from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was a safe haven for rational and productive people protected from government coe...
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Chat #50 - Dawn of the Age of Bitcoin with Erik Cason from 2020-10-21T19:42:08
Bitcoin and the cryptographic systems that empower it, are not merely another new tech to make use of. They are a fundamental shift in the ability to defend value from organized violence. The im...
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Read_451 - Multisig Appreciation Day [Marty Bent] from 2020-10-20T23:53:47
"When compared to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds or "fine art" that act as stores of value for many individuals, bitcoin that is held in a multisig wallet is an obvious step-functi...
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Read_451 - Multisig Appreciation Day [Marty Bent] from 2020-10-20T23:53
"When compared to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds or "fine art" that act as stores of value for many individuals, bitcoin that is held in a multisig wallet is an obvious step-function improvement ...
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Read_450 - Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2020-10-19T23:28:09
Breez wallet makes some major announcements today with their first release candidate of the wallet into the wild. Bringing the dream of a fully non-custodial, user-friendly, super easy to use Li...
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Read_450 - Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2020-10-19T23:28
Breez wallet makes some major announcements today with their first release candidate of the wallet into the wild. Bringing the dream of a fully non-custodial, user-friendly, super easy to use Light...
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Guy's Take #34 - TAPROOT IS MERGED!! from 2020-10-15T18:45
A major step toward the next era of Bitcoin was made today. The code is final, and it is now in the Bitcoin codebase as of today. The next steps are an activation method, and a full client release ...
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Read_449 - Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole [Knut Svanholm] from 2020-10-14T20:37:41
"Value is a strange concept because while it is arguably very real, it is entirely subjective, and because of this there is no yardstick or kilogram to measure it against." - Listen
Read_449 - Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole [Knut Svanholm] from 2020-10-14T20:37
"Value is a strange concept because while it is arguably very real, it is entirely subjective, and because of this there is no yardstick or kilogram to measure it against." - Knut SvanholmAnother f...
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Chat #49 - The Tahini's Bitcoin Standard from 2020-10-13T22:35:05
As the dominoes continue to fall, we chat with the owner of the amazing Tahini's restaurant on their journey to a Bitcoin Standard. Why Bitcoin? What led them to such a decision? How do they see...
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Read_448 - Crypto, Truth & Power [Erik Cason] from 2020-10-12T21:15:24
“I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto, Whoever he/she/it/them is/was, was first and foremost a strategist of the cypherpunk traditions. This is extremely important because we need to unde...
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Read_448 - Crypto, Truth&Power [Erik Cason] from 2020-10-12T21:15
“I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto, Whoever he/she/it/them is/was, was first and foremost a strategist of the cypherpunk traditions. This is extremely important because we need to understand the moti...
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Guy's Take #33 - The Canary in the Coal Mine [On Marty's 839th Bent] from 2020-10-07T20:15:25
There's been a bit of Bad News. The canary doesn't seem to be moving, and its time that we take our situation seriously. As Bitcoin becomes both more mature and finds its way back into a bull ma...
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Read_447 - Bitcoin Isn't Slow, Its Highly Secure [Vlad Costea] from 2020-10-06T23:59:30
"So the next time somebody says that “shitcoin X” is faster than Bitcoin or claims that Bitcoin is slow, show them the criteria that truly count in a decentralized network." - Listen
Read_447 - Bitcoin Isn't Slow, Its Highly Secure [Vlad Costea] from 2020-10-06T23:59
"So the next time somebody says that “shitcoin X” is faster than Bitcoin or claims that Bitcoin is slow, show them the criteria that truly count in a decentralized network." - Vlad Costea Did you ...
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Read_446 - The Great Plague of Shitcoinery [Thibaud Marechal] from 2020-10-06T00:05:23
"Battles in the money market aren’t about incremental technology features, but fundamental monetary properties. Bitcoin is a pragmatic monetary evolution, which contrasts with shitco...
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Read_446 - The Great Plague of Shitcoinery [Thibaud Marechal] from 2020-10-06T00:05
"Battles in the money market aren’t about incremental technology features, but fundamental monetary properties. Bitcoin is a pragmatic monetary evolution, which contrasts with shitcoin issuers misr...
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Guy's Take #32 - Rights, Incentives & the Bitcoin System from 2020-10-02T22:41:50
What are rights and can Bitcoin enable us to make better sense of them?
It is very common to hear that education is a "right," that healthcare, a fair ...
FEATURING Shitcoin Insider #1 - DeFi & Ponzinomics from 2020-10-01T18:25:54
Were you ever just deathly curious about what Defi really is? What is going on behind the scenes of the token wrapped token printing yield machines? Or what the mindset of the shitcoiner really ...
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Chat #48 - Sovereignty in a Box with Matt Hill from 2020-09-29T20:02:46
Are we on the verge of a new revolution in personal computing? Matt Hill and the team at Start9Labs believes we are, and are helping to build our path through it to a brighter future. How do we ...
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Read_445 - A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics [Alex Gladstein] from 2020-09-29T00:03:39
"Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with all of their scary language about fraud and risk, when I send an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to you, it will get to you, no...
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Read_445 - A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics [Alex Gladstein] from 2020-09-29T00:03
"Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with all of their scary language about fraud and risk, when I send an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to you, it will get to you, no matter what. T...
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Read_444 - Things Bitcoiners Don't Want to Hear [Shinobi] from 2020-09-25T00:04:28
"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surfaces that are not being worked on in...
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Read_444 - Things Bitcoiners Don't Want to Hear [Shinobi] from 2020-09-25T00:04
"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surfaces that are not being worked on in terms of creat...
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Read_443 - On Bitcoin's User Experience [DerGigi] from 2020-09-23T21:27:42
“Some concepts are essential, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” - Gigi
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Read_443 - On Bitcoin's User Experience [DerGigi] from 2020-09-23T21:27
“Some concepts are essential, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” - Gigi En excellent piece from SwanBitcoin blog today by the one and only Gigi. Thoughts on th...
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Read_442 - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential [Ben Carman] from 2020-09-22T21:08:06
"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously thought possible." - ...
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Read_442 - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality&Potential [Ben Carman] from 2020-09-22T21:08
"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously thought possible." - Ben Carman Ben Carman, a dev...
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Chat #47 - Magic Gold with Michael Saylor from 2020-09-18T20:08:36
Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after they have announced a $425 million investment into Bitcoin. With a move to making Bitcoin their dominant treasury reserve asset, we t...
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Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2] from 2020-09-17T21:13:17
"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement from manual, local, and inconsi...
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Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2] from 2020-09-17T21:13
"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement from manual, local, and inconsistent to automa...
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Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1] from 2020-09-16T23:54:28
"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to exchange value ...
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Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1] from 2020-09-16T23:54
"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to exchange value globally and fr...
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Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum] from 2020-09-15T23:30:50
"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real successes to account for..."
Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum] from 2020-09-15T23:30
"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real successes to account for...""But Hal Finney, ever ...
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Guy's Take - Open Source Society in a Patented World [#31] from 2020-09-14T21:05:54
In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came up with the idea, could make millions by su...
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Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha] from 2020-09-10T23:46:36
"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious and sometimes are rather counter-...
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Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha] from 2020-09-10T23:46
"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious and sometimes are rather counter-intuitive, for ...
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Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal] from 2020-09-09T20:38
"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And without anyone’s permission, Bitcoi...
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Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal] from 2020-09-09T20:38
"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And without anyone’s permission, Bitcoin slowly emerge...
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Bitcoin is One for All - By Parker Lewis from 2020-09-08T19:47
Unabridged, Uninterrupted,&unmatched. Parker Lewis's most recent installment of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series. Read the original and check out the data accompanying the piece at the Unchai...
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Chat #46 - Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property in the age of Bitcoin from 2020-09-07T23:24:35
"I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I'm like 'I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,' it's ingenious right?" - Listen
Read_436 - Don't Fear the Reaper [Nic Carter] from 2020-09-03T22:33:35
"Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply schedule. Any alteration produces something that is decidedly non-Bitcoin." - Listen
Read_436 - Don't Fear the Reaper [Nic Carter] from 2020-09-03T22:33
"Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply schedule. Any alteration produces something that is decidedly non-Bitcoin." - Nic Carter Nic does it again with a great piec...
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Read_435 - Discovering Bitcoin #7 - Missing Pieces [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-09-02T21:17
"As we conclude our “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the use of digital signatures and of the CoinJoin paradigm to explore concepts of unique chronology, mining fees an...
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Read_435 - Discovering Bitcoin #7 - Missing Pieces [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-09-02T21:17
"As we conclude our “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the use of digital signatures and of the CoinJoin paradigm to explore concepts of unique chronology, mining fees and off-chain tra...
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Read_434 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 2 [Parker Lewis] from 2020-09-01T22:30:42
"The same is not true of the current monetary system. In the current structure, dollars can either be earned by delivering value to others within the economy, or conversely, if the F...
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Read_434 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 2 [Parker Lewis] from 2020-09-01T22:30
"The same is not true of the current monetary system. In the current structure, dollars can either be earned by delivering value to others within the economy, or conversely, if the Fed decides to h...
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Read_433 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 1 [Parker Lewis] from 2020-08-31T22:10:43
"By manipulating price levels, the Fed isn’t just preventing smaller intermittent fires from naturally running their course while creating larger fires down the road. Instead, think ...
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Read_433 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 1 [Parker Lewis] from 2020-08-31T22:10
"By manipulating price levels, the Fed isn’t just preventing smaller intermittent fires from naturally running their course while creating larger fires down the road. Instead, think of the Fed’s ac...
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Hal’s Day - Bitcoin & Me [reboot] from 2020-08-28T18:03:55
Bringing back an old post for Hal’s Day. 6 years ago today we lost Hal Finney. This post was one of his last on the BitcoinTalkForums, knowing he would leave us soon, and how he saw his legacy. RIP...
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Read_432 - Discovering Bitcoin #6 - Digital Contracts [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-25T14:53:51
"In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the idea of using digital puzzles as a way to reproduce scarcity, and on the importance of a supply-control mechanis...
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Read_432 - Discovering Bitcoin #6 - Digital Contracts [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-25T14:53
"In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the idea of using digital puzzles as a way to reproduce scarcity, and on the importance of a supply-control mechanism to grant some...
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Masters & Slaves of Money - By Robert Breedlove from 2020-08-24T16:39:26
"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth inequality. History shows us that the corrup...
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Read_431 - True Names Not Required [Gigi] from 2020-08-20T21:11:51
"We need to be able to disassociate from our identities to protect ourselves. We need the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves. We need the possibility to rally behind names, symb...
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Read_431 - True Names Not Required [Gigi] from 2020-08-20T21:11
"We need to be able to disassociate from our identities to protect ourselves. We need the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves. We need the possibility to rally behind names, symbols, masks, and...
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Read_430 - Accepting Scarcity, A Bitcoin Meditation [Reed Wommack] from 2020-08-19T20:49:39
“ignorance or delusion is one of the three causes of our suffering (the other two are attachment and aversion). So when we are deluded about reality, we perpetuate suffering. ...
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Read_430 - Accepting Scarcity, A Bitcoin Meditation [Reed Wommack] from 2020-08-19T20:49
“ignorance or delusion is one of the three causes of our suffering (the other two are attachment and aversion). So when we are deluded about reality, we perpetuate suffering. When we are aware of...
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Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-17T22:33:34
Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it's "hardness." By what means can we get it back? Ca...
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Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-17T22:33
Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it's "hardness." By what means can we get it back? Can w...
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Guy's Take - The Dominoes are Falling [#30] from 2020-08-14T20:02:23
“We find the global acceptance, brand recognition, ecosystem vitality, network dominance, architectural resilience, technical utility, and community ethos of Bitcoin to be persuasive...
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Read_428 - Discovering Bitcoin #4 - A Wrong Turn & A New Plan [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-12T23:22:58
"While it was pretty difficult for him to take over the very decentralized process of people exchanging gold nuggets, there are now a few big, public, trusted, vulnerable entities he...
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Read_428 - Discovering Bitcoin #4 - A Wrong Turn&A New Plan [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-12T23:22
"While it was pretty difficult for him to take over the very decentralized process of people exchanging gold nuggets, there are now a few big, public, trusted, vulnerable entities he can easily sei...
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Read_427 - The Lightning Paradox [Alex B] from 2020-08-11T22:39:05
"The Jevons paradox is a staple of environmental economics used to describe how the introduction of more efficient technologies tends to increase the consumption of resources rather ...
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Read_427 - The Lightning Paradox [Alex B] from 2020-08-11T22:39
"The Jevons paradox is a staple of environmental economics used to describe how the introduction of more efficient technologies tends to increase the consumption of resources rather than decrease i...
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Read_426 - Discovering Bitcoin #3 Introducing Money [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-06T20:08:41
"The goods that fare better in hardness, scaleness and darkness will compete, and the first one to reach a critical mass will start swallowing the others, as far as monetary uses are...
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Read_426 - Discovering Bitcoin #3 Introducing Money [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-06T20:08
"The goods that fare better in hardness, scaleness and darkness will compete, and the first one to reach a critical mass will start swallowing the others, as far as monetary uses are concerned." - ...
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Chat_45 - Bitcoin & an Energy Revolution, A panel at the VOB Conf from 2020-08-05T23:45:05
We have got a great chat that I have been unable to share until now! What is the present and future of Bitcoin mining and the consumption of energy. Is it a terrible reality that could have huge...
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Chat_45 - Bitcoin&an Energy Revolution, A panel at the VOB Conf from 2020-08-05T23:45
We have got a great chat that I have been unable to share until now! What is the present and future of Bitcoin mining and the consumption of energy. Is it a terrible reality that could have huge se...
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Read_425 - If You Only Read One Thing Before Buying Bitcoin... [Sylvain Saurel] from 2020-08-04T22:14:11
"By buying Bitcoin, you are not making a mistake. But if you buy Bitcoin and stop there after your first purchase, you’re making a mistake." - Listen
Read_425 - If You Only Read One Thing Before Buying Bitcoin... [Sylvain Saurel] from 2020-08-04T22:14
"By buying Bitcoin, you are not making a mistake. But if you buy Bitcoin and stop there after your first purchase, you’re making a mistake." - Sylvain Saurel A great introduction into Bitcoin by S...
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Chat_44 - 2 Bitcoiners Talking Bitcoin with Citizen Bitcoin from 2020-08-03T22:41:29
Is there anything more to say? Feeling insanely bullish in a chat with Brady of Citizen Bitcoin and SwanBitcoin fame. Don't miss a great chat wit...
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Chat_44 - 2 Bitcoiners Talking Bitcoin with Citizen Bitcoin from 2020-08-03T22:41
Is there anything more to say? Feeling insanely bullish in a chat with Brady of Citizen Bitcoin and SwanBitcoin fame. Don't miss a great chat with 2 hardcore Bitcoiners talking Bitcoin. Start your...
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Read_424 - Discovering Bitcoin #2 - About People [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-01T00:19:02
"it clearly involves moral, political and ethical aspects, like the importance of privacy as a human right. I will use the term “darkness” to address this attribute." - <...
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Read_424 - Discovering Bitcoin #2 - About People [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-08-01T00:19
"it clearly involves moral, political and ethical aspects, like the importance of privacy as a human right. I will use the term “darkness” to address this attribute." - Giacomo Zucco Continuing th...
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Read_423 - 3 Reasons I'm Investing in Bitcoin [Lyn Alden] from 2020-07-31T17:58:19
"If a few percentage points of a portfolio are allocated to it, there is a limited risk of loss... On the other hand, it’s not out of the question for Bitcoin to triple, quadruple, o...
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Read_423 - 3 Reasons I'm Investing in Bitcoin [Lyn Alden] from 2020-07-31T17:58
"If a few percentage points of a portfolio are allocated to it, there is a limited risk of loss... On the other hand, it’s not out of the question for Bitcoin to triple, quadruple, or have a potent...
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Read_422 - Discovering Bitcoin - From Cavemen to Lightning, Part #1 [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-07-29T19:52:45
“In order to be useful for this kind of process, a good must possess a good “hardness”: Any unit of said good should not significantly lose its ability to provide utility if stored o...
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Read_422 - Discovering Bitcoin - From Cavemen to Lightning, Part #1 [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-07-29T19:52
“In order to be useful for this kind of process, a good must possess a good “hardness”: Any unit of said good should not significantly lose its ability to provide utility if stored over some period...
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Chat_43 - Totally Bitcoin & Changing Minds with Keyvan Davani from 2020-07-28T22:34:23
A long and intense discussion on the vast chasms between the normal view of the world, and that which Bitcoin instills and requires of people. In the age of contradict and finger pointing, there...
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Chat_43 - Totally Bitcoin&Changing Minds with Keyvan Davani from 2020-07-28T22:34
A long and intense discussion on the vast chasms between the normal view of the world, and that which Bitcoin instills and requires of people. In the age of contradict and finger pointing, there is...
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Read_421 - Lightning as a Retail Payment System [Nicolas Burtey] from 2020-07-27T21:39:12
"Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a requirement for a retail payment network to succeed. It builds on Bitcoin which does not optimize for privacy? but transparency and ro...
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Read_421 - Lightning as a Retail Payment System [Nicolas Burtey] from 2020-07-27T21:39
"Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a requirement for a retail payment network to succeed. It builds on Bitcoin which does not optimize for privacy? but transparency and robustness." - Ni...
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Guy's Take on the Bill Bert Podcast with Anthony Pompliano [#29] from 2020-07-23T19:48:47
Today's Guy's Take is a response to the Bill Bert podcast with Anthony Pompliano! What did Pomp miss? What did he get wrong? Lets do something a little different with this episode, and feel free...
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Read_420 - BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-07-21T00:37:23
"This risk is probably best countered by offering enough time to upgrade. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees on how much time is enough; some think forced signaling could start withi...
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Read_420 - BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-07-21T00:37
"This risk is probably best countered by offering enough time to upgrade. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees on how much time is enough; some think forced signaling could start within a year, other...
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Read_419 - Twitter Hack & The Need for a User-Owned Internet [Nic Carter] from 2020-07-17T23:26:50
“Trusted third parties are security holes” isn’t just a slogan; it’s a concept that millions of people will have intuitively grasped for the first time yesterday." -
Read_419 - Twitter Hack&The Need for a User-Owned Internet [Nic Carter] from 2020-07-17T23:26
“Trusted third parties are security holes” isn’t just a slogan; it’s a concept that millions of people will have intuitively grasped for the first time yesterday." - Nic CarterI'm sure you've heard...
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Read_418 - Bitcoin, More Than An Inflation Hedge [Nick Neuman] from 2020-07-14T21:59:33
"Bitcoin’s capped supply is one of its most well-known features, and it is regularly cited as a hedge against inflation caused by government money printing.
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Read_418 - Bitcoin, More Than An Inflation Hedge [Nick Neuman] from 2020-07-14T21:59
"Bitcoin’s capped supply is one of its most well-known features, and it is regularly cited as a hedge against inflation caused by government money printing. Most people don’t know that Bitcoin has...
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Chat_42 - Project Snow White&the Raleigh Bitcoin Meetup from 2020-07-13T12:55
• DeFi • Prices&Markets • Bitcoin&the global power struggle • Political insanity• Apolitical? Super-Political? Omni-Political? • Hard Money Film• Lightning Attacks • Minimum wage&tons more! Anothe...
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Chat_42 - Project Snow White & the Raleigh Bitcoin Meetup from 2020-07-13T12:55
• DeFi
• Prices & Markets
• Bitcoin & the global power struggle
• Political insanity
• Apolitical? Super-Political? Omni-Political?
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Read_417 - On Schelling Points, Network Effects, & Lindy [Willem Van Den Bergh] from 2020-07-10T01:10:02
"This rationale also completely demolishes the “blockchain not Bitcoin” mantra as the Schelling point is purely based on bitcoin the money, not blockchain t...
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Read_417 - On Schelling Points, Network Effects,&Lindy [Willem Van Den Bergh] from 2020-07-10T01:10
"This rationale also completely demolishes the “blockchain not Bitcoin” mantra as the Schelling point is purely based on bitcoin the money, not blockchain the technology." - Willem Van Den BerghWhy...
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Read_416 - The Root of Money? [Atlas Shrugged] from 2020-07-08T23:31:04
"Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, “Don’t let him disturb you. You know, money is the root of all evil – and he’s th...
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Read_416 - The Root of Money? [Atlas Shrugged] from 2020-07-08T23:31
"Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, “Don’t let him disturb you. You know, money is the root of all evil – and he’s the typical produ...
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Read_415 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 2 [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-07-07T22:38:07
“When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics story, and start to see it as a crime story, we are beginning to get the true picture.” - Listen
Read_415 - Masters&Slaves of Money - Part 2 [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-07-07T22:38
“When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics story, and start to see it as a crime story, we are beginning to get the true picture.” - Robert Breedlove The epic conclusion of Breedlo...
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Read_414 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 1 [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-07-06T23:13:19
"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth inequality." - Listen
Read_414 - Masters&Slaves of Money - Part 1 [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-07-06T23:13
"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth inequality." - Robert Breedlove Breedlove bring...
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Read_413 - Bitcoin, A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Jimmy Song] from 2020-07-03T23:22:58
"The system is rigged." - Jimmy Song
How does out monetary system work and what d...
Read_413 - Bitcoin, A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Jimmy Song] from 2020-07-03T23:22
"The system is rigged." - Jimmy Song How does out monetary system work and what does it even mean for the government and central bank to have printed trillions of dollars to hand out to everyone, ...
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Read_412 - Bitcoin's Town Square [Zane Pocock] from 2020-07-03T01:38:14
"Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated." - Zane Pocock Listen
Read_412 - Bitcoin's Town Square [Zane Pocock] from 2020-07-03T01:38
"Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated." - Zane Pocock Today we dig into a unique mental framework of the Bitcoin mempool and how to understan...
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Read_411 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Phil Geiger] from 2020-07-01T20:36:46
"Distorting supply only serves to distort a currency’s ability to perform its job of storing and communicating value; it can’t make a currency more valuable or secure." - Listen
Read_411 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Phil Geiger] from 2020-07-01T20:36
"Distorting supply only serves to distort a currency’s ability to perform its job of storing and communicating value; it can’t make a currency more valuable or secure." - Phil Geiger Digging back ...
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Read_410 - Entering the Decade of Lightning [Elizabeth Stark] from 2020-06-30T03:07:01
Read_410 - Entering the Decade of Lightning [Elizabeth Stark] from 2020-06-30T03:07
"#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it's like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet." - Elizabeth Stark Today we read an article from earlier this year on the massive advance...
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Chat_42 - Pseu, Guy, & the Future of Bitcoin from 2020-06-26T18:30:38
"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling, privacy, lightning, state chains, institutional solutions, owning your keys, and much more."
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Chat_42 - Pseu, Guy,&the Future of Bitcoin from 2020-06-26T18:30
"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling, privacy, lightning, state chains, institutional solutions, owning your keys, and much more." Pseu and I go down the rabbit hole of Bitcoi...
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Read_409 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite [Rusty Russell] from 2020-06-25T23:34:24
"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you ever want to send anyone." - Listen
Read_409 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite [Rusty Russell] from 2020-06-25T23:34
"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you ever want to send anyone." - Rusty Russell A soberi...
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Read_408 - Assange's Extradition & Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom [Nozomi Hayase] from 2020-06-24T22:20:26
“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin recognized the potential fat...
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Read_408 - Assange's Extradition&Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom [Nozomi Hayase] from 2020-06-24T22:20
“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin recognized the potential fate that would be...
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Read_407 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin [Vijay Boyapati] from 2020-06-22T21:42:23
"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society."...
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Read_407 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin [Vijay Boyapati] from 2020-06-22T21:42
"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society." - Vijay Boyapati Rebooting one of the most essential Bitcoin work...
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Read_406 - Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet [Roy sheinfeld] from 2020-06-19T23:56:47
"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “ Listen
Read_406 - Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning&the Internet [Roy sheinfeld] from 2020-06-19T23:56
"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1962" - Roy Sheinfeld If we look at the history of the most infl...
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Read_405 - Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard [Hasu] from 2020-06-19T01:53:04
"While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the network, it has no control over the number of users accessing the network through custodial banks. The growth of this bankin...
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Read_405 - Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard [Hasu] from 2020-06-19T01:53
"While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the network, it has no control over the number of users accessing the network through custodial banks. The growth of this banking layer is outs...
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Read_404 - ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet [Peter Chawaga] from 2020-06-17T22:51:13
"ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged." - ION Announcement
With the help of Casa and a number of...
Read_404 - ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet [Peter Chawaga] from 2020-06-17T22:51
"ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged." - ION Announcement With the help of Casa and a number of other partners, Microsoft finally releases t...
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Read_403 - Bitcoin is Antifragile [Parker Lewis] from 2020-06-15T21:29:11
“What doesn’t kill the legacy monetary system only makes it weaker. What doesn’t kill bitcoin only makes it stronger. “ - Listen
Read_403 - Bitcoin is Antifragile [Parker Lewis] from 2020-06-15T21:29
“What doesn’t kill the legacy monetary system only makes it weaker. What doesn’t kill bitcoin only makes it stronger. “ - Parker Lewis If you were hoping for another installment of the incredible G...
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Read_402 - Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-06-10T23:03:04
“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is far from as usable and private as it needs to be with authoritarianism and surveillance on the rise in many countries,” - Listen
Read_402 - Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-06-10T23:03
“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is far from as usable and private as it needs to be with authoritarianism and surveillance on the rise in many countries,” - Alex Gladstein Anot...
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GuysTake_28 - Bitcoin & The Layers of Financial Cryptography from 2020-06-10T00:03:19
A follow-up to yesterday's incredible read from The Nakamoto Institute by Ian Grigg, The 7 Layers of Financial Cryptography. Today we dig into what the reality of financial cryptographic systems...
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GuysTake_28 - Bitcoin&The Layers of Financial Cryptography from 2020-06-10T00:03
A follow-up to yesterday's incredible read from The Nakamoto Institute by Ian Grigg, The 7 Layers of Financial Cryptography. Today we dig into what the reality of financial cryptographic systems as...
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Read_401 - Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers [Ian Grigg] from 2020-06-08T21:31:11
"Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught between Central Banking and Crypt...
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Read_401 - Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers [Ian Grigg] from 2020-06-08T21:31
"Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught between Central Banking and Cryptography, or bet...
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Chat_41 - Does Stability Exist? With David & CK from POV Crypto from 2020-06-05T20:59:26
Joined the guys over at POV Crpyto to talk about the nature of stability and prices. Does price stability even exist, is it something to strive for, or is it the antithesis to a stable economy? Had...
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Chat_41 - Does Stability Exist? With David&CK from POV Crypto from 2020-06-05T20:59
Joined the guys over at POV Crpyto to talk about the nature of stability and prices. Does price stability even exist, is it something to strive for, or is it the antithesis to a stable economy? Had...
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Read_400 - Bitcoin Core 0.20 Released! [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-06-03T22:57:12
"Users can now create a transaction without a signature in the Bitcoin Core GUI using the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) format" - Listen
Read_400 - Bitcoin Core 0.20 Released! [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-06-03T22:57
"Users can now create a transaction without a signature in the Bitcoin Core GUI using the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) format" - Aaron Van Wirdum A great piece by Aaron&the Bitcoin ...
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Chat_40 - ReInventing Bitcoin with Yan Pritzker from 2020-06-01T19:51:08
"As it turns out, we had money, we just weren't allowed to take it out of the country. When we left the Soviet Union we were allowed to exchange our rubles for dollars at the officia...
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Chat_40 - ReInventing Bitcoin with Yan Pritzker from 2020-06-01T19:51
"As it turns out, we had money, we just weren't allowed to take it out of the country. When we left the Soviet Union we were allowed to exchange our rubles for dollars at the official rate (not the...
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Read_399 - Bitcoin as a Startup [Hass McCook] from 2020-05-30T00:01:02
"VCs are a group of people demonized in the Bitcoin industry for not understanding Bitcoin’s value proposition. Well, how do you expect a VC to value Bitcoin if they’re only used to ...
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Read_399 - Bitcoin as a Startup [Hass McCook] from 2020-05-30T00:01
"VCs are a group of people demonized in the Bitcoin industry for not understanding Bitcoin’s value proposition. Well, how do you expect a VC to value Bitcoin if they’re only used to valuing startup...
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Read_398 - The Political Theology of Bitcoin [Erik Cason] from 2020-05-28T21:26
“authority, not truth makes legitimacy... it is truth, not authority that makes legitimacy with Bitcoin.” - Erik Cason Today we dive into a fascinating piece at cryptosovereignty.org by Erik Cason ...
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Read_398 - The Political Theology of Bitcoin [Erik Cason] from 2020-05-28T21:26
“authority, not truth makes legitimacy... it is truth, not authority that makes legitimacy with Bitcoin.” - Erik Cason
Today we div...
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Read_397 - How Lightning Will Grow Following BTC's 3rd Halving [Peter Chawaga] from 2020-05-26T23:16:44
“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of the token-based authentication schemes that we already have with centralized providers but do it with self-sovereign identit...
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Read_397 - How Lightning Will Grow Following BTC's 3rd Halving [Peter Chawaga] from 2020-05-26T23:16
“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of the token-based authentication schemes that we already have with centralized providers but do it with self-sovereign identity, which is pse...
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Chat_39 - Bitcoin Renaissance - with Marty Bent, John Vallis, Alex Gladstein, Elizabeth Prefontaine, & Brady Swenson from 2020-05-25T23:31:53
We had a fascinating panel discussion hosted by John Vallis with an amazing group at the Value of Bitcoin Conference. All about the Global Renaissance that Bitcoin could ignite. What incentives ...
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Chat_39 - Bitcoin Renaissance - with Marty Bent, John Vallis, Alex Gladstein, Elizabeth Prefontaine,&Brady Swenson from 2020-05-25T23:31
We had a fascinating panel discussion hosted by John Vallis with an amazing group at the Value of Bitcoin Conference. All about the Global Renaissance that Bitcoin could ignite. What incentives wil...
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Read_396 - Crypto is Modern Alchemy [Meltem Demirors] from 2020-05-21T21:15:51
"Early alchemy was concerned with purifying and perfecting certain materials, such as transmuting base metals like lead into noble metals like gold, creating an elixir of immortality...
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Read_396 - Crypto is Modern Alchemy [Meltem Demirors] from 2020-05-21T21:15
"Early alchemy was concerned with purifying and perfecting certain materials, such as transmuting base metals like lead into noble metals like gold, creating an elixir of immortality, or creating p...
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Read_395 - The Bitcoin v Govt War is Vaporware [Jesse Lawler] from 2020-05-20T23:27
"The world’s national currencies will offer Bitcoin only a sputtering resistance — more in word than deed — and they’ll dwindle into irrelevance as their defenders fail to defend, their battlements...
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Read_395 - The Bitcoin v Govt War is Vaporware [Jesse Lawler] from 2020-05-20T23:27
"The world’s national currencies will offer Bitcoin only a sputtering resistance — more in word than deed — and they’ll dwindle into irrelevance as their defenders fail to defend, th...
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Chat_38 - Unhashing New Tech with Ruben Somsen from 2020-05-18T21:33:30
Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a ton of awesome technical exploration & how ...
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Chat_38 - Unhashing New Tech with Ruben Somsen from 2020-05-18T21:33
Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a ton of awesome technical exploration&how they can ...
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Read_394 - Blockstream Satellite 2.0 [Adam Back, Chris Cook] from 2020-05-15T20:11:23
Full nodes without even needing the internet? That's right. A massive improvement to the decentralization & alternatives for securing Bitcoin validation infrastructure just dropped from the ...
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Read_394 - Blockstream Satellite 2.0 [Adam Back, Chris Cook] from 2020-05-15T20:11
Full nodes without even needing the internet? That's right. A massive improvement to the decentralization&alternatives for securing Bitcoin validation infrastructure just dropped from the team at B...
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Read_393 - The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis [Phil Bonello] from 2020-05-14T00:09:54
"Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology." - Listen
Read_393 - The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis [Phil Bonello] from 2020-05-14T00:09
"Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology." - Phil Bonello With the foundations of the our societal...
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Read_000 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper [Satoshi Nakamoto] from 2020-05-12T21:10:49
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." - Listen
Read_000 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper [Satoshi Nakamoto] from 2020-05-12T21:10
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." - Satoshi Nakamoto To kic...
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Chat_37 - Inevitability of Bitcoin with Parker Lewis from 2020-05-11T22:27:59
Finally got the incredible author of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series on the show to have a chat about the nature of Bitcoin, how it so widely misunderstood, and the most important change i...
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Chat_37 - Inevitability of Bitcoin with Parker Lewis from 2020-05-11T22:27
Finally got the incredible author of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series on the show to have a chat about the nature of Bitcoin, how it so widely misunderstood, and the most important change it w...
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Read_392 - Economics of the Bitcoin Halving [Dominik Stroukal] from 2020-05-09T21:28:06
"In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further." - Dominik Strouk...
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Read_392 - Economics of the Bitcoin Halving [Dominik Stroukal] from 2020-05-09T21:28
"In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further." - Dominik Stroukal Because I love discussion of markets, prices, and the EMH, I couldn't avoid one las...
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Read_391 - Gold & Economic Freedom [Greenspan] from 2020-05-06T22:26:19
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would hav...
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Read_391 - Gold&Economic Freedom [Greenspan] from 2020-05-06T22:26
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its h...
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Read_390 - Bitcoin is Common Sense [Parker Lewis] from 2020-05-04T22:23:10
"It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does nothing to generate economic activity; it only shifts...
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Read_390 - Bitcoin is Common Sense [Parker Lewis] from 2020-05-04T22:23
"It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does nothing to generate economic activity; it only shifts the balance of powers as to who allocates the money and prices risk. It...
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Read_389 - Dear Family, Dear Friends [DerGigi] from 2020-05-01T20:13
"As a friend of mine likes to say: Bitcoin is pieces of super-gold flying inside an unstoppable PayPal. It is the best money we ever had." - GigiAnother great piece by Gigi (@Dergigi on twitter) th...
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Read_389 - Dear Family, Dear Friends [DerGigi] from 2020-05-01T20:13
"As a friend of mine likes to say: Bitcoin is pieces of super-gold flying inside an unstoppable PayPal. It is the best money we ever had." - ...
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Read_388 - Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution [Brandon Quittem] from 2020-04-30T00:10:43
"Mycelial networks act as a resource transport layer and communications network connecting organisms in the biosphere. This enables organisms to voluntarily trade resources and knowl...
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Read_388 - Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution [Brandon Quittem] from 2020-04-30T00:10
"Mycelial networks act as a resource transport layer and communications network connecting organisms in the biosphere. This enables organisms to voluntarily trade resources and knowledge across spe...
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Read_387 - Anatomy of the State - Part 2 [Murray N. Rothbard] from 2020-04-28T23:19:24
"What the State fears above all, of course, is any
fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence"
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Read_387 - Anatomy of the State - Part 2 [Murray N. Rothbard] from 2020-04-28T23:19
"What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence" - Murray N. Rothbard The epic conclusion to Murray Rothbard's ...
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Read_386 - Anatomy of the State - Part 1 [Murray Rothbard] from 2020-04-27T23:58:25
"The greatest danger to the State
is independent intellectual criticism."
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Read_386 - Anatomy of the State - Part 1 [Murray Rothbard] from 2020-04-27T23:58
"The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism." -Murray N. RothbardAnother piece made available thanks to the amazing team over at the Mises Ins...
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Read_385 - Bitcoin & the Technological Evolution of the Financial System [BitcoinTINA] from 2020-04-24T22:59:18
"I think of Bitcoin as a conservative investment because it’s so superior to gold. The value of it should wind up at least equal to gold’s..." - Listen
Read_385 - Bitcoin&the Technological Evolution of the Financial System [BitcoinTINA] from 2020-04-24T22:59
"I think of Bitcoin as a conservative investment because it’s so superior to gold. The value of it should wind up at least equal to gold’s..." - BitcoinTINAReading a piece by BitcoinTINA summarized...
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Read_384 - A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Brady Swenson] from 2020-04-24T00:37:45
"We Hodl these truths to be self evident" - Brady
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Read_384 - A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Brady Swenson] from 2020-04-24T00:37
"We Hodl these truths to be self evident" - Brady A Declaration of Independence for the age of the separation of money and state. When a monetary system becomes a burden, a means not to help the p...
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Chat_36 - How the Dollar Destroys Society with Bottomshelf Bitcoin from 2020-04-22T20:20:25
If finding out how the banking system is systematically ripping you off doesn't make your angry, then you're already dead.
Had an awesome discussion wi...
Chat_36 - How the Dollar Destroys Society with Bottomshelf Bitcoin from 2020-04-22T20:20
If finding out how the banking system is systematically ripping you off doesn't make your angry, then you're already dead. Had an awesome discussion with Josh of Bottomshelf Bitcoin fame! Going th...
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Read_383 - The King of Blockchains, How Bitcoin Can Become the Foundation of Web 3.0 [Muneeb Ali] from 2020-04-21T23:57:41
"As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we’ll come to realize that it’s hard to beat the security and network effects of Bitcoin." - Listen
Read_383 - The King of Blockchains, How Bitcoin Can Become the Foundation of Web 3.0 [Muneeb Ali] from 2020-04-21T23:57
"As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we’ll come to realize that it’s hard to beat the security and network effects of Bitcoin." - Muneeb Ali Another great article from Bitcoin Mag...
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Read_382 - This is Not Capitalism [Allen F. & Sacha M.] from 2020-04-20T22:11:53
You are not going to want to miss this incredible piece on exactly how far we have strayed from anything resembling "capitalism," or even the goal of accumulating and growing the capital that im...
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Read_382 - This is Not Capitalism [Allen F.&Sacha M.] from 2020-04-20T22:11
You are not going to want to miss this incredible piece on exactly how far we have strayed from anything resembling "capitalism," or even the goal of accumulating and growing the capital that impro...
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Read_381 - An Important Reminder... [Marty Bent] from 2020-04-17T18:30:14
"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it." -...
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Read_381 - An Important Reminder... [Marty Bent] from 2020-04-17T18:30
"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it." - Marty Bent An I...
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Read_380 - Choose Your Fiction [Arthur Hayes] from 2020-04-15T22:05:27
"All I know is the setup for bitcoin, the hardest form of digital money, could not be better. All manners of trust have evaporated. In order to solve for demand and supply destruction, g...
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Read_380 - Choose Your Fiction [Arthur Hayes] from 2020-04-15T22:05
"All I know is the setup for bitcoin, the hardest form of digital money, could not be better. All manners of trust have evaporated. In order to solve for demand and supply destruction, governments ...
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Chat_35 - Catch-22 Trillion with the Raleigh Bitcoiners from 2020-04-14T23:10:46
You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The Raleigh Bitcoin Crew goes down the rabbit hole with…
Infinite money printing
Who really runs things?
Inflation and the ...
Chat_35 - Catch-22 Trillion with the Raleigh Bitcoiners from 2020-04-14T23:10
You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The Raleigh Bitcoin Crew goes down the rabbit hole with… Infinite money printingWho really runs things? Inflation and the Fed’s Great ScamHow trustless m...
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Read_379 - Dont be Misled by Red Herrings - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-04-13T21:15:57
"It is the digital equivalent of your physical bank sending private investigators to follow your every move for days after you withdraw cash at the ATM, and then freezing or confiscating...
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Read_379 - Dont be Misled by Red Herrings - Treatise on Bitcoin&Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-04-13T21:15
"It is the digital equivalent of your physical bank sending private investigators to follow your every move for days after you withdraw cash at the ATM, and then freezing or confiscating your bank ...
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Read_378 - Bitcoin: A Bold American Future [Conner Brown] from 2020-04-10T21:45:22
"Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary intervention after the financial crisis, results have been disappointing. The American people do not need accounting tricks or more debt, but t...
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Read_378 - Bitcoin: A Bold American Future [Conner Brown] from 2020-04-10T21:45
"Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary intervention after the financial crisis, results have been disappointing. The American people do not need accounting tricks or more debt, but true innovat...
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Read_377 - Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money [Sven Schnieders] from 2020-04-09T19:48:16
"Although I mostly agree with their reasoning and share the enthusiasm for such a free market, I cannot stop being astonished by the naivety of the idea." - Listen
Read_377 - Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money [Sven Schnieders] from 2020-04-09T19:48
"Although I mostly agree with their reasoning and share the enthusiasm for such a free market, I cannot stop being astonished by the naivety of the idea." - Sven Schneiders If a "good" money cannot...
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Read_376 - Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo] from 2020-04-08T22:01:52
“Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive or negative conseq...
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Read_376 - Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo] from 2020-04-08T22:01
“Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive or negative consequences.” - ...
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Read_375 - A Match Made in the Whitepaper - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-04-07T23:45:11
"Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin as a tool for privacy. The entire cypherpunk quest, which Satoshi was an active part of and which the Bitcoin experiment is the coronation of, was all a...
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Read_375 - A Match Made in the Whitepaper - Treatise on Bitcoin&Privacy, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco] from 2020-04-07T23:45
"Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin as a tool for privacy. The entire cypherpunk quest, which Satoshi was an active part of and which the Bitcoin experiment is the coronation of, was all about person...
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Read_374 - The Number Zero & Bitcoin [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-04-03T22:21:07
"A distant digital descendent of zero, the invention of Bitcoin represents the discovery of absolute scarcity for money: an idea as equally uns...
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Read_374 - The Number Zero&Bitcoin [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-04-03T22:21
"A distant digital descendent of zero, the invention of Bitcoin represents the discovery of absolute scarcity for money: an idea as equally unstoppable." - Robert BreedloveA new piece by Breedlove ...
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Read_373 - What is Happening to Money [Pascal Hügli] from 2020-04-02T00:37:20
“In the wake of the enormous money tsunami unleashed onto economies and societies, people have begun (rightfully) to start asking the question: What has become of money? Is money even worth anythin...
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Read_373 - What is Happening to Money [Pascal Hügli] from 2020-04-02T00:37
“In the wake of the enormous money tsunami unleashed onto economies and societies, people have begun (rightfully) to start asking the question: What has become of money? Is money even worth anythin...
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Read_372 - Money is Owned By Everyone [Mcfloogle] from 2020-03-31T21:51:01
"One of the biggest lies in recent times is that inflation is good and necessary for a healthy economy." - Mcfloogle Listen
Read_372 - Money is Owned By Everyone [Mcfloogle] from 2020-03-31T21:51
"One of the biggest lies in recent times is that inflation is good and necessary for a healthy economy." - Mcfloogle It was once understood that money was owned by the individual. Merely an extens...
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Chat_034 - The Great Wealth Transfer with Pete Rizzo from 2020-03-30T20:51:48
The team over at Kraken just dropped a fascinating report on “The Great Wealth Transfer” and what it means for Bitcoin. How, even holding all other things constant, we could see on the order of ...
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Chat_034 - The Great Wealth Transfer with Pete Rizzo from 2020-03-30T20:51
The team over at Kraken just dropped a fascinating report on “The Great Wealth Transfer” and what it means for Bitcoin. How, even holding all other things constant, we could see on the order of $1 ...
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Read_371 - Bitcoin is a Rally Cry [Parker Lewis] from 2020-03-27T23:51:46
"It was a plea to all those that valued the fight for liberty and freedom. Outnumbered ten-to-one, Travis responded to a demand for surrender with a cannon shot." - Listen
Read_371 - Bitcoin is a Rally Cry [Parker Lewis] from 2020-03-27T23:51
"It was a plea to all those that valued the fight for liberty and freedom. Outnumbered ten-to-one, Travis responded to a demand for surrender with a cannon shot." - Parker Lewis The 13th installme...
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Read_370 - Explained; 0% interest, Limitless Repo, QE4 [Colin Harper] from 2020-03-26T17:57:44
"The Federal Reserve’s market operations are ramping up by the day, and it’s using more tools simultaneously to “fix” markets than ever before. So what are these tools and how is the Fed...
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Read_370 - Explained; 0% interest, Limitless Repo, QE4 [Colin Harper] from 2020-03-26T17:57
"The Federal Reserve’s market operations are ramping up by the day, and it’s using more tools simultaneously to “fix” markets than ever before. So what are these tools and how is the Fed using them...
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Chat_033 - Is Bitcoin Ready for This? [Raleigh Meetup] from 2020-03-24T20:32:11
COVID-19
Citadel Preparations
The Great Financial Unraveling
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Kill Your Heroes
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CryptoQuikRead_369 - I Worked in Crypto for 2 Years... [Matt Vanalli] from 2020-03-23T19:39:40
"I didn’t believe it when I first heard people saying that most crypto projects will fail.
Boy was I wrong." - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_369 - I Worked in Crypto for 2 Years... [Matt Vanalli] from 2020-03-23T19:39
"I didn’t believe it when I first heard people saying that most crypto projects will fail. Boy was I wrong." - @VanalliTake it from someone who has seen "Crypto" from the inside, searching for some...
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CryptoQuikRead_368 - EARN IT Attacks Online Security & Privacy [EFF, Elliot Harmon] from 2020-03-19T22:56:29
"Make no mistake: the EARN IT Act is a vehicle to undermine end-to-end encryption." - Elliot Harmon
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CryptoQuikRead_367 - Bitcoin, Fungibility, & Limits of Privacy [Sasha H. & Rafael Y.] from 2020-03-17T22:23:39
"Keeping the Bitcoin network private can be thought of as an act of unity by Bitcoiners in America to help keep the network useful for Bitcoiners in Venezuela and Hong Kong — indeed, aro...
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CryptoQuikRead_367 - Bitcoin, Fungibility,&Limits of Privacy [Sasha H.&Rafael Y.] from 2020-03-17T22:23
"Keeping the Bitcoin network private can be thought of as an act of unity by Bitcoiners in America to help keep the network useful for Bitcoiners in Venezuela and Hong Kong — indeed, around the wor...
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CryptoQuikRead_366 - What's Happening in Financial Markets? [Caitlin Long] from 2020-03-16T21:22:35
"Every single co in the industry invested badly at the same time... every single competitor made the exact same mistake, in the same direction." - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_366 - What's Happening in Financial Markets? [Caitlin Long] from 2020-03-16T21:22
"Every single co in the industry invested badly at the same time... every single competitor made the exact same mistake, in the same direction." - Caitlin Long If you missed the epic Twitter Threa...
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CryptoChat_032 - State of Bitcoin Address with Swan Signal from 2020-03-14T01:08:59
What happens when you get Swan Signal hosting a conversation with Brady Swenson, myself, DerGigi, Yan Pritzker, Friar Hass, John Vallis, & Cory Klippsten on the state of the legacy & Bit...
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CryptoChat_032 - State of Bitcoin Address with Swan Signal from 2020-03-14T01:08
What happens when you get Swan Signal hosting a conversation with Brady Swenson, myself, DerGigi, Yan Pritzker, Friar Hass, John Vallis,&Cory Klippsten on the state of the legacy&Bitcoin markets, c...
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I AM HODLING!! from 2020-03-13T03:33:39
I feel like we just got to live through an old piece of history all over again ... so I'll share my rendition of it.
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CryptoQuikRead_365 - Ten Million Bitcoiners, The Intransigent Minority [Cory Klippsten] from 2020-03-11T22:37:22
"Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners in the United States of America will cross ten million. When we hit that milestone, it’s game over: Bitcoin wins..." - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_365 - Ten Million Bitcoiners, The Intransigent Minority [Cory Klippsten] from 2020-03-11T22:37
"Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners in the United States of America will cross ten million. When we hit that milestone, it’s game over: Bitcoin wins..." - Cory KlippstenDiving in...
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CryptoQuikRead_364 - Bitcoin, The Technology of Dissent [Nozomi Hayase] from 2020-03-10T22:11:03
"We, Bitcoiners, are all dissidents in the Old World of trusted third parties. [...] Laws of nature that are higher than man-made laws, being enforced by mathematics, have begun to r...
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CryptoQuikRead_363 - Bitcoin is Not for Criminals [Parker Lewis] from 2020-03-09T23:17:50
“Bitcoin can’t be a little bit censorship resistant in the same way that you can’t be a little bit pregnant.” - Parker Lewis.
Continuing the Gradually then Suddenly series from Parker Lewis wit...
CryptoQuikRead_363 - Bitcoin is Not for Criminals [Parker Lewis] from 2020-03-09T23:17
“Bitcoin can’t be a little bit censorship resistant in the same way that you can’t be a little bit pregnant.” - Parker Lewis. Continuing the Gradually then Suddenly series from Parker Lewis with an...
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GuysTake_027 - Corona Virus... Bitcoin Fixes This from 2020-03-06T21:42:55
1 • Why has the Corona Virus been upgraded from a significant healthcare problem, to a global economic catastrophe?
2 • What would be Guy's strategy as a Destroyer of Economies?<...
GuysTake_027 - Corona Virus... Bitcoin Fixes This from 2020-03-06T21:42
1 • Why has the Corona Virus been upgraded from a significant healthcare problem, to a global economic catastrophe? 2 • What would be Guy's strategy as a Destroyer of Economies?3 • Bitcoin Fixes t...
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CryptoQuikRead_362 - How Lightning Can Improve Encrypted Messaging [Colin Harper] from 2020-03-04T23:20:08
"devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app" - Colin Harper...
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CryptoQuikRead_361 - Bitcoin's Habitats [DerGigi] from 2020-03-03T22:44:05
"To fully understand any organism, we must not only look at the organism itself, but examine the organism-environment holistically." -
CryptoQuikRead_361 - Bitcoin's Habitats [DerGigi] from 2020-03-03T22:44
"To fully understand any organism, we must not only look at the organism itself, but examine the organism-environment holistically." - GigiIf Bitcoin is a new organism, then where exactly does it l...
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CryptoQuikRead_360 - Distrust in Lebanese Banks Spurs Bitcoin Boom [Timour Azhari] from 2020-03-02T19:44:24
"A volatile currency for volatile times" - Timour Azhari
When the banks become the volatile alternative, when you...
CryptoQuikRead_360 - Distrust in Lebanese Banks Spurs Bitcoin Boom [Timour Azhari] from 2020-03-02T19:44
"A volatile currency for volatile times" - Timour Azhari When the banks become the volatile alternative, when your rights and control over what's in "your" bank account are a fleeting daydream, wh...
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CryptoQuikRead_359 - Microsoft's ION Bets on Bitcoin [Colin Harper] from 2020-02-27T23:34:10
Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal, decentralized system secured by Bitcoin, for man...
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CryptoQuikRead_359 - Microsoft's ION Bets on Bitcoin [Colin Harper] from 2020-02-27T23:34
Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open source systems, and has started a new project called ION, trying to make a universal, decentralized system secured by Bitcoin, for managi...
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CryptoQuikRead_358 - The Blockchain is Exhaust [Udi Wertheimer] from 2020-02-26T23:48:31
Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system that secures the most sound money in the world?<...
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CryptoQuikRead_358 - The Blockchain is Exhaust [Udi Wertheimer] from 2020-02-26T23:48
Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power behind Bitcoin, or is it a wasteful and unavoidable byproduct, an exhaust, of the system that secures the most sound money in the world? Th...
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CryptoQuikRead_357 - Another Step Towards a P2P Lightning Economy [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2020-02-25T23:59:26
"If you ask me how much trust is right for the Lightning economy, the answer will always be less." - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_357 - Another Step Towards a P2P Lightning Economy [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2020-02-25T23:59
"If you ask me how much trust is right for the Lightning economy, the answer will always be less." - Roy Sheinfeld Today we dig into the recently implemented reverse submarine swaps in the breez l...
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CryptoChat_31 - Bitcoin2020 with CK_Snarks! from 2020-02-24T21:44:05
Today I get hyped with ck_SNARKs of BTCMedia and have the opportunity to pick his brain for all the exciting stuff happening at the Bitcoin2020 confer...
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CryptoChat_31 - Bitcoin2020 with CK_Snarks! from 2020-02-24T21:44
Today I get hyped with ck_SNARKs of BTCMedia and have the opportunity to pick his brain for all the exciting stuff happening at the Bitcoin2020 conference in San Fran! With only a month left its ti...
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CryptoQuikRead_356 - Bitcoin Cannot be Banned [Parker Lewis] from 2020-02-21T23:29:45
"By design, Bitcoin exists beyond governments. [...] The architecture of bitcoin is practically purpose-built to resist and immunize any attempts by governments to ban it." -
CryptoQuikRead_356 - Bitcoin Cannot be Banned [Parker Lewis] from 2020-02-21T23:29
"By design, Bitcoin exists beyond governments. [...] The architecture of bitcoin is practically purpose-built to resist and immunize any attempts by governments to ban it." - @parkeralewisThe next ...
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CryptoQuikRead_355 - How Decentralization Dies [Brandon Arvanaghi] from 2020-02-20T21:32:15
"Decentralization has [...] been a vessel for achieving a concession from a centralized body it is protesting. Every decentralization play has followed a simple pattern: protest a market...
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CryptoQuikRead_354 - Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin [Mauricio Di Bartolomeo] from 2020-02-19T19:47:42
"Bitcoin is a movement founded on individual monetary sovereignty, transparency and peer-to-peer auditability enabled by a breakthrough in technology. [...] The technology to provide aud...
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CryptoQuikRead_354 - Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin [Mauricio Di Bartolomeo] from 2020-02-19T19:47
"Bitcoin is a movement founded on individual monetary sovereignty, transparency and peer-to-peer auditability enabled by a breakthrough in technology. [...] The technology to provide auditability a...
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CryptoChat_30 - Once BITten, down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole with Daniel Prince from 2020-02-14T18:33:43
I had an awesome time the other day with Daniel Prince on the new Once BITten Podcast. Diving into some of my own personal history with Bitcoin, what led me here, and the major changes I think w...
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CryptoChat_30 - Once BITten, down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole with Daniel Prince from 2020-02-14T18:33
I had an awesome time the other day with Daniel Prince on the new Once BITten Podcast. Diving into some of my own personal history with Bitcoin, what led me here, and the major changes I think we w...
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CryptoQuikRead_353 - We're All Default Keynesians Now [Brady Swenson] from 2020-02-13T21:59:15
"Unless you began your Austrian economic education at birth in some unknown Austrian paradise, on this planet at this particular time in human history, I think we can safely say we’re al...
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CryptoQuikRead_352 - Paying Yourself for Privacy on Lightning? [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2020-02-12T19:32:44
"The Lightning Network is best known for its fast and cheap payments. But the Layer 2 protocol could also offer more privacy than on-chain payments [...] the developer thinks that “self-...
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CryptoQuikRead_351 - Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme [Parker Lewis] from 2020-02-11T18:28:16
"Not everyone understands what a pyramid scheme actually is, what the warning signs may be, or why such schemes always fail [...] The distinctions should be glaringly obvious, but becaus...
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CryptoQuikRead_350 - Of Course You Can Own Bitcoins [Bitcoin Rabbi] from 2020-02-07T22:33:20
Can you really own Bitcoins? Or do you merely have possession of keys that grant a high probability of exclusive control?
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CryptoQuikRead_350 - Of Course You Can Own Bitcoins [Bitcoin Rabbi] from 2020-02-07T22:33
Can you really own Bitcoins? Or do you merely have possession of keys that grant a high probability of exclusive control? A fun short read to close out the week, from the Bitcoin Rabbi on defining...
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CryptoQuikRead_349 - The Rise of SIM Swapping [David Hollerith] from 2020-02-07T00:02:35
"For the better part of the last decade, the combination of these two practices has given rise to an increasing number of SIM swap attacks ending in the theft of bitcoin and other crypto...
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CryptoQuikRead_349 - The Rise of SIM Swapping [David Hollerith] from 2020-02-07T00:02
"For the better part of the last decade, the combination of these two practices has given rise to an increasing number of SIM swap attacks ending in the theft of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies....
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CryptoQuikRead_348 - All 21M Bitcoin Already Exist [Phil Geiger] from 2020-02-05T23:33:33
"we have nearly 11 years of empirical evidence that the network itself has been holding and transacting bitcoin, but instead of with private key signatures, it’s in exchange for hashed electrici...
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CryptoQuikRead_347 - Strike! By Zap [Jack Mallers] from 2020-01-31T18:58:16
An exciting development form the extraordinary team over at Zap and the Mallers Fam! The seed of the infrastructure inversion has landed, and its' called Strike!
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CryptoQuikRead_346 - The Kindest Cut; Why The 2020 Bitcoin Halving... [Peter C. Earle] from 2020-01-31T05:43:12
"What’s noteworthy about this point is that, upon this particular halving, Bitcoin “inflating” at a roughly 1.8 percent rate annually will nominally — and by then, quite possibly in real...
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CryptoQuikRead_346 - The Kindest Cut; Why The 2020 Bitcoin Halving... [Peter C. Earle] from 2020-01-31T05:43
"What’s noteworthy about this point is that, upon this particular halving, Bitcoin “inflating” at a roughly 1.8 percent rate annually will nominally — and by then, quite possibly in real terms — be...
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CryptoQuikRead_345 - Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money [Parker Lewis] from 2020-01-30T03:01:55
"Money is an intersubjective problem, and a choice to opt into one monetary medium is an explicit opt out of the other, which in turn causes one network to gain value (and utility) at the direct...
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GuysTake_026 - The Halving is Not Priced in, Here's Why from 2020-01-29T02:31:41
As a follow up to Nic Carter's excellent breakdown of the efficient market hypothesis, and PlanB's piece addressing the market's evaluation of the risks in Bitcoin, I go through the reasons I fe...
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GuysTake_026 - The Halving is Not Priced in, Here's Why from 2020-01-29T02:31
As a follow up to Nic Carter's excellent breakdown of the efficient market hypothesis, and PlanB's piece addressing the market's evaluation of the risks in Bitcoin, I go through the reasons I feel ...
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CryptoQuikRead_344 - Efficient Markets & Bitcoin's Stock to Flow [PlanB] from 2020-01-24T00:06:33
"A first reaction could be that it is a great investment opportunity. A better reaction (from an EMH and non arbitrage point of view) would be that it is too good to be true." - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_344 - Efficient Markets&Bitcoin's Stock to Flow [PlanB] from 2020-01-24T00:06
"A first reaction could be that it is a great investment opportunity. A better reaction (from an EMH and non arbitrage point of view) would be that it is too good to be true." - PlanBIf the efficie...
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CryptoQuikRead_343 - Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners [Nic Carter] from 2020-01-23T00:24:10
"So is the halving “priced in” or will it be a catalyst for appreciation? [...] I consider it patently absurd that a change in issuance would have been overlooked by the price-setting en...
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CryptoQuikRead_343 - Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners [Nic Carter] from 2020-01-23T00:24
"So is the halving “priced in” or will it be a catalyst for appreciation? [...] I consider it patently absurd that a change in issuance would have been overlooked by the price-setting entities." - ...
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CryptoQuikRead_342 - Bitcoin & the Primacy of the Digital World [Pascal Hugli] from 2020-01-20T23:02:09
"Because of their digital nature, many people still object to bitcoin, refuse to take it seriously or consider it altogether too scary. [...] It’s the perfect combination of the advantag...
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CryptoQuikRead_342 - Bitcoin&the Primacy of the Digital World [Pascal Hugli] from 2020-01-20T23:02
"Because of their digital nature, many people still object to bitcoin, refuse to take it seriously or consider it altogether too scary. [...] It’s the perfect combination of the advantages from the...
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CryptoQuikRead_341 - The Rise of the Individual [Aleks Svetski] from 2020-01-16T00:42:50
"Not since the gunpowder revolution were ordinary men & women able to stand up to those who chose to oppress or rule them unjustly. Only this time, it can be done in a non-violent method, wh...
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CryptoQuikRead_341 - The Rise of the Individual [Aleks Svetski] from 2020-01-16T00:42
"Not since the gunpowder revolution were ordinary men&women able to stand up to those who chose to oppress or rule them unjustly. Only this time, it can be done in a non-violent method, whereby one...
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CryptoQuikRead_340 - The Cat is Out of the Bag [Nic Carter] from 2020-01-15T02:19:52
"Unlike Paypal, Venmo, or traditional payment processors, it cannot deplatform you for wrongthink, holding subversive political views, being a sex worker, or legally selling cannabis. Ou...
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CryptoQuikRead_340 - The Cat is Out of the Bag [Nic Carter] from 2020-01-15T02:19
"Unlike Paypal, Venmo, or traditional payment processors, it cannot deplatform you for wrongthink, holding subversive political views, being a sex worker, or legally selling cannabis. Ours is the b...
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CryptoQuikRead_339 - Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws [Rory Highside] from 2020-01-14T00:27:33
"It is therefore a universal truth that all work has a measurable cost of energy transformation due to the very nature of the universe, and the laws of thermodynamics. It is with these l...
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CryptoQuikRead_339 - Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws [Rory Highside] from 2020-01-14T00:27
"It is therefore a universal truth that all work has a measurable cost of energy transformation due to the very nature of the universe, and the laws of thermodynamics. It is with these laws that we...
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CryptoQuikRead_338 - The Information Theory of Money [Dan Held] from 2020-01-10T19:06:25
"Prices are the coordinating force of a free market system. Each individual decision-maker can rely on the prices of goods and services to help with their decision making, as the prices ...
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CryptoQuikRead_338 - The Information Theory of Money [Dan Held] from 2020-01-10T19:06
"Prices are the coordinating force of a free market system. Each individual decision-maker can rely on the prices of goods and services to help with their decision making, as the prices themselves ...
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CryptoQuikRead_337 - The Tyranny of Time Scarcity - Bitcoin Times Ed 2 - [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-01-08T21:57:32
“Gold, the ancient and prevailing monetary sovereignty layer (representing an unmanipulable money supply), and the internet, the ultimate engine of exchange (representing global inte...
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CryptoQuikRead_337 - The Tyranny of Time Scarcity - Bitcoin Times Ed 2 - [Robert Breedlove] from 2020-01-08T21:57
“Gold, the ancient and prevailing monetary sovereignty layer (representing an unmanipulable money supply), and the internet, the ultimate engine of exchange (representing global interconnectivity o...
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CryptoQuikRead_336 - Bitcoin's Eternal Struggle - Bitcoin Times Ed 2 [DerGigi] from 2020-01-06T22:25:40
Diving into the many incredible works made available in The Bitcoin Times Ed 2! Today we read Gigi's g...
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CryptoQuikRead_336 - Bitcoin's Eternal Struggle - Bitcoin Times Ed 2 [DerGigi] from 2020-01-06T22:25
Diving into the many incredible works made available in The Bitcoin Times Ed 2! Today we read Gigi's great piece "Bitcoin's Eternal Struggle" on the intricate dance between that which is built in r...
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CryptoQuikRead_335 - Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing [Parker Lewis] from 2020-01-02T23:40:13
"To provide broader context, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the European Central bank have collectively created $10 trillion dollars-worth of new money since the financial cr...
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CryptoQuikRead_335 - Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing [Parker Lewis] from 2020-01-02T23:40
"To provide broader context, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the European Central bank have collectively created $10 trillion dollars-worth of new money since the financial crisis, the e...
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Reboot - The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin [Rusty Russell] from 2019-12-31T23:43:13
A most profound aspect of Bitcoin is that we know, with certainty, what the monetary policy will be no matter how far we look into the future. If we choose to secure sound money for the world, t...
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Guy & Car - Bitcoin, Unmentionables, & an Insane 2019 from 2019-12-30T21:58:59
Carcampit from the Friends Against Government Podcast joins me to close out 2019 with a di...
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CryptoQuikRead_334 - A Bitcoin Roadmap 2020 & Beyond [John Newbery Tweet Thread] from 2019-12-28T01:28:40
Closing out an extraordinary year in 2019 has us looking forward at 2020 & Beyond. What will we bring to Bitcoin, and what could Bitcoin bring to us? Today we read an amazing thread by John ...
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CryptoQuikRead_334 - A Bitcoin Roadmap 2020&Beyond [John Newbery Tweet Thread] from 2019-12-28T01:28
Closing out an extraordinary year in 2019 has us looking forward at 2020&Beyond. What will we bring to Bitcoin, and what could Bitcoin bring to us? Today we read an amazing thread by John Newbery o...
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Reboot - Shelling Out: The Origins of Money [Nick Szabo] from 2019-12-24T02:45:22
"The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern humans to solve problems of cooperation that other animals cannot – including problems of reciprocal altruism, kin alt...
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CryptoQuikRead_333 - The Passion of the Believers [Hass McCook] from 2019-12-20T21:24:23
"At the end of the day, everyone has to believe in something; might as well believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." - Hass McCook
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CryptoQuikRead_333 - The Passion of the Believers [Hass McCook] from 2019-12-20T21:24
"At the end of the day, everyone has to believe in something; might as well believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." - Hass McCook As I walk in the valley of fiat, I shall not fear the Ec...
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CryptoQuikRead_332 - Proof of Stake, Private Keys Attacks & Unforgeable Costliness [Hugo Nguyen] from 2019-12-19T23:23:01
Is there a single key factor in the difference between the assurances in PoS vs PoW? The knowledge and proof that there is a real world, inescapable cost to both producing the currency, & ed...
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CryptoQuikRead_332 - Proof of Stake, Private Keys Attacks&Unforgeable Costliness [Hugo Nguyen] from 2019-12-19T23:23
Is there a single key factor in the difference between the assurances in PoS vs PoW? The knowledge and proof that there is a real world, inescapable cost to both producing the currency,&editing the...
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CryptoQuikRead_331 - Proof of Stake & The Wrong Engineering Mindset [Hugo Nguyen] from 2019-12-18T23:17:12
What is the true set of differences between Proof of Work, and Proof of Stake? What are the engineering mindsets behind them both, and which is built explicitly to survive in the worst-case scen...
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CryptoQuikRead_331 - Proof of Stake&The Wrong Engineering Mindset [Hugo Nguyen] from 2019-12-18T23:17
What is the true set of differences between Proof of Work, and Proof of Stake? What are the engineering mindsets behind them both, and which is built explicitly to survive in the worst-case scenari...
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CryptoChat_029 - With David Hollerith & the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast from 2019-12-18T00:14:19
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CryptoChat_029 - With David Hollerith&the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast from 2019-12-18T00:14
Don't forget to check out the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast and follow Dave on Twitter! https://twitter.com/DsHollershttps://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine Additional resources from the chat:• Does Bitcoi...
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CryptoQuikRead_330 - Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2019-12-16T22:50:24
Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called "Easypaysy," developer Jose Femenias...
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CryptoQuikRead_330 - Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2019-12-16T22:50
Another clever&censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called "Easypaysy," developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely&independently...
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CryptoQuikRead_329 - Bitcoin, Not Blockchain [Parker Lewis] from 2019-12-14T00:42:03
Next up in the Gradually, Then Suddenly series by Parker Lewis and available on the incredible blog over at unchained-capital.com is "Listen
CryptoQuikRead_329 - Bitcoin, Not Blockchain [Parker Lewis] from 2019-12-14T00:42
Next up in the Gradually, Then Suddenly series by Parker Lewis and available on the incredible blog over at unchained-capital.com is "Bitcoin, Not Blockchain." There is nothing about blockchain th...
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CryptoQuikRead_328 - Under a HEX [Goldman Sats] from 2019-12-12T20:11:16
The scams in the Bitcoin & crypto space are, unfortunately, not low in number. Sometimes the only safe option is to ignore them, but there are the few occasions that require a thorough break...
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CryptoQuikRead_328 - Under a HEX [Goldman Sats] from 2019-12-12T20:11
The scams in the Bitcoin&crypto space are, unfortunately, not low in number. Sometimes the only safe option is to ignore them, but there are the few occasions that require a thorough breakdown of j...
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CryptoChat_028 - Horny for Justice at the Raleigh Meetup from 2019-12-10T22:51:31
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CryptoChat_028 - Horny for Justice at the Raleigh Meetup from 2019-12-10T22:51
Is Bitcoin really a religion? Is all money some form of religious institution?What happened to Virgil Griffith? Are juries the best or worst idea for finding justice?These are the important questio...
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CryptoQuikRead_327 - Bitcoin is Worse is Better [gwern] from 2019-12-09T22:19:10
Is Bitcoin the perfect money, or is it the worst money that solves the most essential problem, as simply and reliably as possible? In true "New Jersey” style, Bitcoin doesn’t attempt to be every...
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CryptoQuikRead_327 - Bitcoin is Worse is Better [gwern] from 2019-12-09T22:19
Is Bitcoin the perfect money, or is it the worst money that solves the most essential problem, as simply and reliably as possible? In true "New Jersey” style, Bitcoin doesn’t attempt to be everythi...
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CryptoQuikRead_326 - Innovations in Bitcoin's Technology Stack [Lucas Nuzzi] from 2019-12-06T23:12:51
For everyone that tells you Bitcoin is a stagnant technology going nowhere, this is the article to point them to. Another be returning author Lucas...
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CryptoQuikRead_326 - Innovations in Bitcoin's Technology Stack [Lucas Nuzzi] from 2019-12-06T23:12
For everyone that tells you Bitcoin is a stagnant technology going nowhere, this is the article to point them to. Another be returning author Lucas Nuzzi, we cover a piece that touches on the pleth...
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Money, Bitcoin, & Time - by Robert Breedlove from 2019-12-04T04:14:07
Money is the tool that enables human exchange and prosperity...
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CryptoQuikRead_325 - Lightning, Why I Quit the Bond Market for Bitcoin [Nik Bhatia] from 2019-12-02T22:48:35
Another of the many great pieces from Nik Bhatia getting into the impact and scope of the system that the Lightning Network could become. Bitcoin...
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CryptoQuikRead_325 - Lightning, Why I Quit the Bond Market for Bitcoin [Nik Bhatia] from 2019-12-02T22:48
Another of the many great pieces from Nik Bhatia getting into the impact and scope of the system that the Lightning Network could become. Bitcoin is neither just a store of value, nor just a medium...
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CryptoChat_027 - Boomer Bucks & the Raleigh Meetup from 2019-11-27T21:57:18
Don't be the oblivious boomer who lets their hard work get sucked away by that garbage Boomer Bucks currency. Be a part of the future, and Buy Bitcoin!
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CryptoChat_027 - Boomer Bucks&the Raleigh Meetup from 2019-11-27T21:57
Don't be the oblivious boomer who lets their hard work get sucked away by that garbage Boomer Bucks currency. Be a part of the future, and Buy Bitcoin! Another fun chat with the Raleigh Bitcoin Mee...
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CryptoQuikRead_324 - Bitcoin Fixes This [Parker Lewis] from 2019-11-27T01:50:09
An economy leveraged 150:1
A spiraling tower of debts to pay for our previous debts
Central Banks repeating the same policies that caused our problems as their solutions<...
CryptoQuikRead_324 - Bitcoin Fixes This [Parker Lewis] from 2019-11-27T01:50
An economy leveraged 150:1 A spiraling tower of debts to pay for our previous debtsCentral Banks repeating the same policies that caused our problems as their solutions The confiscation through c...
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CryptoQuikRead_323 - Transaction Count is an Inferior Measure [Nic Carter] from 2019-11-25T21:58:43
To think of the value of a global, jurisdiction-less, "money-for-enemies" network as nothing more than the result of how many transactions it can do on the base layer, is to miss the point entir...
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CryptoQuikRead_323 - Transaction Count is an Inferior Measure [Nic Carter] from 2019-11-25T21:58
To think of the value of a global, jurisdiction-less, "money-for-enemies" network as nothing more than the result of how many transactions it can do on the base layer, is to miss the point entirely...
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The Bitcoin Reformation - by Tuur Demeester from 2019-11-22T17:00
INTRODUCTION
At the end of the 16th century, a rag tag group of rebel intellectuals and entrepreneurs founded a country on some of the least desirable...
CryptoQuikRead_322 - The World Has Gone Mad... [Ray Dalio] from 2019-11-21T22:15:33
The World Has Gone Mad, & the System is Broken. Ray Dalio drops a bomb recently with his post showing the sorry state of our money, the cracks in our world monetary system, and the coming pa...
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CryptoQuikRead_322 - The World Has Gone Mad... [Ray Dalio] from 2019-11-21T22:15
The World Has Gone Mad,&the System is Broken. Ray Dalio drops a bomb recently with his post showing the sorry state of our money, the cracks in our world monetary system, and the coming paradigm sh...
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CryptoQuikRead_321 - Bitcoin is Not Too Slow [Parker Lewis] from 2019-11-20T21:48:38
The 5th installment of the always fascinating "Gradually, then Suddenly" series from Parker Lewis and Un...
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CryptoQuikRead_321 - Bitcoin is Not Too Slow [Parker Lewis] from 2019-11-20T21:48
The 5th installment of the always fascinating "Gradually, then Suddenly" series from Parker Lewis and Unchained Capital. What is the real problem that Bitcoin solves, and how does it compare to the...
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CryptoQuikRead_320 - The Bitcoin Reformation - Part 2 [Tuur Demeester] from 2019-11-15T23:26:10
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CryptoQuikRead_320 - The Bitcoin Reformation - Part 2 [Tuur Demeester] from 2019-11-15T23:26
Today we conclude the report from Adamant Capital written by Tuur Demeester on a fascinating parallel between Bitcoin and the Protestant Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries. A plethora of ne...
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CryptoQuikRead_319 - The Bitcoin Reformation - Part 1 [Tuur Demeester] from 2019-11-14T21:42:35
Today we start our journey through the new report from Adamant Capital written by Tuur Demeester...
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CryptoQuikRead_319 - The Bitcoin Reformation - Part 1 [Tuur Demeester] from 2019-11-14T21:42
Today we start our journey through the new report from Adamant Capital written by Tuur Demeester on a fascinating parallel between Bitcoin and the Protestant Reformation of the 16th and 17th centur...
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CryptoChat_026 - Bitcoin for Self Defense with Max Hillebrand from 2019-11-12T23:30:37
Diving down the rabbit hole on the amazing privacy technologies in Bitcoin, what they are, how they can be used, and how it might change our interactions with the Bitcoin timechain in the future...
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CryptoChat_026 - Bitcoin for Self Defense with Max Hillebrand from 2019-11-12T23:30
Diving down the rabbit hole on the amazing privacy technologies in Bitcoin, what they are, how they can be used, and how it might change our interactions with the Bitcoin timechain in the future. D...
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CryptoQuikRead_318 - Taproot is Coming [Aaron van Wirdum] from 2019-11-11T22:40:17
One of the many amazing technologies coming to Bitcoin, Taproot is one of the most promising improvements to the privacy, efficiency, & capabilities of the Bitcoin system. Another excellent ...
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CryptoQuikRead_318 - Taproot is Coming [Aaron van Wirdum] from 2019-11-11T22:40
One of the many amazing technologies coming to Bitcoin, Taproot is one of the most promising improvements to the privacy, efficiency,&capabilities of the Bitcoin system. Another excellent article b...
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CryptoQuikRead_317 - The Triumvirate of Liquidity [Nik Bhatia] from 2019-11-08T22:29:54
Today, Nik Bhatia takes us through a compressed history of the Dollar, Us Treasuries, and how we found ourselves in the current global financial ...
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CryptoQuikRead_317 - The Triumvirate of Liquidity [Nik Bhatia] from 2019-11-08T22:29
Today, Nik Bhatia takes us through a compressed history of the Dollar, Us Treasuries, and how we found ourselves in the current global financial mess. What are the safe-haven assets of the future, ...
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GuysTake_025 - Money, Networks, Blockchains, & Bitcoin from 2019-11-07T23:44:27
The much deserved Guy’s Take episode as a dedicated follow-up to the amazing work of "The Bitcoin Time Vol 1." There just wasn’t enough time to do it justice during the read, so today I give my ...
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CryptoQuikRead_316 - A New Monetary Network - The Bitcoin Times Vol 1 - Part 2 [Aleksandar Svetski] from 2019-11-06T23:17:57
"Bitcoin is the first time we’ve combined Money as a unit, with Money as a Network, into one thing."
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CryptoQuikRead_316 - A New Monetary Network - The Bitcoin Times Vol 1 - Part 2 [Aleksandar Svetski] from 2019-11-06T23:17
"Bitcoin is the first time we’ve combined Money as a unit, with Money as a Network, into one thing." - Alexsandar SvetskiDont miss part 2, the conclusion, of Aleks Svetski's excellent volume of "Th...
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CryptoQuikRead_315 - Blockchain is Dead - The Bitcoin Times Vol 1 - Part 1 [Aleksandar Svetski] from 2019-11-06T00:16:41
"When people get up and begin to talk to me about how they’re going to use the blockchain to solve supply chain, or whatever other (mostly ridiculous) idea they have, it reminds of someo...
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CryptoQuikRead_315 - Blockchain is Dead - The Bitcoin Times Vol 1 - Part 1 [Aleksandar Svetski] from 2019-11-06T00:16
"When people get up and begin to talk to me about how they’re going to use the blockchain to solve supply chain, or whatever other (mostly ridiculous) idea they have, it reminds of someone who just...
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CryptoQuikRead_314 - Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary [Conner Brown] from 2019-11-04T22:28:24
Another great piece from returning author Conner Brown on the false narrative of Bitcoin's "deflationary" problems. Not only does it not result in...
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CryptoQuikRead_314 - Stop Calling Bitcoin Deflationary [Conner Brown] from 2019-11-04T22:28
Another great piece from returning author Conner Brown on the false narrative of Bitcoin's "deflationary" problems. Not only does it not result in the many naive claims of the critics, its actually...
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CryptoChat_025 - On Sovereignty with Knut Svanholm from 2019-11-01T20:33:52
The author of the incredible work we covered last week, Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics, joins us on the show today to talk all about the ...
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CryptoChat_025 - On Sovereignty with Knut Svanholm from 2019-11-01T20:33
The author of the incredible work we covered last week, Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics, joins us on the show today to talk all about the foundations of his thinking, what sovereignty real...
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CryptoChat_024 - World War B [The Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast] from 2019-10-29T21:24:50
Another great chat with the Raleigh Meetup gang about the sorry state of US and global finances, the fall of the dollar empire, prices in the real and fake economies, and what a world war in the...
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CryptoChat_024 - World War B [The Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast] from 2019-10-29T21:24
Another great chat with the Raleigh Meetup gang about the sorry state of US and global finances, the fall of the dollar empire, prices in the real and fake economies, and what a world war in the er...
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CryptoQuikRead_313 - Who Secures Bitcoin? [John Carvalho] from 2019-10-28T21:06:39
Is it the miners? The developers? The nodes? Who really defines Bitcoin, who establishes the rules that make it immutable, secures it against unwanted change, and determines the protocol that di...
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CryptoQuikRead_313 - Who Secures Bitcoin? [John Carvalho] from 2019-10-28T21:06
Is it the miners? The developers? The nodes? Who really defines Bitcoin, who establishes the rules that make it immutable, secures it against unwanted change, and determines the protocol that disti...
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CryptoQuikRead_312 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 5 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-25T18:30:44
Closing the week with the incredible conclusion of Knut Svanholm's work! Don't forget to thank him for making this available to us and everyone for...
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CryptoQuikRead_312 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 5 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-25T18:30
Closing the week with the incredible conclusion of Knut Svanholm's work! Don't forget to thank him for making this available to us and everyone for free, so we can all discover Bitcoin together. An...
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CryptoQuikRead_311 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 4 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-24T21:46:06
Chapters 8 through 11 continuing our unabridged audio of Knut Svanholm's excellent book on the Bitcoin phenomenon titled, "Listen
CryptoQuikRead_311 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 4 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-24T21:46
Chapters 8 through 11 continuing our unabridged audio of Knut Svanholm's excellent book on the Bitcoin phenomenon titled, "Sovereignty Through Mathematics." • Anyone can change Bitcoin's rules, bu...
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CryptoQuikRead_310 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 3 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-23T22:44:39
Another awesome read as we continue through Knut Svanholm's excellent book, "Listen
CryptoQuikRead_310 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 3 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-23T22:44
Another awesome read as we continue through Knut Svanholm's excellent book, "Sovereignty Through Mathematics." Part 3 goes into so many fascinating concepts on the nature of proof of work, and the ...
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CryptoQuikRead_309 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 2 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-23T02:45:22
Continuing through our unabridged reading of Knut Svanholm's excellent book available on Amazon, "Listen
CryptoQuikRead_309 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 2 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-23T02:45
Continuing through our unabridged reading of Knut Svanholm's excellent book available on Amazon, "Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics." • The inevitability of human bias• The absurdity of fra...
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CryptoQuikRead_308 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 1 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-21T21:22:07
Today we begin through this weeks complete unabridged reading of Knut Svanholm's recent book available on Amazon, "Listen
CryptoQuikRead_308 - Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Part 1 [Knut Svanholm] from 2019-10-21T21:22
Today we begin through this weeks complete unabridged reading of Knut Svanholm's recent book available on Amazon, "Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics." Another great piece to add to our audio...
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CryptoQuikRead_307 - The (flawed) Economics of Bitcoin Maximalism from 2019-10-18T22:09:50
Does Bitcoin maximalism fail the test against the economics of Ludwig Von Mises & Charles Menger, both giants of the Austrian school? Have we sacrificed sound money by limiting block space?<...
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CryptoQuikRead_307 - The (flawed) Economics of Bitcoin Maximalism from 2019-10-18T22:09
Does Bitcoin maximalism fail the test against the economics of Ludwig Von Mises&Charles Menger, both giants of the Austrian school? Have we sacrificed sound money by limiting block space? For a cha...
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CryptoQuikRead_306 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy [Parker Lewis] from 2019-10-15T22:56:36
"There is no more important long-term use of energy than securing the bitcoin network." Parker Lewis
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CryptoQuikRead_306 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy [Parker Lewis] from 2019-10-15T22:56
"There is no more important long-term use of energy than securing the bitcoin network." Parker Lewis Want to know why? Then you will have to listen to this amazing continuation of the "Gradually, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_305 - Addressing Security Concerns with the Casa Node [Jameson Lopp & Brian Lockhart] from 2019-10-14T20:35:40
Recently, a bit of Twitter drama has arisen from a post that started with @JWWeatherman_'s disclosure of a perceived critical bug in the Casa Node...
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CryptoQuikRead_305 - Addressing Security Concerns with the Casa Node [Jameson Lopp&Brian Lockhart] from 2019-10-14T20:35
Recently, a bit of Twitter drama has arisen from a post that started with @JWWeatherman_'s disclosure of a perceived critical bug in the Casa Node device. Today, to start off a discussion of home n...
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CryptoQuikRead_304 - Bitcoin Astronomy [Part 2 - Dhruv Bansal] from 2019-10-10T22:29:59
Continuing the wonderfully fascinating piece from yesterday's episode, all about the dynamics & game theory at play in a hash war between Mars' Muskcoin, and Earth's Bitcoin; as well as the ...
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CryptoQuikRead_303 - Bitcoin Astronomy [Part 1 - Dhruv Bansal] from 2019-10-09T21:25:14
Equal parts entertaining & intellectually intriguing, we start with Part 1 of Dhruv Bansal's wonderful piece, Listen
CryptoQuikRead_303 - Bitcoin Astronomy [Part 1 - Dhruv Bansal] from 2019-10-09T21:25
Equal parts entertaining&intellectually intriguing, we start with Part 1 of Dhruv Bansal's wonderful piece, Bitcoin Astronomy! The interplanetary center of hash, the Law of Hash Horizons, the Muskc...
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CryptoQuikRead_302 - Bitcoin is Not Too Volatile [Parker Lewis] from 2019-10-07T20:12:37
To think that a hard monetary asset, with a perfectly inelastic supply, could go from a $0 market with no infrastructure, liquidity, or demand, to a global monetary instrument with vast infrastr...
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CryptoQuikRead_302 - Bitcoin is Not Too Volatile [Parker Lewis] from 2019-10-07T20:12
To think that a hard monetary asset, with a perfectly inelastic supply, could go from a $0 market with no infrastructure, liquidity, or demand, to a global monetary instrument with vast infrastruct...
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Bonus - Who Deserves This? [Ross Ulbricht] from 2019-10-04T20:00:04
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CryptoQuikRead_301 - Bitcoin Equals Freedom [Ross Ulbricht] from 2019-10-03T19:36:35
Following the anniversary of Ross Ulbricht's arrest, and the fall of the Silk Road experiment, we read a short but extraordinary piece, hand writte...
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CryptoQuikRead_301 - Bitcoin Equals Freedom [Ross Ulbricht] from 2019-10-03T19:36
Following the anniversary of Ross Ulbricht's arrest, and the fall of the Silk Road experiment, we read a short but extraordinary piece, hand written in a cell by Ross, on Bitcoin's promise of freed...
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CryptoQuikRead_300!! - The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto [Timothy C. May] from 2019-10-02T18:55:22
Quick Read #300!!! Hard to believe we have come this far withou the show. For this milestone it's time to take it back to the philosophical roots of the movement that lead to the community, the ...
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CryptoQuikRead_300!! - The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto [Timothy C. May] from 2019-10-02T18:55
Quick Read #300!!! Hard to believe we have come this far withou the show. For this milestone it's time to take it back to the philosophical roots of the movement that lead to the community, the ide...
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CryptoChat_023 - Small State, Big Bitcoin [The Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast] from 2019-09-30T22:01:57
An awesome discussion with the squad over at the Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast. Can anyone sensibly be both pro Bitcoin & pro big government? When, if ever, do we actually sell Bitcoin? And what's...
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CryptoChat_023 - Small State, Big Bitcoin [The Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast] from 2019-09-30T22:01
An awesome discussion with the squad over at the Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast. Can anyone sensibly be both pro Bitcoin&pro big government? When, if ever, do we actually sell Bitcoin? And what's the pric...
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GuysTake_024 - But Lightning Enables... from 2019-09-27T23:30:50
Finishing up our Lightning week on the show, I've got a Guy's Take on all the different applications I think are viable here in the early days of Lightning, and also what decentralized projects ...
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GuysTake_024 - But Lightning Enables... from 2019-09-27T23:30
Finishing up our Lightning week on the show, I've got a Guy's Take on all the different applications I think are viable here in the early days of Lightning, and also what decentralized projects may...
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CryptoQuikRead_299 - Announcing Olympus! From Fiat to Lightning in Seconds [Jack Mallers] from 2019-09-26T20:40:43
Every so often a major development comes along that combines the available tools and you suddenly see a sharp image of what the future could look like. With Listen
CryptoQuikRead_299 - Announcing Olympus! From Fiat to Lightning in Seconds [Jack Mallers] from 2019-09-26T20:40
Every so often a major development comes along that combines the available tools and you suddenly see a sharp image of what the future could look like. With Olympus, a new service from Jack Mallers...
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CryptoQuikRead_298 - Lightning Service Providers [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2019-09-26T01:23:27
With another great piece from the Breez-Tech CEO we read and explore the fascinating concept of the Lightning Service Providers. What is their ...
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CryptoQuikRead_298 - Lightning Service Providers [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2019-09-26T01:23
With another great piece from the Breez-Tech CEO we read and explore the fascinating concept of the Lightning Service Providers. What is their role? How will the market develop? Doesn't this mean L...
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CryptoChat_022 - All Roads Lead to Bitcoin w/ John Vallis from 2019-09-23T21:57:38
John Vallis from the Bitcoin Rapid Fire Podcast and I have a lengthy chat all about our roads to Bitcoi...
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CryptoChat_022 - All Roads Lead to Bitcoin w/ John Vallis from 2019-09-23T21:57
John Vallis from the Bitcoin Rapid Fire Podcast and I have a lengthy chat all about our roads to Bitcoin, and how it has changed our view of the world. Don't miss a really fun show and be sure to c...
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CryptoQuikRead_297 - Simplifying Lightning, The "Noinput Class" [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2019-09-20T23:32:20
Today we take a dive into the future of Lightning and one of the amazing developments to make it simpler and more reliable, the new sighash flags referred to as the "Noinput Class." Who better t...
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CryptoQuikRead_297 - Simplifying Lightning, The "Noinput Class" [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2019-09-20T23:32
Today we take a dive into the future of Lightning and one of the amazing developments to make it simpler and more reliable, the new sighash flags referred to as the "Noinput Class." Who better to t...
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CryptoQuikRead_296 - The Long Now [Ben Hunt - Epsilon Theory] from 2019-09-18T21:53:09
The only thing as scarce as Bitcoin, is Time. Do you value it accordingly?
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CryptoQuikRead_296 - The Long Now [Ben Hunt - Epsilon Theory] from 2019-09-18T21:53
The only thing as scarce as Bitcoin, is Time. Do you value it accordingly? For today's read we are diving into our first piece from the awesome collection over at Epsilon Theory by Ben Hunt.The L...
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CryptoQuikRead_295 - A New Form of Life - Money, Bitcoin & Time [Part 5 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-09-18T02:22:19
Concluding the “Bitcoin” section of Money, Bitcoin & Time. So many fascinating aspects of Bitcoin covered by author Robert Breedlove in this sec...
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CryptoQuikRead_295 - A New Form of Life - Money, Bitcoin&Time [Part 5 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-09-18T02:22
Concluding the “Bitcoin” section of Money, Bitcoin&Time. So many fascinating aspects of Bitcoin covered by author Robert Breedlove in this section including: • A new form of life• The many-sided ne...
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CryptoQuikRead_294 - The Simple Truth About Bitcoin - Money, Bitcoin & Time [Part 4 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-09-17T02:31:43
Jumping back into Robert Breedlove's great piece with a thorough exploration of Bitcoin as a money, a technology, a network, and a measure of time. ...
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CryptoQuikRead_294 - The Simple Truth About Bitcoin - Money, Bitcoin&Time [Part 4 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-09-17T02:31
Jumping back into Robert Breedlove's great piece with a thorough exploration of Bitcoin as a money, a technology, a network, and a measure of time. • The Cost and Reward of Proof-of-Work• A Vault...
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GuysTake_23 - Revolution in the Protocol [on Nic Carter's "Peaceful Revolution"] from 2019-09-13T23:21:05
Today we have a follow up to Nic Carter's excellent piece on Medium, Listen
GuysTake_23 - Revolution in the Protocol [on Nic Carter's "Peaceful Revolution"] from 2019-09-13T23:21
Today we have a follow up to Nic Carter's excellent piece on Medium, A Most Peaceful Revolution. An incredible article that deserves an exhaustive discussion and easily earns a few ridiculous rants...
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CryptoQuikRead_293 - A Most Peaceful Revolution [Nic Carter] from 2019-09-12T03:37:14
Today we read a veritable Bitcoin Manifesto on a fundamental truth of Bitcoin's nature, the challenge it proposes to the state, the atrocities it seeks to dismantle, the hubris of alternatives, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_293 - A Most Peaceful Revolution [Nic Carter] from 2019-09-12T03:37
Today we read a veritable Bitcoin Manifesto on a fundamental truth of Bitcoin's nature, the challenge it proposes to the state, the atrocities it seeks to dismantle, the hubris of alternatives, its...
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GuysTake_022 - But Bitcoin Isn't User Friendly... from 2019-09-09T21:56:34
• Keys are being abstracted away.
• Users will call customer support to restore their coins, but never give up control.
• Ownership of a single UTXO will become rare.
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GuysTake_022 - But Bitcoin Isn't User Friendly... from 2019-09-09T21:56
• Keys are being abstracted away. • Users will call customer support to restore their coins, but never give up control.• Ownership of a single UTXO will become rare. • On-chain transactions will be...
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CryptoQuikRead_292 - Rise of the Sovereign Individual [dergigi] from 2019-09-06T22:51:34
If you were looking for a succinct summation of the philosophy and to understand why we are so avid about using Bitcoin, encrypting our communication, and why we think these things are critical ...
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CryptoQuikRead_292 - Rise of the Sovereign Individual [dergigi] from 2019-09-06T22:51
If you were looking for a succinct summation of the philosophy and to understand why we are so avid about using Bitcoin, encrypting our communication, and why we think these things are critical for...
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CryptoQuikRead_291 - Bitcoin Can't Be Copied [Parker Lewis] from 2019-09-06T00:58:39
Today we start into the second piece of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series by Parker Lewis. Why altcoiners can claim their coin is for something...
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CryptoQuikRead_291 - Bitcoin Can't Be Copied [Parker Lewis] from 2019-09-06T00:58
Today we start into the second piece of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series by Parker Lewis. Why altcoiners can claim their coin is for something other than money, but it must compete with Bitcoi...
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GuysTake_021 - Bitcoin & the 7th Great Disruption of the Digital Age from 2019-09-04T18:59:02
Bitcoin isn't just a token you can send and receive online, it isn't just a digital money, its a complete inversion of the idea of money in the same way that the internet changed the nature of i...
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GuysTake_021 - Bitcoin&the 7th Great Disruption of the Digital Age from 2019-09-04T18:59
Bitcoin isn't just a token you can send and receive online, it isn't just a digital money, its a complete inversion of the idea of money in the same way that the internet changed the nature of info...
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CryptoChat_021 - Wealth Power & Influence, Bitcoin talk with Jason & Matt from 2019-09-02T20:31:01
The Bitcoin community needs more Jason Stapleton, so I'm doing my part. Super excited to have had the opportunity to join Jason Stapleton and Matt Erickson on a favorite show of mine, Weal...
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CryptoChat_021 - Wealth Power&Influence, Bitcoin talk with Jason&Matt from 2019-09-02T20:31
The Bitcoin community needs more Jason Stapleton, so I'm doing my part. Super excited to have had the opportunity to join Jason Stapleton and Matt Erickson on a favorite show of mine, Wealth, Power...
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CryptoQuikRead_290 - Gradually, Then Suddenly [Parker Lewis] from 2019-08-30T17:13:26
"What is money? That is the beginning of the real rabbit hole.”
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CryptoQuikRead_290 - Gradually, Then Suddenly [Parker Lewis] from 2019-08-30T17:13
"What is money? That is the beginning of the real rabbit hole.” Like the process of going bankrupt, how fiat money inflates, and what it feels like to learn Bitcoin... it happens gradually, then su...
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CryptoQuikRead_289 - Bitcoin&Me [Hal Finney] from 2019-08-28T22:22
Harold Thomas Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) In one of his last posts on the BitcoinTalk forums, Hal Finney posted a short message about his past, finding Bitcoin, working with Satoshi, com...
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CryptoQuikRead_288 - The Economic Nervous System - Money, Bitcoin, & Time [Part 3 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-08-28T21:48:12
Today we continue our journey through Robert Breedlove's thorough work by completing section 1 on the incredible history & profound nature of mo...
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CryptoQuikRead_288 - The Economic Nervous System - Money, Bitcoin,&Time [Part 3 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-08-28T21:48
Today we continue our journey through Robert Breedlove's thorough work by completing section 1 on the incredible history&profound nature of money. • How prices are the economic nervous system • Hi...
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CryptoQuikRead_287 - Money is a Social Network - Money, Bitcoin & Time [Part 2 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-08-26T18:24:37
The network effects that tie society together through its community, language, and money are both incredibly powerful, and very difficult to measure. We continue with Listen
CryptoQuikRead_287 - Money is a Social Network - Money, Bitcoin&Time [Part 2 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-08-26T18:24
The network effects that tie society together through its community, language, and money are both incredibly powerful, and very difficult to measure. We continue with Robert Breedlove's broad piece...
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CryptoQuikRead_286 - Money, Bitcoin & Time [Part 1 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-08-22T19:47:59
Today we start into an amazing and broad work that tackles the entire argument for Bitcoin, from the origins and nature of money, to the cost and value of time, by Listen
CryptoQuikRead_286 - Money, Bitcoin&Time [Part 1 - Robert Breedlove] from 2019-08-22T19:47
Today we start into an amazing and broad work that tackles the entire argument for Bitcoin, from the origins and nature of money, to the cost and value of time, by Robert Breedlove titled, "Money, ...
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CryptoChat_020 - ITS ALIVE!! Brandon Quittem & Der Gigi on the Bitcoin Organism from 2019-08-21T19:48:23
“Life is like fire, not water; it is a process, not a pure substance. […] The simplest, but not the only, proof of life is to find something that is alive.”
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CryptoChat_020 - ITS ALIVE!! Brandon Quittem&Der Gigi on the Bitcoin Organism from 2019-08-21T19:48
“Life is like fire, not water; it is a process, not a pure substance. […] The simplest, but not the only, proof of life is to find something that is alive.”— Christopher McKay The author of the in...
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CryptoQuikRead_285 - Proof of Life [dergigi] from 2019-08-20T23:51
"Ralph Merkle... made the argument that Bitcoin is the first example of a new form of life. In this article series, I intend to take this claim seriously, explore it further, and see wha...
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CryptoQuikRead_285 - Proof of Life [dergigi] from 2019-08-20T23:51
"Ralph Merkle... made the argument that Bitcoin is the first example of a new form of life. In this article series, I intend to take this claim seriously, explore it further, and see what can be gl...
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CryptoQuikRead_284 - Bitcoin is the Antivirus [Brandon Quittem] from 2019-08-15T18:14:37
Our monetary system has confiscated trillions in resources and value by corrupting the very incentives that keep our economy healthy and resilient… in that world, what role does Bitcoin play? Listen
CryptoQuikRead_284 - Bitcoin is the Antivirus [Brandon Quittem] from 2019-08-15T18:14
Our monetary system has confiscated trillions in resources and value by corrupting the very incentives that keep our economy healthy and resilient… in that world, what role does Bitcoin play? Today...
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CryptoQuikRead_283 - Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply [StopAndDecrypt] from 2019-08-13T21:17:21
Everything that defines the Bitcoin network is in the validation rules, and the nodes are its enforcers. An impenetrable fortress of validation.
Because it deserves...
CryptoQuikRead_283 - Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply [StopAndDecrypt] from 2019-08-13T21:17
Everything that defines the Bitcoin network is in the validation rules, and the nodes are its enforcers. An impenetrable fortress of validation. Because it deserves an episode of its own, today w...
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CryptoChat_019 - Under The Lightning Hood: Resurrection from 2019-08-13T03:17:30
The crew from the Lightning Hood website and weekly wrap-up are back for another episode chat...
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CryptoChat_019 - Under The Lightning Hood: Resurrection from 2019-08-13T03:17
The crew from the Lightning Hood website and weekly wrap-up are back for another episode chatting all about the developments in Lightning&Bitcoin throughout the last year. What's new, what's the sa...
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CryptoQuikRead_282 - The Right to Read [Richard Stallman] from 2019-08-09T00:19:48
Do we live in an age of liberty, where information is freely accessible, or an age of heavy-handed copyright restrictions where we are losing the ownership of the very devices we hold in our han...
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CryptoQuikRead_282 - The Right to Read [Richard Stallman] from 2019-08-09T00:19
Do we live in an age of liberty, where information is freely accessible, or an age of heavy-handed copyright restrictions where we are losing the ownership of the very devices we hold in our hands?...
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CryptoQuikRead_281 - Unpacking Bitcoin's Assurances [Nic Carter] from 2019-08-07T21:36:05
We make claims about Bitcoin's assurances all the time. It is censorship resistant, it's open and permissionless, it's counterfeit proof, etc. But are these things entirely true? Whe...
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CryptoQuikRead_281 - Unpacking Bitcoin's Assurances [Nic Carter] from 2019-08-07T21:36
We make claims about Bitcoin's assurances all the time. It is censorship resistant, it's open and permissionless, it's counterfeit proof, etc. But are these things entirely true? When someone wants...
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CryptoQuikRead_280 - My Path to Bitcoin Maximalism [Ben Perrin] from 2019-08-06T21:04:45
Today we read an excellent article by Ben Perrin (@Btcsessions) laying out an excellent argument that reveals #BitcoinMaximalism as the meticulous a...
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CryptoQuikRead_280 - My Path to Bitcoin Maximalism [Ben Perrin] from 2019-08-06T21:04
Today we read an excellent article by Ben Perrin (@Btcsessions) laying out an excellent argument that reveals #BitcoinMaximalism as the meticulous and thoughtful position it actually is. Rather tha...
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CryptoChat_018 - Investigating Bitcoin with Aaron Van Wirdum from 2019-08-05T20:34:24
Today we have on the show one of the best journalists in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Aaron Van Wirdum! We chat about his path to finding Bitcoin, his...
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CryptoChat_018 - Investigating Bitcoin with Aaron Van Wirdum from 2019-08-05T20:34
Today we have on the show one of the best journalists in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Aaron Van Wirdum! We chat about his path to finding Bitcoin, his process in investigating protocol developments, soci...
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GuysTake_020 - How Bitcoin Could Bring Down the State from 2019-08-02T22:49:22
Inflation, or manipulation of the money supply to the benefit of the politically well connected, is quite possibly the most pervasive frauds of modern society. It creates multiple layers o...
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GuysTake_020 - How Bitcoin Could Bring Down the State from 2019-08-02T22:49
Inflation, or manipulation of the money supply to the benefit of the politically well-connected, is quite possibly the most pervasive frauds of modern society. It creates multiple layers of compoun...
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CryptoQuikRead_279 - Deflation & Liberty [Part 2 - Jörg Guido Hülsmann] from 2019-08-02T13:23:51
"If Bitcoin's supply is expected to be endlessly deflationary, doesn't this ensure a never ending, economy destroying downward spiral?"
Today we conclude with Part 2, Hulsmann's incredib...
CryptoQuikRead_279 - Deflation&Liberty [Part 2 - Jörg Guido Hülsmann] from 2019-08-02T13:23
"If Bitcoin's supply is expected to be endlessly deflationary, doesn't this ensure a never ending, economy destroying downward spiral?" Today we conclude with Part 2, Hulsmann's incredible work on ...
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CryptoQuikRead_278 - Deflation & Liberty [Part 1 - Jörg Guido Hülsmann] from 2019-07-31T21:42:16
When we think about the unmatched scarcity of Bitcoin as a monetary good (particularly after looking at @100trillionUSD's stock-to-flow model), i...
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CryptoQuikRead_278 - Deflation&Liberty [Part 1 - Jörg Guido Hülsmann] from 2019-07-31T21:42
When we think about the unmatched scarcity of Bitcoin as a monetary good (particularly after looking at @100trillionUSD's stock-to-flow model), it inevitably leads to an important question. If Bitc...
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CryptoQuikRead_277 - Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity [100trillionUSD] from 2019-07-30T22:53:18
The incredible model for predicting and assessing the value of the Bitcoin network by @100trillionUSD is analyzed in his exceptional article that...
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CryptoQuikRead_277 - Modeling Bitcoin's Value with Scarcity [100trillionUSD] from 2019-07-30T22:53
The incredible model for predicting and assessing the value of the Bitcoin network by @100trillionUSD is analyzed in his exceptional article that we read on today's show, "Modeling Bitcoin's Value ...
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CryptoChat_017 - Reminiscing with Car & Bird on a Crazy Year & a Changing World from 2019-07-29T21:48:20
If you haven't listened to the earlier episode where I went on the Friends Against Government Podcast, then you no longer have to miss out! A year later, we get back together & talk about wh...
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CryptoChat_017 - Reminiscing with Car&Bird on a Crazy Year&a Changing World from 2019-07-29T21:48
If you haven't listened to the earlier episode where I went on the Friends Against Government Podcast, then you no longer have to miss out! A year later, we get back together&talk about what a craz...
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CryptoQuikRead_276 - More Immutable than Stone [Simon Lutz] from 2019-07-26T22:57:14
We start today's show reading a short Twitter thread by @simonlutz21 which sparks a fun discussion about the presence of Proof-of-Work in nature, the awesome utility of immutability, and the pow...
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CryptoQuikRead_276 - More Immutable than Stone [Simon Lutz] from 2019-07-26T22:57
We start today's show reading a short Twitter thread by @simonlutz21 which sparks a fun discussion about the presence of Proof-of-Work in nature, the awesome utility of immutability, and the power ...
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CryptoQuikRead_275 - Bit Gold [Nick Szabo] from 2019-07-25T19:32:43
There were many precursors to the Bitcoin system, but IMO, none came as close to correctly defining the problem, & solving the key issues of trust as Listen
CryptoQuikRead_275 - Bit Gold [Nick Szabo] from 2019-07-25T19:32
There were many precursors to the Bitcoin system, but IMO, none came as close to correctly defining the problem,&solving the key issues of trust as Nick Szabo's Bit Gold concept. Reading another gr...
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CryptoQuikRead_274 - BetterHash, Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining with new Hashing Protocols [StopAndDecrypt] from 2019-07-24T21:42:14
What if we already had a solution to one of the biggest threats to the Bitcoin network, but simply weren't implementing it? Today we read another great piece by Listen
CryptoQuikRead_274 - BetterHash, Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining with new Hashing Protocols [StopAndDecrypt] from 2019-07-24T21:42
What if we already had a solution to one of the biggest threats to the Bitcoin network, but simply weren't implementing it? Today we read another great piece by @stopanddecrypt breaking down the nu...
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CryptoQuikRead_272 - Keynesian Errors on Time and Demand [Ben Kaufman] from 2019-07-23T22:57:45
What if there was a single, fundamental flaw in Keynesian economic theory that could shed light on the major imbalances and debts that have resulted from our monetary system? Does "spending" and...
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CryptoQuikRead_272 - Keynesian Errors on Time and Demand [Ben Kaufman] from 2019-07-23T22:57
What if there was a single, fundamental flaw in Keynesian economic theory that could shed light on the major imbalances and debts that have resulted from our monetary system? Does "spending" and co...
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CryptoQuikRead_272 - Statechains, Sending Keys Not Coins [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2019-07-22T19:22:10
From Bitcoin Magazine, today we read Aaron's piece on the recently conceptualized "Statechains" from the mind of Listen
CryptoQuikRead_272 - Statechains, Sending Keys Not Coins [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2019-07-22T19:22
From Bitcoin Magazine, today we read Aaron's piece on the recently conceptualized "Statechains" from the mind of Ruben Somsen. An entirely different way to think of exchanging Bitcoin, by handing k...
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CryptoQuikRead_272 - Letting a Million Channels Bloom [Rusty Russell&Joe Netti] from 2019-07-19T21:34
The Lightning Network does, in fact, have scaling problems of its own. When the network grows to millions of channels we obviously won't be able to run it on a Raspberry Pi. Don’t tell Rusty Russel...
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CryptoQuikRead_271 - Bitcoin's Energy Consumption is a Necessity [Daniel Wingen] from 2019-07-18T20:51:15
... And one of the greatest natural subsidies for renewable energy we could've asked for.
Today we hit a piece by Daniel Wingen. ...
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CryptoQuikRead_271 - Bitcoin's Energy Consumption is a Necessity [Daniel Wingen] from 2019-07-18T20:51
... And one of the greatest natural subsidies for renewable energy we could've asked for. Today we hit a piece by Daniel Wingen. A thorough breakdown of the essence of mining, the necessity of its...
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CryptoQuikRead_270 - Investing in Bitcoin [Hasu & Su Zhu] from 2019-07-16T20:43
Today we read yet another great piece by @hasufl and @suzhu available on uncommoncore.c...
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CryptoQuikRead_270 - Investing in Bitcoin [Hasu&Su Zhu] from 2019-07-16T20:43
Today we read yet another great piece by @hasufl and @suzhu available on uncommoncore.co on the core value offered by Bitcoin as a system and the high level trends in macroeconomics and technology ...
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CryptoQuikRead_269 - Bitcoin is a Human Right [Nik Bhatia] from 2019-07-12T20:33:22
Finishing this week out with a short but wonderful introductory article by Nik Bhatia. Bitcoin is a money, a game, a land grab, works like email,...
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CryptoQuikRead_269 - Bitcoin is a Human Right [Nik Bhatia] from 2019-07-12T20:33
Finishing this week out with a short but wonderful introductory article by Nik Bhatia. Bitcoin is a money, a game, a land grab, works like email, and ultimately, Bitcoin is a human right. My discus...
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CryptoChat_016 - Lightning is a Breez with Roy Sheinfeld from 2019-07-10T21:30:36
The Lightning protocol has made some major leaps in the last few months, and the software landscape has changed massively in the same span! Here to talk all about the Listen
CryptoChat_016 - Lightning is a Breez with Roy Sheinfeld from 2019-07-10T21:30
The Lightning protocol has made some major leaps in the last few months, and the software landscape has changed massively in the same span! Here to talk all about the Breez lightning service that h...
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CryptoQuikRead_268 - Major Developments in LND 0.7 from 2019-07-09T20:01:34
Tomorrow we have an awesome interview with Roy Sheinfeld all about the Breez Lightning service!
To set the stage, today we dive into the recent Lightning Labs Blog post on the incredible...
CryptoQuikRead_267 - Everyone's a Scammer [Michael Goldstein] from 2019-07-08T20:07:02
Merchants are scammers, Keynesians are scammers, altcoins are scammers, Bitcoin "investments" are scammers, scammers are scammers, and even Bitcoin hoarders are scammers. Listen
CryptoQuikRead_267 - Everyone's a Scammer [Michael Goldstein] from 2019-07-08T20:07
Merchants are scammers, Keynesians are scammers, altcoins are scammers, Bitcoin "investments" are scammers, scammers are scammers, and even Bitcoin hoarders are scammers. Everyone's a scammer. The...
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CryptoChat_015 - Alex Adelman on Stacking Sats & Saving Money with Lolli from 2019-07-05T13:00
I was lucky enough to get the opportunity at the Bitcoin 2019 Conference to sit down with Alex Adelman, the CEO of Listen
CryptoQuikRead_266 - How Many Wrongs Make A Wright [Part 2 - Jameson Lopp] from 2019-07-03T20:29:38
Today we finish the amazing journey through Jameson Lopp's thorough compilation of Craig Wrigh...
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CryptoQuikRead_266 - How Many Wrongs Make A Wright [Part 2 - Jameson Lopp] from 2019-07-03T20:29
Today we finish the amazing journey through Jameson Lopp's thorough compilation of Craig Wright's extensive efforts and complications in trying to convince the world he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the cre...
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CryptoQuikRead_265 - How Many Wrongs Make a Wright [Part 1 - Jameson Lopp] from 2019-07-02T20:41:19
Did you hear about the guy who tried for years to convince the world he was Satoshi?
If you ever wanted to explore the evidence against Craig Wright's dubious claims but simply...
CryptoQuikRead_265 - How Many Wrongs Make a Wright [Part 1 - Jameson Lopp] from 2019-07-02T20:41
Did you hear about the guy who tried for years to convince the world he was Satoshi? If you ever wanted to explore the evidence against Craig Wright's dubious claims but simply didn't have the tim...
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CryptoChat_014 - Aleks Svetski on the Death of Blockchain from 2019-07-01T22:25:41
I got a chance to sit down with Aleks Svetski of the Amber App & blockchain bashing fame at the Bitcoin2019 conference. The Citizen Bitcoin crew joins us to hear his story of bashing ICOs at...
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CryptoChat_014 - Aleks Svetski on the Death of Blockchain from 2019-07-01T22:25
I got a chance to sit down with Aleks Svetski of the Amber App&blockchain bashing fame at the Bitcoin2019 conference. The Citizen Bitcoin crew joins us to hear his story of bashing ICOs at an ICO c...
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CryptoQuikRead_264 - A Man Warned is Half Saved [beautyon_] from 2019-06-28T21:50:32
Another excellent piece by @beautyon_ and discussion on the nature of Bitcoin's uncontestable monetary standard and what it means for our future. &nbs...
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CryptoQuikRead_264 - A Man Warned is Half Saved [beautyon_] from 2019-06-28T21:50
Another excellent piece by @beautyon_ and discussion on the nature of Bitcoin's uncontestable monetary standard and what it means for our future. Its not volatility or the risks of a scarce monetar...
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CryptoChat_013 - Richard Myers and a Lightning Powered Global Mesh from 2019-06-24T13:45:23
Today we have a great chat with Richard Myers all about the recently unveiled Lot49 protocol and how Global Mesh Labs intends to incentivize and help build a global, decentralized meshnet powere...
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CryptoChat_013 - Richard Myers and a Lightning Powered Global Mesh from 2019-06-24T13:45
Today we have a great chat with Richard Myers all about the recently unveiled Lot49 protocol and how Global Mesh Labs intends to incentivize and help build a global, decentralized meshnet powered b...
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CryptoQuikRead_262 - The Bitcoin Time Traveler [Luka_Magnotta] from 2019-06-21T21:58:09
A message from the future... from 2013. Just one of those memes that made its place in Bitcoin's cultural history, we read the infamous Reddit post that laid out the bleak, Bitcoin-only fu...
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CryptoQuikRead_262 - The Bitcoin Time Traveler [Luka_Magnotta] from 2019-06-21T21:58
A message from the future... from 2013. Just one of those memes that made its place in Bitcoin's cultural history, we read the infamous Reddit post that laid out the bleak, Bitcoin-only future that...
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CryptoQuikRead_262 - The Island of Stone Money [Milton Friedman] from 2019-06-20T19:40:46
Does money need some alternative utility? Is there an example of virtual money that could be hundreds of years old? Today we read about one of the most interesting analogies to the n...
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CryptoQuikRead_262 - The Island of Stone Money [Milton Friedman] from 2019-06-20T19:40
Does money need some alternative utility? Is there an example of virtual money that could be hundreds of years old? Today we read about one of the most interesting analogies to the nature and value...
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CryptoQuikRead_261 - The God Protocols [Nick Szabo] from 2019-06-19T19:59:38
"Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody's side. All the parties would send their input to this god. God would...
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CryptoQuikRead_261 - The God Protocols [Nick Szabo] from 2019-06-19T19:59
"Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody's side. All the parties would send their input to this god. God would reliably d...
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GuysTake_019 - Libra Doesn't Compete with Bitcoin, But it Might Kill Ripple from 2019-06-18T20:36:51
All the buzz is about FacebookCoin, I mean FacePalmCoin, I mean Libra today with the release of the testnet and Libra.org giving much sought after details on the new protocol and what they seek ...
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GuysTake_019 - Libra Doesn't Compete with Bitcoin, But it Might Kill Ripple from 2019-06-18T20:36
All the buzz is about FacebookCoin, I mean FacePalmCoin, I mean Libra today with the release of the testnet and Libra.org giving much sought after details on the new protocol and what they seek to ...
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CryptoQuikRead_260 - Why America Can't Regulate Bitcoin [beautyon_] from 2019-06-13T20:45:09
This one should not be skipped!
There is a fascinating precedent set by case law and the long battles over PGP and US "munitions" laws, that gives us a rather clear...
CryptoQuikRead_260 - Why America Can't Regulate Bitcoin [beautyon_] from 2019-06-13T20:45
This one should not be skipped! There is a fascinating precedent set by case law and the long battles over PGP and US "munitions" laws, that gives us a rather clear conclusion on how Bitcoin sho...
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CryptoChat_12 - Talking Privacy, Bitcoin & the New Economy with the Raleigh Bitcoin Meetup from 2019-06-12T21:54:34
At the recent Raleigh Bitcoin meetup we had an awesome discussion all about privacy and bitcoin, and the intertwined destinies of both. Hanging out with some drinks and talking all about Bitcoin...
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CryptoChat_12 - Talking Privacy, Bitcoin&the New Economy with the Raleigh Bitcoin Meetup from 2019-06-12T21:54
At the recent Raleigh Bitcoin meetup we had an awesome discussion all about privacy and bitcoin, and the intertwined destinies of both. Hanging out with some drinks and talking all about Bitcoin, w...
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GuysTake_18 - A Story About Booms & Busts from 2019-06-11T20:11:51
Today I wanted to cover an analogy I have hit in the past to explain what's happening in the boom/bust cycle. One that sheds light on the fact that the imbalance is a fundamental element o...
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GuysTake_18 - A Story About Booms&Busts from 2019-06-11T20:11
Today I wanted to cover an analogy I have hit in the past to explain what's happening in the boom/bust cycle. One that sheds light on the fact that the imbalance is a fundamental element of the fra...
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CryptoQuikRead_259 - Lightning at the End of the Tunnel [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2019-06-10T18:58:05
This is an episode not to be missed. With a beta project focused entirely on the user experience, the @Breez_tech wallet is making a huge leap in the...
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CryptoQuikRead_259 - Lightning at the End of the Tunnel [Roy Sheinfeld] from 2019-06-10T18:58
This is an episode not to be missed. With a beta project focused entirely on the user experience, the @Breez_tech wallet is making a huge leap in the UX of Lightning that I thought was still months...
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GuysTake_017 - Erlay, Dandelion, & BitcoinOps from 2019-06-06T19:59:41
With help from the Bitcoin Optech newsletter we cover details and implications of the newly proposed Erlay protocol for spreading transactions quickly and e...
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GuysTake_017 - Erlay, Dandelion,&BitcoinOps from 2019-06-06T19:59
With help from the Bitcoin Optech newsletter we cover details and implications of the newly proposed Erlay protocol for spreading transactions quickly and efficiently across the network. An 84% red...
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CryptoQuikRead_258 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 3 [dergigi] from 2019-06-05T19:43:38
In the epic conclusion of the 21 lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit hole, we talk about the technology, the network, and how Bitcoin is set to chang...
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CryptoQuikRead_258 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 3 [dergigi] from 2019-06-05T19:43
In the epic conclusion of the 21 lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit hole, we talk about the technology, the network, and how Bitcoin is set to change the world. "The future is here, its just not evenly ...
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CryptoQuikRead_257 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 2 [dergigi] from 2019-06-04T20:53:42
Continuing our expedition through the lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, we explore the realities of economics & the truth of money that is revealed by Bitcoin’s nature. Don’t miss the next...
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CryptoQuikRead_257 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 2 [dergigi] from 2019-06-04T20:53
Continuing our expedition through the lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, we explore the realities of economics&the truth of money that is revealed by Bitcoin’s nature. Don’t miss the next 7 lesson...
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CryptoQuikRead_256 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 1 [dergigi] from 2019-06-03T22:07:34
An epic journey with author @dergigi on the unexpected lessons he learned tumbling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. One can always take a closer look...
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CryptoQuikRead_256 - 21 Lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole - Chapter 1 [dergigi] from 2019-06-03T22:07
An epic journey with author @dergigi on the unexpected lessons he learned tumbling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. One can always take a closer look at Bitcoin and the strange, new phenomenon that it...
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CryptoQuikRead_255 - Bitcoin An Accounting Revolution [Permabull Niño] from 2019-05-31T21:14:07
“Those who argue “high fees will kill adoption” fail to understand the intensity of assurances Bitcoin offers, and the ease at which it does this. Put lightly — Bitcoin is insanely cheap...
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CryptoQuikRead_255 - Bitcoin An Accounting Revolution [Permabull Niño] from 2019-05-31T21:14
“Those who argue “high fees will kill adoption” fail to understand the intensity of assurances Bitcoin offers, and the ease at which it does this. Put lightly — Bitcoin is insanely cheap compared t...
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CryptoQuikRead_254 - Bitcoin & Software Reliability [beautyon_] from 2019-05-30T18:05:25
" 'Break stuff' in that context means 'Kill People.' The software simply must work every time, no compromise, n...
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CryptoQuikRead_254 - Bitcoin&Software Reliability [beautyon_] from 2019-05-30T18:05
" 'Break stuff' in that context means 'Kill People.' The software simply must work every time, no compromise, no guesswork, no exceptions. There are no 'do overs' or roll-backs." The "To the Moon!...
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Guystake_016 - Drama, Drama, Toxic Drama from 2019-05-29T18:34:09
Curious about all the #BitcoinTwitter buzz recently? I went digging to find the associated twitter threads & c...
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Guystake_016 - Drama, Drama, Toxic Drama from 2019-05-29T18:34
Curious about all the #BitcoinTwitter buzz recently? I went digging to find the associated twitter threads&comments to read, and then discuss my own take on all the drama. Too long; Didn't Listen...
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CryptoQuikRead_253 - The Magic Dust of Cryptography [dergigi] from 2019-05-28T16:31:46
Exploring the magic of cryptography using a magic hammer, gray dust, a magic potion, & a pair of very special pajama pants.
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CryptoQuikRead_253 - The Magic Dust of Cryptography [dergigi] from 2019-05-28T16:31
Exploring the magic of cryptography using a magic hammer, gray dust, a magic potion,&a pair of very special pajama pants. Don't miss another read from @Dergigi on the absolute magic of cryptograph...
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GuysTake_015 - The Bcash 51% Attack from 2019-05-24T20:14:59
In a crazy conversation from last night's meet-up, I learned of discussion of a purposeful re-org, a 51% attack, on the #BCH chain by 2 miners. After a few hours scrambling to pull details...
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GuysTake_015 - The Bcash 51% Attack from 2019-05-24T20:14
In a crazy conversation from last night's meet-up, I learned of discussion of a purposeful re-org, a 51% attack, on the #BCH chain by 2 miners. After a few hours scrambling to pull details together...
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CryptoQuikRead_252 - Bitcoin's Security is Fine [Dan Held] from 2019-05-23T19:33:05
Is Bitcoin's security going to be unreliable, volatile, or could it even fail entirely when we lose the block subsidy? Or is #Bitcoin set to operate smoothly with a natural transition fr...
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CryptoQuikRead_252 - Bitcoin's Security is Fine [Dan Held] from 2019-05-23T19:33
Is Bitcoin's security going to be unreliable, volatile, or could it even fail entirely when we lose the block subsidy? Or is #Bitcoin set to operate smoothly with a natural transition from newly mi...
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CryptoQuikRead_251 - Use of Knowledge in Society [Part 2 - F. A. Hayek] from 2019-05-22T17:29:48
The brilliance of the price system is in coordinating the values, deeply limited knowledge and scarce resources precisely to their highest value need without having to understand or be a...
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CryptoQuikRead_251 - Use of Knowledge in Society [Part 2 - F. A. Hayek] from 2019-05-22T17:29
The brilliance of the price system is in coordinating the values, deeply limited knowledge and scarce resources precisely to their highest value need without having to understand or be aware of eve...
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CryptoQuikRead_250 - Use of Knowledge in Society [Part 1 - F. A. Hayek] from 2019-05-21T21:23:48
Is the idea of a central decision maker for the economy just a problem of gathering all the right information and having the most intelligent in control? Or is there a far more fundament...
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CryptoQuikRead_250 - Use of Knowledge in Society [Part 1 - F. A. Hayek] from 2019-05-21T21:23
Is the idea of a central decision maker for the economy just a problem of gathering all the right information and having the most intelligent in control? Or is there a far more fundamental problem ...
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CryptoQuikRead_249 - Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value, & That's Great! [Conner Brown] from 2019-05-20T18:23:46
Diving into a great piece by Conner Brown exploring the subjectivity of value, and why Bitcoin's lack of "intrinsic value" is a benefit, not a hinderance. Does this aspect of Bitcoin, and the natur...
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CryptoQuikRead_249 - Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value,&That's Great! [Conner Brown] from 2019-05-20T18:23
Diving into a great piece by Conner Brown exploring the subjectivity of value, and why Bitcoin's lack of "intrinsic value" is a benefit, not a hinderance. Does this aspect of Bitcoin, and the natur...
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CryptoQuikRead_248 - Bitrefill's Hottest Lightning Tech of 2019! from 2019-05-16T21:11:13
Today we cover all the incredible new developments coming to Lightning and what they will mean for the future the protocol! First we tackle the blog post from Listen
CryptoQuikRead_248 - Bitrefill's Hottest Lightning Tech of 2019! from 2019-05-16T21:11
Today we cover all the incredible new developments coming to Lightning and what they will mean for the future the protocol! First we tackle the blog post from @Bitrefill introducing the entire list...
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GuysTake_014 - The What, Why, & How of Lightning from 2019-05-15T19:45:25
Today, in preparation of & to understand the significance of the vast array of new features and developments coming to lightning, we cover a full overview of the What, Why, & How of the ...
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GuysTake_014 - The What, Why,&How of Lightning from 2019-05-15T19:45
Today, in preparation of&to understand the significance of the vast array of new features and developments coming to lightning, we cover a full overview of the What, Why,&How of the Lightning Netwo...
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CryptoQuikRead_247 - The Ancient Sin of Debt; How Bitcoin Can Make Amends [Darren Kleine] from 2019-05-14T20:39:04
With a really cool and succinct article from Darren Kleine (@_DKleine), today's read is on the "sins" of debt and usury, and how a good or bad monetary system will either encourage its corruption, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_247 - The Ancient Sin of Debt; How Bitcoin Can Make Amends [Darren Kleine] from 2019-05-14T20:39
With a really cool and succinct article from Darren Kleine (@_DKleine), today's read is on the "sins" of debt and usury, and how a good or bad monetary system will either encourage its corruption o...
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GuysTake_013 - Nodes vs Miners, Who Defines Bitcoin? from 2019-05-09T17:32:12
Today we cover more specifically the consequences and risks of a divorce between miners & the network of nodes. What could the miners do, are sybil attacks proof that nodes worthless, ...
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GuysTake_013 - Nodes vs Miners, Who Defines Bitcoin? from 2019-05-09T17:32
Today we cover more specifically the consequences and risks of a divorce between miners&the network of nodes. What could the miners do, are sybil attacks proof that nodes worthless, what exactly ar...
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GuysTake_012 - Full Nodes or Nothing, The Story of Validation [Part 1] from 2019-05-08T19:39:46
When we dig to the very base elements of Bitcoin, we find it is merely digital points. What make these integers different from identical ones on billions of other computers? It is th...
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GuysTake_012 - Full Nodes or Nothing, The Story of Validation [Part 1] from 2019-05-08T19:39
When we dig to the very base elements of Bitcoin, we find it is merely digital points. What make these integers different from identical ones on billions of other computers? It is the rules that re...
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CryptoQuikRead_246 - Errors in Satoshi's Whitepaper [David A. Harding] from 2019-05-07T18:38:20
Today we take a stroll through a collection of known errors, clarification, and terminology changes from the original whitepaper made available thanks to David A. Harding. The chain of signatures, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_246 - Errors in Satoshi's Whitepaper [David A. Harding] from 2019-05-07T18:38
Today we take a stroll through a collection of known errors, clarification, and terminology changes from the original whitepaper made available thanks to David A. Harding. The chain of signatures, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_245 - Bitcoin's Gravity [dergigi] from 2019-05-06T19:54:13
A great piece just full of fun analogies on how to imagine the force of nature that is #Bitcoin. Don't miss our first piece by @dergigi on the show today, exploring Bitcoin as a force of ideologic...
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CryptoQuikRead_245 - Bitcoin's Gravity [dergigi] from 2019-05-06T19:54
A great piece just full of fun analogies on how to imagine the force of nature that is #Bitcoin. Don't miss our first piece by @dergigi on the show today, exploring Bitcoin as a force of ideologica...
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CryptoQuikRead_243 - Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation [Part 2 - Tuur Demeester, Michiel Lescrauwaet] from 2019-05-03T18:05:30
The conclusion of the Adamant Capital report from Tuur Demeester & Michiel Lescrauwaet on the current state & sentiment of the Bitcoin markets. What could send the price lower? Where are we in the...
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CryptoQuikRead_243 - Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation [Part 2 - Tuur Demeester, Michiel Lescrauwaet] from 2019-05-03T18:05
The conclusion of the Adamant Capital report from Tuur Demeester&Michiel Lescrauwaet on the current state&sentiment of the Bitcoin markets. What could send the price lower? Where are we in the fina...
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CryptoQuikRead_243 - Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation [Part 1 - Tuur Demeester, Michiel Lescrauwaet] from 2019-05-02T18:29:11
Today & tomorrow we will be going through the Adamant Capital report by Tuur Demeester & Michiel Lescrauwaet on the current state and sentiment of the Bitcoin markets, and the data that backs up th...
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CryptoQuikRead_243 - Bitcoin in Heavy Accumulation [Part 1 - Tuur Demeester, Michiel Lescrauwaet] from 2019-05-02T18:29
Today&tomorrow we will be going through the Adamant Capital report by Tuur Demeester&Michiel Lescrauwaet on the current state and sentiment of the Bitcoin markets, and the data that backs up their ...
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CryptoQuikRead_242 - Neutrino is Dangerous to my Self-Sovereignty [Nicholas Dorier] from 2019-05-01T20:49:07
In the follow-up to yesterday's article, we are covering Nicolas Dorier's second article on Neutrino, detailing the systemic risks of widespread SPV, and breaking down the different types and speci...
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CryptoQuikRead_242 - Neutrino is Dangerous to my Self-Sovereignty [Nicholas Dorier] from 2019-05-01T20:49
In the follow-up to yesterday's article, we are covering Nicolas Dorier's second article on Neutrino, detailing the systemic risks of widespread SPV, and breaking down the different types and speci...
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CryptoQuikRead_241 - Why I Don't Celebrate Neutrino [Nicholas Dorier] from 2019-04-30T19:45:44
Today we read an article from developer @nicolasdorier that illustrates why Neutrino might not be the panacea some seem to treat it as. It certainly has its benefits, but its important to look cri...
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CryptoQuikRead_241 - Why I Don't Celebrate Neutrino [Nicholas Dorier] from 2019-04-30T19:45
Today we read an article from developer @nicolasdorier that illustrates why Neutrino might not be the panacea some seem to treat it as. It certainly has its benefits, but its important to look crit...
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CryptoChat_011 - Lightning, Paywall.Link, & the Bootstrap Bandit from 2019-04-29T21:06:40
Today we bring Tim K (@bootstrapbandit) on the show to talk all about the Lightning Network & a new tool he built at Paywall.Link. Don...
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CryptoQuikRead_240 - Rothbard on Utility Theory [Mises.org] from 2019-04-26T21:10:32
Today we grab a section out of one of the many incredible works by Murray N. Rothbard to discuss the idea of marginal utility and why money must be a good, and actually is not a unit of measure. A...
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CryptoQuikRead_240 - Rothbard on Utility Theory [Mises.org] from 2019-04-26T21:10
Today we grab a section out of one of the many incredible works by Murray N. Rothbard to discuss the idea of marginal utility and why money must be a good, and actually is not a unit of measure. As...
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The Case for Electronic Cash [Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-25T16:26:54
The full audio version of "The Case for Electronic Cash" by Jerry Brito.
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Cash is more than a method of payment. It is a fundamental tool for individual privacy and autonomy, and i...
GuysTake_011 - Why Lightning Sucks from 2019-04-24T19:33:15
Lightning is complicated, difficult to use, sometimes doesn't work properly, requires a lot of learning and experimentation, and is still a risky place to hold Bitcoin funds. Doesn...
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GuysTake_011 - Why Lightning Sucks from 2019-04-24T19:33
Lightning is complicated, difficult to use, sometimes doesn't work properly, requires a lot of learning and experimentation, and is still a risky place to hold Bitcoin funds. Doesn't this make it a...
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CryptoQuikRead_239 - How to Scale Bitcoin Without Changing a Thing [Part 2 - Nic Carter] from 2019-04-23T19:50:56
Even with #Bitcoin, are we destined for a future with intermediated payments? Will that give us a different color of the same system we're stuck with today, or will Bitcoin still prove to be a rev...
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CryptoQuikRead_239 - How to Scale Bitcoin Without Changing a Thing [Part 2 - Nic Carter] from 2019-04-23T19:50
Even with #Bitcoin, are we destined for a future with intermediated payments? Will that give us a different color of the same system we're stuck with today, or will Bitcoin still prove to be a revo...
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CryptoQuikRead_238 - How to Scale Bitcoin Without Changing a Thing [Part 1 - Nic Carter] from 2019-04-22T18:48:32
"I believe that institutional scaling presents an under-appreciated scaling vector, and it is quite possible to employ it without significantly compromising Bitcoin’s assurances."
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CryptoQuikRead_238 - How to Scale Bitcoin Without Changing a Thing [Part 1 - Nic Carter] from 2019-04-22T18:48
"I believe that institutional scaling presents an under-appreciated scaling vector, and it is quite possible to employ it without significantly compromising Bitcoin’s assurances." Don't miss today'...
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CryptoQuikRead_237 - Casa Keymaster Security - Mobile Key Overview [Jameson Lopp] from 2019-04-18T19:22:49
Today we go through a recent blog post by Jameson Lopp and the Casa team that goes into the clever, meticulous design used to ensure the security and recoverability of the mobile key for their Keym...
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CryptoQuikRead_237 - Casa Keymaster Security - Mobile Key Overview [Jameson Lopp] from 2019-04-18T19:22
Today we go through a recent blog post by Jameson Lopp and the Casa team that goes into the clever, meticulous design used to ensure the security and recoverability of the mobile key for their Keym...
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CryptoQuikRead_236 - How Is Fiat Money Possible [Part 3 - Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-17T21:22:49
Today we reach the conclusion of Hoppe's incredible piece on the nature of fractional reserve banking and the contradictions of fiat money. With the final section, "From Deposit & Loan Banking to ...
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CryptoQuikRead_236 - How Is Fiat Money Possible [Part 3 - Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-17T21:22
Today we reach the conclusion of Hoppe's incredible piece on the nature of fractional reserve banking and the contradictions of fiat money. With the final section, "From Deposit&Loan Banking to Fra...
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CryptoQuikRead_235 - How Is Fiat Money Possible [Part 2 - Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-16T22:21:29
Continuing from yesterday's episode with Part 2 of our journey through Hoppe's amazing piece on the nature and origins of the fiat money system. Could such a system ever work in a competitive mark...
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CryptoQuikRead_235 - How Is Fiat Money Possible [Part 2 - Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-16T22:21
Continuing from yesterday's episode with Part 2 of our journey through Hoppe's amazing piece on the nature and origins of the fiat money system. Could such a system ever work in a competitive marke...
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CryptoQuikRead_234 - How is Fiat Money Possible [Part 1 - Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-15T20:02:11
"Fiat money is the term for a medium of exchange which is neither a commercial commodity, a consumer, or a producer good, nor title to any such commodity: i.e., irredeemable paper money."
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CryptoQuikRead_234 - How is Fiat Money Possible [Part 1 - Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-15T20:02
"Fiat money is the term for a medium of exchange which is neither a commercial commodity, a consumer, or a producer good, nor title to any such commodity: i.e., irredeemable paper money." Another g...
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CryptoQuikRead_233 - Exit & Freedom [Nick Szabo] from 2019-04-12T18:46:27
Building on the principles discussed in our exploration of the consequences of a society without cash, we apply it to a broader principle of how the power to exit acts as a check on abuse and centr...
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CryptoQuikRead_233 - Exit&Freedom [Nick Szabo] from 2019-04-12T18:46
Building on the principles discussed in our exploration of the consequences of a society without cash, we apply it to a broader principle of how the power to exit acts as a check on abuse and centr...
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CryptoQuikRead_232 - The Case for Electronic Cash [Part 3 - Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-11T20:06:09
The conclusion of The Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry Brito. Today we close out this amazing piece with the moral case for why we should not only refrain from demonizing and restricting digital ...
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CryptoQuikRead_232 - The Case for Electronic Cash [Part 3 - Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-11T20:06
The conclusion of The Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry Brito. Today we close out this amazing piece with the moral case for why we should not only refrain from demonizing and restricting digital c...
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CryptoQuikRead_231 - The Case for Electronic Cash [Part 2 - Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-10T20:19:16
Continuing with Part 2 of "The Case for Electronic Cash" from Jerry Brito and CoinCenter.org. The consequences of total dependence upon financial intermediaries and how it is already affecting peo...
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CryptoQuikRead_231 - The Case for Electronic Cash [Part 2 - Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-10T20:19
Continuing with Part 2 of "The Case for Electronic Cash" from Jerry Brito and CoinCenter.org. The consequences of total dependence upon financial intermediaries and how it is already affecting peop...
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CryptoQuikRead_230 - The Case for Electronic Cash [Part 1 - Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-09T21:16
Today we begin the long, and rewarding journey through Jerry Brito's & Coin Center's Report on "The Case for Electronic Cash." This is an incredible work present several case studies to explore the...
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CryptoQuikRead_230 - The Case for Electronic Cash [Part 1 - Jerry Brito] from 2019-04-09T21:16
Today we begin the long, and rewarding journey through Jerry Brito's&Coin Center's Report on "The Case for Electronic Cash." This is an incredible work present several case studies to explore the t...
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CryptoQuikRead_229 - Why the State Demands Control of Money [Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-08T17:25:23
What if there was a clear and obvious reason that the state monopolizes the production of money, that after understanding, you simply cannot unsee? What if the story we are all told of governments...
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CryptoQuikRead_229 - Why the State Demands Control of Money [Hans Hermann Hoppe] from 2019-04-08T17:25
What if there was a clear and obvious reason that the state monopolizes the production of money, that after understanding, you simply cannot unsee? What if the story we are all told of governments ...
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CryptoQuikRead_228 - Minimum Viable Decentralization [John Backus] from 2019-04-05T20:27:43
Today we cover another great piece on the topic of what can be learned from the history of P2P protocols and their successes & failures. Written by John Backus @backus, his article "Minimum Viable...
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CryptoQuikRead_228 - Minimum Viable Decentralization [John Backus] from 2019-04-05T20:27
Today we cover another great piece on the topic of what can be learned from the history of P2P protocols and their successes&failures. Written by John Backus @backus, his article "Minimum Viable De...
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CryptoQuikRead_227 - Bitcoin is a Hedge Against the Cashless Society [Hasu & Su Zhu] from 2019-04-04T21:21:28
Another excellent piece from Su Zhu and Hasu at uncommoncore.co and a great introduction to the dynamics and risks at stake in the cashless society. Is the cashless society the frictionless future...
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CryptoQuikRead_227 - Bitcoin is a Hedge Against the Cashless Society [Hasu&Su Zhu] from 2019-04-04T21:21
Another excellent piece from Su Zhu and Hasu at uncommoncore.co and a great introduction to the dynamics and risks at stake in the cashless society. Is the cashless society the frictionless future ...
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CryptoChat_010 - Guy & the PayPod on How Bitcoin Will Change the World from 2019-04-03T17:27:48
Today we have another great chat with Scott from The PayPod discussing the impact and philosophy of Bitcoin! Check out Soarpay.com, the sponsor for T...
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CryptoChat_010 - Guy&the PayPod on How Bitcoin Will Change the World from 2019-04-03T17:27
Today we have another great chat with Scott from The PayPod discussing the impact and philosophy of Bitcoin! Check out Soarpay.com, the sponsor for The PayPod and where the are hosted to find many ...
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My Favorite Bitcoin Holidays? A Walk with Guy Through Bitcoin History from 2019-04-02T20:14:16
Today we go on an extended walk through some of the most epic days of Bitcoin's and the Cryptoconomy's history! Telling some of my personal experiences and the crazy times that were had. D...
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CryptoQuikRead_226 - Schnorr Signatures & The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin [Lucas Nuzzi] from 2019-03-29T21:22:55
"The need for privacy and the long-term sustainability of Bitcoin without block rewards are perhaps two of the most most alarming issues surrounding Bitcoin today." - Lucas Nuzzi
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CryptoQuikRead_226 - Schnorr Signatures&The Inevitability of Privacy in Bitcoin [Lucas Nuzzi] from 2019-03-29T21:22
"The need for privacy and the long-term sustainability of Bitcoin without block rewards are perhaps two of the most most alarming issues surrounding Bitcoin today." - Lucas Nuzzi Could Schnorr sign...
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CryptoQuikRead_225 - Bitcoin & the Promise of Independent Property Rights [Hasu & Su Zhu] from 2019-03-28T21:44:52
"That is the key innovation of Bitcoin: It detaches property rights from the legal system and the monopoly on violence. For the first time, we can have property that does not rely on a local author...
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CryptoQuikRead_225 - Bitcoin&the Promise of Independent Property Rights [Hasu&Su Zhu] from 2019-03-28T21:44
"That is the key innovation of Bitcoin: It detaches property rights from the legal system and the monopoly on violence. For the first time, we can have property that does not rely on a local author...
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CryptoQuikRead_224 - Bitcoin is a Social Creature, Mycelium Part 2 [Brandon Quittem] from 2019-03-27T21:40:09
"To the casual observer, most of bitcoin’s life is boring?—?months go by with relatively little action. Then when conditions are just right, bitcoin explodes into life, growing massively in size, a...
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CryptoQuikRead_224 - Bitcoin is a Social Creature, Mycelium Part 2 [Brandon Quittem] from 2019-03-27T21:40
"To the casual observer, most of bitcoin’s life is boring?—?months go by with relatively little action. Then when conditions are just right, bitcoin explodes into life, growing massively in size, a...
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GuysTake_009 - A Trust Model Comparison: Bitcoin vs. the Mighty Dollar from 2019-03-26T20:40:03
Disclaimer: If you are an ardent supporter of government projects, believe in the moral fiber of politicians, and in the power of voting to produce the greater good,...
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GuysTake_009 - A Trust Model Comparison: Bitcoin vs. the Mighty Dollar from 2019-03-26T20:40
Disclaimer: If you are an ardent supporter of government projects, believe in the moral fiber of politicians, and in the power of voting to produce the greater good, then you will likely not enjoy ...
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CryptoQuikRead_223 - Ethereum Architecture is Flawed [Hugo Nguyen] from 2019-03-25T21:56:02
"Ethereum’s #1 problem is not a problem of product-market-fit but one of engineering soundness. Ethereum architecture is based on a flawed and unscalable idea: it assumes that “smart contracts” nee...
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CryptoQuikRead_223 - Ethereum Architecture is Flawed [Hugo Nguyen] from 2019-03-25T21:56
"Ethereum’s #1 problem is not a problem of product-market-fit but one of engineering soundness. Ethereum architecture is based on a flawed and unscalable idea: it assumes that “smart contracts” nee...
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CryptoQuikRead_222 - Decentralized Disruption, Who Dares Wins: BitTorrent Lesson 4 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-22T19:16:53
So what is the outcome of decentralized disruption? Who are the winners when there is a shift to an entirely new paradigm? Don't miss the conclusion of Simon Morris's excellent series on the lesso...
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CryptoQuikRead_222 - Decentralized Disruption, Who Dares Wins: BitTorrent Lesson 4 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-22T19:16
So what is the outcome of decentralized disruption? Who are the winners when there is a shift to an entirely new paradigm? Don't miss the conclusion of Simon Morris's excellent series on the lesson...
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CryptoQuikRead_221 - Intent, Complexity, & Governance Paradox: BitTorrent Lesson 3 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-21T16:51:09
In the context of Part 2, knowing that the true value of decentralization is in breaking rules, Simon Morris now explores the consequences of a systems "intent," the incredible complexity and balan...
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CryptoQuikRead_221 - Intent, Complexity,&Governance Paradox: BitTorrent Lesson 3 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-21T16:51
In the context of Part 2, knowing that the true value of decentralization is in breaking rules, Simon Morris now explores the consequences of a systems "intent," the incredible complexity and balan...
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CryptoQuikRead_220 - Not Breaking Rules? You’re Doing it Wrong: BitTorrent Lesson 2 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-20T20:33:31
Today we cover Part 2 of Simon Morris's excellent series on the lessons we can take from BitTorrent to better understand the goals and value of Bitcoin and Crypto. If it doesn't break the rules, t...
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CryptoQuikRead_219 - Why BitTorrent Mattered: Lesson 1 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-19T20:08:15
Bitcoin is an incredibly novel technology, there are few technologies that can boast the revolutionary impact that Bitcoin potentially has. However, there is still much to be learned from its prede...
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CryptoQuikRead_219 - Why BitTorrent Mattered: Lesson 1 [Simon Morris] from 2019-03-19T20:08
Bitcoin is an incredibly novel technology, there are few technologies that can boast the revolutionary impact that Bitcoin potentially has. However, there is still much to be learned from its prede...
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CryptoQuikRead_218 - The Resolution of the Big Block Experiment [Lucas Nuzzi] from 2019-03-18T19:33:42
If you missed the insanity that happened during the "Block Wars" that extended from 2014 all the way to late 2017 with the split of Bitcoin Cash, then you aren't going to want to miss this article....
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CryptoQuikRead_218 - The Resolution of the Big Block Experiment [Lucas Nuzzi] from 2019-03-18T19:33
If you missed the insanity that happened during the "Block Wars" that extended from 2014 all the way to late 2017 with the split of Bitcoin Cash, then you aren't going to want to miss this article....
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CryptoQuikRead_217 - Sovereignty as a Service [Jeremy Welch] from 2019-03-14T19:37:28
Another short but excellent blog post covering the incredible work being done by the team over at @CasaHODL. For the first time we are seeing a user friendly application of one of Bitcoin's core d...
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CryptoQuikRead_217 - Sovereignty as a Service [Jeremy Welch] from 2019-03-14T19:37
Another short but excellent blog post covering the incredible work being done by the team over at @CasaHODL. For the first time we are seeing a user friendly application of one of Bitcoin's core di...
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CryptoQuikRead_216 - Formalizing & Securing Network Relationships [Part 3 - Nick Szabo] from 2019-03-12T18:51:23
The risks and benefits of chargebacks, the nature of the trade-off between contract enforcement & ensuring privacy, the elements of splitting contractual elements (the ripped dollar bill) to minimi...
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CryptoQuikRead_216 - Formalizing&Securing Network Relationships [Part 3 - Nick Szabo] from 2019-03-12T18:51
The risks and benefits of chargebacks, the nature of the trade-off between contract enforcement&ensuring privacy, the elements of splitting contractual elements (the ripped dollar bill) to minimize...
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CryptoQuikRead_215 - Formalizing & Securing Network Relationships [Part 2 - Nick Szabo] from 2019-02-27T18:33:35
Listening to an essay from 1997 that details specific challenges of something as distant as the smart contract embedded into the Lightning Network shows the unbelievable foresight of the cypherpunk...
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CryptoQuikRead_215 - Formalizing&Securing Network Relationships [Part 2 - Nick Szabo] from 2019-02-27T18:33
Listening to an essay from 1997 that details specific challenges of something as distant as the smart contract embedded into the Lightning Network shows the unbelievable foresight of the cypherpunk...
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CryptoQuikRead_214 - Formalizing & Securing Network Relationships [Part 1 - Nick Szabo] from 2019-02-21T16:36:45
"... The movement from static to dynamic media promises to bring about a fourth cost revolution in the related areas of jurisdiction, trust, and security. Impacts on business will be felt in law, a...
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CryptoQuikRead_214 - Formalizing&Securing Network Relationships [Part 1 - Nick Szabo] from 2019-02-21T16:36
"... The movement from static to dynamic media promises to bring about a fourth cost revolution in the related areas of jurisdiction, trust, and security. Impacts on business will be felt in law, a...
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CryptoQuikRead_213 - MuSig, A New MultiSignature Standard [Andrew Poelstra] from 2019-02-19T19:52:02
Cypherpunks write code!
Last year we received a published paper detailing the advantages of the new MuSig Multisignature Scheme, this year we get the code. From the incredible minds at B...
CryptoQuikRead_213 - MuSig, A New MultiSignature Standard [Andrew Poelstra] from 2019-02-19T19:52
Cypherpunks write code! Last year we received a published paper detailing the advantages of the new MuSig Multisignature Scheme, this year we get the code. From the incredible minds at Blockstream,...
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CryptoChat_009 - Holding the Lightning Torch on the Rollo & Slappy Show from 2019-02-13T17:29:25
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CryptoChat_009 - Holding the Lightning Torch on the Rollo&Slappy Show from 2019-02-13T17:29
If you haven't heard it yet, don't miss an awesome discussion all about Lightning and holding the Torch with the guys from the Rollo and Slappy Show! Check out @RolloMcFloogle and @Slappy_Jones_2 f...
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CryptoQuikRead_212 - 5 Things I've Learned After a Year in Bitcoin [Jason Smith] from 2019-02-11T18:18:44
Another great Twitter thread to cover, this time from Jason Smith (@iwearahoodie) covering 5 incredible lessons learned after a year of being seriously into #Bitcoin. Are they the same things you'...
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CryptoQuikRead_212 - 5 Things I've Learned After a Year in Bitcoin [Jason Smith] from 2019-02-11T18:18
Another great Twitter thread to cover, this time from Jason Smith (@iwearahoodie) covering 5 incredible lessons learned after a year of being seriously into #Bitcoin. Are they the same things you'v...
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The Human Threat Model [JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-08T20:39:45
"The human threat model is intended to help humans better understand the threats to that they face and the tools available, and in active development, for defense. Threats are assumed to be any act...
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The Bitcoin Threat Model [JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-08T20:35:23
"The Bitcoin Threat Model is intended to help developers, investors and users better understand the security of Bitcoin. Threats are assumed to be any activity designed to prevent Bitcoin from acco...
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CryptoQuikRead_211 - Human Threat Model [Part 2 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-08T19:20:04
The conclusion of the epic "Human Threat Model," by @jwweatherman. An exploration of the attack surface that exists in the very nature of being human, and how #Bitcoin could both change the fundam...
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CryptoQuikRead_211 - Human Threat Model [Part 2 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-08T19:20
The conclusion of the epic "Human Threat Model," by @jwweatherman. An exploration of the attack surface that exists in the very nature of being human, and how #Bitcoin could both change the fundame...
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CryptoQuikRead_210 - Human Threat Model [Part 1 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-07T18:21:59
Today we begin the "Human Threat Model," by @jwweatherman. An exploration of the attack surface that exists in the very nature of being human, and how #Bitcoin could both change the fundamental re...
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CryptoQuikRead_210 - Human Threat Model [Part 1 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-07T18:21
Today we begin the "Human Threat Model," by @jwweatherman. An exploration of the attack surface that exists in the very nature of being human, and how #Bitcoin could both change the fundamental rel...
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CryptoQuikRead_209 - The Bitcoin Threat Model [Part 2 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-05T20:20:38
Continuing with Part 2 of the journey through the "Bitcoin Threat Model" to be followed by the "Human Threat Model," both by @jwweatherman. An exploration and extensively sourced work on the many ...
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CryptoQuikRead_209 - The Bitcoin Threat Model [Part 2 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-05T20:20
Continuing with Part 2 of the journey through the "Bitcoin Threat Model" to be followed by the "Human Threat Model," both by @jwweatherman. An exploration and extensively sourced work on the many d...
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CryptoQuikRead_208 - The Bitcoin Threat Model [Part 1 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-04T19:00:25
Beginning the journey through the "Bitcoin Threat Model" and the "Human Threat Model," both by @jwweatherman. An exploration and extensively sourced work on the many different attack vectors and a...
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CryptoQuikRead_208 - The Bitcoin Threat Model [Part 1 - JW Weatherman] from 2019-02-04T19:00
Beginning the journey through the "Bitcoin Threat Model" and the "Human Threat Model," both by @jwweatherman. An exploration and extensively sourced work on the many different attack vectors and ad...
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CryptoQuikRead_207 - Announcing the Casa Browser Extension [Nick Neuman] from 2019-02-01T19:22:46
A lot of announcements and tons of exciting stuff to talk about in this episode! Plus our read of the just released Casa Browser Extension, inspired by the Lightning Joule extension, which is one...
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CryptoQuikRead_207 - Announcing the Casa Browser Extension [Nick Neuman] from 2019-02-01T19:22
A lot of announcements and tons of exciting stuff to talk about in this episode! Plus our read of the just released Casa Browser Extension, inspired by the Lightning Joule extension, which is one o...
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GuysTake_008 - The Lightning of my TCP, or How the Internet is Too Complex to Work from 2019-01-30T19:36
A follow-up to our previous episode "#Reckless to Wumbology" discussing the incredible development and new tools coming to the Lightning Network. As well as an exploration of the vast complexity of...
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CryptoQuikRead_206 - #Reckless to Wumbology, The Lightning Network Build-Out [Arjun Balaji] from 2019-01-28T17:28:07
Want to know more about Neutrino, Submarine Swaps, Dual Funded Channels, Atomic Multi-Path Payments, Splicing, Sphinx Send, Eltoo, Channel Factories, Watchtowers, and the incredible list of new pro...
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CryptoQuikRead_206 - #Reckless to Wumbology, The Lightning Network Build-Out [Arjun Balaji] from 2019-01-28T17:28
Want to know more about Neutrino, Submarine Swaps, Dual Funded Channels, Atomic Multi-Path Payments, Splicing, Sphinx Send, Eltoo, Channel Factories, Watchtowers, and the incredible list of new pro...
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CryptoQuikRead_205 - Seven Guiding Principles at Casa [Jeremy Welch] from 2019-01-25T19:42
Today we go through a short but awesome run down of the guiding principles at Casa. This company is one to watch very closely over the coming years, and a few things from their recent post make thi...
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CryptoQuikRead_204 - Winner Takes All, or Winner Takes Most? [Misir Mahmudov&Yassine Elmandjra] from 2019-01-23T19:00
"Today, there exists over 180 currencies across 195 countries. The reason for such an anomaly is simple: there is no free market for currencies. Currency markets have been restricted by governments...
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CryptoQuikRead_203 - Dont Trust, Verify, A Bitcoin Private Case Study [CoinMetrics] from 2019-01-17T19:10
An amazing piece of work from the Coinmetrics.io team using the full node data and some serious digging to uncover the fraudulent minting of over 2 Million BTCP coins! A detailed analysis of how an...
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CryptoQuikRead_202 - Satoshi's Vision is a Silly Endeavor [Dan Held] from 2019-01-15T20:42
Taking a dive into an awesome tweetstorm from @danheld about the context, purpose, and beginnings of Bitcoin and whether it meets "Satoshi's Vision," or if it even matters. Follow Dan on Twitter an...
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What's Really Driving the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon? - The Iterative Capital Thesis from 2019-01-12T19:56:36
The complete reading of Iterative.Capital's incredible and thorough thesis, "What's Really Driving the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon?"
For more excellent research and news in the Bi...
GuysTake_007 - Happy Birthday Bitcoin, Looking Back on 10 Insane Years from 2019-01-03T21:28
A look at the crazy past, the present, and the future of Bitcoin and where I think things are headed. Bitcoin is here to stay and there are 10 amazing years of Proof-of-Survival I can point to as e...
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CryptoQuikRead_201 - Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism - Mycelium [Part 1 - Brandon Quittem] from 2019-01-02T22:36:10
"Bitcoin is a living system constantly changing based on environmental stimuli. True understanding is a moving target unlikely to ever be hit.
Attempting to answer the question “what is bitcoin...
CryptoQuikRead_201 - Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism - Mycelium [Part 1 - Brandon Quittem] from 2019-01-02T22:36
"Bitcoin is a living system constantly changing based on environmental stimuli. True understanding is a moving target unlikely to ever be hit. Attempting to answer the question “what is bitcoin,” I...
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CryptoChat_008 - Under the Lightning Hood with @petoveritas, @Crypt0PuraVida, & @CoinBeezy from 2018-12-20T15:54:42
After setting up and experiencing The Lightning Network firsthand as part of the Casa Node crew and our own little pool of channel liquidity and management, we bring 3 guests on the show to talk al...
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CryptoChat_008 - Under the Lightning Hood with @petoveritas, @Crypt0PuraVida,&@CoinBeezy from 2018-12-20T15:54
After setting up and experiencing The Lightning Network firsthand as part of the Casa Node crew and our own little pool of channel liquidity and management, we bring 3 guests on the show to talk al...
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CryptoQuikRead_200 - Why Bitcoin's Lightning Network is Ingenious [Todd Kronenberg] from 2018-12-18T17:02
“by having the double accounting system rely on and be backed up by the triple accounting system you get the throughput of the double with the security and trustlessness of the triple.” -Todd Krone...
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CryptoQuikRead_199 - Confidential Auditing [Nick Szabo] from 2018-12-13T19:58
"Auditing controls might fairly be called the security protocols of capitalism… [but] auditing is in deep conflict with efforts towards greater privacy." -Nick Szabo Don't miss a great read and con...
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CryptoQuikRead_198 - Unpacking Bitcoin's Social Contract [Hasu] from 2018-12-11T22:30
"When Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin, he did not invent a new social contract. Satoshi did something else—he leveraged technology to solve many problems of past implementations and implemented t...
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GUYSTAKE_006 - 100,000! ANCHOR.FM&MASTERING BITCOIN from 2018-12-07T20:30
We hit a major milestone in the show! Thank you to everyone who has stayed with us and contributed to the show! Today I'm covering the past&future of the show and new things coming to Cryptoconomy....
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CryptoQuikRead_197 - An Honest Account of Fiat Money [Hasu&Su Zhu] from 2018-12-06T21:34:40
"While sovereign money has undeniably led to a lot of abuse, as evidenced by instances of hyperinflation, seizures or capital controls, the absence of all control brings problems of its own." Today...
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CryptoQuikRead_196 - Understanding the Technical Side of Bitcoin [Pierre Rochard] from 2018-12-05T19:03:27
Curious about where to start or what to possibly focus on when learning Bitcoin, Lightning, and the fundamentals of the most important tools in this ecosystem? Look no further, today we read and di...
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CryptoQuikRead_195 - Estimating and Minimizing Consumer Worry [Nick Szabo] from 2018-12-03T20:02:26
What are the mental barriers that cause prospective consumers to drop off from interacting with an e-commerce business? How can we measure or estimate the worry caused by excessive forms, ads, and ...
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CryptoQuikRead_194 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 9] from 2018-11-30T19:20:18
"Far from being a novelty or prototype, Bitcoin has shown itself to be a threatening alternative to present-day organizational conventions and to the large commercial businesses that rely on them."...
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CryptoQuikRead_193 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 8] from 2018-11-29T19:41:19
"Thus, Bitcoin is the first free, non-commercial software project with the intensity of a commercial product." Today we hit Section 6 of the Iterative.Capital Thesis exploring the incentives and fe...
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CryptoQuikRead_192 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 7] from 2018-11-28T19:34:36
"In practice, the Proof-of-Stake approach proves to be problematic in systems where the coins “at stake” were not created through Proof-of-Work." Today we explore how Proof-of-Work enables the Bitc...
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CryptoQuikRead_191 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 6] from 2018-11-27T20:26:34
"How does Bitcoin use a peer-to-peer network of computers to enforce the rules agreed upon by human participants?" Today we explore how Proof-of-Work enables the Bitcoin system to achieve consensus...
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CryptoQuikRead_190 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 5] from 2018-11-26T19:29:33
Today we explore how the Bitcoin incentives bring together disparate groups of developers, technical operators, and users to maintain and expand the Bitcoin system in a free and collaborative envir...
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GuysTake_005 - New Video - Casa Node Setup&Router Configuration from 2018-11-21T19:48:51
A short episode today introducing the video walkthrough of the Initial Setup of the Casa Bitcoin&Lightning Node, and configuring your router to be both accepting requests for blockchain data for Bi...
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CryptoQuikRead_189 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 4] from 2018-11-20T21:16:55
Today we continue through Section 3 of the Iterative.Capital Thesis on the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon exploring the Open Source process, how free software dominated the internet, and how the hacker ...
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CryptoQuikRead_188 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 3] from 2018-11-19T20:40:29
Continuing our journey through the incredibly thorough and knowledgeable work by iterative.capital that focuses and clarifies the highly misunderstood narrative around the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon...
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CryptoQuikRead_187 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 2] from 2018-11-16T22:00:14
Continuing our journey through the incredibly thorough and knowledgeable work by iterative.capital that focuses and clarifies the highly misunderstood narrative around the Cryptocurrency Phenomenon...
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CryptoQuikRead_186 - The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon [Part 1] from 2018-11-15T21:37:09
Today we start our journey through the incredibly thorough and knowledgeable work by iterative.capital that focuses and clarifies the highly misunderstood narrative around the Cryptocurrency Phenom...
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CryptoQuikRead_185 - Sorry Bitcoin is Still Anarchist [Zack Voell] from 2018-11-14T19:26:54
"Government involvement is usually limited to mediating the clash between incumbents and innovators. Rarely is government the incumbent." -Zack Voell Think Bitcoin is apolitical? Think again. You d...
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CryptoQuikRead_184 - How Many Forks Does it Take to Get to the Center of Satoshi's Vision [Guy Swann from 2018-11-14T00:16:07
There is this wonderfully vague idea that I endlessly hear about called “Satoshi’s Vision.” I’ve read many differing supposed “visions” of Satoshi’s and the only constant between them is that it wa...
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CryptoQuikRead_184 - How Many Forks Does it Take to Get to the Center of Satoshi's Vision [Guy Swann from 2018-11-14T00:16
There is this wonderfully vague idea that I endlessly hear about called “Satoshi’s Vision.” I’ve read many differing supposed “visions” of Satoshi’s and the only constant between them is that it wa...
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CryptoQuikRead_183 - Custody in the Age of Digital Assets [Fidelity Digital] from 2018-11-12T18:26
"What we’re witnessing with digital assets is a move back toward bearer assets — now that users of these protocols have figured out how to trade them quickly, digitally, and without any possibility...
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CryptoQuikRead_182 - The Business of Bitcoin Cold Storage [Nik Bhatia] from 2018-11-09T19:05:41
"As investors reallocate their current investment portfolios to include bitcoin, trillions of dollars in market capitalization appreciation becomes an inevitable result" -Nik Bhatia
Another ex...
CryptoQuikRead_182 - The Business of Bitcoin Cold Storage [Nik Bhatia] from 2018-11-09T19:05
"As investors reallocate their current investment portfolios to include bitcoin, trillions of dollars in market capitalization appreciation becomes an inevitable result" -Nik Bhatia Another excelle...
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CryptoQuikRead_181 - Bitcoin's Existential Crisis [Nic Carter] from 2018-11-08T20:11:53
"If you build a system meant by its very nature to dis-intermediate third parties and exist independent of governments and legal systems, you have an identity problem." -Nic Carter
Another exce...
CryptoQuikRead_181 - Bitcoin's Existential Crisis [Nic Carter] from 2018-11-08T20:11
"If you build a system meant by its very nature to dis-intermediate third parties and exist independent of governments and legal systems, you have an identity problem." -Nic Carter Another excellen...
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GuysTake_004 - The First Long Read & Coming Reading List from 2018-11-07T19:08:10
Another short update episode releasing the very first long read in full! Visit the website to listen, download, or read Szabo's Shelling Out! Plus the upcoming works I'm tackling, and more updates ...
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GuysTake_004 - The First Long Read&Coming Reading List from 2018-11-07T19:08
Another short update episode releasing the very first long read in full! Visit the website to listen, download, or read Szabo's Shelling Out! Plus the upcoming works I'm tackling, and more updates ...
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Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Nick Szabo] from 2018-11-07T17:16:30
"The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern humans to solve problems of cooperation that other animals cannot – including problems of reciprocal altruism, kin altruism, and ...
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GuysTake_003 - Casa Node First Impressions & A Few Updates from 2018-11-06T18:49:18
First impressions of the Casa Node and first issues standing in the way of my Lightning playtime. The pain is real. Plus, a few updates and what we have in the works for Cryptoconomy.Life in this...
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GuysTake_003 - Casa Node First Impressions&A Few Updates from 2018-11-06T18:49
First impressions of the Casa Node and first issues standing in the way of my Lightning playtime. The pain is real. Plus, a few updates and what we have in the works for Cryptoconomy.Life in this b...
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CryptoQuikRead_180 - Bitcoin at 10 [beautyon_] from 2018-11-05T18:53
@Beautyon_ takes us through the realizations&predecessors that set the stage for Bitcoin and the incredible impact this technology has had, and will continue to have on the entire world. #Bitcoin, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_179 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 4 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-11-02T19:24:56
Part 4! Today we finally conclude Nick Szabo's essential work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money! A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes of...
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CryptoQuikRead_179 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 4 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-11-02T19:24
Part 4! Today we finally conclude Nick Szabo's essential work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money! A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes of...
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CryptoQuikRead_178 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 3 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-11-01T19:43:59
Part 3! of our journey through Nick Szabo's incredible work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money. A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes of t...
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CryptoQuikRead_178 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 3 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-11-01T19:43
Part 3! of our journey through Nick Szabo's incredible work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money. A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes of t...
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CryptoQuikRead_177 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 2 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-10-31T18:33
Part 2! of our journey through Nick Szabo's incredible work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money. A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes of t...
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CryptoQuikRead_176 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 1 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-10-30T18:28:34
Today we begin our journey through Nick Szabo's incredible work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money. A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes ...
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CryptoQuikRead_176 - Shelling Out - The Origins of Money [Part 1 - Nick Szabo] from 2018-10-30T18:28
Today we begin our journey through Nick Szabo's incredible work, Shelling Out: The Origins of Money. A critical piece to understanding money, its rich history, and key properties through the eyes o...
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CryptoQuikRead_175 - Open Sourcing Subzero [Alok Menghrajani @CashApp] from 2018-10-29T19:14:23
Alok Menghrajani, security engineer at Square, details their Multisig & Hardware key management system for the cold storage of customer's Cash app Bitcoin balances. Plus their decision to embrace t...
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CryptoQuikRead_175 - Open Sourcing Subzero [Alok Menghrajani @CashApp] from 2018-10-29T19:14
Alok Menghrajani, security engineer at Square, details their Multisig&Hardware key management system for the cold storage of customer's Cash app Bitcoin balances. Plus their decision to embrace the...
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CryptoQuikRead_174 - How Cypherpunks Changed Economics for the Digital Age [Vijay Boyapati] from 2018-10-26T17:43:13
Vijay Boyapati details in a Twitter thread, the brilliant but subtle shift that cypherpunks discovered in the economic concept of scarcity that made the revolutionary technology of #Bitcoin possibl...
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CryptoQuikRead_174 - How Cypherpunks Changed Economics for the Digital Age [Vijay Boyapati] from 2018-10-26T17:43
Vijay Boyapati details in a Twitter thread, the brilliant but subtle shift that cypherpunks discovered in the economic concept of scarcity that made the revolutionary technology of #Bitcoin possibl...
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CryptoQuikRead_173 - Reimagining Trusted Intermediaries [Avichal Garg] from 2018-10-25T20:48:03
We are in the midst of a global collapse in trusted institutions. #Bitcoin and blockchain tech enable networks & economies that mitigate dependence on these intermediaries in the world's largest ma...
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CryptoQuikRead_173 - Reimagining Trusted Intermediaries [Avichal Garg] from 2018-10-25T20:48
We are in the midst of a global collapse in trusted institutions. #Bitcoin and blockchain tech enable networks&economies that mitigate dependence on these intermediaries in the world's largest mark...
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CryptoQuikRead_172 - Bitcoin's Distribution Was Fair [Dan Held] from 2018-10-24T16:39:57
As Bitcoin continues to succeed against all odds, there are more and more claims of how its “unfair” that early investors have profited. Dan Held argues in an excellent summary that Bitcoin was, a...
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CryptoQuikRead_172 - Bitcoin's Distribution Was Fair [Dan Held] from 2018-10-24T16:39
As Bitcoin continues to succeed against all odds, there are more and more claims of how its “unfair” that early investors have profited. Dan Held argues in an excellent summary that Bitcoin was, an...
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CryptoChat_007 - The One and Only @Real_Vijay from 2018-10-23T17:14:57
Today we chat with @Real_Vijay about Bitcoin maximalism, growing internet censorship, standing up to Google, the troubles of BCH, the fall of Bitmain, and much more!
Don’t miss today's chat wit...
CryptoChat_007 - The One and Only @Real_Vijay from 2018-10-23T17:14
Today we chat with @Real_Vijay about Bitcoin maximalism, growing internet censorship, standing up to Google, the troubles of BCH, the fall of Bitmain, and much more! Don’t miss today's chat with Vi...
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CryptoQuikRead_171 - Mr Fantastic, A Response to Nouriel Roubini’s Senate Testimony [Daniel Goldman] from 2018-10-22T19:20:49
“It’s a shame, then, given all the things he was saying that indeed needed saying, that the useful shade Roubini throws is sullied by a number of misrepresentations, exaggerations, and outright fal...
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CryptoQuikRead_171 - Mr Fantastic, A Response to Nouriel Roubini’s Senate Testimony [Daniel Goldman] from 2018-10-22T19:20
“It’s a shame, then, given all the things he was saying that indeed needed saying, that the useful shade Roubini throws is sullied by a number of misrepresentations, exaggerations, and outright fal...
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CryptoQuikRead_170 - If Games Drive Crypto Mass Adoption, Then it Will be Grassroots [Tony Sheng] from 2018-10-19T19:39:12
There seems to be something inherently complementary between scarce digital goods in the video game world, and the systems that ensure the scarcity of cryptocurrency tokens. But do games like Fortn...
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CryptoQuikRead_170 - If Games Drive Crypto Mass Adoption, Then it Will be Grassroots [Tony Sheng] from 2018-10-19T19:39
There seems to be something inherently complementary between scarce digital goods in the video game world, and the systems that ensure the scarcity of cryptocurrency tokens. But do games like Fortn...
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CryptoQuikRead_169 - Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning [Bryan Vu] from 2018-10-18T15:32:33
Another awesome post on the Lightning Labs blog, this time breaking down Alice’s search for privacy and a great mobile user experience with Bitcoin. Neutrino might be the solution she has been wai...
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CryptoQuikRead_169 - Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning [Bryan Vu] from 2018-10-18T15:32
Another awesome post on the Lightning Labs blog, this time breaking down Alice’s search for privacy and a great mobile user experience with Bitcoin. Neutrino might be the solution she has been wait...
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GuysTake_002 - The Lightning App I Want to Use from 2018-10-17T20:01:09
Lightning is slowly coming into its own. With simple working wallets, and dedicated plug-and-play nodes around the corner, its time to talk about the #LightningNetwork apps that I think could make...
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GuysTake_002 - The Lightning App I Want to Use from 2018-10-17T20:01
Lightning is slowly coming into its own. With simple working wallets, and dedicated plug-and-play nodes around the corner, its time to talk about the #LightningNetwork apps that I think could make ...
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CryptoQuikRead_168 - Prices Keep us From Squandering Resources [Jacob Dowell] from 2018-10-16T16:17:42
“this system of prices is not an organized institution or structure that was created by any single person’s design. It was simply a natural consequence of trade between people even before money in ...
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CryptoQuikRead_168 - Prices Keep us From Squandering Resources [Jacob Dowell] from 2018-10-16T16:17
“this system of prices is not an organized institution or structure that was created by any single person’s design. It was simply a natural consequence of trade between people even before money in ...
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CryptoQuikRead_167 - Strong Federations & Foundations of Liquid [Johnny Dilley] from 2018-10-12T18:47:48
Today we read “Strong Federations, Foundation of Liquid, Whitepaper Release,” on Blockstream.com & take a deep dive all about the system that secures the operation of @Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechai...
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CryptoQuikRead_167 - Strong Federations&Foundations of Liquid [Johnny Dilley] from 2018-10-12T18:47
Today we read “Strong Federations, Foundation of Liquid, Whitepaper Release,” on Blockstream.com&take a deep dive all about the system that secures the operation of @Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain....
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CryptoQuikRead_166 - Liquid Network Launch and Thoughts from Lucas Nuzzi from 2018-10-11T20:52:25
Blockstream's Liquid, a federated, production sidechain, has officially launched with exchanges accounting for more than half of the global Bitcoin exchange volume! In today's episode we read and e...
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CryptoQuikRead_166 - Liquid Network Launch and Thoughts from Lucas Nuzzi from 2018-10-11T20:52
Blockstream's Liquid, a federated, production sidechain, has officially launched with exchanges accounting for more than half of the global Bitcoin exchange volume! In today's episode we read and e...
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CryptoQuikRead_165 - Why Privacy Matters [Alex Hardy] from 2018-10-10T19:49:41
Privacy isn’t just about being safe and keeping our data secure, its also a deeply fundamental aspect of being human. The unconscious pressures from being endlessly surveilled create a cage for our...
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CryptoQuikRead_165 - Why Privacy Matters [Alex Hardy] from 2018-10-10T19:49
Privacy isn’t just about being safe and keeping our data secure, its also a deeply fundamental aspect of being human. The unconscious pressures from being endlessly surveilled create a cage for our...
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CryptoQuikRead_164 - Bitcoin Optech's Scaling Bitcoin Special from 2018-10-09T18:36:36
The Bitcoin Optech Newsletter takes a break from their usual technical foray to summarize and discuss the amazing new proposals and technology at the Scaling Bitcoin Conference in Tokyo. Don't mis...
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CryptoQuikRead_164 - Bitcoin Optech's Scaling Bitcoin Special from 2018-10-09T18:36
The Bitcoin Optech Newsletter takes a break from their usual technical foray to summarize and discuss the amazing new proposals and technology at the Scaling Bitcoin Conference in Tokyo. Don't miss...
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Guy'sTake_001 - Poor in a World with Bitcoin, or Rich in a World Without It? from 2018-10-08T16:09:24
Would you give up $1,000,000 in Bitcoin today, to guarantee its success and that our future was one of sound, decentralized money? My answer would have to be 'yes,' and here's why.
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Guy'sTake_001 - Poor in a World with Bitcoin, or Rich in a World Without It? from 2018-10-08T16:09
Would you give up $1,000,000 in Bitcoin today, to guarantee its success and that our future was one of sound, decentralized money? My answer would have to be 'yes,' and here's why. Support the show...
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CryptoQuikRead_163 - A Cypherpunk's Manifesto [Eric Hughes] from 2018-10-05T17:24:09
“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selective...
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CryptoQuikRead_163 - A Cypherpunk's Manifesto [Eric Hughes] from 2018-10-05T17:24
“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selective...
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CryptoQuikRead_162 - The Untold History of Bitcoin, Enter The Cypherpunks [Petri Basson] from 2018-10-04T17:44:39
“Although there was never complete agreement on any one thing, this was an open forum where personal privacy and personal liberty were ultimately placed above all other considerations.” -@PetriB2
CryptoQuikRead_162 - The Untold History of Bitcoin, Enter The Cypherpunks [Petri Basson] from 2018-10-04T17:44
“Although there was never complete agreement on any one thing, this was an open forum where personal privacy and personal liberty were ultimately placed above all other considerations.” -@PetriB2 C...
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CryptoQuikRead_161 - Bitcoin, The Untold History [Petri Basson] from 2018-10-03T15:51:13
“I have always believed that to really understand something and where it is going, you have to understand where it came from.” -@PetriB2
Today we read the first of Petri's short series on the u...
CryptoQuikRead_161 - Bitcoin, The Untold History [Petri Basson] from 2018-10-03T15:51
“I have always believed that to really understand something and where it is going, you have to understand where it came from.” -@PetriB2 Today we read the first of Petri's short series on the untol...
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CryptoQuikRead_160 - Bitcoin, Blockade Runner of the Information Age [CarCampit] from 2018-09-28T12:00
“The dissent did not come in the form of a parchment scrawled with a feathery pen or an assembly of diplomats, but in the form of the Blockade Runner. These ships were built for two things: speed a...
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CryptoQuikRead_160 - Bitcoin, Blockade Runner of the Information Age [CarCampit] from 2018-09-28T12:00
“The dissent did not come in the form of a parchment scrawled with a feathery pen or an assembly of diplomats, but in the form of the Blockade Runner. These ships were built for two things: speed a...
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CryptoQuikRead_159 - Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness [Part 2 - Hugo Nguyen] from 2018-09-27T12:00
"Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the building blocks of a brand new f...
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CryptoQuikRead_159 - Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness [Part 2 - Hugo Nguyen] from 2018-09-27T12:00
"Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the building blocks of a brand new f...
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CryptoQuikRead_158 - Anatomy of Proof of Work [Part 1 - Hugo Nguyen] from 2018-09-26T12:00
“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world… In other words, PoW is the bridge between the digital & the physical.” - H...
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CryptoQuikRead_158 - Anatomy of Proof of Work [Part 1 - Hugo Nguyen] from 2018-09-26T12:00
“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight&consequences in the physical world… In other words, PoW is the bridge between the digital&the physical.” - Hugo N...
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CryptoQuikRead_157 - The Bitcoin Central Bank's Perfect Monetary Policy [Pierre Rochard] from 2018-09-25T12:00
“The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. This is the digital equivalent of the Chicago Plan or the Austrian 100% reserve gold st...
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CryptoQuikRead_157 - The Bitcoin Central Bank's Perfect Monetary Policy [Pierre Rochard] from 2018-09-25T12:00
“The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. This is the digital equivalent of the Chicago Plan or the Austrian 100% reserve gold st...
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CryptoQuikRead_156 - Features of the Casa Node [Michael Borglin] from 2018-09-24T12:00
Autopilot, Channel Names, Verify from Scratch, Node Nicknames and more. Hear about the features in the new Casa Bitcoin and Lightning node!
Check out the full article and follow @CasaHODL on M...
CryptoQuikRead_156 - Features of the Casa Node [Michael Borglin] from 2018-09-24T12:00
Autopilot, Channel Names, Verify from Scratch, Node Nicknames and more. Hear about the features in the new Casa Bitcoin and Lightning node! Check out the full article and follow @CasaHODL on Medium...
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CryptoQuikRead_155 - POW is Efficient [Dan Held] from 2018-09-21T12:00
"The Cryptopocalypse is coming?—?Bitcoin’s (PoW) is so bad that it’s going to destroy the world in 2020!" -DanHeld
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CryptoQuikRead_155 - POW is Efficient [Dan Held] from 2018-09-21T12:00
"The Cryptopocalypse is coming?—?Bitcoin’s (PoW) is so bad that it’s going to destroy the world in 2020!" -DanHeld Is Bitcoin's energy consumption going to destroy the world... or not?Clap for the ...
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CryptoQuikRead_154 - Electric Money [Bitcoin's POW #4 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-20T12:00
“No equation, no chart in this fourth part. Just a short discussion about the total cost of Bitcoin’s PoW. It will offer us the opportunity to introduce another fundamental property of PoW which ma...
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CryptoQuikRead_154 - Electric Money [Bitcoin's POW #4 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-20T12:00
“No equation, no chart in this fourth part. Just a short discussion about the total cost of Bitcoin’s PoW. It will offer us the opportunity to introduce another fundamental property of PoW which ma...
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CryptoQuikRead_153 - Cliffhangers [Bitcoin's POW #3 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-19T16:42:17
“In this third part, we’re going to focus on a slightly different question: “Is the system running at its optimum?” -LaurentMT
Check out the full article to explore the charts and graphics illu...
CryptoQuikRead_153 - Cliffhangers [Bitcoin's POW #3 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-19T16:42
“In this third part, we’re going to focus on a slightly different question: “Is the system running at its optimum?” -LaurentMT Check out the full article to explore the charts and graphics illustra...
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CryptoQuikRead_152 - Yin and Yang of Bitcoin [Bitcoin's POW #2 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-18T18:07:24
Listen to @Laurentmt's article explaining how the Yin and Yang of Bitcoin, Hodling & Mining, affect the efficiency of the system and how they drive the system's dynamics.
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CryptoQuikRead_152 - Yin and Yang of Bitcoin [Bitcoin's POW #2 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-18T18:07
Listen to @Laurentmt's article explaining how the Yin and Yang of Bitcoin, Hodling&Mining, affect the efficiency of the system and how they drive the system's dynamics. Don't forget to drop some ap...
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CryptoQuikRead_151 - Gravity [Bitcoin's POW #1 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-17T19:36:33
“At last, we have derived two metrics which both suggest that contrary to a widespread opinion, Bitcoin’s PoW is actually becoming more and more efficient.” -@Laurentmt
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CryptoQuikRead_151 - Gravity [Bitcoin's POW #1 - LaurentMT] from 2018-09-17T19:36
“At last, we have derived two metrics which both suggest that contrary to a widespread opinion, Bitcoin’s PoW is actually becoming more and more efficient.” -@Laurentmt Listen to Part 1 of @Laurent...
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CryptoQuikRead_150 - Why I wrote PGP [Phil Zimmerman] from 2018-09-14T17:52:22
“If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the informa...
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CryptoQuikRead_150 - Why I wrote PGP [Phil Zimmerman] from 2018-09-14T17:52
“If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the informa...
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CryptoChat_006 - TheOneVortex on Building for Bitcoin from 2018-09-13T17:49:40
Building applications, expanding alternative media, software is eating the world, what's inside the ICOs & altcoins, the future of Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the revolution this technology...
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CryptoChat_006 - TheOneVortex on Building for Bitcoin from 2018-09-13T17:49
Building applications, expanding alternative media, software is eating the world, what's inside the ICOs&altcoins, the future of Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the revolution this technology c...
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CryptoQuikRead_149 - Bitcoin as a PrivacyCoin from 2018-09-12T21:35
“Ever since its inception Bitcoin has never really been private…. Fortunately, spying on Bitcoin users is becoming increasingly difficult.” - Aaron Van Wirdum Listen to another great read on Bitcoi...
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CryptoQuikRead_148 - Bitcoin as a Conflict Prevention Protocol from 2018-09-11T18:26:18
“To borrow from Nick Szabo, Bitcoin is a socially scalable, conflict preventing protocol.” - Tuur Demeester
Today we read an excellent Tweet Storm from Tuur Demeester about #Bitcoin and ...
CryptoQuikRead_148 - Bitcoin as a Conflict Prevention Protocol from 2018-09-11T18:26
“To borrow from Nick Szabo, Bitcoin is a socially scalable, conflict preventing protocol.” - Tuur Demeester Today we read an excellent Tweet Storm from Tuur Demeester about #Bitcoin and what makes ...
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CryptoQuikRead_147 - How to Critique Bitcoin, A Guide from 2018-09-10T18:57:15
"You’ve heard of Bitcoin. You do not like it... It relies on curious, antiquated ideas like sound money, peer-to-peer networking, the abolition of seignorage, and censorship-resistance. It is profo...
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CryptoQuikRead_147 - How to Critique Bitcoin, A Guide from 2018-09-10T18:57
"You’ve heard of Bitcoin. You do not like it... It relies on curious, antiquated ideas like sound money, peer-to-peer networking, the abolition of seignorage, and censorship-resistance. It is profo...
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CryptoQuikRead_146 - The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin from 2018-09-07T17:33:49
"The Third Era will start with civil war" -Rusty Russell
The future economic reality of the Bitcoin ecosystem has been hard-coded into the consensus since the very first block. The inevitable ...
CryptoQuikRead_146 - The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin from 2018-09-07T17:33
"The Third Era will start with civil war" -Rusty Russell The future economic reality of the Bitcoin ecosystem has been hard-coded into the consensus since the very first block. The inevitable pains...
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CryptoQuikRead_145 - Giacomo on SPV and Digital Coinage from 2018-09-06T18:50
“We shouldn't make full nodes harder to run, EVER” -@giacomozucco
Listen to the tweet storm laying out exactly why a responsible #Bitcoin maximalist should hold this view in today’s #CryptoQuik...
CryptoQuikRead_145 - Giacomo on SPV and Digital Coinage from 2018-09-06T18:50
“We shouldn't make full nodes harder to run, EVER” -@giacomozucco Listen to the tweet storm laying out exactly why a responsible #Bitcoin maximalist should hold this view in today’s #CryptoQuikRead...
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CryptoQuikRead_144 - SegWit2x Bugs Explained from 2018-09-05T18:08:03
The infrastructure and businesses in the Cryptoconomy are set to have a massive shift in the coming months. The #Bitcoin ecosystem may be difficult to recognize in the near future. that makes it ...
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CryptoQuikRead_144 - SegWit2x Bugs Explained from 2018-09-05T18:08
The infrastructure and businesses in the Cryptoconomy are set to have a massive shift in the coming months. The #Bitcoin ecosystem may be difficult to recognize in the near future. that makes it cr...
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CryptoChat_005 - Brady Swenson on Being an Informed Bitcoin Citizen from 2018-09-04T16:55:22
Hashing out all the major pain points, who to trust, building your filter, and where to start when it comes to learning everything about Bitcoin today! Don't miss a fun chat with @CitizenBitcoin.<...
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CryptoChat_005 - Brady Swenson on Being an Informed Bitcoin Citizen from 2018-09-04T16:55
Hashing out all the major pain points, who to trust, building your filter, and where to start when it comes to learning everything about Bitcoin today! Don't miss a fun chat with @CitizenBitcoin. C...
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CryptoQuikRead_143 - The Time Value of Bitcoin from 2018-08-31T17:55
“Lightning Network provides a framework to measure the time-value of bitcoin, a precursor for a capital market and reserve currency status.” -Nik Bhatia Today we jump back into @timevalueofbtc’s 4 ...
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CryptoQuikRead_142 - Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning from 2018-08-30T16:03:20
-- “Lightning is a promising technology, but right now, very few people are fluent with it,” Chaincode Labs engineer James O’Beirne told Bitcoin Magazine.--
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CryptoQuikRead_142 - Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning from 2018-08-30T16:03
-- “Lightning is a promising technology, but right now, very few people are fluent with it,” Chaincode Labs engineer James O’Beirne told Bitcoin Magazine.-- Another great piece form Amy Castor at B...
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CryptoQuikRead_141 - Fat Protocols Aren't New from 2018-08-29T17:57:45
“People have speculated on what a future with fat protocols will look like. File sharing protocols aren’t exactly the same, but they have a lot of similarities we can learn from.” @backus
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CryptoQuikRead_141 - Fat Protocols Aren't New from 2018-08-29T17:57
“People have speculated on what a future with fat protocols will look like. File sharing protocols aren’t exactly the same, but they have a lot of similarities we can learn from.” @backus Today we ...
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CryptoQuikRead_140 - Lightning Network 2.0 [Part 2] from 2018-08-28T19:48:34
“That’s right: while we’re here still trying to wrap our minds around Layer 2 solutions, these mad scientists are already proposing a system with three layers” @DZack23
Today we conclude the i...
CryptoQuikRead_140 - Lightning Network 2.0 [Part 2] from 2018-08-28T19:48
“That’s right: while we’re here still trying to wrap our minds around Layer 2 solutions, these mad scientists are already proposing a system with three layers” @DZack23 Today we conclude the incred...
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CryptoQuikRead_139 - Lightning Network 2.0 [Part1] from 2018-08-27T17:50:06
“Thing is, as these debates rage on, there’s a community of developers coming up with new ideas and, ya know, actually building stuff.” @DZack23
Today we explore a breakdown of the specific li...
CryptoQuikRead_139 - Lightning Network 2.0 [Part1] from 2018-08-27T17:50
“Thing is, as these debates rage on, there’s a community of developers coming up with new ideas and, ya know, actually building stuff.” @DZack23 Today we explore a breakdown of the specific limitat...
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CryptoQuikRead_138 - Traditional Bitcoin Mixers from 2018-08-24T18:34:11
"Thinking about it, isn’t it ironic that, over the past years I wrote about every Bitcoin privacy technique in existence, except the one that 99% of all users use?" @nopara73
Today we dive int...
CryptoQuikRead_138 - Traditional Bitcoin Mixers from 2018-08-24T18:34
"Thinking about it, isn’t it ironic that, over the past years I wrote about every Bitcoin privacy technique in existence, except the one that 99% of all users use?" @nopara73 Today we dive into a g...
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CryptoQuikRead_137 - Half of the Remaining Bitcoin Supply is 'Spoken For' from 2018-08-23T16:33:30
"At least 99M People intend to own crypto, but don’t yet." @RyanRadloff
A fun exploration by Ryan Radloff on the different demographics who intend to invest in Bitcoin & Crypto, and what might ...
CryptoQuikRead_137 - Half of the Remaining Bitcoin Supply is 'Spoken For' from 2018-08-23T16:33
"At least 99M People intend to own crypto, but don’t yet." @RyanRadloff A fun exploration by Ryan Radloff on the different demographics who intend to invest in Bitcoin &Crypto, and what might drive...
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CryptoQuikRead_136 - The Panama Canal and The Bitcoin Lightning Network from 2018-08-22T19:14:26
"So instead, I'm going to tell a story that makes the function of the Lightning Network less abstract and hopefully, easier to picture in your mind. We will do this by explanation of the system tha...
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CryptoQuikRead_136 - The Panama Canal and The Bitcoin Lightning Network from 2018-08-22T19:14
"So instead, I'm going to tell a story that makes the function of the Lightning Network less abstract and hopefully, easier to picture in your mind. We will do this by explanation of the system tha...
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CryptoQuikRead_135 - The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things from 2018-08-21T18:56:08
“In the end, learning is both science and art. It is science when your domain is structured, and art when it is not.” @Hosseeb
Don’t miss today’s episode about learning the things that no one c...
CryptoQuikRead_135 - The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things from 2018-08-21T18:56
“In the end, learning is both science and art. It is science when your domain is structured, and art when it is not.” @Hosseeb Don’t miss today’s episode about learning the things that no one can t...
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CryptoQuikRead_134 - Welcome to Bitcoin Island from 2018-08-20T20:30:18
"Forget currencies and commodities… perhaps the right analogy for Bitcoin is LAND!" Flashback from 2014 with @gendal in an analogy that presents a unique and interesting perspective of what it me...
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CryptoQuikRead_134 - Welcome to Bitcoin Island from 2018-08-20T20:30
"Forget currencies and commodities… perhaps the right analogy for Bitcoin is LAND!" Flashback from 2014 with @gendal in an analogy that presents a unique and interesting perspective of what it mea...
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CryptoQuikRead_133 - Governments and Central Banks Should Look to Gold not Crypto from 2018-08-17T16:05:59
"...The age of controlled money had arrived — and with it, world wars, depression and inflation, enormous government indebtedness, and the rise of leviathan states that learned to print their way t...
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CryptoQuikRead_133 - Governments and Central Banks Should Look to Gold not Crypto from 2018-08-17T16:05
"...The age of controlled money had arrived — and with it, world wars, depression and inflation, enormous government indebtedness, and the rise of leviathan states that learned to print their way t...
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CryptoQuikRead_132 - The Bitcoin Second Layer from 2018-08-16T16:10:30
“This makes Lightning Network an absolute game changer for the entire concept of capital markets: income without explicit counterparty default risk.” @timevalueofbtc
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CryptoQuikRead_132 - The Bitcoin Second Layer from 2018-08-16T16:10
“This makes Lightning Network an absolute game changer for the entire concept of capital markets: income without explicit counterparty default risk.” @timevalueofbtc Don't miss Nik Bhatia's other e...
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CryptoQuikRead_131 - BCH Update: Bitmain, BCH, the IPO & What it All Actually Means from 2018-08-15T19:03:54
“It is impossible for Bitmain to divest their BCH holdings onmarket. Full stop. The BCH markets are not liquid enough to absorb the amount of coins Bitmain is still holding” -@CryptoHerpesCat
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CryptoQuikRead_131 - BCH Update: Bitmain, BCH, the IPO&What it All Actually Means from 2018-08-15T19:03
“It is impossible for Bitmain to divest their BCH holdings onmarket. Full stop. The BCH markets are not liquid enough to absorb the amount of coins Bitmain is still holding” -@CryptoHerpesCat Follo...
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CryptoQuikRead_130 - Media Coverage of Bitcoin is Still a Total Disaster from 2018-08-14T16:41:03
“I’m going to expose the Washington Post/Wonkblog piece for the nonsensical ramble that it is… in short, it relies on mistaken assumptions to paint a misleading picture of the world.” -Nic Carter
CryptoQuikRead_130 - Media Coverage of Bitcoin is Still a Total Disaster from 2018-08-14T16:41
“I’m going to expose the Washington Post/Wonkblog piece for the nonsensical ramble that it is… in short, it relies on mistaken assumptions to paint a misleading picture of the world.” -Nic Carter R...
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CryptoQuikRead_129 - Responsible Disclosure in the Era of Cryptocurrencies from 2018-08-13T17:54:39
“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies…” - Cory Fields
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CryptoQuikRead_129 - Responsible Disclosure in the Era of Cryptocurrencies from 2018-08-13T17:54
“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies…” - Cory Fields Hear the full story in today’s ...
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CryptoQuikRead_128 - What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? [Part 2] from 2018-08-10T19:35:26
Will hundreds of coins flourish? Will economic thought change completely? Will it be a force for good or evil? And will Bitcoin even survive? All this and more in the second half of Daniel Jeffri...
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CryptoQuikRead_128 - What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? [Part 2] from 2018-08-10T19:35
Will hundreds of coins flourish? Will economic thought change completely? Will it be a force for good or evil? And will Bitcoin even survive? All this and more in the second half of Daniel Jeffries...
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CryptoQuikRead_127 - What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? [Part 1] from 2018-08-09T16:33:02
Will the price increase forever? Will government currencies be a thing of the past? Will there be a singular, global economy? And how do we make interesting predictions in the first place? All thi...
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CryptoQuikRead_127 - What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? [Part 1] from 2018-08-09T16:33
Will the price increase forever? Will government currencies be a thing of the past? Will there be a singular, global economy? And how do we make interesting predictions in the first place? All this...
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CryptoQuikRead_126 - Bitcoin, We Don't Expect New Highs in 2018 from 2018-08-08T19:10:17
Price prediction is a tricky game, but there is some fundamental analysis that may tell us more about the broad trends. Tuur Demeester looks at retail interest, institutional hesitancy, and Metcalf...
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CryptoQuikRead_126 - Bitcoin, We Don't Expect New Highs in 2018 from 2018-08-08T19:10
Price prediction is a tricky game, but there is some fundamental analysis that may tell us more about the broad trends. Tuur Demeester looks at retail interest, institutional hesitancy, and Metcalf...
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CryptoQuikRead_125 - Why Money Has Value & Spending Bitcoin is Senseless from 2018-08-07T18:20:32
Mises' and Menger’s theories of money provide deep insight, but invariably never attempted to rank the functions of money during its period of establishment. To fill the gap, Fernando Ulrich explai...
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CryptoQuikRead_125 - Why Money Has Value&Spending Bitcoin is Senseless from 2018-08-07T18:20
Mises' and Menger’s theories of money provide deep insight, but invariably never attempted to rank the functions of money during its period of establishment. To fill the gap, Fernando Ulrich explai...
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CryptoQuikRead_124 - ASIC Resistance is Nothing but a Blockchain Buzzword from 2018-08-06T20:42:53
Is ASIC resistance really the panacea that some claim it is? Will it solve the never ending challenges of a decentralized network? Or is it just a buzzword used to sell Bitcoin alternatives? Fin...
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CryptoQuikRead_124 - ASIC Resistance is Nothing but a Blockchain Buzzword from 2018-08-06T20:42
Is ASIC resistance really the panacea that some claim it is? Will it solve the never ending challenges of a decentralized network? Or is it just a buzzword used to sell Bitcoin alternatives? Find o...
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CryptoQuikRead_123 - I, Pencil [Leonard E. Read] from 2018-08-03T16:22:06
In closing out the week we have one last piece on the economics behind Bitcoin and the natural market economy. We read the classic piece “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read posted on Fee.o...
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CryptoQuikRead_123 - I, Pencil [Leonard E. Read] from 2018-08-03T16:22
In closing out the week we have one last piece on the economics behind Bitcoin and the natural market economy. We read the classic piece “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read posted on Fee.org. Check out...
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CryptoQuikRead_122 - "The Yield From Money Held" Reconsidered from 2018-08-02T17:35:35
What if “hoarding” money is both realizing its most important utility, and stabilizing in an uncertain economy? If true, how could the exact opposite belief be so widespread? Don’t miss our read ...
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CryptoQuikRead_122 - "The Yield From Money Held" Reconsidered from 2018-08-02T17:35
What if “hoarding” money is both realizing its most important utility, and stabilizing in an uncertain economy? If true, how could the exact opposite belief be so widespread? Don’t miss our read fr...
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CryptoChat_004 - John Wolpert on Blockchain, Identity, Trust, and a New Internet from 2018-08-01T18:06:41
Taking a break from Bitcoin maximalism to have a chat with John Wolpert (@Consensys, @IBMblockchain, @Hyperledger) for what consensus protocols and blockchain can do for the future of decentralizat...
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CryptoChat_004 - John Wolpert on Blockchain, Identity, Trust, and a New Internet from 2018-08-01T18:06
Taking a break from Bitcoin maximalism to have a chat with John Wolpert (@Consensys, @IBMblockchain, @Hyperledger) for what consensus protocols and blockchain can do for the future of decentralizat...
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CryptoQuikRead_121 - Ethereum, Fomo3D, and Dangerous Game Theory from 2018-07-31T17:17:51
“This game, underlying FOMO3D (F3D), is called “The War of Attrition” and it can produce some insanely irrational outcomes… Human beings tend to play terribly and lose.” Don't miss Matt Stephenson...
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CryptoQuikRead_121 - Ethereum, Fomo3D, and Dangerous Game Theory from 2018-07-31T17:17
“This game, underlying FOMO3D (F3D), is called “The War of Attrition” and it can produce some insanely irrational outcomes… Human beings tend to play terribly and lose.” Don't miss Matt Stephenson'...
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CryptoQuikRead_120 - Visions of Bitcoin from 2018-07-30T16:32:25
Many different and often conflicting ideas of what Bitcoin is, and what it's future should be, have emerged throughout the years. Here @nic_carter's and @hasufl's exploration of past, present, and...
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CryptoQuikRead_120 - Visions of Bitcoin from 2018-07-30T16:32
Many different and often conflicting ideas of what Bitcoin is, and what it's future should be, have emerged throughout the years. Here @nic_carter's and @hasufl's exploration of past, present, and ...
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CryptoQuikRead_119 - Deep Dive into ETF Disapproval and SEC Commissioner's Dissent from 2018-07-27T17:53:34
The SEC has disapproved the Winklevoss twin's second attempt at a Bitcoin ETP for traditional markets. Rife with contradictions & misunderstandings, a thorough rebuttal comes in a "Let...
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CryptoQuikRead_119 - Deep Dive into ETF Disapproval and SEC Commissioner's Dissent from 2018-07-27T17:53
The SEC has disapproved the Winklevoss twin's second attempt at a Bitcoin ETP for traditional markets. Rife with contradictions&misunderstandings, a thorough rebuttal comes in a "Letter of Dissent"...
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CryptoQuikRead_118 - Securing Property with Owner Authority from 2018-07-26T20:59:59
Bitcoin is the first truly decentralized registry for property ownership. The first application of which is value in its most abstract form, money. But how can we extend this to physical property ...
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CryptoQuikRead_118 - Securing Property with Owner Authority from 2018-07-26T20:59
Bitcoin is the first truly decentralized registry for property ownership. The first application of which is value in its most abstract form, money. But how can we extend this to physical property a...
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CryptoQuikRead_117 - How Central Banking Increased Inequality from 2018-07-25T20:06:42
With the huge number of conversations and claims of income inequality, the central banking monetary policy, which directly benefits the wealthy and financial sector, is almost entirely ignored. Wh...
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CryptoQuikRead_117 - How Central Banking Increased Inequality from 2018-07-25T20:06
With the huge number of conversations and claims of income inequality, the central banking monetary policy, which directly benefits the wealthy and financial sector, is almost entirely ignored. Wha...
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CryptoQuikRead_116 - Coindesk & Jake Chervinsky on the Bitcoin ETFs from 2018-07-24T18:53:44
Today we have a dual QuikRead with Nikhilesh De's Coindesk article regarding the Direxion ETF and the SEC's decision to postpone until September. Plus Jake Chervinsky's comments and clarification o...
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CryptoQuikRead_116 - Coindesk&Jake Chervinsky on the Bitcoin ETFs from 2018-07-24T18:53
Today we have a dual QuikRead with Nikhilesh De's Coindesk article regarding the Direxion ETF and the SEC's decision to postpone until September. Plus Jake Chervinsky's comments and clarification o...
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CryptoChat_003 - Nik Bhatia on The Future of Bitcoin Financial Markets from 2018-07-23T16:20:11
The Lightning Reference Rate, Changes in Lightning Tech #eltoo, Returns without Counterparty Risk, CFA Institute Enters Crypto, ETFs on the horizon, Futures, and a revolution in Financial Market...
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CryptoChat_003 - Nik Bhatia on The Future of Bitcoin Financial Markets from 2018-07-23T16:20
The Lightning Reference Rate, Changes in Lightning Tech #eltoo, Returns without Counterparty Risk, CFA Institute Enters Crypto, ETFs on the horizon, Futures, and a revolution in Financial Markets. ...
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CryptoQuikRead_115 - Announcing Bitcoin OpTech from 2018-07-20T15:46:50
“We’re as excited about Lightning, Schnorr signatures, Taproot/Graftroot and scriptless scripts as any other Bitcoin engineers, but the project’s focus is on technology that can be deplo...
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CryptoQuikRead_114 - Schnorr Poised to Become Bitcoin's Biggest Change Since SegWit [Alyssa Hertig] from 2018-07-19T18:06:06
Thanks to the incredible work by Pieter Wuille (@pwuille) and others, #Schnorr signature scheme has an official proposal. Despite still much work ...
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CryptoQuikRead_114 - Schnorr Poised to Become Bitcoin's Biggest Change Since SegWit [Alyssa Hertig] from 2018-07-19T18:06
Thanks to the incredible work by Pieter Wuille (@pwuille) and others, #Schnorr signature scheme has an official proposal. Despite still much work and testing to be done, schnorr is poised to grant ...
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CryptoChat_002 with The Friends Against Government Podcast [CarCampit] from 2018-07-18T19:24:49
The future of #Crypto, Bitcoin, New Developments, Shitcoins?, and really really Bad Movies! Don't miss a great time with the FAGcast crew! Follow them on Twitter! Listen
CryptoChat_002 with The Friends Against Government Podcast [CarCampit] from 2018-07-18T19:24
The future of #Crypto, Bitcoin, New Developments, Shitcoins?, and really really Bad Movies! Don't miss a great time with the FAGcast crew! Follow them on Twitter! @CarCampIt @birdarchist Check out...
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CryptoQuikRead_113 - The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing [Nick Szabo] from 2018-07-17T17:45:28
“It's actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization per se, that is the source of the ...
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CryptoQuikRead_113 - The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing [Nick Szabo] from 2018-07-17T17:45
“It's actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization per se, that is the source of the far higher relia...
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CryptoQuikRead_112 - Wasabi Privacy Focused Bitcoin Wallet [@nopara73] from 2018-07-16T18:07:34
“We are soon going to be able to use Bitcoin in an end-to-end, fully anonymous way.” - @nopara73
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CryptoQuikRead_112 - Wasabi Privacy Focused Bitcoin Wallet [@nopara73] from 2018-07-16T18:07
“We are soon going to be able to use Bitcoin in an end-to-end, fully anonymous way.” - @nopara73 Check out the article and other links at:https://medium.com/@nopara73/wasabi-privacy-focused-bitco...
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CryptoQuikRead_111 - Genesis Files - With Bit Gold, Nick Szabo Was Inches From BTC [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2018-07-13T17:58:11
The 4th in the excellent Genesis Files Series from Aaron Van Wirdum (@AaronvanW) and Bitcoin Magazine (@...
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CryptoQuikRead_110 - Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis] from 2018-07-12T18:18:29
“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of...
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CryptoQuikRead_110 - Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis] from 2018-07-12T18:18
“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/tran...
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CryptoQuikRead_109 - The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia] from 2018-07-11T17:44:29
"Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications of this on capital mark...
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CryptoQuikRead_109 - The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia] from 2018-07-11T17:44
"Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications of this on capital markets are tre...
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CryptoQuikRead_108 - Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard] from 2018-07-10T18:02:46
"Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum." - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_108 - Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard] from 2018-07-10T18:02
"Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum." - Pierre Rochard Don't forget to drop some applause on t...
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CryptoChat_001 with Daniel Goldman - Verge, Digital Gold, Forks, and Going Down the Rabbit Hole from 2018-07-09T16:46:38
Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole. All this and more with Daniel Goldman [ Listen
CryptoChat_001 with Daniel Goldman - Verge, Digital Gold, Forks, and Going Down the Rabbit Hole from 2018-07-09T16:46
Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole. All this and more with Daniel Goldman [@dzack23].• Find his...
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CryptoQuikRead_107 - If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai's B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2018-07-06T16:49:29
"Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… 'I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical as well as theoretical possibil...
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CryptoQuikRead_107 - If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai's B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum] from 2018-07-06T16:49
"Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… 'I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical as well as theoretical possibility.' He called his p...
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CryptoQuikRead_106 - Working Alone [Jill Carlson] from 2018-07-05T15:24:12
“You have to remember that you chose this path not because you didn’t have any options, but because you knew you could create even more options for yourself.” - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_106 - Working Alone [Jill Carlson] from 2018-07-05T15:24
“You have to remember that you chose this path not because you didn’t have any options, but because you knew you could create even more options for yourself.” - Jill Carlson Check out the article ...
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CryptoQuikRead_105 - Why You Can’t Understand Bitcoin [@Beautyon_] from 2018-07-04T13:07:13
"A Statist is a man or woman who believes that only the State should be the final arbiter of every activity man can engage in. In Bitcoin, Statists are a constant irritant and lethal toxin." Listen
CryptoQuikRead_105 - Why You Can’t Understand Bitcoin [@Beautyon_] from 2018-07-04T13:07
"A Statist is a man or woman who believes that only the State should be the final arbiter of every activity man can engage in. In Bitcoin, Statists are a constant irritant and lethal toxin." @Beaut...
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CryptoQuikRead_104 - Crypto-Incrementalism vs Crypto-Anarchy [Tony Sheng] from 2018-07-03T19:42:34
“Crypto-incrementalists and the crypto-anarchists share strong convictions in the power of decentralization… However, these groups diverge quickly as we move from the abstract to the material.” ...
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CryptoQuikRead_104 - Crypto-Incrementalism vs Crypto-Anarchy [Tony Sheng] from 2018-07-03T19:42
“Crypto-incrementalists and the crypto-anarchists share strong convictions in the power of decentralization… However, these groups diverge quickly as we move from the abstract to the material.” -To...
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CryptoQuikRead_103 - Crypto Commons [Mike Maples] from 2018-07-02T17:15:29
“Just like a stock market was a financial platform for creating the scalable corporation, blockchains can be governance platforms for enabling the scalable commons.” - Listen
CryptoQuikRead_103 - Crypto Commons [Mike Maples] from 2018-07-02T17:15
“Just like a stock market was a financial platform for creating the scalable corporation, blockchains can be governance platforms for enabling the scalable commons.” -@m2jr Check out the medium ar...
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CryptoQuikRead_102 - Casa's Privacy Model from 2018-06-29T15:23:26
“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate our users in their quest for financial sovereign...
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CryptoQuikRead_102 - Casa's Privacy Model from 2018-06-29T15:23
“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate our users in their quest for financial sovereign...
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CryptoQuikRead_101 - How Easy it is to Buy ICO Ratings [Markus Hartmann] from 2018-06-28T17:45:36
“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann
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CryptoQuikRead_100 - Dandelions and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy from 2018-06-27T20:48:08
Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less network.” -@TheCryptoconomy
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CryptoQuikRead_100 - Dandelions and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy from 2018-06-27T20:48
Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less network.” -@TheCryptoconomy Check out my medium p...
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CryptoQuikRead_099 - Announcing C-Lightning 0.6 [Christian Decker] from 2018-06-26T17:40:32
“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!" - Christian Decker & Rusty Russell
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CryptoQuikRead_098 - The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure from 2018-06-25T18:58:35
“This week I learned you can start syncing an archival Ethereum node, travel completely around the world, and it still won’t be finished.” -@lopp
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CryptoQuikRead_098 - The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure from 2018-06-25T18:58
“This week I learned you can start syncing an archival Ethereum node, travel completely around the world, and it still won’t be finished.” -@lopp Today’s Quik Read is from Jameson Lopp on his exper...
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CryptoQuikRead_097 - I HODL from 2018-06-22T21:41:59
Price got you down? Don’t forget why we are here. From @davidcbennett, we read ”I Hodl.”
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CryptoQuikRead_097 - I HODL from 2018-06-22T21:41
Price got you down? Don’t forget why we are here. From @davidcbennett, we read ”I Hodl.” Link to the article on Steemit: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@davidcbennett/i-hodl Learn more about your ad ...
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CryptoQuikRead_096 - Giacomo's Tweetstorm, Coinage in the Age of Bitcoin from 2018-06-21T19:42:33
"So, what people call "SPV" today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly verify and enforce Bitcoin rules." @giacomozucco
CryptoQuikRead_096 - Giacomo's Tweetstorm, Coinage in the Age of Bitcoin from 2018-06-21T19:42
"So, what people call "SPV" today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly verify and enforce Bitcoin rules." @giacomozucco Th...
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CryptoQuikRead_095 - The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin's Motor Block from 2018-06-20T18:55:27
"It was around this time — 1997, close to the [cypherpunk mailing] list’s peak popularity — that Back submitted his Hashcash proposal." @AaronvanW @BitcoinMagazine
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CryptoQuikRead_095 - The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin's Motor Block from 2018-06-20T18:55
"It was around this time — 1997, close to the [cypherpunk mailing] list’s peak popularity — that Back submitted his Hashcash proposal." @AaronvanW @BitcoinMagazine Today we read the second in Aaron...
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CryptoQuikRead_094 - Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Verge Hack Part Deux from 2018-06-19T20:30:50
“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.”
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CryptoQuikRead_094 - Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Verge Hack Part Deux from 2018-06-19T20:30
“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.” Listen to the next installment in the Verge Hack fiasco f...
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CryptoQuikRead_093 - The Importance of Layer 2 from 2018-06-18T15:59:54
"the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as open, decentralized networks while scaling to re...
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CryptoQuikRead_093 - The Importance of Layer 2 from 2018-06-18T15:59
"the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as open, decentralized networks while scaling to re...
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CryptoQuikRead_092 - The Truth About Smart Contracts from 2018-06-15T11:45:20
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CryptoQuikRead_092 - The Truth About Smart Contracts from 2018-06-15T11:45
Support the Show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 Are smart contracts really the trustless panacea that we all dream they are? Or are there serious and often insurmountable challenges that too ma...
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CryptoQuikRead_091 - BetterHash Aims to Increase Bitcoin Mining Decentralization from 2018-06-14T18:33:36
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@TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pools. Listen to @dantwany’s article br...
CryptoQuikRead_091 - BetterHash Aims to Increase Bitcoin Mining Decentralization from 2018-06-14T18:33
Support The Show: 3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 @TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pools. Listen to @dantwany’s article breaking down wha...
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CryptoQuikRead_090 - Sharding Centralizes Ethereum [StopAndDecrypt] from 2018-06-13T17:20:55
Today we read @StopAndDecrypt’s thorough breakdown of the Ethereum scaling and validation trade-off. Is ETH an inherently centralizing syst...
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CryptoQuikRead_090 - Sharding Centralizes Ethereum [StopAndDecrypt] from 2018-06-13T17:20
Today we read @StopAndDecrypt’s thorough breakdown of the Ethereum scaling and validation trade-off. Is ETH an inherently centralizing system? Find out in today’s Quik Read. Don't forget to check ...
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CryptoQuikRead_089 - Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking to the Past and the Future from 2018-06-11T18:51:04
Covering the weeks top stories with Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review - Looking to the Past and the Future. Listen to today’s episode from Shawn Gordon and subscribe to hear all the best articles ...
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CryptoQuikRead_089 - Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking to the Past and the Future from 2018-06-11T18:51
Covering the weeks top stories with Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review - Looking to the Past and the Future. Listen to today’s episode from Shawn Gordon and subscribe to hear all the best articles i...
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CryptoQuikRead_088 - Feared 51% Attacks Are Now Becoming Regular from 2018-06-08T17:12:01
The once-feared 51% attack of POW security has recently moved from a theoretical vulnerability to a common occurrence. Today we read and discuss an article from @AlyssaHertig with @coindesk explor...
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CryptoQuikRead_088 - Feared 51% Attacks Are Now Becoming Regular from 2018-06-08T17:12
The once-feared 51% attack of POW security has recently moved from a theoretical vulnerability to a common occurrence. Today we read and discuss an article from @AlyssaHertig with @coindesk explori...
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CryptoQuikRead_087 - Introducing Bitcoin Contract Governance from 2018-06-07T18:38:31
Another from @goorha and @parabolictrav detailing the application and incredible potential of Bitcoin's contractual governance. A truly global and open platform for economic organization. Don't m...
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CryptoQuikRead_087 - Introducing Bitcoin Contract Governance from 2018-06-07T18:38
Another from @goorha and @parabolictrav detailing the application and incredible potential of Bitcoin's contractual governance. A truly global and open platform for economic organization. Don't mis...
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CryptoQuikRead_086 - Build the Bitcoin Economy, The Complete Contract Governance Platform from 2018-06-06T18:05:34
Is Bitcoin a new asset class, a fancy way to buy coffee, digital sound money, or something entirely different and more fundamental? Listen to the article by Prateek Goorha (@goorha) and Parabolic ...
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CryptoQuikRead_086 - Build the Bitcoin Economy, The Complete Contract Governance Platform from 2018-06-06T18:05
Is Bitcoin a new asset class, a fancy way to buy coffee, digital sound money, or something entirely different and more fundamental? Listen to the article by Prateek Goorha (@goorha) and Parabolic T...
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CryptoQuikRead_085 - Increasing Bitcoin Privacy Using the Lightning Network from 2018-06-05T17:47:06
One of the features of the Lightning network is its innate benefits to privacy. Listen to a short exploration of privacy in Lightning with Toronex (@scidexer) plus commentary.Check out the full ar...
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CryptoQuikRead_085 - Increasing Bitcoin Privacy Using the Lightning Network from 2018-06-05T17:47
One of the features of the Lightning network is its innate benefits to privacy. Listen to a short exploration of privacy in Lightning with Toronex (@scidexer) plus commentary.Check out the full art...
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CryptoQuikRead_084 - Analysis of Batching in Bitcoin from 2018-06-04T16:26:46
Has transaction count become an unreliable measure of Bitcoin’s usage because of batching? Find out the answer to this and more thanks to the detailed analysis by coinmetrics.io and hasufly.
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CryptoQuikRead_084 - Analysis of Batching in Bitcoin from 2018-06-04T16:26
Has transaction count become an unreliable measure of Bitcoin’s usage because of batching? Find out the answer to this and more thanks to the detailed analysis by coinmetrics.io and hasufly. Check ...
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CryptoQuikRead_083 - Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes from 2018-06-01T19:09:54
If you are curious of the foundations of thought that ultimately led to the creation of the Bitcoin system, Nick Szabo is absolutely the one to read. Listen to Szabo’s “Trusted Third Parties and S...
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CryptoQuikRead_083 - Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes from 2018-06-01T19:09
If you are curious of the foundations of thought that ultimately led to the creation of the Bitcoin system, Nick Szabo is absolutely the one to read. Listen to Szabo’s “Trusted Third Parties and Se...
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CryptoQuikRead_082 - Exploring Lightning Network Routing from 2018-05-31T14:53:11
Channel balances, gateway routing nodes, non-advertised channels, buffer capital, source routing, onion routing, bridge channels, and atomic multi-path payments. Take a dive into the tech behind Li...
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CryptoQuikRead_082 - Exploring Lightning Network Routing from 2018-05-31T14:53
Channel balances, gateway routing nodes, non-advertised channels, buffer capital, source routing, onion routing, bridge channels, and atomic multi-path payments. Take a dive into the tech behind Li...
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CryptoQuikRead_081 - What we Talk About When We Talk About Blockchain from 2018-05-30T19:21:05
"the supposedly naive crypto-anarchists types may be the only ones actually grounded in reality, while the supposedly pragmatic, business-oriented, “it’s about the technology, stupid” crowd may pro...
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CryptoQuikRead_081 - What we Talk About When We Talk About Blockchain from 2018-05-30T19:21
"the supposedly naive crypto-anarchists types may be the only ones actually grounded in reality, while the supposedly pragmatic, business-oriented, “it’s about the technology, stupid” crowd may pro...
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CryptoQuikRead_080 - Amid Chaos, Our Decentralized Future is Being Built from 2018-05-29T18:21:47
“These prospects have stirred a hive mind of dreamers and fueled an unprecedented bout of economic speculation. We don't know where it's headed. But we sense something profound is afoot…”
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CryptoQuikRead_080 - Amid Chaos, Our Decentralized Future is Being Built from 2018-05-29T18:21
“These prospects have stirred a hive mind of dreamers and fueled an unprecedented bout of economic speculation. We don't know where it's headed. But we sense something profound is afoot…” Don't for...
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CryptoQuikRead_079 - The Security Token Thesis from 2018-05-28T14:52:15
Is the future of finance an internet of interoperable and programmable tokens? Stephen McKeon covers the possibilities in his Security Token thesis. Listen to learn more about the advantages and ...
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CryptoQuikRead_079 - The Security Token Thesis from 2018-05-28T14:52
Is the future of finance an internet of interoperable and programmable tokens? Stephen McKeon covers the possibilities in his Security Token thesis. Listen to learn more about the advantages and dr...
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CryptoQuikRead_078 - Tari Blockchain for Digital Assets on Monero from 2018-05-25T17:10:31
Eric Kuebler at Bitcoin magazine gives us an introduction into Tari, the sidechain for digital assets and the Lightning Network built on top of Monero. Learn more in today’s Quik Read!
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CryptoQuikRead_078 - Tari Blockchain for Digital Assets on Monero from 2018-05-25T17:10
Eric Kuebler at Bitcoin magazine gives us an introduction into Tari, the sidechain for digital assets and the Lightning Network built on top of Monero. Learn more in today’s Quik Read! Check out th...
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CryptoQuikRead_077 - Ethereum Blockchain Exceeds 1TB! from 2018-05-24T17:14:17
@StopAndDecrypt gives us an excellent breakdown of the state of the over-stressed Ethereum blockchain. Do the trends spell disaster for the smart contract platform, or is there a way out? Listen...
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CryptoQuikRead_077 - Ethereum Blockchain Exceeds 1TB! from 2018-05-24T17:14
@StopAndDecrypt gives us an excellent breakdown of the state of the over-stressed Ethereum blockchain. Do the trends spell disaster for the smart contract platform, or is there a way out? Listen to...
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CryptoQuikRead_076 - The Verge Hack, Explained from 2018-05-23T15:50:13
An excellent breakdown of the recent attacks and corresponding vulnerabilities in the Verge cryptocurrency. From Daniel Goldman and The Abacus Crypto Journal, listen to learn all about the time-wa...
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CryptoQuikRead_076 - The Verge Hack, Explained from 2018-05-23T15:50
An excellent breakdown of the recent attacks and corresponding vulnerabilities in the Verge cryptocurrency. From Daniel Goldman and The Abacus Crypto Journal, listen to learn all about the time-war...
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CryptoQuikRead_075 - Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin from 2018-05-22T16:47:22
An exploration of history, anthropology, communication and evolution searching for the answers to what money is, what Bitcoin is, and why this innovation is so important. From Aleksandar Svetski, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_075 - Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money&Bitcoin from 2018-05-22T16:47
An exploration of history, anthropology, communication and evolution searching for the answers to what money is, what Bitcoin is, and why this innovation is so important. From Aleksandar Svetski, e...
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CryptoQuikRead_074 - Securing Your Financial Sovereignty from 2018-05-21T16:57:47
The true disruptive potential of Bitcoin is that we can guarantee our own financial sovereignty without trusting anyone else. Don’t be a second class Bitcoin citizen, listen to Jameson Lopp’s arti...
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CryptoQuikRead_074 - Securing Your Financial Sovereignty from 2018-05-21T16:57
The true disruptive potential of Bitcoin is that we can guarantee our own financial sovereignty without trusting anyone else. Don’t be a second class Bitcoin citizen, listen to Jameson Lopp’s artic...
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CryptoQuikRead_073 - Introducing TxTenna: Decentralizing the Last Mile in Bitcoin from 2018-05-18T14:02:08
Building a robust, censorship resistant, and globally available financial network, reliance on centralized networking infrastructure becomes one of the most significant points of failure. GoTenna ...
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CryptoQuikRead_073 - Introducing TxTenna: Decentralizing the Last Mile in Bitcoin from 2018-05-18T14:02
Building a robust, censorship resistant, and globally available financial network, reliance on centralized networking infrastructure becomes one of the most significant points of failure. GoTenna a...
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CryptoQuikRead_072 - Another Game Changer | Blockstream's Liquid from 2018-05-17T14:34:07
Liquid is finally arriving! The sidechain that could be a game changer for scalability, custodial trust, exchange privacy, and overall speed and liquidity throughout the crypto industry. Listen to...
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CryptoQuikRead_072 - Another Game Changer | Blockstream's Liquid from 2018-05-17T14:34
Liquid is finally arriving! The sidechain that could be a game changer for scalability, custodial trust, exchange privacy, and overall speed and liquidity throughout the crypto industry. Listen to ...
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CryptoQuikRead_071 - Why Blockchain is Hard from 2018-05-16T14:21:33
Are Bitcoin maximalists just cultist fools? Or are they realists who have yet to see a solid case for alternative blockchains? Hitting Jimmy Song's article "Why Blockchain Is Hard" we find out wh...
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CryptoQuikRead_071 - Why Blockchain is Hard from 2018-05-16T14:21
Are Bitcoin maximalists just cultist fools? Or are they realists who have yet to see a solid case for alternative blockchains? Hitting Jimmy Song's article "Why Blockchain Is Hard" we find out what...
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CryptoQuikRead_070 - Joe Lubin & Jimmy Song Bet Over Blockchain 'Magic Dust' from 2018-05-15T12:02:19
The most entertaining panel discussion so far @Consensus2018 was between Joe Lubin, Amber Baldet, and Jimmy Song. Song met the panel with uninhibited skepticism over the "blockchain hype." We read...
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CryptoQuikRead_070 - Joe Lubin&Jimmy Song Bet Over Blockchain 'Magic Dust' from 2018-05-15T12:02
The most entertaining panel discussion so far @Consensus2018 was between Joe Lubin, Amber Baldet, and Jimmy Song. Song met the panel with uninhibited skepticism over the "blockchain hype." We read ...
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CryptoQuikRead_069 - The State of Cryptocurrency Mining from 2018-05-14T15:58:28
This may be one of the most important articles I’ve read to date. If you think you know about the intricacies, costs, and dynamics of ASIC manufacturing and Cryptocurrency mining, this quick read ...
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CryptoQuikRead_069 - The State of Cryptocurrency Mining from 2018-05-14T15:58
This may be one of the most important articles I’ve read to date. If you think you know about the intricacies, costs, and dynamics of ASIC manufacturing and Cryptocurrency mining, this quick read m...
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CryptoQuikRead_068 - New Ideas Energize Ethereum, True Signaling Solution Still Elusive from 2018-05-11T14:50:59
New ideas take the stage at the EIP:0 meeting. Governance, Inflation, Social Consensus, funds recovery and more. Reading one of Rachel O’Leary’s great articles on Ethereum development, we explore...
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CryptoQuikRead_068 - New Ideas Energize Ethereum, True Signaling Solution Still Elusive from 2018-05-11T14:50
New ideas take the stage at the EIP:0 meeting. Governance, Inflation, Social Consensus, funds recovery and more. Reading one of Rachel O’Leary’s great articles on Ethereum development, we explore a...
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CryptoQuikRead_067 - Giacomo Zucco's Epic Twitter Thread from 2018-05-10T18:07:19
[Trigger Warning!] Giacomo Zucco recently delivered an epic Twitter thread detailing why he thought bcash supporters were stupid. He may not be the most diplomatic ambassador, but he certainly mad...
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CryptoQuikRead_067 - Giacomo Zucco's Epic Twitter Thread from 2018-05-10T18:07
[Trigger Warning!] Giacomo Zucco recently delivered an epic Twitter thread detailing why he thought bcash supporters were stupid. He may not be the most diplomatic ambassador, but he certainly made...
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CryptoQuikRead_066 - Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability from 2018-05-09T15:45:59
Szabo's excellent essay on the specific trade-offs that empower Satoshi's brilliant solution to the scaling of trust across human institutions. Listen if you are ready to learn.Link to his blog an...
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CryptoQuikRead_066 - Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability from 2018-05-09T15:45
Szabo's excellent essay on the specific trade-offs that empower Satoshi's brilliant solution to the scaling of trust across human institutions. Listen if you are ready to learn.Link to his blog and...
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CryptoQuikRead_065 - Lightning User Experience, A Day in the Life of Carol from 2018-05-08T15:12:13
With so many new features, tricks, and protocol changes, what will it be like to use lightning? What will Carol, the user, need to know? Listen to Bryan Vu's story of Carol's first day with Light...
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CryptoQuikRead_065 - Lightning User Experience, A Day in the Life of Carol from 2018-05-08T15:12
With so many new features, tricks, and protocol changes, what will it be like to use lightning? What will Carol, the user, need to know? Listen to Bryan Vu's story of Carol's first day with Lightni...
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CryptoQuikRead_064 - The Future of Bitcoin - What Lightning Could Look Like from 2018-05-07T19:05:10
Splicing Payments, Submarine Swaps, Atomic Swaps, Dual-Funded Channels, Eltoo, Channel Factories, AMPS, and More! Listen to Aaron's recent article to hear more of the awesome potential and the fut...
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CryptoQuikRead_064 - The Future of Bitcoin - What Lightning Could Look Like from 2018-05-07T19:05
Splicing Payments, Submarine Swaps, Atomic Swaps, Dual-Funded Channels, Eltoo, Channel Factories, AMPS, and More! Listen to Aaron's recent article to hear more of the awesome potential and the futu...
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CryptoQuikRead_063 - Atomic Swaps, How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins from 2018-05-04T15:57:54
The Lightning network is a new protocol layer that not only has implications for Bitcoin payments, but could hugely impact many altcoins, decentralized exchanges, and the nature of crypto payments ...
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CryptoQuikRead_063 - Atomic Swaps, How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins from 2018-05-04T15:57
The Lightning network is a new protocol layer that not only has implications for Bitcoin payments, but could hugely impact many altcoins, decentralized exchanges, and the nature of crypto payments ...
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CryptoQuikRead_062 - This New Scaling Layer Could Make Lightning More Effective from 2018-05-02T16:04:08
An introduction to Channel Factories and the concept of a new Layer 2 protocol that could shift the Lightning Network into Layer 3. Is this another piece of the puzzle to building a global payment...
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CryptoQuikRead_062 - This New Scaling Layer Could Make Lightning More Effective from 2018-05-02T16:04
An introduction to Channel Factories and the concept of a new Layer 2 protocol that could shift the Lightning Network into Layer 3. Is this another piece of the puzzle to building a global payment ...
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CryptoQuikRead_061 - Eltoo - A Simplified Update Mechanism for Lightning from 2018-05-01T18:21:18
Lightning is a fascinating protocol with enormous potential, but also many challenges. A nee mechanism for updating channel states may work to solve some of Lightning’s biggest challenges. Learn ...
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CryptoQuikRead_061 - Eltoo - A Simplified Update Mechanism for Lightning from 2018-05-01T18:21
Lightning is a fascinating protocol with enormous potential, but also many challenges. A nee mechanism for updating channel states may work to solve some of Lightning’s biggest challenges. Learn mo...
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CryptoQuikRead_060 - Nick Szabo The Mysterious Blockchain Titan from 2018-04-30T20:59:20
Nick Szabo is undeniably one of the most influential thinkers and pioneers in the Cryptoconomy. Learn more of his history and his works in this article from unblock.netLink to the article and othe...
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CryptoQuikRead_060 - Nick Szabo The Mysterious Blockchain Titan from 2018-04-30T20:59
Nick Szabo is undeniably one of the most influential thinkers and pioneers in the Cryptoconomy. Learn more of his history and his works in this article from unblock.netLink to the article and other...
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CryptoQuikRead_059 - Hashing Last Weeks Big Topics April 22-28 from 2018-04-30T20:03:44
ERC20 bugs, Forking the forked BCH fork, Will we ever get Parity coins back, and Does France want you to move your ICO to their country? This and more as we hash all the topics I couldn't get to l...
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CryptoQuikRead_059 - Hashing Last Weeks Big Topics April 22-28 from 2018-04-30T20:03
ERC20 bugs, Forking the forked BCH fork, Will we ever get Parity coins back, and Does France want you to move your ICO to their country? This and more as we hash all the topics I couldn't get to la...
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CryptoQuikRead_058 - The Genesis Files: How David Chaum Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream from 2018-04-27T17:19:24
"Chaum’s work would inspire a group of cryptographers, hackers and activists, connected through a mailing list. It was this group — which included DigiCash contributors like Nick Szabo and Zooko Wi...
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CryptoQuikRead_058 - The Genesis Files: How David Chaum Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream from 2018-04-27T17:19
"Chaum’s work would inspire a group of cryptographers, hackers and activists, connected through a mailing list. It was this group — which included DigiCash contributors like Nick Szabo and Zooko Wi...
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CryptoQuikRead_057 - The 17 Millionth Bitcoin is about to be Mined from 2018-04-26T17:37:57
What does it mean that we are crossing the 17 millionth Bitcoin in existence? In a world where sound money has gone extinct, Bitcoin stands alone as a provable and transparent monetary guarantee. ...
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CryptoQuikRead_057 - The 17 Millionth Bitcoin is about to be Mined from 2018-04-26T17:37
What does it mean that we are crossing the 17 millionth Bitcoin in existence? In a world where sound money has gone extinct, Bitcoin stands alone as a provable and transparent monetary guarantee. L...
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CryptoQuikRead_056 - Five Myths About Bitcoin’s Energy Use from 2018-04-25T18:32:14
Bitcoin mining is useless, it unnecessarily pollutes, its worse than credit cards, and its going to boil the oceans!! Are these inspired revelations, or inspired by ignorance? Listen to Peter van ...
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CryptoQuikRead_056 - Five Myths About Bitcoin’s Energy Use from 2018-04-25T18:32
Bitcoin mining is useless, it unnecessarily pollutes, its worse than credit cards, and its going to boil the oceans!! Are these inspired revelations, or inspired by ignorance? Listen to Peter van V...
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CryptoQuikRead_055 - Bullish: The Return of the South Korean Premium from 2018-04-24T19:55:11
Are we likely to see another 2014 extended bear market, or have the bulls returned? Listen to the article from UnBlock.net, “Bullish Signal: The Return of the South Korean Kimchi Premium” to find ...
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CryptoQuikRead_055 - Bullish: The Return of the South Korean Premium from 2018-04-24T19:55
Are we likely to see another 2014 extended bear market, or have the bulls returned? Listen to the article from UnBlock.net, “Bullish Signal: The Return of the South Korean Kimchi Premium” to find o...
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CryptoQuikRead_054 - The Long Road To Segwit from 2018-04-24T00:38:35
The segwit protocol upgrade was the biggest and most controversial software change in Bitcoin's history. Listne to Aaron Van Wirdum's article at BitcoinMagazine.com to learn why it was needed, and...
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CryptoQuikRead_054 - The Long Road To Segwit from 2018-04-24T00:38
The segwit protocol upgrade was the biggest and most controversial software change in Bitcoin's history. Listne to Aaron Van Wirdum's article at BitcoinMagazine.com to learn why it was needed, and ...
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CryptoQuikRead_053 - Pieter Wuille Chapioning Bitcoin Development from 2018-04-20T23:14:33
So who are the people behind Bitcoin's past improvements and who are building its future? Today we have an article from CryptoCoreMedia.com introducing the "Chuck Norris of coders," Pieter Wuille,...
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CryptoQuikRead_053 - Pieter Wuille Chapioning Bitcoin Development from 2018-04-20T23:14
So who are the people behind Bitcoin's past improvements and who are building its future? Today we have an article from CryptoCoreMedia.com introducing the "Chuck Norris of coders," Pieter Wuille, ...
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CryptoQuikRead_052 - Mining Centralization Scenarios from 2018-04-19T17:15:18
Is Bitcoin really decentralized if we consider the enormous market dominance and hash power of Bitmain and the largest mining pools? Listen to Jimmy Song's argument about the elements and conseque...
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CryptoQuikRead_052 - Mining Centralization Scenarios from 2018-04-19T17:15
Is Bitcoin really decentralized if we consider the enormous market dominance and hash power of Bitmain and the largest mining pools? Listen to Jimmy Song's argument about the elements and consequen...
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CryptoQuikRead_051 - Its Too Late - Nothing Can Stop the Bitcoin Protocol from 2018-04-18T16:26:40
"In 3 years no one will be talking about Bitcoin." Miguel Cuneta has something to say about that claim. Listen to find out!Don't forget to check out Miguel's other works and the other writers wit...
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CryptoQuikRead_051 - Its Too Late - Nothing Can Stop the Bitcoin Protocol from 2018-04-18T16:26
"In 3 years no one will be talking about Bitcoin." Miguel Cuneta has something to say about that claim. Listen to find out!Don't forget to check out Miguel's other works and the other writers with ...
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CryptoQuikRead_050 - Don’t Count Your FUD Before Lightning Strikes from 2018-04-17T19:16:20
We're back in action! In the follow-up to Aaron van Wirdum's excellent explanatory series, I decided to tackle 15 common claims against the Lightning Network, one by one. Only listen if you're re...
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CryptoQuikRead_050 - Don’t Count Your FUD Before Lightning Strikes from 2018-04-17T19:16
We're back in action! In the follow-up to Aaron van Wirdum's excellent explanatory series, I decided to tackle 15 common claims against the Lightning Network, one by one. Only listen if you're read...
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CryptoQuikRead_049 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 3 from 2018-04-13T19:08:16
Completing the Lightning Puzzle with Part 3 of Understanding the Lightning Network. The riveting conclusion of Aaron van Wirdum's series on the Lightning protocol from Bitcoin Magazine. Listen if...
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CryptoQuikRead_049 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 3 from 2018-04-13T19:08
Completing the Lightning Puzzle with Part 3 of Understanding the Lightning Network. The riveting conclusion of Aaron van Wirdum's series on the Lightning protocol from Bitcoin Magazine. Listen if y...
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CryptoQuikRead_048 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 2 from 2018-04-12T18:14:17
Diving deeper down the Lightning rabbit hole with Part 2! How do we turn payment channels into a secure and trustless network? Listen to hear more from Aaron van Wirdum's article series on Bitcoi...
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CryptoQuikRead_048 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 2 from 2018-04-12T18:14
Diving deeper down the Lightning rabbit hole with Part 2! How do we turn payment channels into a secure and trustless network? Listen to hear more from Aaron van Wirdum's article series on Bitcoin...
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CryptoQuikRead_047 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 1 from 2018-04-11T18:58:19
Take a dive down the Lightning Rabbit hole with Part 1 of Aaron Van Wirdum's 3 part series at Bitcoin Magazine to understand how a smart contract network accomplishes instant, secure, and trustless...
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CryptoQuikRead_047 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 1 from 2018-04-11T18:58
Take a dive down the Lightning Rabbit hole with Part 1 of Aaron Van Wirdum's 3 part series at Bitcoin Magazine to understand how a smart contract network accomplishes instant, secure, and trustless...
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CryptoQuikRead_046 - Privacy and Schnorr Signatures from 2018-04-10T18:06:29
Schnorr Signatures could result in a significant change in the Bitcoin network efficiency and the size and types of transactions, but what will it mean for privacy? Listen to @nopara73's article t...
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CryptoQuikRead_046 - Privacy and Schnorr Signatures from 2018-04-10T18:06
Schnorr Signatures could result in a significant change in the Bitcoin network efficiency and the size and types of transactions, but what will it mean for privacy? Listen to @nopara73's article to...
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CryptoQuikRead_045 - Why Schnorr Signatures will Solve 2 of Bitcoin's Biggest Problems from 2018-04-09T17:31:09
Schnorr signatures could be a boon to the efficiency of the Bitcoin system and a hinderance to its spammers. Listen to the article from Sam Wouters to learn more.
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CryptoQuikRead_045 - Why Schnorr Signatures will Solve 2 of Bitcoin's Biggest Problems from 2018-04-09T17:31
Schnorr signatures could be a boon to the efficiency of the Bitcoin system and a hinderance to its spammers. Listen to the article from Sam Wouters to learn more. Dont forget to check out Sam Woute...
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CryptoQuikRead_044 - Monero has Hard Forked - Resulting in Four New Projects from 2018-04-07T19:14:26
Monero's hard fork has been successfully executed as planned... or has it? Like many hard forks in the past, the consequences are rarely a simple matter. Listen to learn more.Link to the article ...
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CryptoQuikRead_044 - Monero has Hard Forked - Resulting in Four New Projects from 2018-04-07T19:14
Monero's hard fork has been successfully executed as planned... or has it? Like many hard forks in the past, the consequences are rarely a simple matter. Listen to learn more.Link to the article fr...
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CryptoQuikRead_043 - A History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta from 2018-04-06T16:36:50
Listen to the extraordinary history of the Lightning Network stretching back to the beginnings of Bitcoin itself. Link to the article on Bitcoin Magazine:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/histor...
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CryptoQuikRead_043 - A History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta from 2018-04-06T16:36
Listen to the extraordinary history of the Lightning Network stretching back to the beginnings of Bitcoin itself. Link to the article on Bitcoin Magazine:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/histor...
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CryptoQuikRead_042 - Critique of Buterin's Proof of Stake Design Philosophy from 2018-04-05T18:20:05
Tuur Demeester lays out his arguments against Vitalik's Proof of Stake Design Philosophy. Guess what he has to say. Listen to today's quick read to find out.Link to Tuur's article and Medium page...
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CryptoQuikRead_042 - Critique of Buterin's Proof of Stake Design Philosophy from 2018-04-05T18:20
Tuur Demeester lays out his arguments against Vitalik's Proof of Stake Design Philosophy. Guess what he has to say. Listen to today's quick read to find out.Link to Tuur's article and Medium page: ...
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CryptoQuikRead_041 - A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy from 2018-04-04T16:45:34
Decentralized blockchains are an entirely new organism in the realm of economics, cryptography, and social consensus. Is Proof-of-work still the king of the show? Or will the years of development ...
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CryptoQuikRead_041 - A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy from 2018-04-04T16:45
Decentralized blockchains are an entirely new organism in the realm of economics, cryptography, and social consensus. Is Proof-of-work still the king of the show? Or will the years of development a...
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CryptoQuikRead_040 - Why Bitcoin is Different from 2018-04-02T16:56:31
With thousands of ICOs and altcoins out there, how on earth can we tell a difference? And are they all better and faster versions, or is there something that makes Bitcoin different? Listen to @j...
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CryptoQuikRead_040 - Why Bitcoin is Different from 2018-04-02T16:56
With thousands of ICOs and altcoins out there, how on earth can we tell a difference? And are they all better and faster versions, or is there something that makes Bitcoin different? Listen to @jim...
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CryptoQuikRead_039 - The Central Banking Bubble from 2018-04-01T19:36:55
Not only can Bitcoin not be separated from the macro economic movements of the world, it may represent one of the few assets to hedge against a meltdown in the global financial system. So how is t...
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CryptoQuikRead_039 - The Central Banking Bubble from 2018-04-01T19:36
Not only can Bitcoin not be separated from the macro economic movements of the world, it may represent one of the few assets to hedge against a meltdown in the global financial system. So how is th...
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CryptoQuikRead_038 - 7 Misunderstandings of Bitcoin's Scaling Problem from 2018-03-30T21:06:16
So many of us misunderstand the underlying implications or consequences of the scaling debate when first introduced. Listen to hear the critical realizations I had in my Bitcoin scaling journey.
CryptoQuikRead_038 - 7 Misunderstandings of Bitcoin's Scaling Problem from 2018-03-30T21:06
So many of us misunderstand the underlying implications or consequences of the scaling debate when first introduced. Listen to hear the critical realizations I had in my Bitcoin scaling journey. Li...
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CryptoQuikRead_037.5 - Lapp 7 - The Lightning Jukebox from 2018-03-30T03:18:34
The final lightning app has arrived to finish out the Week of Lapps! Listen to the announcement from @Blockstream.Link to the blog post:https://blockstream.com/2018/03/28/lightning-jukebox-offers-...
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CryptoQuikRead_037.5 - Lapp 7 - The Lightning Jukebox from 2018-03-30T03:18
The final lightning app has arrived to finish out the Week of Lapps! Listen to the announcement from @Blockstream.Link to the blog post:https://blockstream.com/2018/03/28/lightning-jukebox-offers-a...
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CryptoQuikRead_037 - 81 Percent of ICOs Become Scams from 2018-03-29T16:51:25
With data from the Satis Group, The Merkle gives us a breakdown of the successes and failures of the current ICO market. Is this a nail in the Appcoin coffin? Listen to hear more.
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CryptoQuikRead_037 - 81 Percent of ICOs Become Scams from 2018-03-29T16:51
With data from the Satis Group, The Merkle gives us a breakdown of the successes and failures of the current ICO market. Is this a nail in the Appcoin coffin? Listen to hear more. The article from ...
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CryptoQuikRead_036.5 - LApp 6 - Ifpaytt Brings Lightning Payments to IFTTT from 2018-03-28T22:32:10
LApp #6 called IfpayTTT allows non-programmers to create Lightning-powered services using the IFTTT methodology. Listen to the announcement from @Blockstream to learn more.Link to the blog post:ht...
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CryptoQuikRead_036.5 - LApp 6 - Ifpaytt Brings Lightning Payments to IFTTT from 2018-03-28T22:32
LApp #6 called IfpayTTT allows non-programmers to create Lightning-powered services using the IFTTT methodology. Listen to the announcement from @Blockstream to learn more.Link to the blog post:htt...
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CryptoQuikRead_036 - Appcoins are Snake Oil from 2018-03-28T20:03:49
Daniel Krawisz gives us a solid argument to why appcoins are all snake oil. A failed application of economics in an immature market. But is he right? Listen to hear more.
Link to the ar...
CryptoQuikRead_036 - Appcoins are Snake Oil from 2018-03-28T20:03
Daniel Krawisz gives us a solid argument to why appcoins are all snake oil. A failed application of economics in an immature market. But is he right? Listen to hear more. Link to the article: http:...
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CryptoQuikRead_035.5 - LApp 5 - Nanopos for Simple Point-of-Sale from 2018-03-27T20:30
LApp #5 is Nanopos, a simple to use point-of-sale system for in-person merchants. Listen for further details from @Blockstream
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CryptoQuikRead_035.5 - LApp 5 - Nanopos for Simple Point-of-Sale from 2018-03-27T20:30
LApp #5 is Nanopos, a simple to use point-of-sale system for in-person merchants. Listen for further details from @Blockstream Link to the Blockstream blog: https://blockstream.com/2018/03/26/strea...
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CryptoQuickRead_035 - The Digital Age of Securities from 2018-03-27T19:29:59
Moving from the Electronic Age of Securities into the Digital Age. Anthony Pompliano lays out a vision of what the future may hold. Listen to the article to learn more.Link to read the article and...
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CryptoQuickRead_035 - The Digital Age of Securities from 2018-03-27T19:29
Moving from the Electronic Age of Securities into the Digital Age. Anthony Pompliano lays out a vision of what the future may hold. Listen to the article to learn more.Link to read the article and ...
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CryptoQuikRead_034.5 - LApp 4 - PayPerCall from 2018-03-26T17:46
LApp #4 brings us Paypercall, a powerful tool to enable micropayments for API calls and micro services across the web. Setting the stage, for a new era in the internet. Link to read it or explore l...
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CryptoQuikRead_034 - Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks from 2018-03-26T17:18:07
Bitcoin's ancestry comes from decades of cypherpunk principles and the work of dedicated and principled thinkers. Learn more from Jameson Lopp's piece about the history and ideology of the Cypherp...
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CryptoQuikRead_034 - Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks from 2018-03-26T17:18
Bitcoin's ancestry comes from decades of cypherpunk principles and the work of dedicated and principled thinkers. Learn more from Jameson Lopp's piece about the history and ideology of the Cypherpu...
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CryptoQuikRead_033.5 - LApp 3 - NanoTip from 2018-03-25T18:35:30
LApp #3 from Blockstream and @shesek is Nanotip, bringing micropayments back to bitcoin one strike at a time. Listen to learn more.
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CryptoQuikRead_033.5 - LApp 3 - NanoTip from 2018-03-25T18:35
LApp #3 from Blockstream and @shesek is Nanotip, bringing micropayments back to bitcoin one strike at a time. Listen to learn more. Link to the Blockstream blog and further details on how to setup ...
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CryptoQuikRead_033 - Binance Seeks New Home in Malta from 2018-03-25T18:33:45
Quick and decisive action by Binance has seen them seek out a new, crypto-friendly home in Malta to accomodate their explosive growth in the cryptoconomy. Listen to hear Amy Castor's update at Bit...
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CryptoQuikRead_033 - Binance Seeks New Home in Malta from 2018-03-25T18:33
Quick and decisive action by Binance has seen them seek out a new, crypto-friendly home in Malta to accomodate their explosive growth in the cryptoconomy. Listen to hear Amy Castor's update at Bitc...
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CryptoQuikRead_032.5 - Lapp 2 - Lightning Publisher from 2018-03-24T18:18:52
7 LApps for Lightning Charge on the way! LApp #2 is Lightning Publisher, a Wordpress plug-in that allows publishers to monetize their own content, no third parties needed.
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CryptoQuikRead_032.5 - Lapp 2 - Lightning Publisher from 2018-03-24T18:18
7 LApps for Lightning Charge on the way! LApp #2 is Lightning Publisher, a Wordpress plug-in that allows publishers to monetize their own content, no third parties needed. Read more and check out t...
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CryptoQuikRead_032 - Bitcoin Could Revolutionize Property Rights from 2018-03-24T18:16:12
Could Bitcoin be a new and revolutionary tool in the quest for individuals to secure their property rights from both thieves and authoritative regimes across the globe? Listen to find out more. <...
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CryptoQuikRead_032 - Bitcoin Could Revolutionize Property Rights from 2018-03-24T18:16
Could Bitcoin be a new and revolutionary tool in the quest for individuals to secure their property rights from both thieves and authoritative regimes across the globe? Listen to find out more. Th...
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CryptoQuickRead_031.5 - Lapp 1 - FileBazaar from 2018-03-24T00:09:35
7 LApps coming for Lightning Charge integration. LApp #1 is FileBazaar, integrating lightning payments for photos, videos, and documents.From the Blockstream Blog:
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CryptoQuickRead_031.5 - Lapp 1 - FileBazaar from 2018-03-24T00:09
7 LApps coming for Lightning Charge integration. LApp #1 is FileBazaar, integrating lightning payments for photos, videos, and documents.From the Blockstream Blog: https://www.blockstream.com/2018/...
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CryptoQuikRead_031 - Nobody Understands Bitcoin (and that's ok) from 2018-03-23T13:30:49
Plenty of personalities and confident fools in the crypto space will tell you they know exactly what bitcoin is, and what the future holds. A long time Bitcoiner lays out a different perspective.<...
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CryptoQuikRead_031 - Nobody Understands Bitcoin (and that's ok) from 2018-03-23T13:30
Plenty of personalities and confident fools in the crypto space will tell you they know exactly what bitcoin is, and what the future holds. A long time Bitcoiner lays out a different perspective. T...
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CryptoQuikRead_030 - The NSA Tracks Down Bitcoin Users from 2018-03-22T13:08:49
As per the usual activities of the NSA, they seem seriously focused on destroying software security, hacking into networks all over the world, installing backdoors, and building massive central poi...
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CryptoQuikRead_030 - The NSA Tracks Down Bitcoin Users from 2018-03-22T13:08
As per the usual activities of the NSA, they seem seriously focused on destroying software security, hacking into networks all over the world, installing backdoors, and building massive central poi...
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CryptoQuikRead_029 - Szabo's Towards a Digital and Private Common Law from 2018-03-21T15:51:43
Does Digital code present the possibility of augmenting, or even replacing, the functions of traditional private law? Nick Szabo explores the concept in his 2007 blog post.
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CryptoQuikRead_029 - Szabo's Towards a Digital and Private Common Law from 2018-03-21T15:51
Does Digital code present the possibility of augmenting, or even replacing, the functions of traditional private law? Nick Szabo explores the concept in his 2007 blog post. For the full article and...
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CryptoQuikRead_028 - Congress Releases Report Praising Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology from 2018-03-20T19:24:12
The US Congress released an economic report that discussed many of the advantages and concerns with cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Listen to find out what they had to say.The article f...
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CryptoQuikRead_028 - Congress Releases Report Praising Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology from 2018-03-20T19:24
The US Congress released an economic report that discussed many of the advantages and concerns with cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Listen to find out what they had to say.The article f...
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CryptoQuikRead_027 - The Barely Discussed, Incredible Benefit of the Lightning Network from 2018-03-19T20:36:09
With the Lightning Network finally being realized in the wild, its time to revisit some of the incredible benefits that get lost in the debate. The trustless financial future is being realized.
CryptoQuikRead_027 - The Barely Discussed, Incredible Benefit of the Lightning Network from 2018-03-19T20:36
With the Lightning Network finally being realized in the wild, its time to revisit some of the incredible benefits that get lost in the debate. The trustless financial future is being realized. Lin...
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CryptoQuikRead_026 - Announcing Lightning-beta Mainnet Release from 2018-03-15T17:32:18
The next layer of the global Bitcoin payment and monetary system has arrived! Lnd 0.4-beta has hit mainnet! I'll be reading the lnd blog for all the improvements and exciting new things to come!
CryptoQuikRead_026 - Announcing Lightning-beta Mainnet Release from 2018-03-15T17:32
The next layer of the global Bitcoin payment and monetary system has arrived! Lnd 0.4-beta has hit mainnet! I'll be reading the lnd blog for all the improvements and exciting new things to come! Ch...
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CryptoQuikRead_025 - Bitcoin's Anarchy is a Feature, Not a Bug from 2018-03-15T15:45:10
Bitcoin's governance model is often touted as a major reason it is likely to be replaced, due to its resistance to being altered. Is it really a bug, or is it a critical feature? Listen to Elaine...
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CryptoQuikRead_025 - Bitcoin's Anarchy is a Feature, Not a Bug from 2018-03-15T15:45
Bitcoin's governance model is often touted as a major reason it is likely to be replaced, due to its resistance to being altered. Is it really a bug, or is it a critical feature? Listen to Elaine ...
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CryptoQuikRead_024 - NY Legislator Proposes BitLicense Alternative for Cryptocurrency Users from 2018-03-14T13:30:51
Is it possible that the disasterous bitlicense could finally be replaced by sensible regulation? Learn more details in today's Quick Read!The article:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/new-york-...
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CryptoQuikRead_024 - NY Legislator Proposes BitLicense Alternative for Cryptocurrency Users from 2018-03-14T13:30
Is it possible that the disasterous bitlicense could finally be replaced by sensible regulation? Learn more details in today's Quick Read!The article:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/new-york-l...
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CryptoQuikRead_023 - CFTC Moves to Cement Authority Over Crypto Fraud Cases from 2018-03-13T16:51:02
As the guidelines and regulatory precedent begin to be set within the industry, the CFTC moves to take tha tuhority over cases of crypto fruad. Listen to learn more.
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CryptoQuikRead_023 - CFTC Moves to Cement Authority Over Crypto Fraud Cases from 2018-03-13T16:51
As the guidelines and regulatory precedent begin to be set within the industry, the CFTC moves to take tha tuhority over cases of crypto fruad. Listen to learn more. Link to the article:https://www...
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CryptoQuikRead_022 - Sidechains - Why These Researchers Think They Solved a Key Piece of the Puzzle from 2018-03-12T15:21:49
Sidechains have always been considered a critical part of the future of cryptocurrencies. What has been holding it back, and is there finally a solution? Listen to find out!https://bitcoinmagazin...
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CryptoQuikRead_022 - Sidechains - Why These Researchers Think They Solved a Key Piece of the Puzzle from 2018-03-12T15:21
Sidechains have always been considered a critical part of the future of cryptocurrencies. What has been holding it back, and is there finally a solution? Listen to find out!https://bitcoinmagazine....
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CryptoQuickRead_021 - The Bullish case For Bitcoin from 2018-03-09T20:25:59
Is this crash the end of Bitcoin? Or is this an inevitable blip that comes when shifting the foundations of society? Listen to find out in Vijay's thought provoking article, "The Bullish Case For ...
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CryptoQuickRead_021 - The Bullish case For Bitcoin from 2018-03-09T20:25
Is this crash the end of Bitcoin? Or is this an inevitable blip that comes when shifting the foundations of society? Listen to find out in Vijay's thought provoking article, "The Bullish Case For B...
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CryptoQuikRead_020 - There is a Bitcoin Patent War Going On from 2018-03-06T20:08:49
There is a Bitcoin Patent war going on that could have serious consequences for the entire industry and security assumptions of blockchain as a technology. However, there may be a solution! Liste...
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CryptoQuikRead_020 - There is a Bitcoin Patent War Going On from 2018-03-06T20:08
There is a Bitcoin Patent war going on that could have serious consequences for the entire industry and security assumptions of blockchain as a technology. However, there may be a solution! Listen ...
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CryptoQuikRead_019 - The Future of Ethereum Doesn't Have Wallets from 2018-03-03T13:30
Wallets may be integral to the Crypto economy today, but will the frictionless and user-friendly future we all seek may make them a thing of the past.
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CryptoQuikRead_019 - The Future of Ethereum Doesn't Have Wallets from 2018-03-03T13:30
Wallets may be integral to the Crypto economy today, but will the frictionless and user-friendly future we all seek may make them a thing of the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...
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CryptoQuikRead_018 - Why Decentralization Matters from 2018-03-02T17:29:26
If we can often build our solutions faster and cleaner with a centralized construct, then why bother seeking a decentralized solution at all? Learn more in today's quick read, an article from Chris...
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CryptoQuikRead_018 - Why Decentralization Matters from 2018-03-02T17:29
If we can often build our solutions faster and cleaner with a centralized construct, then why bother seeking a decentralized solution at all? Learn more in today's quick read, an article from Chris...
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CryptoQuikRead_017 - Natural v. Artifical Money Why Bitcoin is the Greatest Thing to Happen for Alternative Energy from 2018-03-01T20:45:17
What if Bitcoin's energy consumption is actually the greatest natural incentive we could've hoped for in our alternative energy revolution? Find out how in today's Quick Read by Melik Manukyan. @...
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CryptoQuikRead_017 - Natural v. Artifical Money Why Bitcoin is the Greatest Thing to Happen for Alternative Energy from 2018-03-01T20:45
What if Bitcoin's energy consumption is actually the greatest natural incentive we could've hoped for in our alternative energy revolution? Find out how in today's Quick Read by Melik Manukyan. @re...
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CryptoQuikRead_016 - Bitcoin 0.16.0 is Released: Here's What's New from 2018-03-01T18:39:24
Final release for Bitcoin 0.16.0 has hit mainnet! Find out what's inside.
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CryptoQuikRead_016 - Bitcoin 0.16.0 is Released: Here's What's New from 2018-03-01T18:39
Final release for Bitcoin 0.16.0 has hit mainnet! Find out what's inside. If you are looking for the most knowledgable and reasoned news and coverage of events in the Bitcoin space, BitcoinMagazin...
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CryptoQuikRead_015 - Venezuala Launches "Petros" Cryptocurrency Amid Growing Skepticism from 2018-03-01T18:38:27
Venezuela is taking a deep dive into the crypto world in a last ditch effort to save its failing economy. Find out more in today's quick read.
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CryptoQuikRead_015 - Venezuala Launches "Petros" Cryptocurrency Amid Growing Skepticism from 2018-03-01T18:38
Venezuela is taking a deep dive into the crypto world in a last ditch effort to save its failing economy. Find out more in today's quick read. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryp...
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CryptoQuikRead_014 - Bulletproofs, Faster Rangeproofs, & More [Andrew Poelstra] from 2018-03-01T18:37:34
Cypherpunks write code. Learn what new innovations in cryptography are being built to power the future of cryptocurrency.
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CryptoQuikRead_014 - Bulletproofs, Faster Rangeproofs,&More [Andrew Poelstra] from 2018-03-01T18:37
Cypherpunks write code. Learn what new innovations in cryptography are being built to power the future of cryptocurrency. Check out the incredible developments always coming from Blockstream as wel...
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CryptoQuikRead_013 - Bitcoiner Faces Charges After Selling BTC to an Undercover Cop from 2018-03-01T18:36:25
Selling Bitcoin to an undercover cop landed @NODEfather in prison. Find out why in today's Crypto Quick Read!
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CryptoQuikRead_013 - Bitcoiner Faces Charges After Selling BTC to an Undercover Cop from 2018-03-01T18:36
Selling Bitcoin to an undercover cop landed @NODEfather in prison. Find out why in today's Crypto Quick Read! Read the article at:bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoi…undercover-cop/ Learn more abo...
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CryptoQuikRead_012 - Wyoming House Unanimously Approves Two Pro-Blockchain Bills from 2018-03-01T18:35:07
Is Wyoming set to become the nation's most Bitcoin friendly state? Listen to learn more! From Bitcoinmagazine.com and written by Erik Kuebler
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CryptoQuikRead_012 - Wyoming House Unanimously Approves Two Pro-Blockchain Bills from 2018-03-01T18:35
Is Wyoming set to become the nation's most Bitcoin friendly state? Listen to learn more! From Bitcoinmagazine.com and written by Erik Kuebler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
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CryptoQuikRead_011 - Lightning Enables Unicast Transactions in Bitcoin from 2018-03-01T18:31:24
Is Lightning the TCP/IP of Bitcoin? An analogy that breakdowns the scaling implications and understanding of how layers will build the future we envision today. By Melik Manukyan
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CryptoQuikRead_011 - Lightning Enables Unicast Transactions in Bitcoin from 2018-03-01T18:31
Is Lightning the TCP/IP of Bitcoin? An analogy that breakdowns the scaling implications and understanding of how layers will build the future we envision today. By Melik Manukyan melik_87377/lightn...
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CryptoQuikRead_009 - How Easy Money is Rotting America from the Inside-Out from 2018-03-01T18:30:12
What are the consequences of America's monetary policy? Listen to find out.
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CryptoQuikRead_009 - How Easy Money is Rotting America from the Inside-Out from 2018-03-01T18:30
What are the consequences of America's monetary policy? Listen to find out. Link to the article by David L. Veksler at Fee.org:https://fee.org/articles/how-easy-money-is-rotting-america-from-the-in...
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CryptoQuikRead_008 - Bitcoin Turning into a Multi Layered System from 2018-03-01T18:29:39
Ber Kessels discusses the value of Bitcoin becoming a secure and reliable transport layer for a new protocol stack for transferring value. The most exciting advancement for crypto in 2018.
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CryptoQuikRead_008 - Bitcoin Turning into a Multi Layered System from 2018-03-01T18:29
Ber Kessels discusses the value of Bitcoin becoming a secure and reliable transport layer for a new protocol stack for transferring value. The most exciting advancement for crypto in 2018. Link to ...
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CryptoQuikRead_007 - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace from 2018-03-01T18:28:57
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CryptoQuikRead_006 - What You May Not Understand About Crypto Millionaires from 2018-03-01T18:28:20
What is the mission and the prupose of Bitcoin? Get a glimpse into the crypto millionaires who have built, and continue to build, Bitcoin into the open and decentralized financial foundation for a ...
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CryptoQuikRead_006 - What You May Not Understand About Crypto Millionaires from 2018-03-01T18:28
What is the mission and the purpose of Bitcoin? Get a glimpse into the crypto millionaires who have built, and continue to build, Bitcoin into the open and decentralized financial foundation for a ...
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CryptoQuikRead_007 - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace from 2018-03-01T18:28
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CryptoQuikRead_005 - SEC Chair's Written Testimony from 2018-03-01T18:27:32
Another article from Bitcoin Magazine detailing the SEC Chair's testimony and what regulation for Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and ICOs will likely be moving forward. Things are changing quickly, sta...
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CryptoQuikRead_005 - SEC Chair's Written Testimony from 2018-03-01T18:27
Another article from Bitcoin Magazine detailing the SEC Chair's testimony and what regulation for Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and ICOs will likely be moving forward. Things are changing quickly, sta...
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CryptoQuikRead_003 - Bitfury Group Unveils Crystal [JP Buntinx] from 2018-03-01T18:25:12
Did Bitcoin ever give us privacy, or will we get the opposite? Our article today is from TheMerkle.com and is titled:
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CryptoQuikRead_004 - Darkest Before the Dawn from 2018-03-01T18:25
With the Bitcoin prices heavily depressed comes an enormous number of depressed bitcoiners. Time to take a step back and look at some of the exciting and bullish developments that have been happeni...
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CryptoQuikRead_003 - Bitfury Group Unveils Crystal [JP Buntinx] from 2018-03-01T18:25
Did Bitcoin ever give us privacy, or will we get the opposite? Our article today is from TheMerkle.com and is titled: BitFury Group Officially Unveils Crystal, a Blockchain Analysis Toolhttps://the...
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CryptoQuikRead_002 - Keep an eye out for New Bitcoin Tech in 2018 from 2018-03-01T18:10:16
Tons of exciting developments on the horizon for 2018, listen to hear why this year is going to be another big one for Bitcoin.
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CryptoQuikRead_002 - Keep an eye out for New Bitcoin Tech in 2018 from 2018-03-01T18:10
Tons of exciting developments on the horizon for 2018, listen to hear why this year is going to be another big one for Bitcoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Weiss Crypto Ratings from 2018-03-01T18:01:50
How could the Weiss Cryptocurrency ratings get it so wrong? Our flagship Quick read from @Bitcoinmagazine!
"The Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings are Laughably Bad," an op-ed by
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Weiss Crypto Ratings from 2018-03-01T18:01
How could the Weiss Cryptocurrency ratings get it so wrong? Our flagship Quick read from @Bitcoinmagazine! "The Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings are Laughably Bad," an op-ed by Kyle Torpey giving us h...
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Weiss Crypto Ratings from 2018-03-01T18:01
How could the Weiss Cryptocurrency ratings get it so wrong? Our flagship Quick read from @Bitcoinmagazine! "The Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings are Laughably Bad," an op-ed by Kyle Torpey giving us h...
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