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Matt Northbridge
Dec 7, 2020
Awesome show.
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Read_519 - The Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future [Square & ARKinvest]
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"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 location agnostic, requiring only an internet connection. These combined qualities constitute an extraordinary asset, an energy buyer of last resort that can be turned on or off at a moment’s notice anywhere in the world." - Square & ARKinvest |
Apr 22, 2021 |
Read_518 - Two Taproot Activation Clients! [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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"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 software clients that could in some scenarios even become incompatible with one another." - Aaron Van Wirdum Check out the full article below, with lots of links to other works and source for further digging: |
Apr 19, 2021 |
Read_517 - Len Sassaman & Satoshi, A Cypherpunk History [Evan h]
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"Embedded on every single node of the Bitcoin network is an obituary. Hacked into the transaction data, it’s a memorial to Len Sassaman, a man essentially immortalized in the blockchain itself. A fitting tribute in more ways than one.' - Evan h |
Apr 16, 2021 |
Chat #60 - Strong Foundations in an Unstable Era, with Cory Tucek
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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, & the principles that Bitcoin embodies - all covered in today's chat with the Bitcoin Made Simple podcast host, Cory Tucek. I had a great time with this one and I think you guys will love it. Don't miss Chat #60 - Strong Foundations in an Unstable Era And of course don't miss our incredible sponsors! SwanBitcoin.com for your automatic, no hassle savings plan, & ShiftCrypto with the BitBox02 hardware wallet, for simple, secure, open source Bitcoin storage 👏🏻 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Apr 15, 2021 |
Read_516 - Conclusion of the Long-Term Debt Cycle [Dylan Leclair]
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"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 in the hands of the state, or that one by one, individuals will voluntarily opt into and adopt a superior monetary system, the rules of which cannot be arbitrarily changed." - Dylan Leclair |
Apr 14, 2021 |
Read_515 - Utopian Dystopias [Alek Svetski]
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"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 us get beyond the great filter." - Aleks Svetski |
Apr 12, 2021 |
Read_514 - The Responsibility of Adopting Bitcoin [DerGigi]
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"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 responsibility to eliminate these security holes wherever and whenever we can." - DerGigi |
Apr 09, 2021 |
Guy's Take #44 - Bitcoin is Not What you Think it is
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• Money is not what you think it is The many recommended works to dig deeper: |
Apr 06, 2021 |
Read_513 - Noahbjectivity on Bitcoin Mining [Nic Carter]
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"...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 nonrival energy sources globally. Suffice to say, there’s enough nonrival energy out there to run Bitcoin many times over. It’s just a matter of deploying hashrate in the right locations, which miners are doing — aggressively." - Nic Carter |
Apr 06, 2021 |
Chat #59 - Skin in the Lightning Game with ZeBeDee Founder
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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 integrating Lightning payments directly into the gaming and esports industry. Where the virtual economy meets the virtual world, with Lightning at its center. Don’t miss Bitcoin Audible Chat #59! |
Apr 02, 2021 |
Read_512 - Why The Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin [Croesus]
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"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., libertarianism, Trump support, second-amendment rights, Black Lives Matter). But these stem from a deeper divide: the degree to which a person has trust in the system." - Croesus |
Mar 31, 2021 |
Read_511 - Debunking the Empty Block Attack [Jimmy Song]
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"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 soft-fork where all non-empty blocks would be rejected. Given that they have a majority of hashing power on the network, so the thinking goes, they will eventually get the longer chain even if other miners were to mine non-empty blocks. If only empty blocks are being mined, all activity on the network would stop and so, the thinking goes, Bitcoin would be killed." - Jimmy Song |
Mar 30, 2021 |
Read_510 - Bitcoin Will Save Our Earth [Evan Bayless]
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"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 fund the development of renewable energy technologies." - Evan Bayless |
Mar 27, 2021 |
Read_509 - Fidelity: Addressing Persisting Bitcoin Criticisms [Ria Bhutoria]
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"Bitcoin is a unique digital asset for an increasingly digital world that requires digging deeper than the surface level to understand its core properties and trade-offs." - Ria Bhutoria |
Mar 26, 2021 |
Read_508 - Sovereignism Part 1 - Digital Creative Destruction [Robert Breedlove]
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"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 nation-state interference and deserving of its own neologism. Let us call the new mode of socioeconomic organization enabled by encrypted digital money sovereignism." - Robert Breedlove Today we start an amazing series by Breedlove based on the thesis proposed by the Sovereign Individual. Could the new dynamic brought about by the existence of Bitcoin, potentially destroy the economic cost/reward reality of centralized, violent nation states? And what does such a potentiality mean for the future? Don’t miss today’s read from Swan Bitcoin blog, by Robert Breedlove: A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors: |
Mar 24, 2021 |
Read_507 - Trust, That we Need More of [Karo Zarogus]
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“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 your funds on the Bitcoin blockchain. Nobody can take your money away, and this creates economic stability that positively influences mental wellbeing. When you know that you have savings, and that you will be able to pay any and all unexpected expenses that might arise and that you have built the foundations of a prosperous future, things change.” - Karo |
Mar 23, 2021 |
Read_506 - Pumping Iron [Arthur Hayes]
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“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 the most amount of global debt ever in human civilization." - Arthur Hayes |
Mar 19, 2021 |
Read_505 - The Separation of Money & State [Knut Svanholm]
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"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 world." - Knut Svanholm |
Mar 17, 2021 |
Chat #58 - Preston Pysh on Monetary Revolutions
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"The World is in Denial" - Preston Pysh |
Mar 15, 2021 |
Guy's Take #43 - The Sound of Inevitability
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• Why Matt Odell is wrong about the OCC statement |
Mar 11, 2021 |
Read_504 - SeeTee Shareholder Letter [Kjell Inge Røkke]
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"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." Kjell Inge Røkke |
Mar 10, 2021 |
Read_503 - Bitcoin is Time [DerGigi]
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“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 of things. A centralized party was required to keep the time. Bitcoin solves this problem by re-inventing time itself. It says no to seconds and yes to blocks.”- DerGigi DerGigi is back at it with a chapter from his upcoming book 21 Ways, all about the nature of Bitcoin not as new invention in money, or payments, or cryptography… but rather a new invention in the realm of time. Bitcoin doesn’t merely allow an ordering of events, it actually invents its own concept, of time. Bitcoin is Time: Don’t forget to check out DerGigi’s other phenomenal work and support him at the link below: POW is a Decentralized Clock: 21 Lessons: |
Mar 05, 2021 |
Read_502 - LOT true or false? The Last Hurdle for Taproot [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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"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 segment does, different nodes might enforce different rules, introducing the risk that the network fractures between them." - Aaron Van Wirdum Check out the Bitcoin Audible Page for Aaron & his collection of amazing work: |
Mar 04, 2021 |
Read_501 - The Capital Strip Mine [Allen Farrington]
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"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. This is dangerous nonsense." - Allen Farrington |
Mar 03, 2021 |
Read_500 - Decentralization, Why Dumb Networks are Better [Andreas Antonopolous]
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"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 photos and text, video and audio. It doesn’t have a list of approved applications. It doesn’t even distinguish between client and server, user and host, or individual versus corporation. Every IP address is an equal peer." - Andreas M. Antonopolous |
Mar 02, 2021 |
Read_499 - The Bitcoin Black Hole Effect [William Clemente]
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"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 Bitcoins to stack on their balance sheet. Only time will tell." - William Clemente III |
Feb 26, 2021 |
Read_498 - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? [Alex Gladstein]
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"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 failed miserably with their Wars on Drugs may find stopping people from holding something that’s invisible, borderless, and teleporting much more difficult." - Alex Gladstein |
Feb 25, 2021 |
Chat #57 - Bitcoin History with Peter Todd, Brady Swenson, & Guy Swann on Swan Signal Live
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"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 us to dive into Bitcoin's fascinating history." |
Feb 24, 2021 |
Read_497 - Bitcoin is Venice [Allen Farrington]
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"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 provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?" - Allen Farrington |
Feb 23, 2021 |
Read_496 - Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This [Casey]
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“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 quantitative easing or laws protecting value — only direct valuation.” - Casey Bitcoin may appear volatile, but how does it make sense to measure the volatility of an asset with extremely stable & predictable supply, in an asset who’s supply is horrifically volatile & unpredictable? What happens when we turn that image on its head, and start pricing the world in Bitcoin, the hardest monetary asset in the world? Today’s episode is all about it, with Casey’s Bitcoin Magazine article: “Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This.” Check out the original article by Casey and so much more at Bitcoin Magazine with the link below: Huge thank you to the LTBNetwork & Bitcoin Magazine for being such an incredible resource for the Bitcoin ecosystem! |
Feb 19, 2021 |
Read_495 - An Economic Analysis of Ethereum [Lyn Alden]
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“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 Ethereum Improvement Proposals or “EIPs” by developers have changed its monetary policy over time as needed for various reasons.” - Lyn Alden Lyn Alden always brings a clear, investor centered perspective to the space which I highly value. With no “crypto” or Bitcoin baggage she takes a rational view of digital assets from their long term investment potential. In today’s piece, let’s find out what she sees in “An Economic Analysis of Ethereum.” Check out the original article below: A huge Thank You to the Bitcoin Audible Sponsors: |
Feb 16, 2021 |
Read_494 - Lightning Economics: Learning to Love Inbound Liquidity [Roy Sheinfeld]
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"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 increases over time." - Roy Sheinfeld
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Feb 13, 2021 |
Read_493 - Asset DNA, Explaining Bitcoin's Speculative Attack [Croesus]
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"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 leverage this asymmetry for personal gain into the future." - Croesus |
Feb 10, 2021 |
Guy's Take #42 - Bitcoin's Second Chapter Begins
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"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." - Ross Stevens |
Feb 09, 2021 |
Read_492 - What I Really Think of Bitcoin [Ray Dalio]
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"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 rapidly gaining popularity as both a type of money and a storehold of wealth is an amazing accomplishment." - Ray Dalio |
Feb 06, 2021 |
Read_491 - Bitcoin Astronomy - The Second Law [Dhruv Bansal]
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"Perhaps one of the great ironies of the future will be the Solcoin alliance between urbane Terrans and hillbilly belters." - Dhruv Bansal |
Feb 04, 2021 |
Reboot - Bitcoin Astronomy #1 [Dhruv Bansal]
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Preparing for the Second Part of Dhruv's incredible series, today we have a reboot of Part 1! |
Feb 03, 2021 |
Read_490 - How this Bull Run is Different [Abhay Aluri]
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"People aren’t trading bitcoin, they’re accumulating more and more of it over time and holding it long term (aka, “stacking sats“). This is evident not only through the raw on-chain data and exchange flows, but also through consumer behavior." - Abhay Aluri |
Feb 02, 2021 |
Guy's Take #41 - Gamestop is the Battle, Bitcoin is the War
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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 major players in Wall Street after retail investors made them cry. There is nothing that could more perfectly demonstrate the reality that average Joe's only have freedom when they are losing, but when they make a win at the expense of billionaire hedge funds, you can bet your ass the stocks will be delisted, accounts will be frozen, positions will be closed for no reason, the SEC will investigate "manipulation" from the retail investors, & the big dogs will do everything they can to prevent from paying the bill. |
Jan 29, 2021 |
Read_489 - The Cantillon Effect 2.0 - Bitcoin is the First Truly Fair Money [CK_snarks & Deniz Saat]
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“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 unfairness that comes with all previous monies as well as any need to trust a third party in order to use Bitcoin.” - CK & Deniz Saat The inherent problem with our monetary system is a systemic & inescapable unfairness. Bitcoin is provably, the fairest money that has ever existed. If you actually believe in equality, that everyone should play by the same rules, then there is no defensibility of our current money. For justice & equality, Bitcoin isn’t just a better option, its the only option. Today’s amazing read from Christian Keroles & Deniz Saat, another amazing Bitcoin Magazine piece: Another great episode was our recent reads, both from Bitcoin Magazine, first on “Winning Hearts and Minds for Bitcoin,” by Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack: And then CK’s previous piece on the podcast, “The Sovereign Company Thesis”: And a final thanks to the amazing Bitcoin Magazine and LTBNetwork. The service these guys are doing for the Bitcoin space is incalculable! 🙏🏻 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Jan 27, 2021 |
Chat #56 - DLCs, PTLCs, the Oracle Problem & More with SuredBits' Nadav
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"Any solution to the oracle problem, makes Bitcoin able to do anything that any other protocol out there can do." - Nadav Kohen |
Jan 26, 2021 |
Guy’s Take #40 - Double Spends & Wittgenstein’s Money
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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 it on today’s episode and then gets into the follow-up to Wittgenstein’s Money, the amazing piece by Allen Farrington that we covered in the previous episode on the show. What is value, what is money, & what would it seem like if it did seem like a money was emerging from zero? Don’t miss today’s Guy’s Take episode! Other great must watch/listen pieces discussed in this episode: How I made a Toaster from Scratch I, Pencil |
Jan 22, 2021 |
Read_488 - Wittgenstein's Money [Allen]
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"What would it seem like if it did seem like a global, digital, sound, open source, programmable money was monetizing from absolute zero?" - Allenf32 |
Jan 22, 2021 |
Read_487 - Winning Hearts & Minds for Bitcoin [Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack]
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"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." - Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack Check out the original at the link below, plus the incredible library of articles dropping every day at the link below: Mentioned at the beginning of the show is BtcMag’s page dedicated to everything busting the Energy FUD, keep it for quick reference: And a final thanks to the amazing Bitcoin Magazine and LTBNetwork. The service these guys are doing for the Bitcoin space is incalculable! 🙏🏻 |
Jan 19, 2021 |
Read_486 - The Moral Case for Bitcoin [Jimmy Song]
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“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 more moral money.” - Jimmy Song There is the economic case, there is the individual sovereignty case, & there is an investment case for Bitcoin. But the deepest case to be made, & the one with the strongest argument, is the moral case. It’s not merely profits, sound economics, or the potential of future growth that make Bitcoin the proper investment, but the moral truths that make Bitcoin the only real option for a better future. Today we read Jimmy Song’s excellent piece from The Bitcoin Time Vol 3, “The Moral Case for Bitcoin.” Don’t forget to check out and drop some applause on the article at Jimmy’s medium page below: |
Jan 16, 2021 |
Read_485 - Why Bitcoin Is Not a Ponzi Scheme [Lyn Alden]
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“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, the market has priced it as it sees fit, out in the open.” - Lyn Alden Bitcoin is a Ponzi, say the detractors. Their arguments never seem anymore sophisticated, and sound increasingly desperate as Bitcoin continues to defy their view. Is there any truth to this? Well Lyn Alden decides to break it down for us, using a range from the most narrow, to the most broad view of a Ponzi, and lays out Bitcoin’s history, network effects, & open nature against it, to make the rather obvious case in hindsight, that Bitcoin, is indeed, Not a Ponzi scheme. Check out the original for a few great graphics and charts to better visualize the argument, and to support/follow the work both of LynAlden, and the excellent Swan Bitcoin blog: Support the show at GuySwann.com and start auto-buying your Bitcoin stack using the best service in the space! Get $10 FREE for signing up with my link and support the podcast at the same time: |
Jan 14, 2021 |
Read_484 - Bitcoin & the Printing Press [Anil]
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“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 “truth” conferred solely by the ordained to the illiterate masses inside of churches.” - Anil The Printing press was a revolution in the spread of information and communication, leading to the Renaissance and the age of Science & Reason. Bitcoin is a revolution in the dissemination & spread of real economic value. It will create a Renaissance that will dwarf that of the printing press. Check out the original and follow the author at the links below: A huge thank you to the LTBNetwork for supporting this podcast and sharing it out with their amazing audience! And to Bitcoin Magazine for the incredible work they do in furthering education and new in the Bitcoin space. |
Jan 12, 2021 |
Chat #55 - Knut Svanholm & Andy Edstrom on Writing, Feedback Loops, & Bitcoin Haters in 2021
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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 Mathematics" and "Independence Reimagined" join us today for a discussion on everything important with catching the new people coming to Bitcoin, the complications with solidifying ideas out and making them accessible, the feedback loops that will make Bitcoin a dominant macro-political force, & what we can expect from 2021. Dont miss Chat #55 with Knut & Andy. |
Jan 11, 2021 |
Read_483 - Bitcoin & the Hopf Cycle of the Internet [Giacomo Zucco]
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“Hard times make strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - Giacomo Zucco Today's read is another amazing article from Vol 3 of The Bitcoin Times. This is such a cool concept taking an evolutionary and social pattern and applying it to technology and the history of the internet. Another brilliant piece for the archive and I had a blast with Guy’s Take section on this one, so don’t miss it. Check out the original and the other amazing pieces from the Bitcoin Time Vols at the link below: Don’t forget to explore our awesome sponsors and their products at the links below: |
Jan 08, 2021 |
Read_482 - The Stone Ridge Letter [Ross Stevens]
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"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. Or opt in to the Bitcoin Standard, in which no one gets to do that, including you. With the option, now, of a monetary system governed by rules instead of rulers, on behalf of myself, my family, and the firms I’m responsible for leading, I’ve made my choice." - Ross L. Stevens |
Jan 07, 2021 |
Read_481 - Bitcoin's Killer App, Skin in the Game [Simon Cowell]
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"We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. People play games because they are fun, not because they are on a blockchain." - Simon Cowell |
Jan 06, 2021 |
Chat #54 - Part 2 of WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari
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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 we are still so early! |
Jan 04, 2021 |
Read_480 - The Greatest Game, Part 2 [Jeff Booth]
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“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 Finishing the amazing piece from the Bitcoin Times, Vol 3, Jeff Booth’s excellent article on the game theory when technological deflation meets the fiat inflationary machine. Don’t miss the awesome conclusion with Part 2 of “The Greatest Game.” Check out the original article below, plus the other great works with The Bitcoin Times vol 3: Check out Jeff Booth's excellent book if you haven't read it, The Price of Tomorrow: |
Jan 01, 2021 |
Read_479 - The Greatest Game, Part 1 [Jeff Booth]
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” - Buckminster Fuller |
Dec 31, 2020 |
FEATURING Shitcoin Insider #4 - The Ripple Effect
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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 dedicate a full episode of Shitcoin Insider to the glorious XRP? |
Dec 29, 2020 |
Read_478 - Bullish on Bitcoiners [John Vallis]
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"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." - John Vallis |
Dec 28, 2020 |
Guy's Take #39 - Bitcoin is the Pin
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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 than it naturally should be. Rather than Bitcoin being the bubble that everyone claims it is, on the contrary, the financial system is a "greater fool" bubble, and Bitcoin is the pin. |
Dec 25, 2020 |
Read_477 - Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization [Parker Lewis]
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"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 insane, and the only practical solution is to find a better form of money which eliminates the negative asymmetry inherent to systemic currency debasement." - Parker Lewis |
Dec 24, 2020 |
Read_476 - The Legend of Prometheus [Aleks Svetski]
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"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.” - Aleks Svetski |
Dec 22, 2020 |
Chat #54 - WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari
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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 all of it in a 2 hour marathon. This is part 1, with part 2 on the way. |
Dec 19, 2020 |
Happy HODL Day!
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“GF’s out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I’LL TELL YOU WHY…” - GameKyuubi |
Dec 18, 2020 |
Read_475 - The Sovereign Company Thesis [Christian Keroles]
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“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 of governments. This in and of itself will challenge the dynamics of governance and the nature of nation states as we currently know them." - Ck_snarks |
Dec 18, 2020 |
Read_474 - The Fraying of the Petrodollar System - Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
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"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 to find a more voracious group of people than those in the Bitcoin community, and increasingly over time, Wall Street money has poured in as well." - Lyn Alden |
Dec 17, 2020 |
Read_473 - The Fraying of the Petrodollar System - Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
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"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 ramifications for investments over the long run." - Lyn Alden |
Dec 15, 2020 |
Guy's Take #38 - An Unstoppable Force
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"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." - Guy Swann |
Dec 11, 2020 |
Read_472 - The Fiat Standard - Chapter 1 [Saifedean Ammous]
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"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 like mining, nodes, balances, and proof of work. My aim is to explain the operation and engineering structure of the fiat monetary system and how it operates, in reality, away from the naive romanticism of governments and banks who have benefited from this system for a century." - Saifedean Ammous |
Dec 11, 2020 |
Read_471 - The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard]
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"My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is only the first step. The second step will be speculative attacks that use bitcoins as a platform. The third and final step will be hyper-bitcoinization." - Pierre Rochard |
Dec 09, 2020 |
Read_470 - Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? [Jeffrey Tucker]
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“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.” - Jeffrey Tucker |
Dec 08, 2020 |
Read_469 - The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo]
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"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 those early days." - Aaron & Pete |
Dec 07, 2020 |
Read_468 - Bitcoin is Hope [Robert Breedlove]
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“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in the world.” - Robert Breedlove Another excellent piece from Breedlove, this time on the SwanBitcoin blog. The very purpose of money and civilization is to abate the entropy and chaos of the natural world. It is to protect ourselves from an uncertain future. Central banks are institutions that confiscate that production and safety for themselves and the political apparatus, and pour entropy into our lives and economic realities. Bitcoin will realign the incentives, it will protect the people and entrepreneurs from the evils of inflation, and it will finally right the ship. Today’s read by Robert Breedlove, “Bitcoin is Hope.” Check out the tons of additional links and ways to follow Breedlove and support his work by going to the link, as well as some great quotes and artwork that accompany this piece: |
Dec 04, 2020 |
Read_467 - Bitcoin Doesn't Rely on Utilities [Rollo McFloogle]
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"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 also makes other previously unprofitable energy sources profitable." - Rollo McFloogle |
Dec 02, 2020 |
Chat #53 - Bitcoin Security in the Age of Surveillance with Douglas Bakkum
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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 a distant after thought. How does Bitcoin change our digital environment, and the way we think about security? Dont miss this and much more in today's chat! |
Dec 01, 2020 |
Read_466 - A Note on Bitcoin [James O'Beirne]
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"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 many core functions in finance." - James O'Beirne
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Nov 30, 2020 |
Read_465 - All the Bullish Cases for Bitcoin [Brandon Quittem]
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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 dominant millennial investment vehicle, & so much more. Bitcoin has so many feedback mechanisms to increase its value, to make it a globally significant asset for every demographic, & potentially to fulfill the role as a new global reserve. All while having a perfectly inelastic supply. The only thing that can adjust, is the price. |
Nov 26, 2020 |
Chat #52 - The Great Reset vs The Great Awakening with Adam Curry
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The inventor of podcasting, the Podfather himself Adam Curry, joins us today for an incredible chat about Bitcoin and re-decentralizing cyberspace. The Great Reset, centralized platforms, censorship, surveillance, a destruction of freedoms, a new technology, fixing the money, a rebirth of purpose, and the Great Awakening. |
Nov 24, 2020 |
Guy's Take #37 - Dear James Woods, Sincerely Guy Swann
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"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 |
Nov 21, 2020 |
Read_464 - Poolin's Initiative to Activate Taproot [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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“Taproot will unlock a new range of possibilities for Bitcoin, improving privacy and expanding smart contract possibilities” |
Nov 18, 2020 |
Read_463 - A Symphony of Positivity [Eric Wall]
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"It takes two nudges to convert a nocoiner. The vast majority of people got their very first nudge in 2017. These people are now primed for that second nudge, which is coming in roaring." - Eric Wall |
Nov 17, 2020 |
Chat #51 - The Death of Nuance with Aleks Svetski
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Today's chat is with the brilliant and always entertaining Aleks Svetski (https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski). On the state of the world, our turbulent future ahead, and getting trapped in the empty pursuit of happiness while losing sight of the deeper search for meaning. We had no agenda for this show and just went deep into whatever felt right with this one. Not to be missed. |
Nov 16, 2020 |
Read_462 - 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin [Lyn Alden]
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"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 supply. And I like gold too; I’ve been long it since 2018, and still am." - Lyn Alden |
Nov 12, 2020 |
Guy's Take #36 - Walking Tall
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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 of dependence on another human being? With a short read of a Bank Ad from many decades ago that shows an entirely different view of money and savings, we dig into how money affects us on a different level. |
Nov 12, 2020 |
Read_461 - When Bitcoin Melts The System, Prosperity Steps In [Thibaud Marechal]
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"The logical construct behind the dissection of today’s evils is actually very simple: money is broken; fix the money, fix the world." - Thibaud Marechal |
Nov 10, 2020 |
Read_460 - The Hard Forks that Didn't Dilute Bitcoin [Nic Carter]
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"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 state of fragmentation?" - Nic Carter |
Nov 09, 2020 |
Read_459 - Call me Ishmael [BitMex]
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"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, can therefore be effectively stored inside of one’s mind." - Bitmex research |
Nov 06, 2020 |
Read_458- The Lightning Liquidity Marketplace [Peter Chawaga]
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“Lightning Labs is positioning this release as a step toward an ecosystem of Lightning-based financial products, which it called “LiFi.” - Peter Chawaga A new ecosystem has just begun. With Bitcoin native financial markets, Lightning Labs has released the beginning of an entirely new structure of Bitcoin finance with Lightning Pool Marketplace. An open, global, noncustodial auction for liquidity on the lightning network, and a novel way to execute contracts off-chain. This is the beginning of something big. Don’t miss this excellent article from Bitcoin Magazine and author Peter Chawaga. The future of lightning is coming into focus. Check out the original at Bitcoin Magazine, and follow Peter Chawaga at the links below: |
Nov 05, 2020 |
Read_457 - Our Most Brilliant Idea [Robert Breedlove]
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"When governments play God, civilizations burn in Hell." |
Nov 04, 2020 |
Read_456 - Bitcoin at 12 [Nic Carter]
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"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 value will not happen overnight. We have barely begun the project." - Nic Carter |
Nov 03, 2020 |
Guy's Take #35 - The Next Domino...
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We may have just seen the beginnings of central banks entering the Bitcoin game theory. The game is about to get real. |
Oct 30, 2020 |
Read_455 - Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History [Brandon Quittem]
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"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." - Brandon Quittem |
Oct 30, 2020 |
Read_454 - The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption [Nic Carter]
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"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 |
Oct 27, 2020 |
Read_453 - Lies, Deception, & Unnatural Money [Nik Hoffman]
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"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 this practice, but that can only work for so long; as we’ve seen throughout history, bad money doesn’t last forever." - Nik Hoffman |
Oct 27, 2020 |
Read_452 - How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom [Jim Epstein]
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"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 coercion and taxation by an invisible shield. Instead of the Colorado mountains, May's cyberspace Galt's Gulch would exist on the internet, with cryptography providing protective cover." - Jim Epstein |
Oct 23, 2020 |
Chat #50 - Dawn of the Age of Bitcoin with Erik Cason
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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 impact on the world will be impossible to measure. We go deep down the rabbit hole in this excellent chat with Erik Cason, author of the cryptosovereignty.org blog. |
Oct 21, 2020 |
Read_451 - Multisig Appreciation Day [Marty Bent]
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"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 in many regards." - Marty Bent |
Oct 20, 2020 |
Read_450 - Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover [Roy Sheinfeld]
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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 Lightning wallet for anyone coming into Bitcoin. So many new features to go over in this one and talking about the future of lightning and how we can close the UX hurdle. This is not to be missed. Follow Roy Sheinfeld and Breez on Twitter so you dont miss future announcements! |
Oct 19, 2020 |
Guy's Take #34 - TAPROOT IS MERGED!!
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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 for the network to begin the process of adding it to the global consensus. |
Oct 15, 2020 |
Read_449 - Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole [Knut Svanholm]
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"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 Svanholm |
Oct 14, 2020 |
Chat #49 - The Tahini's Bitcoin Standard
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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 the future risks and rewards going forward? What events of the past allowed them to see the true potential of this revolutionary new monetary system? All this and more in today's phenomenal chat with the man behind @TheRealTahinis |
Oct 13, 2020 |
Read_448 - Crypto, Truth & Power [Erik Cason]
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“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 motivational ideology was not one of any sort of state capitalist nature, or idiotic wealth fantasies of lambos and other childish bullshit, but an explicit crypto-anarchist one.” - Erik Cason Cryptography was, before anything else, a weapon of war. How can this perspective inform the type of revolution Bitcoin truly enables? As a re-codification of the relations of power between the state and the individual, what does a system like Bitcoin do to the world? When authority is replaced by truth, as the source of legitimacy, nothing in the world will remain unchanged. The original article by Erik Cason and the fascinating blog where he covers tons of other topics just like this: https://twitter.com/Erikcason Cypherpunks Write Code (part 1): |
Oct 12, 2020 |
Guy's Take #33 - The Canary in the Coal Mine [On Marty's 839th Bent]
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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 market, we can also expect a sharp increase in regulatory and governmental attention. The powers that be, the surveillance state, and the control that the financial institutions have acquired will not be lost without a fight. |
Oct 07, 2020 |
Read_447 - Bitcoin Isn't Slow, Its Highly Secure [Vlad Costea]
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"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 |
Oct 06, 2020 |
Read_446 - The Great Plague of Shitcoinery [Thibaud Marechal]
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"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 misrepresenting a delusional technology revolution." - Thibaud Marechal |
Oct 06, 2020 |
Guy's Take #32 - Rights, Incentives & the Bitcoin System
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What are rights and can Bitcoin enable us to make better sense of them? |
Oct 02, 2020 |
FEATURING Shitcoin Insider #1 - DeFi & Ponzinomics
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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 is, and what they think they are building? Don't miss the flagship episode of our new show SHITCOIN INSIDER! |
Oct 01, 2020 |
Chat #48 - Sovereignty in a Box with Matt Hill
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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 re-decentralize the internet? By what means can we break the censored, centralized, surveilled "cloud" into a thousand encrypted, distributed, and private pieces? That is the mission at the heart of Start9Labs. Don't miss this awesome discussion to learn more. |
Sep 29, 2020 |
Read_445 - A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics [Alex Gladstein]
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"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. There is no point of censorship, seizure, or control." - Alex Gladstein |
Sep 29, 2020 |
Read_444 - Things Bitcoiners Don't Want to Hear [Shinobi]
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"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 creating solutions and defenses." - Shinobi |
Sep 25, 2020 |
Read_443 - On Bitcoin's User Experience [DerGigi]
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“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 the trade-offs, the previous leaps that have been made, and the distance still to go on the problem of Bitcoin’s user experience. Plus, Guy talks about what it was like using Bitcoin in the “good ol’ days” before seed phrases and deterministic wallets. Check out the crazy images of the early internet and links to check out more in the original article below: Don’t forget to follow Gigi on social media for more awesome work: Check out today’s sponsor! Download the Hexa Wallet at the link below or on the Google or Apple App stores. Other great tools mentioned in this episode to check out for the tinkerers out there! |
Sep 23, 2020 |
Read_442 - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential [Ben Carman]
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"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 |
Sep 22, 2020 |
Chat #47 - Magic Gold with Michael Saylor
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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 talk all about fundamental shifts in technology, the innovation of Bitcoin as a monetary asset, the dematerialization of money, and the impact it will have on the future. |
Sep 18, 2020 |
Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]
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"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 automated, global, and predictable." - Yassine Elmandjra |
Sep 17, 2020 |
Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]
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"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 freely?" - Yassine Elmandjra |
Sep 16, 2020 |
Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum]
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"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..." |
Sep 15, 2020 |
Guy's Take - Open Source Society in a Patented World [#31]
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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 suing those who wish to use it... how can we protect an open source ethos in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space? How do we defend an alternative financial system from the intellectual prisons of the legacy system it is replacing? |
Sep 14, 2020 |
Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha]
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"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 example how participants collectively solve a problem without ever communicating." - grisha |
Sep 10, 2020 |
Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal]
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"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 emerged and diligently grew to become adopted by a small group of computer researchers, cryptographers and engineers curious to decipher the technology." - Thibaud Marechal |
Sep 09, 2020 |
Bitcoin is One for All - By Parker Lewis
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Unabridged, Uninterrupted, & unmatched. Parker Lewis's most recent installment of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series. |
Sep 08, 2020 |
Chat #46 - Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property in the age of Bitcoin
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"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?" - @NKinsella |
Sep 07, 2020 |
Read_436 - Don't Fear the Reaper [Nic Carter]
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"Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply schedule. Any alteration produces something that is decidedly non-Bitcoin." - Nic Carter |
Sep 03, 2020 |
Read_435 - Discovering Bitcoin #7 - Missing Pieces [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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 transactions." - Giacomo Zucco |
Sep 02, 2020 |
Read_434 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 2 [Parker Lewis]
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"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 hand out more money. And this happens quite frequently. Of all the dollars that exist today, over 80% have been created and allocated by the Fed since 2008" - Parker Lewis |
Sep 01, 2020 |
Read_433 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 1 [Parker Lewis]
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"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 actions as the arsonist that lights a fire, leaves through the back door in the middle of the night, and then is celebrated as the hero when it arrives through the front door to fight the fire with gasoline." - Parker Lewis |
Aug 31, 2020 |
Hal’s Day - Bitcoin & Me [reboot]
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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 Hal, we will see you again.
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Aug 28, 2020 |
Read_432 - Discovering Bitcoin #6 - Digital Contracts [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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 hardness to digital money, to explore concepts of proving ownership through signatures and scripts, and the technique known as CoinJoin." - Giacomo Zucco |
Aug 25, 2020 |
Masters & Slaves of Money - By Robert Breedlove
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"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 corruption of monetary systems leads to moral decay, social collapse, and slavery. As the temptation to manipulate money has always proven to be too strong for mankind to resist, the only antidote for this poison is an incorruptible money — Bitcoin." |
Aug 24, 2020 |
Read_431 - True Names Not Required [Gigi]
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"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 the ideas they represent — using transient identities and wearing masks ourselves if we have to. If identities are permanent and transparent, rebellion and revolution are impossible." - Gigi |
Aug 20, 2020 |
Read_430 - Accepting Scarcity, A Bitcoin Meditation [Reed Wommack]
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“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 reality as it is, we avoid suffering." - Reed Wommack |
Aug 19, 2020 |
Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]
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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 we make a scarce money in the digital world, that has no authority, no ruler? Can we restore the freedom of decentralized money? Find out about the brilliant use of difficult puzzles, to achieve digital hardness, in part #5 of Giacomo's excellent series, "Digital Scarcity." |
Aug 17, 2020 |
Guy's Take - The Dominoes are Falling [#30]
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“We find the global acceptance, brand recognition, ecosystem vitality, network dominance, architectural resilience, technical utility, and community ethos of Bitcoin to be persuasive evidence of its superiority as an asset class for those seeking a long-term store of value." - Michael Saylor |
Aug 14, 2020 |
Read_428 - Discovering Bitcoin #4 - A Wrong Turn & A New Plan [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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 seize control of." - Giacomo Zucco |
Aug 12, 2020 |
Read_427 - The Lightning Paradox [Alex B]
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"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 it." - Alex B. |
Aug 11, 2020 |
Read_426 - Discovering Bitcoin #3 Introducing Money [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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." - Giacomo Zucco |
Aug 06, 2020 |
Chat_45 - Bitcoin & an Energy Revolution, A panel at the VOB Conf
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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 secondary negative effects, or could it ignite an energy revolution? Join Myself, Christian Stoll, Tone Vays, Christopher Bendikson, Jesse Peltan, and Phillip Sandner for an excellent chat! |
Aug 05, 2020 |
Read_425 - If You Only Read One Thing Before Buying Bitcoin... [Sylvain Saurel]
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"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 |
Aug 04, 2020 |
Chat_44 - 2 Bitcoiners Talking Bitcoin with Citizen Bitcoin
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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. |
Aug 03, 2020 |
Read_424 - Discovering Bitcoin #2 - About People [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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 |
Aug 01, 2020 |
Read_423 - 3 Reasons I'm Investing in Bitcoin [Lyn Alden]
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"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 potential moonshot price action from current levels" - Lyn Alden And of course start your long term positioning into Bitcoin today at SwanBitcoin.com/Guy and get $10 free to start off. Dollar cost average and stack sats the best way out there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Jul 31, 2020 |
Read_422 - Discovering Bitcoin - From Cavemen to Lightning, Part #1 [Giacomo Zucco]
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“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 of time.” - Giacomo Zucco Beginning an excellent introductory series into the ideas behind Bitcoin from the broadest spectrum available, taking us through the history of value from Cavemen all the way to the Lightning Network. Today we cover the introduction and part 1 of Discovering Bitcoin by Giacomo Zucco Check out the original articles at Bitcoin Magazine: Don’t forget to start your long term Bitcoin savings at SwanBitcoin.com/Guy For more great shows from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network, check it out below: |
Jul 29, 2020 |
Chat_43 - Totally Bitcoin & Changing Minds with Keyvan Davani
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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 nothing so disruptive as radical personal responsibility. |
Jul 28, 2020 |
Read_421 - Lightning as a Retail Payment System [Nicolas Burtey]
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"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 privacy⁵ but transparency and robustness." - Nicolas Burtey & Chris Hunter |
Jul 27, 2020 |
Guy's Take on the Bill Bert Podcast with Anthony Pompliano [#29]
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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 to check out the video by finding it on YouTube with links and other things provided in the shownotes. Let me know what you think, and don't forget to subscribe! |
Jul 23, 2020 |
Read_420 - BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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"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, others believe it should take several years." - Aaron Van Wirdum Check out the original at Bitcoin Magazine: For further reading/listening on Segwit, Taproot, Schnorr, & more, check out these other awesome articles below: ----------------------------- |
Jul 21, 2020 |
Read_419 - Twitter Hack & The Need for a User-Owned Internet [Nic Carter]
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“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 Carter Support the show by starting your Bitcoin savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/Guy and get $10 free to start off! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Jul 17, 2020 |
Read_418 - Bitcoin, More Than An Inflation Hedge [Nick Neuman]
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"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. |
Jul 14, 2020 |
Chat_42 - Project Snow White & the Raleigh Bitcoin Meetup
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• DeFi |
Jul 13, 2020 |
Read_417 - On Schelling Points, Network Effects, & Lindy [Willem Van Den Bergh]
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"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 Bergh |
Jul 10, 2020 |
Read_416 - The Root of Money? [Atlas Shrugged]
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"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 product of money.” Rearden did not think that Francisco could have heard it, but he saw Francisco turning to them with a gravely courteous smile..." - Ayn Rand |
Jul 08, 2020 |
Read_415 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 2 [Robert Breedlove]
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“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 Breedlove’s “Masters and Slaves of money,” and the inevitable Guy’s Rant further exploring just how poisonous the corruption of our money is on the sustainability and moral fabric of society. Click the crap out of the applause button on the medium article below, and don’t forget the many links for exploring tons of other great works: What Does 1 Trillion Dollars Look Like? Thanks to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network & Bitcoin Magazine for including Bitcoin Audible and spreading these incredible works to everyone in the Bitcoin space! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Jul 07, 2020 |
Read_414 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 1 [Robert Breedlove]
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"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 brings us another excellent write up, this time on the nature of monetary masters and the power dynamic they embody. Exploring the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the monetary origins of the decline of Western Africa, the logos, and the free speech of human value and time, "Masters & Slaves of Money" is a brilliant investigation to the monetary hierarchy of our world, and how its control has shaped history. We will break through this piece in 2 parts, starting with today, Part 1 of "Masters & Slaves of Money" by Robert Breedlove. Secure your Bitcoin savings with the best and lowest cost auto-buy service in the ecosystem at SwanBitcoin.com/guy Thanks to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network & Bitcoin Magazine for including Bitcoin Audible and spreading these incredible works to everyone in the Bitcoin space! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Jul 06, 2020 |
Read_413 - Bitcoin, A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Jimmy Song]
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"The system is rigged." - Jimmy Song |
Jul 03, 2020 |
Read_412 - Bitcoin's Town Square [Zane Pocock]
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"Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated." - Zane Pocock The original article with numerous other great links in the read: |
Jul 03, 2020 |
Read_411 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Phil Geiger]
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"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 |
Jul 01, 2020 |
Read_410 - Entering the Decade of Lightning [Elizabeth Stark]
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"#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 advances we have seen in Lightning since its inception, and the awesome potential it has for the future. Written by Elizabeth Stark, co-founder of Lightning Labs, and followed by a long rant about all of the tools I’ve been using and the amazing things that are made possible with them! Entering the Decade of Lightning, by Elizabeth Stark Links Below of all the incredible services and wallets available to begin experimenting with: |
Jun 30, 2020 |
Chat_42 - Pseu, Guy, & the Future of Bitcoin
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"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling, privacy, lightning, state chains, institutional solutions, owning your keys, and much more." |
Jun 26, 2020 |
Read_409 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite [Rusty Russell]
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"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 |
Jun 25, 2020 |
Read_408 - Assange's Extradition & Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom [Nozomi Hayase]
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“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 befall the world’s first global Fourth Estate. “ - Nozomi Hayase Another excellent write up from Nozomi Hayase & Bitcoin Magazine, on the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange & the injustice of his extradition. It is an astonishing thing to see how many world changing systems, technologies, and institutions found their beginnings in a tiny group of mathematicians & activists who found a commonality on the internet around the principle of free speech, sharing ideas on a virtually unknown mailing list of self-proclaimed “cypherpunks.” Who knew how much it would shape our world? Check out the original article and link sot donate to the Wikileaks Defense Fund below: Check out the other amazing books mentioned on the Survivor’s Book List: |
Jun 24, 2020 |
Read_407 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin [Vijay Boyapati]
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"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society." - Vijay Boyapati Drop some applause and check out the original below with links to numerous other languages and platforms at the bottom of the piece. Drop some applause while you are visiting! Mentioned in this work for more incredible digging into the history and origins of money, here is Nick Szabo’s “Shelling Out, The Origins of Money” |
Jun 22, 2020 |
Read_406 - Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet [Roy sheinfeld]
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"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1962" - Roy Sheinfeld |
Jun 19, 2020 |
Read_405 - Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard [Hasu]
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"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 outside of the protocol’s control and could grow into a systemic risk for Bitcoin." - Hasu |
Jun 19, 2020 |
Read_404 - ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet [Peter Chawaga]
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"ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged." - ION Announcement |
Jun 17, 2020 |
Read_403 - Bitcoin is Antifragile [Parker Lewis]
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“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 Gradually, then Suddenly Series by Parker Lewis, then the wait is over. From the Unchained Capital Blog, today’s read is the 15th installment, “Bitcoin is Antifragile.” Link to the original and the Unchained Capital Blog for tons of other great writings: Follow Parker Lewis on Twitter to not miss any of the other great works and commentary on Bitcoin: |
Jun 15, 2020 |
Read_402 - Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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“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 Another great piece by Aaron Van Wirdum made available at BitcoinMagazine.com, today it was announced that the Human Rights Foundation, a great force for liberty and privacy across the globe, has turned its focus toward directly funding Bitcoin privacy projects thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor. Starting with funding an implementation of an awesome privacy development called coinswap, and with another grant soon to be announced, the future of Bitcoin privacy is yet again, just a little bit brighter! |
Jun 10, 2020 |
GuysTake_28 - Bitcoin & The Layers of Financial Cryptography
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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 they have been developed & secured through Bitcoin. What philosophy and mentality informed it all, and where did it differ from Ian's vision, and where was he able to see what would come about? |
Jun 10, 2020 |
Read_401 - Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers [Ian Grigg]
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"Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught between Central Banking and Cryptography, or between accountants and programmers, there is a grave danger that efforts to construct Financial Cryptography systems will simplify or omit critical disciplines." - Ian Grigg Don’t miss tomorrow’s episode where we dig into the comparisons and expand on the many incredible foresights that Ian designed in his own model of our cryptographic future. Explore the incredible library of works at the Nakamoto Institute and the original with a long list of references to dig further into these Ideas at the link below: If you want the cheapest and simplest way to get a Bitcoin savings plan that will work indefinitely into the future, Swan Bitcoin is that place. Plus get $10 free for setting up through the link below! |
Jun 08, 2020 |
Chat_41 - Does Stability Exist? With David & CK from POV Crypto
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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 an awesome convo with CK & David, I think you guys will enjoy it.
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Jun 05, 2020 |
Read_400 - Bitcoin Core 0.20 Released! [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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"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 |
Jun 03, 2020 |
Chat_40 - ReInventing Bitcoin with Yan Pritzker
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"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 real rate)... so they gave us $100 worth and sent us on our way." - Yan Pritzker |
Jun 01, 2020 |
Read_399 - Bitcoin as a Startup [Hass McCook]
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"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 startups?" - Hass McCook A really fun article, followed by a walk down Bitcoin memory lane with Guy, giving a fresh analogy (you know how I love those) of Bitcoin as a startup moving through funding rounds. Where are we in the maturing cycle, and what will the focus of this and future eras be? Looking at Bitcoin's history and future through the lens of a startup! |
May 30, 2020 |
Read_398 - The Political Theology of Bitcoin [Erik Cason]
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“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 diving into the very concept of sovereignty, and how Bitcoin, in comparison to the legacy system, is not merely revolutionary, but messianic. Truth, not authority, is the only source of legitimacy. Check out the original article with tons of other stuff to explore at the link below: For another few hours diving into this idea, listen to the most recent Raleigh Bitcoin Podcast where we talk all about it: Will you be sovereign in the future? The simplest and surest way to take back that sovereignty is to auto-buy and auto-withdraw your Bitcoin at Swan Bitcoin: Swanbitcoin.com/guy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
May 28, 2020 |
Read_397 - How Lightning Will Grow Following BTC's 3rd Halving [Peter Chawaga]
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“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 pseudonymous and which is persistent across the network.” - Chris Dannen An article by Peter Chawaga at BitcoinMagazine.com that touches on the many topics discussed during the Bitcoin Halving Livestream with many of the Lightning pioneers. With LSATs, keysend, LN messaging apps, and the new infrastructure layer for monetary applications. The future is bright, and today's episode is a great little morsel about what it to come. |
May 26, 2020 |
Chat_39 - Bitcoin Renaissance - with Marty Bent, John Vallis, Alex Gladstein, Elizabeth Prefontaine, & Brady Swenson
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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 will most change our world, what is the future of debt in a sound money economy, what will governments look like, what happens when everyone's wealth exists everywhere at once and borders become meaningless? All this and more with Marty Bent, John Vallis, Alex Gladstein, Elizabeth Prefontaine, & Brady Swenson! Secure your future place in society with the easiest, lowest cost, automated Bitcoin Savings Plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
May 25, 2020 |
Read_396 - Crypto is Modern Alchemy [Meltem Demirors]
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"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 panaceas to cure any disease." - Meltem Demirors How should we observe the "crypto" industry as a whole, and what, if anything, can we learn from the enormous ocean of altcoins that could find a useful application in the future of cryptography and networking systems? Meltem gives a very interesting analogy on how to look at the results of the "crypto" industry and a useful perspective in considering what we to bring with us, and what to leave behind. |
May 21, 2020 |
Read_395 - The Bitcoin v Govt War is Vaporware [Jesse Lawler]
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"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 go unmanned, and the central banks’ centers will not hold." - Jesse Lawler |
May 20, 2020 |
Chat_38 - Unhashing New Tech with Ruben Somsen
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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 be directed toward a scalable and efficient future for Bitcoin. Check out Ruben on Twitter: |
May 18, 2020 |
Read_394 - Blockstream Satellite 2.0 [Adam Back, Chris Cook]
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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 Blockstream. |
May 15, 2020 |
Read_393 - The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis [Phil Bonello]
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"Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology." - Phil Bonello Check out the original article at the link below, plus a lot of other great work on his blog: A huge thanks to Swan Bitcoin for supporting Bitcoin Audible & making these works accessible to everyone. Start your Bitcoin savings plan with the lowest cost, best auto-buy service available, at SwanBitcoin.com/guy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
May 14, 2020 |
Read_000 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper [Satoshi Nakamoto]
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"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 kick off the Third epoch in Bitcoin we are officially rebranding to Bitcoin Audible, and beginning with the historic Whitepaper by Satoshi himself, revealing this incredible system to the world. Solving the Byzantine General's problem, a breakthrough in consensus, a structureless, distributed monetary system incentivizing cooperation and truth. The Whitepaper is the earliest window into a groundbreaking network that already has, and will continue, to change the world. |
May 12, 2020 |
Chat_37 - Inevitability of Bitcoin with Parker Lewis
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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 will bring about. Parker Lewis and I had an awesome chat and you don't want to miss it. |
May 11, 2020 |
Read_392 - Economics of the Bitcoin Halving [Dominik Stroukal]
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"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 last article before the halving arrives. With another interesting take from the SatoshiLabs blog from first time on the show author, Diminik Stroukal, we get a breakdown of how to think about the halving, the stock to flow model, and predicting the future of Bitcoin. The Halving is NOT priced in [Guy's Take] Don't miss your position in the scarcest money to ever exist, the longer you wait, the more scarce it becomes. Start your Bitcoin savings plan at SwanBitcoin.com/guy 🔥 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
May 09, 2020 |
Read_391 - Gold & Economic Freedom [Greenspan]
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"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 holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold." - Alan Greenspan |
May 06, 2020 |
Read_390 - Bitcoin is Common Sense [Parker Lewis]
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"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 strips power from the people and centralizes it to the government." - Parker Lewis Bitcoin is 21 million, and the realization that a scarce money is a better money for every individual, and more fair for society, will be self-actualizing. It requires nothing more than the persistence of the human desire for self-preservation. A huge thanks to Parker Lewis and Unchained Capital for this piece. The original, with links and charts demonstrating his argument, plus the entire incredible series is available at the link below: Mentioned in the commentary: Don’t forget to start your Bitcoin savings plan at Swan Bitcoin and thank them for making the Audible of the Bitcoin space available for you to listen to these incredible works! |
May 04, 2020 |
Read_389 - Dear Family, Dear Friends [DerGigi]
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"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." - Gigi |
May 01, 2020 |
Read_388 - Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution [Brandon Quittem]
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"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 species lines. Increasing trade leads to increased specialization (division of labor), further increasing biodiversity (wealth and resilience) in the ecosystem." |
Apr 30, 2020 |
Read_387 - Anatomy of the State - Part 2 [Murray N. Rothbard]
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"What the State fears above all, of course, is any |
Apr 28, 2020 |
Read_386 - Anatomy of the State - Part 1 [Murray Rothbard]
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"The greatest danger to the State |
Apr 27, 2020 |
Read_385 - Bitcoin & the Technological Evolution of the Financial System [BitcoinTINA]
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"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..." - BitcoinTINA |
Apr 24, 2020 |
Read_384 - A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Brady Swenson]
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"We Hodl these truths to be self evident" - Brady The original is below so that applause may be given 👏🏻👏🏻 Leave you signature on the Twitter thread below: |
Apr 24, 2020 |
Chat_36 - How the Dollar Destroys Society with Bottomshelf Bitcoin
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If finding out how the banking system is systematically ripping you off doesn't make your angry, then you're already dead. |
Apr 22, 2020 |
Read_383 - The King of Blockchains, How Bitcoin Can Become the Foundation of Web 3.0 [Muneeb Ali]
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"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 Magazine, this one by the founder of Blockstack, Muneeb Ali, on the superior security and foundation that Bitcoin can provide to Web 3.0. How its perceived "limitations," may be what makes it the best foundation we could have. Mentioned in the episode for further Rabbit Hole Research: |
Apr 21, 2020 |
Read_382 - This is Not Capitalism [Allen F. & Sacha M.]
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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 improves our lives. Check out the original and hit that clap button excessively on both Allen and Sacha's pages below 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Don't forget to check out Swan Bitcoin and start your Bitcoin savings plan by clicking here |
Apr 20, 2020 |
Read_381 - An Important Reminder... [Marty Bent]
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"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 If you haven't heard it, The Use of Knowledge in Society is one of the most important pieces I've covered on this show. Listen at the links below: |
Apr 17, 2020 |
Read_380 - Choose Your Fiction [Arthur Hayes]
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"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 will embark on the greatest fiscal stimulus binge the world has ever seen." - Arthur Hayes The time has come to put our cards on the table and place our bets. Where do you stand? Start your Bitcoin Savings Plan at the Swan Bitcoin link below! |
Apr 15, 2020 |
Chat_35 - Catch-22 Trillion with the Raleigh Bitcoiners
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You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The Raleigh Bitcoin Crew goes down the rabbit hole with… Infinite money printing |
Apr 14, 2020 |
Read_379 - Dont be Misled by Red Herrings - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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 account entirely if that PI comes back with a report that says that “you may have,” with some probability, engaged in controversial actions with that cash." - Giacomo Zucco A great closing the Giacomo's Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy at Bitcoin Magazine. What are the Red herrings we have to navigate to determine the truth of privacy on Bitcoin, and the many (non)alternatives. Is there a perfect privacy option, or do they all come with numerous costs and explicit trade-offs? Check out the original article over at Bitcoin Magazine, plus the thousands of other great pieces on everything you could ever want to know about Bitcoin and the history of this space: Listen to Part 1 if you haven't yet: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/Read_375---A-Match-Made-in-the-Whitepaper---Treatise-on-Bitcoin--Privacy--Part-1-Giacomo-Zucco-ech00u Here is the video thrown together by myself and a few other great Raleigh Bitcoiners, Living on Bitcoin in 2020 - What its REALLY like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmUpp3J9Ck --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Apr 13, 2020 |
Read_378 - Bitcoin: A Bold American Future [Conner Brown]
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"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 innovation. Thankfully, Bitcoin provides a way forward." - Conner Brown An excellent article found over at the Bitcoin Reserve Journal on how Bitcoin could lead us into an explosion of innovation and efficiency, and has the potential to right so many imbalances and decades of stagnation in the American economy. A new Gold Rush, in the Digital Age. 🔥 Check out the Blog below for a number of other great recent articles: |
Apr 10, 2020 |
Read_377 - Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money [Sven Schnieders]
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"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 survive without a helpful and easy environment... then is it even a good money at all? 🤔 |
Apr 09, 2020 |
Read_376 - Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo]
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“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.” - Nick Szabo Another amazing piece from the Unenumerated blog by Nick Szabo that explains a class of doomsday and utopia predictions he refers to as “Pascal’s Scams.” How it can appear rational to worry or hope for extremely improbable outcomes. We read part 1 & 2 together and then talk about how this perspective could change our view of these crazy times. Don’t miss it. Here are the original blog posts, in addition to the incredible body of work available on the Unenumerated Blog: |
Apr 08, 2020 |
Read_375 - A Match Made in the Whitepaper - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco]
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"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 personal and financial privacy." - Giacomo Zucco |
Apr 07, 2020 |
Read_374 - The Number Zero & Bitcoin [Robert Breedlove]
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"A distant digital descendent of zero, the invention of Bitcoin represents the discovery of absolute scarcity for money: an idea as equally unstoppable." - Robert Breedlove IF you haven't taken the time to solidify your Bitcoin Savings Plan over at SwanBitcoin.com, now is the time! The only way out of our current mess is with sound money, and financial responsibility, Swan Bitcoin is where you'll find both. 👏🏻 https://www.swanbitcoin.com?grsf=xngc0c --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Apr 03, 2020 |
Read_373 - What is Happening to Money [Pascal Hügli]
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“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 anything any longer?” - Pascal
Another great op-ed from Pascal Hugli over at BitcoinMagazine.com. With a deca-trillion dollar imbalance & trillion in newly printed currency now a daily reality… how exactly did we get here? What is Happening to Money?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/what-is-happening-to-money
Other great works to check out:
• What Has Government Done to Our Money [Murray Rothbard]
https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money
• The Philosophy of Money [Georg Simmel]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243473.The_Philosophy_of_Money
Don't forget to Start your Bitcoin Savings Plan over at SwanBitcoin.com! The only way out of this is with sound money, and financial responsibility, Swan Bitcoin is where you get both in one. 👏🏻
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Apr 02, 2020 |
Read_372 - Money is Owned By Everyone [Mcfloogle]
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"One of the biggest lies in recent times is that inflation is good and necessary for a healthy economy." - Mcfloogle |
Mar 31, 2020 |
Chat_034 - The Great Wealth Transfer with Pete Rizzo
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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 Trillion move into the Bitcoin ecosystem. We bring Pete Rizzo on the show to talk all about it. Follow Pete Rizzo below and check out the Kraken blog for more interesting research and posts on the Bitcoin ecosystem: |
Mar 30, 2020 |
Read_371 - Bitcoin is a Rally Cry [Parker Lewis]
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"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 |
Mar 27, 2020 |
Read_370 - Explained; 0% interest, Limitless Repo, QE4 [Colin Harper]
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"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?" - Colin Harper Wondering what is happening in the hurricane that is finance and finding it difficult to piece together all of the puzzle. You aren't alone. Colin Harper has a great new addition to Bitcoin Magazine to help make sense of all the jargon of Repo markets, interest rates, zero reserve, QE4 to infinity, and the rest. Don't miss it!
• Tales from the Crypt with Charles Marohn: |
Mar 26, 2020 |
Chat_033 - Is Bitcoin Ready for This? [Raleigh Meetup]
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COVID-19 |
Mar 24, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_369 - I Worked in Crypto for 2 Years... [Matt Vanalli]
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"I didn’t believe it when I first heard people saying that most crypto projects will fail. Boy was I wrong." - @Vanalli |
Mar 23, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_368 - EARN IT Attacks Online Security & Privacy [EFF, Elliot Harmon]
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"Make no mistake: the EARN IT Act is a vehicle to undermine end-to-end encryption." - Elliot Harmon Swan Bitcoin is almost live! They are the best place to DCA your sat stacking! A Bitcoin-only company built by true Bitcoiners. You'll get $5 free sats by using the referral below as well as sending $5 to the show! |
Mar 19, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_367 - Bitcoin, Fungibility, & Limits of Privacy [Sasha H. & Rafael Y.]
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"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 world." - Sasha Hodder & Rafael Yakobi An article from Bitcoin Magazine diving into the difficult and often onerous regulations around money transmission and the consequences for both the entire industry, and the dangers it presents for individual privacy. An excellent op-ed from Sasha Hodder, and Rafael Yakobi. A huge thanks to both Swan Bitcoin, the best place for an easy DCA bitcoin savings plan, and the LTB Network for supporting the Audible of the Bitcoin space. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Mar 17, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_366 - What's Happening in Financial Markets? [Caitlin Long]
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"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 |
Mar 16, 2020 |
CryptoChat_032 - State of Bitcoin Address with Swan Signal
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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, corona virus, remote work, education, the halving, and where we might go from here? |
Mar 14, 2020 |
I AM HODLING!!
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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. |
Mar 13, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_365 - Ten Million Bitcoiners, The Intransigent Minority [Cory Klippsten]
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"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 Klippsten |
Mar 11, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_364 - Bitcoin, The Technology of Dissent [Nozomi Hayase]
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"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 reorganize a society." - Nozomi Hayase |
Mar 10, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_363 - Bitcoin is Not for Criminals [Parker Lewis]
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“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 another excellent installment: Bitcoin is Not for Criminals.
Check out the original at the amazing blog provided by Unchained Capital:
https://unchained-capital.com/blog/bitcoin-is-not-for-criminals/
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Mar 09, 2020 |
GuysTake_027 - Corona Virus... Bitcoin Fixes This
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1 • Why has the Corona Virus been upgraded from a significant healthcare problem, to a global economic catastrophe? |
Mar 06, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_362 - How Lightning Can Improve Encrypted Messaging [Colin Harper]
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"devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under one roof could be a killer app" - Colin Harper |
Mar 04, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_361 - Bitcoin's Habitats [DerGigi]
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"To fully understand any organism, we must not only look at the organism itself, but examine the organism-environment holistically." - Gigi Bitcoin Habitats by @Dergigi: |
Mar 03, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_360 - Distrust in Lebanese Banks Spurs Bitcoin Boom [Timour Azhari]
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"A volatile currency for volatile times" - Timour Azhari |
Mar 02, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_359 - Microsoft's ION Bets on Bitcoin [Colin Harper]
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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 managing and proving identities available to the globe. What are the goals and mindset behind this project, and how is Microsoft planning for its future, and the future of the Bitcoin ecosystem? Find out in today's article by Colin Harper discussing the ION system with Daniel Buchner, the project lead! |
Feb 27, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_358 - The Blockchain is Exhaust [Udi Wertheimer]
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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? |
Feb 26, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_357 - Another Step Towards a P2P Lightning Economy [Roy Sheinfeld]
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"If you ask me how much trust is right for the Lightning economy, the answer will always be less." - Roy Sheinfeld |
Feb 25, 2020 |
CryptoChat_31 - Bitcoin2020 with CK_Snarks!
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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 time to get serious about it. Stay to the end if you want to hear how you might save some sats on your tickets! |
Feb 24, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_356 - Bitcoin Cannot be Banned [Parker Lewis]
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"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." - @parkeralewis |
Feb 21, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_355 - How Decentralization Dies [Brandon Arvanaghi]
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"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 inefficiency, win that protest via a major concession, and then disappear back to fringes of society." - Brandon Arvanaghi What can we learn from the history of decentralized protocols and the huge battles of history during the disruption of the internet, versus the corporate and media giants of the day? Does it spell doom for Bitcoin and decentralized systems as the central banks & financial giants concede to give control back to the customer? Or is there something else entirely at play? Don't miss this great read and then Guy's Take on how Decentralization Dies! Don't forget to drop some applause on the original article and follow Brandon on twitter for more insights like this one! |
Feb 20, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_354 - Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin [Mauricio Di Bartolomeo]
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"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 and transparency for bitcoin held in custody has been inherent to the protocol from its inception. However, the industry has been slow to incorporate" -Mauricio Di Bartolomeo |
Feb 19, 2020 |
CryptoChat_30 - Once BITten, down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole with Daniel Prince
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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 will see in the world over the next couple of decades. This was a really fun conversation and I think you guys will enjoy it. I was Once BITten, & here's my story. |
Feb 14, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_353 - We're All Default Keynesians Now [Brady Swenson]
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"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 all Keynesians by default." - Brady Swenson @citizenbitcoin Today we read a great little piece on how our economic understandings have become so skewed, why the default has become one of centralized, top down control over money, and how Bitcoin is set to right the world of our economic foundations. We've got a fun rant after this one too, so don't miss it! |
Feb 13, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_352 - Paying Yourself for Privacy on Lightning? [Aaron Van Wirdum]
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"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-payments” could be an important part of the privacy puzzle." - Aaron Van Wirdum Despite its focus on payments and scaling the Bitcoin system, Lightning may have incredible potential for privacy opportunities and improvements. Pseudonymous developer ZmnSCPxj has been detailing and expanding on these concepts in recent months, and who better to lay it all out for us than BitcoinMagazine, and Aaron Van Wirdum? Don't miss today's article on a new trick of payment privacy for Lightning... A big thanks to Bitcoin Magazine and the Let's Talk Bitcoin Network for making this content available! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message |
Feb 12, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_351 - Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme [Parker Lewis]
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"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 because bitcoin is complex and the very idea of money is not well understood, it can easily be confused." - Parker Lewis Original Article and the rest of the series below: |
Feb 11, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_350 - Of Course You Can Own Bitcoins [Bitcoin Rabbi]
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Can you really own Bitcoins? Or do you merely have possession of keys that grant a high probability of exclusive control? |
Feb 07, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_349 - The Rise of SIM Swapping [David Hollerith]
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"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." - David Hollerith |
Feb 07, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_348 - All 21M Bitcoin Already Exist [Phil Geiger]
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"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 electricity." - Phil Geiger |
Feb 05, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_347 - Strike! By Zap [Jack Mallers]
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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! |
Jan 31, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_346 - The Kindest Cut; Why The 2020 Bitcoin Halving... [Peter C. Earle]
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"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 “inflating” at a rate lower than both the Federal Reserve target of 2 percent per year and current, CPI-based estimates of real U.S. inflation of 1.9 percent annually." - Peter C Earle |
Jan 31, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_345 - Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money [Parker Lewis]
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"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 expense of another." - Parker Lewis |
Jan 30, 2020 |
GuysTake_026 - The Halving is Not Priced in, Here's Why
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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 the market both is very unwilling and unconfident about the consequences of the halving, and therefore sees it not as "known information," but more a blind gamble. |
Jan 29, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_344 - Efficient Markets & Bitcoin's Stock to Flow [PlanB]
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"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." - PlanB |
Jan 24, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_343 - Introduction to the Efficient Market Hypothesis for Bitcoiners [Nic Carter]
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"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." - Nic Carter |
Jan 23, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_342 - Bitcoin & the Primacy of the Digital World [Pascal Hugli]
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"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 analog as well as the digital world." - Pascal Hugli |
Jan 20, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_341 - The Rise of the Individual [Aleks Svetski]
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"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 can peacefully opt out" - Aleks Svetski |
Jan 16, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_340 - The Cat is Out of the Bag [Nic Carter]
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"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 biggest possible tent. Don’t be distracted by the online discourse. Bitcoin is utterly indifferent to the political views of its users." - Nic Carter |
Jan 15, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_339 - Proof-of-Work, The Fundamental Laws [Rory Highside]
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"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 underpin Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work." - Rory Highside |
Jan 14, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_338 - The Information Theory of Money [Dan Held]
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"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 are a distillation of all known market information into a single metric." - Dan Held Things you must also listen to because I told you to! |
Jan 10, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_337 - The Tyranny of Time Scarcity - Bitcoin Times Ed 2 - [Robert Breedlove]
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“Gold, the ancient and prevailing monetary sovereignty layer (representing an unmanipulable money supply), and the internet, the ultimate engine of exchange (representing global interconnectivity or liquidity). By combining and building upon the economic properties of both, Bitcoin is a momentous monetary innovation that has achieved the divisibility, portability, durability, and recognizability of pure information infused with the absolute scarcity of time.” - Robert Breedlove Don’t miss the continuing journey through The Bitcoin Times 2nd Ed, with Breedlove’s excellent piece, “Bitcoin & the Tyranny of Time Scarcity” Drop some applause on this article by following the link below, and don’t forget to check out @timelessBitcoin and @breedlove22 on Twitter for more work like this one. |
Jan 08, 2020 |
CryptoQuikRead_336 - Bitcoin's Eternal Struggle - Bitcoin Times Ed 2 [DerGigi]
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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 randomness & entropy, and that which is created with complete unambiguity, with strict universal validation. This week is not to be missed. |