Month: June 2018

Casa’s Privacy Model

“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate our users in their quest for financial sovereignty.” @lopp @jeremyrwelch @CasaHODL

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How Easy it is to Buy ICO Ratings

“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” –Markus Hartmann

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Dandelions, and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy

Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less network.” –@TheCryptoconomy

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Announcing C-Lightning 0.6

“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!” – Christian Decker & Rusty Russell

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The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure

“This week I learned you can start syncing an archival Ethereum node, travel completely around the world, and it still won’t be finished.” –@lopp

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I HODL

Price got you down? Don’t forget why we are here. From @davidcbennett, we read ”I Hodl.”

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Giacomo’s Tweetstorm, Coinage in the Age of Bitcoin

“So, what people call “SPV” today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly verify and enforce Bitcoin rules.” @giacomozucco

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The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block

“It was around this time — 1997, close to the [cypherpunk mailing] list’s peak popularity — that Back submitted his Hashcash proposal.” @AaronvanW @BitcoinMagazine

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Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, Verge Hack Part Deux

“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.”

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The Importance of Layer 2

“the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as open, decentralized networks while scaling to reach a billion people?” @neha

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