Month: September 2018

Bitcoin, Blockade Runner of the Information Age

“The dissent did not come in the form of a parchment scrawled with a feathery pen or an assembly of diplomats, but in the form of the Blockade Runner. These ships were built for two things: speed and capacity, in that order.” -@CarCampIt

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Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness – Part 2

“Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the building blocks of a brand new field — also a child of the computer age: modern cryptography.” – Hugo Nguyen

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Anatomy of Proof of Work – Part 1

“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world… In other words, PoW is the bridge between the digital & the physical.” – Hugo Nguyen

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The Bitcoin Central Bank’s Perfect Monetary Policy

“The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. This is the digital equivalent of the Chicago Plan or the Austrian 100% reserve gold standard.” -Pierre Rochard

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Features of the Casa Node

Autopilot, Channel Names, Verify from Scratch, Node Nicknames and more.  Hear about the features in the new Casa Bitcoin and Lightning node!

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POW is Efficient

“The Cryptopocalypse is coming — Bitcoin’s (PoW) is so bad that it’s going to destroy the world in 2020!” –DanHeld

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Electric Money – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 4

“No equation, no chart in this fourth part. Just a short discussion about the total cost of Bitcoin’s PoW. It will offer us the opportunity to introduce another fundamental property of PoW which makes it truly unique.” -LaurentMT

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Cliffhangers – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 3

“In this third part, we’re going to focus on a slightly different question: “Is the system running at its optimum?” -LaurentMT

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The Yin and Yang of Bitcoin – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 2

Listen to @Laurentmt‘s article explaining how the Yin and Yang of Bitcoin, Hodling & Mining, affect the efficiency of the system and how they drive the system’s dynamics.

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Gravity – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 1

“At last, we have derived two metrics which both suggest that contrary to a widespread opinion, Bitcoin’s PoW is actually becoming more and more efficient.” –@Laurentmt

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