Month: June 2020

Entering the Decade of Lightning

“#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it’s like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet.” – Elizabeth Stark

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Pseu, Guy, & the Future of Bitcoin

Pseu and I go down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin’s future and what the road there may look
like in this episode of his show, “A Boy Named Pseu.” If you haven’t checked out his podcast yet, it’s a great one to explore on the principles of liberty and deep dives into all sort of conversations around Bitcoin. It’s definitely one not to miss!

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57 Varieties of Pyrite

“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

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Assange’s Extradition & Bitcoin’s Battle for Freedom

“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

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The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

“The adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society.” – Vijay Boyapati

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Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet

“We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “ Intergalactic Computer Network ” in 1962” – Roy Sheinfeld

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Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard

“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

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ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet

“ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged.” – ION Announcement

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Gold & Economic Freedom

“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

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Bitcoin is Common Sense

“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

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