Technology

Sovereignty in a Box with Matt Hill

September 29, 2020 Guy 0 Comments

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.

Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]

September 17, 2020 Guy 0 Comments

“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

Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]

September 17, 2020 Guy 0 Comments

“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

Open Source Society in a Patented World

September 14, 2020 Guy 0 Comments

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?

Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock

September 10, 2020 Guy 0 Comments

“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

BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next

July 21, 2020 Guy 0 Comments

: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