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Read_380 – Choose Your Fiction [Arthur Hayes]

“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…

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Chat_35 – Catch-22 Trillion with the Raleigh Bitcoiners

You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The Raleigh Bitcoin Crew goes down the rabbit hole with… Infinite money printing Who really runs things? Inflation and the Fed’s Great Scam How trustless money leads to greater trust Price “gouging” or price “discovery”? Monopolies & the Govt Anti-trust laws and predatory pricing The last…

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Read_379 – Dont be Misled by Red Herrings – Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco]

“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…

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Read_379 – Dont be Misled by Red Herrings – Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco]

“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:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-treatise-on-bitcoin-and-privacy-part-2-dont-be-misled-by-red-herrings
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

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Read_378 – Bitcoin: A Bold American Future [Conner Brown]

“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…

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Read_377 – Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money [Sven Schnieders]

“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? 🤔 Sven makes an…

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Read_376 – Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo]

“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…

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Read_375 – A Match Made in the Whitepaper – Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco]

“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 A great piece from Giacomo, published with Bitcoin Magazine, on the concepts and origins of privacy…

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Read_375 – A Match Made in the Whitepaper – Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco]

“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

A great piece from Giacomo, published with Bitcoin Magazine, on the concepts and origins of privacy behind Bitcoin. Why it’s needed, what it means, and all the ways we will secure it. A Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 1. Let’s dive in!

Check out the original and get a head start on Part 2 with the links below:
Part 1: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-treatise-on-bitcoin-and-privacy-part-1-a-match-made-in-the-whitepaper
Part 2: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-treatise-on-bitcoin-and-privacy-part-2-dont-be-misled-by-red-herrings

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Read_374 – The Number Zero & Bitcoin [Robert Breedlove]

“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 A new piece by Breedlove exploring the discovery and impact of the concept of “zero,” both as an abstraction of the nature of the universe, & a numerical tool…

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