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CryptoQuikRead_110 – Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis]

“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions.” – @SarahJamieLewis Check out her article and other work at: https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/dags-and-decentralization/ And don’t forget to follow her on Twitter @SarahJamieLewis Support the show:  3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send…

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Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization

“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions.” – @SarahJamieLewis

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CryptoQuikRead_109 – The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia]

“Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications of this on capital markets are tremendous.” – Nik Bhatia Check out the article and follow @timevalueofbtc for other great stuff: https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/the-bitcoin-risk-spectrum-949f6abec290 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum

“Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications of this on capital markets are tremendous.” – Nik Bhatia

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CryptoQuikRead_108 – Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard]

“Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum.” – Pierre Rochard Don’t forget to drop some applause on the great article and explore other works by Pierre Rochard: https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/bitcoin-governance-37e86299470f Mentioned in the Episode: The Noded Podcast with Pierre Rochard & Micheal…

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Bitcoin Governance

“Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum.” – Pierre Rochard

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CryptoChat_001 with Daniel Goldman – Verge, Digital Gold, Forks, and Going Down the Rabbit Hole

Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole.  All this and more with Daniel Goldman [@dzack23]. • Find his articles at https://blog.theabacus.io/@dzack23 • You can also listen to the two on The Verge Hack on episodes 76 and 94 of this podcastMentioned on the Show: The…

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Daniel Goldman on Verge, Forks, & the Rabbit Hole

Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole. All this and more with Daniel Goldman [@dzack23].

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CryptoQuikRead_107 – If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum]

“Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… ‘I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical as well as theoretical possibility.’ He called his proposal B-Money.”  – Aaron Van Wirdum Be sure to check out Aaron’s extensive work and the always excellent journalism from the Bitcoin Magazine team: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-if-bitcoin-had-first-draft-wei-dais-b-money-was-it/…

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If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

“Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… ‘I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical as well as theoretical possibility.’ He called his proposal B-Money.” – Aaron Van Wirdum

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