The 4th in the excellent Genesis Files Series from Aaron Van Wirdum (@AaronvanW) and Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine). Today we read about BitGold and How Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) was “Inches From Inventing Bitcoin.” Check out the full article, the previous of the Genesis Files series, and other excellent work from Aaron Van Wirdum and the crew at…

“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…

“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

“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…

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…