“It’s actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization per se, that is the source of the far higher reliability and and much lower vulnerability of block chains.” – @NickSzabo4 Check out Szabo’s incredible blog, Unenumerated, at: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-dawn-of-trustworthy-computing.html Support the show:  3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice…

“We are soon going to be able to use Bitcoin in an end-to-end, fully anonymous way.”  – @nopara73 Check out the article and other links at: https://medium.com/@nopara73/wasabi-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-for-desktop-3962d567045a Check out his talk from Building on Bitcoin starting at 17min: https://youtu.be/XORDEX-RrAI?t=17m   Support the show:  3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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