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Reboot – Bitcoin & Software Reliability

“With Bitcoin, lives and money are at stake. Interruption of its service can cause a cascade of losses and unintended consequences for potentially millions of people and billions of fiat dollars. If it is possible to build a Bitcoin that cannot fail, that should be the goal, and no compromise should be acceptable.” — Beautyon
Before we get into a Guy’a Take to continue our FUD Relief series – addressing the failures to understand the value and purpose of Bitcoin – it’s time to bring a brilliant piece back from the archive, update the audio and give some fresh commentary to set the stage for tackling another common misconception of “progress” when it comes to the bitcoin perspective. If there was a top tier of articles that are must-listens to grasp bitcoin, this would be in it. Let’s dive in.
Check out the original article at: Bitcoin and Software Reliability by Beautyon | Medium

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Read_769 – Orange is the New Green

"Our existing financial system is a mirage of wealth and liquidity, sustained by an ever-expanding money supply. Bitcoin emerges as the ultimate shield against the inevitable reckoning that will shatter this illusion." — Theo Mogenet Today, we dive into another great piece from Axiom BTC on the mission to reprice the world in sats. We…

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Ai_007 – Global Markets for GPU Power with Christopher David

What if we could mitigate the enormous centralizing effects of the massive server farms and huge corporate entities, by pooling the GPU power of the millions of users and tinkerers who have unused or regularly idle computational power, into a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling Ai execution, and we could power it all with instantly settled sats over lightning?

It just so happens that we can, and this ambitious project is being brought to life with GPUtopia. Chris David from the project joins us today to break down the vision and how they hope to play a part in the decentralized future of Ai.

Links mentioned

Tinygrad.org (Link: https://tinygrad.org/)
Inflection.ai (Link: https://inflection.ai/)
Read_712 – Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]⁠ (Link: http://tinyurl.com/28v53jsn)
⁠Read_574 – Lightning & The Internet – Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld] (Link: http://tinyurl.com/464xyars)

Guest Links

Christopher David on X (Link: https://twitter.com/AtlantisPleb)
Christopher David on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/69hcjbkc)
Founder of Open Agents (Link: https://openagents.com/)

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Chat_85 – Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta

In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for decentralized miners. Zack shares insights into how their technology is driving decentralisation and empowering individual miners, allowing them to play a vital role in the Bitcoin network. Join us…

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Read_768 – Living Through the Fall of Rome

"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed-out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know these well – in fact we're living through many of them. What's a lot more…

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Read_767 – Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory

"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying your valued vendors in bitcoin is the opposite of mutually assured destruction–it's mutually assured survival." — Parker Lewis Ultimately, the decision to accept Bitcoin as payment will be driven by…

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Read_766 – Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2

"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to enable proof-of-stake as a second layer system instead of a stand alone base layer are not the same. #Proof-of-stake is essentially a…

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Read_765 – “Hoarding” is a Keynesian Slur

"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of central banking started running with this narrative and people have come to believe that it is a law of physics. Economies cannot operate efficiently unless there is a steady flow…

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Chat_84 – Layers, Payments, and Relays with Utxo

Today we sit down with Utxo, founder of Nodeless, on understanding the design space for Bitcoin services, the challenges of making Bitcoin accessible and streamlined for everyone, and a vision of how the future may unfold. Don't forget to check out Nodeless.io/guy and if you setup your donation page, post it on social, and tag…

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Read_764 – UTXOracle, Decentralizing the Oracle Problem

"It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to: Independently calculate the price of bitcoin using only your full node at any block height Develop genuine DeFi applications without the need for (or without sole reliance upon) trusted third-party price oracles" — Daniel Hinton & Steve Jeffress What if…

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