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Basics_01 – Bitcoin… What is it?

Sure, everyone tells me that bitcoin is a new technology. That it’s magic money for the internet and tokens you can buy and stick in an app that will probably be worth more later. But seriously… what the hell does all of that mean? I get that Bitcoin is a thing, but ‘What is it?’…

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Read_695 – Central Banks are Inflation Creators, Not Inflation Fighters [Josh Hendrikson]

“All of this is important because there has been a resurrection of Burns-type positions in the current debate about the cause of higher inflation rates. Senator Elizabeth Warren blames the rising inflation on greedy corporations raising their prices. Others have blamed rising prices on the greater prevalence of monopolies. Antitrust is apparently an anti-inflation tool. Make…

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Read_694 – Locked Out of My Digital Life [edent]

“Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A smouldering wreck. Yubikey? A charred chunk of gristle. This presents something of a problem.” – Edent Today we read a story told from the perspective of…

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Read_693 – Lightning & The Airport Analogy [Danny Scott]

“But as with all new technology, it can be incredibly hard to explain what’s actually happening, without getting too complex. This got me thinking about Bitcoin education and how to ELI5 (Explain Like I’m 5) with Bitcoin Lightning, enter… Bitcoin Lightning: The Airport Analogy” – Danny Scott Today we hit a short piece but a…

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Read_693 – Lightning & The Airport Analogy [Danny Scott]

“But as with all new technology, it can be incredibly hard to explain what’s actually happening, without getting too complex. This got me thinking about Bitcoin education and how to ELI5 (Explain Like I’m 5) with Bitcoin Lightning, enter… Bitcoin Lightning: The Airport Analogy” – Danny Scott

Today we hit a short piece but a really great analogy in order to make sense of the lightning network. Since I’ve recently had a few people ask me about this and a fellow audionaut made a great suggestion for a short article, I thought this would be good to hit especially in the spirit of trying to get back to covering some of the fundamentals of Bitcoin and how it and many of the tools around it work, in simple, digestible explanations. And so we paint an easy picture of Lightning, with the Airport Analogy.

Link to Danny’s medium page for his other writing and more from the CoinCorner Blog:
https://blog.coincorner.com/how-bitcoin-lightning-works-a21fdb5f0450

Another great pice mentioned in the Guy’s Take is Isaiah’s Job:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5snLqMe7gd9crBvKpcBT5G?si=b06aa288bfa748ca
Check out the show on Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/show/RtZlWdbEbpyEyjBNbeQ7

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• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard)
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold)
• The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner – Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)

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“If you can’t explain is simply, then you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
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Guy’s Take #63 – Anatomy of a Scam, The IMF and World Bank Empire

Today we break into the racket that is the IMF and World Bank monetary imperialism. Piggy backing off Gladstein’s remarkable piece detailing the horrific consequences of this system and the clear intent and disregard for human life and basic freedoms, we discuss the fundamental principles of sound money that would be a basis to prevent…

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Si_009 – Craig Wrong

Bad forgeries, fake signatures, backdated emails, more money than your country, & a lawsuit for everyone! This is the story of Faketoshi, explored through the extensive investigations of Arthur Van Pelt on the Craig Wrong debacle. He will have the biggest footnote in the Bitcoin history books under “people who pretended to be Satoshi.” An…

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Read_692 – A Quick & Dirty Explanation [DerGigi]

“Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological innovation that isn’t really about technology. You can’t touch it, yet it is hard money. You can’t see it, yet it will show you a vision of the future. You can’t possess it, yet thousands…

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Read_692 – A Quick & Dirty Explanation [DerGigi]

“Bitcoin is paradoxical. It is simple yet complicated, ever-changing yet unchangeable. A novel machine without any novel parts; a technological innovation that isn’t really about technology. You can’t touch it, yet it is hard money. You can’t see it, yet it will show you a vision of the future. You can’t possess it, yet thousands of people seem to be possessed by it.” – Dergigi

In the spirit of getting back to some of the basics, I want to open up a series of hitting basic concepts around bitcoin and how to use and interact with its network and many moving pieces with the opening chapter of Dergigi’s forthcoming book, 21 Ways. Chapter Zero: A Quick and Dirty Explanation…

Link tot he read plus Gigi’s other phenomenal work:
https://21-ways.com/ch0-03-quick-and-dirty/

Don’t forget to check out our amazing sponsors:
• Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off everything in the store until Christmas! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard)
• Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 5,000 FREE SATS at (https://guyswann.com/fold)
• The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner – Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy)

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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

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Read_691 – A Native Protocol for Social Media [Jack Dorsey]

The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and…

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