Read_580 – Bitcoin and Crypto Aren’t the Same [Nik Bhatia]
“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over $1 billion for over 100 different cryptocurrencies tells a story: we live in a multicoin world. But does that mean that bitcoin has competitors on its path to world reserve currency? No.” – Nik Bhatia
“Which crypto should I buy?” I’m sure you’ve heard it a thousand times if you’ve been in this space for even a few months. Are Bitcoin and crypto really in the same space, fighting for the same markets? Or is there a more fundamental difference that is difficult to see in such a novel space? What if they aren’t even in the same asset class? Nik Bhatia breaks it all down in this short, but excellent piece on why Bitcoin and Crypto, are not in fact, the same. Check out the article with lots of links for reference and further digging here.
Check out Some of Nik’s other great works at the link below, or search for Nik in the Bitcoin Audible Library:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/lightning-why-i-quit-the-bond-market-for-bitcoin/
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Read_579 – Our Best Shot at Liberty [Dr. Wolf Von Laer]
“The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin is an act of peaceful rebellion against the fiat money system.” – Dr. Wolf Von Laer
There are a million different ways to discuss the benefits and attributes of Bitcoin, how it will influence the world, how it will change economic calculation. But what is most important for us and our hopes for the future, is the freedom it enables. And this isn’t in some esoteric, vague sense, but in a real sense, for both the collective, and the individual. Bitcoin is our best hope for liberty. Don’t miss a short, but excellent piece from Dr. Wolf Von Laer.
Find the original, plus links to other great reads on the article below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-single-best-shot-at-liberty
Don’t forget to check out Alex Gladstein’s amazing works mentioned in the commentary:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein
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Read_578 – The Irrelevance of Experts [Willem Van Den Bergh]
“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle of restricted information access in the past decades, the limiting factor for an individual to make intellectual progress merely shifted from an accessibility problem to a filtering problem (filtering the information that is relevant from the information that is not).” – Willem Van Den Bergh
Another excellent piece from Willem on the core issue of information flow in the modern age. What is the difference between systemic versus regional experts, and what framework can we use to better assess and filter the ocean of information flooding at us everyday? Are we destined to be the victims of supposed “authorities” with no skin in the game? Or is there a path to sustainable, robust knowledge in our digital future? don’t miss this one!
Check out the original with tons of great links for further reading into these concepts below! Plus drop some massive applause on this article on Medium:
https://medium.com/@willemvandenbergh_85885/the-ir-relevance-of-experts-top-down-versus-bottom-up-information-flow-428bd5005d88
Don’t forget Willem’s previous, amazing piece on Schelling points and the natural path toward convergence on Bitcoin:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/on-schelling-points-network-effects-lind/
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Read_577 – The End of Super Imperialism [Alex Gladstein]
“Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system, but enforced without military occupation. “This was,” he writes, “something never before accomplished by any nation in history.” – Alex Gladstein
Another banger from Gladstein this week that follows Michael Hudson’s work, Super Imperialism from the 1970s, critiquing and laying out the framework of power resulting from a global reserve system backed by American debt. Was he just a cynic, or was there a thread of truth in his warnings of the dangers of the global dollar system and the resulting dynamics of international power. Don’t miss another great piece from Gladstein!
Check out the original with many links for further exploring the pieces discussed. Plus the many other great works by Gladstein and Bitcoin Magazine:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-replacing-us-super-imperialism
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Chat #64 – Greg Foss & Preston Pysh on Bitcoin & the Bond Blowup
Today we have an incredible conversation with Preston Pysh and Greg Foss on the Bond markets, the shifting sands of the global financial world, and the incredible impact that Bitcoin will have on our future direction and the outcome of these crazy times. You don’t want to miss this one guys, so dive right in.
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https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh
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Read_576 – Bitcoin Changes Our Perception of Money [Mike Hobart]
“The passage of time is one thing that we can never get back. Once it has been spent, there’s no refund. Time is the ultimate currency, forever passing without the ability to return to a prior moment: ever passing, ever spent, ultimately and unequivocally finite.” – Mike Hobart
The mainstream ignorance of money is ubiquitous. But Bitcoin forces one to rethink everything they thought they knew. By Making a pure, independent monetary medium, we are forced to question all the fallacies and loosely held untruths about money that we have never challenged before. Mike Hobart brings us a short, but excellent little piece on the fallacies of money, and why Bitcoin forces them to change.
Check out the original and other works by the author below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-changes-perception-of-money
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Read_575 – Wonder if Bitcoin is Alien Technology? [Tomer Strolight]
“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting, self-governing, and ever-lasting. But nobody has engineered anything to do even one of these, and then along comes Bitcoin and does them all” – Tomer Strolight
Bitcoin isn’t merely a new innovation in the world of tech, its a wholly unique system that behaves so differently from everything today, the social, the engineering, and the organic systems that we are accustomed to, that one could easily find themselves wondering whether it makes more sense that Bitcoin is an alien technology. Maybe we know that it isn’t, but it is certainly hard to learn about Bitcoin without once pausing to wonder…
check out this piece plus tons of other great work from Tomer below:
https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/why-people-wonder-if-bitcoin-is-alien-technology-f9fda5b018b
Mentioned in the episode for further reading/exploring:
Brandon Quittem’s Mycelium Series
Part 1 – https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-decentralized-organism/
Part 2 – https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_224—Bitcoin-is-a-Social-Creature–Mycelium-Part-2-e3iq3u
Part 3 – https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-the-antivirus/
Part 4 – https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-catalyst-for-human-evolution/
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rnqst5qCgA
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Read_574 – Lightning & The Internet – Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld]
“We’re revolutionaries. There’s no reason to be coy about it. Our goal is to replace fiat with bitcoin. “Disruption” is almost a quaint term for a change of the magnitude we’re bringing about. We’re taking power from institutions and transferring it to individuals by giving them control of the value they generate in their lives.” – Roy Sheinfeld
We are at a crossroads and Lightning has an extremely difficult and important task. Do we go with the Lightning expansionists, using this decentralized network to embed every single byte of data into our messages and routing them across our nodes to take all that is the internet and redesign it to work on Lightning? Or do we keep lighting simple, focused, and optimized for the best, most robust decentralized payments network in the world? Choosing the right path, by Roy Sheinfeld.
Drop some applause on the original at:
https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-the-internet-choosing-the-right-path-bedfa6382316
For more digging into the philosophy & thinking behind this from the Guy’s Take, here are the other episodes mentioned:
Simon Morris: Lessons of Bittorrent
https://bitcoinaudible.com/why-bittorrent-mattered-lessons-for-crypto-1-of-4/
Szabo: Minimizing Consumer Worry
https://bitcoinaudible.com/estimating-and-minimizing-consumer-worry/
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Read_573 – Why You Cant Have a PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin [Hass McCook]
“Freedom, transparency, honesty, meritocracy, fairness, voluntaryism and hard work are great things one should strive toward, whether it is in developing money or living life and setting a good example for others.”
– Hass McCook
Today we dive into another great piece from Hass on the show, posted with Bitcoin Magazine on the broad disciplines around the Bitcoin technology. And how deeply tied it is to the understanding and study of social phenomena. How could one pretend to understand the social sciences, politics, philosophy, governance, ethics, & economics, without studying Bitcoin? Hass argues that one simply cannot. Don’t miss today’s read
Check out the original article and links for diving in further below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/you-cant-have-ppe-curriculum-without-bitcoin
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Read_572 – Bitcoin & the US Fiscal Reckoning [Avik Roy]
“It is understandably difficult for most of us to imagine a monetary world aside from the one in which we’ve lived for generations. After all, the U.S. dollar has served as the world’s leading reserve currency since 1919, when Britain was forced off the gold standard. There are only a handful of people living who might recall what the world was like before then.
Nevertheless, change is coming.” – Avik Roy
The fiscal promiscuity of the United States is reaching its end. The bill for the 50 year party and bull market in US treasury bonds is coming to an end. But everything might not be as bleak as it seems, with Bitcoin incentivizing a return to sound money, and providing a global, neutral place to secure wealth, our current disaster could be an amazing opportunity. Don’t miss an incredible piece from Avik Roy, on “Bitcoin and the US Fiscal Reckoning.”
Check out the original on National Affairs at the link below:
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/bitcoin-and-the-us-fiscal-reckoning
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Read_571 – The Quest For Digital Cash [Alex Gladstein]
“The fight that the cypherpunks mounted was one of the main reasons that the U.S. government lost the Crypto Wars. The authorities tried to stop the code and failed.
This realization would loom large in Back’s mind 15 years later, in the summer of 2008, as he worked through that first email from Nakamoto.” – Alex Gladstein
Today we are reading an incredible article about the decades long quest of the cypherpunks, and the enormous contributions from Adam Back in that journey, to create digital cash. Another brilliant piece by Alex Gladstein and published on the Bitcoin Magazine. The Holy Grail of the cypherpunk mission is here, succeeding more every day and working its way into the psyche of every citizen in the world. But where did it arise, from what philosophy was it borne, and who were the players that made this possible today? All this and more in today’s amazing piece.
Check out the original article at the link below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-adam-back-and-digital-cash
If you are new to Bitcoin and want to go deeper into the economics and concepts that shed light on the Bitcoin system, I suggest starting with Guy’s Take #44 – Bitcoin Is Not What You Think It Is
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Chat #63 – Hashing it Out with Harry Sudock
“Nodes are the law, and miners are the muscle.”
– Harry Sudock
Harry Sudock, Vice President of Strategy at Griid, and I have a chat about the challenges of energy production, grid capacity, and the energy infrastructure and how so many can be addressed by the incredible opportunity of Bitcoin mining. How and why are energy production and the Bitcoin network merging together, and what does this mean for the future?
Don’t forget to check out Harry on twitter, and explore the other shows he has been on discussing more on this topic:
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/harry-sudock
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