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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.” –…

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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…

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Read_570 – Unpacking the Great Hashrate Migration [Nic Carter]

“The precise magnitude and schedule for the westward move is currently unknown, but all signals seem to be indicating the greatest shakeup in the geographic makeup of bitcoin mining since the start of the industrial mining era.” – Nic Carter Today we cover an article about the largest shift in mining infrastructure the Bitcoin network…

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Read_569 – Calculating the Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin [Greg Foss]

“Wake up people, this is not a drill. Contagion risks are increasing due to potential global stagflation… The intrinsic value of BTC has increased from the beginning of this year when I originally calculated the value to be over $150,000 per coin.” – Greg Foss If we removed the global payments network, we removed the hardest monetary…

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Read_568 – The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Bitcoin [Bradley Rettler]

“Using Bitcoin can level the playing field for the world’s poor as we work toward economic justice.” – Bradley Rettler Author Bradley Rettler returns in today’s read with a concise piece on the nature of our systemic problems of economic inequality, their unjust cause, and why Bitcoin is the key to leveling the playing field….

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Read_567 – Revenge of the Nodes – Part 2 – 21st Century Autonomy [Aaron Segal]

“Not only is the world experiencing greater dispersion of outcomes, it is also changing at an increasingly faster pace. Raw data is pouring torrentially down upon us, overwhelming our neural capacity more each day. We are confused, overwhelmed and looking for anchors, answers, and authority.” – Aaron Segal Continuing with Part 2 of yesterday’s amazing…

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Read_566 – Revenge of the Nodes – Part 1 – 20th Century Authoritarianism… [Aaron Segal]

“The individual investor is professionalizing at the end of one of the biggest, most Homeric blow-out parties of all time. Forgive the cliched baseball metaphor, but this is like a player being called up from the minor leagues right before the off-season, after a seven-game dramatic World Series finale.” – Aaron Segal An incredible piece…

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Only the Strong Survive – Full Audio

“In this piece we discuss our concerns around the broader “crypto” space beyond Bitcoin. Our arguments revolve around three primary themes: Philosophical, Technical, and Economic. From a philosophical perspective, we discuss the core properties that make Bitcoin work and that make it unique, in our view. From a technical perspective, we evaluate how these properties…

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Read_565 – Isaiah’s Job [Albert Jay Nock]

“The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these principles, and by force of character are able, at least measurably, to cleave to them. The masses are those who are unable to…

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Read_564 – Only the Strong Survive – Part 3 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]

“As Gall’s Law suggests, we believe the general principle favoring Bitcoin’s layered architecture is not one of software engineering so much as engineering entirely in general, yet as elegantly applied to software.” – Only the Strong Survive Listen to Part 1 if you haven’t yet! 👉🏻https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSN7556187630.mp3?updated=1632359979 Part 2 👉🏻https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSN8589484720.mp3?updated=1632533362 Completing our journey through the incredible…

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