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Read_472 – The Fiat Standard – Chapter 1 [Saifedean Ammous]

“For the reader who has become familiar with the operation of bitcoin, a good way to understand the operation of fiat is by drawing analogy to the operation of bitcoin using concepts like mining, nodes, balances, and proof of work. My aim is to explain the operation and engineering structure of the fiat monetary system…

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The Speculative Attack

“My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is only the first step. The second step will be speculative attacks that use bitcoins as a platform. The third and final step will be hyper-bitcoinization.” – Pierre Rochard

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Read_471 – The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard]

“My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is only the first step. The second step will be speculative attacks that use bitcoins as a platform. The third and final step will be hyper-bitcoinization.” – Pierre Rochard We are entering a new phase of the Bitcoin game theory. What really happens when…

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Why Does Bitcoin Have Value?

“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means of storing and porting value, which in turn rests on secure titles to ownership of a scarce good.” – Jeffrey Tucker

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Read_470 – Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? [Jeffrey Tucker]

“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means of storing and porting value, which in turn rests on secure titles to ownership of a scarce good.” – Jeffrey Tucker It can be incredibly difficult to make sense of, and imagine the immense amount of value provided by the Bitcoin system. And so often…

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The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War

“With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no longer operated as it did in those early days.” – Aaron & Pete

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Read_469 – The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo]

“With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no longer operated as it did in those early days.” – Aaron & Pete Before the great block size wars of 2017, there was the first war of the…

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Read_469 – The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo]

“With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no longer operated as it did in those early days.” – Aaron & Pete

Before the great block size wars of 2017, there was the first war of the Bitcoin protocol, that established the ideological divide, and ask the question that would infamy get its answer on Bitcoin’s Independence Day in 2017. Another excellent Bitcoin Magazine piece from authors, Pete Rizzo & Aaron Van Wirdum: “The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War”

Check out the Original article for tons of referenced conversations and sources, plus the other excellent stuff by both articles and Bitcoin Magazine:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-battle-for-p2sh-the-untold-story-of-the-first-bitcoin-war

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Bitcoin is Hope

“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in the world.” – Robert Breedlove

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Read_468 – Bitcoin is Hope [Robert Breedlove]

“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in the world.” – Robert Breedlove Another excellent piece from Breedlove, this time on the SwanBitcoin blog. The very purpose of money and civilization is to abate the entropy and chaos of the natural world. It is to protect ourselves from an uncertain future. Central…

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