Read_155 – POW is Efficient [Dan Held]

“The Cryptopocalypse is coming — Bitcoin’s (PoW) is so bad that it’s going to destroy the world in 2020!” -DanHeld
Is Bitcoin’s energy consumption going to destroy the world… or not?Clap for the article on Den Held’s Medium page:https://medium.com/@danhedl/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3
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Read_154 – Electric Money [Bitcoin’s POW #4 – LaurentMT]

“No equation, no chart in this fourth part. Just a short discussion about the total cost of Bitcoin’s PoW. It will offer us the opportunity to introduce another fundamental property of PoW which makes it truly unique.” -LaurentMT
Check out the full series (and drop some applause) plus other amazing work from @LaurentMT on his Medium page:https://medium.com/@laurentmt/electric-money-e2cd34f78f56
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Read_153 – Cliffhangers [Bitcoin’s POW #3 – LaurentMT]

“In this third part, we’re going to focus on a slightly different question: “Is the system running at its optimum?” -LaurentMT
Check out the full article to explore the charts and graphics illustrating his arguments and metrics (and don’t forget to drop applause for the excellent work):https://medium.com/@laurentmt/cliffhangers-cb87ed47124e
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Read_152 – Yin and Yang of Bitcoin [Bitcoin’s POW #2 – LaurentMT]

Listen to @Laurentmt’s article explaining how the Yin and Yang of Bitcoin, Hodling & Mining, affect the efficiency of the system and how they drive the system’s dynamics.
Don’t forget to drop some applause on the article and check out the author’s other awesome work here:https://medium.com/@laurentmt/the-yin-and-yang-of-bitcoin-bf056f3fd58c
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Read_151 – Gravity [Bitcoin’s POW #1 – LaurentMT]

“At last, we have derived two metrics which both suggest that contrary to a widespread opinion, Bitcoin’s PoW is actually becoming more and more efficient.” -@Laurentmt
Listen to Part 1 of @Laurentmt’s excellent series introducing the fundamental characteristics and value proposition of Bitcoin’s POW function.
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Read_150 – Why I wrote PGP [Phil Zimmerman]

“If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography.” -Phil Zimmerman
Explore this article & the immense collection of other works at the Nakamoto Institute:https://nakamotoinstitute.org/why-i-wrote-pgp/
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Chat_006 – TheOneVortex on Building for Bitcoin

Building applications, expanding alternative media, software is eating the world, what’s inside the ICOs & altcoins, the future of Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the revolution this technology could bring!
Don’t miss our chat with @TheOneVortex!Check out the incredible work he & others are doing to expand access and development in the #Bitcoin space:http://theonevortex.com/https://programmingwithbitcoin.com/http://www.cryptocast.network/
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Read_149 – Bitcoin as a PrivacyCoin

“Ever since its inception Bitcoin has never really been private…. Fortunately, spying on Bitcoin users is becoming increasingly difficult.” – Aaron Van Wirdum
Listen to another great read on Bitcoin Magazine about the amazing tech available today, and yet to come that will make #Bitcoin the true PrivacyCoin of the future.
Check out the article and explore the many links on Bitcoin Magazine here:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-privacycoin-tech-making-bitcoin-more-private/
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Read_148 – Bitcoin as a Conflict Prevention Protocol

“To borrow from Nick Szabo, Bitcoin is a socially scalable, conflict preventing protocol.” – Tuur Demeester
Today we read an excellent Tweet Storm from Tuur Demeester about #Bitcoin and what makes it a true monetary revolution.
Check out the full post here:https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1009825254024335361
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Read_147 – How to Critique Bitcoin, A Guide

“You’ve heard of Bitcoin. You do not like it… It relies on curious, antiquated ideas like sound money, peer-to-peer networking, the abolition of seignorage, and censorship-resistance. It is profoundly distasteful.” -nic carter
Don’t waste anymore time trying to decide which criticism of Bitcoin to write about and outsource it with the Bitcoin FUD dice! A fun piece from Nic that holds a painful degree of truth. Check out the shop to buy your own FUD dice using #Lightning payments:FUDdice.shop
Applaud for the full article and explore Nic’s other great work:https://medium.com/castle-island-ventures/how-to-critique-bitcoin-a-guide-3e36b26f9642
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Read_146 – The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin

“The Third Era will start with civil war” -Rusty Russell
The future economic reality of the Bitcoin ecosystem has been hard-coded into the consensus since the very first block. The inevitable pains that the future will bring should not surprise us. Listen to Rusty Russell’s discussion of Bitcoin’s three economic eras.
Check out the full article and lengthy list of footnotes for clarifications and further reading:https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058aFollow him on Twitter:https://twitter.com/rusty_twit
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Read_145 – Giacomo on SPV and Digital Coinage

“We shouldn’t make full nodes harder to run, EVER” -@giacomozucco
Listen to the tweet storm laying out exactly why a responsible #Bitcoin maximalist should hold this view in today’s #CryptoQuikRead!
See the original Tweet storm and Follow Giacomo Zucco below:https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1009281116837175296
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