by Guy | Jul 12, 2022 | Bitcoin, Development, Fundamentals, Guy's Take
What if, sitting in the middle of a chaotic monetary environment, increasing capital controls, balkanizing political regimes, a failing petrodollar hegemony, collapsing institutional trust, increased sanctions & weaponized infrastructure, & aggressive,...
by Guy | May 11, 2021 | Development
“How does anyone censor something abstract and intangible; something that can consist of an arrangement of numbers and letters, and can be transported via any medium? What do you do? Ban pen and paper? Phone calls and the spoken word? Smoke signals? Morse code?...
by Guy | May 5, 2021 | Development, Fundamentals
No matter how often we cover these ideas, it still seems astonishingly common for new people to fall into the same old fallacies and the same misguided thinking. In this episode I try to cover all the major problems with the “raise the blocksize”...
by Guy | Apr 19, 2021 | Development
“discussion about Taproot activation turned out to be a long and sometimes heated debate. Now, it has resulted in two different Taproot activation paths, embedded in two main software clients that could in some scenarios even become incompatible with one...
by Guy | Mar 4, 2021 | Development, Technology
“As a consensus system without central authority, Bitcoin protocol upgrades can be challenging. If one segment of the network upgrades to a new version of the protocol before another segment does, different nodes might enforce different rules, introducing the...
by Guy | Feb 4, 2021 | Development, Philosophy
“Perhaps one of the great ironies of the future will be the Solcoin alliance between urbane Terrans and hillbilly belters.” – Dhruv Bansal Continuing our awesome walk through Dhruv’s excellent Bitcoin Astronomy series we hit Part 2 today! What...