Philosophy

The Bitcoin Threat Model

“The Bitcoin Threat Model is intended to help developers, investors and users better understand the security of Bitcoin. Threats are assumed to be any activity designed to prevent Bitcoin from accomplishing its mission to become cash (including a unit of account).” @jwweatherman

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Seven Guiding Principles at Casa

Today we go through a short but awesome run down of the guiding principles at Casa. This company is one to watch very closely over the coming years, and a few things from their recent post make this very clear.

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Dan Held on Satoshis Vision

Taking a dive into an awesome tweetstorm from @danheld about the context, purpose, and beginnings of Bitcoin and whether it meets “Satoshi’s Vision,” or if it even matters.

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Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism – Part 1

“Bitcoin is a living system constantly changing based on environmental stimuli. True understanding is a moving target unlikely to ever be hit.
Attempting to answer the question “what is bitcoin,” I found exploring parallels to the natural world to be particularly illuminating.” – Brandon Quittem

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Unpacking Bitcoins Social Contract

“When Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin, he did not invent a new social contract. Satoshi did something else—he leveraged technology to solve many problems of past implementations and implemented the old contract in a new and better way.” – @hasufly

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An Honest Account of Fiat Money

“While sovereign money has undeniably led to a lot of abuse, as evidenced by instances of hyperinflation, seizures or capital controls, the absence of all control brings problems of its own.”

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Sorry, Bitcoin is Still Anarchist

“Government involvement is usually limited to mediating the clash between incumbents and innovators. Rarely is government the incumbent.” –Zack Voell

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Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis

“If you build a system meant by its very nature to dis-intermediate third parties and exist independent of governments and legal systems, you have an identity problem.” –Nic Carter

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Guy’s Take – Poor in a World with Bitcoin, or Rich in a World Without?

Would you give up $1,000,000 in Bitcoin today, to guarantee its success and that our future was one of sound, decentralized money? My answer would have to be ‘yes,’ and here’s why.

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Why I wrote PGP

“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

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