Read_119 – Deep Dive into ETF Disapproval and SEC Commissioner’s Dissent
The SEC has disapproved the Winklevoss twin’s second attempt at a Bitcoin ETP for traditional markets. Rife with contradictions & misunderstandings, a thorough rebuttal comes in a “Letter of Dissent” from none other than the SEC Commissioner herself! Don’t miss today’s episode!
Links to content referenced and sourced to bring together the information for today’s episode:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/winklevoss-bitcoin-etf-proposal-denied-us-sec/
https://www.coindesk.com/winklevoss-brothers-bitcoin-etf-rejected-by-sec-for-second-time/
https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2018/34-83723.pdf
https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/peirce-dissent-34-83723#.W1o-36vBMDU.twitter
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Read_118 – Securing Property with Owner Authority
Bitcoin is the first truly decentralized registry for property ownership. The first application of which is value in its most abstract form, money. But how can we extend this to physical property and titles outside of political institutions? Who better to explore the topic with than Nick Szabo (@nickszabo4)? “Securing Property Titles with Owner Authority.”
Check out other detailed work on this concept and more with the excellent collection of literature at the Nakamoto Institute:https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/#selection-7.7-7.50
Video with Peter Wuille referenced in the commentary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUVRj8iznU
My own article referenced in the commentary:Written – https://medium.com/@thecryptoconomy/7-misunderstandings-of-bitcoins-scaling-problem-c5142e938a68Audio – https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t7qjf-8e4fe2
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Read_117 – How Central Banking Increased Inequality
With the huge number of conversations and claims of income inequality, the central banking monetary policy, which directly benefits the wealthy and financial sector, is almost entirely ignored. What if it’s the largest piece of the inequality puzzle? Listen to Louis Rouanet’s piece from Mises.org.
Check out the full article and other amazing content from Mises.org:https://mises.org/library/how-central-banking-increased-inequality
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Read_116 – Coindesk & Jake Chervinsky on the Bitcoin ETFs
Today we have a dual QuikRead with Nikhilesh De’s Coindesk article regarding the Direxion ETF and the SEC’s decision to postpone until September. Plus Jake Chervinsky’s comments and clarification on SEC processes in his informative Twitter thread. Listen for more details!
Check out the full @Coindesk article by @nikhileshde:https://www.coindesk.com/sec-delays-decision-on-direxions-bitcoin-etfs-until-september/
Link to @jchervinsky’s Twitter thread:https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1021795224958455810
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Read_115 – Announcing Bitcoin OpTech
“We’re as excited about Lightning, Schnorr signatures, Taproot/Graftroot and scriptless scripts as any other Bitcoin engineers, but the project’s focus is on technology that can be deployed by companies today.” – @bitcoinoptech
Those mentioned in the commentary:
@jfnewbery
@starkness
@Melt_Dem
@BtcpayServer
Check out the official announcement from @bitcoinoptech and check out their newsletter below:
https://bitcoinops.org/en/announcing-bitcoin-optech
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Read_114 – Schnorr Poised to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Change Since SegWit [Alyssa Hertig]
Thanks to the incredible work by Pieter Wuille (@pwuille) and others, #Schnorr signature scheme has an official proposal. Despite still much work and testing to be done, schnorr is poised to grant #Bitcoin a plethora of amazing improvements.
Listen to @AlyssaHertig’s article from @coindesk to learn more! Check out the article and other news and developments throughout the Cryptoconomy at:
https://www.coindesk.com/schnorr-is-looking-poised-to-become-bitcoins-biggest-change-since-segwit/
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Read_113 – The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing [Nick Szabo]
“It’s actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization per se, that is the source of the far higher reliability and and much lower vulnerability of block chains.” – @NickSzabo4
Check out Szabo’s incredible blog, Unenumerated, at:
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-dawn-of-trustworthy-computing.html
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Read_112 – Wasabi Privacy Focused Bitcoin Wallet [@nopara73]
“We are soon going to be able to use Bitcoin in an end-to-end, fully anonymous way.” – @nopara73
Check out the article and other links at:
https://medium.com/@nopara73/wasabi-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-for-desktop-3962d567045a
Check out his talk from Building on Bitcoin starting at 17min:
https://youtu.be/XORDEX-RrAI?t=17m
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Read_111 – Genesis Files – With Bit Gold, Nick Szabo Was Inches From BTC [Aaron Van Wirdum]
The 4th in the excellent Genesis Files Series from Aaron Van Wirdum (@AaronvanW) and Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine). Today we read about BitGold and How Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) was “Inches From Inventing Bitcoin.”
Check out the full article, the previous of the Genesis Files series, and other excellent work from Aaron Van Wirdum and the crew at Bitcoin Magazine:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-bit-gold-szabo-was-inches-away-inventing-bitcoin/
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Read_110 – Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis]
“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions.” – @SarahJamieLewis
Check out her article and other work at:
https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/dags-and-decentralization/
And don’t forget to follow her on Twitter @SarahJamieLewis
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Read_109 – The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia]
“Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications of this on capital markets are tremendous.” – Nik Bhatia
Check out the article and follow @timevalueofbtc for other great stuff:
https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/the-bitcoin-risk-spectrum-949f6abec290
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Read_108 – Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard]
“Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum.” – Pierre Rochard
Don’t forget to drop some applause on the great article and explore other works by Pierre Rochard:
https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/bitcoin-governance-37e86299470f
Mentioned in the Episode:
The Noded Podcast with Pierre Rochard & Micheal Goldstein
The Long Road to SegWit @BitcoinMagazine by Aaron Van Wirdum
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