Technology

Sovereignty in a Box with Matt Hill

Are we on the verge of a new revolution in personal computing? Matt Hill and the team at Start9Labs believes we are, and are helping to build our path through it to a brighter future. How do we re-decentralize the internet? By what means can we break the censored, centralized, surveilled “cloud” into a thousand encrypted, distributed, and private pieces? That is the mission at the heart of Start9Labs. Don’t miss this awesome discussion to learn more.

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Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]

“Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement from manual, local, and inconsistent to automated, global, and predictable.” – Yassine Elmandjra

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Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]

“If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to exchange value globally and freely?” – Yassine Elmandjra

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Open Source Society in a Patented World

In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came up with the idea, could make millions by suing those who wish to use it… how can we protect an open source ethos in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space? How do we defend an alternative financial system from the intellectual prisons of the legacy system it is replacing?

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Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock

“This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious and sometimes are rather counter-intuitive, for example how participants collectively solve a problem without ever communicating .” – grisha

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BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next

:This risk is probably best countered by offering enough time to upgrade. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees on how much time is enough; some think forced signaling could start within a year, others believe it should take several years.” – Aaron Van Wirdum

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On Schelling Points, Network Effects, & Lind

” This rationale also completely demolishes the “blockchain not Bitcoin” mantra as the Schelling point is purely based on bitcoin the money, not blockchain the technology.” – Willem Van Den Bergh

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Bitcoin’s Town Square

“Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated.” – Zane Pocock

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Entering the Decade of Lightning

“#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it’s like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet.” – Elizabeth Stark

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The King of Blockchains, How Bitcoin Can Become the Foundation of Web 3.0

“As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we’ll come to realize that it’s hard to beat the security and network effects of Bitcoin.” – Muneeb Ali

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