Chat_174 – Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast
***”I’m almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [BIP] 110 is still not merged by Core devs, it essentially reflects that they are no longer relevant because they failed to be good stewards […]
The Most Important Project in Bitcoin (You probably haven’t heard of)
What is the most important project in Bitcoin? It isn’t BIP 110 or some shiny new payment protocol. We actually have a massive security vulnerability sitting at the base layer: Bitcoin mining isn’t really mining anymore. Right now, we have millions of hashers but barely a handful of real miners deciding what transactions make it […]
Chat_173 – The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with Dan Gould
***”I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you’ve ever touched. That’s when I started treating all digital infrastructure as inherently recording devices. They’re trying to take information and, even if someone doesn’t really want or intend […]
PSA – Farewell Nodeless
Nodeless is dead. Long live Nodeless. Unfortunately the Nodeless payment service has had to shut down, but for anyone who needs to get in touch for any issues then feel free to contact me or UTXO. Nodeless is also open source, so if you wish to setup an instance for yourself, the project is available on github:
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FEATURING AI Unchained #008 – Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in decentralising the web and how both Bitcoin and Ai are at the core of making it possible.
This conversation was recorded for the AI Unchained podcast, but I decided to cross post it here since a lot of the conversation is themed around Bitcoin.
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FEATURING – AI Unchained_001 – A New Frontier, with Jeff Booth
Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of empowering the individual, rather than a system of control, and all the tools and perspectives that enlighten that journey.
Our first guest is none other than Jeff Booth, the author of “The Price of Tomorrow” on the incredible deflationary force of technology and why our only choice is to embrace it, not fight it. If you are trying to make sense out of the change that is being unleashed, you do not want to miss this show. Welcome to AI Unchained.
Check out Jeff Booth’s incredible book here:
Amazon.com: The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
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Keet AMA – Twitter Spaces on January 30th
Mathias and Paolo join us for a Twitter Spaces AMA to answer all of your questions about this cutting-edge technology. Plus, don’t forget to check out KEET’s mobile release! The app is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Tune in now for a thrilling Q&A on the future of privacy, secure communication, data sovereignty, & the nascent P2P economy.
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Green Eggs and Ham – Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
“This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to reconcile with this core purpose of securities. In a sense, none of this is surprising given the foundations of crypto DeFi. If you jump straight to “decentralized securities” without first nailing down decentralized money and peer-to-peer technology, the urge to financialize is obvious, because what other value or utility can you even attempt to provide?” – Allen & Anders
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https://www.uncerto.com/green-eggs-and-ham
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Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein’s work, “STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES TO RICH ONES” published with Bitcoin Magazine.
Link to the original read for the plethora of links and references to dig further into this incredible story.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/imf-world-bank-repress-poor-countries
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A Look at the Lightning Network [Lyn Alden]
“I think too many people in those early years interpreted “e-cash” to mean quick-and-easy payments for everyday goods using the base layer, when a better way to think of cash today is as a private censorship-resistant final settlement transaction method. Physical cash, after all, is not necessarily the easiest payment type, or a medium of exchange that we need to use for everything, but it’s the most private and the hardest to prevent from occurring.” – Lyn Alden
The full, uninterrupted reading of Lyn Alden’s incredible piece detailing the philosophy of engineering that informed the layered approach, how the lightning network works, what the future of the lightning network may hold, and answering some common criticisms of the Lightning protocol. If you haven’t heard or read this one, it is not to be missed. Enjoy.
Check out the original article plus the incredible library of material authored by Lyn on her blog below: https://www.lynalden.com/lightning-network/#layers
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What is Money, Anyway? [Lyn Alden]
“If a money (the most salable good) is easy to create more of, then any rational economic actor would just go out and create more money for herself, diluting the whole supply of it. If an asset has a monetary premium on top of its pure utility value, then it’s strongly incentivizing market participants to try to make more of it, and so only the forms of money that are the most resistant to debasement can withstand this challenge.” – Lyn Alden
The full, unabridged reading of Lyn Alden’s excellent breakdown of the question that marks the beginning of the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole, “What is Money, Anyway?”
Link to Lyn Alden’s piece and the incredible other work she has on her blog:
https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/
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PSA – Price Be Crashin 2022!
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