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

“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

“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

“Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum.” – Pierre Rochard

“Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… ‘I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical

“You have to remember that you chose this path not because you didn’t have any options, but because you knew you could create even more

“A Statist is a man or woman who believes that only the State should be the final arbiter of every activity man can engage in.

“Crypto-incrementalists and the crypto-anarchists share strong convictions in the power of decentralization… However, these groups diverge quickly as we move from the abstract to the

“Just like a stock market was a financial platform for creating the scalable corporation, blockchains can be governance platforms for enabling the scalable commons.” -@m2jr

“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate our

“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann

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