
Chat_38 – Unhashing New Tech with Ruben Somsen
Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a

Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a

Full nodes without even needing the internet? That’s right. A massive improvement to the decentralization & alternatives for securing Bitcoin validation infrastructure just dropped from

“Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology.” – Phil Bonello

“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial

Finally got the incredible author of the “Gradually, Then Suddenly” series on the show to have a chat about the nature of Bitcoin, how it

“In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further.” – Dominik Stroukal
Because I love discussion of markets, prices,

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

“It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does nothing to generate economic activity; it only shifts the balance of powers as to

“As a friend of mine likes to say: Bitcoin is pieces of super-gold flying inside an unstoppable PayPal. It is the best money we ever

“Mycelial networks act as a resource transport layer and communications network connecting organisms in the biosphere. This enables organisms to voluntarily trade resources and knowledge

“What the State fears above all, of course, is any
fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence”
– Murray N.

“The greatest danger to the State
is independent intellectual criticism.”
-Murray N. Rothbard
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