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

“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

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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

“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

“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

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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.”

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“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

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“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

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

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“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 as well as theoretical possibility.’ He called his proposal B-Money.”

“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 options for yourself.” – Jill Carlson

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“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. In Bitcoin, Statists are a constant irritant and lethal toxin.”

“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 material.” -Tony Sheng

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“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

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“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 users in their quest for financial sovereignty.” @lopp
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“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann

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Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less network.” -@TheCryptoconomy
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“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!” – Christian Decker & Rusty Russell

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