“So instead, I’m going to tell a story that makes the function of the Lightning Network less abstract and hopefully, easier to picture in your mind. We will do this by explanation of the system

“In the end, learning is both science and art. It is science when your domain is structured, and art when it is not.” @Hosseeb
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“Forget currencies and commodities… perhaps the right analogy for Bitcoin is LAND!” Flashback from 2014 with @gendal in an analogy that presents a unique and interesting perspective of what it means to own a Bitcoin.

“…The age of controlled money had arrived — and with it, world wars, depression and inflation, enormous government indebtedness, and the rise of leviathan states that learned to print their way to power and riches.”

“This makes Lightning Network an absolute game changer for the entire concept of capital markets: income without explicit counterparty default risk.” @timevalueofbtc
Don’t miss Nik Bhatia’s other excellent work on his Medium page, and

“It is impossible for Bitmain to divest their BCH holdings onmarket. Full stop. The BCH markets are not liquid enough to absorb the amount of coins Bitmain is still holding” -@CryptoHerpesCat
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“I’m going to expose the Washington Post/Wonkblog piece for the nonsensical ramble that it is… in short, it relies on mistaken assumptions to paint a misleading picture of the world.” -Nic Carter
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“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies…” – Cory Fields
Hear the full story in today’s read of Core

Will hundreds of coins flourish? Will economic thought change completely? Will it be a force for good or evil? And will Bitcoin even survive? All this and more in the second half of Daniel Jeffries

Will the price increase forever? Will government currencies be a thing of the past? Will there be a singular, global economy? And how do we make interesting predictions in the first place? All this and

Price prediction is a tricky game, but there is some fundamental analysis that may tell us more about the broad trends. Tuur Demeester looks at retail interest, institutional hesitancy, and Metcalf’s law for a current

Mises’ and Menger’s theories of money provide deep insight, but invariably never attempted to rank the functions of money during its period of establishment. To fill the gap, Fernando Ulrich explains why he believes a

Is ASIC resistance really the panacea that some claim it is? Will it solve the never ending challenges of a decentralized network? Or is it just a buzzword used to sell Bitcoin alternatives? Find out

In closing out the week we have one last piece on the economics behind Bitcoin and the natural market economy. We read the classic piece “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read posted on Fee.org.

What if “hoarding” money is both realizing its most important utility, and stabilizing in an uncertain economy? If true, how could the exact opposite belief be so widespread? Don’t miss our read from Hans Hermann

“This game, underlying FOMO3D (F3D), is called “The War of Attrition” and it can produce some insanely irrational outcomes… Human beings tend to play terribly and lose.” Don’t miss Matt Stephenson’s great piece on how

Many different and often conflicting ideas of what Bitcoin is, and what it’s future should be, have emerged throughout the years. Here @nic_carter’s and @hasufl’s exploration of past, present, and future narratives that molded Bitcoin

The SEC has disapproved the Winklevoss twin’s second attempt at a Bitcoin ETP for traditional markets. Rife with contradictions & misunderstandings, a thorough rebuttal comes in a “Letter of Dissent” from none other than the