Podcast: Bitcoin Audible

CryptoQuikRead_110 – Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis]

“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 Check out her article and other work at: https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/dags-and-decentralization/ And don’t forget to follow her on Twitter @SarahJamieLewis Support the show:  3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send…

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CryptoQuikRead_109 – The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia]

“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 Check out the article and follow @timevalueofbtc for other great stuff: https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/the-bitcoin-risk-spectrum-949f6abec290 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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CryptoQuikRead_108 – Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard]

“Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum.” – Pierre Rochard Don’t forget to drop some applause on the great article and explore other works by Pierre Rochard: https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/bitcoin-governance-37e86299470f Mentioned in the Episode: The Noded Podcast with Pierre Rochard & Micheal…

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CryptoChat_001 with Daniel Goldman – Verge, Digital Gold, Forks, and Going Down the Rabbit Hole

Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole.  All this and more with Daniel Goldman [@dzack23]. • Find his articles at https://blog.theabacus.io/@dzack23 • You can also listen to the two on The Verge Hack on episodes 76 and 94 of this podcastMentioned on the Show: The…

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CryptoQuikRead_107 – If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum]

“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.”  – Aaron Van Wirdum Be sure to check out Aaron’s extensive work and the always excellent journalism from the Bitcoin Magazine team: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-if-bitcoin-had-first-draft-wei-dais-b-money-was-it/…

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CryptoQuikRead_106 – Working Alone [Jill Carlson]

“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 Check out the article in full as well as Jill’s other works on her medium page: https://medium.com/@jillcarlson/working-alone-165ababeafc2 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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CryptoQuikRead_105 – Why You Can’t Understand Bitcoin [@Beautyon_]

“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.” @Beautyon_   Check out the full article, other fun works by Beautyon_, and the great publication at HackerNoon: https://hackernoon.com/why-you-cant-understand-bitcoin-98a5e5f86241 —…

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CryptoQuikRead_104 – Crypto-Incrementalism vs Crypto-Anarchy [Tony Sheng]

“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   Check out Tony Sheng’s article and other work at: https://www.tonysheng.com/incremental-vs-anarchy   Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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CryptoQuikRead_103 – Crypto Commons [Mike Maples]

“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 Check out the medium article and other interesting work by Mike Maples Jr: https://blog.usejournal.com/crypto-commons-da602fb98138 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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CryptoQuikRead_102 – Casa’s Privacy Model

“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 @lopp@jeremyrwelch@CasaHODL Check out the article and the Casa Blog on Medium: https://medium.com/casa/casa-privacy-model-ee6d1a08fd82   Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message:…

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