“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann   Check out the full article and chat logs along with other articles and ICO discussion at: https://medium.com/alethena/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-buy-ico-ratings-an-investigation-13d07e987394     Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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 Check out my medium page and the full article here: https://medium.com/@thecryptoconomy/dandelions-and-a-bright-future-for-bitcoin-privacy-712dbc4b1ec5   Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!”  – Christian Decker & Rusty Russell Check out the other great work and full article with links at the Blockstream Blog: https://blockstream.com/2018/06/25/c-lightning-06.html   Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“This week I learned you can start syncing an archival Ethereum node, travel completely around the world, and it still won’t be finished.” -@lopp Today’s Quik Read is from Jameson Lopp on his experiences with Ethereum infrastructure.   Link to the full article and Lopp’s Medium page: https://medium.com/@lopp/the-challenges-of-building-ethereum-infrastructure-87e443e47a4b   Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in…

Price got you down?  Don’t forget why we are here.  From @davidcbennett, we read ”I Hodl.” Link to the article on Steemit: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@davidcbennett/i-hodl   Support the show: 3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“So, what people call “SPV” today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly verify and enforce Bitcoin rules.” @giacomozucco The Twitter Thread: You guys know that I have a fetish for analogies, so bear w/ me about this one. Thesis: if Bitcoin is digital Gold,…

“It was around this time — 1997, close to the [cypherpunk mailing] list’s peak popularity — that Back submitted his Hashcash proposal.” @AaronvanW @BitcoinMagazine Today we read the second in Aaron Von Wirdum’s “Genesis Files” series titled “Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block.” Another excellent dive into the critical components and contributions…

“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.” Listen to the next installment in the Verge Hack fiasco from Daniel Goldman + Abacus Crypto Journal Link to the full article:https://blog.theabacus.io/lets-do-the-time-warp-again-the-verge-hack-part-deux-c6396ab36ecb Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 — Send in a voice message:…

“the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as open, decentralized networks while scaling to reach a billion people?”  @neha   Today we read @neha’s The Importance of Layer 2: https://medium.com/mit-media-lab-digital-currency-initiative/the-importance-of-layer-2-105189f72102   Video of full L2 Summit presentations and discussion:…

Support the Show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5   Are smart contracts really the trustless panacea that we all dream they are?  Or are there serious and often insurmountable challenges that too many ignore?  Find out more in @JimmySong’s excellent article on the Truth About Smart Contracts.   Don’t forget to check ou the full article, multiple funny comic strips included,…