Podcast: Bitcoin Audible

Chat #65 – To Airgap, Or Not to Airgap? …& Other Hardware Challenges with Lixin Liu & Douglas Bakkum

If you missed the awesome Twitter spaces we had with Lixin Liu from Keystone and Douglas Bakkum from Shift Crypto, you can’t stop crying because we have it here on Bitcoin Audible for your listening pleasure. What are the security benefits or trade offs with airgapped hardware wallets, what are the general challenges of Bitcoin hardware security, and why and how do most people lose their Bitcoin and what can we do to fix it? All this and more in today’s chat with some amazing minds building Bitcoin hardware, in Chat 65 – To Airgap or not to Airgap?
Follow these two crazy intelligent builders on twitter at the links below:
https://twitter.com/BitcoinLixin
https://twitter.com/douglasbakkum

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Read_584 – Yes, Bitcoin is a Smart Contract Platform [Shinobi]

“’Smart contracts’ as a term was coined by Nick Szabo back in 1996 before the idea of a blockchain was even a twinkling in Satoshi’s eye. They had nothing to do with DAOs, or decentralized exchanges or any of these types of constructs that people tend to think of when they hear the term.” – Shinobi…

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Read_583 – Libertarianism & the Bitcoin Strategy [Stephan Livera]

“Even if we could somehow convince the world or the U.S. government to adopt a gold standard, there’s not really anything stopping them from claiming “it’s an emergency” and that we need to drop the gold standard and “temporarily” close the gold window. In this way, Bitcoin provides stronger assurances about our money than gold…

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Read_583 – Libertarianism & the Bitcoin Strategy [Stephan Livera]

“Even if we could somehow convince the world or the U.S. government to adopt a gold standard, there’s not really anything stopping them from claiming “it’s an emergency” and that we need to drop the gold standard and “temporarily” close the gold window. In this way, Bitcoin provides stronger assurances about our money than gold ever could.” – Stephan Livera

Is libertarianism without Bitcoin a lost cause? How does Bitcoin change the game in the fight for sustainable liberty, and what is the argument for understanding why the Bitcoin strategy for liberty, is the most important strategy we have? Find out in today’s concise read from Austrian economist and podcast host Stephan Livera, made available at Bitcoin Magazine.

Check out the original link below for more by Stephan and the other great works at Bitcoin Magazine:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/libertarians-need-to-prioritize-bitcoin

For those who want to hear the SLP episode with Titus Gebel on private cities and a strategy for a free future, this is the link to episode 161:
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/161/

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Read_582 – The World Bitcoin Will Build [Cory Klippsten]

“Money appreciates in value over time so that individuals can plan their future knowing their wealth will be protected. This leads to market participants’ time horizons lengthening, creating more investment, more entrepreneurship, more productivity and increased living standards. This boom in entrepreneurship is what ultimately drives humanity forward.” – Cory Klippsten Bitcoin is going to…

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Read_581 – The Vaccine Moment, Part 1 [Paul Kingsnorth]

“Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it is even understood. So it is here. The divisions that have opened up in society about the covid vaccines are not really about the covid vaccines at all: they…

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Read_580 – Bitcoin and Crypto Aren’t the Same [Nik Bhatia]

“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over $1 billion for over 100 different cryptocurrencies tells a story: we live in a multicoin world. But does that mean that bitcoin has competitors on its path to world reserve currency? No.” – Nik Bhatia “Which crypto should I buy?” I’m sure you’ve heard it…

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Read_579 – Our Best Shot at Liberty [Dr. Wolf Von Laer]

“The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin is an act of peaceful rebellion against the fiat money system.” – Dr. Wolf Von Laer There are a million different ways to discuss the benefits and attributes of Bitcoin, how it will influence the world, how it will change economic calculation. But what is…

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Read_578 – The Irrelevance of Experts [Willem Van Den Bergh]

“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle of restricted information access in the past decades, the limiting factor for an individual to make intellectual progress merely shifted from an accessibility problem to a filtering problem (filtering the information that is relevant from the information that is not).” – Willem Van Den Bergh…

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Read_577 – The End of Super Imperialism [Alex Gladstein]

“Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system, but enforced without military occupation. “This was,” he writes, “something never before accomplished by any nation in history.” – Alex Gladstein Another banger from Gladstein this week that follows Michael…

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