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Bitcoin Maximalists take on the scams, ponzis, & bad ideas in the world of crypto. Doing the dirty work so that you don't have to.

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Guy’sTake_001 – Poor in a World with Bitcoin, or Rich in a World Without It?

Would you give up $1,000,000 in Bitcoin today, to guarantee its success and that our future was one of sound, decentralized money?  My answer would have to be ‘yes,’...

CryptoQuikRead_163 – A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto [Eric Hughes]

“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know....

CryptoQuikRead_162 – The Untold History of Bitcoin, Enter The Cypherpunks [Petri Basson]

“Although there was never complete agreement on any one thing, this was an open forum where personal privacy and personal liberty were ultimately placed above all other considerations.” -@PetriB2...

CryptoQuikRead_161 – Bitcoin, The Untold History [Petri Basson]

“I have always believed that to really understand something and where it is going, you have to understand where it came from.” -@PetriB2 Today we read the first of...

CryptoQuikRead_160 – Bitcoin, Blockade Runner of the Information Age [CarCampit]

“The dissent did not come in the form of a parchment scrawled with a feathery pen or an assembly of diplomats, but in the form of the Blockade Runner....

CryptoQuikRead_159 – Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness [Part 2 – Hugo Nguyen]

“Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the building blocks of a...

CryptoQuikRead_158 – Anatomy of Proof of Work [Part 1 – Hugo Nguyen]

“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world… In other words, PoW is the bridge between...

CryptoQuikRead_157 – The Bitcoin Central Bank’s Perfect Monetary Policy [Pierre Rochard]

“The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. This is the digital equivalent of the Chicago Plan or the Austrian 100% reserve gold standard.”...

CryptoQuikRead_156 – Features of the Casa Node [Michael Borglin]

Autopilot, Channel Names, Verify from Scratch, Node Nicknames and more.  Hear about the features in the new Casa Bitcoin and Lightning node! Check out the full article and follow @CasaHODL...