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CryptoQuikRead_101 – How Easy it is to Buy ICO Ratings [Markus Hartmann]

“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...

CryptoQuikRead_100 – Dandelions and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy

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...

CryptoQuikRead_099 – Announcing C-Lightning 0.6 [Christian Decker]

“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...

CryptoQuikRead_098 – The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure

“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...

CryptoQuikRead_097 – I HODL

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 —...

CryptoQuikRead_096 – Giacomo’s Tweetstorm, Coinage in the Age of Bitcoin

“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...

CryptoQuikRead_095 – The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block

“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...

CryptoQuikRead_094 – Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, Verge Hack Part Deux

“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...

CryptoQuikRead_093 – The Importance of Layer 2

“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...