The Untold History of Bitcoin, Enter The Cypherpunks

“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

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Bitcoin, The Untold History

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

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Bitcoin, Blockade Runner of the Information Age

“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. These ships were built for two things: speed and capacity, in that order.” -@CarCampIt

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Features of the Casa Node

Autopilot, Channel Names, Verify from Scratch, Node Nicknames and more.  Hear about the features in the new Casa Bitcoin and Lightning node!

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POW is Efficient

“The Cryptopocalypse is coming — Bitcoin’s (PoW) is so bad that it’s going to destroy the world in 2020!” –DanHeld

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Electric Money – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 4

“No equation, no chart in this fourth part. Just a short discussion about the total cost of Bitcoin’s PoW. It will offer us the opportunity to introduce another fundamental property of PoW which makes it truly unique.” -LaurentMT

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Cliffhangers – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 3

“In this third part, we’re going to focus on a slightly different question: “Is the system running at its optimum?” -LaurentMT

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The Yin and Yang of Bitcoin – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 2

Listen to @Laurentmt‘s article explaining how the Yin and Yang of Bitcoin, Hodling & Mining, affect the efficiency of the system and how they drive the system’s dynamics.

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Gravity – Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Part 1

“At last, we have derived two metrics which both suggest that contrary to a widespread opinion, Bitcoin’s PoW is actually becoming more and more efficient.” –@Laurentmt

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Why I wrote PGP

“If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography.” -Phil Zimmerman

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