Guy Swann
DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential
“DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously thought possible.” – Ben Carmen
Read MoreMagic Gold with Michael Saylor
Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after they have announced a $425 million investment into Bitcoin. With a move to making Bitcoin their dominant treasury reserve asset, we talk all about fundamental shifts in technology, the innovation of Bitcoin as a monetary asset, the dematerialization of money, and the impact it will have on the future.
Read MoreBitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]
“Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement from manual, local, and inconsistent to automated, global, and predictable.” – Yassine Elmandjra
Read MoreBitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]
“If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to exchange value globally and freely?” – Yassine Elmandjra
Read MoreGenesis Files: Hal’s Quest for Digital Cash
“Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real successes to account for…”
“But Hal Finney, ever the optimist, wasn’t ready to give up.” – Aaron Van Wirdum
Read MoreOpen Source Society in a Patented World
In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came up with the idea, could make millions by suing those who wish to use it… how can we protect an open source ethos in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space? How do we defend an alternative financial system from the intellectual prisons of the legacy system it is replacing?
Read MoreBlockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock
“This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious and sometimes are rather counter-intuitive, for example how participants collectively solve a problem without ever communicating .” – grisha
Read MoreA Monetary Layer for the Internet
“The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And without anyone’s permission, Bitcoin slowly emerged and diligently grew to become adopted by a small group of computer researchers, cryptographers and engineers curious to decipher the technology.” – Thibaud Marechal
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