Guy Swann

Does Bitcoin Need Accounts?

Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that would solve the need both of having to reuse Bitcoin addresses, & having to constantly generate new ones for every payment.

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Bitcoin, Not Blockchain

There is nothing about blockchain that makes it inherently immutable. Immutability emerges over time as the consequence of economic incentives and a native monetary unit that secures those incentives. It is hard won in the battle of monetary competition, something that cannot be copied or challenged with frivolous features, or arbitrary “utility.”

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Under a HEX

The scams in the Bitcoin & crypto space are, unfortunately, not low in number. Sometimes the only safe option is to ignore them, but there are the few occasions that require a thorough breakdown of just how the scam works, in hopes of protecting the often naive and uninformed noobs that enter this space.

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Horny for Justice at the Raleigh Meetup

Is Bitcoin really a religion?
Is all money some form of religious institution?
What happened to Virgil Griffith?
Are juries the best or worst idea for finding justice?

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Money, Bitcoin, & Time

Listen to a walk through the Bitcoin perspective and the rich history that enlightens the story for Bitcoin’s immense monetary potential. Reading the unabridged audiobook of Money, Bitcoin & Time, written by Robert Breedlove.

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Understanding the Technical Side of Bitcoin

Curious about where to start or what to possibly focus on when learning Bitcoin, Lightning, and the fundamentals of the most important tools in this ecosystem? Look no further, today we read and discuss Pierre Rochard’s excellent piece that breaks it all down.

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The God Protocols

“Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody’s side. All the parties would send their input to this god. God would reliably determine the results and return the output. In addition, God, being the ultimate in confessional discretion, would ensure that no party would learn anything more about the other party’s input than they could learn from their own input and the output.”  – Nick Szabo

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The Island of Stone Money

Does money need some alternative utility? Is there an example of virtual money that could be hundreds of years old?

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The Bitcoin Time Traveler

A message from the future… from 2013.  Just one of those memes that made its place in Bitcoin’s cultural history, we read the infamous Reddit post that laid out the bleak, Bitcoin-only future that lies ahead of us.  Can we stop it, before its too late?

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