Guy Swann

Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization

“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions.” – @SarahJamieLewis

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The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum

“Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications of this on capital markets are tremendous.” – Nik Bhatia

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Bitcoin Governance

“Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum.” – Pierre Rochard

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Daniel Goldman on Verge, Forks, & the Rabbit Hole

Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole. All this and more with Daniel Goldman [@dzack23].

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If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

“Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… ‘I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical as well as theoretical possibility.’ He called his proposal B-Money.” – Aaron Van Wirdum

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Working Alone

“You have to remember that you chose this path not because you didn’t have any options, but because you knew you could create even more options for yourself.” – Jill Carlson

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Why You Can’t Understand Bitcoin

“A Statist is a man or woman who believes that only the State should be the final arbiter of every activity man can engage in. In Bitcoin, Statists are a constant irritant and lethal toxin.” @Beautyon_

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Crypto-Incrementalism vs Crypto-Anarchy

“Crypto-incrementalists and the crypto-anarchists share strong convictions in the power of decentralization… However, these groups diverge quickly as we move from the abstract to the material.” –Tony Sheng

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Crypto Commons

“Just like a stock market was a financial platform for creating the scalable corporation, blockchains can be governance platforms for enabling the scalable commons.” @m2jr

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Casa’s Privacy Model

“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate our users in their quest for financial sovereignty.” @lopp @jeremyrwelch @CasaHODL

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