Guy’s Take

Guy’s Take #35 – The Next Domino…

We may have just seen the beginnings of central banks entering the Bitcoin game theory. The game is about to get real.

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TAPROOT IS MERGED!!

A major step toward the next era of Bitcoin was made today. The code is final, and it is now in the Bitcoin codebase as of today. The next steps are an activation method, and a full client release for the network to begin the process of adding it to the global consensus.

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The Canary in the Coal Mine

There’s been a bit of Bad News. The canary doesn’t seem to be moving, and its time that we take our situation seriously. As Bitcoin becomes both more mature and finds its way back into a bull market, we can also expect a sharp increase in regulatory and governmental attention. The powers that be, the surveillance state, and the control that the financial institutions have acquired will not be lost without a fight.

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Rights, Incentives & the Bitcoin System

What are rights and can Bitcoin enable us to make better sense of them?

It is very common to hear that education is a “right,” that healthcare, a fair salary, etc are all “rights” that we can demand of others and are entitled to. Can this be the case? How do they conflict with the more basic rights of the control over our own lives, our right to choose, and the rights to our bodies? Can we simply declare that the things we want or need are rights and this means we can have as much of it as we would like?

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Open 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?

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Guy’s Take – The Dominoes are Falling

“We find the global acceptance, brand recognition, ecosystem vitality, network dominance, architectural resilience, technical utility, and community ethos of Bitcoin to be persuasive evidence of its superiority as an asset class for those seeking a long-term store of value.” – Michael Saylor

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Guy’s Take on the Bill Bert Podcast with Anthony Pompliano [#29]

Today’s Guy’s Take is a response to the Bill Bert podcast with Anthony Pompliano! What did Pomp miss? What did he get wrong? Lets do something a little different with this episode, and feel free to check out the video by finding it on YouTube with links and other things provided in the show notes. Let me know what you think, and don’t forget to subscribe!

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Bitcoin & The Layers of Financial Cryptography

A follow-up to yesterday’s incredible read from The Nakamoto Institute by Ian Grigg, The 7 Layers of Financial Cryptography. Today we dig into what the reality of financial cryptographic systems as they have been developed & secured through Bitcoin.  What philosophy and mentality informed it all, and where did it differ from Ian’s vision, and where was he able to see what would come about?

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Corona Virus… Bitcoin Fixes This

What I hope to be a fun Guy’s rant on why Corona is a huge problem not because of the virus itself, but because of a terribly unprepared economy…

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But Lightning Enables…

Finishing up our Lightning week on the show, I’ve got a Guy’s Take on all the different applications I think are viable here in the early days of Lightning, and also what decentralized projects may make sense on Lightning, but are pointless as “utility tokens.”

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