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Deep Dive into Strong Federations & Foundations of Liquid

Today we read “Strong Federations, Foundation of Liquid, Whitepaper Release,” on Blockstream.com & take a deep dive all about the system that secures the operation of @Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain. If you want to know more about Liquid, don’t miss this episode!

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Liquid Network Launch and Thoughts from @LucasNuzzi

Blockstream’s Liquid, a federated, production sidechain, has officially launched with exchanges accounting for more than half of the global Bitcoin exchange volume! In today’s episode we read and expand on the official announcement from the Blockstream Blog, as well as dive into what it could mean with a short Twitter thread from @LucasNuzzi. Don’t miss a fun episode.

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Why Privacy Matters

Privacy isn’t just about being safe and keeping our data secure, its also a deeply fundamental aspect of being human. The unconscious pressures from being endlessly surveilled create a cage for our minds, killing creativity and expression in place of social conformity and obedience.

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Bitcoin Optech’s Scaling Bitcoin Special

The Bitcoin Optech Newsletter takes a break from their usual technical foray to summarize and discuss the amazing new proposals and technology at the Scaling Bitcoin Conference in Tokyo. Don’t miss the awesome stuff in today’s episode.

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A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto

“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.” – Eric Hughes

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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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Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness – Part 2

“Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the building blocks of a brand new field — also a child of the computer age: modern cryptography.” – Hugo Nguyen

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Anatomy of Proof of Work – Part 1

“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world… In other words, PoW is the bridge between the digital & the physical.” – Hugo Nguyen

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