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How to Critique Bitcoin: A Guide

“You’ve heard of Bitcoin. You do not like it… It relies on curious, antiquated ideas like sound money, peer-to-peer networking, the abolition of seignorage, and censorship-resistance. It is profoundly distasteful.” –Nic Carter

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The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin

“The Third Era will start with civil war” -Rusty Russell

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SegWit2x Bugs Explained

The infrastructure and businesses in the Cryptoconomy are set to have a massive shift in the coming months. The #Bitcoin ecosystem may be difficult to recognize in the near future. That makes it critical not to forget the lessons our short but eventful history has taught us so far.

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The Time Value of Bitcoin

“Lightning Network provides a framework to measure the time-value of bitcoin, a precursor for a capital market and reserve currency status.” –Nik Bhatia

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Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning

— “Lightning is a promising technology, but right now, very few people are fluent with it,” Chaincode Labs engineer James O’Beirne told Bitcoin Magazine.

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Fat Protocols Aren’t New: What Blockchain Can Learn from P2P File Sharing

“People have speculated on what a future with fat protocols will look like. File sharing protocols aren’t exactly the same, but they have a lot of similarities we can learn from.” @backus

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Lightning Network 2.0 – Part 2

“That’s right: while we’re here still trying to wrap our minds around Layer 2 solutions, these mad scientists are already proposing a system with three layers” @DZack23

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Lightning Network 2.0 – Part 1

“Thing is, as these debates rage on, there’s a community of developers coming up with new ideas and, ya know, actually building stuff.” @DZack23

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Traditional Bitcoin Mixers

“Thinking about it, isn’t it ironic that, over the past years I wrote about every Bitcoin privacy technique in existence, except the one that 99% of all users use?” @nopara73

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