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Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability

Szabo‘s excellent essay on the specific trade-offs that empower Satoshi’s brilliant solution to the scaling of trust across human institutions. Listen if you are ready to learn.

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Lightning User Experience, A Day in the Life of Carol

With so many new features, tricks, and protocol changes, what will it be like to use lightning? What will Carol, the user, need to know? Listen to Bryan Vu‘s story of Carol’s first day with Lightning from the Lightning Labs Blog.

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The Future of Bitcoin – What Lightning Could Look Like

Splicing Payments, Submarine Swaps, Atomic Swaps, Dual-Funded Channels, Eltoo, Channel Factories, AMPS, and More! Listen to Aaron‘s recent article to hear more of the awesome potential and the future of the Lightning Network. Listen to the end for a special thank you for all the incredible work at Bitcoin Magazine and the always reliable Aaron Van Wirdum!

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This New Scaling Layer Could Make Lightning More Effective

An introduction to Channel Factories and the concept of a new Layer 2 protocol that could shift the Lightning Network into Layer 3. Is this another piece of the puzzle to building a global payment system? From Michiel Mulders with Bitcoin Magazine, listen to learn more details.

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Eltoo – A Simplified Update Mechanism for Lightning

Lightning is a fascinating protocol with enormous potential, but also many challenges. A new mechanism for updating channel states may work to solve some of Lightning’s biggest challenges. Learn more from the announcement by Christian Decker on Blockstream.com

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Nick Szabo The Mysterious Blockchain Titan

Nick Szabo is undeniably one of the most influential thinkers and pioneers in the Cryptoconomy. Learn more of his history and his works in this article from unblock.net

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Hashing Last Weeks Big Topics April 22-28

ERC20 bugs, Forking the forked BCH fork, Will we ever get Parity coins back, and Does France want you to move your ICO to their country? This and more as we hash all the topics I couldn’t get to last week.

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The Genesis Files: How David Chaum Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream

“Chaum’s work would inspire a group of cryptographers, hackers and activists, connected through a mailing list. It was this group — which included DigiCash contributors like Nick Szabo and Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn — that would come to be known as the cypherpunks.”

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The 17 Millionth Bitcoin is about to be Mined

What does it mean that we are crossing the 17 millionth Bitcoin in existence? In a world where sound money has gone extinct, Bitcoin stands alone as a provable and transparent monetary guarantee.

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Five Myths About Bitcoin’s Energy Use

Bitcoin mining is useless, it unnecessarily pollutes, its worse than credit cards, and its going to boil the oceans!! Are these inspired revelations, or inspired by ignorance?

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