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Guy Swann makes the knowledge of Bitcoin, the world's most secure, independent money, accessible to everyone. Exploring Bitcoin from an investment perspective, economic analysis, its philosophical foundations, & technological primitives. Reading and distilling thousands of hours of others' works on Bitcoin, Guy explains everything you need to know.
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“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving...
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"Money, in the ideal (which we’ll likely always only ever...
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“Sacrifice is thus a critical component of value, as it...
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"This confluence of Fed hikes and investor naivety “presents the...
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“The people at the end of the line who are...
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"Our goal is basically to realize this concept we have...
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In a follow up to the State of Lightning Report...
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"What the Internet has done for information, Bitcoin and the...
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“The Lightning Network, and the possibility to perform micropayments instantaneously,...
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“Crypto exchanges with numerous coins have an incentive to get...
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"If Bitcoin were built on a proof-of-stake model, where the...
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"These pioneers are akin to the Bitcoiners who showed up...
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"If Bitcoin had existed in Tesla’s time, it would have...
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"Neither is a Central Bank Digital Currency a State-level embrace...
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If you missed the awesome Twitter spaces we had with...
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“'Smart contracts' as a term was coined by Nick Szabo...
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"Even if we could somehow convince the world or the...
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“Money appreciates in value over time so that individuals can...
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“Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing...
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“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over...
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"The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin...
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“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle...
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"Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to...
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Today we have an incredible conversation with Preston Pysh and...
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"The passage of time is one thing that we can...
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“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting,...
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"We’re revolutionaries. There’s no reason to be coy about it....
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“Freedom, transparency, honesty, meritocracy, fairness, voluntaryism and hard work are...
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"It is understandably difficult for most of us to imagine...
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"The fight that the cypherpunks mounted was one of the...
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"Nodes are the law, and miners are the muscle."- Harry...
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"The precise magnitude and schedule for the westward move is...
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"Wake up people, this is not a drill. Contagion risks are increasing...
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“Using Bitcoin can level the playing field for the world’s...
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"Not only is the world experiencing greater dispersion of outcomes,...
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"The individual investor is professionalizing at the end of one...
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"In this piece we discuss our concerns around the broader...
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"The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant...
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“As Gall’s Law suggests, we believe the general principle favoring...
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"Lyn Alden captured this well in her excellent piece, An Economic Analysis of Ethereum, which we highly recommend in addition to our own. Similarly...
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"The consensus is what matters. The breakthrough of proof-of-work and...
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“Sandwiched between Guatemala and Honduras, El Salvador — the smallest...
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"Schumpeter would have loved Bitcoin. He would have seen in...
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"we often hear the U.S. dollar called an “exorbitant privilege.”...
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"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged...
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"the fact that bitcoin is now legal tender in a...
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"There has never been a more secure, scarce, valuable, transportable,...
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"Long before we had the Bitcoin energy debate, we had...
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“Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train...
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Dave Smith has finally done a Bitcoin episode! For those...
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"Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary...
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“This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows...
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"By all extant metrics in security system review, this system...
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"And it’s easier to sensationalize things for pageviews or political...
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"Bitcoin is a network, a money, a language, a system...
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The word “fiat” is growing more aggrandized in the modern...
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"Here's the deal with the US infrastructure bill: A new provision...
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"Many tellings of El Salvador’s story have largely overlooked and...
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“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have...
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A great piece today detailing out the different kinds, the...
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"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock...
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"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a...
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"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough...
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"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of...
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"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and...
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We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some...
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"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single...
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We've all heard the criticism, sound money can't work because...
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"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as...
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"Monetary repression continues to be hidden, and not spoken of...
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"A deflationary monetary system of absolute hard money acts as...
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"A network effect is an attribute of a company or...
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“All this to say, there is no optimistic version of...
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Completely left the intro and guy's take section out of...
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"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged...
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I may have gotten ahead of myself but the vote...
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If you haven't seen it, don't miss out on this...
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"If there is ever competition for the energy that the...
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“At the core of economists’ fallacy is the belief that...
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“Technologies of anonymous communication, anonymous currency, and reputation systems have been invented. They cannot be...
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"deflation is the natural order of a productive economy. If...
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"Quantitative easing (QE) occurs when central banks, such as the...
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"Money condenses energy. Bitcoin is the first and only tool...
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The price took a near 30% dump today. So let's...
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“Their goals were to separate money from governments and corporations,...
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“In my lifetime I have seen many technologies emerge. The Internet. Pocket...
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"only 13% of our planet’s population is born into the...
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"How does anyone censor something abstract and intangible; something that...
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“one of the main reasons for Bitcoin’s success is something...
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No matter how often we cover these ideas, it still...
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"Bitcoin’s security guarantee comes from the direct conversion of unforgeable...
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"It is truly impossible for the petrodollar system to be...
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Hyperbitcoinization is defined by the Nakamoto institute as “a voluntary...
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"To be sure, by the waning days of 2010, Satoshi...
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"Bitcoin miners are unique energy buyers in that they offer...
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"discussion about Taproot activation turned out to be a long...
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"Embedded on every single node of the Bitcoin network is...
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A walk through Bitcoin history, the chaos of the early...
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"Human civilization is at an inflection point. Inflationary monetary policy...
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"Bitcoin is the alpha-omega of private property and voluntary exchange....
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"The whole idea of Bitcoin is to remove intermediaries from...
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• Money is not what you think it is• Great...
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"...And we’re just considering two sources of nonrival energy: clean...
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The Gaming Universe is about to be Struck by Lightning....
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"When I thought about what is the defining difference between...
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"The empty block attack is one where a majority of...
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"Bitcoin is not taking gas from your car or electricity...
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"Bitcoin is a unique digital asset for an increasingly digital world that requires digging deeper...
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"To state it plainly: Bitcoin is a momentous monetary innovation enabling...
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“We can already observe some faint light at the end...
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“40 years of this back and forth has resulted in...
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"As long as there are money printers, there can be...
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"The World is in Denial" - Preston PyshPreston Pysh joins...
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• Why Matt Odell is wrong about the OCC statement•...
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"We are not going to wait for the future -...
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“This problem is precisely why all previous attempts of digital cash required...
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"As a consensus system without central authority, Bitcoin protocol upgrades...
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"The most egregious falsehood regarding economic health that is nonetheless...
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"The Internet’s protocol (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, or TCP/IP) doesn’t...
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"If the US Dollar really was to reach an uncontrollable...
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"So far, it seems that when governments try to ban...
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"Peter Todd, a Bitcoin developer who has been around from...
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"Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice...
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“When we begin to value things in bitcoin, we can...
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“The annual issuance rate with all those annotations kind of...
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"Supplying liquidity is an investment, and we need to treat...
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"if the representation of reality in this article is correct,...
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"In Chapter 1 we reached millions. In Chapter 2 we're...
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"I believe Bitcoin is one hell of an invention. To...
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"Perhaps one of the great ironies of the future will...
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Preparing for the Second Part of Dhruv's incredible series, today...
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"People aren’t trading bitcoin, they’re accumulating more and more of...
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Curious to know what the recent clown show of GameStop...
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Read_489 - The Cantillon Effect 2.0 - Bitcoin is the First Truly Fair Money [CK_snarks & Deniz Saat]“Because of Nakamoto’s deliberate actions and Bitcoin’s permissionless, free &...
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"Any solution to the oracle problem, makes Bitcoin able to...
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What the hell is everyone squealing about regarding this “critical...
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"What would it seem like if it did seem like...
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"In a world in which governments and companies continually encroach...
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“Fiat money is a positivist money, a tool of governments...
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“From the beginning, Bitcoin has remained an open source and...
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“As books became more accessible and affordable, individuals were now...
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An excellent chat today with 2 brilliant, bullish, & amazing...
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“Hard times make strong men, strong men create good times,...
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"Perhaps just in time, each U.S. citizen now has a...
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"We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. People play games...
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Closing out our recent chat with Jim & Hari from...
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“Learn about Bitcoin. Learn why its importance is so much...
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To...
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Just after the announcement of the SEC lawsuit, a filing...
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"After all, Bitcoin is just a tool, and it’s only...
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We are in the midst of one of history's greatest...
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"The greatest trick that central banks ever pulled was convincing...
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"we should all take a moment to be deeply grateful...
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Today we have a crazy fun show after getting to...
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“GF’s out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM...
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“Today, bitcoin is still an alternative treasury asset, but as...
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"As a decentralized and open source project, adopted by many...
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"Taking my view a step further, evidence shows that the...
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"It's not that a government has the ability to ban...
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"For the reader who has become familiar with the operation...
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"My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating...
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“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means...
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"With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant...
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“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue...
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"But there is something even more interesting that happens with...
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Had an excellent chat with the CEO of ShiftCrypto yesterday...
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"And replacing gold is just the start. Bitcoin isn’t just...
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Want to hear all of the bullish cases for Bitcoin?...
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The inventor of podcasting, the Podfather himself Adam Curry, joins...
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"All you can do with Bitcoin once you buy it...
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“Taproot will unlock a new range of possibilities for Bitcoin,...
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"It takes two nudges to convert a nocoiner. The vast...
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Today's chat is with the brilliant and always entertaining Aleks...
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"Bitcoin is more easily verifiable than gold, in terms of...
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What does having savings, & the incentives reestablished by sound...
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"The logical construct behind the dissection of today’s evils is...
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"If any of these forks had meaningfully gained ground relative...
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"One can use a “brainwallet”. Refugees need to carry nothing...
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“Lightning Labs is positioning this release as a step toward...
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"When governments play God, civilizations burn in Hell." - Robert...
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"I believe Bitcoiners have this in common. They recognize that...
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We may have just seen the beginnings of central banks...
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"Individuals can opt-out of their local currency by joining the...
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"If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you...
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"money printing only “works” if the majority of people don’t...
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"It had a big impact on May, who melded the...
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Bitcoin and the cryptographic systems that empower it, are not...
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"When compared to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds or "fine...
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Breez wallet makes some major announcements today with their first...
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A major step toward the next era of Bitcoin was...
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"Value is a strange concept because while it is arguably...
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As the dominoes continue to fall, we chat with the...
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“I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto, Whoever he/she/it/them is/was, was first...
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There's been a bit of Bad News. The canary doesn't...
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"So the next time somebody says that “shitcoin X” is...
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"Battles in the money market aren’t about incremental technology features,...
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What are rights and can Bitcoin enable us to make...
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Were you ever just deathly curious about what Defi really...
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Are we on the verge of a new revolution in...
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"Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with...
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"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with...
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“Some concepts are essential, removing them because you want a better...
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"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin...
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Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after...
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"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin...
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"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all...
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"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by...
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In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property...
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"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of...
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"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt...
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Unabridged, Uninterrupted, & unmatched. Parker Lewis's most recent installment of...
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"I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I'm like...
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"Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply...
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"As we conclude our “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build...
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"The same is not true of the current monetary system....
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"By manipulating price levels, the Fed isn’t just preventing smaller...
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Bringing back an old post for Hal’s Day. 6 years...
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"In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will...
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"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks,...
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"We need to be able to disassociate from our identities...
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“ignorance or delusion is one of the three causes of...
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Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the...
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“We find the global acceptance, brand recognition, ecosystem vitality, network...
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"While it was pretty difficult for him to take over...
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"The Jevons paradox is a staple of environmental economics used...
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"The goods that fare better in hardness, scaleness and darkness...
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We have got a great chat that I have been...
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"By buying Bitcoin, you are not making a mistake. But...
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Is there anything more to say? Feeling insanely bullish in...
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"it clearly involves moral, political and ethical aspects, like the...
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"If a few percentage points of a portfolio are allocated...
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“In order to be useful for this kind of process,...
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A long and intense discussion on the vast chasms between...
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"Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a...
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Today's Guy's Take is a response to the Bill Bert...
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"This risk is probably best countered by offering enough time...
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“Trusted third parties are security holes” isn’t just a slogan;...
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"Bitcoin’s capped supply is one of its most well-known features,...
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• DeFi• Prices & Markets• Bitcoin & the global power...
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"This rationale also completely demolishes the “blockchain not Bitcoin” mantra...
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"Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a...
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“When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics...
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"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks,...
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"The system is rigged." - Jimmy SongHow does out monetary...
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"Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And...
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"Distorting supply only serves to distort a currency’s ability to...
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"#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it's like the TCP...
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"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling,...
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"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing...
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“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated...
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"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous...
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"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation...
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"While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the...
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"ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data...
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“What doesn’t kill the legacy monetary system only makes it...
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“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is...
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A follow-up to yesterday's incredible read from The Nakamoto Institute...
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"Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse...
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Joined the guys over at POV Crpyto to talk about...
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"Users can now create a transaction without a signature in...
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"As it turns out, we had money, we just weren't...
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"VCs are a group of people demonized in the Bitcoin...
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“authority, not truth makes legitimacy... it is truth, not authority...
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“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of...
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We had a fascinating panel discussion hosted by John Vallis...
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"Early alchemy was concerned with purifying and perfecting certain materials,...
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"The world’s national currencies will offer Bitcoin only a sputtering...
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Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and...
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Full nodes without even needing the internet? That's right. A...
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"Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence...
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"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online...
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Finally got the incredible author of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly"...
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"In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which...
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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no...
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"It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does...
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"As a friend of mine likes to say: Bitcoin is...
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"Mycelial networks act as a resource transport layer and communications...
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"What the State fears above all, of course, is any...
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"The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism." -Murray...
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"I think of Bitcoin as a conservative investment because it’s...
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"We Hodl these truths to be self evident" - BradyA...
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If finding out how the banking system is systematically ripping...
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"As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we’ll...
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You are not going to want to miss this incredible...
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"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has...
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"All I know is the setup for bitcoin, the hardest...
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You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The...
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"It is the digital equivalent of your physical bank sending...
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"Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary intervention after the financial crisis,...
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"Although I mostly agree with their reasoning and share the...
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“Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief...
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"Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin as a tool for privacy. The...
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"A distant digital descendent of zero, the invention of Bitcoin...
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“In the wake of the enormous money tsunami unleashed onto...
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"One of the biggest lies in recent times is that...
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The team over at Kraken just dropped a fascinating report...
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"It was a plea to all those that valued the...
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"The Federal Reserve’s market operations are ramping up by the...
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COVID-19Citadel PreparationsThe Great Financial UnravelingScared of the virus or government?Kill...
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"I didn’t believe it when I first heard people saying...
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"Make no mistake: the EARN IT Act is a vehicle...
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"Keeping the Bitcoin network private can be thought of as...
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"Every single co in the industry invested badly at the...
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What happens when you get Swan Signal hosting a conversation...
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I feel like we just got to live through an...
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"Not too many years from now, the number of Bitcoiners...
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"We, Bitcoiners, are all dissidents in the Old World of...
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“Bitcoin can’t be a little bit censorship resistant in the...
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1 • Why has the Corona Virus been upgraded from...
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"devising a scheme that handles both messaging and payments under...
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"To fully understand any organism, we must not only look...
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"A volatile currency for volatile times" - Timour AzhariWhen the...
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Microsoft has a history of funding and developing with open...
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Is the blockchain a critical tool that creates the power...
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"If you ask me how much trust is right for...
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Today I get hyped with ck_SNARKs of BTCMedia and have...
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"By design, Bitcoin exists beyond governments. [...] The architecture of...
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"Decentralization has [...] been a vessel for achieving a concession...
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"Bitcoin is a movement founded on individual monetary sovereignty, transparency...
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I had an awesome time the other day with Daniel...
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"Unless you began your Austrian economic education at birth in...
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"The Lightning Network is best known for its fast and...
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"Not everyone understands what a pyramid scheme actually is, what...
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Can you really own Bitcoins? Or do you merely have...
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"For the better part of the last decade, the combination...
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"we have nearly 11 years of empirical evidence that the...
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An exciting development form the extraordinary team over at Zap...
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"What’s noteworthy about this point is that, upon this particular...
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"Money is an intersubjective problem, and a choice to opt...
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As a follow up to Nic Carter's excellent breakdown of...
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"A first reaction could be that it is a great...
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"So is the halving “priced in” or will it be...
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"Because of their digital nature, many people still object to...
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"Not since the gunpowder revolution were ordinary men & women...
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"Unlike Paypal, Venmo, or traditional payment processors, it cannot deplatform...
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"It is therefore a universal truth that all work has...
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"Prices are the coordinating force of a free market system....
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“Gold, the ancient and prevailing monetary sovereignty layer (representing an...
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Diving into the many incredible works made available in The...
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"To provide broader context, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of...
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A most profound aspect of Bitcoin is that we know,...
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Carcampit from the Friends Against Government Podcast joins me to...
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Closing out an extraordinary year in 2019 has us looking...
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"The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern...
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"At the end of the day, everyone has to believe...
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Is there a single key factor in the difference between...
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What is the true set of differences between Proof of...
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Don't forget to check out the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast and...
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Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the...
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Next up in the Gradually, Then Suddenly series by Parker...
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The scams in the Bitcoin & crypto space are, unfortunately,...
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Is Bitcoin really a religion?Is all money some form of...
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Is Bitcoin the perfect money, or is it the worst...
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For everyone that tells you Bitcoin is a stagnant technology...
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Money is the tool that enables human exchange and prosperity...Bitcoin...
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Another of the many great pieces from Nik Bhatia getting...
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Don't be the oblivious boomer who lets their hard work...
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An economy leveraged 150:1 A spiraling tower of debts to...
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To think of the value of a global, jurisdiction-less, "money-for-enemies"...
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INTRODUCTION At the end of the 16th century, a rag...
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The World Has Gone Mad, & the System is Broken....
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The 5th installment of the always fascinating "Gradually, then Suddenly"...
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Today we conclude the report from Adamant Capital written by...
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Today we start our journey through the new report from...
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Diving down the rabbit hole on the amazing privacy technologies...
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One of the many amazing technologies coming to Bitcoin, Taproot...
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Today, Nik Bhatia takes us through a compressed history of...
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The much deserved Guy’s Take episode as a dedicated follow-up...
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"Bitcoin is the first time we’ve combined Money as a...
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"When people get up and begin to talk to me...
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Another great piece from returning author Conner Brown on the...
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The author of the incredible work we covered last week,...
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Another great chat with the Raleigh Meetup gang about the...
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Is it the miners? The developers? The nodes? Who really...
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Closing the week with the incredible conclusion of Knut Svanholm's...
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Chapters 8 through 11 continuing our unabridged audio of Knut...
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Another awesome read as we continue through Knut Svanholm's excellent...
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Continuing through our unabridged reading of Knut Svanholm's excellent book...
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Today we begin through this weeks complete unabridged reading of...
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Does Bitcoin maximalism fail the test against the economics of...
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"There is no more important long-term use of energy than...
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CryptoQuikRead_305 - Addressing Security Concerns with the Casa Node [Jameson Lopp & Brian Lockhart]Recently, a bit of Twitter drama has arisen from a...
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Continuing the wonderfully fascinating piece from yesterday's episode, all about...
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Equal parts entertaining & intellectually intriguing, we start with Part...
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To think that a hard monetary asset, with a perfectly...
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Following the anniversary of Ross Ulbricht's arrest, and the fall...
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Quick Read #300!!! Hard to believe we have come this...
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An awesome discussion with the squad over at the Raleigh...
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Finishing up our Lightning week on the show, I've got...
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Every so often a major development comes along that combines...
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With another great piece from the Breez-Tech CEO we read...
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John Vallis from the Bitcoin Rapid Fire Podcast and I...
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Today we take a dive into the future of Lightning...
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The only thing as scarce as Bitcoin, is Time. Do you...
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Concluding the “Bitcoin” section of Money, Bitcoin & Time. So...
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Jumping back into Robert Breedlove's great piece with a thorough...
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Today we have a follow up to Nic Carter's excellent...
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Today we read a veritable Bitcoin Manifesto on a fundamental...
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• Keys are being abstracted away.• Users will call customer...
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If you were looking for a succinct summation of the...
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Today we start into the second piece of the "Gradually,...
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Bitcoin isn't just a token you can send and receive...
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The Bitcoin community needs more Jason Stapleton, so I'm doing...
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"What is money? That is the beginning of the real...
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Harold Thomas Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014)...
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Today we continue our journey through Robert Breedlove's thorough work...
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The network effects that tie society together through its community,...
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Today we start into an amazing and broad work that...
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“Life is like fire, not water; it is a process,...
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"Ralph Merkle... made the argument that Bitcoin is the first...
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Our monetary system has confiscated trillions in resources and value...
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Everything that defines the Bitcoin network is in the validation...
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The crew from the Lightning Hood website and weekly wrap-up...
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Do we live in an age of liberty, where information...
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We make claims about Bitcoin's assurances all the time. It is...
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Today we read an excellent article by Ben Perrin (@Btcsessions)...
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Today we have on the show one of the best...
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Inflation, or manipulation of the money supply to the benefit...
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"If Bitcoin's supply is expected to be endlessly deflationary, doesn't...
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When we think about the unmatched scarcity of Bitcoin as...
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The incredible model for predicting and assessing the value of...
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If you haven't listened to the earlier episode where I...
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We start today's show reading a short Twitter thread by...
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There were many precursors to the Bitcoin system, but IMO,...
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What if we already had a solution to one of...
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What if there was a single, fundamental flaw in Keynesian...
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From Bitcoin Magazine, today we read Aaron's piece on the...
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The Lightning Network does, in fact, have scaling problems of...
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... And one of the greatest natural subsidies for renewable...
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Today we read yet another great piece by @hasufl and...
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Finishing this week out with a short but wonderful introductory...
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The Lightning protocol has made some major leaps in the...
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Tomorrow we have an awesome interview with Roy Sheinfeld all...
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Merchants are scammers, Keynesians are scammers, altcoins are scammers, Bitcoin...
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I was lucky enough to get the opportunity at the...
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Today we finish the amazing journey through Jameson Lopp's thorough...
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Did you hear about the guy who tried for years...
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I got a chance to sit down with Aleks Svetski...
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Another excellent piece by @beautyon_ and discussion on the nature...
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Today we have a great chat with Richard Myers all...
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A message from the future... from 2013. Just one of those...
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Does money need some alternative utility? Is there an example of...
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"Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy...
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All the buzz is about FacebookCoin, I mean FacePalmCoin, I...
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This one should not be skipped! There is a fascinating precedent...
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At the recent Raleigh Bitcoin meetup we had an awesome...
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Today I wanted to cover an analogy I have hit...
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This is an episode not to be missed. With a...
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With help from the Bitcoin Optech newsletter we cover details...
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In the epic conclusion of the 21 lessons of the...
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Continuing our expedition through the lessons of the Bitcoin Rabbit...
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An epic journey with author @dergigi on the unexpected lessons...
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“Those who argue “high fees will kill adoption” fail to...
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" 'Break stuff' in that context means 'Kill People.' The software...
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Curious about all the #BitcoinTwitter buzz recently? I went digging to...
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Exploring the magic of cryptography using a magic hammer, gray...
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In a crazy conversation from last night's meet-up, I learned...
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Is Bitcoin's security going to be unreliable, volatile, or could...
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The brilliance of the price system is in coordinating the...
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Is the idea of a central decision maker for the...
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Diving into a great piece by Conner Brown exploring the...
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Today we cover all the incredible new developments coming to...
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Today, in preparation of & to understand the significance of...
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With a really cool and succinct article from Darren Kleine...
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Today we cover more specifically the consequences and risks of...
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When we dig to the very base elements of Bitcoin,...
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Today we take a stroll through a collection of known...
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A great piece just full of fun analogies on how...
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The conclusion of the Adamant Capital report from Tuur Demeester...
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Today & tomorrow we will be going through the Adamant...
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In the follow-up to yesterday's article, we are covering Nicolas...
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Today we read an article from developer @nicolasdorier that illustrates...
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Today we bring Tim K (@bootstrapbandit) on the show to...
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Today we grab a section out of one of the...
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The full audio version of "The Case for Electronic Cash"...
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Lightning is complicated, difficult to use, sometimes doesn't work properly,...
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Even with #Bitcoin, are we destined for a future with...
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"I believe that institutional scaling presents an under-appreciated scaling vector,...
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Today we go through a recent blog post by Jameson...
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Today we reach the conclusion of Hoppe's incredible piece on...
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Continuing from yesterday's episode with Part 2 of our journey...
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"Fiat money is the term for a medium of exchange...
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Building on the principles discussed in our exploration of the...
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The conclusion of The Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry...
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Continuing with Part 2 of "The Case for Electronic Cash"...
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Today we begin the long, and rewarding journey through Jerry...
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What if there was a clear and obvious reason that...
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Today we cover another great piece on the topic of...
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Another excellent piece from Su Zhu and Hasu at uncommoncore.co...
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Today we have another great chat with Scott from The...
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Today we go on an extended walk through some of...
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"The need for privacy and the long-term sustainability of Bitcoin...
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"That is the key innovation of Bitcoin: It detaches property...
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"To the casual observer, most of bitcoin’s life is boring — months...
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Disclaimer: If you are an ardent supporter of government projects,...
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"Ethereum’s #1 problem is not a problem of product-market-fit but...
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So what is the outcome of decentralized disruption? Who are the...
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In the context of Part 2, knowing that the true...
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Today we cover Part 2 of Simon Morris's excellent series...
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Bitcoin is an incredibly novel technology, there are few technologies...
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If you missed the insanity that happened during the "Block...
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Another short but excellent blog post covering the incredible work...
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The risks and benefits of chargebacks, the nature of the...
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Listening to an essay from 1997 that details specific challenges...
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"... The movement from static to dynamic media promises to...
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Cypherpunks write code! Last year we received a published paper...
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If you haven't heard it yet, don't miss an awesome...
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Another great Twitter thread to cover, this time from Jason...
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"The human threat model is intended to help humans better...
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"The Bitcoin Threat Model is intended to help developers, investors...
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The conclusion of the epic "Human Threat Model," by @jwweatherman. An...
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Today we begin the "Human Threat Model," by @jwweatherman. An exploration...
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Continuing with Part 2 of the journey through the "Bitcoin...
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Beginning the journey through the "Bitcoin Threat Model" and the...
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A lot of announcements and tons of exciting stuff to...
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A follow-up to our previous episode "#Reckless to Wumbology" discussing...
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Want to know more about Neutrino, Submarine Swaps, Dual Funded...
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Today we go through a short but awesome run down...
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"Today, there exists over 180 currencies across 195 countries. The...
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An amazing piece of work from the Coinmetrics.io team using...
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Taking a dive into an awesome tweetstorm from @danheld about...
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The complete reading of Iterative.Capital's incredible and thorough thesis, "What's...
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A look at the crazy past, the present, and the...
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"Bitcoin is a living system constantly changing based on environmental...
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After setting up and experiencing The Lightning Network firsthand as...
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