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Read_722 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights [Dergigi]
"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation, dissemination, an…
3 years, 2 months ago
Read_721 - IMF Unveils New Global Currency "Universal Monetary Unit" [Tyler Durden]
"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already used your “carbon credits” for the month? …
3 years, 2 months ago
Basics_06 - The Lightning Network
The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions, and the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]
"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the past. T…
3 years, 2 months ago
Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]
"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the tops of beer barrels. You’d be surprised how much f…
3 years, 2 months ago
Read_718 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_}
"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstandin…
3 years, 2 months ago
Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]
"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Ba…
3 years, 2 months ago
Guy's Take #65 - Banks, Digital Money, and a Cat
Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes resi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Read_716 - How to Fix Banking & Money - PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato]
"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is an existential threat to their aristocrati…
3 years, 3 months ago
Read_715 - Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman]
"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same year when he dissented…
3 years, 3 months ago