Podcast Episodes

Read_444 - Things Bitcoiners Don't Want to Hear [Shinobi]

Season 2

"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surface…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_443 - On Bitcoin's User Experience [DerGigi]

Season 2

“Some concepts are essen­tial, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” - Gigi

En excellent piece from SwanBitcoin blo…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_442 - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential [Ben Carman]

Season 2

"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously th…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Chat #47 - Magic Gold with Michael Saylor

Season 2

Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after they have announced a $425 million investment into Bitcoin. With a move to making Bitcoi…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]

Season 2

"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcemen…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]

Season 2

"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants …

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum]

Season 2

"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real su…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Guy's Take - Open Source Society in a Patented World [#31]

Season 2

In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor cam…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha]

Season 2

"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious …

5 years, 6 months ago

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Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal]

Season 2

"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And wi…

5 years, 6 months ago

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