Podcast Episodes

Read_409 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite [Rusty Russell]

Season 2

"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you ever…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_408 - Assange's Extradition & Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom [Nozomi Hayase]

“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of Bit…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_407 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin [Vijay Boyapati]

Season 2

"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society." - Vijay Boyapati

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6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_406 - Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet [Roy sheinfeld]

Season 2

"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1962" - Roy Shein…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_405 - Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard [Hasu]

Season 2

"While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the network, it has no control over the number of users accessing the network through custodial…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_404 - ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet [Peter Chawaga]

Season 2

"ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged." - ION Announcement

With the help of Casa and a number…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_403 - Bitcoin is Antifragile [Parker Lewis]

Season 2

“What doesn’t kill the legacy monetary system only makes it weaker. What doesn’t kill bitcoin only makes it stronger. “ - Parker Lewis

If you were ho…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_402 - Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy [Aaron Van Wirdum]

Season 2

“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is far from as usable and private as it needs to be with authoritarianism and surveillance on th…

6 years, 2 months ago

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GuysTake_28 - Bitcoin & The Layers of Financial Cryptography

Season 2

A follow-up to yesterday's incredible read from The Nakamoto Institute by Ian Grigg, The 7 Layers of Financial Cryptography. Today we dig into what t…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Read_401 - Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers [Ian Grigg]

Season 2

"Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught …

6 years, 2 months ago

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