Guy's Take #70 - But Deflation is Bad
A deflationary money is going to destroy the economy! If the value of money keeps going up, then no one will ever spend it! If no one spends it, then the economy will fall into a depression and it wil...
7 Syys 20231h 8min
Read_763 - Evils of THE ALGORITHM
"Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is in controlling your experience, what content you see, and how you see it. This is l...
6 Syys 202325min
Read_762 - Bitcoin's Security Model Deep Dive
"When discussing consensus mechanisms for different cryptocurrencies, one issue that often causes arguments is a lack of understanding (and definition) of the security model that they provide for the ...
1 Syys 202351min
Read_761 - A Sound Bitcoin Financial System [Alex B]
"I believe it’s important to go back to what this sovereignty is made of. Bitcoin works because an economic majority is aligning incentives for every constituent of the network. The longer tail of the...
29 Elo 202342min
Read_760 - Drivechain's Place in Bitcoin's Future
"To not die, Bitcoin must become more used. The current thesis accepted by most “maximalists” is that Bitcoin will continue to be thought of as an investment and its price will keep increasing, the pr...
25 Elo 202351min
Read_759 - Increasing Interoperability in Second Layer Protocols [Chase Smith]
"Often overlooked is the importance of interoperability between not only the second-layer protocol and Bitcoin but the layer-2 protocols themselves. A second layer, where end-users can leverage severa...
24 Elo 202337min
Read_758 - Scaling and Consensus Changes [James O'Beirne]
"When reading a draft of this post, my wife got kind of depressed right around here. Her macabre question, basically, is: “if everyone just winds up interacting with sidechains, and not Real Bitcoin, ...
21 Elo 20231h 13min
Read_757 - Putting the B in BTC [Anthony Towns]
"The headroom there isn’t unlimited — expect it to show up as fee pressure and backlogs and less ability to quickly resolve transaction storms. And that will in turn make it hard and expensive for peo...
18 Elo 20231h 14min
