Chat_79 - The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis
I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade offs of those in the past, the consequences of changes - even those considered well anal...
22 Maalis 20232h 29min
Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out
There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors" for billions of dollars, someone else LOSES billions of dollars worth of wealth...
20 Maalis 20231h 11min
Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]
"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payment splits do exist, we are undoubtedly still trappe...
17 Maalis 202358min
Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]
"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking (including the trust not to violate territorial integrity...
16 Maalis 20231h 21min
Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]
"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of the Earth. Moreover, the same technology made p...
14 Maalis 202353min
Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model
"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open financial services to everyone. And we’re scaling Lightning by invi...
10 Maalis 202346min
Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there is the development of Big Data and automated data surveillance...
8 Maalis 202343min
Read_707 - Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks, Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
"For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-understood by the public." – Lyn Alden Today Lyn Alden bri...
7 Maalis 202341min
