
Chat_85 - Bitcoin HyperDecentralization with Zack Bomsta
In this episode, I talked with Zack ₿omsta, the visionary leader behind Pivotal Pleb. Pivotal Pleb is on a mission to level the playing field for decentralized miners. Zack shares insights into how th...
29 Sep 20231h 53min

Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome
"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, ...
28 Sep 202336min

Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory
"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying your valued vendors in bitcoin is the opposite of mutually assured dest...
25 Sep 202358min

Read_766 - Spiderchains, Proof of Stake L2
"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to enable proof-of-stake a...
20 Sep 20231h 8min

Read_765 - "Hoarding" is a Keynesian Slur
"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of central banking started running with this narrative a...
15 Sep 202333min

Chat_84 - Layers, Payments, and Relays with Utxo
Today we sit down with Utxo, founder of Nodeless, on understanding the design space for Bitcoin services, the challenges of making Bitcoin accessible and streamlined for everyone, and a vision of how ...
14 Sep 20231h 31min

Read_764 - UTXOracle, Decentralizing the Oracle Problem
"It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to: Independently calculate the price of bitcoin using only your full node at any block height Develop genuine DeFi...
11 Sep 202357min

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 Sep 20231h 8min



















