Bitcoin Audible

"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surfaces that are not being worked on in terms of creating...

25 Sep 20201h 4min

“Some concepts are essen­tial, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” - Gigi En excellent piece from SwanBitcoin blog today by the one and only Gigi. Thoughts on the t...

23 Sep 202040min

"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously thought possible." - Ben Carman Ben Carman, a devel...

22 Sep 202037min

Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after they have announced a $425 million investment into Bitcoin. With a move to making Bitcoin their dominant treasury reserve asset, we talk al...

18 Sep 20201h 14min

"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement from manual, local, and inconsistent to automated...

17 Sep 202033min

"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participants of the ability to exchange value globally and freel...

16 Sep 202055min

_**"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real successes to account for…" "But Hal Finney, ever...

15 Sep 202040min

In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came up with the idea, could make millions by suing th...

14 Sep 202021min