Read_754 - Bitcoin Is Not Crypto, The SEC Confirms
"Talk to a bitcoin maximalist – someone who believes that bitcoin is the only digital asset with innate value – and, more likely than not, they’ll tell you the world’s oldest cryptocurrency is, in fac...
4 Aug 202349min
Read_753 - Bitcoin Timestamp Security [Jameson Lopp]
"Bitcoin is often referred to as a secure timestamping service. We never had a global record of truth with trustworthy timestamps, so how did this come about? It’s generally due to Proof of Work being...
27 Juli 202332min
Read_752 - Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology [Balaji S. Srinivasan]
"Bitcoin represents the explicit encoding of previously implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is a Schelling point and a symbol. As such, it will become widely recognized ...
26 Juli 20231h 17min
Read_751 - Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better [Andreas Antonopolous]
"Some networks are “smart.” They offer sophisticated services that can be delivered to very simple end-user devices on the “edge” of the network. Other networks are “dumb” — they offer only a very bas...
21 Juli 202346min
Read_749 - Economics of Bitcoin as a Settlement Network [Saifedean]
"The obsession with consumer payments in the Bitcoin community is an unfortunate relic of the fiat money era. Generations that have only known monetary hot potatoes that need to be spent before they d...
18 Juli 202344min
Read_750 - Capital in the 21st Century [Allen Farrington]
"To do our best to minimize the economics jargon once again, we might simply ask: what are you going to do with your time? Are you going to create or consume? And how do the characteristics of money, ...
16 Juli 20231h 7min
Read_748 - Bitcoin & the Rise of the Cypherpunks [Lopp]
"While many of the innovations in the space are new, they’re built on decades of work that led to this point. By tracing this history, we can understand the motivations behind the movement that spawne...
13 Juli 20231h 13min
Read_747 - The Bondholder's Burning Platform [Croesus]
"Since 1800, in 51 out of 52 cases where a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio reached 130%, the country eventually defaulted. The only exception is current Japan, who is frankly in the final stages of circli...
11 Juli 202354min
