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CryptoQuikRead_110 - Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis]
“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to...
CryptoQuikRead_109 - The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia]
"Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical implications...
CryptoQuikRead_108 - Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard]
"Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum." - Pierre...
CryptoChat_001 with Daniel Goldman - Verge, Digital Gold, Forks, and Going Down the Rabbit Hole
Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole. All this and...
CryptoQuikRead_107 - If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai's B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum]
"Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… 'I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a...
CryptoQuikRead_106 - Working Alone [Jill Carlson]
“You have to remember that you chose this path not because you didn’t have any options, but because you knew you could create even ...