Hosted By
"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 practical as well as theoretical possibility.' He called his proposal B-Money." - Aaron Van Wirdum
Be sure to check out Aaron’s extensive work and the always excellent journalism from the Bitcoin Magazine team:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-if-bitcoin-had-first-draft-wei-dais-b-money-was-it/
“what matters now is not belief, but endurance.bitcoin does not promise comfort. it does not promise justice. it does not promise to save anyone....
"An argument for doing a consensus cleanup soft-fork first, prior to enabling any new opcodes or other features for new types of L2’s, is...
"As detailed in Saifedean Ammous’s “The Fiat Standard,” in November 1914 the British government “issued the first war bond, aiming to raise 350 million...
![CryptoQuikRead_107 - If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai's B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1741541/c1a-9mg94-04r1dr0os62-wa9otw.jpg)