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Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out
There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors"...
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Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]
"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payment splits do exist,...
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Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]
"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking...
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Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]
"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale of...

Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model
"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open...
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Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down...