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Basics_06 - The Lightning Network
The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions, and the node, we...
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Read_720 - A History of Bitcoin Maximalism [Jameson Lopp]
"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the past. The old enemies...
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Read_719 - All You Can Hold for Five Bucks [Joseph Mitchell]
"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the tops of beer barrels....
Read_718 - Bitcoin Does Not Waste Electricity [Beautyon_}
"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how...
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Read_717 - How To Wreck a Big Old GSIB [DeepThroatIPO]
"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Banking” assets. In 2021, these...
Guy's Take #65 - Banks, Digital Money, and a Cat
Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes resilience in the markets,...