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![Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740968/c1a-9mg94-ddkn67d9crzj-g1rvji.jpg)
Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]
"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in...
![Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740967/c1a-9mg94-04r1dm4ofvmq-wjab2r.jpg)
Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]
"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right...
![Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740969/c1a-9mg94-04r1dm4zh720-uogskp.jpg)
Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]
"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”,...
![Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740971/c1a-9mg94-ddkn67dqi3j8-gl5jvp.jpg)
Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]
"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and...
Chat #61 - Libertarians & Bitcoiners Sitting in a Tree...
We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some major Bitcoiners and Libertarians together to talk about the tools available to us in...
![Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740972/c1a-9mg94-k5m32x5ri08v-u9597g.jpg)
Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]
"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on...