Bitcoin Audible

“Crypto-incrementalists and the crypto-anarchists share strong convictions in the power of decentralization… However, these groups diverge quickly as we move from the abstract to the material.” - Tony Sheng Check out Tony Sheng’s article and other work at: https://www.tonysheng.com/incremental-vs-anarchy Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podca...

“Just like a stock market was a financial platform for creating the scalable corporation, blockchains can be governance platforms for enabling the scalable commons.” - @m2jr Check out the medium article and other interesting work by Mike Maples Jr: https://blog.usejournal.com/crypto-commons-da602fb98138 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate our users in their quest for financial sovereignty.” @lopp @lopp@jeremyrwelch@CasaHODL Check out the article and the Casa Blog on Medium: https://medium.com/casa/casa-privacy-model-ee6d1a08fd82 Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- S...

“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann Check out the full article and chat logs along with other articles and ICO discussion at: https://medium.com/alethena/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-buy-ico-ratings-an-investigation-13d07e987394 Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c...

Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less network.” -@TheCryptoconomy Check out my medium page and the full article here: https://medium.com/@thecryptoconomy/dandelions-and-a-bright-future-for-bitcoin-privacy-712dbc4b1ec5 Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice...

“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!" - Christian Decker & Rusty Russell Check out the other great work and full article with links at the Blockstream Blog: https://blockstream.com/2018/06/25/c-lightning-06.html Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible...

“This week I learned you can start syncing an archival Ethereum node, travel completely around the world, and it still won’t be finished.” -@lopp Today’s Quik Read is from Jameson Lopp on his experiences with Ethereum infrastructure. Link to the full article and Lopp's Medium page: https://medium.com/@lopp/the-challenges-of-building-ethereum-infrastructure-87e443e47a4b Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2o...

Price got you down? Don’t forget why we are here. From @davidcbennett, we read ”I Hodl.” Link to the article on Steemit: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@davidcbennett/i-hodl Support the show: 3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"So, what people call "SPV" today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly verify and enforce Bitcoin rules." @giacomozucco The Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1009281116837175296 Thread Reader Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1009281116837175296.html Support the show: 3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXge...

"It was around this time — 1997, close to the [cypherpunk mailing] list’s peak popularity — that Back submitted his Hashcash proposal." @AaronvanW @BitcoinMagazine Today we read the second in Aaron Von Wirdum's "Genesis Files" series titled "Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin's Motor Block." Another excellent dive into the critical components and contributions that made Bitcoin possible. C...

“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.” Listen to the next installment in the Verge Hack fiasco from Daniel Goldman + Abacus Crypto Journal Link to the full article:https://blog.theabacus.io/lets-do-the-time-warp-again-the-verge-hack-part-deux-c6396ab36ecb Support the show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvH...

"the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as open, decentralized networks while scaling to reach a billion people?" @neha Today we read @neha’s The Importance of Layer 2: https://medium.com/mit-media-lab-digital-currency-initiative/the-importance-of-layer-2-105189f72102 Video of full L2 Summit p...

Support the Show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 Are smart contracts really the trustless panacea that we all dream they are? Or are there serious and often insurmountable challenges that too many ignore? Find out more in @JimmySong’s excellent article on the Truth About Smart Contracts. Don't forget to check ou the full article, multiple funny comic strips included, as well as Jimmy Song's oth...

Support The Show: 3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 @TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pools. Listen to @dantwany’s article breaking down what this could mean for the future of Bitcoin. Check out the website for further links and other articles on Bitcoin news and development: https://news.buybitcoinworldwide.com/betterhash-aims-to-increase-b...

Today we read @StopAndDecrypt ’s thorough breakdown of the Ethereum scaling and validation trade-off. Is ETH an inherently centralizing system? Find out in today’s Quik Read. Don't forget to check the plethora of graphics and charts as well as the other great work from @StopAndDecrypt : https://hackernoon.com/sharding-centralizes-ethereum-by-selling-you-scaling-in-disguised-as-scaling-out-266c136f...

Covering the weeks top stories with Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review - Looking to the Past and the Future. Listen to today’s episode from Shawn Gordon and subscribe to hear all the best articles in the Cryptoconomy space. Don't forget to click the link for the other great work from @bitcoinmagazine and Shawn Gordon:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-magazines-week-review-looking-past-an...

The once-feared 51% attack of POW security has recently moved from a theoretical vulnerability to a common occurrence. Today we read and discuss an article from @AlyssaHertig with @coindesk exploring recent events and what they might mean for the cryptoconomy at large. Listen for more. Links to the article and relevant resources:https://www.coindesk.com/blockchains-feared-51-attack-now-becoming-re...

Another from @goorha and @parabolictrav detailing the application and incredible potential of Bitcoin's contractual governance. A truly global and open platform for economic organization. Don't miss this one! Link to the full article and @parabolictrav's medium page:https://medium.com/@parabolicinvestor/introducing-bitcoin-contract-governance-d28eb046ce8b --- Send in a voice message: https://podca...

Is Bitcoin a new asset class, a fancy way to buy coffee, digital sound money, or something entirely different and more fundamental? Listen to the article by Prateek Goorha (@goorha) and Parabolic Trav to dive into the future of contracts. Be sure to check out the full article for the links and other work by the author:https://medium.com/coinmonks/building-the-bitcoin-economy-the-complete-contract-...

One of the features of the Lightning network is its innate benefits to privacy. Listen to a short exploration of privacy in Lightning with Toronex (@scidexer) plus commentary. Check out the full article at:https://medium.com/@scidexer/increasing-bitcoin-privacy-using-the-lightning-network-or-how-to-delete-the-origin-of-your-bitcoins-3c611d072e40 Also check out the LN visualizer used:https://romper...

Has transaction count become an unreliable measure of Bitcoin’s usage because of batching? Find out the answer to this and more thanks to the detailed analysis by coinmetrics.io and hasufly. Check out the full article for the large number of excellent visuals and graphs included:https://medium.com/hasufl/an-analysis-of-batching-in-bitcoin-9bdf81a394e0 Be sure to follow Coinmetrics.io and keep them...

If you are curious of the foundations of thought that ultimately led to the creation of the Bitcoin system, Nick Szabo is absolutely the one to read. Listen to Szabo’s “Trusted Third Parties and Security Holes” from 2001 @nakamotoinstitute Check out the full article and other works at the nakamoto institute as well as to explore the links to dig deeper into the discussion: https://nakamotoinstitut...

Channel balances, gateway routing nodes, non-advertised channels, buffer capital, source routing, onion routing, bridge channels, and atomic multi-path payments. Take a dive into the tech behind Lightning routing with Bryan Vu and the Lightning Labs Blog. Don't forget to check out the full article to see the graphics and explore other great work over at the Lightning Labs Blog:https://blog.lightni...

"the supposedly naive crypto-anarchists types may be the only ones actually grounded in reality, while the supposedly pragmatic, business-oriented, “it’s about the technology, stupid” crowd may prove to be hopelessly confused." Another great article brought to us by Daniel Goldman on the Abacus Crypto Journal exploring the real value of blockchains:https://blog.theabacus.io/what-we-talk-about-when...

“These prospects have stirred a hive mind of dreamers and fueled an unprecedented bout of economic speculation. We don't know where it's headed. But we sense something profound is afoot…” Don't forget to check out the full article at CoinDesk as well as @mikejcasey's other works:https://www.coindesk.com/amid-chaos-decentralized-future-built/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify....