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Read_396 - Crypto is Modern Alchemy [Meltem Demirors] May 21, 2020

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"Early alchemy was concerned with purifying and perfecting certain materials, such as transmuting base metals like lead into noble metals like gold, creating an elixir of immortality, or creating panaceas to cure any disease." - Meltem Demirors

How should we observe the "crypto" industry as a whole, and what, if anything, can we learn from the enormous ocean of altcoins that could find a useful application in the future of cryptography and networking systems? Meltem gives a very interesting analogy on how to look at the results of the "crypto" industry and a useful perspective in considering what we to bring with us, and what to leave behind.

Check the original plus a ton of other great writing from Meltem at her blog "Meltem's Musings":https://meltdem.substack.com/p/crypto-is-modern-alchemy

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Read_395 - The Bitcoin v Govt War is Vaporware [Jesse Lawler] May 20, 2020

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"The world’s national currencies will offer Bitcoin only a sputtering resistance — more in word than deed — and they’ll dwindle into irrelevance as their defenders fail to defend, their battlements go unmanned, and the central banks’ centers will not hold." - Jesse Lawler

Are we doomed for a massive battle between the monetary giants. The Federal Reserve and global powers pitted against the decentralized Bitcoin system? Or will Goliath simply fizzle out as the central banks fail to organize, find their personal interest at odds with institutional interest, and Bitcoin proves to be too distributed to even fight?

Sci-Fi dystopia and a cypherpunk war, or no? A great, fun piece by Jesse Lawler, host of the Smart Drugs Smart podcast and fellow Crew member of the show, writes a really interesting piece on the potential conflicts, or lack thereof, in Bitcoin's future.

Check him out on twitter with the tag @Lawlerpalooza and drop some applause on this article below:
https://medium.com/@Lawlerpalooza/bitcoin-vs-government-b324fefd3e1a

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Chat_38 - Unhashing New Tech with Ruben Somsen May 18, 2020

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Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a ton of awesome technical exploration & how they can be directed toward a scalable and efficient future for Bitcoin.

Check out Ruben on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SomsenRuben
Explore his various proposals further:
https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c9f0a92493e06b0e29acced61ca9f49a
Listen to him and the gang talk Bitcoin on the Unhashed Podcast:
https://www.unhashedpodcast.com/

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Read_394 - Blockstream Satellite 2.0 [Adam Back, Chris Cook] May 15, 2020

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Full nodes without even needing the internet? That's right. A massive improvement to the decentralization & alternatives for securing Bitcoin validation infrastructure just dropped from the team at Blockstream.

Announcing Blockstream Satellite 2.0! Check out the original with links to pre-order the kits if interested:
https://blockstream.com/2020/05/04/en-announcing-blockstream-satellite-2/

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https://twitter.com/adam3us
https://twitter.com/Blockstream

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Read_393 - The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis [Phil Bonello] May 14, 2020

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"Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology." - Phil Bonello

With the foundations of the our societal structures shifting, and the core dynamics of violent organization under flux, how do we anticipate the changes in the future? Looking at the investment thesis through the lens of “The Sovereign Individual” with an incredible article from Phil Bonello.

Check out the original article at the link below, plus a lot of other great work on his blog:
https://philjbonello.substack.com/p/the-sovereign-individual-investment

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Read_000 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper [Satoshi Nakamoto] May 12, 2020

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"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." - Satoshi Nakamoto

To kick off the Third epoch in Bitcoin we are officially rebranding to Bitcoin Audible, and beginning with the historic Whitepaper by Satoshi himself, revealing this incredible system to the world. Solving the Byzantine General's problem, a breakthrough in consensus, a structureless, distributed monetary system incentivizing cooperation and truth. The Whitepaper is the earliest window into a groundbreaking network that already has, and will continue, to change the world.

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Original is found here: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

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Chat_37 - Inevitability of Bitcoin with Parker Lewis May 11, 2020

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Finally got the incredible author of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series on the show to have a chat about the nature of Bitcoin, how it so widely misunderstood, and the most important change it will bring about. Parker Lewis and I had an awesome chat and you don't want to miss it.

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Read_392 - Economics of the Bitcoin Halving [Dominik Stroukal] May 09, 2020

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"In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further." - Dominik Stroukal

Because I love discussion of markets, prices, and the EMH, I couldn't avoid one last article before the halving arrives. With another interesting take from the SatoshiLabs blog from first time on the show author, Diminik Stroukal, we get a breakdown of how to think about the halving, the stock to flow model, and predicting the future of Bitcoin.

Plus, an unavoidable Guy's Rant to follow - Don't miss it!

Check out the original and drop some applause below:
https://blog.trezor.io/the-economics-of-halving-what-will-happen-to-the-price-dab6df11755a
Efficient Market Hypothesis [Nic Carter]
https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_343---Introduction-to-the-Efficient-Market-Hypothesis-for-Bitcoiners-Nic-Carter-eac03b

Stock to Flow and the EMH [PlanB]
https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_344---Efficient-Markets--Bitcoins-Stock-to-Flow-PlanB-eaco0i

The Halving is NOT priced in [Guy's Take]
https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/GuysTake_026---The-Halving-is-Not-Priced-in--Heres-Why-eagkrd

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Read_391 - Gold & Economic Freedom [Greenspan] May 06, 2020

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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold." - Alan Greenspan

Who would've guessed that the most succinct explanation of exactly how Greenspan caused an unsustainable credit bubble in the 90s, resulting in an inevitable economic collapse, would've come from Greenspan himself, almost 30 years earlier? Today we read a piece that was a major factor during my early years of discovering the Austrian theory and the importance of sound money. Greenspan's "Gold and Economic Freedom."

Check out the original at constitution.org:
https://www.constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm

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Read_390 - Bitcoin is Common Sense [Parker Lewis] May 04, 2020

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"It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does nothing to generate economic activity; it only shifts the balance of powers as to who allocates the money and prices risk. It strips power from the people and centralizes it to the government." - Parker Lewis

If you were worried that the previous installment of the Gradually, Then Suddenly Series was its conclusion, then you will not want to miss today’s read. Parker is back with another bomb to drop on the unavoidable reality of our times. It is a simple and irrefutable common sense, that money which one individual must fight and labor to obtain voluntarily, and which is simultaneously created at zero cost by any other institution or person, grants no advantage to the former.

Bitcoin is 21 million, and the realization that a scarce money is a better money for every individual, and more fair for society, will be self-actualizing. It requires nothing more than the persistence of the human desire for self-preservation. A huge thanks to Parker Lewis and Unchained Capital for this piece.

The original, with links and charts demonstrating his argument, plus the entire incredible series is available at the link below:
https://unchained-capital.com/blog/bitcoin-is-common-sense/

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