Another awesome post on the Lightning Labs blog, this time breaking down Alice’s search for privacy and a great mobile user experience with Bitcoin. Neutrino might be the solution she has been waiting for! Listen to find out more. Check out the blog for other information and details on the lnd and desktop wallets! Plus if you aren't following the accounts below on Twitter you are missing out:Neutrino: The Lighter Side of LightningBryan Vu @bvuLightning LabsOlaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef Support th...
Oct 18, 2018•26 min
Lightning is slowly coming into its own. With simple working wallets, and dedicated plug-and-play nodes around the corner, its time to talk about the #LightningNetwork apps that I think could make waves in the early days. Listen to this "Guy's Take" episode to find out more! Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donate To:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/me...
Oct 17, 2018•28 min
“this system of prices is not an organized institution or structure that was created by any single person’s design. It was simply a natural consequence of trade between people even before money in a barter economy.” - Hayek A short article from FEE.org introducing the workings of the market price system by Jacob Dowell. Links to the article and other great works to dig deeper into this topic of study:How Prices Keep Us From Squandering ResourcesJacob Dowell's pageHuman Action on Mises.orgRobert ...
Oct 16, 2018•29 min
Today we read “Strong Federations, Foundation of Liquid, Whitepaper Release,” on Blockstream.com & take a deep dive all about the system that secures the operation of @Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain. If you want to know more about Liquid, don’t miss this episode! Check out the official @Blockstream page for more details and the Whitepaper on Strong Federations to dig even deeper into the processes involved in securing the first production #Bitcoin sidechain:https://blockstream.com/2017/01/16...
Oct 12, 2018•57 min
Blockstream's Liquid, a federated, production sidechain, has officially launched with exchanges accounting for more than half of the global Bitcoin exchange volume! In today's episode we read and expand on the official announcement from the Blockstream Blog, as well as dive into what it could mean with a short Twitter thread from @LucasNuzzi. Don't miss a fun episode. Check out and follow the official @Blockstream Blog and @Excellion to stay up on their incredible work:https://blockstream.com/20...
Oct 11, 2018•29 min
Privacy isn’t just about being safe and keeping our data secure, its also a deeply fundamental aspect of being human. The unconscious pressures from being endlessly surveilled create a cage for our minds, killing creativity and expression in place of social conformity and obedience. Today we read Alex Hardy’s article “Why Privacy Matters"https://proofoftake.substack.com/p/why-privacy-matters-proof-of-take-006https://twitter.com/CantHardyWait Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with T...
Oct 10, 2018•26 min
The Bitcoin Optech Newsletter takes a break from their usual technical foray to summarize and discuss the amazing new proposals and technology at the Scaling Bitcoin Conference in Tokyo. Don't miss the awesome stuff in today's episode. Don't forget to join the Newsletter to stay up to date on the awesome work Bitcoin Optech is doing, and follow them on Twitter:https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/10/09/https://twitter.com/bitcoinoptech Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with T...
Oct 09, 2018•40 min
Would you give up $1,000,000 in Bitcoin today, to guarantee its success and that our future was one of sound, decentralized money? My answer would have to be 'yes,' and here's why. Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donate To:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message
Oct 08, 2018•26 min
“Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.” - Eric Hughes Required reading for anyone entering and exploring the Cryptoconomy. If you are looking for the ideas that brought this technology to life and started a movement, and now a technological revolution. Here is Eric Hughes' declaration of intent, A Cypherpunk'...
Oct 05, 2018•12 min
“Although there was never complete agreement on any one thing, this was an open forum where personal privacy and personal liberty were ultimately placed above all other considerations.” -@PetriB2 Check out Petri's work and follow him on Medium and Twitter (and drop some appluase for this article) at the links below:https://medium.com/swlh/the-untold-history-of-bitcoin-enter-the-cypherpunks-f764dee962a1https://medium.com/@Petri.basson/https://twitter.com/PetriB2 Support the show:Looking to Secure...
Oct 04, 2018•18 min
“I have always believed that to really understand something and where it is going, you have to understand where it came from.” -@PetriB2 Today we read the first of Petri's short series on the untold history of Bitcoin and the blockchain. Plus, my experiences with Bittorrent and first discovering Bitcoin. Check out the full article and his other work on his LinkedIn and/or his medium page:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/untold-history-blockchain-petri-basson/https://medium.com/@Petri.basson/the-un...
Oct 03, 2018•30 min
“The dissent did not come in the form of a parchment scrawled with a feathery pen or an assembly of diplomats, but in the form of the Blockade Runner. These ships were built for two things: speed and capacity, in that order.” -@CarCampIt Check out the full article here:https://www.blockdelta.io/bitcoin-blockade-runner-of-the-information-age/ Follow him on Twitter and don't forget to check out the Friends Against Government Podcast:https://twitter.com/CarCampIthttps://friendsagainstgovernment.pod...
Sep 28, 2018•19 min
"Numbers generated by such a process are deterministic, but they pass statistical tests of what is considered “random”. Pseudorandomness, in turn, became one of the building blocks of a brand new field — also a child of the computer age: modern cryptography.” - Hugo Nguyen Check out Part 2 on Hugo's article series and drop some appluase for the excellent work:https://medium.com/@hugonguyen/bitcoin-chance-and-randomness-ba49a6edf933 Follow him on Twitter and Medium:https://twitter.com/hugohanoiht...
Sep 27, 2018•20 min
“By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world… In other words, PoW is the bridge between the digital & the physical.” - Hugo Nguyen Today we read Part 1 of Hugo Nguyen's series on Bitcoin's Fundamentals.Drop some applause on the full article and follow Hugo on Medium and Twitter:https://bitcointechtalk.com/the-anatomy-of-proof-of-work-98c85b6f6667https://twitter.com/hugohanoi Support the show:Looking to Secure you...
Sep 26, 2018•15 min
“The BCB enforces the strictest deposit regulations in the world by requiring full reserves for all accounts. This is the digital equivalent of the Chicago Plan or the Austrian 100% reserve gold standard.” -Pierre Rochard Looking for every significant piece of literature on Bitcoin, Cryptography, and the Cypherpunks? You can find pretty much all of it at the Nakamoto Institute:https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-bitcoin-central-banks-perfect-monetary-policy/ Follow Pierre Rochard on Twitte...
Sep 25, 2018•19 min
Autopilot, Channel Names, Verify from Scratch, Node Nicknames and more. Hear about the features in the new Casa Bitcoin and Lightning node! Check out the full article and follow @CasaHODL on Medium and Twitter so you don't miss the other incredible things the team is building:https://medium.com/casa/features-of-the-casa-node-884f702e2164 Check out the Cases Store and get your own Lightning Node!https://store.casa/ Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affilia...
Sep 24, 2018•25 min
"The Cryptopocalypse is coming — Bitcoin’s (PoW) is so bad that it’s going to destroy the world in 2020!" -DanHeld Is Bitcoin's energy consumption going to destroy the world... or not?Clap for the article on Den Held's Medium page:https://medium.com/@danhedl/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3 Check him out on Twitter:https://twitter.com/danheld Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donate To:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice ...
Sep 21, 2018•29 min
“No equation, no chart in this fourth part. Just a short discussion about the total cost of Bitcoin’s PoW. It will offer us the opportunity to introduce another fundamental property of PoW which makes it truly unique.” -LaurentMT Check out the full series (and drop some applause) plus other amazing work from @LaurentMT on his Medium page:https://medium.com/@laurentmt/electric-money-e2cd34f78f56 Follow @LaurentMT on Twitter:https://twitter.com/LaurentMT Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bit...
Sep 20, 2018•20 min
“In this third part, we’re going to focus on a slightly different question: “Is the system running at its optimum?” -LaurentMT Check out the full article to explore the charts and graphics illustrating his arguments and metrics (and don't forget to drop applause for the excellent work):https://medium.com/@laurentmt/cliffhangers-cb87ed47124e Follow @LaurentMT on Twitter:https://twitter.com/LaurentMT Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donat...
Sep 19, 2018•19 min
Listen to @Laurentmt's article explaining how the Yin and Yang of Bitcoin, Hodling & Mining, affect the efficiency of the system and how they drive the system's dynamics. Don't forget to drop some applause on the article and check out the author's other awesome work here:https://medium.com/@laurentmt/the-yin-and-yang-of-bitcoin-bf056f3fd58c Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donate To:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a v...
Sep 18, 2018•36 min
“At last, we have derived two metrics which both suggest that contrary to a widespread opinion, Bitcoin’s PoW is actually becoming more and more efficient.” -@Laurentmt Listen to Part 1 of @Laurentmt’s excellent series introducing the fundamental characteristics and value proposition of Bitcoin’s POW function. Don't forget to drop some applause on the article and check out the author;s other awesome work here:https://medium.com/@laurentmt/gravity-10e1a25d2ab2 Support the show:Looking to Secure y...
Sep 17, 2018•37 min
“If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography.” -Phil Zimmerman Explore this article & the immense collection of other works at the Nakamoto Institute:https://nakamotoinstitute.org/why-i-wrote-pgp/ Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donate To:3Nn8jJSfK2oF...
Sep 14, 2018•28 min
Building applications, expanding alternative media, software is eating the world, what's inside the ICOs & altcoins, the future of Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the revolution this technology could bring! Don’t miss our chat with @TheOneVortex!Check out the incredible work he & others are doing to expand access and development in the #Bitcoin space:http://theonevortex.com/https://programmingwithbitcoin.com/http://www.cryptocast.network/ Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitco...
Sep 13, 2018•1 hr 15 min
“Ever since its inception Bitcoin has never really been private…. Fortunately, spying on Bitcoin users is becoming increasingly difficult.” - Aaron Van Wirdum Listen to another great read on Bitcoin Magazine about the amazing tech available today, and yet to come that will make #Bitcoin the true PrivacyCoin of the future. Check out the article and explore the many links on Bitcoin Magazine here:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-privacycoin-tech-making-bitcoin-more-private/ Don't forge...
Sep 12, 2018•32 min
“To borrow from Nick Szabo, Bitcoin is a socially scalable, conflict preventing protocol.” - Tuur Demeester Today we read an excellent Tweet Storm from Tuur Demeester about #Bitcoin and what makes it a true monetary revolution. Check out the full post here:https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1009825254024335361 Don't forget to also follow:https://twitter.com/real_vijayhttps://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link O...
Sep 11, 2018•30 min
"You’ve heard of Bitcoin. You do not like it... It relies on curious, antiquated ideas like sound money, peer-to-peer networking, the abolition of seignorage, and censorship-resistance. It is profoundly distasteful." -nic carter Don't waste anymore time trying to decide which criticism of Bitcoin to write about and outsource it with the Bitcoin FUD dice! A fun piece from Nic that holds a painful degree of truth. Check out the shop to buy your own FUD dice using #Lightning payments:FUDdice.shop A...
Sep 10, 2018•20 min
"The Third Era will start with civil war" -Rusty Russell The future economic reality of the Bitcoin ecosystem has been hard-coded into the consensus since the very first block. The inevitable pains that the future will bring should not surprise us. Listen to Rusty Russell's discussion of Bitcoin's three economic eras. Check out the full article and lengthy list of footnotes for clarifications and further reading:https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-three-economic-eras-of-bitcoin-d43bf0cf058aF...
Sep 07, 2018•26 min
“We shouldn't make full nodes harder to run, EVER” -@giacomozucco Listen to the tweet storm laying out exactly why a responsible #Bitcoin maximalist should hold this view in today’s #CryptoQuikRead! See the original Tweet storm and Follow Giacomo Zucco below:https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1009281116837175296 Support the show:Looking to Secure your Bitcoin with TREZOR?Shop.Trezor.io Affiliate Link Or Donate To:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcas...
Sep 06, 2018•32 min
The infrastructure and businesses in the Cryptoconomy are set to have a massive shift in the coming months. The #Bitcoin ecosystem may be difficult to recognize in the near future. that makes it critical not to forget the lessons our short but eventful history has taught us so far. Today we read Jimmy Song’s article on Segwit2x, and how industry leaders almost killed Bitcoin.Drop applause on the original article and explore further reading on this by checking it out on Medium:https://bitcointech...
Sep 05, 2018•23 min
Hashing out all the major pain points, who to trust, building your filter, and where to start when it comes to learning everything about Bitcoin today! Don't miss a fun chat with @CitizenBitcoin. Check out the podcast over at:https://citizenbitcoin.world/ The exciting developments I shared from the intro can be found here:https://medium.com/casa/announcing-the-casa-lightning-node-596df7a7427https://store.casa/lightning-node [Store]https://t.me/SamouraiWallet [Telegram]https://samouraiwallet.com/...
Sep 04, 2018•1 hr 2 min
