This episode will be part review, and part just going over some very practical, step by step ways to think... more

"Ark is a trustless, distinct layer two protocol with unilateral exit. ASPs cannot steal users’ funds or link senders &... more

"an unbounded number of assets can be minted and/or moved in a single on-chain transaction. This off-chain first design enables... more

Welcome to the first episode of AI Unchained, a new show exploring how AI technology can be a means of... more

"Permission can only be denied if it is requested. Direct, peer-to-peer interaction obviates permission and equalizes market power. Don’t request... more

"The biggest complaint members of my audience make about Nostr is the sheer dominance of Bitcoin content. This is understandable. Nostr uses... more

"Bitcoin transaction fees limit network abuse by making usage expensive. There is a cost to every transaction, set by a... more

"This very dominance is causing certain countries to seek a way to be less dependent on the USD and the... more

"The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin Core’s GitHub repository tends to come up on a recurring... more

Bitcoin is a public good. The maintenance and stewardship of the network rests on the conviction and work of 10s... more

"The fall of First Republic Bank was the second-largest bank failure by assets in US history, putting us in the... more

"If Tor is an anonymous remailer, meaning a protocol facilitating the anonymous forwarding and receiving of messages between peers, Nostr... more

"Banks are highly regulated public-private partnerships in an environment where new charters are excruciatingly hard to obtain, and as such... more

"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that i hear once in a while: "Why do... more

"Central Banking is successful alchemy in this sense. The money- issuing institutions of the world have found a way to... more

"I believe that in the open /attention/ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation,... more

"Can you imagine a world in which you are restricted from buying meat for a while because you have already... more

The Lightning Network finally strikes in this Bitcoin Basics episode! Now that we understand the fundamentals of keys, wallets, transactions,... more

"This was how more mainstream Bitcoin culture degraded from intellectual expressions of ideas (2017-era debates) to tribal recreations of the... more

"“In the old days they didn’t even use tables and chairs. They sat on beer crates and ate off the... more

"Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a... more

"Generally, what we’re talking about here is unregulated (or lightly regulated), uninsured investors, LLCs, Funds and privately controlled “Shadow Banking”... more

Prices are relative, Bitcoin is infinitely scalable, stability for the sake of stability is undesirable, maximal instability in prices maximizes... more

"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is... more

"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same... more

Bitcoin is ultimately just a piece of software, the network – the global, censorship resistant, immutable system – is ultimately... more

"The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further,... more

"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can... more

I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade... more

There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution,... more