Read_577 – The End of Super Imperialism [Alex Gladstein]
“Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system, but enforced without military occupation. “This was,” he writes, “something never before accomplished by any nation in history.” – Alex Gladstein
Another banger from Gladstein this week that follows Michael Hudson’s work, Super Imperialism from the 1970s, critiquing and laying out the framework of power resulting from a global reserve system backed by American debt. Was he just a cynic, or was there a thread of truth in his warnings of the dangers of the global dollar system and the resulting dynamics of international power. Don’t miss another great piece from Gladstein!
Check out the original with many links for further exploring the pieces discussed. Plus the many other great works by Gladstein and Bitcoin Magazine:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-replacing-us-super-imperialism
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Chat #64 – Greg Foss & Preston Pysh on Bitcoin & the Bond Blowup
Today we have an incredible conversation with Preston Pysh and Greg Foss on the Bond markets, the shifting sands of the global financial world, and the incredible impact that Bitcoin will have on our future direction and the outcome of these crazy times. You don’t want to miss this one guys, so dive right in.
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https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh
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Read_576 – Bitcoin Changes Our Perception of Money [Mike Hobart]
“The passage of time is one thing that we can never get back. Once it has been spent, there’s no refund. Time is the ultimate currency, forever passing without the ability to return to a prior moment: ever passing, ever spent, ultimately and unequivocally finite.” – Mike Hobart
The mainstream ignorance of money is ubiquitous. But Bitcoin forces one to rethink everything they thought they knew. By Making a pure, independent monetary medium, we are forced to question all the fallacies and loosely held untruths about money that we have never challenged before. Mike Hobart brings us a short, but excellent little piece on the fallacies of money, and why Bitcoin forces them to change.
Check out the original and other works by the author below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-changes-perception-of-money
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Read_575 – Wonder if Bitcoin is Alien Technology? [Tomer Strolight]
“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting, self-governing, and ever-lasting. But nobody has engineered anything to do even one of these, and then along comes Bitcoin and does them all” – Tomer Strolight
Bitcoin isn’t merely a new innovation in the world of tech, its a wholly unique system that behaves so differently from everything today, the social, the engineering, and the organic systems that we are accustomed to, that one could easily find themselves wondering whether it makes more sense that Bitcoin is an alien technology. Maybe we know that it isn’t, but it is certainly hard to learn about Bitcoin without once pausing to wonder…
check out this piece plus tons of other great work from Tomer below:
https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/why-people-wonder-if-bitcoin-is-alien-technology-f9fda5b018b
Mentioned in the episode for further reading/exploring:
Brandon Quittem’s Mycelium Series
Part 1 – https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-decentralized-organism/
Part 2 – https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_224—Bitcoin-is-a-Social-Creature–Mycelium-Part-2-e3iq3u
Part 3 – https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-the-antivirus/
Part 4 – https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-catalyst-for-human-evolution/
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rnqst5qCgA
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Read_574 – Lightning & The Internet – Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld]
“We’re revolutionaries. There’s no reason to be coy about it. Our goal is to replace fiat with bitcoin. “Disruption” is almost a quaint term for a change of the magnitude we’re bringing about. We’re taking power from institutions and transferring it to individuals by giving them control of the value they generate in their lives.” – Roy Sheinfeld
We are at a crossroads and Lightning has an extremely difficult and important task. Do we go with the Lightning expansionists, using this decentralized network to embed every single byte of data into our messages and routing them across our nodes to take all that is the internet and redesign it to work on Lightning? Or do we keep lighting simple, focused, and optimized for the best, most robust decentralized payments network in the world? Choosing the right path, by Roy Sheinfeld.
Drop some applause on the original at:
https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-the-internet-choosing-the-right-path-bedfa6382316
For more digging into the philosophy & thinking behind this from the Guy’s Take, here are the other episodes mentioned:
Simon Morris: Lessons of Bittorrent
https://bitcoinaudible.com/why-bittorrent-mattered-lessons-for-crypto-1-of-4/
Szabo: Minimizing Consumer Worry
https://bitcoinaudible.com/estimating-and-minimizing-consumer-worry/
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Read_573 – Why You Cant Have a PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin [Hass McCook]
“Freedom, transparency, honesty, meritocracy, fairness, voluntaryism and hard work are great things one should strive toward, whether it is in developing money or living life and setting a good example for others.”
– Hass McCook
Today we dive into another great piece from Hass on the show, posted with Bitcoin Magazine on the broad disciplines around the Bitcoin technology. And how deeply tied it is to the understanding and study of social phenomena. How could one pretend to understand the social sciences, politics, philosophy, governance, ethics, & economics, without studying Bitcoin? Hass argues that one simply cannot. Don’t miss today’s read
Check out the original article and links for diving in further below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/you-cant-have-ppe-curriculum-without-bitcoin
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Read_572 – Bitcoin & the US Fiscal Reckoning [Avik Roy]
“It is understandably difficult for most of us to imagine a monetary world aside from the one in which we’ve lived for generations. After all, the U.S. dollar has served as the world’s leading reserve currency since 1919, when Britain was forced off the gold standard. There are only a handful of people living who might recall what the world was like before then.
Nevertheless, change is coming.” – Avik Roy
The fiscal promiscuity of the United States is reaching its end. The bill for the 50 year party and bull market in US treasury bonds is coming to an end. But everything might not be as bleak as it seems, with Bitcoin incentivizing a return to sound money, and providing a global, neutral place to secure wealth, our current disaster could be an amazing opportunity. Don’t miss an incredible piece from Avik Roy, on “Bitcoin and the US Fiscal Reckoning.”
Check out the original on National Affairs at the link below:
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/bitcoin-and-the-us-fiscal-reckoning
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Read_571 – The Quest For Digital Cash [Alex Gladstein]
“The fight that the cypherpunks mounted was one of the main reasons that the U.S. government lost the Crypto Wars. The authorities tried to stop the code and failed.
This realization would loom large in Back’s mind 15 years later, in the summer of 2008, as he worked through that first email from Nakamoto.” – Alex Gladstein
Today we are reading an incredible article about the decades long quest of the cypherpunks, and the enormous contributions from Adam Back in that journey, to create digital cash. Another brilliant piece by Alex Gladstein and published on the Bitcoin Magazine. The Holy Grail of the cypherpunk mission is here, succeeding more every day and working its way into the psyche of every citizen in the world. But where did it arise, from what philosophy was it borne, and who were the players that made this possible today? All this and more in today’s amazing piece.
Check out the original article at the link below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-adam-back-and-digital-cash
If you are new to Bitcoin and want to go deeper into the economics and concepts that shed light on the Bitcoin system, I suggest starting with Guy’s Take #44 – Bitcoin Is Not What You Think It Is
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Chat #63 – Hashing it Out with Harry Sudock
“Nodes are the law, and miners are the muscle.”
– Harry Sudock
Harry Sudock, Vice President of Strategy at Griid, and I have a chat about the challenges of energy production, grid capacity, and the energy infrastructure and how so many can be addressed by the incredible opportunity of Bitcoin mining. How and why are energy production and the Bitcoin network merging together, and what does this mean for the future?
Don’t forget to check out Harry on twitter, and explore the other shows he has been on discussing more on this topic:
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/harry-sudock
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Read_570 – Unpacking the Great Hashrate Migration [Nic Carter]
“The precise magnitude and schedule for the westward move is currently unknown, but all signals seem to be indicating the greatest shakeup in the geographic makeup of bitcoin mining since the start of the industrial mining era.” – Nic Carter
Today we cover an article about the largest shift in mining infrastructure the Bitcoin network has ever seen. What does it mean for Bitcoin, for the Us, and for China, and what might be the reasons for this blanket move by the CCP? Find out in today’s read from Nic Carter.
Check out the original article below:
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/06/22/go-west-bitcoin-unpacking-the-great-hashrate-migration/
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Read_569 – Calculating the Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin [Greg Foss]
“Wake up people, this is not a drill. Contagion risks are increasing due to potential global stagflation… The intrinsic value of BTC has increased from the beginning of this year when I originally calculated the value to be over $150,000 per coin.” – Greg Foss
If we removed the global payments network, we removed the hardest monetary unit in the world, we took out the programmability, and wanted to focus entirely on a key value proposition of Bitcoin – that it is a money external to the fiat structure, and therefore one of the only things that could act as insurance to its default, say a “credit default swap” on the fiat system… how could we calculate it’s worth? Greg Foss brings us an excellent piece on Bitcoin Magazine, don’t miss it.
Link to the original here, as well as his far more through paper on Fixed Income investors and Bitcoin:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-value-in-credit-default-swaps
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Read_568 – The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Bitcoin [Bradley Rettler]
“Using Bitcoin can level the playing field for the world’s poor as we work toward economic justice.”
– Bradley Rettler
Author Bradley Rettler returns in today’s read with a concise piece on the nature of our systemic problems of economic inequality, their unjust cause, and why Bitcoin is the key to leveling the playing field.
Check out the original article at the link below:
https://iai.tv/articles/the-rich-get-richer-the-poor-get-bitcoin-auid-1766
And for Rettler’s other work in audio on the podcast, check out Read 544 – Another Way to Think of Bitcoin’s Value, linked here:
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