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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Read_567 – Revenge of the Nodes – Part 2 – 21st Century Autonomy [Aaron Segal]
“Not only is the world experiencing greater dispersion of outcomes, it is also changing at an increasingly faster pace. Raw data is pouring torrentially down upon us, overwhelming our neural capacity more each day. We are confused, overwhelmed and looking for anchors, answers, and authority.” – Aaron Segal
Continuing with Part 2 of yesterday’s amazing Bitcoin Magazine piece on the major trends of today, the inevitably of the race to zero volatility, the incentives that will lead to infinite fragility, and why the only correction must come from outside the system. The only external force to an ever centralizing system, is one of complete decentralization. This is part 2 of a 2 part read, don’t forget to listen to Part 1 before diving in.
Check out the original at the link below, with tons of excellent data and graphics accompanying it that help give the magnitude of the situation we find ourselves in:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-is-driving-autonomy-over-authority
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Read_566 – Revenge of the Nodes – Part 1 – 20th Century Authoritarianism… [Aaron Segal]
“The individual investor is professionalizing at the end of one of the biggest, most Homeric blow-out parties of all time. Forgive the cliched baseball metaphor, but this is like a player being called up from the minor leagues right before the off-season, after a seven-game dramatic World Series finale.” – Aaron Segal
An incredible piece today from Bitcoin Magazine on the major trends of today, the growing and centralization of all markets, and the fall of freed markets to the 20th century institutions of authority. This is part 1 of 2 in a brilliant perspective on the state of the world and economy, and where Bitcoin fits into it all.
Check out the original at the link below, with tons of excellent data and graphics accompanying it that help give the magnitude of the situation we find ourselves in:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-is-driving-autonomy-over-authority
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Only the Strong Survive – Full Audio
“In this piece we discuss our concerns around the broader “crypto” space beyond Bitcoin. Our arguments revolve around three primary themes: Philosophical, Technical, and Economic. From a philosophical perspective, we discuss the core properties that make Bitcoin work and that make it unique, in our view. From a technical perspective, we evaluate how these properties are lacking to a greater or lesser extent in alternative “cryptoassets,” having been designed out again on questionable philosophical justifications. From an economic perspective, we walkthrough our concerns that “crypto” has not shown a path to establishing a basis for justifiable real-world value, explain why we believe this would be very difficult to ever accomplish, and suggest therefore that their technical flaws are especially vulnerable. Given the complexity of the task we have set ourselves, this piece is intended to bring our arguments into long form and provide a discussion base for good faith disagreement.” – Allen Farrington & Big Al
Section Summaries:
Part 1 – The Innovation From First Principles
Part 2 – Crypto is Not Decentralized
Part 3 – Crypto is Not Finance
Part 4 – The “Investment” Rationale
Part 5 – Layered Architecture and Gall’s Law
Part 6 – Why We Might Be Wrong
Find the original work and further details in the appendices here: https://www.uncerto.com/only-the-strong-survive
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Read_565 – Isaiah’s Job [Albert Jay Nock]
“The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these principles, and by force of character are able, at least measurably, to cleave to them. The masses are those who are unable to do either.” – Albert Jay Nock
Today we read an incredible piece posted in the Atlantic Monthly nearly a century ago, in 1936. Libertarian author Albert Jay Nock explains the nature of the masses, and of the Remnant. Why Isaiah the profit knew his message would not be received by the masses, why they did not have the force of character to live by it, & why it wouldn’t stop the ultimate collapse of society, but despite this, his message would serve the Remnant, and they would be those who built the world back from the rubble.
Check out the original at the link below, and explore other works by Albert Jay Nock
https://mises.org/library/isaiahs-job
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Read_564 – Only the Strong Survive – Part 3 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]
“As Gall’s Law suggests, we believe the general principle favoring Bitcoin’s layered architecture is not one of software engineering so much as engineering entirely in general, yet as elegantly applied to software.” – Only the Strong Survive
Listen to Part 1 if you haven’t yet! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSN7556187630.mp3?updated=1632359979
Part 2 https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSN8589484720.mp3?updated=1632533362
Completing our journey through the incredible piece from Allen Farrington & Big Al, “Only the Strong Survive” with Part 3. Why “Crypto” is a violation of Gall’s Law, a fundamental philosophy of engineering all complex ecosystems and institutions, and why it’s very likely all that is actually valuable in Crypto, is likely to find its way on top of Bitcoin. Don’t miss the epic conclusion of “Only The Strong Survive.”
Follow Allen and Big Al for some top notch twitter experience and tons of other great work. Find more of their writing by exploring the audio library at BitcoinAudible.com
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