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Read_502 – LOT true or false? The Last Hurdle for Taproot [Aaron Van Wirdum]

“As a consensus system without central authority, Bitcoin protocol upgrades can be challenging. If one segment of the network upgrades to a new version of the protocol before another segment does, different nodes might enforce different rules, introducing the risk that the network fractures between them.” – Aaron Van Wirdum

Today’s read is from Aaron Van Wirdum at Bitcoin Magazine, an excellent writer who has so many brilliant breakdowns of the technical and historical elements of Bitcoin. Taproot is SO close, but there is a final debate, a final hurdle to tackle before we get to see it activated on the network, and that’s over how and when to turn on the switch.

LOT=true or LOT=false? This is the Last Hurdle Before Taproot Activation:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/lottrue-or-lotfalse-this-is-the-last-hurdle-before-taproot-activation
Check out the Bitcoin Audible Page for Aaron & his collection of amazing work:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?page_id=5204

Today’s Bitcoin Resource:
mempool.space

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Read_501 – The Capital Strip Mine [Allen Farrington]

“The most egregious falsehood regarding economic health that is nonetheless widely believed is surely that we ought to measure it by the magnitude of goods and services consumed. This is dangerous nonsense.” – Allen Farrington

How is it that we found ourselves in such a disastrous and unstable financial situation across the entire country, and even the entire world? How has the economic system been overtaken by exploiters, over consumption, and waste while completely lost touch with sustainable, thoughtful production and value? Laying out the whole picture in today’s article, we have the audio version of Allen Farrington’s “The Capital Strip Mine.”

Check out the original article and drop some applause at the link below:
The Capital Strip Mine:
https://allenfarrington.medium.com/the-capital-strip-mine-ec627e9fe40a

Other articles mentioned in today’s Guy’s Take:
Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5554

Today’s Bitcoin Resource:
https://bitcoinerjobs.co/

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Read_500 – Decentralization, Why Dumb Networks are Better [Andreas Antonopolous]

“The Internet’s protocol (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, or TCP/IP) doesn’t offer “services.” It doesn’t make decisions about content. It doesn’t distinguish between photos and text, video and audio. It doesn’t have a list of approved applications. It doesn’t even distinguish between client and server, user and host, or individual versus corporation. Every IP address is an equal peer.” – Andreas M. Antonopolous

Today we hit a great and classic essay by Andreas on the amazing FEE.org that hits on a key way to think about decentralized network, and a critical part of why they will innovate orders of magnitude more quickly than their centralized counterparts. The difference between “smart” networks and “dumb” networks, and why the dumb will also conquer. Bitcoin is the internet of money, and on read #500, hear Andreas explain why.

Check out the original article at the link below:
https://fee.org/articles/decentralization-why-dumb-networks-are-better/

Other great pieces mentioned in today’s show, along with the thread that includes numerous others for further journey down the rabbit hole:
Lightning Enables Unicast Transactions in Bitcoin:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=347
On Schelling Points, Network Effects, & Lindy:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=4504
Anil’s Amazing thread with 20 fundamental essay for understanding Bitcoin:
https://twitter.com/anilsaidso/status/1290758632238276609?s=20

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Read_499 – The Bitcoin Black Hole Effect [William Clemente]

“If the US Dollar really was to reach an uncontrollable level of inflation, a last move by the Fed may be to do this same trade on a Federal level by printing dollars to acquire Bitcoins to stack on their balance sheet. Only time will tell.” – William Clemente III

Today we read an excellent piece from bitrawr.com by William Clemente on the various feedback loops that could lead not only to the qualitative loss of trust in the fiat system, but a quantitative pull to earn a near risk-free position in the Bitcoin collateralized lending markets. Edited in part by Preston Pysh who has discussed this idea in greater depth, what happens when multiple feedback loops within the Bitcoin markets converge to make it an increasingly liquid, low risk, high yield asset? It creates a Bitcoin Black Hole.

The Bitcoin Black Hole Effect:
https://www.bitrawr.com/the-bitcoin-blackhole-effect

For other great articles and episode mentioned in this show, check out the links below:
Read 489 – The Cantillon Effect 2.0:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5678
Asset DNA – Speculative Attack:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5714
Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5554
The MacroVoices episode on Interest Rates:
https://www.macrovoices.com/946-macrovoices-259-louis-vincent-gave-as-inflationista-as-they-come

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Read_498 – Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? [Alex Gladstein]

“So far, it seems that when governments try to ban or restrict Bitcoin, it ends up merely accelerating the adoption of the currency inside their countries. Governments that have failed miserably with their Wars on Drugs may find stopping people from holding something that’s invisible, borderless, and teleporting much more difficult.” – Alex Gladstein

Today we read an amazing article from Quillette by returning author and brilliant Bitcoiner, Alex Gladstein. Can governments ban Bitcoin? Will they? Will this kill Bitcoin? Find out in an excellent walk through the many different potentialities of a government attack on Bitcoin, and why its likely that they all fail, or backfire in a major. Plus a 50 minute Guy’s Take on all the reasons Alex is potentially right, & what we can draw from Bitcoin’s history that informs this perspective.

Don’t forget to check out the article below, and follow Alex on Twitter:
https://quillette.com/2021/02/21/can-governments-stop-bitcoin/
https://twitter.com/gladstein

For other great episode on this topic and others related to it mentioned in the show:
Bitcoin Cannot be Banned [Parker Lewis]:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=3943
Bitcoin POW is a Decentralized Clock [Grisha]:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=4728
An Unstoppable Force [Guy’s Take]:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5450
The Sovereign Company Thesis [Ck Snarks]:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5521

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Chat #57 – Bitcoin History with Peter Todd, Brady Swenson, & Guy Swann on Swan Signal Live

“Peter Todd, a Bitcoin developer who has been around from the very beginning and even well before Bitcoin was released and Guy Swann who bought his first Bitcoin on Mt. Gox in early 2011, join us to dive into Bitcoin’s fascinating history.”

Today we get into a recent fun episode on Swan Signal where we take a little walk through Bitcoin’s history. For those new to Bitcoin this is a great discussion to get an idea of how we got to where we are, and the reason behind it.

Connect with Peter Todd:
https://twitter.com/peterktodd
https://petertodd.org

Connect with Brady Swenson:
https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin
https://citizenbitcoin.world/

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Read_497 – Bitcoin is Venice [Allen Farrington]

“Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?” – Allen Farrington

Today’s amazing read simply needs to be listened to. Bitcoin is Venice, a continuation of the Wittgenstein’s Money series from Allen F. Don’t forget to follow Allen on Twitter & Medium.

Check out the original article below to drop applause and check out Allen’s other amazing work:
https://allenfarrington.medium.com/bitcoin-is-venice-8414dda42070

Audio for his other recent piece, Wittgenstein’s Money (And other article mentioned in the show) can be found below:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5659
Follow up to Wittgenstein’s Money – Guy’s Take #40:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5661
Bitcoin is Worse is Better:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=3491
Walking Tall – Guy’s Take #36:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=4933
Hayek’s Use of Knowledge in Society:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=2902

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Read_496 – Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This [Casey]

“When we begin to value things in bitcoin, we can find their legitimate value, as bitcoin is the most legitimately-valued money. There are no manipulations of supply, or buybacks, or quantitative easing or laws protecting value — only direct valuation.” – Casey
Bitcoin may appear volatile, but how does it make sense to measure the volatility of an asset with extremely stable & predictable supply, in an asset who’s supply is horrifically volatile & unpredictable? What happens when we turn that image on its head, and start pricing the world in Bitcoin, the hardest monetary asset in the world? Today’s episode is all about it, with Casey’s Bitcoin Magazine article: “Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This.”
Check out the original article by Casey and so much more at Bitcoin Magazine with the link below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/stocks-dont-truly-discover-price-bitcoin-fixes-this
Huge thank you to the LTBNetwork & Bitcoin Magazine for being such an incredible resource for the Bitcoin ecosystem!
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Read_495 – An Economic Analysis of Ethereum [Lyn Alden]

“The annual issuance rate with all those annotations kind of looks like it was drawn by a Bitcoiner making fun of Ethereum, but instead that’s from an Ethereum source. Various Ethereum Improvement Proposals or “EIPs” by developers have changed its monetary policy over time as needed for various reasons.” – Lyn Alden
Lyn Alden always brings a clear, investor centered perspective to the space which I highly value. With no “crypto” or Bitcoin baggage she takes a rational view of digital assets from their long term investment potential. In today’s piece, let’s find out what she sees in “An Economic Analysis of Ethereum.”
Check out the original article below:
https://www.lynalden.com/ethereum-analysis/
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Read_494 – Lightning Economics: Learning to Love Inbound Liquidity [Roy Sheinfeld]

“Supplying liquidity is an investment, and we need to treat it accordingly. Like lending money or buying stock, investors commit capital for a period and expect a return that increases over time.” – Roy Sheinfeld

Now that we are entering Chapter 2 of Bitcoin where the free and open network begins to act as a backbone for financial infrastructure made possible by the Lightning network and global Bitcoin liquidity, we dive into the economics of Lightning with the Breez Technology CEO, Roy Sheinfeld. Is inbound liquidity really a “problem,” or is it a new market dynamic that will drive an entire industry? Find out in today’s awesome article…
Lightning Economics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Inbound Liquidity
https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-economics-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-inbound-liquidity-511d05aa8b8b

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Read_493 – Asset DNA, Explaining Bitcoin’s Speculative Attack [Croesus]

“if the representation of reality in this article is correct, the highest and best use of a dollar of debt may simply be to buy bitcoin. Many more individuals and entities will leverage this asymmetry for personal gain into the future.” – Croesus

With increased attention on the Bitcoin price and the speculative attack by Michael Saylor himself having paid off so extraordinarily well, its time to revisit the concept with an article by Croesus_BTC at Bitcoin Magazine. Its not merely something that might occur, or just a fun thought experiment, its in the very DNA of these assets. Borrowing dollars in a manipulated, low interest environment, may find its most productive and valuable use in simply buying Bitcoin.

Check out the great visuals and the many other excellent articles at Bitcoin Magazine below:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/asset-dna-explaining-bitcoins-speculative-attack-on-the-dollar

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Guy’s Take #42 – Bitcoin’s Second Chapter Begins

“In Chapter 1 we reached millions. In Chapter 2 we’re going to reach billions and we’re going to do it quickly. And Chapter 2 starts right now.” – Ross Stevens

We are entering a phase of Bitcoin where it becomes accepted as a global store of value asset by large institutions and corporations around the world. Yet simultaneously, we are reaching a point where Bitcoin is also being recognized and utilized as a global, open source, and highly liquid monetary *network.* Chapter 2 isn’t merely about Bitcoin being used to store and protect value, but about Lightning, and the ability to instantly send money and swap it with any currency anywhere in the world.

Inspired by a tweet from Ryan Gentry with an excerpt from Ross Stevens conversation with Michael Saylor… find out just how much Bitcoin is about to shake the world in today’s guy’s take episode! Check out the relevant tweet from Ryan:
https://twitter.com/RyanTheGentry/status/1357487814645067789

The other episode mentioned at the beginning of the show to check out:
Stone Ridge Letter:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=5598
Lightning as a Retail Payment System:
https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=4567

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