CryptoQuikRead_164 – Bitcoin Optech’s Scaling Bitcoin Special

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.
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Guy’sTake_001 – Poor in a World with Bitcoin, or Rich in a World Without It?

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.
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CryptoQuikRead_163 – A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto [Eric Hughes]

“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’s Manifesto.https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
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CryptoQuikRead_162 – The Untold History of Bitcoin, Enter The Cypherpunks [Petri Basson]

“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
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CryptoQuikRead_161 – Bitcoin, The Untold History [Petri Basson]

“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-untold-history-of-blockchain-30238a89be5d
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CryptoQuikRead_160 – Bitcoin, Blockade Runner of the Information Age [CarCampit]

“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/
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CryptoQuikRead_159 – Bitcoin, Chance, and Randomness [Part 2 – Hugo Nguyen]

“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
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CryptoQuikRead_158 – Anatomy of Proof of Work [Part 1 – Hugo Nguyen]

“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
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CryptoQuikRead_157 – The Bitcoin Central Bank’s Perfect Monetary Policy [Pierre Rochard]

“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/
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CryptoQuikRead_156 – Features of the Casa Node [Michael Borglin]

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/
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CryptoQuikRead_155 – POW is Efficient [Dan Held]

“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
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CryptoQuikRead_154 – Electric Money [Bitcoin’s POW #4 – LaurentMT]

“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
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