Bitcoin Tech Talk
Weekly Bitcoin news and insights from a technical perspective.
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #491
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #490
For free subscribers: Rothchild SAT, Agentic AI, LobsterClaw, Rootedness, Roundup and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #489
For free subscribers: Californication, SEC Schools, Elite Non-Agency, Canada Conservatism, Bad Psych Studies, Pleb Underground and more! For paid subscribers: Quantum Freeze Recovery, FIBRE, On-chain Backup w/OP_RETURN, L402 Apps, Core Wallet Deprecation and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #488
For free subscribers: Efficiency Maxxing, High v. Low Trust, Fermi Paradox, Fiat Pastors, Elder Fraud, Final Knots v Core and more! For paid subscribers: PIPE v2, Sigbash, Boomerang, Satogram, LN agents, French Kidnappings, Blockfill Insolvency and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #487
For free subscribers: "Social" Media, Epstein Files Summary, Kevin Warsh's Philosophy, Personality Trumps AI, Fraud Detection and Government, Treasury Company Panel, Brand/Keiser, BIP110 Thoughts and more! For paid subscribers: BIP54, FROST Signing Protocol, AI Agent Wallets, $1M LN Transaction, Bitcoin Crash Explanation, Kidnapping Protection and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #486
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Case for Corruption, Esoteric Reading of Philosophy, Graying Congregations, Ulbricht's Pardon, Core v Knots X, Bithoven, Hornet UTXO, BLISK, Connector Swaps, Helix Verdict, AI/Bitcoin parallels and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #485
For free subscribers: Text still matters the most, Giving inheritance earlier than death, MLK Jr's liberation theology, Chesterton's Microscope, Looking at the past with envy, two more Core v. Knots podcasts and more! For paid subscribers: BIP434, Kompactor, Signing Room, Blinded Paths, ZapFunder, AI vs Bitcoin Mining, BankToBTC and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #484
For free subscribers: Efficiency Downsides, Scapegoat Jordan Peterson, Fiction of Boomerlibs, Virtue Education, Conditional Probability and Quantum Entanglement and more! For paid subscribers: Short lived Tor/I2P, BIP3, Lightning Games, PlebQR, Low Volatility, Carre Four, Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #483
For free subscribers: Perils of over-abstraction, Parenting Replaced by Therapy, Useless Food Fortification, Regulation E, Climate Change Climbdown, Talks at Max and Stacy Golf Invitational and more! For paid subscribers: Fuzzamoto, Yam, Mutant Testing, Lightning Subscription Manager, Payment Feasibility, Sound Money and Family, Wrench Attack Growing and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #482
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Amish Fertility, Feelings > Facts, Detroit Downfall, Beset Boomers, Favorite Talks of 2025, JoinMarket NG, Ark as Channel Factories, Satdoku, Satoshi Send, Venezuelan Bitcoin, Attack Scenarios and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #481
For free subscribers: Derisking Consequences, Nihilistic Immortality, Amish Sects, Fight Club and Meaning, How Gift Cards Work, Leaving a Legacy Review and more! For paid subscribers: JungleMesh, Lockbox, LQWD, Gonzo Payments over Wumbo, Strategy USD Reserve, El Salvador's Negotiations with the IMF and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #480
For free subscribers: No Room for Young White Men, Expanding DEI Liberal Order, Rejecting Status, Lack of Evangelical Elite, Peer Review, Core v Knots 7 and more! For paid subscribers: Hash Signature Options, BIP54 Fixes, Channel Rebalancing, Merchant Adoption, Beautiful Design and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #479
For free subscribers: USA Caste System, Defanging Bigotry Accusations, China Rising, Elon's SpaceX Management, 1980's AI Bubble and more! For paid subscribers: The CAT, FROSTR, Neutrino, Perpetual Futures, Do Kwon Sentencing and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #478
For free subscribers: Defining Fascism, Thiel and the Antichrist, Warren G Harding, Cyrus's Education, Somalian Fraud in MN, Mental Model Collapse and more! For paid subscribers: Bare Multisig UTXO analysis, Joinmarket Analyzer, Zap me a Coffee, Case for a Samourai Pardon and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #477
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Scam and Culture, Arts Bubble, H1B Abuse, Ozempic Trillions, AI Debt Bomb, Penlock, Nodewatch, BoltCanvas, lnemail, Poverty Line, Samourai Sentencing and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #476
For free subscribers: China's All Under Heaven, Pressure to be Single, Historians' Blindspots, Denial of Death, Family Dynasties, Noblesse Oblige and more! For paid subscribers: Core Security Audit, BitVM Mod, Angor, Coinsnap, STRC Economics, Wavespace and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #475
For free subscribers: Fertility and Fidelity Loss, Hipster Apology, Generational Marshmallow Scam, American Revolution Revisionism, Palestinian Property Rights and more! For paid subscribers: Multisig Recovery Checklist, Lightning Custody Taxonomy, CandyPi, Lava Switcheroo, China v US on Prince Group BTC and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #474
For free subscribers: Belt and Road Failure, Burning Man Exposed, Fiat Fails Upward, Marxist Feminism, Bugs Bunny Conspiracy and more! For paid subscribers: Aggeus, BIP3, libsecp256k1 vs openSSL, One-time-signature payment channels, EVO and MetaPlanet, Sequans BTC selloff and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #473
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #472
For free subscribers: Bad Physics, Yes Kings, Chinese Progress, Birth Control and Fertility, Talking with Guy Swann and more! For paid subscribers: TROPIC01, Arkade, MPFlow, CZ Pardon, BPI New Head and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #471
For free subscribers: UN Wastefulness, Decentralized Fiction, Nursing Home Economics, Poastocracy, Starting Strength and more! For paid subscribers: Compact Block Relay Bandwidth Test, Anti-Large ScriptPubKey Soft Fork, lndnotify, 1M BTC Treasury Hoard, Petrodollar System is already ended and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #470
For free subscribers: Illegal Rent Seeking, Downwardly Mobile Rage, Reddit Power Games, Dead Poet's Debasement of Humanities, Slave Rebellion Truths and more! For paid subscribers: Header-Only SPV, Core v30, Sparkscan and Wallet of Satoshi, BLFS, Signal + Cashu, Roger Ver's $48M deal and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #469
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Reality Slop Doomscrolling, Parasites and Behavior, Liberalism's Conformity, Annoying Purpose, Empty Consumption, Charitable Giving, Freedom Money, Anti-Node Running, Un-Deprecation, Lightning Disappointment, Invoice Detective, GDP Fudge Factors and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #468
For free subscribers: The Power of Forgiveness, Smart People Being Dumb, Social Origins of the Civil War, Theranos Military Op, IQ Necessity for War and more! For paid subscribers: Undeprecation, Misbehaving Nodes, Eclair Exploit, Telegram Lightning Bots, Semler Acquisition, StableCoin Inflation and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #467
For free subscribers: Authenticity, Death of Rent-Seeking, Quantum Slight-of-Hand, Villianous Men, Protester's Veto and more! For paid subscribers: High Availability Nodes, Dependency Minimization, Channel Factory Reframe, Routing Profitability, Stablecoin President, Sub-sat/vbyte Economics and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #466
For free subscribers: Violence vs. Argument, Protecting Vulnerable People, LLM Non-Determinism, Life on Mars, Dark Pattern Social Media and more! For paid subscribers: Cryptography Camp, NPM Supply Chain Attack, Lightning UTXO Privacy, Spondulix, Ordinals Impact on Nodes, Bitcoin Ticketing Systems.
Bitcoin Tech Talk #465
For free subscribers: AI Coding Productivity Lies, Disney Skimpflation, Nation vs People, Self-Handicapping, Vegan Psychopaths and more! For paid subscribers: OP_RETURN, Codex32/BIP85, BTCD consensus bug, pkgzap, BTC Treasuries as banks, Ark in Riga and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #464
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! LLM Writing Fingerprints, Divine Real Numbers, UBI Study, Tattoos, EC OP BIP, Generalized Miniscript, Lightning Treasury Strategy, Papa Swap, U of Chicago altcoining and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #463
For free subscribers: Dangers of Tribal Conformity, Petty Bureaucratic Tyranny, Fairy Tales Political Thought, North Korean Attempts at Birth Rate Improvement and more! For paid subscribers: Garbled Locks, LN Adoption Increase, Fake Libertarian Milei, Lightning Piggy and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #462
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #461
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #460
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! High speed boondoggle, Effect or Cause First, Controls are BS, Math Soul Satisfaction, Peer Observer, Simplicity Launch, RGB, ETF in-kind redemption and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #459
For free subscribers: Noblesse Oblige, LLM Security, Screens and Middle School, Schoolhouses of yesteryear, Microcultures and Geography and more! For paid subscribers: Shielded CSV, Thor, NimbleNode, Method of Payment Regulations, Ancient Supply, Global Adoption Study and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #458
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #457
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #456
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Naming Shaming, Dispensationalism, The Case for Good Threads, Building a Wallet from Scratch, AirGaps Overrated, CLINK, Basalto, FrostSnap Preorder and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #455: Innovation, Pol Pot, Stagnation, Kayfabe++
For free subscribers: pol pot, innovation, kayfabe. Stagnation and more! For paid subscribers: Schnorr, ADDR fingerprinting, The Rack, Knots Ban List and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #454
For free subscribers: Pop Culture Degeneration, How the R Party operates different than D, Gravity as Rising Entropy, Ford Foundation Fiatization, Libertarian Defense and more! For paid subscribers: BitVM3, Rewind Bitcoin, LN PSP, Zeus Swaps, Blockstream App, GENIUS sucks and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #453
For free subscribers: Modern Monasteries, Zombie Christianity, WWII Propaganda, Reversible Computing, Art of Love and more! For paid subscribers: CTV-CSFS letter, Data Carrier Size Removed, sats host, Opportunity Cost and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #452
For free subscribers: Science Crisis, State Dept Substack, Common Purpose, Living on $432/month, $4.45B NYC Subway Station and more! For paid subscribers: Core Relay Policy Statement, Plan B Tutorials, LNFly, LNEmail, China Bans Bitcoin (Again), and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #451
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Nuclear Regs, Hikikomori, Solzhenitsyn, MAiD, Quantum BTC, Arkade, Spam Cleanup, Deposits Layer 3, Amboss Rails, Sovana, Pakistan and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #450
For free subscribers: Adult participation trophies, Downfall of Science, Death of the F-word, Psychological Control Systems, The Triumph of Sophistry and more! For paid subscribers: Legacy Spam Attacks, Burn to Compensate Node Runners, Lightning Blinder, Genesis Improprieties, Days to Cover and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #449
For free subscribers: Democracy becomes Technocracy, Peak AI, Bill Gates' Life Work, "Housing Shortage," the Tomato Evolution and more! For paid subscribers: HashPool w/eCash, OP_RETURN Q&A, UTXO bloat report, publsp, Nakamoto Holdings and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #448
For free subscribers: Welfare Consequences, What Puritans Were Really Like, Equal Value Legislation, Feminization and a $21 Trillion Bunker. For paid subscribers: MEVPool, Mempool Policy History, Liquidity Subscriptions, Rumble Wallet, Strike Loans and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #447
Free issue for first Monday of the month! JP's downfall, Instilling Wonder, Bronies, Shiloh, Belief Systems, Data Carrier Size Drama, BIP30 Consensus Bug, Penalizing LN Griefers, Crypto Vibe Shift, NK Remote Workers, AZ Strategic Reserve and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #446
For free subscribers: Boomers' Legacy, Kind Authoritarianism, Gaslightenment, Becoming What You Signal, Clueless Solutions, Rational Trigonometry and more! For paid subscribers: Descriptor Backups, Carbyne, Lightning Profitability, Hydrus, XXI, Quantum Migration and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #445
For free subscribers: Midwit Gatekeepers, Zero Sum Population, Elite Distrust, Groundless Doubt, Activation Energy Hacks and more! For paid subscribers: DahLIAS CISA step, Erk, Hardware Spending Policy, BitGiver, Mining Centralization Report and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #444
For free subscribers: Right Feelings, Tariff Doomerism, Utilitarianism's Fatal Flaw, Shakespeare's Identity, Why Bitcoin Matters and more! For paid subscribers: SwiftSync, BitcoinKernel, Nostr-enabled PSBT signing, Phoenix, Money as Cooperation Tool, Bitcoin Bonds and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #443
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Moral Information, Replaceable Coders, Practical Virtue, Sierra Online, DEI End, Wallet Poisoning, Fidelity Bonds, Liquidity Freezing Attack, Jaded Bitcoin Confs, GME BTC plans and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #442
For free subscribers: Comfort vs Community, Mercy's Value, Debased Romance, Fiat College, Trailblazing Anguish and more! For paid subscribers: Consensus Cleanup, LN Spam prevention, Gamestop BTC, Mining Economics and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #441
For free subscribers: Punching Andrew Tate, AI Job Applicants, Demons in the Machine, Love of Nation, Rent-Seekers' Children and more! For paid subscribers: Ark Signet, CISA Research, KaleidoSwap, Nostr Red Pills, $5 Wrench Attacks and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #440
For free subscribers: Young women and commitment, Real Leisure, Debased Words, Covenantal Capitalism, SpaceX Military and more! For paid subscribers: Invalid Mining Jobs, Burning Quantum Vulnerable Coins, Pathfinding paper, TicketBot, Perpetual Preferred Stock and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #439
For free subscribers: Christian Journey, AI Dependency, Foreign Aid Grift, Lincoln was Horrible, Libertarian Case for Tariffs, Programming Blockchain and more! For paid subscribers: Microstamper, Hiding Cashu, Lightning Video Paywalls, SBR, El Salvador's IMF deal and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #438
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Hyped Tech, Labor Debasement, Bureaucratic Growth Mechanics, Happiness, Blockspace, Tropic01, Tollgate, Lazarus Hardening, Bitcoin Jobs BS and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #437
For free subscribers: Sport Betting, Gamification, Fakeness of California, The Right's Doomerism, Programming Blockchain and more! For paid subscribers: Bribery Attack, py-libbitcoinkernel, Dual Funded Channels, Google Bitcoin Wallet, ByBit Hack and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #436
For free subscribers: The story of DOGE, Fertility destroyed by Work, Chinese Decline and Real Estate, Ordo Amoris, Programming Blockchain and more! For paid subscribers: Hedged Signatures, Path Finding w/Reinforcement Learning, Shared UTXO Lightning Swaps, Milei's Memecoin and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #435
For free subscribers: Avoiding Hard Questions, Jordan Peterson's Christianity, Overcoming Despair for Gen Z, Casino Investment Scam, Free Trade Critique and more! For paid subscribers: Blocksize History, Spark, Lana, Method of Payment Progress and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #434
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Mediocrity, Loving Neighbors, Propaganda Economy, Suckiness, Final Programming Blockchain, OP_RAND, Tether on LN, Central Banks and BTC, Garlinghouse and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #433
For free subscribers: Fragility of over-optimizing, The New Bread and Circuses, FenBen/Ivermectin Cancer Therapy, Inheritance Dilemma and more! For paid subscribers: Ark SDK, Foundry hash rate, CSV on LN, Scambling and Altcoins as CDCs and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #432
For free subscribers: The value of the real, Spreadsheet Egregore, Gandhi's Life, Fertility and Rejecting Norms, New Hardcover Fiat Ruins Everything and more! For paid subscribers: Bitcoin Safe, OFAC and F2Pool, JIT Channels, Trump Bitcoin Policy, TrumpCoin is Dumb and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #431
For free subscribers: Hedonistic Culture, Lewis and Tolkien's Predictions, Zombie Academia, AI LARPing and more! For paid subscribers: DLC Factories, Mostro, Finney Prize, DoJ's BTC sales and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #430
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #429
For free subscribers: Rent Seeking Mechanics, Depopulation and Nature, Homo Economics as Philosophy, My Best of 2024 For paid subscribers: Taproot Multisig in the Wild, UMA, LNhance, Bitcoin Critic Idiocy and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #428
For free subscribers: De-risking De-civilizes, Political Realignment, AI-created laziness, Intellectual Obesity and more! For paid subscribers: ColliderScript, CoinJoin De-anonymization, Off-chain payment resolution, Bitcoin CDOs and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #427
For free subscribers: Culture Discovery, Detached Moms, Lazy DEI, Einstein the Plagiarist, Quantum Computing Hype and more! For paid subscribers: Covenants Desirability, Channel Depletion, Debunking Chokepoint 2.0 and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #426
For free subscribers: Remnant Bitcoiners, TSA shows Cowardice, Democratic Ideological Conformity, Amish Fertility Incentives, High IQ Envy and more! For paid subscribers: Space Mining, Lark, Rizful, Lightning Open Source Bounties, El Salvador's $3T Gold Underground and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #425
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Gambling Destroys, Orthodoxy and Men, MOND evidence, Virtues and Bitcoin, Trustless eCash, LN Channel Optimization, Libra Choke, Tornado Vindication and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #424
For free subscribers: Lazy intellectuals, Homo Economicus, AI Plateau, Freedom v. Community, Ossification Debate Continued and more! For paid subscribers: UTXO ownership, BitVM Bridge, Replaying Routing, More corn for MSTR, Loaded's Story and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #423
For free subscribers: Financial Incentives for Having Children, Fight Club and Christianity, Confused Girls, The Triumph of Loserdom and more! For paid subscribers: Consensus is Hard, Pluggable Channel Factories, Proto, Nation-State BTC Accumulation and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #422
For free subscribers: Lions and Foxes, Conversation Killers, Kuwait Biometrics Law, Ossification Debate and more! For paid subscribers: DLC Devkit, Satsqueue, 12 year sentence for coinjoin service, DATUM decentralized mining and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #420
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Everyone's a Bank, Sahara is greening, Republican Origins of Lawfare, Costless Signaling, Discrete Log Equality Proofs, Using LN to pay for Solutions using ZKPs, MSTR's $42B raise and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #421
For free subscribers: History of Dollar Financial Deplatforming, Venture Capital Destruction, Accountability Sinks, Rhodesia, Ossification and more! For paid subscribers: Client Side Validation, Spark, Tando, Pubky, USD interest paid in BTC and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #419
For free subscribers: Colleges becoming more female, Millenial Smugness, Therapy Industrial Complex, Laziness Spiral of Doom, Rhetoric vs Dialectic and more! For paid subscribers: Silent Payment HWW Considerations, Group Channel Opens, ECB Paper on BTC, Bitcoin Backed Credit Cards and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #418
For free subscribers: Birth Rates, North Korea's Stability, Rene Girard's Theories, Ubiquity of Ugliness and more! For paid subscribers: SHA256 Classifier, Lightning Betting, DLC Security Model, Fairshake PAC and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #417
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Zombie Companies, Nihilistic Ironic Detachment, Life of Virtue, Rent-seeking Research, DATUM, BIP85 Drama, Diamond Hands Wallet, Lightning Piggy, Decoy Wallets and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #416
For free subscribers: Male Feminism, Paganization, Fiat AI, Gaslit Art and more! For paid subscribers: Shielded Client-Side Validation, Bolt12 Merge, Lightning Tx Censorship, HeatPunk Manifesto and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #415
For free subscribers: libertarian fail, half-assed religion, cholesterol lies, game theory of feminism and more! For paid subscribers: mainnet Ark Tx, UTXO ZKP, SuperScalar, Proof of Reserves and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #414
For free subscribers: Fitting in, Blue Zones are Lies, Volunteers as Health Signals, People stuck with Purple Pills and more! For paid subscribers: NOIST, BOLT12 Decoder, Law of Ossification, 6.6 BTC Claimed and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #413
For free subscribers: Need for Challenge, Symbols Blind Us to Reality, Science Fiction's Gods, Revival of Christianity in Culture and more! For paid subscribers: L2 Review, Silent Payments, Zaprite PoS, Duress Wallets, Spaces DID protocol and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #412
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Nobody wants happiness, Home Ownership Incentives, Mandibles Review, FROST DKG, MPP Simulator, Pig Butchering, IMF on El Salvador and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #411
For free subscribers: Ozempic an anti-addiction, Effeminized Adolescence, Sins of MKUltra, Pax Sino, Power of Ownership and more! For paid subscribers: Floresta, Fee spike force closures, African Unpermissioned Mining, Durov arrest and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #410
For free subscribers: AI Bust, Why Morality is Valuable, Creativity is not scarce, Interestingness is overrated and more! For paid subscribers: Defining L2's, Lightning's Last Mile, Major Data Breach, The Case for Nostr and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #409
For free subscribers: Inverting assumptions, Crowdstrike post-mortem, Therapy Culture, Narcissistic Art and more! For paid subscribers: Dark Skippy, Fedi Launch, Mutiny Shutdown, Yen carry trade and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #408
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! College Dowry, Zero-sum Aristocracy, Cell Phone Job Satisfaction, We are Big Brother, Elite Gullibility HWW economics, BOLT12 Contact List, proof-of-stake forums and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #407
For free substibers: how apprenticeships worked, building without soul, fiat academia's aversion to risk and more! For paid subscribers: protonwallet, yubikey seed storage, channel recommendation bot, Trump"s speech and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #406
For free subscribers: quatum computing limits, academic rot, soul decay, degoogling and more! For paid subscribers: FROST DKG, Antpool stupidity, miners and AI, lighning pub and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #405
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #404
For free subscribers: Divorce damage, Sex difference in the brain, Setting the Null hypothesis, Assange calculus and more! For paid subscribers: 10 security disclosures, crazy tx, bolt 12 adoption, future of real estate and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #403
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! AI Hype, Fanfics, Govt job growth, Brollup v2, GroupHug, ScanBack, Assange release and much more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #402
For free subscribers: Upper Class and writing, Piety and Patriarchy, Two Academic Cultures, Excel Championships and more! For paid subscribers: Reducing Fees, Lnd DoS bug, Bitcoin History and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #401
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #400
For free subscribers: Hyperpleasures, Needing Enemies, Reality and Engineering, Soulless Virtue and more! For paid subscribers: Ark v2, LN Alliance, OKX fee screwup, DCG's bad behavior and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #399
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #398
For free substibers: Attachment to Gold, Industrial Conspiracy, inverting Midlife, Sanction Economics, Seoul and more! For paid subscribers: eCash DLCs, Pathfinding, Samurai, CSW and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #397
For free subscribers: Second Career of Hitler, Republican/Democrat Flip, Delusional Teachers, Difficulty of changing people, Relating to Tech and more! For paid subscribers: BitVMx, Penlock, LN address privacy, Silent payments and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #396
For free subscribers: Chip Fab Construction, Bill Hwang Trial, Atheism and Cruelty, Fiat Food and more! For paid subscribers: Decentralized Coinjoin, Ticketbot, Walking the Talk, Soul of Bitcoin and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #395
Free issue for first Monday of the month! US/China Convergence, Taxonomy of Evil, Too much Gamification, Testnet Griefing, BitEscrow, BOLT12 Support, More Companies pulling out of the US and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #394
For Free Subscribers: Tech Inevitability, Art of Hanging Out, Nobody Reads, Education Replacing Family and more! For Paid Subscribers: Practical Multisig, Verifiable PRNG, LNAddrD, Dev arrest, FBI warning and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #393
For free subscribers: Financialization, Blue Church, Organ Donation Bureaucracy, Halving Fees, Destroying Rent Seeking and more! For paid subscribers: Brainwallets 2.0, LN contraction, MEVil, Team Slow and Steady and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #392
For free subscribers: Cycles of Decentralization/Centralization, Credit Card Reward Programs, Church/Fiat, Lenocracy and more! For paid subscribers: Mempool Clusters, Constellation, Pathfinding Considerations, Bitcoin-only Startup Ecosystem and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #391
For free subscribers: self vs mob, totalitarianism, wonks, BTC standard and more! For paid subscribers: SHA-2 Collision, LNCast, Nostrifying LN, Satoshi Email Hack of 2014 and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #390
Free issue for the first of the month! Adulthood is costly, Small businesses, Arctic > FROST, BitVM2, HedgeHog, SEC v. Coinbase and much more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #389
For free subscribers: Nocebo Effect, Chevron Deference, Cultural Power Law, Ordinals are Fiat and more! For paid subscribers: Stratum v2 Implementation, Hashrate Vulnerability, Phoenixd, Remittances API and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #388
For free subscribers: Payroll Taxes, Profit vs Loans, Midwit Rent-seeking, Local Biz pursuing Bitcoin and more! For paid subscriber: BIP324 Proxy, LN Calendar, Bitcoin Fog Conviction and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #387
For free subscribers: Holidays, NK Slaves, Google Deathwatch, Fiat Ruins Church and more! For paid subscribers: Chainalysis Heuristics, Async LN, Not Enough Insurance, Jihan's new miners and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #386
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Shirky principle, Physical Bitcoins for sale, MSTR speculative attack, re-thinking Bitcoin URIs, Lightning Routing Node profitability, Zaprite Teams and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #385
For free subscribers: Social isolation, Professional bridesmaids, Horrid banking tech and more! For paid subscribers: Blind signatures, Swaproot, Tx accelerators and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #384
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #383
For free subscribers: Liberal Utopia, Prison Inflation, Birth Control Side Effects, Cypherpunk Origins and more! For paid subscribers: Citrea, Revelio, COPA case and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #382
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Citation Cartels, Fauxductivity, VC redux, non-standard TXs, LN Offline Payments, Tether Profits and much more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #381
For free subscribers: Marshmallow test v2, Fertility rates, Food sweeteners, Bitcoin inheritance and more! For paid subscribers: btcd consensus bug, Mutiny DLCs, Discount Window games and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #380
For Free Subscribers: Neuroscience, debogging, breadth/depth optimization, Capetown and more! For Paid Subscribers: BitVM Sidechain, RBF vs Pinning Attack, LN API Monetization, MEV and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #379
For free subscribers: Shinzo's Murder, Occupy's Legacy, eBay behaving badly, Capetown and more! For paid subscribers: Cluster Mempool, Mercury Launch, FiatLink, ETF and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #378
For free subscribers: Caesar, taxes, being a mathlete, children, Iceland podcast and more! For paid subscribers: CTV tradeoffs, Aqua, Allegory of the cave and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #377
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Psych scams, Librarian’s lament, Bitcoin and Missions, Loan Shark, Lampo, LN incentives, Inscriptions, Mt Gox claims paying out and much more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #376
For free subscribers: overreliance on p-values, why people hoard, fiat academia, MuSig/Frost class and more! For paid susbscribers: layer 2s using BitVM, ghost addresses, Liquid scalability and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #375
For free subscribers: Programmers are Bureaucrats, AI has no moats, FROST/MuSig class, bare multisig stamps and more! For paid subscribers: Warnet, BBQr, Mobile LN Challenges, Ledger Hack, Warren Bill and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #374
For Free Subscribers: Carbon analysis of Tesla batteries, A Liberal Journalist's Take on the deprecation of cash, What North Korean Literature is like, VC Debate at @unconfiscatable and more! For Paid Subscribers: 0.26 UTXO set loading, Nostr Connect, Software Building Invariants and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #373
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #372
For free subscribers: Rethinking Leisure, Debased Intellectuals, Lying and Status, Programming Blockchain Dubai and more! For paid subscribers: Pools Censoring Txs, Coinjoin Detection, BOLT12 Addresses, Timelock Multisig and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #371
For free subscribers: Goodhart's Law Ruins Lives, Modern Art is a Psyop, How to navigate Health Care and more! For paid subscribers: Shamir, Peer Memory Usage, Bitcoinize, Stagflation Incoming and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #370
For free subscribers: reality of coding work, teens and jobs, starting simple, fiat withdrawal and more! For paid subscribers: BitVM, Bitstream, LSP spec, Fiat premiums and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #369
Free issue for the first Monday of the month! Rent seeking engineers, Asians and standardized testing, smashing altcoiners and their enablers, Fiat Ruins this ebook and audiobook, Payjoin history, torrents paid via Bitcoin, Lightning eSim, Tether balance sheet, Bitcoin Pope and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #368
For free subscribers: Supplements, Talent Gatekeepers, Downfall of Michael Lewis, Shortcomings of Gold and more! For paid subscribers: Logic behind ECC params, LN subscriptions, Replacement Cycling analysis, the coming zombie economy and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #367
For free subscribers: Liberal World Order, AI Bleeding Money, Jurisdictional Arbitrage, R and D flipping over the last 30 years and more! For paid subscribers: Scriptless BitVM, HTLC Timeout attack, Tragic story of Jimmy Zhong, Chinese Bank Run and more!
Bitcoin Tech Talk #366
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Going to Paid. Bitcoin Tech Talk #285
I honestly can’t believe that this is issue #285.
Fiat Money is Evil. Bitcoin Tech Talk #284
(this article was originally posted on christianpost.com)
Killing DINOs. Bitcoin Tech Talk #283
All things Russian are getting banned these days.
Why I'm Skeptical. Bitcoin Tech Talk #282
It’s really odd when the news media says something is going to happen and then it does.
Suckers of Information Asymmetry. Bitcoin Tech Talk #281
Bitcoin is pretty mainstream these days.
Bad Money Fragilizes. Bitcoin Tech Talk #280
One of the main benefits of the current system is that so much is centralized.
NFTs and DeFi on Bitcoin. Bitcoin Tech Talk #279
NFTs and DeFi have had their hype during this cycle and of course, there’s always the question that people will ask.
Improving Lightning Point-of-Sale. Bitcoin Tech Talk #278
During my trip to El Salvador, I was shopping for gifts for my family on the way back.
Everyone's a Bank Now. Bitcoin Tech Talk #277
Airlines are a tough business.
Decentralization Requires Responsibility. Bitcoin Tech Talk #276
There’s been a recent trend of users being “de-platformed” moving to other platforms.
Bitcoin in El Salvador. Bitcoin Tech Talk #275
I’ve been in El Salvador the last few days and the experience so far has been really magical.
Proof of Stake is Useless. Bitcoin Tech Talk #274
Proof-of-stake is being used by those that really know very little about Bitcoin as a way to accuse it of being wasteful.
Why Web Content Sucks. Bitcoin Tech Talk #273
The internet runs on ads.
Jack Dorsey and the VCs. Bitcoin Tech Talk #272
Jack Dorsey had quite the encounter online this week, particularly with this tweet which had some consequences.
Bitcoin and the American Dream. Bitcoin for Policy Makers. Bitcoin Tech Talk #271
If you haven’t heard, we have launched a Kickstarter for a Bitcoin policy book.
Bitcoin Builds Civilization. Bitcoin Tech Talk #270
I was watching a documentary a while back about bears and how they all wait for the salmon run to feed themselves.
All Fiat Companies Become Zombies. Bitcoin Tech Talk #269
A lot of businesses are huge.
Review of The Fiat Standard. Bitcoin Tech Talk #268
Saifedean Ammous just published a followup to his popular book on Bitcoin: The Fiat Standard. Having read the book, this is my attempt at giving you an overview so you can decide for yourself whether it’s worth picking up. The book is split into three major parts: Fiat Money, Fiat Life and Fiat Liquidator.
Taproot vs. Security Threats. Bitcoin Tech Talk #267
Jameson Lopp wrote an article in Forbes about the different security threats to holding Bitcoin.
An Epidemic of Fakeness. Bitcoin Tech Talk #266
I recently was discussing masks with some friends of mine.
Raoul Pal: Monetary Aristocrat. Bitcoin Tech Talk #265
Raoul Pal made some news because of a comment on his channel, Real Vision, where he explained to the interviewer that he sold Bitcoin because the people there were being mean and he liked buying Ethereum because the people there were lovely to him.
Altcoins are a Cesspool. Bitcoin Tech Talk #264
There was an interesting rug pull recently with a coin called IslaInu.
Liberty Requires Responsibility. Bitcoin Tech Talk #263
A person recently asked me about what I thought the world would be like on the Bitcoin standard.
Mark Cuban is a Rent-Seeker. Bitcoin Tech Talk #262
Mark Cuban had quite the encounter with Bitcoiners on Saturday.
Why Altcoins are No Different than Fiat. Bitcoin Tech Talk #261
Vitalik Buterin made the news again, criticizing Bitcoin Maximalists about their support of El Salvador.
Taxes are Revenue Theater. Bitcoin Tech Talk #260
Janet Yellen made some noise earlier this week about a possible unrealized capital gains tax.
Bitcoin is Toxic to Fiat Mentality. Bitcoin Tech Talk #259
Rent-seeking is a common feature of any fiat economy.
People Conform to Systems. Bitcoin Tech Talk #258
I had a really interesting conversation with some people the other day about something I really know very little about: dating apps.
Spending Down Trust. Bitcoin Tech Talk #257
Trust is a weird thing.
Moral Hazards of Centralized Leadership. Bitcoin Tech Talk #256
I left my church about a year ago in large part because of their promotion of some doctrine that I disagreed with.
Preaching to the Nocoiners. Bitcoin Tech Talk #255
The hero’s journey for every Bitcoiner follows a certain arc.
Reality is turning into Simulacra. Bitcoin Tech Talk #254
One of the most interesting essays I read the past few years is this one by Paul A.
Altcoins are DINOs (Decentralized in Name Only). Bitcoin Tech Talk #253
The biggest “DeFi” “hack” ever was on the Poly Network across multiple chains that amounted to $600M in value.
Bitcoin's Political Moment Has Arrived. Bitcoin Tech Talk #252
The infrastructure bill has a Bitcoin clause in it and the clause has absolutely blown up.
Why You Should Run a Full Node. Bitcoin Tech Talk #251
Bitcoiners like to say “verify, don’t trust.” This is not just lip service, as thousands of users all over the world run full nodes.
Ethereum is a Rube-Goldberg Machine. Bitcoin Tech Talk #250
Ethereum Twitter was in an uproar this week because the #eth hash tag appended an Ethiopia flag instead of the Ethereum symbol.
Erik Voorhees, ThorChain and Pride. Bitcoin Tech Talk #249
Another week, another altcoin suffers from a security vulnerability and loses a ton of money.
Scarcity >> Scaling. Bitcoin Tech Talk #248
Elon Musk recently stated that on-chain scaling would be what would separate Dogecoin from its competitors, as if it’s a smart engineering choice.
Centralization is the Enemy of Property Rights. Bitcoin Tech Talk #247
Users are getting deplatformed.
Bitcoin Thrives on Adversity. Bitcoin Tech Talk #246
Bitcoin has had its share of adversity in its life.
Inflation is Here. Bitcoin Tech Talk #245
The past year has seen a lot of monetary expansion.
Why Altcoins aren't copying Taproot. Bitcoin Tech Talk #244
Taproot became locked in this week and Bitcoiners celebrated. Altcoiners, on the other hand, couldn’t care less. I suspect that they don’t even know what it is or what it’s supposed to do. And why should they? Altcoin developers haven’t shown the slightest interest in adding Taproot to their codebases.
Proof, not Endorsements. Bitcoin Tech Talk #243
Bitcoin 2021 has shown that there are a lot of celebrities in Bitcoin. Such well-known luminaries as Ron Paul, Floyd Mayweather, Tony Hawk and Kevin O’Leary spoke at the conference. That’s not including the many other known celebrities that are into Bitcoin from Paris Hilton to Tom Brady.
The Great Bitcoin Reset. Bitcoin Tech Talk #242
The past year and a half has completely overturned the world.
Dogecoin, the Epitome of Post-Modern Investing. Bitcoin Tech Talk #241
The market is quite irrational and has been for the past year. Not only are stock prices crazy multiples of profits, or even earnings, we’re seeing behavior from the market that can only be described as completely unhinged. At least with non-profitable companies, there’s some prospect for future growth to make up for the large premium, but with some pumps going on today, there’s not even that.
Bitcoin is More Credible than Elon. Bitcoin Tech Talk #240
Elon this week has started to criticize Bitcoin and began to ignite speculation about making a competitor out of Dogecoin.
Resisting the Siren Song of Altcoins. Bitcoin Tech Talk #239
Everyone has that friend that brags about their altcoin gains.
The Future is Bitcoin Only. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #238
Bitcoin dominance is below 50%.
Learning Better Investment Habits. Bitcoin Tech Talk #237
During a bull market, new buyers look for dips to stack, but then when the dip inevitably comes, many shy away and don’t stack.
Investment under a Bitcoin Standard. Bitcoin Tech Talk #236
The current system of investment is strange.
Why We Need Bitcoin. Bitcoin Tech Talk #235
I prepared these remarks for the Texas Summit over the weekend and am publishing it again here.
Everything is a Search for Yield. Bitcoin Tech Talk #234
Bonds are returning very low, some even negative interest rates.
Debunking the Empty Block Attack. Bitcoin Tech Talk #233
Note: I started to write this article for the newsletter but it went too long for me to include it here.
Bitcoin, NFTs and Property Rights. Bitcoin Tech Talk #232
NFTs are bribes for the Ethereum ecosystem and they are doomed economically. Even the most enthusiastic backers of NFTs are already conceding that it’s a bubble and that the prices being paid for NFTs are crazy and unsustainable. While the market dynamics of the tokens are interesting to examine, in this article I’ll look at what you get for these tokens and contrasting that with what you get with Bitcoin.
Taleb, Peterson and Weinstein's engagement with Bitcoin. Bitcoin Tech Talk #231
Allen Farrington’s masterful piece on Weinstein and Gauge Theory has been creating some waves in the Bitcoin space, a culmination of what started on clubhouse a couple of weeks ago.
NFTs are doomed. Bitcoin Tech Talk #230
My article last week about NFTs being bribes drew a fair amount of attention.
NFTs are Bribes. Bitcoin Tech Talk #229
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been around a long time.
The Bitcoinization of the Economy. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #228
Once you understand that Bitcoin is hard money, it’s hard to unsee it.
Bitcoin Subsidizes Energy Production. Bitcoin Tech Talk #227
Any time there’s a bull market, FUD starts coming out and there’s probably no FUD quite so emotional as the “Bitcoin wastes energy” argument.
Bitcoin's Eternal September is Coming. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #226
During the bull runs, the people in the Bitcoin space on average tend to be noobs.
Loans are Bailouts and other Bitcoin truths. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #225
Nothing quite brings out righteous indignation like an obvious power-play.
Why Bitcoin feels hard to hold. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #224
HODL!
The Power of Bitcoin Memes. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #223
To the moon.
Subverting the Technocracy. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #222
This past week has been interesting to say the least.
Fiat Funded Bread and Circuses. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #221
Happy New Year!
Innovations in Institutional Bitcoin Exposure. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #220
Preston Pysh this past week published a great interview with Michael Saylor.
Mental Shift after Breaking $20k. Bitcoin Tech Talk #219
We broke past $20,000 this week and everyone is celebrating!
Curing Monetary Stockholm Syndrome. Bitcoin Tech Talk #218
It’s easy to see how as a society, as a civilization, we’re being bullied right now.
What to expect in the coming year. Bitcoin Tech Talk #217
2020 is coming to a close, leaving behind its wake economic, cultural and political devastation.
The Future of Bitcoin Privacy: Cross-Input Signature Aggregation. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #216
Privacy is something everyone talks about but few people actually take time to do properly.
The Case Against Gold. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #215
We all know the case for gold that goldbugs will tell us.
All Time High looks inevitable. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #214
Last Sunday we had the 4rd highest weekly ever.
Trust tinged by Greed will get abused. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #213
The past week in US politics has at times looked exciting, ridiculous, incredulous and inevitable.
Liquidity and the Future of Prediction Markets. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #212
We live in a strange time.
The Inevitability of Smaller States. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #211
Governments in today’s world are large.
Ending the Tech Oligarchy. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #210
Online, too many of us are completely dependent on tech companies.
Tempering Enthusiasm For Corporate FOMO. Bitcoin Fixes This #209
Microstrategies isn’t the only company to invest a ton of money into Bitcoin.
Bitcoin fixes over-politicization. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #208
Brian Armstrong got a lot of flak for his recent blog post where he explained that his company would be mission-focused.
How Bitcoin Returns US Manufacturing. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #207
The Cantillon Effect, generally speaking is how the first spenders of newly printed money benefit more than the later spenders.
What's common to Michael Saylor and Andreas Antonopolous? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #206
Michael Saylor is the new darling of Bitcoiners, having put some $400M into Bitcoin over the past 6 months.
SJW infiltration into Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #205
Bitcoin Twitter was in an uproar earlier this week when Giacomo Zucco pointed out a pull request from June.
The Market For Zero-Sum Games. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #204
DeFi-mania is nothing new.
Bitcoin protects our Natural Rights. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #203
The pandemic has shown just how much power governments around the world are willing to flex.
Long Bitcoin, Short "the System." Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #202
Back in 2014, I spoke at my first conference.
The Gentrification of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #201
Back in 2011, Bitcoin was a money for people to buy drugs off the internet and not much else according to the media.
Is the Bull Market starting? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #200
Bitcoin winter has been long and pretty stressful.
Lightning is the Internet We Always Wanted. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #199
Oftentimes in technology, what’s created to serve one market ends up serving some other market.
The Institutions are Coming! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #198
We’ve been hearing about how institutions are going to be getting into Bitcoin for years now, so it’s understandable that many remain skeptical of their imminent arrival.
Taking the Long View on Bitcoin. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #197
It’s funny how a few weeks of stable Bitcoin prices have brought in the brigade of people complaining about how “boring” Bitcoin is.
Bailouts and Zombie Companies. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #196
It’s not a secret that the last few months have been a difficult time for many businesses.
4th of July and Monetary Independence! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #195
It was 4th of July this past weekend and it’s a good time to remember the independence that America achieved and why it happened.
PayPal and Bitcoin, a history. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #194
PayPal has been, for many, the money of the internet since its inception in the 90’s.
Debt saturation and the Fed! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #193
The Fed has been printing a lot of money since the world-wide pandemic started.
Bitcoin vs. Gold! Bitcoin Tech Talk #192
Gold has been around thousands of years.
Bitcoin's strategy for more security. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #191
There are many ways to become more vulnerable to attack.
Future of Light Wallets. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #190
Light wallets that have to trust one or a group of third parties is essentially the SPV model.
Open Hardware for Bitcoin? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #189
Hardware security is very hard.
Miniscript and its importance. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #188
Bitcoin has had, from its inception a smart contract language called Script.
Bitcoin Halving is here! How BitMex is causing fees to rise. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #187
Happy halving! This happens only once every 4 years or so and causes a significant supply shock to the Bitcoin economy. Amiti Uttarwar has drawn a great set of illustrations to explain what’s happening. This is an excellent way to explain what’s going on to your nocoiner/precoiner friends.
S2FX! Could BTC Really go to $288K? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #186
One very strange phenomenon in economics is the one of Veblen goods. These are goods whose demand goes up when the price goes up.
Security is hard! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #185
Security is hard.
Money, Meaning and Bitcoin. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #184
We’re in an extraordinary time.
Bitcoin and Cypherpunks, a history. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #183
In a time of money printing, stay-at-home orders and degradation of civil liberties, Bitcoin looks better and better.
LSAT, paying for API calls one at a time. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #182
One of the reasons why surfing the web can be slow and annoying is the presence of ads.
Statechains, a semi-trusted layer-2 protocol! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #181
Some things people in Bitcoin come up with really surprise me.
Where did the recent sell-off come from? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #180
The last couple of weeks have been turbulent for every market around the world, not the least because of the disruption to commerce caused by the current crisis.
0% rates, $700B more being printed, 0% reserve requirement! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #179
The federal reserve has lowered the fed funds rate to 0-0.25% on Sunday and announced the creation of another round of quantitative easing for $700B this time.
Going the long way around is faster: Erlay's road to development. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #178
In a world where websites get launched in a matter of days and new features rolled out on SaaS applications on a weekly basis, Bitcoin looks like it’s going too slow.
Trace Mayer and the perils of being a non-technical OG. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #177
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it” - Warren Buffett
What BCH teaches us about Decentralization. Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #176
BCH was created back in 2017 initially as a way to permanantly split in case UASF gained traction.
Taproot Critique Responses! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #175
As I wrote last week, there were three different emails to the bitcoin-dev mailing list about the Taproot proposal.
How do I contribute to Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #174
One of the biggest strengths of Bitcoin Core is the quality of the developers.
Is Strike the Lightning killer app? Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #173
For the past few few years, something about lightning has bothered me.
Taproot on its way! BCH being deceitful! Bitcoin Tech Talk Issue #172
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