Bitcoin Audible

CryptoQuikRead_143 - The Time Value of Bitcoin

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“Lightning Network provides a framework to measure the time-value of bitcoin, a precursor for a capital market and reserve currency status.” -Nik ...

CryptoQuikRead_142 - Chaincode’s Residency Program Is Back, This Time With Lightning

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

-- “Lightning is a promising technology, but right now, very few people are fluent with it,” Chaincode Labs engineer James O’Beirne told Bitc...

CryptoQuikRead_141 - Fat Protocols Aren't New

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“People have speculated on what a future with fat protocols will look like. File sharing protocols aren’t exactly the same, but they have a lot ...

CryptoQuikRead_140 - Lightning Network 2.0 [Part 2]

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“That’s right: while we’re here still trying to wrap our minds around Layer 2 solutions, these mad scientists are already proposing a system wit...

CryptoQuikRead_139 - Lightning Network 2.0 [Part1]

27 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“Thing is, as these debates rage on, there’s a community of developers coming up with new ideas and, ya know, actually building stuff.” @DZack23...

CryptoQuikRead_138 - Traditional Bitcoin Mixers

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Thinking about it, isn’t it ironic that, over the past years I wrote about every Bitcoin privacy technique in existence, except the one that 99% of...

CryptoQuikRead_137 - Half of the Remaining Bitcoin Supply is 'Spoken For'

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"At least 99M People intend to own crypto, but don’t yet." @RyanRadloff A fun exploration by Ryan Radloff on the different demographics who intend...

CryptoQuikRead_136 - The Panama Canal and The Bitcoin Lightning Network

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"So instead, I'm going to tell a story that makes the function of the Lightning Network less abstract and hopefully, easier to picture in your mind. ...

CryptoQuikRead_135 - The Hard Thing About Learning Hard Things

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“In the end, learning is both science and art. It is science when your domain is structured, and art when it is not.” @Hosseeb Don’t miss today’...

CryptoQuikRead_134 - Welcome to Bitcoin Island

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Forget currencies and commodities… perhaps the right analogy for Bitcoin is LAND!"  Flashback from 2014 with  @gendal in an analogy that prese...

CryptoQuikRead_133 - Governments and Central Banks Should Look to Gold not Crypto

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"...The age of controlled money had arrived — and with it, world wars, depression and inflation, enormous government indebtedness, and the rise of l...

CryptoQuikRead_132 - The Bitcoin Second Layer

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“This makes Lightning Network an absolute game changer for the entire concept of capital markets: income without explicit counterparty default risk....

CryptoQuikRead_131 - BCH Update: Bitmain, BCH, the IPO & What it All Actually Means

15 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“It is impossible for Bitmain to divest their BCH holdings onmarket. Full stop. The BCH markets are not liquid enough to absorb the amount of coin...

CryptoQuikRead_130 - Media Coverage of Bitcoin is Still a Total Disaster

14 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“I’m going to expose the Washington Post/Wonkblog piece for the nonsensical ramble that it is… in short, it relies on mistaken assumptions to pa...

CryptoQuikRead_129 - Responsible Disclosure in the Era of Cryptocurrencies

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurren...

CryptoQuikRead_128 - What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? [Part 2]

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Will hundreds of coins flourish?  Will economic thought change completely?  Will it be a force for good or evil? And will Bitcoin even survive? All ...

CryptoQuikRead_127 - What Will Bitcoin Look Like in 20 Years? [Part 1]

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Will the price increase forever?  Will government currencies be a thing of the past? Will there be a singular, global economy? And how do we make in...

CryptoQuikRead_126 - Bitcoin, We Don't Expect New Highs in 2018

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Price prediction is a tricky game, but there is some fundamental analysis that may tell us more about the broad trends. Tuur Demeester looks at retail...

CryptoQuikRead_125 - Why Money Has Value & Spending Bitcoin is Senseless

07 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mises' and Menger’s theories of money provide deep insight, but invariably never attempted to rank the functions of money during its period of estab...

CryptoQuikRead_124 - ASIC Resistance is Nothing but a Blockchain Buzzword

06 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Is ASIC resistance really the panacea that some claim it is?  Will it solve the never ending challenges of a decentralized network?  Or is it just a...

CryptoQuikRead_123 - I, Pencil [Leonard E. Read]

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In closing out the week we have one last piece on the economics behind Bitcoin and the natural market economy.  We read the classic piece “I, Penc...

CryptoQuikRead_122 - "The Yield From Money Held" Reconsidered

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What if “hoarding” money is both realizing its most important utility, and stabilizing in an uncertain economy?  If true, how could the exact opp...

CryptoChat_004 - John Wolpert on Blockchain, Identity, Trust, and a New Internet

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Taking a break from Bitcoin maximalism to have a chat with John Wolpert (@Consensys, @IBMblockchain, @Hyperledger) for what consensus protocols and bl...

CryptoQuikRead_121 - Ethereum, Fomo3D, and Dangerous Game Theory

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“This game, underlying FOMO3D (F3D), is called “The War of Attrition” and it can produce some insanely irrational outcomes… Human beings tend ...

CryptoQuikRead_120 - Visions of Bitcoin

30 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Many different and often conflicting ideas of what Bitcoin is, and what it's future should be, have emerged throughout the years.  Here @nic_carter's...

CryptoQuikRead_119 - Deep Dive into ETF Disapproval and SEC Commissioner's Dissent

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The SEC has disapproved the Winklevoss twin's second attempt at a Bitcoin ETP for traditional markets.  Rife with contradictions & misunderstandi...

CryptoQuikRead_118 - Securing Property with Owner Authority

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin is the first truly decentralized registry for property ownership. The first application of which is value in its most abstract form, money.  ...

CryptoQuikRead_117 - How Central Banking Increased Inequality

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With the huge number of conversations and claims of income inequality, the central banking monetary policy, which directly benefits the wealthy and f...

CryptoQuikRead_116 - Coindesk & Jake Chervinsky on the Bitcoin ETFs

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have a dual QuikRead with Nikhilesh De's Coindesk article regarding the Direxion ETF and the SEC's decision to postpone until September. Plu...

CryptoChat_003 - Nik Bhatia on The Future of Bitcoin Financial Markets

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Lightning Reference Rate, Changes in Lightning Tech #eltoo, Returns without Counterparty Risk, CFA Institute Enters Crypto, ETFs on the horizon, F...

CryptoQuikRead_115 - Announcing Bitcoin OpTech

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“We’re as excited about Lightning, Schnorr signatures, Taproot/Graftroot and scriptless scripts as any other Bitcoin engineers, but the project’...

CryptoQuikRead_114 - Schnorr Poised to Become Bitcoin's Biggest Change Since SegWit [Alyssa Hertig]

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks to the incredible work by Pieter Wuille (@pwuille) and others, #Schnorr signature scheme has an official proposal.  Despite still much work an...

CryptoChat_002 with The Friends Against Government Podcast [CarCampit]

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The future of #Crypto, Bitcoin, New Developments, Shitcoins?, and really really Bad Movies! Don't miss a great time with the FAGcast crew! Follow the...

CryptoQuikRead_113 - The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing [Nick Szabo]

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“It's actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization ...

CryptoQuikRead_112 - Wasabi Privacy Focused Bitcoin Wallet [@nopara73]

16 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“We are soon going to be able to use Bitcoin in an end-to-end, fully anonymous way.”  - @nopara73 Check out the article and other links at: htt...

CryptoQuikRead_111 - Genesis Files - With Bit Gold, Nick Szabo Was Inches From BTC [Aaron Van Wirdum]

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The 4th in the excellent Genesis Files Series from Aaron Van Wirdum (@AaronvanW) and Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine). Today we read about BitGold...

CryptoQuikRead_110 - Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis]

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary p...

CryptoQuikRead_109 - The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum [Nik Bhatia]

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Bitcoin staked to Lightning is the most unique income producing asset in all of monetary history: income with zero counterparty risk. The historical ...

CryptoQuikRead_108 - Bitcoin Governance [Pierre Rochard]

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Compromising on trustlessness could help the Bitcoin price find a local maximum, at the expense of finding a much higher global maximum." - Pierre Ro...

CryptoChat_001 with Daniel Goldman - Verge, Digital Gold, Forks, and Going Down the Rabbit Hole

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Challenges with Verge, thoughts on Bitcoin maximalism, the inevitability of forks and altcoins, and our first trips down the rabbit hole.  All this ...

CryptoQuikRead_107 - If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai's B-Money Was It [Aaron Van Wirdum]

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Dai would become best known for an idea he casually announced in November 1998… 'I hope this is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical a...

CryptoQuikRead_106 - Working Alone [Jill Carlson]

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“You have to remember that you chose this path not because you didn’t have any options, but because you knew you could create even more options ...

CryptoQuikRead_105 - Why You Can’t Understand Bitcoin [@Beautyon_]

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"A Statist is a man or woman who believes that only the State should be the final arbiter of every activity man can engage in. In Bitcoin, Statists ar...

CryptoQuikRead_104 - Crypto-Incrementalism vs Crypto-Anarchy [Tony Sheng]

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“Crypto-incrementalists and the crypto-anarchists share strong convictions in the power of decentralization… However, these groups diverge quickly...

CryptoQuikRead_103 - Crypto Commons [Mike Maples]

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“Just like a stock market was a financial platform for creating the scalable corporation, blockchains can be governance platforms for enabling the s...

CryptoQuikRead_102 - Casa's Privacy Model

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“While we have no intention of providing custodial services to our users, we do wish to provide financial software and services that help facilitate...

CryptoQuikRead_101 - How Easy it is to Buy ICO Ratings [Markus Hartmann]

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“He eventually offered us six more ratings at the price of 300 US dollars a piece.” -Markus Hartmann   Check out the full article and chat logs...

CryptoQuikRead_100 - Dandelions and a Bright Future for Bitcoin Privacy

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 100!!“I think we will soon witness the flood of innovation that Andreas Antonopolous said would be a natural result of this permission-less ...

CryptoQuikRead_099 - Announcing C-Lightning 0.6 [Christian Decker]

26 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!"  - Christian Decker & Rusty Russell Check out ...

CryptoQuikRead_098 - The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“This week I learned you can start syncing an archival Ethereum node, travel completely around the world, and it still won’t be finished.” -@lop...

CryptoQuikRead_097 - I HODL

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Price got you down?  Don’t forget why we are here.  From @davidcbennett, we read ”I Hodl.” Link to the article on Steemit: https://steemit.com...

CryptoQuikRead_096 - Giacomo's Tweetstorm, Coinage in the Age of Bitcoin

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"So, what people call "SPV" today, is actually the practice of trusting the hashrate majority not JUST to prevent doublespending, but to properly veri...

CryptoQuikRead_095 - The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin's Motor Block

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"It was around this time — 1997, close to the [cypherpunk mailing] list’s peak popularity — that Back submitted his Hashcash proposal." @Aaronva...

CryptoQuikRead_094 - Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Verge Hack Part Deux

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.” List...

CryptoQuikRead_093 - The Importance of Layer 2

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"the most pressing issue in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology right now is, how are we going to achieve the original vision of blockchains as o...

CryptoQuikRead_092 - The Truth About Smart Contracts

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Support the Show:3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5   Are smart contracts really the trustless panacea that we all dream they are?  Or are there se...

CryptoQuikRead_091 - BetterHash Aims to Increase Bitcoin Mining Decentralization

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Support The Show: 3Nn8jJSfK2oFherVWQUGXgesvHpzbMckz5   @TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pool...

CryptoQuikRead_090 - Sharding Centralizes Ethereum [StopAndDecrypt]

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we read @StopAndDecrypt’s thorough breakdown of the Ethereum scaling and validation trade-off.  Is ETH an inherently centralizing system?  F...

CryptoQuikRead_089 - Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking to the Past and the Future

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Covering the weeks top stories with Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review - Looking to the Past and the Future.  Listen to today’s episode from Shawn...

CryptoQuikRead_088 - Feared 51% Attacks Are Now Becoming Regular

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The once-feared 51% attack of POW security has recently moved from a theoretical vulnerability to a common occurrence.  Today we read and discuss an ...

CryptoQuikRead_087 - Introducing Bitcoin Contract Governance

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Another from @goorha and @parabolictrav detailing the application and incredible potential of Bitcoin's contractual governance.  A truly global and o...

CryptoQuikRead_086 - Build the Bitcoin Economy, The Complete Contract Governance Platform

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Is Bitcoin a new asset class, a fancy way to buy coffee, digital sound money, or something entirely different and more fundamental?  Listen to the a...

CryptoQuikRead_085 - Increasing Bitcoin Privacy Using the Lightning Network

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of the features of the Lightning network is its innate benefits to privacy.  Listen to a short exploration of privacy in Lightning with Toronex ...

CryptoQuikRead_084 - Analysis of Batching in Bitcoin

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Has transaction count become an unreliable measure of Bitcoin’s usage because of batching?  Find out the answer to this and more thanks to the det...

CryptoQuikRead_083 - Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you are curious of the foundations of thought that ultimately led to the creation of the Bitcoin system, Nick Szabo is absolutely the one to read. ...

CryptoQuikRead_082 - Exploring Lightning Network Routing

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Channel balances, gateway routing nodes, non-advertised channels, buffer capital, source routing, onion routing, bridge channels, and atomic multi-pat...

CryptoQuikRead_081 - What we Talk About When We Talk About Blockchain

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"the supposedly naive crypto-anarchists types may be the only ones actually grounded in reality, while the supposedly pragmatic, business-oriented, “...

CryptoQuikRead_080 - Amid Chaos, Our Decentralized Future is Being Built

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“These prospects have stirred a hive mind of dreamers and fueled an unprecedented bout of economic speculation. We don't know where it's headed. But...

CryptoQuikRead_079 - The Security Token Thesis

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Is the future of finance an internet of interoperable and programmable tokens?  Stephen McKeon covers the possibilities in his Security Token thesis....

CryptoQuikRead_078 - Tari Blockchain for Digital Assets on Monero

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Kuebler at Bitcoin magazine gives us an introduction into Tari, the sidechain for digital assets and the Lightning Network built on top of Monero...

CryptoQuikRead_077 - Ethereum Blockchain Exceeds 1TB!

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

@StopAndDecrypt gives us an excellent breakdown of  the state of the over-stressed Ethereum blockchain.  Do the trends spell disaster for the smart ...

CryptoQuikRead_076 - The Verge Hack, Explained

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An excellent breakdown of the recent attacks and corresponding vulnerabilities in the Verge cryptocurrency.  From Daniel Goldman and The Abacus Crypt...

CryptoQuikRead_075 - Homo Sapiens, Evolution, Money & Bitcoin

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An exploration of history, anthropology, communication and evolution searching for the answers to what money is, what Bitcoin is, and why this innov...

CryptoQuikRead_074 - Securing Your Financial Sovereignty

21 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The true disruptive potential of Bitcoin is that we can guarantee our own financial sovereignty without trusting anyone else.  Don’t be a second cl...

CryptoQuikRead_073 - Introducing TxTenna: Decentralizing the Last Mile in Bitcoin

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Building a robust, censorship resistant, and globally available financial network, reliance on centralized networking infrastructure becomes one of th...

CryptoQuikRead_072 - Another Game Changer | Blockstream's Liquid

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Liquid is finally arriving! The sidechain that could be a game changer for scalability, custodial trust, exchange privacy, and overall speed and liqui...

CryptoQuikRead_071 - Why Blockchain is Hard

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Are Bitcoin maximalists just cultist fools?  Or are they realists who have yet to see a solid case for alternative blockchains?  Hitting Jimmy Song'...

CryptoQuikRead_070 - Joe Lubin & Jimmy Song Bet Over Blockchain 'Magic Dust'

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The most entertaining panel discussion so far @Consensus2018 was between Joe Lubin, Amber Baldet, and Jimmy Song.  Song met the panel with uninhibite...

CryptoQuikRead_069 - The State of Cryptocurrency Mining

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This may be one of the most important articles I’ve read to date.  If you think you know about the intricacies, costs, and dynamics of ASIC manufac...

CryptoQuikRead_068 - New Ideas Energize Ethereum, True Signaling Solution Still Elusive

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

New ideas take the stage at the EIP:0 meeting.  Governance, Inflation, Social Consensus, funds recovery and more.  Reading one of Rachel O’Leary’...

CryptoQuikRead_067 - Giacomo Zucco's Epic Twitter Thread

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

[Trigger Warning!] Giacomo Zucco recently delivered an epic Twitter thread detailing why he thought bcash supporters were stupid.  He may not be the...

CryptoQuikRead_066 - Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Szabo's excellent essay on the specific trade-offs that empower Satoshi's brilliant solution to the scaling of trust across human institutions.  List...

CryptoQuikRead_065 - Lightning User Experience, A Day in the Life of Carol

08 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With so many new features, tricks, and protocol changes, what will it be like to use lightning?  What will Carol, the user, need to know?  Listen to...

CryptoQuikRead_064 - The Future of Bitcoin - What Lightning Could Look Like

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Splicing Payments, Submarine Swaps, Atomic Swaps, Dual-Funded Channels, Eltoo, Channel Factories, AMPS, and More!  Listen to Aaron's recent article t...

CryptoQuikRead_063 - Atomic Swaps, How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Lightning network is a new protocol layer that not only has implications for Bitcoin payments, but could hugely impact many altcoins, decentralize...

CryptoQuikRead_062 - This New Scaling Layer Could Make Lightning More Effective

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An introduction to Channel Factories and the concept of a new Layer 2 protocol that could shift the Lightning Network into Layer 3.  Is this anothe...

CryptoQuikRead_061 - Eltoo - A Simplified Update Mechanism for Lightning

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lightning is a fascinating protocol with enormous potential, but also many challenges.  A nee mechanism for updating channel states may work to solve...

CryptoQuikRead_060 - Nick Szabo The Mysterious Blockchain Titan

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Szabo is undeniably one of the most influential thinkers and pioneers in the Cryptoconomy.  Learn more of his history and his works in this arti...

CryptoQuikRead_059 - Hashing Last Weeks Big Topics April 22-28

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

ERC20 bugs, Forking the forked BCH fork, Will we ever get Parity coins back, and Does France want you to move your ICO to their country?  This and mo...

CryptoQuikRead_058 - The Genesis Files: How David Chaum Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Chaum’s work would inspire a group of cryptographers, hackers and activists, connected through a mailing list. It was this group — which includ...

CryptoQuikRead_057 - The 17 Millionth Bitcoin is about to be Mined

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean that we are crossing the 17 millionth Bitcoin in existence?  In a world where sound money has gone extinct, Bitcoin stands alone as...

CryptoQuikRead_056 - Five Myths About Bitcoin’s Energy Use

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin mining is useless, it unnecessarily pollutes, its worse than credit cards, and its going to boil the oceans!! Are these inspired revelations, ...

CryptoQuikRead_055 - Bullish: The Return of the South Korean Premium

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Are we likely to see another 2014 extended bear market, or have the bulls returned?  Listen to the article from UnBlock.net, “Bullish Signal: The R...

CryptoQuikRead_054 - The Long Road To Segwit

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The segwit protocol upgrade was the biggest and most controversial software change in Bitcoin's history.  Listne to Aaron Van Wirdum's article at Bi...

CryptoQuikRead_053 - Pieter Wuille Chapioning Bitcoin Development

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So who are the people behind Bitcoin's past improvements and who are building its future?  Today we have an article from CryptoCoreMedia.com introduc...

CryptoQuikRead_052 - Mining Centralization Scenarios

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Is Bitcoin really decentralized if we consider the enormous market dominance and hash power of Bitmain and the largest mining pools?  Listen to Jimmy...

CryptoQuikRead_051 - Its Too Late - Nothing Can Stop the Bitcoin Protocol

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"In 3 years no one will be talking about Bitcoin."  Miguel Cuneta has something to say about that claim.  Listen to find out!Don't forget to check o...

CryptoQuikRead_050 - Don’t Count Your FUD Before Lightning Strikes

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're back in action!  In the follow-up to Aaron van Wirdum's excellent explanatory series, I decided to tackle 15 common claims against the Lightnin...

CryptoQuikRead_049 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 3

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Completing the Lightning Puzzle with Part 3 of Understanding the Lightning Network.  The riveting conclusion of Aaron van Wirdum's series on the Ligh...

CryptoQuikRead_048 - Understanding The Lightning Network Part 2

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Diving deeper down the Lightning rabbit hole with Part 2!  How do we turn payment channels into a secure and trustless network?  Listen to hear mor...