Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
Read_448 - Crypto, Truth & Power [Erik Cason]
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto, Whoever he/she/it/them is/was, was first and foremost a strategist of the cypherpunk traditions. This is extremely...
Guy's Take #33 - The Canary in the Coal Mine [On Marty's 839th Bent]
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's been a bit of Bad News. The canary doesn't seem to be moving, and its time that we take our situation seriously. As Bitcoin becomes both more ...
Read_447 - Bitcoin Isn't Slow, Its Highly Secure [Vlad Costea]
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"So the next time somebody says that “shitcoin X” is faster than Bitcoin or claims that Bitcoin is slow, show them the criteria that truly count i...
Read_446 - The Great Plague of Shitcoinery [Thibaud Marechal]
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Battles in the money market aren’t about incremental technology features, but fundamental monetary properties. Bitcoin is a pragmatic monetary evol...
Guy's Take #32 - Rights, Incentives & the Bitcoin System
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are rights and can Bitcoin enable us to make better sense of them? It is very common to hear that education is a "right," that healthcare, a fai...
Shitcoin Insider #001 - DeFi & Ponzinomics
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Were you ever just deathly curious about what Defi really is? What is going on behind the scenes of the token wrapped token printing yield machines? O...
Chat #48 - Sovereignty in a Box with Matt Hill
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are we on the verge of a new revolution in personal computing? Matt Hill and the team at Start9Labs believes we are, and are helping to build our path...
Read_445 - A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics [Alex Gladstein]
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with all of their scary language about fraud and risk, when I send an on-chain Bitcoin transactio...
Read_444 - Things Bitcoiners Don't Want to Hear [Shinobi]
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surfaces...
Read_443 - On Bitcoin's User Experience [DerGigi]
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Some concepts are essential, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” - Gigi En excellent piece from SwanBitcoi...
Read_442 - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential [Ben Carman]
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously tho...
Chat #47 - Magic Gold with Michael Saylor
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after they have announced a $425 million investment into Bitcoin. With a move to making Bitcoin...
Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement...
Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participan...
Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum]
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real suc...
Guy's Take - Open Source Society in a Patented World [#31]
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came...
Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha]
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious a...
Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal]
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And wit...
Bitcoin is One for All - By Parker Lewis
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unabridged, Uninterrupted, & unmatched. Parker Lewis's most recent installment of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series. Read the original and ch...
Chat #46 - Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property in the age of Bitcoin
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I'm like 'I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,' it's ingenious right?" - @NKinsella ...
Read_436 - Don't Fear the Reaper [Nic Carter]
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply schedule. Any alteration produces something that is decidedly non-Bitcoin." ...
Read_435 - Discovering Bitcoin #7 - Missing Pieces [Giacomo Zucco]
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"As we conclude our “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the use of digital signatures and of the CoinJoin paradigm to explore concepts ...
Read_434 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 2 [Parker Lewis]
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The same is not true of the current monetary system. In the current structure, dollars can either be earned by delivering value to others within the ...
Read_433 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 1 [Parker Lewis]
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"By manipulating price levels, the Fed isn’t just preventing smaller intermittent fires from naturally running their course while creating larger fi...
Hal’s Day - Bitcoin & Me [reboot]
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing back an old post for Hal’s Day. 6 years ago today we lost Hal Finney. This post was one of his last on the BitcoinTalkForums, knowing he wo...
Read_432 - Discovering Bitcoin #6 - Digital Contracts [Giacomo Zucco]
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the idea of using digital puzzles as a way to reproduce scarcity, and on the imp...
Masters & Slaves of Money - By Robert Breedlove
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth ...
Read_431 - True Names Not Required [Gigi]
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We need to be able to disassociate from our identities to protect ourselves. We need the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves. We need the possibi...
Read_430 - Accepting Scarcity, A Bitcoin Meditation [Reed Wommack]
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“ignorance or delusion is one of the three causes of our suffering (the other two are attachment and aversion). So when we are deluded about reali...
Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it's "har...
Guy's Take - The Dominoes are Falling [#30]
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We find the global acceptance, brand recognition, ecosystem vitality, network dominance, architectural resilience, technical utility, and community...
Read_428 - Discovering Bitcoin #4 - A Wrong Turn & A New Plan [Giacomo Zucco]
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"While it was pretty difficult for him to take over the very decentralized process of people exchanging gold nuggets, there are now a few big, public,...
Read_427 - The Lightning Paradox [Alex B]
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Jevons paradox is a staple of environmental economics used to describe how the introduction of more efficient technologies tends to increase the ...
Read_426 - Discovering Bitcoin #3 Introducing Money [Giacomo Zucco]
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The goods that fare better in hardness, scaleness and darkness will compete, and the first one to reach a critical mass will start swallowing the oth...
Chat_45 - Bitcoin & an Energy Revolution, A panel at the VOB Conf
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We have got a great chat that I have been unable to share until now! What is the present and future of Bitcoin mining and the consumption of energy. I...
Read_425 - If You Only Read One Thing Before Buying Bitcoin... [Sylvain Saurel]
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"By buying Bitcoin, you are not making a mistake. But if you buy Bitcoin and stop there after your first purchase, you’re making a mistake." - Sylva...
Chat_44 - 2 Bitcoiners Talking Bitcoin with Citizen Bitcoin
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is there anything more to say? Feeling insanely bullish in a chat with Brady of Citizen Bitcoin and SwanBitcoin fame. Don't miss a great chat with 2 h...
Read_424 - Discovering Bitcoin #2 - About People [Giacomo Zucco]
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"it clearly involves moral, political and ethical aspects, like the importance of privacy as a human right. I will use the term “darkness” to ad...
Read_423 - 3 Reasons I'm Investing in Bitcoin [Lyn Alden]
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If a few percentage points of a portfolio are allocated to it, there is a limited risk of loss... On the other hand, it’s not out of the question f...
Read_422 - Discovering Bitcoin - From Cavemen to Lightning, Part #1 [Giacomo Zucco]
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“In order to be useful for this kind of process, a good must possess a good “hardness”: Any unit of said good should not significantly lose its ...
Chat_43 - Totally Bitcoin & Changing Minds with Keyvan Davani
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A long and intense discussion on the vast chasms between the normal view of the world, and that which Bitcoin instills and requires of people. In the ...
Read_421 - Lightning as a Retail Payment System [Nicolas Burtey]
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a requirement for a retail payment network to succeed. It builds on Bitcoin which does not optimize for ...
Guy's Take on the Bill Bert Podcast with Anthony Pompliano [#29]
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Guy's Take is a response to the Bill Bert podcast with Anthony Pompliano! What did Pomp miss? What did he get wrong? Lets do something a littl...
Read_420 - BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next [Aaron Van Wirdum]
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"This risk is probably best countered by offering enough time to upgrade. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees on how much time is enough; some think fo...
Read_419 - Twitter Hack & The Need for a User-Owned Internet [Nic Carter]
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Trusted third parties are security holes” isn’t just a slogan; it’s a concept that millions of people will have intuitively grasped for the f...
Read_418 - Bitcoin, More Than An Inflation Hedge [Nick Neuman]
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin’s capped supply is one of its most well-known features, and it is regularly cited as a hedge against inflation caused by government money p...
Chat_42 - Project Snow White & the Raleigh Bitcoin Meetup
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
• DeFi • Prices & Markets • Bitcoin & the global power struggle • Political insanity • Apolitical? Super-Political? Omni-Political?...
Read_417 - On Schelling Points, Network Effects, & Lindy [Willem Van Den Bergh]
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"This rationale also completely demolishes the “blockchain not Bitcoin” mantra as the Schelling point is purely based on bitcoin the money, not bl...
Read_416 - The Root of Money? [Atlas Shrugged]
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, “Don’t let him disturb you. You know, money i...
Read_415 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 2 [Robert Breedlove]
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics story, and start to see it as a crime story, we are beginning to get the true picture.”...
Read_414 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 1 [Robert Breedlove]
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth ...
Read_413 - Bitcoin, A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Jimmy Song]
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The system is rigged." - Jimmy Song How does out monetary system work and what does it even mean for the government and central bank to have printed...
Read_412 - Bitcoin's Town Square [Zane Pocock]
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated." - Zane Pocock Today we dig into a unique mental framew...
Read_411 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Phil Geiger]
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Distorting supply only serves to distort a currency’s ability to perform its job of storing and communicating value; it can’t make a currency mor...
Read_410 - Entering the Decade of Lightning [Elizabeth Stark]
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it's like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet." - Elizabeth Stark Today we read an articl...
Chat_42 - Pseu, Guy, & the Future of Bitcoin
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling, privacy, lightning, state chains, institutional solutions, owning your keys, and much more....
Read_409 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite [Rusty Russell]
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you e...
Read_408 - Assange's Extradition & Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom [Nozomi Hayase]
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of ...
Read_407 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin [Vijay Boyapati]
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society." - Vijay Boyapati R...
Read_406 - Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet [Roy sheinfeld]
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1962" - Roy Sh...
Read_405 - Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard [Hasu]
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the network, it has no control over the number of users accessing the network through custodial ...
Read_404 - ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet [Peter Chawaga]
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"ION will decentralize the way that messages and application data is encrypted and exchanged." - ION Announcement With the help of Casa and a number ...
Read_403 - Bitcoin is Antifragile [Parker Lewis]
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“What doesn’t kill the legacy monetary system only makes it weaker. What doesn’t kill bitcoin only makes it stronger. “ - Parker Lewis If you...
Read_402 - Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy [Aaron Van Wirdum]
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“At the moment, the Bitcoin network is improving but is far from as usable and private as it needs to be with authoritarianism and surveillance on t...
GuysTake_28 - Bitcoin & The Layers of Financial Cryptography
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A follow-up to yesterday's incredible read from The Nakamoto Institute by Ian Grigg, The 7 Layers of Financial Cryptography. Today we dig into what th...
Read_401 - Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers [Ian Grigg]
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught b...
Chat_41 - Does Stability Exist? With David & CK from POV Crypto
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joined the guys over at POV Crpyto to talk about the nature of stability and prices. Does price stability even exist, is it something to strive for, o...
Read_400 - Bitcoin Core 0.20 Released! [Aaron Van Wirdum]
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Users can now create a transaction without a signature in the Bitcoin Core GUI using the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) format" - Aaron ...
Chat_40 - ReInventing Bitcoin with Yan Pritzker
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"As it turns out, we had money, we just weren't allowed to take it out of the country. When we left the Soviet Union we were allowed to exchange our r...
Read_399 - Bitcoin as a Startup [Hass McCook]
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"VCs are a group of people demonized in the Bitcoin industry for not understanding Bitcoin’s value proposition. Well, how do you expect a VC to valu...
Read_398 - The Political Theology of Bitcoin [Erik Cason]
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“authority, not truth makes legitimacy... it is truth, not authority that makes legitimacy with Bitcoin.” - Erik Cason Today we dive into a fascin...
Read_397 - How Lightning Will Grow Following BTC's 3rd Halving [Peter Chawaga]
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of the token-based authentication schemes that we already have with centralized providers b...
Chat_39 - Bitcoin Renaissance - with Marty Bent, John Vallis, Alex Gladstein, Elizabeth Prefontaine, & Brady Swenson
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We had a fascinating panel discussion hosted by John Vallis with an amazing group at the Value of Bitcoin Conference. All about the Global Renaissance...
Read_396 - Crypto is Modern Alchemy [Meltem Demirors]
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Early alchemy was concerned with purifying and perfecting certain materials, such as transmuting base metals like lead into noble metals like gold, c...
Read_395 - The Bitcoin v Govt War is Vaporware [Jesse Lawler]
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The world’s national currencies will offer Bitcoin only a sputtering resistance — more in word than deed — and they’ll dwindle into irrelevan...
Chat_38 - Unhashing New Tech with Ruben Somsen
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Statechains, the Atomic Swap Halving, Perpetual One Way Swaps, and more with co-host of the Unhashed Podcast! Ruben Somsen joins us to dive into a ton...
Read_394 - Blockstream Satellite 2.0 [Adam Back, Chris Cook]
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full nodes without even needing the internet? That's right. A massive improvement to the decentralization & alternatives for securing Bitcoin vali...
Read_393 - The Sovereign Individual Investment Thesis [Phil Bonello]
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Encryption reduces the cost of protection and decreases the leverage of violence at scale. This leads to the rise of dissident technology." - Phil ...
Read_000 - The Bitcoin Whitepaper [Satoshi Nakamoto]
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a fi...
Chat_37 - Inevitability of Bitcoin with Parker Lewis
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Finally got the incredible author of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series on the show to have a chat about the nature of Bitcoin, how it so widely mi...
Read_392 - Economics of the Bitcoin Halving [Dominik Stroukal]
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"In other words, Bitcoin already has little monetary inflation, which will drop even further." - Dominik Stroukal Because I love discussion of marke...
Read_391 - Gold & Economic Freedom [Greenspan]
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If ther...
Read_390 - Bitcoin is Common Sense [Parker Lewis]
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It is axiomatic that printing money (or creating digital dollars) does nothing to generate economic activity; it only shifts the balance of powers a...
Read_389 - Dear Family, Dear Friends [DerGigi]
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"As a friend of mine likes to say: Bitcoin is pieces of super-gold flying inside an unstoppable PayPal. It is the best money we ever had." - Gigi A...
Read_388 - Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Human Evolution [Brandon Quittem]
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Mycelial networks act as a resource transport layer and communications network connecting organisms in the biosphere. This enables organisms to volun...
Read_387 - Anatomy of the State - Part 2 [Murray N. Rothbard]
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence" ...
Read_386 - Anatomy of the State - Part 1 [Murray Rothbard]
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism." -Murray N. Rothbard ...
Read_385 - Bitcoin & the Technological Evolution of the Financial System [BitcoinTINA]
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I think of Bitcoin as a conservative investment because it’s so superior to gold. The value of it should wind up at least equal to gold’s..." - B...
Read_384 - A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Brady Swenson]
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We Hodl these truths to be self evident" - Brady A Declaration of Independence for the age of the separation of money and state. When a monetary sys...
Chat_36 - How the Dollar Destroys Society with Bottomshelf Bitcoin
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If finding out how the banking system is systematically ripping you off doesn't make your angry, then you're already dead. Had an awesome discussion ...
Read_383 - The King of Blockchains, How Bitcoin Can Become the Foundation of Web 3.0 [Muneeb Ali]
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we’ll come to realize that it’s hard to beat the security and network effects of Bitcoin." ...
Read_382 - This is Not Capitalism [Allen F. & Sacha M.]
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You are not going to want to miss this incredible piece on exactly how far we have strayed from anything resembling "capitalism," or even the goal of ...
Read_381 - An Important Reminder... [Marty Bent]
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctu...
Read_380 - Choose Your Fiction [Arthur Hayes]
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"All I know is the setup for bitcoin, the hardest form of digital money, could not be better. All manners of trust have evaporated. In order to solve ...
Chat_35 - Catch-22 Trillion with the Raleigh Bitcoiners
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You’re in for a marathon of a meetup today! The Raleigh Bitcoin Crew goes down the rabbit hole with… Infinite money printing Who really runs thing...
Read_379 - Dont be Misled by Red Herrings - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2 [Giacomo Zucco]
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It is the digital equivalent of your physical bank sending private investigators to follow your every move for days after you withdraw cash at the AT...
Read_378 - Bitcoin: A Bold American Future [Conner Brown]
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary intervention after the financial crisis, results have been disappointing. The American people do not need a...
Read_377 - Stop Calling for a Free Market in Money [Sven Schnieders]
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Although I mostly agree with their reasoning and share the enthusiasm for such a free market, I cannot stop being astonished by the naivety of the id...
Read_376 - Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo]
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have ...
Read_375 - A Match Made in the Whitepaper - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco]
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin as a tool for privacy. The entire cypherpunk quest, which Satoshi was an active part of and which the Bitcoin experi...