Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
Read_463 - A Symphony of Positivity [Eric Wall]
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It takes two nudges to convert a nocoiner. The vast majority of people got their very first nudge in 2017. These people are now primed for that secon...
Chat #51 - The Death of Nuance with Aleks Svetski
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's chat is with the brilliant and always entertaining Aleks Svetski (https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski). On the state of the world, our turbulent ...
Read_462 - 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin [Lyn Alden]
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin is more easily verifiable than gold, in terms of being a reserve asset and being used as collateral. It’s more frictionless to transfer tha...
Guy's Take #36 - Walking Tall
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does having savings, & the incentives reestablished by sound money, do to a person's *character?* How does it change who we are when we have ...
Read_461 - When Bitcoin Melts The System, Prosperity Steps In [Thibaud Marechal]
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The logical construct behind the dissection of today’s evils is actually very simple: money is broken; fix the money, fix the world." - Thibaud Mar...
Read_460 - The Hard Forks that Didn't Dilute Bitcoin [Nic Carter]
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If any of these forks had meaningfully gained ground relative to Bitcoin, the critics would have had a point. What’s the point of a monetary networ...
Shitcoin Insider #002 - The Pungent Smells of a Bitcoin Fork
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back with another episode! In #2 we dive into the increasingly irrelevant fork of Bitcoin. What are they, where did they come from, and what exactly i...
Read_459 - Call me Ishmael [BitMex]
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"One can use a “brainwallet”. Refugees need to carry nothing with them, all they would need to do is remember a Bitcoin wallet passphrase. Funds, ...
Read_458- The Lightning Liquidity Marketplace [Peter Chawaga]
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Lightning Labs is positioning this release as a step toward an ecosystem of Lightning-based financial products, which it called “LiFi.” - Peter...
Read_457 - Our Most Brilliant Idea [Robert Breedlove]
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"When governments play God, civilizations burn in Hell." - Robert Breedlove The 3 pillars of free markets all hinge on fair, honest, reliable money. ...
Read_456 - Bitcoin at 12 [Nic Carter]
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I believe Bitcoiners have this in common. They recognize that they have undertaken a near-hopeless task. Creating a global, neutral, apolitical settl...
Guy's Take #35 - The Next Domino...
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We may have just seen the beginnings of central banks entering the Bitcoin game theory. The game is about to get real. Bitcoin has suddenly broken on...
Read_455 - Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History [Brandon Quittem]
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Individuals can opt-out of their local currency by joining the Bitcoin life raft. Protect purchasing power, rather than go down with the sinking ship...
Read_454 - The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption [Nic Carter]
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you cannot sell your energy anywhere, the existence of a global buyer for energy is a godsend." - N...
Read_453 - Lies, Deception, & Unnatural Money [Nik Hoffman]
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"money printing only “works” if the majority of people don’t even realize that it is steadily devaluing their earnings and savings. People must ...
Read_452 - How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom [Jim Epstein]
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It had a big impact on May, who melded the "Other Plane" with "Galt's Gulch" from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was a safe haven for rational and ...
Chat #50 - Dawn of the Age of Bitcoin with Erik Cason
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin and the cryptographic systems that empower it, are not merely another new tech to make use of. They are a fundamental shift in the ability to ...
Read_451 - Multisig Appreciation Day [Marty Bent]
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"When compared to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds or "fine art" that act as stores of value for many individuals, bitcoin that is held in a multisig ...
Read_450 - Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover [Roy Sheinfeld]
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Breez wallet makes some major announcements today with their first release candidate of the wallet into the wild. Bringing the dream of a fully non-cu...
Guy's Take #34 - TAPROOT IS MERGED!!
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A major step toward the next era of Bitcoin was made today. The code is final, and it is now in the Bitcoin codebase as of today. The next steps are a...
Read_449 - Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole [Knut Svanholm]
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Value is a strange concept because while it is arguably very real, it is entirely subjective, and because of this there is no yardstick or kilogram t...
Chat #49 - The Tahini's Bitcoin Standard
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the dominoes continue to fall, we chat with the owner of the amazing Tahini's restaurant on their journey to a Bitcoin Standard. Why Bitcoin? What ...
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 ...