Bitcoin Primitives
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA discussion of all things bitcoin.
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S1:E17 Digital Cash and Privacy
May 24, 2019 17:23 - 6 minutes - 12 MBI agree with Anonymous that there are problems with the actual use of digital cash in the near term. But it depends to some extent on what problem you are trying to solve. One concern I have is that the move to electronic payments will decrease personal privacy by making it easier to log and record transactions. Dossiers could be built up which would track the spending patterns of each of us. https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives https://nakamotoinstitute.org/digita...
S1:E16 Bit Gold
May 23, 2019 06:33 - 8 minutes - 14.9 MBIn summary, all money mankind has ever used has been insecure in one way or another. This insecurity has been manifested in a wide variety of ways, from counterfeiting to theft, but the most pernicious of which has probably been inflation. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bit-gold/ Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Some works may be subject to other licenses.
S1:E15 The Road to Serfdom
May 15, 2019 16:47 - 16 minutes - 31.1 MBThe Road to Serfdom (German: Der Weg zur Knechtschaft) is a book written between 1940 and 1943 by Austrian British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, in which the author "[warns] of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning."[1] https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
S1:E14 b-money
May 13, 2019 06:05 - 11 minutes - 21.8 MBI will actually describe two protocols. The first one is impractical, because it makes heavy use of a synchronous and unjammable anonymous broadcast channel. However it will motivate the second, more practical protocol. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/b-money/ https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International L...
S1:E13 Ludwig Von Mises
May 09, 2019 20:43 - 22 minutes - 42.2 MBLudwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (29 September 1881–10 October 1973) was one of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century. In the course of a long and highly productive life, he developed an integrated, deductive science of economics based on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act purposively to achieve desired goals. Even though his economic analysis itself was "value-free" — in the sense of being irrelevant to values held by economists —...
S1:E12 The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
May 03, 2019 21:16 - 4 minutes - 8.79 MBFrom: [email protected] (Timothy C. May) Subject: The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 12:11:24 PST Cypherpunks of the World, Several of you at the "physical Cypherpunks" gathering yesterday in Silicon Valley requested that more of the material passed out in meetings be available electronically to the entire readership of the Cypherpunks list, spooks, eavesdroppers, and all. Here's the "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" I read at the September 1992 founding meeting. It...
S1:E11 Crypto-Anarchism
May 03, 2019 20:10 - 13 minutes - 24.9 MBCrypto-anarchism (or crypto-anarchy) is a form of anarchy accomplished through computer technology.[1] Crypto-anarchists employ cryptographic software to evade persecution and harassment while sending and receiving information over computer networks, in an effort to protect their privacy, their political freedom, and their economic freedom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion...
S1:E10 Peter Van Valkenburgh
April 30, 2019 04:24 - 5 minutes - 9.45 MBPeter Van Valkenburgh (born April 25th, 1985) is a Cryptolawyer and Director of Research at Coin Center and Board Member at the Zcash Foundation. [1] [4] [7] He is based in Washington D.C. [7] https://twitter.com/valkenburgh?lang=en http://www.petervv.com https://coincenter.org/peter-van-valkenburgh https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
S1:E9 Tails
April 28, 2019 10:52 - 7 minutes - 13.6 MBTails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. https://www.torproject.org/about/overview#whyweneedtor https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes/index.en.html https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/index.en.html https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/so...
S1:E8 TOR Project
April 23, 2019 07:24 - 6 minutes - 12.6 MBThe goal of onion routing was to have a way to use the internet with as much privacy as possible, and the idea was to route traffic through multiple servers and encrypt it each step of the way. This is still a simple explanation for how Tor works today. https://support.torproject.org https://donate.torproject.org https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files https://www.eff.org https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives https://www.torproject.org/about/history/ C...
S1:E7 Jacob Appelbaum
April 21, 2019 09:52 - 14 minutes - 27.8 MBJacob Appelbaum (born 1 April 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/nsa_targets_pri.html
S1:E6 What is Bitcoin?
April 19, 2019 04:19 - 10 minutes - 20.1 MBBitcoin is a collection of concepts and technologies that form the basis of a digital money ecosystem. Units of currency called bitcoin are used to store and transmit value among participants in the bitcoin network. Bitcoin users communicate with each other using the bitcoin protocol primarily via the internet, although other transport networks can also be used. The bitcoin protocol stack, available as open source software, can be run on a wide range of computing devices, including laptops a...
S1:E5 Bitcoin security model
April 17, 2019 04:56 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MBBitcoin is a distributed consensus network that maintains a secure and trusted distributed ledger through a process called “proof-of-work.” Andreas M. Antonopoulos On Twitter https://www.essaysonbitcoin.com/uploads/3/4/9/6/3496353/essaysonbitcoinv7.pdf https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
S1:E4 The Rise of the CypherPunks
April 15, 2019 07:38 - 22 minutes - 40.8 MBBefore the 1970s, cryptography was primarily practiced in secret by military or spy agencies. But, that changed when two publications brought it into the open: the US government publication of the >Data Encryption Standard and the first publicly available work on public-key cryptography, “New Directions in Cryptography” by Dr Whitfield Diffie and Dr Martin Hellman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HScK4pkDNds JAMESON LOPP Professional Cypherpunk https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-infor...
S1:E3 Julian Assange
April 11, 2019 19:50 - 18 minutes - 33.3 MBJulian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/;[1] born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the founder and director of WikiLeaks.[2] He is currently in police custody in London after having been arrested on 11 April 2019 by the Metropolitan Police Service for breaching his bail conditions in December 2010. Immediately before his arrest, he had been under the protection of Ecuador as an asylum seeker, and had been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012. ...
S1:E2 Evariste Galois
April 08, 2019 17:10 - 14 minutes - 26.6 MBÉvariste Galois (/ɡælˈwɑː/;[1] French: [evaʁist ɡalwa]; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory,[2] two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He died at age 20 from wo...
S1:E1 JoyBubbles
April 04, 2019 23:09 - 7 minutes - 14.2 MBJoybubbles (May 25, 1949 – August 8, 2007), born Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. in Richmond, Virginia, United States, was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four.[1] He had absolute pitch, and was able to whistle 2600 hertz into a telephone, an operator tone also used by blue box phreaking devices. Joybubbles said that he had an IQ of “172 or something".[2] Joybubbles died at his Minneapolis home on August 8, 2007 (aged 58). According to his death certifi...