A Reading: The Technical Foundation of Bitcoin Maximalism
Citizen Bitcoin
English - May 24, 2018 16:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsTechnology Business bitcoin crypto cryptocurrency cryptoassets blockchain economics society technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Brady reads through and discusses three recent Twitter threads that explain the technical foundation of bitcoin maximalism: bitcoin is a protocol for the transfer of value over the internet and the history of internet protocols demonstrates that only one will win.
Links from the show below.
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Links from the show:
@MeniRosenfeld thread on why it is important to understand how bitcoin works:
https://twitter.com/MeniRosenfeld/status/998712581899595776
@jmcorgan thread on "cargo-cult engineering" in the "blockchain space":
https://twitter.com/jmcorgan/status/996434257026453506
@arbedout thread on early internet protocol developer Michael Padlipsky:
https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/995277494801588224