Bitcoin Audible

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 article from @AlyssaHertig with @coindesk exploring recent events and what they might mean for the cryptoconomy at large.  Listen for more. Links to the article and relevant resources:https://www.coindesk.com/blockchains-feared-51-attack-now-becoming-regular/https://www.crypto51.app/Mentioned in the commentary: @DZack23@parabolictrav@goorha --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Another from @goorha and @parabolictrav detailing the application and incredible potential of Bitcoin's contractual governance.  A truly global and open platform for economic organization.  Don't miss this one!  Link to the full article and @parabolictrav's medium page:https://medium.com/@parabolicinvestor/introducing-bitcoin-contract-governance-d28eb046ce8b --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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 article by Prateek Goorha (@goorha) and Parabolic Trav to dive into the future of contracts. Be sure to check out the full article for the links and other work by the author:https://medium.com/coinmonks/building-the-bitcoin-economy-the-complete-contract-governance-platform-54f723e88ccf --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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 (@scidexer) plus commentary.Check out the full article at:https://medium.com/@scidexer/increasing-bitcoin-privacy-using-the-lightning-network-or-how-to-delete-the-origin-of-your-bitcoins-3c611d072e40 Also check out the LN visualizer used:https://rompert.com/recksplorer/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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 detailed analysis by coinmetrics.io and hasufly. Check out the full article for the large number of excellent visuals and graphs included:https://medium.com/hasufl/an-analysis-of-batching-in-bitcoin-9bdf81a394e0 Be sure to follow Coinmetrics.io and keep them as a reference for the excellent data they make available:https://coinmetrics.io/ And a few other great sources on batching/payments visualization on Bitcoin:p2sh.infohttps://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/perDay --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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.  Listen to Szabo’s “Trusted Third Parties and Security Holes” from 2001 @nakamotoinstitute Check out the full article and other works at the nakamoto institute as well as to explore the links to dig deeper into the discussion: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Channel balances, gateway routing nodes, non-advertised channels, buffer capital, source routing, onion routing, bridge channels, and atomic multi-path payments. Take a dive into the tech behind Lightning routing with Bryan Vu and the Lightning Labs Blog. Don't forget to check out the full article to see the graphics and explore other great work over at the Lightning Labs Blog:https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/05/30/routing.html --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"the supposedly naive crypto-anarchists types may be the only ones actually grounded in reality, while the supposedly pragmatic, business-oriented, “it’s about the technology, stupid” crowd may prove to be hopelessly confused." Another great article brought to us by Daniel Goldman on the Abacus Crypto Journal exploring the real value of blockchains:https://blog.theabacus.io/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-blockchain-technology-4f7a6a0dc03?token=DmDDUIsWZVtMBI7Q --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

“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 we sense something profound is afoot…”  Don't forget to check out the full article at CoinDesk as well as @mikejcasey's other works:https://www.coindesk.com/amid-chaos-decentralized-future-built/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Is the future of finance an internet of interoperable and programmable tokens?  Stephen McKeon covers the possibilities in his Security Token thesis.  Listen to learn more about the advantages and drawbacks of tokenizing the world. Link to the full article, and many other excellent works by Stephen McKeon and others:https://hackernoon.com/the-security-token-thesis-4c5904761063 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message