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Bitcoin Intro

Alican Vergin
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  • Oct 17, 2021
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Shelling Out: The Origins of Money
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  • By Nick Szabo
  • 2002
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The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern humans to solve problems of cooperation that other animals cannot – including problems of reciprocal altruism, kin altruism, and the mitigation of aggression. These precursors shared with non-fiat currencies very specific characteris
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Ross Stevens & Michael Saylor Discuss Bitcoin
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  • By Michael Saylor, Ross L. Stevens
  • Feb 4, 2021
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Michael Saylor (CEO of MicroStrategy) and Ross Stevens (CEO of Stone Ridge) discusses about bitcoin; its advantages on fiat money and its potential
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The Use of Knowledge in Society
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  • By Friedrich A. Hayek
  • 1945
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Hayek proposes that the problem of a rational economic order is how to secure the best use of resources known to any member of society for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know. Contributing to the difficulties in solving the problem is that no person ever has all the available
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The Bitcoin Standard
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  • By Saifedean Ammous
  • Apr 24, 2018
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Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide, controlled by nobody. Can this young upstart money challenge the global monetary order? Economist S
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But how does bitcoin actually work?
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  • By Grant Sanderson
  • Jul 7, 2017
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The math behind cryptocurrencies. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com/ Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/btc-thanks And by Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai/join/ Some people have asked if this channel accepts contributions in cryptocurrency form. As a matter of fact, it does: http:/
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Consensus Algorithms, Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin
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  • By Andreas Antonopoulos
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An academic lecture by Andreas M. Antonopoulos explaining the consensus algorithm, "Proof of Work", used by bitcoin and many other blockchains. Andreas is a ...
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Gradually then Suddenly Pt 1 - Killing the FUD with Parker Lewis
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  • By Peter McCormack, Parker Lewis
  • Jun 9, 2021
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In this interview, I talk to Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital. We discuss money as a coordination function of society, Bitcoin's energy usage, and why you cannot copy Bitcoin. SHOW NOTES: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/gradually-then-suddenly-pt-1-killing-the-
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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better · Gwern.net
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  • By Gwern
  • May 27, 2011
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2011 essay on how Bitcoin’s long gestation and early opposition indicates it is an example of the ‘Worse is Better’ paradigm in which an ugly complex design with few attractive theoretical properties compared to purer competitors nevertheless successfully takes over a niche, survives, and becomes gr
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Inventing Bitcoin
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  • By Yan Pritzker
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Learn how bitcoin works before you invest. Short two hour read. No technical experience required.
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Money, blockchains, and social scalability
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  • By Nick Szabo
  • Feb 9, 2017
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Blockchains are all the rage. The oldest and biggest blockchain of them all is Bitcoin, which over its eight-year history so far starshipped in value from 10,000 bitcoins per pizza (before there were exchanges that priced bitcoin in traditional currencies) to over $1,000 per bitcoin. As of this writ
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The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules
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  • By Jonathan Bier
  • Nov 16, 2021
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This book covers Bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each Bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules. It is not possible to cover every t
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