I 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

S1:E16 Bit Gold

May 23rd, 2019 8m 5s

In 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.

S1:E15 The Road to Serfdom

May 15th, 2019 16m 58s

The 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 gov

S1:E14 b-money

May 13th, 2019 11m 52s

I 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://nakamotoinstit

S1:E13 Ludwig Von Mises

May 9th, 2019 22m 49s

Ludwig 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, deduct

S1:E12 The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

May 3rd, 2019 4m 45s

From: [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 mo

S1:E11 Crypto-Anarchism

May 3rd, 2019 13m 37s

Crypto-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 net

S1:E10 Peter Van Valkenburgh

Apr 30th, 2019 5m 9s

Peter 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 htt

S1:E9 Tails

Apr 28th, 2019 7m 18s

Tails 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. htt

S1:E8 TOR Project

Apr 23rd, 2019 6m 50s

The 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 wor

S1:E7 Jacob Appelbaum

Apr 21st, 2019 14m 37s

Jacob 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

S1:E6 What is Bitcoin?

Apr 19th, 2019 10m 45s

Bitcoin 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 wi

S1:E5 Bitcoin security model

Apr 17th, 2019 8m 49s

Bitcoin 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/essaysonbi

S1:E4 The Rise of the CypherPunks

Apr 15th, 2019 22m 16s

Before 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 publicl

S1:E3 Julian Assange

Apr 11th, 2019 18m 10s

Julian 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

S1:E2 Evariste Galois

Apr 8th, 2019 14m 33s

Évariste 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

S1:E1 JoyBubbles

Apr 4th, 2019 7m 45s

Joybubbles (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 wh

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