Brady Swenson @[email protected]

- Mastodon is a federated and open version of twitter. You can use choose between multiple different competing public and private servers called instances. You can also run and use your own instance which is best practice from a trust perspective. Users can interact and 'follow' across instances.

- DMs are not encrypted so instance admins can read them.

- The bitcoinhackers instance is run by @nvk who we trust to keep it up, protect our privacy, and to not censor us.

UASF was about asserting positive rights – the right to incorporate desired changes as demanded by the majority of the userbase.

NO2X was about negative rights: the right not to be interfered with. The right not to have the protocol tampered with without cause.

This week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap is now available: https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/episodes/Rabbit-Hole-Recap-Week-of-9-3-2018-e25faf

Uncut & Uncensored. Just me, you, and @martybent sifting through this wild week of bitcoin.

Topics:
-Emerging Market currency crises
-Iran give Bitcoin mining the go-ahead
-Ethereum FOMC meeting
-Infura centralization
-ShapeShift
-Casa's new plug and play all-in-one Bitcoin full node + Lightning node
-Discussions of a new Bitcoin testnet

(Available on all major podcast apps by searching 'tales from the crypt')

Two things I think underappreciated about Bitcoin scaling in the near future: (1) Schnorr signature aggregation is a huge deal because what's vastly more important than the size of a block is *how many signatures a full node needs to verify per second*, and aggregation reduces it dramatically, (2) sig aggregation is a non-trivial endeavour, to say the least - it's *much* harder than just implementing a Schnorr signature (which has benefits on its own, to be clear).

@nic yes, profitable, self-sustainable, world class bitcoin education. I'd love to chat with you about it. You interested?

@nic It doesn't surprise me that Roger is doing this. He is the AnCap Bernie Sanders so he needs to throw us a bone once in a while to let us know how down he is with the cause.

Overall a good thing for sure, though I no longer think Roger is misguided; he's a sociopath and understands what gets anarchists on his side.

"The US can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default." - Alan Greenspan

@BitcoinBelle Problem is, #craigwright is a con-man. I'm sure he had all kinds of self-substantiated lies to draw people in. The one thing that really bothers me is how he plans to use #nChain to "Cash Out" by #patent trolling. If nothing else, this shows how much of a fraud he is. Guess who is in the center of the current #bcash drama over the November #fork? Yep, our boy Craig. He can go straight to hell, in my opinion. #faketoshi #scammers #rogerver

“It is impossible for Bitmain to divest their BCH holdings onmarket. Full stop. The BCH markets are not liquid enough to absorb the amount of coins Bitmain is still holding” [email protected]

Listen to @CryptoHerpesCat's epic piece on the Bitmain drama!

https://cryptoconomy.podbean.com/e/cryptoquikread_131-bch-update-bitmain-bch-the-ipo-what-it-all-actually-means/