Bitcoin Audible Guy Swann

"Today historians focus on the symptoms of Rome’s fall, the consequences: The moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed-out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know these well - in fact we're living through many of them. What's a lot more interesting is the why. Because that's how you stop it." — Peter St. Onge



Are we living through the Fall of Rome? There are so many parallels with the United States empire today and the Roman Empire of so long ago that its hard to ignore. It's difficult to not think we will see the same fate when we experience so many of the same symptoms, with all of the same underlying causes. But do we have a way out? Is there an alternative? Peter breaks it down for us in another great piece, don't miss it.



Check out the original article and Peter's amazing newsletter at: Are we Living the Fall of Rome? - Peter St Onge, Ph.D.

Check out the other great episodes and resources discussed in the commentary:

Chat\_81 - An Austrian View of US Collapse with Peter St. Onge - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify

Read\_602 - Bitcoin's Peaceful Revolution, A New Hope for Humanity [Peter St Onge - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify



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"If the merchant wants the bitcoin and you pay in fiat_, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction on to them. And paying your valued vendors in bitcoin is the opposite of mutually assured destruction–it's mutually assured survival." — Parker Lewis

Ultimately, the decision to accept Bitcoin as payment will be driven by the fact that those merchants understand the value of Bitcoin and why it is expected to store value into the future. What does that mean for how we think about finding our way to a Bitcoin future? Parker Lewis is back with another great piece, on the "Pay Me In Bitcoin Theory."



Check out the original article at: Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory

The playlist to the entire Gradually, Then Suddenly series in audio: Gradually, Then Suddenly Series - playlist by Guy | Spotify

Another great piece suggested in the commentary: Read\_724 - The Virtue of Selfishness - The Objectivist Ethic [Ayn Rand] - Bitcoin Audible | Podcast on Spotify.



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"If you want to change the world, start with yourself." — Mahatma Ghandi




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"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to enable proof-of-stake as a second layer system instead of a stand alone base layer are not the same. #Proof-of-stake is essentially a #federation, but where anyone can join and can't be stopped from doing so, and with a mechanism to punish members for acting malicious. As a base layer that creates all kinds of existential issues, like the objectivity of a slashing penalty. Proof-of-stake as a second layer does not have that problem when the bonds for slashing are on the main chain, governed by proof-of-work."

We have a new addition to the sidechain discussion with the announcement of "Spiderchains," a novel approach to the peg in/out model. Enalbing a proof of stake system that uses the underlying Bitcoin chain as the ultimate source of time and finality. The interesting thing? Not a single change to Bitcoin is necessary to make it work, so one way or the other, it's going to happen. Find out more...



Check out the original article at: Spiderchains, a Proof of Stake L2

Lopp's Spiderchain Article: An Introduction to Spiderchain

Bitcoin Audible: Read 562 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 1 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]



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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite." — William Blake


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"This has been one of the most effective psychological operations that has ever been conducted on the public in human history. The high priests of central banking started running with this narrative and people have come to believe that it is a law of physics. Economies cannot operate efficiently unless there is a steady flow of new monetary units being created and introduced to the economy. If new monetary units aren't being created people will hoard their money and grind the economy to a halt." — Marty Bent



Today we take another angle of attack against the absurd notion that savers are the ones grifting from society, while the counterfeiters are doing a noble service to save us from the evil, ordinary citizens who have earned money and hope to keep it.

Check out the original article and sub to Marty's Bent at: Higher Savings Rates Are Good for the Economy

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"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form." — Calvin Coolidge


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"There are no solutions. There are only trade offs." — Thomas Sowell


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"It means that, given an open-source model, this could help bring about the ability to:


Independently calculate the price of bitcoin using only your full node at any block height
Develop genuine DeFi applications without the need for (or without sole reliance upon) trusted third-party price oracles"

— Daniel Hinton & Steve Jeffress



What if we could know, within a 1% precision, what the price of Bitcoin is, by only using your full node, and no other source of data? How useful could that be in protecting you from false data streams, or for building applications and decentralized marketplaces that could hedge and settle capital in BTC, according to its USD value? If you've been excited about potential solutions to the decentralized market problem, UTXOracle is not one to dismiss.

Check out the original article at: The UTXOracle Model

Links: utxo.live - suredbits

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“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”  ― Isaac Newton






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