12 - Desember

Quantum hackers can bring down Bitcoin: expert, Asia Times, 2021-12-02

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
― Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

How Bitcoin Has Characteristics of Veblen Goods, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-04

“Bitcoin is the first example of a digital good whose transfer stops it from being owned by the sender”
—Saifedean Ammous

How Centralized is Bitcoin Mining Really?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-06

"Everyone seems to think that the D.N.S. system is a big deal, but it's not the heartbeat of the Internet. Who controls the flow of the ocean? Nobody controls it, and it works just fine. There are some things that can't be controlled and should be left distributed."
— Leonard Kleinrock

On the Promise of Web3, Sal Delle Palme, 2021-12-06

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”
― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

90% of All 21 Million Bitcoin Have Now Been Mined, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-13

“By placing a hard cap on the total supply of bitcoins, Nakamoto was clearly unpersuaded by the arguments of the standard macroeconomics textbook and more influenced by the Austrian school, which argues that the quantity of money itself is irrelevant”
—Saifedean Ammous

Lockheed, Ericsson, Bosch help with IEEE blockchain identity standard for IoT, Ledger Insights, 2021-12-15

“I don't even know who you are. I can't trust you. You're not real. Either of you. Fucking Internet people.”
― Wayne Gladstone

5 Courses to Beef Up Your Knowledge of Blockchain Technology , IEEE Spectrum, 2021-12-17

"The older we become, the more important it is to use what we know rather than learn more."
— I. J. Good (1916-2009)

Bitcoin Is Not Dirty: It is Radically Green, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-18

“Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.”
― Vaclav Smil

Will Brands Ruin the Metaverse?, Decrypt, 2021-12-18

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)

Can we get blockchains to talk to each other?, Freethink, 2021-12-18

"I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger."
— Gavin Andresen

Would Keynes have bought Bitcoin?, the Conversation, 2021-12-23

“…about these matters there is no scientific basis on which to form any calculable probability whatsoever. We simply do not know.”

— John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Software is Eating the State, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-23

"The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains."
— Bernard-Henri Levy

China’s crypto crackdown sparks Thai crypto-mining boom, Al Jazeera, 2021-12-29

“Ultimately it’s good for the network for mining to be expensive. It makes it that much harder for a well financed attacker to dominate the network.”
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

Bitcoin is a One-Way Hash Function, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-31

“Bitcoin is the hardest money ever invented: growth in its value cannot possibly increase its supply; it can only make the network more secure and immune to attack”
—Saifedean Ammous

The Great Reset Triggers a Bitcoin Network Upgrade, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-12-31

“Whereas in a modern central bank the new money created goes to finance lending and government spending, in Bitcoin the new money goes only to those who spend resources on updating the ledger”
—Saifedean Ammous

100 NFT Collections Surpass $20 Billion in Volume — Cryptopunks, Bored Apes Capture Top Volumes, Bitcoin.com, 2021-12-31

“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
― Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)