Kjedebrev Oktober 2023

Srikanth Lakshmanan: The Need For Regulatory Transparency and Accountability Around Digital Money, the Wire, 2023-10-02

"Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated."
― Slavoj Žižek

Cryptoverse: 'It's a knife fight' as traders get tokenized, Reuters, 2023-10-03

"Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design."
— Jacob Appelbaum

Bitcoin Price Up 3.6 Billion Percent Since It Was First Priced Above Zero, Bitcoin Magazine, 2023-10-05

“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

China links digital yuan to Hong Kong faster payments for Asian Games, Ledger Insights, 2023-10-06

"If You Want To Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want To Go Far, Go Together."
~ African Proverb​

John Naughton: Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers, the Guardian, 2023-10-07

"There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum description"
― Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

Modern monetary theory, Delancey Place, 2023-10-12

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
—Manfred Eigen (1927-2019)

China uses digital RMB to settle first cross border oil transaction, Ledger Insights, 2023-10-20

“Core participants tend to focus on transactions rather than investing in the long-term effort to build sustainable, trust-based relationships on the edge.”
― John Seely Brown

Privacy Is A Group Effort, Bitcoin Magazine, 2023-10-27

“Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.”
― Bruce Schneier

Musk wants X to replace the need for a bank – report, Ledger Insights, 2023-10-27

"Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank."
― Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

What Is Commodity Money?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2023-10-27

“There are 3 eras of currency: Commodity based, politically based, and now, math based.”
— Chris Dixon

31. oktober er det forøvrig 15 år siden Satoshi Nakamoto annonserte Bitcoin White Paper; finnes fortsatt på samme nettadresse: www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf