"Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody's side. All the parties would send their input to this god. God would reliably determine the results and return the output. In addition, God, being the ultimate in confessional discretion, would ensure that no party would learn anything more about the other party's input than they could learn from their own input and the output."  - Nick Szabo Another great piece by Szabo about the implications of a multi-party virtual computer and the incredible possibilities that such a protocol could open up. With amazing foresight, Szabo wrote this piece in 1997, detailing many of the trade-offs and complications in creating a shared system just like Satoshi's.  Is Bitcoin The God Protocol he hoped to see? Don't forget to check out the collection at the Nakamoto Institute & Szabo's Unenumerated blog: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/ https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/08/mutually-private-computation.html Be sure to follow @nickszabo4 and the @NakamotoInst on twitter! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

This one should not be skipped!    There is a fascinating precedent set by case law and the long battles over PGP and US "munitions" laws, that gives us a rather clear conclusion on how Bitcoin should be treated by the US government.  The short version?  Bitcoin is speech, plain and simple, and should be subject to a total of *0* federal or state laws on money transmission, KYC/AML, financial regulations, etc. This is not an opinion, but an objective and clear truth. Listen to a thorough argument from @beautyon_ explaining exactly why. Don't forget to drop some applause on the original article over at the HackerNoon Medium page: https://hackernoon.com/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794 Below is another excellent article by @beautyon_ we covered recently about Bitcoin, and the nature of system critical software: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_254---Bitcoin--Software-Reliability-e46lnu --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message