Finishing this week out with a short but wonderful introductory article by Nik Bhatia. Bitcoin is a money, a game, a land grab, works like email, and ultimately, Bitcoin is a human right. My discussion afterward may have gotten a little out of hand with a 40 minute follow-up to a 5 minute article. But when a good article sparks great ideas, sometimes its just hard to stop. ;) Today we read and discuss Nik’s excellent piece, “Bitcoin is a Human Right” https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/bitcoin-is-a-human-right-ff48c0b31134 Don’t forget to follow Nik Bhatia on twitter and medium and check out his other great work: https://twitter.com/timevalueofbtc Check out the other great pieces of Nik's we have covered on the show in the past: The Time Value of Bitcoin: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_143---The-Time-Value-of-Bitcoin-e2ndq2 The Bitcoin Second Layer: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_132---The-Bitcoin-Second-Layer-e2ndqd The Business of Bitcoin Cold Storage: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_182---The-Business-of-Bitcoin-Cold-Storage-e2ndoj The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_109---The-Bitcoin-Risk-Spectrum-e2ndr7 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Tomorrow we have an awesome interview with Roy Sheinfeld all about the Breez Lightning service! To set the stage, today we dive into the recent Lightning Labs Blog post on the incredible improvements in the 0.7-beta release. Followed with a fun discussion on the major developments and what it will mean for the UX, reliability, and further improvements of the Lightning ecosystem. If you need you Lightning Fix, this is where you'll find it. Don't forget to follow the blog and Twitter handles to stay up on what the Lightning Labs team is building!  Development is happening at a lightning fast pace and the team is straight fire! https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/07/01/lnd-v0.7.html https://twitter.com/lightning The amazing team (twitter links included): https://lightning.engineering/team.html Check out the interview that Stephan Livera did with Conner Fromkneckt for a more in depth discussion of Wathctowers: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/83 And the earlier episode mentioned on "Lightning Wumbology!" https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_206---Reckless-to-Wumbology--The-Lightning-Network-Infrastructural-Build-Out-e3235m --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message