“In order to be useful for this kind of process, a good must possess a good “hardness”: Any unit of said good should not significantly lose its ability to provide utility if stored over some period of time.” - Giacomo Zucco Beginning an excellent introductory series into the ideas behind Bitcoin from the broadest spectrum available, taking us through the history of value from Cavemen all the way to the Lightning Network. Today we cover the introduction and part 1 of Discovering Bitcoin by Giacomo Zucco Check out the original articles at Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/discovering-bitcoin-a-brief-overview-from-cavemen-to-the-lightning-network https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/discovering-bitcoin-part-1-time Don’t forget to start your long term Bitcoin savings at SwanBitcoin.com/Guy For more great shows from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network, check it out below: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a requirement for a retail payment network to succeed. It builds on Bitcoin which does not optimize for privacy⁵ but transparency and robustness." - Nicolas Burtey & Chris Hunter As excellent piece today from the Galoy Money team that compares the current world of retail payment infrastructure with the incredible potential of a similarly architected, but fundamentally more open, permissionless, private, and censorship resistant payments system built with the Bitcoin & Lightning protocol stack.  An excellent piece with a sobering, but hugely bullish vision of a Bitcoin future. Check out the original and drop some massive applause for this piece at the link below: https://medium.com/galoymoney/lightning-as-a-retail-payment-system-part-1-7463c46342ef Start your stacking if you haven't! The train is leaving the station! swanbitcoin.com/guy will get you $10 free to start, and set your auto-purchase Bitcoin savings plan in motion. Set it and forget it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message