Our goal with Nakamoto is to create a venue for technical, philosophical, and cultural writing that is of interest to the community as a whole, for beginner and expert alike. We want to discuss what is important even if not new, and avoid what is new yet unimportant.
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All Nakamoto contributors are pro-Bitcoin (BTC) for the long-term. We believe a commitment to the success of Bitcoin reflects core values of our community. Beyond that, we are ecumenical and publish a variety of points of view. See our contributors here:http://nakamoto.com/about#contributors …
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Our first article is from
@balajis. "Over the 2020s, Bitcoin will become the flag of technology, because it represents the explicit encoding of the implicit values of the tech community. It's not just software — it is a Schelling point and a symbol."https://nakamoto.com/bitcoin-becomes-the-flag-of-technology/ …Show this thread -
Our 2nd piece is from
@VitalikButerin, on the design of credibly neutral mechanisms. 1. Don’t write specific people or outcomes into the mechanism 2. Stay open source and publicly verifiable 3. Keep it simple 4. And don’t change it too oftenhttps://nakamoto.com/credible-neutrality/ …Show this thread -
A wonderful piece by
@lopp on the key properties of Bitcoin. - Consensus - Trust minimization - Decentralization - Censorship resistance - Pseudonymity - Open source & collaboration - Permissionless - Fungibility - Forward compatibility ... and morehttps://nakamoto.com/what-are-the-key-properties-of-bitcoin …Show this thread -
A beginner's guide to
#defi by@ljxie of Scalar Capital and Coinbase, covering: - stablecoins - decentralized lending/borrowing - dexes - collateral and identity - composability - risk management - and resources for further readinghttps://nakamoto.com/beginners-guide-to-defi/ …Show this thread -
What was the defining cultural trait of Coinbase during their rise from tiny startup to multibillion dollar behemoth? As former Coinbase VP
@dwr explains, it was their pragmatism.https://nakamoto.com/coinbases-pragmatic-crypto-culture/ …Show this thread -
In the pre-privacy days of the web, users broadcast unencrypted data to whoever was listening. Then HTTPS happened.
@zooko and@jswihart argue that we're in a similar pre-privacy era of blockchains. And now Zcash is happening.https://nakamoto.com/zcash-the-https-of-blockchains/ …Show this thread -
As the founder of TechCrunch, Michael Arrington (
@arrington) saw the promise of the internet early, went all in, and became the most important tech journalist of the Web 2.0 era. Today, he's all in on crypto. He explains why — and why it will take years.https://nakamoto.com/it-will-take-years-for-smart-people-to-understand-cryptocurrencies/ …Show this thread
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