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Aaron van Wirdum is the Editor-in-chief at Bitcoin Magazine, a position he has held since August 20241. He is a prominent Bitcoin journalist and author who has been covering the cryptocurrency for over a decade. Van Wirdum recently published his first book, "The Genesis Book," which explores the prehistory of BitcoinThroughout his career, van Wirdum has held various positions at Bitcoin Magazine. He has also worked as a journalist for other cryptocurrency publications such as Cointelegraph and CoinDesk.

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In deze aflevering van 'V for Valentine' hebben we een speciale gast, Aaron van Wirdum, de auteur van 'The Genesis Book'. Hij neemt ons mee op een reis door de geschiedenis van het ontstaan van bitcoin, van de mensen en projecten die deze revolutionaire valuta inspireerden. Een must-see voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in technologie, vrijheid en de toekomst van geld. De Nederlandse versie van Het Genesisboek vind je hier: https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/het-genesisboek/ Word bazige baas

Hierbei handelt es sich um einen überarbeiteten Reupload einer Folge aus Februar 2024.In der heutigen Nodesignal-Folge spricht Jan-Paul mit Jeff und Rene über Aaron van Wirdums neues Buch The Genesis Book, über die Menschen und Projekte, die Bitcoin inspiriert haben. Dies ist der zweite Teil des Gesprächs, der erste Teil findest du unter Folge E162.Von und mit: - Calso - Jan-Paul - René

Hierbei handelt es sich um einen überarbeiteten Reupload einer Folge aus Februar 2024. In der heutigen Nodesignal-Folge spricht Jan-Paul mit Jeff und Rene über Aaron van Wirdums neues Buch The Genesis Book, über die Menschen und Projekte, die Bitcoin inspiriert haben. Dies ist der erste Teil des Gesprächs, der zweite Teil erscheint in der nächsten Folge E163.Von und mit: - Calso - Jan-Paul - René

De blocksize war. Misschien heb je er wel van gehoord. Het was misschien wel de belangrijkste periode in de geschiedenis van bitcoin. Tussen 2014 en 2017 ontstond de discussie rondom de schaalbaarheid van bitcoin. Die discussie ontaardde in een chaos. Ruzie, censuur, achterkamertjes, miscommunicatie, critical bugs, Chinese miners en charlatans: alles kwam voorbij. Uiteindelijk werd de strijd 'gewonnen' de de 'small blockers'. In deze uitzending kijk ik met Wouter Constant en Aaron van Wirdum terug op deze tijd. Koop The Genesis Book hier The Blocksize War - Jonathan Bier Hijacking Bitcoin - Roger Ver Probeer Bitcoin Alpha 2 weken gratis! Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Amdax, Watson Law, HVK Stevens en onze hoofdsponsor Bitvavo. Timestamps (00:00:00) Welkom en Podcast Introductie (00:08:00) Deel 0 - Prehistorie (00:43:00) Deel 1 - Bitcoin XT (01:39:00) Deel 2 - Bitcoin Classic (02:00:00) Deel 3 - Bitcoin Unlimited (02:17:00) Deel 4 - Bitcoin Cash, Segwit2x en de UASF (02:59:00) Deel 5 - Het vervolg (03:20:35) Einde

Wie is Satoshi Nakamoto? Waarom is Bitcoin gelanceerd onder een pseudoniem? Samen met Aaron van Wirdum, wereldwijd bekend als "the Bitcoin Historian", lopen we door de tijdlijn van alle ontwikkelingen die bijgedragen hebben aan Bitcoin. Een geschiedenis die laat zien waarom het pseudoniem nodig was en dat Bitcoin is ontstaan uit puur activisme tegen het financiële systeem!https://thegenesisbook.com/---Deze video is geproduceerd door Café Weltschmerz. Café Weltschmerz gelooft in de kracht van het gesprek en zendt interviews uit over actuele maatschappelijke thema's. Wij bieden een hoogwaardig alternatief voor de mainstream media. Café Weltschmerz is onafhankelijk en niet verbonden aan politieke, religieuze of commerciële partijen.Waardeer je onze video's? Help ons in de strijd naar een eerlijker Nederland, vrij van censuur en Steun Café Weltschmerz en word Stamgast!https://cafeweltschmerz.nl/register/Wil je onze nieuwsbrief ontvangen in je mailbox?https://cafeweltschmerz.nl/nieuwsbrief/Wil je op de hoogte worden gebracht van onze nieuwe video's? Klik hierboven dan op Abonneren!

De Bitcoin ETF's bereikte deze week verschillende mijlpalen. Zo verzamelden alle spot ETF's ter wereld nu zo'n 5% van alle bitcoins; meer dan één miljoen. Uiteraard is het vooral een een Amerikaans feestje. De fondsen van BlackRock en Grayscale hebben samen een half miljoen bitcoin onder beheer. Fondsen buiten de VS zijn niet te verwaarlozen, zoals Canada's Purpose Bitcoin ETF met 27,110 BTC, en uit Duitsland ETC Group Physical Bitcoin Fund, met 21,005 BTC. Samen met producten uit Australië en Hong Kong kom je op dit moment nét boven de 1 miljoen bitcoin uit, al groeit dit totaal natuurlijk hard. Ook rond BlackRock en Grayscale is er nog nieuws. IBIT van BlackRock passeerde na 4,5 maand handel het fonds van Grayscale; GBTC. Dat is opmerkelijk. Ooit begon Grayscale met 630.000 bitcoin in de kluis, maar door meerdere factoren namen veel beleggers afscheid van hun aandelen. Inmiddels heeft BlackRock er 288.500 bitcoin onder beheer, bij Grayscale staat de teller op 287.500. Het zegt wat over de snelle groei van BlackRock én de leegloop bij Grayscale. Ondertussen zijn ook bedrijven weer begonnen met het aankopen van bitcoin (en in zeldzame gevallen zelfs ether). De meest opvallende is Semler Scientific, een Amerikaans bedrijf in medische apparatuur. Zij schaffen voor 40 miljoen bitcoin aan. Hun totale kasreserve bedraagt 62 miljoen, dus ruim de meerderheid bestaat nu uit bitcoin. Zij volgen hierbij het 'playbook' van Microstrategy. Het deed de aandelenkoers veel goeds. Datzelfde kan gezegd worden over Metaplanet, een Japans investeringsbedrijf. Daar werd voor 7 miljoen aan bitcoin gekocht. De koers van het (zeer kleine) aandeel ging maal vijf.  Deze week in de Cryptocast Een speciale editie deze week. Zeven prominente Bitcoiners geven hun mening over de adoptie van de munt. Is Bitcoin een geschikt betaalmiddel? Dragen de ETF's in de VS bij aan adoptie? En hoeveel decentraliteit is er écht nodig? Te gast zijn Sam Wouters, Bart Mol, Jesse de Wit, Bert de Groot, Arnold Hubach, Stef Martens en Aaron van Wirdum.  Met Herbert Blankesteijn bespreken we elke week de toestand van de crypto. Luister live donderdagochtend rond 8:50 in De Ochtendspits, of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De Bitcoin ETF's bereikte deze week verschillende mijlpalen. Zo verzamelden alle spot ETF's ter wereld nu zo'n 5% van alle bitcoins; meer dan één miljoen. Uiteraard is het vooral een een Amerikaans feestje. De fondsen van BlackRock en Grayscale hebben samen een half miljoen bitcoin onder beheer. Fondsen buiten de VS zijn niet te verwaarlozen, zoals Canada's Purpose Bitcoin ETF met 27,110 BTC, en uit Duitsland ETC Group Physical Bitcoin Fund, met 21,005 BTC. Samen met producten uit Australië en Hong Kong kom je op dit moment nét boven de 1 miljoen bitcoin uit, al groeit dit totaal natuurlijk hard. Ook rond BlackRock en Grayscale is er nog nieuws. IBIT van BlackRock passeerde na 4,5 maand handel het fonds van Grayscale; GBTC. Dat is opmerkelijk. Ooit begon Grayscale met 630.000 bitcoin in de kluis, maar door meerdere factoren namen veel beleggers afscheid van hun aandelen. Inmiddels heeft BlackRock er 288.500 bitcoin onder beheer, bij Grayscale staat de teller op 287.500. Het zegt wat over de snelle groei van BlackRock én de leegloop bij Grayscale. Ondertussen zijn ook bedrijven weer begonnen met het aankopen van bitcoin (en in zeldzame gevallen zelfs ether). De meest opvallende is Semler Scientific, een Amerikaans bedrijf in medische apparatuur. Zij schaffen voor 40 miljoen bitcoin aan. Hun totale kasreserve bedraagt 62 miljoen, dus ruim de meerderheid bestaat nu uit bitcoin. Zij volgen hierbij het 'playbook' van Microstrategy. Het deed de aandelenkoers veel goeds. Datzelfde kan gezegd worden over Metaplanet, een Japans investeringsbedrijf. Daar werd voor 7 miljoen aan bitcoin gekocht. De koers van het (zeer kleine) aandeel ging maal vijf.  Deze week in de Cryptocast Een speciale editie deze week. Zeven prominente Bitcoiners geven hun mening over de adoptie van de munt. Is Bitcoin een geschikt betaalmiddel? Dragen de ETF's in de VS bij aan adoptie? En hoeveel decentraliteit is er écht nodig? Te gast zijn Sam Wouters, Bart Mol, Jesse de Wit, Bert de Groot, Arnold Hubach, Stef Martens en Aaron van Wirdum.  Met Herbert Blankesteijn bespreken we elke week de toestand van de crypto. Luister live donderdagochtend rond 8:50 in De Ochtendspits, of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ruim twee maanden na het eerste Grote Vriendelijke Panel is er al een tweede aflevering in deze serie onregelmatige podcasts, waarin kinderboekrecensenten Jaap Friso (JaapLeest.nl) en Bas Maliepaard (Trouw) de wereld achter het kinderboek in kaart brengen. Dit keer spreken we met vormgevers; de mensen die zorgen dat tekst en illustraties op een zo aantrekkelijk mogelijke manier gepresenteerd worden. Te gast zijn Petra Gerritsen, Roald Triebels en Leentje van Wirdum. Petra gaf veel bekende series vorm, zoals 'Superjuffie' van Janneke Schotveld, 'Kolletje' van Pieter Feller en 'Mees Kees' van Mirjam Oldenhave. Roald kun je kennen van zijn vormgeving van 'Misjka', 'Gelukkig en blij' en 'Gloei' van Edward van de Vendel, maar ook van 'De jongen die van de wereld hield' van Tjibbe Veldkamp en 'Bijzondere beesten en doodgewone dieren' van Bibi Dumon Tak. Leentje gaf 'De boomhut' van Ronald & Marije Tolman vorm, maar ook 'Patroon' van Marco Kunst, 'Dichter bij de seizoenen' van Bette Westera en 'Heel de wereld wordt wakker', samengesteld door Jaap Robben. Luister naar ons gesprek over bakjes met 11.000 letters, titels die met de hand zijn getekend, honderd versies maken, pregen en stockfoto's, over 'groen kost poen' en het boek als de held. Tip: houd Google bij de hand tijdens het luisteren, zodat je titels kunt opzoeken en meekijken. Meer Panelgesprekken De makers van de boeken hoor je al in onze andere podcasts, in het Panel komen steeds drie mensen aan het woord die op een andere manier betrokken zijn bij de weg die het boek tussen maker en lezer aflegt. Je kunt voor de toekomst denken aan redacteuren, vertegenwoordigers, boekhandelaren en bibliothecarissen.

Een wat andere Cryptocast dan je van ons gewend bent deze week. Ter ere van de eerste editie van Adopting Bitcoin in 'bitcoin city' Arnhem vroegen we zeven prominente Bitcoiners naar hun mening over de adoptie van de digitale munt. Hoe staat het ermee? De laatste jaren is er veel gesleuteld aan het Lightning Network, de tweede laag bovenop Bitcoin die snelle en goedkope betalingen mogelijk moet maken. Toch blijft het een uitdaging om mensen met Bitcoin te laten betalen.  In deze aflevering:- Sam Wouters, hoofd marketing bij River- Bart Mol, host bij Satoshi Radio en analist bij kennisplatform Bitcoin Alpha- Jesse de Wit, lightning-ontwikkelaar bij Breez- Bert de Groot, voorzitter van VBNL en oprichter van Bitcoin Brabant- Arnold Hubach, co-oprichter van Bitcoin Focus en hoofd communicatie bij My First Bitcoin- Stef Martens, host bij Lightning-podcast Connect the World- Aaron van Wirdum, Bitcoinjournalist en auteur van The Genesis Book Gasten Daniël Mol Links   Host Herbert Blankesteijn Redactie Daniël MolSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In al het geweld rond de ETF's, de stijgende prijs en Michael Saylor die honderden miljoenen leent om Bitcoin te kopen, zou je bijna het originele doel van het project van Satoshi Nakamoto vergeten. Een peer to peer electronic cash system. En met cash doe je betalingen. Toch lijkt dat onderdeel van Bitcoin moeilijk van de grond te komen. Op veel verschillende plekken in de wereld accepteert men bitcoin, maar het blijft zoeken naar genoeg mensen die daadwerkelijk met bitcoin willen betalen. Tien jaar geleden was Arnhem de eerste plek ter wereld waar op relatief grote schaal bitcoin werd geaccepteerd. De Burger King in Arnhem was het eerste restaurant van die keten dat Bitcoin accepteerde, wereldwijd. Te gast in de Cryptocast van vandaag is Patrick van der Meijde, voormalig voorzitter van de branchevereniging voor Bitcoinbedrijven (de VBNL) en 10 jaar geleden initiatiefnemer van Arnhem Bitcoinstad. Ter gelegenheid van dat jubileum stort Patrick zich nu op het organiseren van een nieuw evenement, uiteraard in Arnhem. Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem, staat volledig in het teken van de adoptie en het daadwerkelijk gebruiken van Bitcoin. Daar zijn een groot deel van de gasten dan ook op uitgezocht, vertelt hij aan Herbert Blankesteijn. Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem zal plaatsvinden in Luxor Live, een poppodium in Arnhem. De eerste namen zijn veelbelovend. Onder meer Bitcoinontwikkelaar Peter Todd komt naar de Gelderse Hoofdstad, net zoals Aaron van Wirdum en Giacomo Zucco. Daarnaast komen er flink wat initiatiefnemers van andere circulaire bitcoineconomiën, zoals Bitcoin Berlín in El Salvador. Rondom het evenement zijn ook allerlei 'side-events' gepland, om vooral buitenlandse bitcoiners meer van Arnhem te laten zien dan alleen de binnenstad. Er is voor ieder wat wils: mining-workshops, een wandel-of fietstocht, een pizza-avond en technische discussie bij een Bitdevs-meetup. Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat mensen hun bitcoin óók durven uit te geven? En wat kunnen we op 25 mei verwachten van het evenement in Arnhem? Co-host is Daniël Mol. Gasten Patrick van der Meijde Daniël Mol Links Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem Host Herbert Blankesteijn Redactie Daniël MolSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In deze aflevering gaat Sven Kuijpers in gesprek met Aaron van Wirdum. Aaron is bitcoinjournalist en schrijver van “The Genesis Book” waarin hij het ontstaan van bitcoin beschrijft. Aaron legt de techniek uit die de basis vormde voor bitcoin en hij schetst het economische idee achter bitcoin welke volgens hem nog steeds erg actueel is. Verder vraagt Sven aan Aaron of bitcoin een bedreiging vormt voor het huidige fiat geldsysteem en of er altcoins zijn die een bedreiging vormen voor bitcoin. We eindigen met één van de meest gestelde vragen in de bitcoinwereld, wie is Satoshi Nakamato? Het Boek van Aaron: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/the-genes...https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/pro... Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:38 Ontstaan van bitcoin 04:13 Techniek achter bitcoin 13:03 Economisch idee achter bitcoin 21:02 Halving 33:34 Altcoins Overweegt u om goud en zilver aan te kopen? Dat kan via de volgende website: https://bit.ly/3xxy4sY Twitter: @Hollandgold: https://twitter.com/hollandgold @paulbuitink: https://twitter.com/paulbuitink @jorisbeemsterb: https://twitter.com/JorisBeemsterb1 @SvenKuijpers: https://twitter.com/SvenKuijpers @AaronvanW: https://twitter.com/AaronvanW Let op: Holland Gold vindt het belangrijk dat iedereen vrijuit kan spreken. Wij willen u er graag op attenderen dat de uitspraken die worden gedaan door de geïnterviewde niet persé betekenen dat Holland Gold hier achter staat. Alle uitspraken zijn gedaan op persoonlijke titel door de geïnterviewde en dragen zo bij aan een breed, kleurrijk en voor de kijker interessant beeld van de onderwerpen. Zo willen en kunnen wij u een transparante bijdrage en een zo volledig mogelijk inzicht geven in de economische marktontwikkelingen. Al onze video's zijn er enkel op gericht u te informeren. De informatie en data die we presenteren kunnen verouderd zijn bij het bekijken van onze video's. Onze video's zijn geen financieel advies. U alleen kunt bepalen hoe het beste uw vermogen kunt beleggen. U draagt zelf de risico's van uw keuzes. Bekijk onze website: https://www.hollandgold.nl

Aaron van Wirdum wordt gezien als één van de beste bitcoinjournalisten ter wereld. We spreken af in zijn thuisstad Utrecht om over zijn eerste boek, “The Genesis Book, The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin” te praten.  De uitwerking van dit gesprek is te lezen op www.bitcoinfocus.nl.

I talked to Aaron van WIrdum about his new book "The Genesis Book" which covers both the economic and technological origins of Bitcoin going back all the way back to Hayek and Stallman.

Nieuwe week, nieuwe Satoshi Radio. De week werd gedomineerd door de Apple Vision Pro. Nadat we ons hart gelucht hebben over het nieuwe product van de techgigant uit Cupertino gaan we door naar belangrijkere zaken: bitcoin. Zo zag Bert deze week niemand minder dan Quoth the Raven uit de kast komen als bitcoiner. Bart is begonnen aan The Genesis Book van Aaron van Wirdum en heeft een leuk verhaal gevonden om te vertellen. Verder hebben we natuurlijk de nieuwtjes én een lekkere marktupdate. Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Anycoin Direct, Amdax, Watson Law, Finst en onze hoofdsponsor Bitvavo.00:00:00) - Opening (00:16:00) - Bookmark: Apple Vision Pro (00:20:30) - Bookmark: Privacy is not a crime (00:24:30) - Bookmark: Craig Wright rechtzaak (00:28:00) - Bookmark: Wetgeving van Yellen (00:32:30) - Bookmark: Quoth the Raven maakt een draai (00:46:30) - Bookmark: MicroStrategy noemt zichzelf een Bitcoin Development Company (00:51:00) - Bookmark: Hoe houdbaar is de Amerikaanse staatsschuld? (00:58:00) - Bookmark: Zero Knowledge proof op Bitcoin? (01:02:00) - Marktupdate (01:23:00) - Deep Dives: Het ontstaan van proof of work (01:35:00) - Overig nieuws (01:39:27) - Einde

In der heutigen Nodesignal-Folge spricht Jan-Paul mit Jeff und Rene über Aaron van Wirdums neues Buch The Genesis Book, über die Menschen und Projekte, die Bitcoin inspiriert haben. Dies ist der zweite Teil des Gesprächs, der erste Teil findest du unter Folge E162. Von und mit Jan-Paul, Jeff und Rene.Produziert und geschnitten: ThorstenHier könnt ihr uns eine Spende über Lightning da lassen: ⚡️nodesignal@getalby.comWenn euch unsere Arbeit gefällt, könnt ihr unsere Folgen auch auf Podcasting 2.0 Plattformen, wie Breez, Fountain oder Castamatic hören und uns so eine kleine Aufmerksamkeit da lassen. Danke an alle, die die Bitcoin Community mit ihren Spenden unterstützen! Mit diesen Spenden wird unter anderem unser Bounty Programm verwirklicht, in dem ihr euch für die Mitarbeit an einem Projekt eine Belohnung sichern könnt.Für Feedback und weitergehenden Diskussionen kommt gerne in die Telegramgruppe von Nodesignal und bewertet uns bei Spotify und Apple Podcasts. Folgt uns auch gerne bei Twitter.Blockzeit: 827008Hayeks Vorhersage von Bitcoin: Friedrich August von Hayek predicting Bitcoin in 1984 - A Sly Roundabout WayThe Genesis Book (amazon.de)Google Drive mit vollständigem Text des BuchesWebseite zum Genesis Book undÜber den Autor Aaron van WirdumAaron van Wirdum bei Bitcoin MagazineAaron van Wirdum bei XFriedrich August v. Hayek (Wikipedia)Denationalisation of Money (engl.)Richard Stallmann (Wikipedia)Whitfield Diffie & Martin Hellman: New Directions in Cryptography (1976)Rivest, Shamir, Adleman: A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key CryptosystemsDavid Chaum (Wikipedia)Blind Signatures for Digital PaymentsExtroprianismus (Wikipedia)Extropy InstituteExtropy Magazine, Ed. 15 The Digital Cash IssueMax More: The Extroprian PriniciplesCypherpunks Mailing List ArchiveTim May - The Crypto Anarchixt ManifestoEric Hughes - A Cypherpunk's ManifestoAdam Back - HashashStuart Haber & W. Scott Stornetta - How to time-stamp a digital documentNick Szabo (Wikipedia)Unenumerated (Nick Szabos Blog)Nick Szabo: Shelling Out - Die Ursprünge des GeldesBit Gold (Nakamoto Institute)Wei Dai - b-money (Nakamoto Institute)S15 E15: Aaron van Wirdum on The Genesis Book & Bitcoin Pre-HistoryHal FinneyRPOW (Nakamoto Institue)Nodesignal-Techboost – E05 – Updates September 2022 zu Cashu #1Nodesignal-Techboost - E120 - Hauptsache Nüsse zu Cashu #2Socratic Seminar 14.02.Outro Song Read a Book (Dirty Version)Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:00:22) Begrüßung und Start(00:01:09) Extroprianismus(00:09:08) Cypherpunks Mailing List Archive(00:13:03) Crypto Wars(00:18:13) Zwischenzeitliche Katerstimmung(00:21:31) Adam Back - Hashash(00:28:48) Nick Szabo: Shelling Out(00:30:59) Nick Szabo: Bit Gold(00:37:03) Wei Dai - b-money(00:42:56) Hal Finney: RPOW(00:50:03) E-Gold(00:53:40) Bitcoin betritt die Bühne(00:57:35) Fazit zum Buch(01:03:32) Verabschiedung und Outro

In der heutigen Nodesignal-Folge spricht Jan-Paul mit Jeff und Rene über Aaron van Wirdums neues Buch The Genesis Book, über die Menschen und Projekte, die Bitcoin inspiriert haben. Dies ist der erste Teil des Gesprächs, der zweite Teil erscheint in der nächsten Folge E163.Von und mit Jan-Paul, Jeff und Rene.Produziert und geschnitten: ThorstenHier könnt ihr uns eine Spende über Lightning da lassen: ⚡️nodesignal@getalby.comWenn euch unsere Arbeit gefällt, könnt ihr unsere Folgen auch auf Podcasting 2.0 Plattformen, wie Breez, Fountain oder Castamatic hören und uns so eine kleine Aufmerksamkeit da lassen. Danke an alle, die die Bitcoin Community mit ihren Spenden unterstützen! Mit diesen Spenden wird unter anderem unser Bounty Programm verwirklicht, in dem ihr euch für die Mitarbeit an einem Projekt eine Belohnung sichern könnt.Für Feedback und weitergehenden Diskussionen kommt gerne in die Telegramgruppe von Nodesignal und bewertet uns bei Spotify und Apple Podcasts. Folgt uns auch gerne bei Twitter.Blockzeit: 827008Hayeks Vorhersage von Bitcoin: Friedrich August von Hayek predicting Bitcoin in 1984 - A Sly Roundabout WayThe Genesis Book (amazon.de)Google Drive mit vollständigem Text des BuchesWebseite zum Genesis Book undÜber den Autor Aaron van WirdumAaron van Wirdum bei Bitcoin MagazineAaron van Wirdum bei XFriedrich August v. Hayek (Wikipedia)Denationalisation of Money (engl.)Richard Stallmann (Wikipedia)Whitfield Diffie & Martin Hellman: New Directions in Cryptography (1976)Rivest, Shamir, Adleman: A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key CryptosystemsDavid Chaum (Wikipedia)Blind Signatures for Digital PaymentsExtroprianismus (Wikipedia)Extropy InstituteExtropy Magazine, Ed. 15 The Digital Cash IssueMax More: The Extroprian PriniciplesCypherpunks Mailing List ArchiveTim May - The Crypto Anarchixt ManifestoEric Hughes - A Cypherpunk's ManifestoAdam Back - HashashStuart Haber & W. Scott Stornetta - How to time-stamp a digital documentNick Szabo (Wikipedia)Unenumerated (Nick Szabos Blog)Nick Szabo: Shelling Out - Die Ursprünge des GeldesBit Gold (Nakamoto Institute)Wei Dai - b-money (Nakamoto Institute)S15 E15: Aaron van Wirdum on The Genesis Book & Bitcoin Pre-HistoryHal FinneyRPOW (Nakamoto Institue)Nodesignal-Techboost – E05 – Updates September 2022 zu Cashu #1Nodesignal-Techboost - E120 - Hauptsache Nüsse zu Cashu #2Socratic Seminar 14.02.Outro Song Read a Book (Dirty Version)Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:01:26) Begrüßung, Blockzeit und Vorgeplänkel(00:11:43) Friedrich A. v. Hayek: spontane Ordnung(00:19:34) Friedrich A. v. Hayek: neutrales Geld, Entnationalisierung des Geldes(00:24:56) Friedrich A. v. Hayek: Entnationalisierung des Geldes(00:27:10) Richard Stallmann: Hacker Culture und Anarchismus(00:38:03) Diffie und Hellman: Public Key Cryptography(00:51:18) David Chaum: eCash und Blind Signatures(01:04:34) Abschluss 1. Teil und Outro

Marty sits down with Aaron van Wirdum to discuss his new book The Genesis Book. Aaron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronvanW The Genesis Book: http://thegenesisbook.com/ 0:00 - Intro6:32 - Storytime with Marty13:00 - Genesis book16:15 - Where does Bitcoin's history begin?19:43 - Cypherpunk history27:50 - Who are the OGs?31:05 - Precursor projects and culture35:53 - Hashcash, BitGold, B-Money43:11 - Demand for privacy tech52:18 - Whitepaper and genesis block1:00:06 - Cypherpunks today1:03:52 - Timing and Chaum1:09:51 - Free banking, extropians, AI1:20:01 - Pitching the book Shoutout to our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠River⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Unchained⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CrowdHealth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin Talent Co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Sote⁠ TFTC Merch is Available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Now⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the TFTC Movement: Main ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YT Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clips ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YT Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Marty Bent: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠

Aaron van Wirdum rejoins me to talk about his exploration of how Bitcoin came to be. We talk about his new book, The Genesis Book. In this book, Aaron explores some of the technologies, and philosophies that led to the creation of Bitcoin. We discuss: What he learned in making this book Hayek and the Austrians Extropians Cryptography and the Cypherpunks Libertarians Precursor tech to Bitcoin Links: X: @AaronvanW Site: http://thegenesisbook.com/ Nostr #npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 Sponsors: Swan.com (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Mempool.space https://nomadcapitalist.com/live/ Stephan Livera links: Follow me on X: @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe to Stephan Livera Substack newsletter Timestamp/Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Motivation for Writing the Book 04:05 - Bitcoin's Origins and Evolution 08:21 - The Influence of Hayek and Austrian Economics 18:54 - The Connection Between FOSS and Bitcoin 25:49 - The Extropians and Their Vision 30:47 - The Cypherpunks and Their Ideology 32:28 - Swan.com 33:52 - Mempool.space 35:00 - Coinkite.com 39:30 - The Rise and Fall of DigiCash 51:20 - The Crypto Wars and Government Regulation 56:26 - Pre-cursor Electronic Cash Projects 01:01:20 - Satoshi's Clever Insight 01:03:00 - Closing thoughts

Chainalysis kwam afgelopen week naar buiten met de eerste resultaten uit het jaarlijkse 'cryptocrime' rapport. Daaruit blijkt dat cryptomisdaad in 2023 flink daalde. Ondertussen is de prijzenoorlog rond Bitcoin-beleggingsproducten overgewaaid van de VS naar Europa. Wisdomtree en Invesco verlagen hun kosten met zo'n 60% en zijn nu min of meer vergelijkbaar met hun Amerikaanse tegenhangers. En Trump heeft zich uitgelaten over een eventuele digitale dollar. Hij is geen fan.  Deze week in de Cryptocast Een gesprek met Aaron van Wirdum, journalist en historicus. Hij schreef The Genesis Book over de voorgeschiedenis van Bitcoin. Daaruit blijkt dat Bitcoin het resultaat is van decennialang onderzoek en experimenteren. Het whitepaper van Satoshi Nakamoto kwam niet zomaar uit de lucht vallen. Co-host is Daniël Mol Het rapport van Chainalysis Invesco en Wisdomtree verlagen kosten voor Europese bitcoinproducten Trump deelt mening over digitale dollar Met Herbert Blankesteijn bespreken we elke week de toestand van de crypto. Luister live donderdagochtend rond 9:20 in De Ochtendspits, of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bitcoin kent een lange voorgeschiedenis. Van het ontstaan van cryptografie tot het economisch gedachtegoed dat in meer of mindere mate verwerkt zit in het protocol. Historicus en journalist Aaron van Wirdum schreef er een boek over. In 'The Genesis Book' beschrijft hij de belangrijkste projecten en personen die hebben bijgedragen aan de totstandkoming van Bitcoin. Van Friedrich Hayek tot Hal Finney en Nick Szabo; bitcoin is een project met decennia aan voorbereiding, bewust of onbewust. Co-host is Daniël Mol. Gasten Aaron van Wirdum Daniël Mol Links The Genesis Book op Bol.com En op Amazon Host Herbert Blankesteijn Redactie Daniël MolSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aaron van Wirdum is a veteran Bitcoin journalist who has been writing for Bitcoin Magazine since 2014. On January 3rd 2024, after nearly five years of working on this project, he launched The Genesis Book: a reflection on the history before Bitcoin.

“If you want to understand someone, an individual, you kind of need to understand what their life has been like, where they came from…and I think the same is true for Bitcoin, if you really want to understand Bitcoin, you need to understand where it came from.”— Aaron van WirdumAaron Van Wirdum is a Bitcoin journalist and author of ‘The Genesis Book'. In this interview, we discuss the history of Bitcoin, including the importance of consensus algorithms and public key cryptography, early scepticism towards Bitcoin from cypherpunks, Satoshi's decision to remain anonymous, and its fixed monetary policy. We also talk about the influence of Austrian economics on Bitcoin's foundation, and the significance of privacy in digital transactions. - - - - The esteemed journalist Aaron Van Wirdum has authored a new book on the origins of Bitcoin called ‘The Genesis Book'. Our discussion naturally focuses on the influence of Austrian economics: Aaron explains how Hayek's ideas about money supply were instrumental in shaping Bitcoin's principles, and how the cypherpunk movement of the 90s aspired to create technologies beyond government control - echoing Hayek's vision of market-driven money.We examine the reasons behind the failure of early digital cash projects and the lessons learned that paved the way for Bitcoin's success. Hashcash and its Proof of Work (PoW) concept, developed by Adam Back, was a key innovation contributing to the creation of Bitcoin. Equally important was the role of cypherpunks in exploring electronic scarcity and the transferability of digital cash, particularly Nick Szabo's efforts in addressing the double spend problem. Aaron explains how Bitcoin emerged, and the significance of its white paper in introducing a novel approach that integrated currency creation technology and consensus algorithms through PoW. Reflecting on the early days of Bitcoin, we discussed the initial reaction towards Bitcoin's proposal from the cypherpunk movement and the importance of the mailing list. We also touch upon the significance of Satoshi's anonymity and the timing of Bitcoin's launch.This episode is a deep dive into the confluence of history, economics, and cryptography that has shaped the world of Bitcoin and digital currency. As we explored the origins, challenges, and innovations that have led us to this point, including the critical Blocksize wars. The journey of Bitcoin is as much about the past as it is about the future. And, it's a narrative that continues to unfold.- - - - This episode's sponsors:Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultUnchained - Secure your bitcoin with confidenceBitcoin Atlantis - A Bitcoin conference in the AtlanticSwan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan-----WBD759 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Aaron Van Wirdum is a Bitcoin journalist and author of ‘The Genesis Book'. In this interview, we discuss the history of Bitcoin, including the importance of consensus algorithms and public key cryptography, early scepticism towards Bitcoin from cypherpunks, Satoshi's decision to remain anonymous, and its fixed monetary policy. We also talk about the influence of Austrian economics on Bitcoin's foundation, and the significance of privacy in digital transactions. - - - - The esteemed journalist Aaron Van Wirdum has authored a new book on the origins of Bitcoin called ‘The Genesis Book'. Our discussion naturally focuses on the influence of Austrian economics: Aaron explains how Hayek's ideas about money supply were instrumental in shaping Bitcoin's principles, and how the cypherpunk movement of the 90s aspired to create technologies beyond government control - echoing Hayek's vision of market-driven money. We examine the reasons behind the failure of early digital cash projects and the lessons learned that paved the way for Bitcoin's success. Hashcash and its Proof of Work (PoW) concept, developed by Adam Back, was a key innovation contributing to the creation of Bitcoin. Equally important was the role of cypherpunks in exploring electronic scarcity and the transferability of digital cash, particularly Nick Szabo's efforts in addressing the double spend problem. Aaron explains how Bitcoin emerged, and the significance of its white paper in introducing a novel approach that integrated currency creation technology and consensus algorithms through PoW. Reflecting on the early days of Bitcoin, we discussed the initial reaction towards Bitcoin's proposal from the cypherpunk movement and the importance of the mailing list. We also touch upon the significance of Satoshi's anonymity and the timing of Bitcoin's launch. This episode is a deep dive into the confluence of history, economics, and cryptography that has shaped the world of Bitcoin and digital currency. As we explored the origins, challenges, and innovations that have led us to this point, including the critical Blocksize wars. The journey of Bitcoin is as much about the past as it is about the future. And, it's a narrative that continues to unfold. - Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-genesis-of-bitcoin This episode's sponsors: Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet Wasabi Wallet - Privacy by default Unchained - Secure your bitcoin with confidence Bitcoin Atlantis - A Bitcoin conference in the Atlantic SwanBitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan

Save the best for last zeggen die gekke Amerikanen weleens. Dat hebben we gedaan. Om Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 af te sluiten namen Bart en Bert plaats op de bank met oudgedienden in de bitcoin wereld Aaron van Wirdum en Sjors Provoost. Samen spraken ze over het boek van Aaron, de geschiedenis van bitcoin en de toekomst van ons aller favoriete digitale muntje. Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Anycoin Direct, Amdax, Watson Law, Coinmerce, Finst en onze hoofdsponsor Bitvavo.

I talked to Aaron and David about the state of new media and how journalism and running media companies have changed the past 20-30 years. We talk about the importance of live events and how the economic model has completely changed.

I'm joined by guests Harry Sudock, Aaron van Wirdum and Adam Gibson to discuss the power dynamics in Bitcoin. Discussion Topics: 00:02:41 The Mexican stand off conceptualisation of the power dynamics within Bitcoin 00:04:19 Are developers part of the game theory? 00:21:57 The power dynamics involved in changing Bitcoin 00:33:39 The role of prediction markets in determining consensus 00:43:01 Can Bitcoin development be corrupted? 00:46:26 Corruption factors invovled in chain forks 00:53:39 Bitcoin's resistance to change 00:57:12 Bitcoin vs gold and considerations surrounding resistance to human interference 01:03:19 Perspectives on changing Bitcoin 01:04:41 Controversial changes (Tapscript) 01:07:16 What properties of Bitcoin are changeable? 01:15:18 How do you defin the "true" Bitcoin? 01:23:53 Forking as means of achieving market consensus 01:27:14 Politcs and getting buy-in for controversial changes 01:32:40 Why change Bitcoin? 01:34:55 Historic examples of contentious changes 01:38:11 Contextualising developer influence on Bitcoin 01:41:05 Contentious non-consensus changes (RBF) 01:45:12 Game theory involved in conflicts between users and miners 01:55:53 Mitigating against short term incentives with long term risks 01:59:39 Bitcoin: There is no alternative 02:01:55 Off-chain considerations Links & Contacts: Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-21/

What did we miss? NLD bug, FULLRBF, FTX, anyone? Bitcoin Monthly with BQA and Antomous Bitcoin monthly 0021 In today's episode we got back up to speed on all the software updates that were released over the last two months. BlueWallet has now enabled exporting transaction history and labels and we hope the various wallets out there can agree on a standard for this.  Samourai Dojo now allows you to access Fulcrum in your local network and SeedSigner published an experimental release for a custom SeedSigner operating system. This will be a huge jump in security and performance and it will also allow the removal of the microSD card once powered on. SparrowWalllet has added tab icons and it only took them 16 hours to integrate BQAs request to be able to adjust the QR-code density so less good cameras can read them. HodlHodl is now integrated with Trezor, Umbrel allows community app stores and Samourai Wallet has redesigned it's user interface for STONEWALLx2 and Stowaway collaboration as well as introduced a JoinBot for making collaborative spends without manually choosing a collaborator.  Getting into the major discussion points of the day we went through the details of both NLD bugs and gave our oppinions on the way the situation was handled by Burak who expoited the bugs. We also take our time to go through the pros and cons of the ongoing discussion around the new option FULLRBF in the pre-release of Bitcoin Core v24.0.  Lastly we touch on the accounts of Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost who attended the pro forma hearing in the case against Tornado Cash developer Alexy Pertsev. As always, I enjoyed speaking to these two and would urge anyone with questions to reach out my DM is always open. twitter - @MaxBitbuybit twitter - @bitbuybitpod Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com Show guests twitter - @BitcoinQ_A twitter - @antomousB Special mentions twitter - @AaronvanW twitter - @provoost twitter - @citadeldispatch twitter - @brqgoo As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions. Today you can exchange $1 for 6040 Sats (Sale ends soon.) Thank you, Foundation Devices, for sponsoring the show. Use code BITBUYBIT at check out for $10 off your purchase Links to discussed topics: BlueWallet:    https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet Samourai Dojo:   https://code.samourai.io/dojo/samourai-dojo SeedSigner:         https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner Sparrow:    https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow Trezor:    https://github.com/trezor/trezor-suite Umbrel:    https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel LND:     https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd Nunchuk:    https://twitter.com/nunchuk_io/status/1592910577701392384 Samourai Wallet:   https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet  

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost revisit replace-by-fee (RBF). As they mentioned in Bitcoin, Explained episode 65, the upcoming Bitcoin Core release — Bitcoin Core 24.0 — includes the option to switch on “full RBF”, but this has caused some commotion in the Bitcoin community since the recording of that episode. Aaron and Sjors explain what this commotion has been about, and they highlight some of the new arguments for and against (full) RBF. RBF has been the topic of a previous Bitcoin, Explained episode: episode 26. In this new episode, therefore, Aaron and Sjors don't explain in-depth on what RBF is, exactly, or how it works. They do however very briefly summarize its most important aspects. Aaron and Sjors then go on to explain why Bitcoin Core developers originally decided to include this feature, and they discuss some of the arguments for and against (full) RBF that came up at the time and since then. These include the effect of RBF on “pinning attacks” (a type of attack that is especially relevant for the Lightning Network and other Layer Two protocols), the relative safety of accepting unconfirmed transactions today, privacy-related arguments concerning the “opt-in” flag that RBF transactions currently use, the detrimental effects of monitoring the network for potential double spends, and more.   Aaron and Sjors also discuss the pros and cons of including RBF as an optional feature and thus letting node operators decide for themselves how their node deals with conflicting unconfirmed transactions. Sjors outlines why, in some cases, giving users more options could have detrimental effects on the health of the Bitcoin network, and considers whether the option to include the RBF option is such a case.   Finally, Aaron and Sjors briefly discuss an initiative by full RBF advocate Peter Todd to incentivize miners to apply full RBF logic to their transaction selection.   THIS EPISODE'S SPONSORS: Voltage - https://voltage.cloud/ Bitcoin 2023 Miami - https://b.tc/conference/ Bitcoin Magazine - https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/ Bitcoin Magazine Pro - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/bitcoin-magazine-pro   Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost speak with Sam Wouters, a research analyst at River Financial. River operates the fourth largest node on the Lightning network, and Sam recently published a report detailing unique insights from this Lightning node. At the start of the episode, Sjors first gives a brief update on the bug that brought down LND nodes, discussed in episode 66. He confirms that his assessment of the cause was correct, and explains that a very similar bug has brought down LND once more since recording of the last episode. Aaron and Sjors then go on to ask Sam about the contents of his report, with a focus on three subsections of the report in particular. First, Aaron, Sjors and Sam discuss the current status of fees and liquidity. Sam explains that large Lightning nodes can earn a “return on investment” of several percentages per year by routing payments over the network, but that this does require active channel maintenance to manage liquidity.   Second, Aaron, Sjors and Sam discuss why some Lightning payments fail. Sam explains that the success rate of Lightning payments is very high compared to just a few years ago, but that there are two main reasons why payments sometimes do still fail: payment timeouts, and a lack of available routes. The trio speculates why this might be the case. Lastly, Sam outlines some of the challenges and concerns related to running Lightning infrastructure for businesses.   THIS EPISODE'S SPONSORS: Voltage - https://voltage.cloud/ Bitcoin 2023 Miami - https://b.tc/conference/ Bitcoin Magazine - https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/ Bitcoin Magazine Pro - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/bitcoin-magazine-pro   Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss a recent bug in the btcd Bitcoin implementation that affected a large part of the Lightning network, as it disconnected lnd Lightning nodes from the Bitcoin blockchain.   In the episode, Aaron and Sjors explain that a developer going by the name Burak on Twitter created a 998-of-999 multisig transaction by leveraging Taproot. Although this was a valid transaction, btcd and lnd nodes rejected it, and therefore rejected the block that included the transaction and all blocks that came after it.   Specifically, Sjors explains, btcd rejected the transaction because it has a maximum limit on how much witness data a Segwit transaction can include. Although other Bitcoin implementations do enforce this limit on Segwit version 0 transactions, Segwit version 1 (that is, Taproot) transactions have no such limit.   Still, it is a bit unclear why this bug in btcd seemingly also affected many lnd Lightning nodes which use Bitcoin Core rather than btcd to validate blocks. In the second half of the episode, Sjors speculates how the two may be connected.   Finally, Aaron and Sjors explain how the Lightning Network is affected when Lightning nodes reject the Bitcoin blockchain.   Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/

Tether houdt geen bedrijfsobligaties meer aan als onderpand voor zijn stablecoin. Dat maakt het project beter bestand tegen een bankrun, En de Nederlandse politie fopt cybercriminelen van de Deadbolt-groep. Door slim gebruik te maken van een replace-by-fee-transactie konden zij gegijzelde computersystemen bevrijden zonder losgeld te betalen.  Deze week in de Cryptocast Een gesprek met Aaron van Wirdum, Peter Slagter en Tuur Demeester. Met deze drie autoriteiten bekijken we de staat van Bitcoin anno 2022. De podcast is opgenomen op Bitcoin Amsterdam.  Links Tether stopt met bedrijfsobligaties Politie lokt cybercriminelen in de val met bitcoin-transacties De NFT's van Anthony Hopkins Met Herbert Blankesteijn bespreken we elke week de toestand van de crypto. Luister live donderdagochtend rond 9:20 in De Ochtendspits, of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Met de eerste (er volgt nog een tweede!) speciale uitzending van de Cryptocast vanaf Bitcoin Amsterdam beschouwen de staat van Bitcoin anno 2022. Hoe staat de belangrijkste digitale munt er voor op het gebied van regulering en technische ontwikkelingen? Hoe kijken we nu naar de markt? En hoe zit het met de miningwereld? Dat bespreken we met Aaron van Wirdum, bitcoinjournalist bij Bitcoin Magazine, Tuur Demeester, econoom en bitcoinvolger van het eerste uur, en Peter Slagter, verbonden aan o.a. Satoshi Radio en Bitcoin Alpha.  Gasten Daniël Mol Links Bitcoin Amsterdam Video YouTube Host Herbert Blankesteijn Redactie Daniël MolSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We dachten dat het na woensdag niet beter kon, maar we zaten fout. De 2e dag van Bitcoin Amsterdam was wederom fantastisch: we hebben goede gesprekken gehad, mensen ontmoet en onze passie voor bitcoin met elkaar gedeeld. We hopen dat we een klein beetje van die sfeer hebben weten te vangen in de opname voor vandaag. We hebben een aantal fantastische gasten: Douglas Bakkum (Founder BitBox) en Sebastiaan van Erne (organisator Bitcoin Amsterdam) bijvoorbeeld. Als klap op de vuurpijl schoven Boris van de Ven en Aaron van Wirdum aan. Dacht je dat dat het was? Bert sluit af met een marktupdate, want er gebeurde weer vanalles. Bitcoin Amsterdam is wat ons betreft geslaagd: tot volgend jaar! Satoshi Radio wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Anycoin Direct, BitBox, Bitvavo, Watson Law, Litebit, Coinmerce, BLOX en BTC Direct (00:00:00) - Reflectie op de paneldiscussie: “Bitcoin's Media Problem” (00:15:00) - In gesprek met Douglas Bakkum (00:28:00) - Marktupdate van Bert (00:39:15) - In gesprek met Boris van de Ven en Aaron van Wirdum (01:02:25) - Reflectie op de conferentie (01:08:00) - In gesprek met Sebastiaan van Erne (01:23:50) - Dankwoord

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss the upcoming Bitcoin Core major release, Bitcoin Core 24.0. The Bitcoin Core project produces a new major release of its software roughly every six months. The 24th major release is currently in its release candidate phase, which means that it is being tested and could technically be released any day now (though this phase will probably last a few more weeks). In the episode, Aaron and Sjors discuss seven of the most notable changes included in Bitcoin Core 24.0.   This includes a change to how nodes download blocks when they sync with the network. While previous Bitcoin Core versions already started by downloading only block headers to make sure that the blocks they download have sufficient proof of work on them, Bitcoin Core 24.0 nodes will initially not store these block headers in order to prevent a certain type of resource exhaustion attack. Aaron and Sjors explain that this should eventually also allow for the removal of any checkpoints in the Bitcoin Core codebase.   They go on to explain that Bitcoin Core 24.0 also includes an added option for users to apply full replace-by-fee (RBF) logic. Where Bitcoin Core nodes so far would apply the “first seen” rule, which meant that conflicting transactions wouldn't be accepted in the node's memory pool (mempool) and forwarded to peers, Bitcoin Core 24.0 users can choose to make their nodes accept and forward conflicting transactions if they include a higher fee than (the) earlier transaction(s) they conflict with.   Further upgrades discussed by Aaron and Sjors include a tool to migrate legacy wallets to descriptor wallets, initial miniscript support, default use of RBF when creating transactions, an improved UTXO selection algorithm which randomizes change output amounts for extra privacy, and a new “send all” function to spend a particular (set of) UTXO(s) in full.   Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Wallets, mnemonic codes, and — especially — the new SeedQR format which allows users to store their mnemonic codes as QR codes. Aaron and Sjors start the episode by recapping what HD Wallets (also known as private key seeds) are, and why they are preferred over regular private key backups. Next, they briefly explain why mnemonic codes (also known as seed phrases) are a popular solution for encoding and storing private key seeds. The Bitcoin, Explained hosts then go on to discuss SeedQR. SeedQR is a new format that allows Bitcoin users to encode and store their mnemonic code as a QR code. This means that mnemonic codes can be stored in a computer-readable format; any compatible device (like a hardware wallet with a camera) should be able to scan the QR code, and import all associated private keys. This could be useful for backups. but it could also be used so that wallets (including hardware wallets, but also mobile or desktop wallets) no longer have to store private keys at all. The QR code could be scanned when the wallet is used to send a transaction, after which the private keys could be forgotten by the device altogether. (SeedSigner is an open source, do-it-yourself hardware wallet that does exactly this.) Finally, Sjors goes over some of the intricacies of formatting a seed phrase to fit in a compact QR code, and some of the efficiency gains SeedQR uses to accomplish this.   Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/ #BitcoinExplained #BitcoinPrice #BitcoinCore #BitcoinMagazine #journalism  #bitcoinnews

Nederland krijgt na een aantal jaar eindelijk weer een groot Bitcoin-evenement. Bitcoin Amsterdam moet tussen 12 en 14 oktober 5000 enthousiastelingen per dag naar de Westergas-terrein trekken. Naast keynotes en panels (Adam Back, Alex Gladstein, Aaron van Wirdum) zullen er workshops en andere randactiviteiten worden geprogrammeerd. Wat er allemaal komt kijken bij het organiseren van zo'n event weet Sebastiaan van Erne, oprichter van Amsterdam Dencentralized en verantwoordelijk voor de productie van Bitcoin Amsterdam. Co-host is Bert Slagter. Gasten Sebastiaan van Erne Bert Slagter Links Bitcoin Amsterdam De code 'Cryptocast15', voor 15% korting! Video YouTube Host Herbert Blankesteijn Redactie Daniël MolSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss the Bitcoin Core development process, and more specifically, the different roles that are involved in this process. At the start of the episode, Aaron and Sjors explain what Bitcoin Core is, both in a practical sense as well as in a more definitional sense, and they touch on some slightly different ideas about this as well. Aaron and Sjors then go on to explain the roles of three distinct types of Bitcoin Core contributors: “regular” Bitcoin Core contributors, Bitcoin Core maintainers, and the Bitcoin Core lead maintainer. Since there are no barriers to entry, anyone can become a Bitcoin Core contributor, Aaron and Sjors point out: anyone can start contributing to the Bitcoin Core project by offering code, review of code, or perhaps other types of contributions like text translations. Bitcoin Core maintainers, then, are Bitcoin Core contributors who can merge new code into the Bitcoin Core codebase. Aaron and Sjors explain what this means exactly, and how someone can become a Bitcoin maintainer. Finally, Aaron and Sjors go over some of the typical tasks of the Bitcoin Core lead maintainer, which includes managing the release process, adding and removing (other) Bitcoin Core maintainers to the project, and updating the bitcoincore.org website. They also discuss which of these tasks are in fact still done by the Bitcoin Core lead maintainer, however, and which tasks have over the years become more distributed. Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost go back to basics. They explain one of the most fundamental building blocks in all of Bitcoin: hash functions. To start the episode off, Aaron and Sjors explain that hash functions are a type of mathematical one-way functions. That means that they can easily convert one piece of data into another piece of data, a hash, but anyone who knows only this hash can not convert it back to the original data. Additionally, a hash is supposed to be unique: no two (different) pieces of data should result in the same hash. If either of these things is no longer true, a hash function is considered to be broken. Then, Aaron and Sjors go on to explain in a little bit more detail how hash functions actually work. They discuss some aspects of the history and evolution of different hash functions, they mention some hash functions that have indeed been broken over time, and they pinpoint which hash functions are used in Bitcoin. Finally, Aaron and Sjors explain how hash functions are used in Bitcoin, exactly. This includes almost every aspect of the Bitcoin system, they point out, ranging from transactions (in multiple ways) and blocks, to addresses and the proof of work mechanism, as well as in relatively new upgrades like Taproot, and hash functions are even used to create some randomness needed to establish connections on the peer-to-peer network.

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss OP_RETURN and what some have called the “OP_RETURN wars”. More specifically, they discuss a blog post by BitMEX research titled: “The OP_Return Wars of 2014 – Dapps Vs Bitcoin Transactions”. Aaron and Sjors start off by explaining that OP_RETURN is an op code (a piece of code for Bitcoin transactions) that will render invalid any transaction that includes it in an input. This means that outputs that include OP_RETURN are unspendeable, which in turn means that Bitcoin nodes can safely remove such UTXOs from their UTXO set, which safes on storage. Early in Bitcoin's years, people started using Bitcoin for more than just transactions. As one example given by Sjors, someone uploaded the entire Bitcoin white paper onto the blockchain. The BitMEX blog meanwhile explains that Layer Two protocols like Counterparty were rolling out decentralized applications on the blockchain. This type of non-transaction data was initially embedded in multisig transactions, but this meant that all Bitcoin nodes had to download, process and store this data forever, which comes at a cost. To mitigate this problem, Aaron and Sjors explain, Bitcoin developers in 2014 agreed to let nodes process and forward transactions with OP_RETURN outputs. These transactions would be better for uploading data, since their outputs can be removed form the UTXO set. The “OP_RETURN wars” refer to a debate between Bitcoin developers and (most notably) Counterparty developers over the maximum size of such transactions. Sjors explains why the maximum of 40 bytes was initially choses, why this was later increased to 80 bytes, and how these considerations have changed over time. BitMEX' blog post: https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/ Sjors' book mentioned in the episode: https://www.btcwip.com/ Evan Kaloudis tells P & Q what hyperbitcoinization means to him. Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount!  https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/ #bitcoin #bitcoinmagazine #hyperbitcoinization #money #whatismoney #whatisbitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrencies #globalmarkets

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss reusing Bitcoin addresses. More specifically, they explain why reusing Bitcoin addresses is a bad idea. Reusing Bitcoin addresses is a bad idea for roughly three reasons. The first two of these are that it harms privacy and impedes on the censorship resistance of Bitcoin. In the episode, Aaron and Sjors go over a couple examples of how such a loss of privacy and censorship resistance can negatively affect Bitcoin users. The third reason that reusing Bitcoin addresses is a bad idea, is that it opens up the possibility of some niche attacks. In certain cases, attackers could extract private keys from signatures after coins are first spent from an address — though this does require that a wallet implemented the signing algorithm wrongly in the first place. There are also some scenarios where quantum computers could in the future extract private keys from signatures if addresses are reused. Another type of niche attack is a timing sidechannel attack, such as the recently disclosed Hertzbleed Attack. Sjors explains that attackers can potentially derive a private key from a wallet by closely monitoring how the computer that hosts the wallet behaves when signing a transaction. This attack is more plausible if addresses are reused. Address reuse wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address_reuse#Security Hertzbleed attack: https://www.hertzbleed.com/

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss a recent blog post by James Lopp titled, “Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked”?   Hard forks are generally defined as Bitcoin protocol upgrades that remove or loosen rules, making these types of upgrades backwards-incompatible. Aaron and Sjors explain, however, that Lopp in his blog post argues that this definition isn't very precise and suggests the term should only apply if the rule change was actually utilized. In addition, hard forks can be categorized into explicit hard forks, where the rule change was an intentional hard fork, and implicit hard forks, where the rule change wasn't originally intended to be a hard fork at all but turned out to be one anyways. In the second half of the podcast, Aaron and Sjors break down the seven hard forks in Bitcoin's history that Lopp was able to find, of which five were never utilized (and should therefore arguably not be considered hard forks at all), one was explicit, and one was implicit. Finally, Aaron and Sjors briefly discuss (a) future hard fork(s) that need(s) to happen, and what kind of philosophy around deploying hard forks might make sense for Bitcoin. Jameson Lopp's blog post: https://blog.lopp.net/has-bitcoin-ever-hard-forked/

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost welcome Ruben Somsen back on the show to talk about a recent proposal of his called “Silent Payments”.   Silent Payments resemble earlier ideas like Stealth Addresses and Reusable Payment Codes, in that they allow users to publish a static “address”, while this is not the actual Bitcoin address they will be paid on. Instead, senders of a transaction can use this static address to generate new Bitcoin addresses for the recipient, for which the recipient — and only the recipient — can in turn generate the corresponding private keys.   Like Stealth Addresses and Reusable Payment Codes, the benefit of Silent Payments is that addresses can be posted publicly without harming users' privacy; snoops cannot link the publicly posted address to the actual Bitcoin addresses that the recipient is paid on. Meanwhile, unlike Stealth Addresses and Reusable Payment Codes, Silent Payments do not require any additional blockchain data— though this does come at a computational cost for the recipient.   The podcast episode details all this in roughly two parts. In the first half of the episode, Ruben, Aaron and Sjors break down how Silent Payments work, and in the second half of the episode they discuss how Silent Payments compare to Stealth Addresses and Reusable Payment Codes, as well as some potential implementation issues.

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss URSFs, which stands for either User Rejected Soft Forks or User Resisted Soft Forks, depending on who you ask. URSFs are a recently introduced tool in Bitcoin's upgrade mechanism toolkit. In the first part of the episode, Aaron and Sjors explain that URSFs are best considered the mirror equivalent of UASFs (User Activated Soft Forks) with mandated signaling. Where UASFs will towards the end of a soft fork activation window reject blocks that don't signal readiness for a soft fork, URSFs will reject blocks that do signal. If both UASF and URSF clients are deployed, they would in principle create a split in the blockchain. In the second part of the episode, the duo outlines the various soft fork upgrade mechanisms, ranging from MASFs (Miner Activated Soft Forks), flag day activated UASFs and mandated signaling UASFs. Aaron then explains why he believes mandated signaling UASFs are his preferred method of deploying soft forks, and why he thinks URSFs should in the future be offered as an added option for users who prefer to reject the soft fork. Finally, Sjors lays out the “rough consensus” guidelines as used in context of the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF), and how this applies to Bitcoin upgrades.

In this Episode we talk about the BIP-119 Controversy with Pete Rizzo and Aaron van Wirdum.  Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode FOMO for 10% off everything in our store! https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/  

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss Bitcoin Core 23.0, the upcoming major release of Bitcoin's de facto reference implementation. The duo highlights some of the most notable changes in this new software client, and they offer a bit of extra context about the release as well. At the time of recording this episode, Bitcoin Core 23.0 was still going through the release candidate phase, where the software is tested for bugs; Aaron and Sjors start by explaining how this process works, exactly. Then, throughout the episode, Aaron and Sjors highlight seven changes that are included in this new Bitcoin Core release: 1) the removal of the preference to connect with peers through port 8333, 2) the added support for CJDNS, 3) the inclusion of replace-by-fee transactions in the transaction fee estimation algorithm, 4) the inclusion of statically defined tracepoints, 5) a new tool to spot typos in bech32 addresses, 6) the addition of support for Taproot in the wallet, and 7) the new option to freeze certain UTXOs until some time in the future. Finally, Aaron and Sjors discuss how a bug in a software compiler had initially resulted in a bug in an earlier version of this Bitcoin Core release for Windows, giving an interesting insight in the complications with upstream dependencies.

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss research done by CasaHODL co-founder and CTO Jameson Lopp as well as Sjors himself on syncing old Bitcoin nodes.   Whenever a new Bitcoin node comes online, it must first sync with the rest of the Bitcoin network: it needs to download and verify the entire blockchain up until the most recent block in order to be up to date on the state of bitcoin ownership. This can take quite a while, however, and should take longer over time as the blockchain keeps growing. To offset this, and to improve user experience more generally, Bitcoin Core developers seek to improve performance of the Bitcoin Core code so that newer releases sync faster than their predecessors. In the episode, Aaron and Sjors outline the performance improvements of Bitcoin Core clients over time, as analyzed most recently in two blog posts by Lopp. They first explain why some very old Bitcoin clients have trouble syncing to the current state of the blockchain at all, pointing out some bugs in this early software, as well as issues relating to dependencies and the challenge of using such old clients today. Sjors then goes on to sum up some of the most important performance improvements that have been included in new Bitcoin Core releases over time. Jameson Lopp's blog posts: https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-core-performance-evolution/ https://blog.lopp.net/running-bitcoin-core-v0-7-and-earlier/  

Location: London Date: Tuesday 9th November Project: Bitcoin Magazine Role: Print Editor-In-Chief When I first visited El Salvador, towards the end of 2019, Michael Petersen was in the early stages of implementing his vision of a local bitcoin economy in the coastal village of El Zonte. What started as a small-scale experiment has become a transformative initiative and a key driver in the country's adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender. On 7th June 2021, El Salvador passed the Bitcoin Law, with an ambitious plan to replicate El Zonte nationwide and make Bitcoin a central part of El Salvador's economy. Nayib Bukele, the Salvadoran President, mandated an ambitious 3-month deadline to implement the Law. And, despite the complete lack of both public and private infrastructure, on 7th September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. In this interview, I talk to journalist and Print Editor-In-Chief at Bitcoin Magazine, Aaron Van Wirdum. We discuss the implementation of the Bitcoin law, what has changed in El Salvador and which nation-states might follow in their footsteps.

Location: Skype Date: Thursday, 9th January Project: Bitcoin Magazine Role: Technical Editor Welcome to the Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin. Bitcoin can be intimidating for beginners. The protocol is complicated, the community can be aggressive and unforgiving, silly mistakes can lose you money, and it is easy to succumb to altcoin marketing.  Bitcoin does though, offer you the opportunity to hold a new type of monetary asset, one which can't be seized by the government and is censorship resistance and It has the potential to change the way the world.  The goal of What Bitcoin Did has always been about making things simple; there are no stupid questions, and the show is here to help beginners navigate this new world. To kick off 2020, we are launching a special series to help beginners understand Bitcoin. We will be looking at the basics from breaking down the protocol to explaining the economics and discussing the potential societal shift.  Beginners Guide Part 3 - Aaron van Wirdum on Bitcoin's Pre-History and the Cypherpunks Founded by Eric Hughes, Tim May and John Gilmore the cypherpunks were a group of hackers, privacy enthusiasts and crypto-anarchists. The group consisted of some of the most prominent cryptographers including Phil Zimmermann, Adam Back, Nick Szabo and Hal Finney.  The cypherpunks had its factions; some focussed on privacy tools, others on encryption and some on building decentralised monetary systems. It was on the cypherpunk mailing list and during their meetups that the building blocks of Bitcoin were born.  On October 31st 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto emailed the cypherpunk mailing list, telling them "I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party." In the 11 years that followed Bitcoin has proven to be the most successful attempt at creating a censorship-resistant and trust minimised digital currency. Each previous attempt at creating a form of digital money had solved parts of the puzzle, but Satoshi was able to put these pieces together along with his innovations to create Bitcoin. The previous attempts included: In the 1990's eCash, headed by David Chaum, attempted to make online payments anonymous. In 1997 Adam Back created HashCash, a proof-of-work system to reduce email spam and prevent denial of service attacks.  In 1998 Wei Dai proposed B-money to allow for an "anonymous, distributed electronic cash system".  Around the same time, Nick Szabo proposed Bit Gold where unforgettable proof of work chains would share properties of gold: scarce, valuable and trust minimised but with the benefit of being easily transactable.  In 2004 Hal Finney built upon the idea of Hashcash and created Reusable Proofs of Work.  When Satoshi released the Bitcoin whitepaper, rather than a revolution, Bitcoin was an evolution of all that had come before it with Bitcoin being the most trust minimised, censorship-resistant and hardest currency that has ever existed. In Part 3 of The Bitcoin Beginner's Guide, I talk to Aaron van Wirdum, a journalist and Technical Editor at Bitcoin Magazine. Aaron explains the cypherpunk movement and the digital money projects which paved the way for Bitcoin.