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S5 E8: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin Development & Austrian Economics
About this episode
Libbitcoin developer Eric Voskuil talks about the breakthroughs he made as a coder and his affinity and understanding of Austrian economics. Furthermore, he provides information about his Cryptoeconomics book & answers questions from Twitter followers.
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Time stamps:
00:47 – Intro
02:00 – For how long has Eric Voskuil worked on Libbitcoin?
04:00 – Why are Bitcoin repository ports created?
6:30 – Breakthroughs made by Libbitcoin
12:10 – Eric Voskuil's more advanced activity in Bitcoin
15:43 – Performance optimization
20:51 – Satoshi Nakamoto wasn't a professional programmer
25:15 – Is Eric Voskuil a computer scientist or an economist?
28:10 – Austrian economics
29:30 – Credit and economic production
33:25 – Misean economics as an axiomatic system
38:54 – S2F (Stock to Flow) is not Austrian
42:20 – Price cannot be proven economically
44:01 – The value proposition of Bitcoin as money
44:27 – Why store of value is subjective
45:53 – Lunar fallacy
48:50 – Eric Voskuil's Cryptoeconomics
50:52 – The Cryptoeconomics books
52:43 – Musing over censorship resistance for a year
54:15 – Economic rational explanation for censorship resistance
56:40 – James Chang's contributions to the Cryptoeconomics book
59:20 – Cryptoeconomics vs The Bitcoin Standard
1:02:00 – Combining Libbitcoin and Cryptoeconomics
1:06:54 – Bitcoin took years to understand
1:09:20 – Bitcoin security
1:14:16 – Why Trezor offers the best security
1:22:37 – CB750 break pedal
1:24:20 – Is hyperbitcoinization possible?
1:26:38 – Cryptoeconomics on Amazon?
1:27:46 – Improving Bitcoin Privacy
1:29:34 – Take-aways from Vietnam conference
1:33:17 – What happens to Bitcoin if the internet gets regionalized?
1:34:49 – Why the Blockstream Satellite doesn't solve problems
1:38:56 – The US government as a threat model
1:40:52 – Resilience vs privacy
1:42:37 – Outlawing Bitcoin development threatens devs?
1:51:44 – Bitcoin is not a gambling device
1:53:40 – Libbitcoin institute donations
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