Sanctions vs Self Custody

Feedback

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• Advice for LostFaithinPaperMoney

Helpful links for begining to self-custody your bitcoin

• Intro to holding bitcoin
• Sparrow Wallet quick start guide

Wallet Software and a good Hardware Wallet

• Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet - Sparrow Wallet
• COLDCARD Wallet – Hardware Wallet - The Most Trusted and Secure Hardware Wallet
• Exodus

News

• Finally some good privacy news from Chris Belcher about his new coinswap protocol
• This Month in Bitcoin Privacy is back!
  • Awesome newsletter by the pseudonymous opensource journalist Janine
  • More challenges with Wasabi v2, incredibly privacy info
• NFT marketplace OpenSEE is not decentralized and subject to sanctions policy
• Etherium infrastructure providers will block certain areas from using their "decentralized" blockchain
• Sanctions on the Russian Central Bank may have frozen 30-50% of Russian FX reserves

History - Payments vs Global Money

• Chris is so right about bitcoin 10 years ago but the narrative was mostly about transactions, not investment/value transfer into the future
  • Nick Szabo's Shelling Out describes a theoritcal framework to analyze a commodity gradually becoming money
  • Paper is hosted by the Nakamoto Institute which has some great bitcoin research
• The narrative between transactional money and gold/value money changed during the Block Size War
  • Mike Hearn of Bitcoin XT analyzes the death of the bitcoin network in 2016
  • Early video defending bitcoin's small block decentralization, look at the comments for a sense of how loud the big block argument was
  • An early podcast debate on block size Increases between Gavin Andreeson and Adam Back

Corrections

• Proof of Stake is great for pump and dumps
• Tuur Dem has a concise piece outlining some logical fallacies in POS security

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