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Both the developer guide and developer reference under https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation . Deep reading but you will really understand the subject afterwards.

The problem of credit cards is that when you make a payment, you have to give away your private key. No amount of securitisation will take away this fundamental flaw. This is one o…

Great, so you're concerned about some people being more competitive than others in the free market. So what's your response? A monopolistic ostenisbly communally-controlled central…

And the irony is that people like yourself, chasing phantoms of unfairness in the free market, support the extension and entrenchment of coercive governments, an institution which …

Uber offers a certain deal to potential drivers, they either like it enough to accept it or they think they can get a better match for their skills and circumstances and they keep …

So what, some people have urgent needs, different parties in economic transactions have access to different information. Welcome to the free market. They're still choosing to work …

The entire economic system is built around people trying to get the best deal possible for themselves. You can try and paint that as inhumane and abusive if you're commited to emot…

If by illegal images you mean child pornography, there's a few key differences between CP and Bitcoin. Namely: very very few people are into CP, while practically everyone who isn'…

Alternative advice from someone with an anarchistic bent: ignore the law and join the resistance against government. The more people who do it, the less power they have to stop it.…

Hello, I'm a Bitcoin community member, I can help clear this one up for you: 1) Bitcoin is claimed as a legitimate alternative to cash money insofar as: Bitcoin proponents believe …

It's almost as if the government as a social institution continuously and inexorably acts to expand and reinforce its power over society, regardless of any constitutional or ration…

Why would you say that? There are attempts to regulate them, but those attempts so far are mostly just succeeding in ensuring that the regulating districts become uncompetitive and…

The USD is a pretty lousy global currency. You can't exactly use it anywhere in any sort of transaction. I've only ever heard of a handful of places outside of the States where the…

FYI that vulnerability was fixed already by the time he wrote that post. He brought it to Trezor's attention, helped update the firmware, and published the article after the update…

What are the killer advantages of using a distributed ledger for storing contracts as opposed to centralised ledgers? Are you going to spin up an altcoin or are you planning to try…

Tried travelling in a third-world country where you don't speak the language?

You can't send perfectly divisible quantities of gold halfway around the world in seconds. You also can't store gold in your brain and thus move unlimited quantities of gold across…

Try veganism, it's life on Hard Mode.

As usual, Gates gets the true problem completely wrong. The real issue here are the numerous and significant unpriced economic externalities associated with animal flesh production…

Money is always overvalued, because money is the technology we use to delay the completion of an economic trade. Money is where we "store" our pending transfers of value. Money is …

People should focus instead on something that has worsened, not improved, with scientific intervention and technological development - the enslavement, brutalisation, and mass slau…

When people start writing contractual obligations in quote marks, things are getting bad.

Even if you just rebuilt banks as they exist today on top of Bitcoin, you'd still get some pretty huge advantages, potentially massively increased security, speed, reduced costs, a…

Mmm, I hope you got some value from him when he made this pearler: "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax m…