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Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
This is a really sweet documentary - I also became enamored with Ruby/Rails early on, and it absolutely contributed to the success of Coinbase, to be able to create so much with so little.
https://t.co/LnEtSQq0bt
Great model to follow if you get inspired on some new tech idea.
Brian Armstrongx.com
The FDE strategy is to do things that don't scale - at scale.
The biggest question startups ask me nowadays is whether to build an FDE team. Great to chat with YC's Lightcone Podcast about the early days of Palantir!
https://t.co/sLZQZaxfMl
Bob McGrewx.comYaniv Stopca
@yanivst
Risk: Technical Risk: The Bitcoin codebase and network have been battle-tested for over a decade, but it continues to evolve and there remain some open questions about how the system might behave in the long run (for example, when the Bitcoin supply approaches its asymptote and miners must be compensated primarily with transaction fees rather than... See more
Matt Huang • Bitcoin for the open-minded skeptic - Paradigm
Sticking to Your Instincts
substack.com
Satoshi Nakamoto wrote code that was not usual. He had many quirks. We can find him by comparing his code with others, but no one did that yet.
When I first saw their code, I thought "Satoshi is not a programmer" because of how weird it was. He didn't follow normal code practices that were modern at that... See more