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I'm sympathetic to this view, it's not however clear to me whether free banking on top of gold was a solution to the technical limitations of the time and if it would make sense on top of Bitcoin (yes it's slow, but still much much faster and cheaper than transferring gold was)

Are there any more structured opinions on this that anyone knows?

vnprc 6mo ago

Read Lyn Alden to understand why gold failed and how bitcoin solves those problems.

Gold settlement was too slow, risky, and hard to verify. The telegraph made physical settlement obsolete and centralized gold reserves.

Gold is physical so it is vulnerable to capture by whoever has the biggest guns. The government simply captured the centralized gold reserves and forced everyone onto a fiat standard.

This is what will happen to all the ETFs, exchanges, and treasury companies. Saylor's bitcoin will be the national reserve. History rhymes.

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Tim Bouma 6mo ago

Yup, read Lyn Alden's book, too. My big takeaway was the impedance mismatch between clearing (telegraph) and settlement (gold) is the root of instability.

Fixed with ecash and bitcoin.

Lightning Network is the telegraph , Cashu is the IOU and Bitcoin is the gold.

The Beave 6mo ago

But you also need a reputation layer. That's nostr and it's cryptographic keypairs. IMO. Which I'm thinking about more in context of the immutable nature of btc transactions.

Tim Bouma 6mo ago

Yup. I’m hoping that nostr:npub176p7sup477k5738qhxx0hk2n0cty2k5je5uvalzvkvwmw4tltmeqw7vgup and nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a can crack the reputation, attestation problem.

My sole focus is access to funds and records.

The Beave 6mo ago

You certainly will. I have faith in you. 😁

Nathan Day 6mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qqs0dqlgwq6l0t20gnstnr8mm9fhu9j9t2fv6wxwl3xtx8dh24l4auspz4mhxue69uhkzat5dqhxummnw3erztnrdaksz9nhwden5te0d4kx26m49eex2ctv0yhxcmmv9uq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7dj6rpa and I yet to connect directly. This needs remedying!

Pip the WoT guy 6mo ago

I would be happy to learn more about your ideas sir. Want to message on Signal?

Nathan Day 6mo ago

Sure! Just DM-ed you my profile.

epsql 6mo ago

Thanks, great points! I'm familiar with Lyn's work, which I find has a lot of explanatory power.

I think free banking on top of Bitcoin might emerge and we might find out that it works pretty well since falling back to self custody is so much easier with Bitcoin than wiith gold.

As for Saylor's stack becoming the government's, interesting take