Podcasts: S5 E8: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin Development & Austrian Economics 🔗 4 years ago

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. ================================================ 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