S5 E8: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin Development & Austrian Economics

Published: May 13, 2020, 8:36 p.m.

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.\n================================================\nTime stamps:\n00:47 \u2013 Intro\n\n02:00 \u2013 For how long has Eric Voskuil worked on Libbitcoin?\n\n04:00 \u2013 Why are Bitcoin repository ports created?\n\n6:30 \u2013 Breakthroughs made by Libbitcoin\n\n12:10 \u2013 Eric Voskuil's more advanced activity in Bitcoin\n\n15:43 \u2013 Performance optimization\n\n20:51 \u2013 Satoshi Nakamoto wasn't a professional programmer\n\n25:15 \u2013 Is Eric Voskuil a computer scientist or an economist?\n\n28:10 \u2013 Austrian economics\n\n29:30 \u2013 Credit and economic production\n\n33:25 \u2013 Misean economics as an axiomatic system\n\n38:54 \u2013 S2F (Stock to Flow) is not Austrian\n\n42:20 \u2013 Price cannot be proven economically \n\n44:01 \u2013 The value proposition of Bitcoin as money\n\n44:27 \u2013 Why store of value is subjective \n\n45:53 \u2013 Lunar fallacy\n\n48:50 \u2013 Eric Voskuil's Cryptoeconomics\n\n50:52 \u2013 The Cryptoeconomics books\n\n52:43 \u2013 Musing over censorship resistance for a year\n\n54:15 \u2013 Economic rational explanation for censorship resistance\n\n56:40 \u2013 James Chang's contributions to the Cryptoeconomics book\n\n59:20 \u2013 Cryptoeconomics vs The Bitcoin Standard\n\n1:02:00 \u2013 Combining Libbitcoin and Cryptoeconomics\n\n1:06:54 \u2013 Bitcoin took years to understand\n\n1:09:20 \u2013 Bitcoin security\n\n1:14:16 \u2013 Why Trezor offers the best security\n\n1:22:37 \u2013 CB750 break pedal\n\n1:24:20 \u2013 Is hyperbitcoinization possible?\n\n1:26:38 \u2013 Cryptoeconomics on Amazon?\n\n1:27:46 \u2013 Improving Bitcoin Privacy\n\n1:29:34 \u2013 Take-aways from Vietnam conference\n\n1:33:17 \u2013 What happens to Bitcoin if the internet gets regionalized?\n\n1:34:49 \u2013 Why the Blockstream Satellite doesn't solve problems\n\n1:38:56 \u2013 The US government as a threat model\n\n1:40:52 \u2013 Resilience vs privacy\n\n1:42:37 \u2013 Outlawing Bitcoin development threatens devs?\n\n1:51:44 \u2013 Bitcoin is not a gambling device\n\n1:53:40 \u2013 Libbitcoin institute donations