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Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173

Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173

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TensorFlow Quantum

Google (inferred)

“people should check out tensorflow quantum it's a nice way”
“people should check out tensorflow quantum it's a nice way to sort of educate yourself about the space”— Lex Fridman
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The Blocksize War

Jonathan Bier

“this is one of my recommendations”
“this is one of my recommendations is on the block size war by jonathan beer who runs probably the best research desk in the industry”— Nic Carter
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The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous

“i just read it it's good yeah i like it”
“would be the bitcoin standard a lot of people don't like it i just read it it's good yeah i like it”— Nic Carter
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Layered Money

Nik Bhatia

“a more recent book called layered money which i liked”
“there's a more recent book called layered money which i liked um by nick battia which goes into more depth about what i was talking about”— Nic Carter
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Grokking Bitcoin

Kalle Rosenbaum (inferred)

“technical books about bitcoin i like grocking bitcoin”
“then technical books about bitcoin i like grocking bitcoin uh which is a very computer science-heavy one”— Nic Carter
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Arvind Narayanan

“a good textbook ... which is really good at building intuition”
“there's a good textbook um called uh bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies um by arvind naranian i think he's um a princeton computer science professor which is really good”— Nic Carter
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Mastering Bitcoin

Andreas Antonopoulos

“antonopoulos's books mastering bitcoin are good”
“antonopoulos's books uh mastering bitcoin are good then there's like simpler intuition building books”— Nic Carter
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Inventing Bitcoin

Yan Pritzker

“inventing bitcoin by john pritzker which is good”
“you have like inventing bitcoin by john pritzker which is good”— Nic Carter
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Bitcoin Clarity

Kiara Bickers

“you have bitcoin clarity by qr bickers”
“you have bitcoin clarity by qr bickers as you can tell i have like a my bookshelf is like mostly bitcoin books”— Nic Carter
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The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin (inferred)

“i really liked the three body problem ... it really made me think”
“i really liked the three body problem but that's a really hackneyed recommendation but it really made me think and i like the hard sci-fi”— Nic Carter
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2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

“probably one of my favorites is the 2001 space odyssey ... it's quite brilliant”
“probably one of my favorites is the 2001 space odyssey it's so obviously it's many many decades ago but it's quite brilliant”— Lex Fridman

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OpenDime

Coinkite (inferred)

“so this is basically a bitcoin bearer instrument so i put 100 bucks of bitcoin on here and to spend it you have to basically physically destroy part of the device”— Nic Carter