Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Blocksize War
Jonathan Bier ISBN 9798721895609
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Jonathan Bier ISBN 9798721895609
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This book by Jonathan Bier has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Alex Gladstein, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-04-01 and the most recent from 2021-10-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“you should read the block size war which is a book on that you can get on amazon by jonathan beer really good kind of like really important to understand”— Alex Gladstein
The guest here is Alex Gladstein: Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He focuses on how Bitcoin and encryption can empower people living under authoritarian regimes. Human rights strategist Alex Gladstein argues Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that smuggles financial freedom into authoritarian regimes through greed.
“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”— guest
The guest here is Nic Carter: Partner at Castle Island Ventures, co-founder of Coin Metrics, and former crypto asset research analyst at Fidelity Investments. A prominent writer, speaker, and podcaster focused on Bitcoin and decentralized finance. Nic Carter unpacks Bitcoin's core values, the blocksize wars, and why layered scaling, not bigger blocks, is the right path.
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