07-July

7/1	
QR  2019 - Anthony Pompliano - Bitcoin's Department of Defense: The Case For A Global Reserve Currency With No Guns https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#bitcoins-department-of-defense-the-case-for-a-global-reserve-currency-with-no-guns
QR  2019 - Caitlin Long - Bitcoin, The Dollar And Facebook's Cryptocurrency: Price Volatility Versus Systemic Volatility https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#bitcoin-the-dollar-and-facebooks-cryptocurrency-price-volatility-versus-systemic-volatility
7/2 2011 - First Canadian Bitcoin exchange opens
QR  2018 - Tony Sheng - Crypto-incrementalism vs Crypto-anarchy https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m7#crypto-incrementalism-vs-crypto-anarchy
7/3	
7/4	
QR  2020 - Hector Rosenkrans - Freedom Money - Bitcoin and the First Amendment https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#freedom-money--bitcoin-and-the-firstamendment
QR  2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 16 – Litecoin - https://archive.is/PoRTa
7/5 2010 - "Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard.  There's nothing to relate it to."
QR  2018 - Qiao Wang - The False Dichotomy of Utility and Store of Value https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m7#the-false-dichotomy-of-utility-and-store-of-value
QR  2020 - Robert Breedlove - Masters and Slaves of Money https://archive.is/5CTHP
QR  2020 - American Hodl - Soft money, Soft minds https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#soft-money-soft-minds
7/6 2010 - "Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency!  Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server.  Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed currencies!  Bitcoin's total circulation is limited to 21 million coins.  The coins are gradually released to the network's nodes based on the CPU proof-of-worker they contribute, so you can get a share of them by contributing your idle CPU time."
QR  2019 - Ben Prentice - Inflation is Cruel https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#tweetstorm-inflation-is-cruel
7/7 2010 - Bitcoin v0.3 released
7/8	
QR  2018 - Pierre Rochard - Bitcoin Governance https://archive.is/yq9ec
QR  2019 - Peter Van Valkenburgh - The differences between Bitcoin and Libra should matter to policymakers https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#the-differences-between-bitcoin-and-libra-should-matter-to-policymakers
QR  2019 - Anthony Pompliano - Bitcoin Is Smarter Than Politicians and Central Bankers https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#bitcoin-is-smarter-than-politicians-and-central-bankers
7/9 2010 - "When someone tries to buy all the world's supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes.  At some point, it gets too expensive for them to buy any more.  It's great for the people who owned it beforehand because they get to sell it to the corner at crazy high prices.  As the price keeps going up and up, some people keep holding out for yet higher prices and refuse to sell.""
    2016 - Second Bitcoin Halving cuts block subsidy from 25 to 12.5"
QR  2016 - Saifedean Ammous - The Bitcoin Halving and Monetary Competition https://archive.is/icyeg
QR  2018 - Nik Bhatia - The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m7#the-bitcoin-riskspectrum 
7/10 2010 - "The timing is strange, just as we are getting a rapid increase in 3rd party coverage after getting slashdotted.  I hope there's not a big hurry to wrap the discussion and decide.  How long does Wikipedia typically leave a question like that open for comment? It would help to condense the article and make it less promotional sounding as soon as possible.  Just letting people know what it is, where it fits into the electronic money space, not trying to convince them that it's good.  They probably want something that just generally identifies what it is, not tries to explain all about how it works."
QR   2018 - Nik Bhatia - The Bitcoin Risk Spectrum https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=82
QR   2019 - Mohamed Fouda - Pathways for DeFi on Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#pathways-for-defi-on-bitcoin
QR   2020 - JP Koning - Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#bitcoin-is-more-like-ham-radio-than-the-early-internet
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 17 – User-Activated Softfork https://archive.is/Zog77
7/11 2010 - Bitcoin v0.3 release mentioned on slashdot, bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users
QR   2020 - Reed Womack - Accepting Scarcity: A Bitcoin Meditation https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#accepting-scarcity-a-bitcoin-meditation
7/12 2010 - Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC
QR   2017 - Tuur Demeester - Critique of Buterin's "A Proof Of Stake Design Philosophy" https://archive.is/qAUrH
QR   2018 - Aaron van Wirdum - With Bit Gold, Nick Szabo Was Inches From Inventing Bitcoin https://bitcoinaudible.com/?p=86
QR   2019 - Nik Bhatia - Bitcoin Is a Human Right https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#bitcoin-is-a-human-right
QR   2019 - Alan Manuel K. Gloria - Technical: A Brief History of Payment Channels: from Satoshi to Lightning Network https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#technical-a-brief-history-of-payment-channels-from-satoshi-to-lightning-network
QR   2019 - Adam Paul Moore - Why God Loves Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#why-god-loves-bitcoin
7/13 2011 - As per https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/blob/master/README.md - First release of the Bitcoin Armory wallet, that introduced a strong focus on security, esp. offline transaction signing.
7/14 2010 - "The design outlines a lightweight client that does not need the full block chain.  In the design PDF it's called Simplified Payment Verification.  The lightweight client can send and receive transactions, it just can't generate blocks.  It does not need to trust a node to verify payments, it can still verify them itself. The lightweight client is not implemented yet, but the plan is to implement it when it's needed.  For now, everyone just runs a full network node."
     2010 - "I anticipate there will never be more than 100K nodes, probably less.  It will reach an equilibrium where it's not worth it for more nodes to join in.  The rest will be lightweight clients, which could be millions."
     2010 - "At equilibrium size, many nodes will be server farms with one or two network nodes that feed the rest of the farm over a LAN."
QR   2019 - StopAndDecrypt - BetterHash: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining With New Hashing Protocols https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#betterhash-decentralizing-bitcoin-mining-with-new-hashing-protocols
7/15	
QR   2019 - Mircea Popescu - Bitcoin Recapitulation https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#bitcoin-recapitulation
QR   2019 - Dr. C - Bitcoin and Energy Consumption - Rebuttal https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#bitcoin-and-energy-consumption---rebuttal
7/16 2010 - "Right, the difficulty adjustment is trying to keep it so the network as a whole generates an average of 6 blocks per hour.  The time for your block to mature will always be around 20 hours."
     2010 - "Difficulty just increased by 4 times, so now your cost is US$0.02/BTC."
QR   2019 - Wiz - Why Bitcoin? https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#why-bitcoin
7/17 2010 - MtGox established by Jed McCaleb
QR   2020 - Lyn Alden - 3 Reasons I'm Investing in Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#3-reasons-im-investing-in-bitcoin
QR   2020 - Clark Moody - Ten Years of Bitcoin Market Data https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#ten-years-of-bitcoin-market-data
7/18 2010 - ArtForz generates his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 18 – New York Agreement https://archive.is/aAfcm
7/19 2011 - Mike Hearn goes on record: "Let it go on record that at 4:05 p.m. CET, my manager Tadek was the first person in the world to receive [testnet] Bitcoins via NFC ;)"
7/20 2011 - Intervex Digital releases the first Bitcoin application to be developed for the Apple iPad, Bitcoins Mobile.
QR   2020 - Leo Zhang & Karthik Venkatesh - The Alchemy of Hashpower Part I https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#the-alchemy-of-hashpower-part-i
7/21	
QR   2020 - Gigi - True Names Not Required https://archive.is/6QDHi
QR   2020 - Yuri de Gaia - Bitcoin as a Tool for Secession https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m9#bitcoin-as-a-tool-for-secession
7/22 2011 - BitCoins Mobile, the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by Intervex Digital
     2012 - One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial Bitcoin Forum
QR   2018 - Brendan Bernstein - Cryptocurrencies are money, not equity https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m7#cryptocurrencies-are-money-not-equity
QR   2019 - Nic Carter - It’s the settlement assurances, stupid https://archive.is/5pRXy
QR   2019 - Anthony Pompliano and Saifedean Ammous on The Future of Bitcoin and the Global Economy https://archive.is/OJM87
QR   2020 - Gloria Zhao - Map of the Bitcoin Network https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m9#map-of-the-bitcoin-network
7/23 2010 - "By making some adjustments to the database settings, I was able to make the initial block download about 5 times faster.  It downloads in about 30 minutes. The database default had it writing each block to disk synchronously, which is not necessary.  I changed the settings to let it cache the changes in memory and write them out in a batch.  Blocks are still written transactionally, so either the complete change occurs or none of it does, in either case the data is left in a valid state. I only enabled this change during the initial block download.  When you come within 2000 blocks of the latest block, these changes turn off and it slows down to the old way."
     2012 - First car producers offer their vehicle for Bitcoin. WikiSpeed is a Seattle based corporation that manufactures open source modular cars that get 100 MPG and accept Bitcoin as payment"
QR   2019 - Gigi - The World is Waking Up to Bitcoin https://archive.is/Jcvmu
QR   2019 - Oleg Andreev - Symmetrical and asymmetrical power https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#symmetrical-and-asymmetrical-power
7/24	
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 19 – Bitcoin Cash https://archive.is/TXHrI
7/25 2010 - For future reference, here's my public key.  It's the same one that's been there since the bitcoin.org site first went up in 2008.  Grab it now in case you need it later. http://www.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc"
QR   2019 - Brandon Arvanaghi - Breaking Down the Bitcoin Lighning Network: eltoo https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#breaking-down-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-eltoo
QR   2019 - Alex Gladstein - The Moral Case for Lightning: A Global Private Payment Network https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#the-moral-case-for-lightning-a-global-private-payment-network
7/26 2011 - Room77 becomes the first brick-and-mortar business (bar) to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment.
     2011 - Poland-based Bitomat, the world’s third largest Bitcoin exchange, loses access to its wallet.dat file and the 17,000 Bitcoins they are holding for clients."
QR   2019 - Parker Lewis - Gradually, then suddenly https://archive.is/ldoau
QR   2020 - Yassine Elmandjra - Debunking Common Bitcoin Myths https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#debunking-common-bitcoin-myths
7/27 
QR   2011 - Tribute to Len Sassaman included in the blockchain https://archive.is/VYasf
QR   2020 - Beautyon - Misjudging Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m8#misjudging-bitcoin
7/28	
7/29 2010 - "If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."" Satoshi shuts down bytemaster after explaining ""The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale.  That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server.  The design supports letting users just be users.  The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be.  Those few nodes will be big server farms.  The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate."
     2010 - "Actually, it works well to just PM me.  I'm the one who's going to be fixing it.  If you find a security flaw, I would definitely like to hear from you privately to fix it before it goes public.""
QR   2018 - Nic Carter & Hasu - Visions of Bitcoin https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy18m7#visions-of-bitcoin
QR   2019 - Roy Sheinfeld - Why Bitcoin Needs to Become a Medium of Exchange https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#why-bitcoin-needs-to-become-a-medium-of-exchange
QR   2020 - Pedro Febrero - Bitcoin: Separating Money From State https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#bitcoin-separating-money-from-state
QR   2020 - Knut Svanholm - The AlienCoin Attack Vector https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m8#the-aliencoin-attack-vector
7/30	
QR   2019 - Alex Svetski - Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Libra https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy19m7#blockchain-bitcoin-and-libra
7/31	
QR   2020 - Michael Nov & Harry Sudock - Bitcoin mining has the potential to save distressed heavy industrial businesses https://bitcoinwords.github.io/cy20m7#bitcoin-mining-has-the-potential-to-save-distressed-heavy-industrial-businesses
QR   2021 - Jonathan Bier - The Blocksize War – Chapter 20 – SegWit2x https://archive.is/EquBQ