I’m Zach Maier, and I’m running for the Kansas Legislature to represent the families of Shawnee and Lake Quivira. If you don’t know me, a few facts to get started: I’m a proud dad, a small business owner, a Kansas farm kid, and a K-State engineer.

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7) "Bitcoin can be surpassed, but the underpinning blockchain tech is revolutionary (cf. 5&6). We should research blockchain w/o Bitcoin!" No: blockchains can be surpassed (cf. 5&6), but the underpinning bitcoin asset is revolutionary. We are researching Bitcoin w/o blockchain.

You guys know that I have a fetish for analogies, so bear w/ me about this one. Thesis: if Bitcoin is digital Gold, then the (pseudo)"SPV" model for light nodes is digital Coinage, w/ basically the same trade-offs & risks. Argument development following in this tweetstorm:

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