Add Luke Plant's writing

README.md

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   * [Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the pressure towards centralization](https://blog.mollywhite.net/off-ramps/)
   * [Cryptocurrency’s Robinhood effect](https://blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocurrencys-robinhood-effect/)
 * [Against Web3 and Faux-Decentralization](https://soatok.blog/2021/10/19/against-web3-and-faux-decentralization/) - 2021-10-19 by Soatok
+* [The technological case against Bitcoin and blockchain](https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-technological-case-against-bitcoin-and-blockchain/) - 2022-03-05 by Luke Plant
 * [The Case Against Crypto](https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/news/2021/12/03/case-against-crypto) - 2021-12-03 by Martin O'Leary
+* [The technological case against Bitcoin and blockchain](https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-technological-case-against-bitcoin-and-blockchain/)
 * [The Register: The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day](https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/06/the_dark_equation_of_harm/) - 2021-12-06
 * [Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHab0dNnj4) - 2018-04-20 by Nicholas Weaver 📺 Nicholas Weaver is a staff researcher with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and lecturer in EECS, where he teaches machine structures and computer security. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley in 2003 and joined ICSI to study network security and measurement. "The entire cryptocurrency and blockchain ecology is rife with frauds, criminalities, and tulip-mania style hype and needs to be properly disposed of into the ashes of history. A “blockchain” is just a horribly inefficient append-only file which costs a literal fortune to secure without actually providing meaningful distributed trust, while cryptocurrencies are provably inferior than actual currencies for legal real world transactions. Beyond the sheer uselessness have emerged a whole host of bad ideas, ranging from the “put a bird^H^H^H^H blockchain on it” hype to unregistered (and mostly fraudulent) securities with “Initial Coin Offerings” to an invitation for massive theft in the form of “smart” contracts."
 * [Ross Anderson et al: Bitcoin Redux: crypto crime, and how to tackle it](https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/06/01/bitcoin-redux-crypto-crime-and-how-to-tackle-it/) ([full paper](https://weis2018.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/05/WEIS_2018_paper_38.pdf))- 2018-06-01 - Anderson is a Professor of Security Engineering at the University Cambridge. Bitcoin Redux explains what’s going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a "balance" and allow them to transact with others. However if Alice sends Bob a bitcoin, and they’re both customers of the same exchange, it just adjusts their balances rather than doing anything on the blockchain. This is an e-money service, according to European law, but is the law enforced? Not where it matters. We’ve been looking at the details.
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 #### Christian
 
+* [The Christian case against Bitcoin and blockchain]( https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-christian-case-against-bitcoin-and-blockchain/) by Luke Plant, A reading of bitcoin philosophy and cult like phenomenon from a biblical perspective 2021-03-2022.
 * [What you should know about Bitcoin](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/faqs-know-bitcoin/) by Joe Carter. A well-researched, accurate introduction to Bitcoin from a Christian perspective, 2017-12-27.
 * [Ask the Economist: Should a Christian Invest in Bitcoin?](https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christian-invest-bitcoin/) by Greg Phelan, 2021-10-27.
 

concepts/decentralization.md

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+# Decentralization