What do you do if your best friend is dating someone you do not like?  Is it ok to like other people's pictures on Instagram and, if so, when are you going too far?  Is it ever ok to date a friend's ex? Stephanie, Lauren and I tackle these questions from our amazing audience.  If you have a question for the show, we would love to hear it! Thanks for checking us out and a special thanks to our sponsors, Vaultoro.com and Blocktap.io! Do you have a burning question, or a s... Read More

Mining Bitcoin can be a profitable business, and there are a handful of countries where it can be even more profitable due to their low cost of electricity.

Here are the five cheapest places on the planet to mine Bitcoin.

Read More

Welcome to episode 68 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I introduced myself to Paul Sztorc at Bitcoin 2019 and asked him if he'd be up for an interview. I was thrilled that he gave me an unqualified "yes." This ended up being, by far, my longest interview of the conference, and I appreciate that Paul was willing to hang out with me for a big chunk of the second day of the event. I really feel like I got to know Paul in this longest episode I've re...

Read More

User acquisition is one of the least covered topics in crypto. This week, Augur creator and Pantera Capital's co-CIO Joey Krug joins us on the show to change that.

Read More

Matt Odell, Host of Tales from the Crypt, comes to POV Crypto to test his sparring skills!

Matt is a long-time Bitcoiner, and orginator of the famous meme "stacking sats".

Christian and David ask Matt about his views on Memes and memetic influence. They discuss how memes have developed in crypto history, and the power of memes at large!

Then Matt and David go an a gamut of topics, generally Matt attacking Ethereum and David defending.

Read More

My first time in Seattle was made better by having an amazing opportunity to talk to the local Blockchain community about my work in music, activism, and crytpo. My friend Arry Yu and I sit down to talk about how this technology is affecting the Pacific Northwest, what advantages there are to the region, community growth and impact, as well as for a new podcast with her husband, Dae.   About the Guests: Arry Yu is the founding Chair of the Cascadia Blockchain Council and Board Memb... Read More

The security of Bitcoin is one of the factors which gives it so much value, and after ten years there still hasn’t been a single counterfeit Bitcoin created, there has never been a successful 51% attack, and the few potentially catastrophic bugs have been fixed without any negative consequences. But how secure is Bitcoin? Is Proof of Work too risky? Can we trust those that are developing Bitcoin to do so with the right ethical judgement?

Read More

We’re joined by Jerry Brito, Executive Director of Coin Center. In 2014, he founded Coin Center, a leading research and advocacy center focussing on cryptocurrencies.

Read More

Kevin offers his take on the global backdrop, everything from underfunded pensions to global monetary policy and even the eventual potential dethroning of king dollar. We go on to where Kevin believes crypto and the global economy will co-exist in the future and what would happen to crypto if a recession hits.

Read More

We are back and kicking it off with Reuben Yap of Zcoin. Zcoin has been flying under the radar for quite some time. Zcoin appears to be quite an innovative project with a team of Dev's that are more than willing to work with other projects. Reuben lays out the current Zcoin road map and it's plans to both share and borrow code from and with other projects. I also want to give a shout out to Zcoin for continuing to support Ross Ulbricht with monthly pay outs as was promised in Oct. 2016 on The...

Read More

In this episode, recorded at the Bitcoin2019 Conference, Dave and Grahm are joined by Joel Comm of the Bad Crypto Podcast and Gary Leland of Crypto Cousins to discuss everything from Bitcoin, podcasting, regulations, Facebook's Libra and even a little about the great scooter debate. Enjoy!

Read More

Tim Coulter, the founder and CEO of Truffle Suite and Trufflecon, comes on to POV Crypto to discuss how he is working to make building on blockchains easier and better.

Read More

The Cannabis industry shares a lot with Bitcoin. It is growing fast under a clouded regulatory position. While at a state level Bitcoin has been legalised either for recreational or medicinal purposes across the majority of the country, it is still illegal at a federal level which has led to problems acquiring banking services for those operating in the industry.

Read More

Welcome to episode 67 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. Eric Martindale is a hardcore cypherpunk hacker. We get some details about Eric's past and present, including the well-known Bitcoin companies Eric has worked for, and Fabric, a decentralized, peer-to-peer protocol, created with the goal of replacing our current broken internet.

---

EPISODE LINKS

Eric on Twitter
https://twitter.com/martindale

Fabric
https://fabric.pub

Fabric on Twitter
https://twitter.co...

Read More

Benjamin Franklin started printing paper money in 1726, making him arguably, the Bitcoin miner of his time.

Read More

Harmony is described as a fast and secure blockchain and it leverages a lot of newer tech such as Proof of Stake, Sharding and cross shard communications, granted not all of this tech is fully launched yet. 

Read More

I speak with Blocknet's co-founder Arlyn Culwick on how their cross-chain protocol works, and why Blocknet takes a Layer 2 approach (instead of Polkadot/Cosmos' Layer 1) to interoperability. We discuss:

• Arlyn's concerns with Polkadot and Cosmos
• Why Blocknet focuses on L2 for inteoperability instead of L1
• How Blocknet connects Bitcoin and Ethereum

Read More

Josh and I sat down with our good friend Thomas Hunt, the one man show responsible for the Mad Bitcoins videos we all love.  Our conversation was covered from all over the globe, with me in San Francisco, Josh in Berlin, and Thomas in beautiful Barcelona. The main topic was Facebook Libra, the social media giant's new cryptocurrency.  Is it really a look into the future or just another attempt to monopolize a good idea for their own greedy benefit.  We also cover censorship... Read More

Scaling has been a constant thorn in the side of Bitcoin. Solutions for scaling has led to a civil war, multiple forks and is the centre of many arguments on Reddit and Twitter.

The Bitcoin blockchain is currently around 230GB and syncing the blockchain can take multiple days. This is just one of the barriers which may put people off running the software, but what if you could run it on your phone? That is exactly what Tadge is trying to achieve with Utreexo. By not worrying about the full history of the blockchain and only concentrating on data that is relevant to you this may be the solution for the ever increasing size of the data.

Read More

In this episode, we caught up with Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol. Compound is one of the first examples of a well-functioning lending market built using smart contracts, built on Ethereum.

Read More