We’re joined by Jill Carlson. Recently, she co-founded the Open Money Initiative, a research organization which looks into how people use money in closed economies. Their initial focus is on Venezuela where years of economic downturn and strict currency controls have created a humanitarian crisis which has political repercussions well beyond the country’s borders.

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Imagine you are a store owner who just sold $100 worth of items from your store, only to find out that the currency you received had devalued 25% overnight?  This scenario rightfully scares people and leaves them reluctant to exchange cryptocurrency for goods or services. To address this topic, Josh and I sat down with Bob Murphy, an austrian economist and senior fellow at the Mises Institute with a Phd in economics from NYU.  We discuss the historical significance of gold, if it can b... Read More

Interview location: New York

Interview date: Monday 13th May, 2019

Company: Open Money Initiation

Role: Co-Founders - Jill Carlson, Alejandro Machado & Jamaal Montasser

Venezuela is often promoted as an ideal use case for Bitcoin, a deflationary currency in a country suffering hyperinflation. Despite the examples of people mining Bitcoin or using Bitcoin to hold value, real adoption is complicated.

In Venezuela, people are using a range of currencies including ...

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"Look, I believe in freedom. That's the core root of everything that I believe in, whether that be social freedom, or monetary freedom. And I think Bitcoin is our best shot at enabling both." - Dan Held

Dave and Grahm are back with the latest on news and narratives in the Bitcoin community. News includes Bitcoin's recent price spike, Blockstream's Liquid Securities launch, Microsoft's plan to build on the Bitcoin blockchain, CFTC's crypto whistleblowing rewards and how mainstream reta...

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With the rise of decentralized companies and organizations, the need for tools to manage people around the world also emerges.  Aragon co-founder Luis Cuende and I continue our exploration of crypto governance this week. We discuss:

• Why do we need decentralized tools for management?
• Who is Aragon targeting?
• Why Aragon is interested in Polkadot

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Today the term Bitcoin is more popular than other big search terms such as SpaceX, Tesla, Elon Musk and even Donald Trump.

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Listen to this fun episode where we read questions from the audience! We discuss about what “going dutch” is, and when/if a girl should pay for herself or let a guy pay for her along with other cultural expectations of gender roles. Next, can political views affect a relationship? Should you stay with someone because of a sense of obligation even if you want to leave? Can you still be with someone even if they don’t want kids? We even touch a bit on health, alzheimers and getti... Read More

Interview location: New York

Interview date: Monday 13th May, 2019

Company: Microsoft

Role: Senior PM - Leading Decentralized Identity

As Bitcoin continues to grow, it is no longer an underground movement for cypherpunks and geeks. Bitcoin has broken into the mainstream while maintaining its core decentralised feature, out of the reach of state control.

Where financial institutions have woken up to a world which includes Bitcoin with the arrival of futures, hi...

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It’s clear there is a fear of missing out, also known as FOMO, as crypto traders and investors who were waiting to buy Bitcoin back lower than $3,150 are coming to the difficult realization that they missed their chance and are stuck buying Bitcoin back at increasingly higher prices.

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Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi joined us to discuss the role of the Ethereum Foundation, their grant program, governance approach and criticisms of the Ethereum Foundation.

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MaidSafe's Crust (Connections in Rust) program library was necessary due to lack of existing tech to do what was needed for the SAFE Network.

The QUIC protocol has evolved and now provides a connection solution which the whole internet will likely be moving to--really great for the internet at large, and really handy for the SAFE Network's development.

The SAFE project will be an early adopter, because the protocol already contains the needed functionality to make further development of ...

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Interview location: New York

Interview date: Sunday 12th May, 2019

Company: Adam - Blockstream | Bryan - Independent

Role: Adam - Cofounder | Bryan - Core Developer

Following the recent hack of Binance for over 7,000 Bitcoin, a debate was sparked on Twitter regarding returning the funds using a block reorg. While this topic may have been discussed in the past, being new to Bitcoin, I was unaware of the history.

There are many technical aspects to how Bitcoin fu...

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Welcome back to The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, your source for all the news, commentary and analysis driving the financial revolution that is Bitcoin.

In today's episode, hosts Dave and Grahm get you caught up on Fidelity and E-Trade's plan to launch crypto trading platforms, the growing number of CoinJoin transactions, the Binance hack and the latest on Bitfinex. After that, they're joined by longtime Bitcoin writer Kyle Torpey to discuss some of his recent articles and what the heck is g...

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Tatiana and Josh had a great conversation with Paul Puey, founder of Edge Wallet and veteran crypto entrepreneur.  His experience and insight is blazing trails in the industry. We talked about Edge and looked forward to all the exciting things happening this week, including our event Crypto Stars event Saturday night.  He said he will be there primarily to enjoy all the great music and comedy, but will be sporting his Edge shirt and will be happy to answer any questions other attendees... Read More

Brian Kelly from Fast Money said that there’s a really good chance that the December lows we saw in the 3000 dollar range were probably the lows for this cycle, and that there is a Bitcoin resurgence, and then gave 4 reasons for his statement.

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On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin...

Join Andreas Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine for a discussion on the realities of base-layer-bitcoin fungibility...

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• Interview location: Florida
• Interview date: Wednesday 8th May, 2019
• Company: Bitcoin Uncensored
• Role: Co-hosts

Coming into Bitcoin in late 2016 comes with a range of challenges in respecting and understanding the history of the space. Not only understanding the tech but the various people and projects which have come and gone.

There is also a long history of scams and/or poorly thought out projects promising riches from the mythical properties of the bloc...

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Ads pertaining to blockchain tech, industry news, as well as events and educational materials for cryptos can now be displayed on Facebook without prior approval.

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What is love? What is universal love?  Is there a difference and how can you measure that?  Is there a scientific approach to this? Can we become more loving and how does that impact the world on a whole?  We discuss these topics and find out at least some answers to these large questions with our beautiful guest Dr. Natalie Trent.  This neuroscientist and shamanic energy healer has done extensive research with Harvard Medical School and shares her findings with the ladies on... Read More

Holochain has been a project simminging in the background of the blockchain space for several years now. The promise has been a panaceaic solution to the performance and scalability issues facing decentralised hosting platforms. It’s an oft heard claim, but, as founder Arthur Brock expounds in this interview, by giving up our insistence on global consensus in favor of discoverable and verifiable local state, a world of options is opened to us. This kind of discussion follows from the Secure ...

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