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Fed Watch - Central Banks Update April 2021 - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
April 7th, 2021 by
BTCMedia Fed Watch has established itself as the bitcoin podcast which goes past the surface arguments about the monetary system, uncovering uncomfortable topics and diving deeply into how bitcoin will reshape that system. The main part of this episode is summarizing central bank related news for the last month, particularly the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the Federal Reserve. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast- If You Are Not Long Bitcoin, You Are Short Bitcoin — W/ Anthony Scaramucci & Matt Odell
February 16th, 2021 by BTCMedia This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Bitcoin Magazine advisor, Matt Odell sits down with Anthony Scaramucci the CEO of Skybridge Capital to discuss his Bitcoin Fund and his thoughts on Bitcoin. Scaramucci's echoing of Bitcoin first principles thinking at the institutional investor class is incredibly validating of the Bitcoin narrative. Read More -
Fed Watch - Layered Money with Nik Bhatia - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
February 13th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Fed Watch podcast, Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner interview Nik Bhatia, author of Layered Money - From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies. Nik has a diverse background from a US Treasuries trading desk of a large institutional asset manager to being an Adjunct Professor teaching finance and economics at the University of Southern California. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - What Bitcoin Started w/ Erik Voorhees
February 12th, 2021 by BTCMedia Erik sees the Bitcoin space in different way than many bitcoiners. Erik describes everything with in the "crypto" ecosystem as part of the same tree and although there are nefarious use cases and scams, that does not invalidate the entire space outside of bitcoin. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Banking with Bitcoin w/ Steven Schnall CEO of Quontic Bank
February 9th, 2021 by BTCMedia This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with CEO of Quontic Bank Steven Schnall to discuss Quontic's recent move to offer a Bitcoin back debit card. The Bitcoin Back debit card offer users 1.5% cash back in the for of Bitcoin. This represents Quontic's first official cryptocurrency product and a massive step for Bitcoin's financialization as Quontic is firmly a legacy banking institution. Read More -
The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - The Good Word of Bitcoin with Isaiah Jackson
February 4th, 2021 by BTCMedia Joe Rodgers had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Isaiah Jackson to discuss his upcoming book, Bitcoin and Black America Volume 2. Before the interview I read a copy of his first book which laid the groundwork explaining Bitcoin to noobs, but it was written especially for black people. Read More -
Fed Watch - Action, Reaction: WSB, GameStop Fallout, Elon, and Silver - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
February 3rd, 2021 by BTCMedia In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Fed Watch,” Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner discuss the recent events around WallStreetBets (WSB) and Gamestop from a macro perspective. We spend some time setting up the history and what transpired, before diving into the meanings and implications of what happened. We try to answer the questions, “what is the goal of WSB, and were they successful?” Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Teaching Bitcoin w/ @anilsaidso
February 2nd, 2021 by BTCMedia Anil has made a name for himself in the Bitcoin community because of the amazing and simple distillations of very complex and important concepts for understanding Bitcoin. Anil creates amazing Twitter threads, web pages and short ebooks to explain concepts like, Why Bitcoin is Neutral, Bitcoin V the Dollar, Notable Bitcoiners, Explaining the Sovereign Individual, understanding Bitcoin with Mental Models, and much much more. Read More -
Bitcoin in Asia - Poolin's Alejandro De La Torre on Hashrate Backed Tokens and Taproot BIA 34
February 2nd, 2021 by BTCMedia Our guest this week is Alejandro De La Torre, Vice President at Poolin. Alejandro and Poolin are managing taprootactivation.com to improve on the communication and transparency of the Taproot activation process specifically. Poolin has also recently launched hashrate backed token, one that represents 1 Th of hashrate in their own mining operation and is already trading. Alejandro has been in Bitcoin data and mining space since 2014 when he founded SendChat, later acquired by wallet and da... Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - The Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy Development [Aaron Van Wirdum]
June 10th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another great piece by Aaron Van Wirdum made available at BitcoinMagazine.com, today it was announced that the Human Rights Foundation, a great force for liberty and privacy across the globe, has turned its focus toward directly funding Bitcoin privacy projects thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor. Starting with funding an implementation of an awesome privacy development called coinswap, and with another grant soon to be announced, the future of Bitcoin privacy is yet again, just a little bit brighter! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Removes Power From the Few and Gives It to the Many
April 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today's guest is one of my favourite people in the space Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We are going to talk about the adoption of Bitcoin, censorship and fake news, the use of Bitcoin in Zimbabwe, corporate and nation state digital currencies, why he does not believe in Austrian economics, why the so-called "left" does not embrace Bitcoin and more. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Read - The King of Blockchains, How Bitcoin Can Become the Foundation of Web 3.0
April 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia "As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we’ll come to realize that it’s hard to beat the security and network effects of Bitcoin." - Muneeb Ali Another great article from Bitcoin Magazine, this one by the founder of Blockstack, Muneeb Ali, on the superior security and foundation that Bitcoin can provide to Web 3.0. How its perceived "limitations," may be what makes it the best foundation we could have. It also sparks a long Guy's Rant on the value of on-chain vs off-chain contracts, the doubts on the "tokenization of everything," & why smart contracts are only as good as the token they contract in (not the other way round). Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Read - What is Happening to Money
April 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia “In the wake of the enormous money tsunami unleashed onto economies and societies, people have begun (rightfully) to start asking the question: What has become of money? Is money even worth anything any longer?” - Pascal Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Read - Explained; 0% interest, Limitless Repo, QE4
March 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia "The Federal Reserve’s market operations are ramping up by the day, and it’s using more tools simultaneously to “fix” markets than ever before. So what are these tools and how is the Fed using them?" - Colin Harper Wondering what is happening in the hurricane that is finance and finding it difficult to piece together all of the puzzle. You aren't alone. Colin Harper has a great new addition to Bitcoin Magazine to help make sense of all the jargon of Repo markets, interest rates, zero reserve, QE4 to infinity, and the rest. Don't miss it! Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Read - Bitcoin, Fungibility & the Limits of Privacy
March 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia An article from Bitcoin Magazine diving into the difficult and often onerous regulations around money transmission and both the potential consequences for the entire industry, and the dangers it presents for individual privacy. An excellent op-ed from Sasha Hodder, and Rafael Yakobi. Read More -
Weekly Bits #19: Quarantined
March 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia We're all quarantined! But don't worry, we're still bringing you the content you need in these critical (often boring) times. Sit back, relax, and enjoy our first quarantine episode. Colin Harper fills in for Peter Chawaga and is joined by Flip -- computer mastermind behind all things dot com over at Bitcoin Magazine. They discuss being quarantined, prepping, coin-mixing, the value of gold and other precious metals, and even their favorite quarantine recipes. Enjoy! Read More -
Amir Taaki on What Drives Bitcoin's Dissident Narrative
March 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Taaki, who after years spent working with the Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and helping build their society, is now contributing to multiple cryptocurrency and privacy projects not yet revealed to the public. Read More -
Weekly Bits #18: The Art and Culture of Bitcoin
March 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia Building on Bitcoin Magazine's Art of Bitcoin issue, Colin and Peter discuss the grassroots history of the Bitcoin logo, the power of artistic propaganda to convert precoiners and how Bitcoin's art world reflects the technology itself. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Yassine Elmandjra on Whether Bitcoin Should Correlate
March 9th, 2020 by BTCMedia What is Bitcoin? This question is constantly posed to us at Bitcoin Magazine. The truth is that the answer varies depending on who you ask. With the recent economic shock from the global spread of COVID19, now feels like the right time to revisit it. In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Yassine Elmandjra, crypto analyst at Ark Invest about whether or not Bitcoin does and should correlate to the stock market and global economy more broadly. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Brian Merchant on The Darknet's Fake Murder-For-Hire Marketplace
March 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith interviews journalist and author, Brian Merchant, on a recent story he wrote about a darknet website that offers murder-for-hire services. Part hoax and part reality, Merchant's investigation into this scam marketplace led him into a world of white hat hackers, fake hitmen, murderous spouses and real-world victims. Read More
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