From the Front Page - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
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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 -
Weekly Bits #17: The Stories of Bitcoin Revisited
February 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia From 2012 to 2014, Bitcoin Magazine produced 22 print issues covering the burgeoning technology, its budding culture and potential impact. This week, Colin and Peter revisit some of those stories with updates, reflections and new commentary. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin's Solvency and Security with Coinfloor’s Obi Nwosu & Blockstack's Muneeb Ali
February 24th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith speaks with Coinfloor's Obi Nwosu and Blockstack's Muneeb Ali, two leaders who have run companies in the community since 2013. Coinfloor is the U.k.'s largest cryptocurrency exchange while Blockstack is a developer platform and network trying to build a new internet. Though different in what types of products they offer, both companies are taking innovative and even perhaps opposing strategies for how they can and should successfully leverage Bitcoin. Read More -
Weekly Bits #16: Powering Corporate Open-Source Development
February 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia As the world's most robust open-source digital ledger, Bitcoin has encouraged several corporations to fund the development of tools that can be accessed and leveraged by anyone. In this week's episode, Colin and Peter discuss this intersection of corporate self-interest and technical altruism. Read More -
Bitcoin Around the World - Colombia: Bitcoin, Regulation and Ties to Venezuela with Mauricio Tovar Gutierrez & Alejandro Beltran Torrado - WBD193
February 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this interview, I speak to Mauricio Tovar Gutierrez & Alejandro Beltran Torrado, part of the Bitcoin community in Bogota, Colombia. We discuss the politics and economics of Colombia, Bitcoin regulation and their close ties with Venezuela. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: How Bitcoin Unlocks Social Good with Paxful's Ray Youssef
February 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith interviews the CEO of Paxful, Ray Youssef, about how his peer-to-peer exchange has enabled a new economy of currency exchange and payments all through the use of Bitcoin. Additionally, Dave asks Ray about his philosophy and experience in social good and how it directly ties into Paxful's initiative for building schools across the world. Read More -
Weekly Bits #15: Assessing Bitcoin As A Tool For Philanthropy
February 12th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this week's episode, Colin and Peter evaluate Bitcoin's history as a technology that enables charitable giving. They discuss its effectiveness in response to natural disasters, the Bitcoin community's self-interested benevolence and the blockchain's prowess for facilitating a better kind of philanthropy. Read More -
Matt Odell on Educating Bitcoiners
February 10th, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin is a tool for financial freedom, but this means it also comes with more individual responsibility. In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Matt Odell, an active privacy advocate and educator in the Bitcoin Community, to discuss how to educate Bitcoiners, misleading mainstream media narratives and overall good Bitcoin opsec. Read More -
Weekly Bits #14: Imagining The Bitcoin Citadel Future
February 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia Maybe you've seen the memes: Bitcoiners are fantasizing about fortresses fit for complete self-sufficiency and impregnable bag protection. But what really goes into the perfect personal Bitcoin citadel? And what does it mean to imagine a future in which Bitcoiners are siphoned off from the rest of society? Colin Harper joins the show to dig deeper into his Bitcoin Magazine cover story "The 7 Safest Havens for Establishing Your Bitcoin Citadel." Read More -
Lebanon's Financial Crisis & Bitcoin (Part 2): Bitcoin's Volatility As Stability
February 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia In this two-part series, Dave Hollerith interviews members of Lebanon's diaspora migrant population to understand the country's current financial crisis and why Bitcoin is both an important asset for mitigating its risks as well as how it could play a roll in helping those who live in Lebanon. In this episode (Part 2), Hollerith talks with a Lebanese Bitcoiner, Mark Saroufim, about how Bitcoin is ultimately fitting into Lebanon's downturned economy. Read More -
Weekly Bits #13: How Do Bitcoiners Maintain Privacy In The Age Of Government Blockchain Analysis?
January 29th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this week's episode, Peter is joined by Bitcoin Magazine staff writer Vlad Costea to discuss the latest cover story, "Maintaining Transaction Privacy in the Age of Government Analysis." The pair went over some Bitcoin privacy best practices, considered the honeypot risks of government-based transaction monitoring and examined the intersection of identity protection and user-friendliness. Read More -
Lebanon's Financial Crisis & Bitcoin (Part 1): A Central Bank Ponzi Scheme
January 27th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this two-part series, Dave Hollerith interviews members of Lebanon's diaspora migrant population to understand the country's current financial crisis and why Bitcoin is both an important asset for mitigating the risks of a financial crisis as well as how it could play a roll in helping those who live in Lebanon today. In part one, Mike Azar, a financial consultant and lecturer, explains how the Lebanese financial crisis started and what it could mean for the countries future. Read More -
Weekly Bits #12: What The Fed's Repo Market Pump Means For Bitcoin
January 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia The Federal Reserve has funneled roughly $500 billion into the repo market since September 2019 in what was originally pitched as temporary operations. Now, it wants to extend the same efforts to smaller institutions in an unprecedented extension of its influence over the economy. On this episode, Colin and Peter discuss Bitcoin Magazine's cover story about the Fed's actions and what they tell us about our financial system. If this reminds anyone of the climate before The Great Recession, then Bitcoin could be a solution. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Mr. Pseu on Getting A Bitcoin Education
January 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, we talk with A Boy Named Pseu (Phil Gibson). He is a libertarian writer and podcaster whose journey in understanding Bitcoin is more recent and rooted by a longterm interest in Austrian economics and agorism. Pseu recently wrote a Medium post, "Bitcoin Is Dead." In it, he argues why Bitcoin's growth stands out as uniquely different from how it has been portrayed by mainstream media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal. Read More
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