From the Front Page - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
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Nick Szabo on Cypherpunks, Money and Bitcoin - WBD163
November 5th, 2019 by
BTCMedia Among Satoshi's email recipients was Nick Szabo, a computer scientist, cryptographer, the designer of Bit Gold and Smart Contracts pioneer. In a rare interview, Nick joins me to discuss the cypherpunk movement, what money is, privacy and of course, Bitcoin. Read More -
Weekly Bits: The WTV Takedown and How Darknet Markets Rely on Bitcoin
November 2nd, 2019 by BTCMedia Bitcoin Magazine editor Peter Chawaga and content creator David Hollerith add broader context to the takedown of darknet marketplace WTV, talking about the wider darknet reliance on bitcoin, the challenges of writing an article about such an obfuscated place and more. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - Tom Bachar on PEI, The Bitcoin Rewards App
November 1st, 2019 by BTCMedia People will always need banking, but now, more than ever, we're beginning to see that people don't necessarily need banks. Emerging apps such as PEI offer consumers opportunities to grow their finances outside of credit card companies. In this episode, Dave Hollerith interviews Tom Bachar, Co-founder, and CEO of PEI to find out how they do it. Pei is a mobile card-linked cash-back app with banking functionalities that helps people save money. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Inside the Darknet Market Seizure Made Possible by Bitcoin
October 28th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith interviews Jonathan Levin, Chief Strategy Officer at Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis firm that helped investigators take down the largest darknet market for child exploitation content in the world. Read More -
Weekly Bits: Signet and Bitcoin as a Savings Technology
October 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this week's episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Weekly Bits podcast, editors Peter Chawaga and Christie Harkin discuss the evolution of bitcoiners in recent years, a proposed sandbox platform for easier Bitcoin development and growing services that offer to pay interest on your HODLings...in exchange for custody. Read More -
Introducing Bitcoin Magazine's Weekly Bits: Gab, QuadrigaCX and the New Crypto Tax
October 16th, 2019 by BTCMedia Introducing Bitcoin Magazine's Weekly Bits, a podcast that details the most impactful stories coming through our newsroom. Taking a closer look at the background and fact-finding of their coverage, editors and reporters discuss the regulatory, cultural and technological news shaping Bitcoin every week. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Agatha Bacelar on Why Bitcoin and the Blockchain Will Be Agents for Social Change
October 11th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith and Colin Harper talk with Agatha Bacelar. Bacelar is challenging long-time juggernaut, Nancy Pelosi, for California's District 12 congressional seat in the next election cycle. Bacelar is a 27-year old Brazilian American immigrant with progressive democratic political views and an appreciation for Bitcoin that dates back to 2011 (OG status). She is also one of the first political candidates accepting campaign donations in cryptocurrency. She's seeking to raise one million dollars n cryptocurrency to match the amount of stock Pelosi holds in Facebook. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - Aleksandar Svetski On Why Bitcoin Is the Ultimate Contrarian’s Bet
September 26th, 2019 by BTCMedia Bitcoin Magazine catches up with Aleksandar Svetski, CEO of the Bitcoin company, Amber. Aleksandar argues why now more than ever, Bitcoin not Blockchain is the best direction for the crypto industry to grow. This is one part of his thesis of the interview for why he thinks of himself as a contrarian and Bitcoin, itself, as the ultimate contrarian bet. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - Francis Pouliot on Joining Liquid Network, Bitcoin Privacy and Scalability
September 20th, 2019 by BTCMedia On the first day of the 2019 Baltic Honeybadger conference, prominent bitcoiner and Bull Bitcoin CEO Francis Pouliot spoke with Bitcoin Magazine just a few hours after Bull Bitcoin announced it would be joining Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain federation. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - Creating the Animated Series "Bitcoin & Friends" with Robert Allen
September 12th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, the guys talk about the latest Bitcoin headlines (including responses to the FATF recommended crypto "travel Rule", Bitmain’s Antminer 17 SOLD OUT and the NFL left tackle trying to get paid in Bitcoin) then interview Robert Allen, executive producer of the animated adult web series, "Bitcoin & Friends." Allen discusses some of the references behind the characters and jokes in the show, how funny people are usually brought up in religious households and, of course, Bitcoin. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - Wingin' It: Energy Companies Are Missing Out On Bitcoin Mining
September 6th, 2019 by BTCMedia Welcome to the first ever Bitcoin Magazine Podcast's "Wingin' It", a light, off-the-cuff, sometimes humorous approach to all things happening around bitcoin and more importantly, everything else. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - Dr. Maxim Orlovsky on Storm and Bitcoin
August 30th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, Bitcoin Magazine staff writer, Vlad Costea talks with Dr Maxim Orlovsky, a neuroscientist turned Bitcoin researcher, engineer and entrepreneur, whose has published the concept for a new 2nd layer Bitcoin Protocol called Storm. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine - A Conversation with Crypto.com and Salt Lending from Bitcoin 2019
August 27th, 2019 by BTCMedia Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the last ten years, but behind the price, there's a lot going on. In this episode, we cover the top news stories over the past two weeks then feature two interviews from the Bitcoin 2019 conference. The first is with Sean Rach, CMO of Crypto.com, and the second is with Jenny Shaver, COO of Salt Lending. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Coffee, Crypto and the Hodling Merchant's Perspective
August 14th, 2019 by
DSholla Sure, bitcoin is a store of value and a hedge against global debt and inflation. But what is it actually like for a merchant to transact with it day to day — to pay taxes, to cover exchange rates and properly manage multiple wallets? Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Alex Gladstein and the Moral Case for Lightning
August 8th, 2019 by DSholla We've all seen it: Our social media feeds suddenly inundated with ads related to products or services we had just been browsing for. In an increasingly cashless society, our everyday payments are being tracked and monitored by third parties in an attempt to learn our habits so they can advertise to us more effectively. Tracking our shopping habits to market to us might not be that nefarious, but in some parts of the world this same technology is used to suppress free speech or even effect one's "social credit score," as in China. While more free societies haven't gotten there yet, it could become a very slippery slope, and Lightning Network payments may just be the way to curtail such activity. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Lolli's Alex Adelman on Earning Bitcoin and Democratizing Commerce
July 31st, 2019 by DSholla In this episode, Lolli CEO and co-founder Alex Adelman joins the Bitcoin Magazine podcast to discuss Lolli's rapid growth, democratizing commerce, driving bitcoin adoption and the future of video games. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast Ep 15 - Entiende Bitcoin feat. Max Webster
July 23rd, 2019 by DSholla In this episode, Dave and Grahm get back to the news: Paying Taxes in Bitcoin, Trump Deriding Bitcoin, and Iran’s “potential” mining industry. After that, they sit down with Max Webster, co-founder of Entiende Bitcoin, to hear about Bitcoin adoption in Latin America. Read More -
A Conversation with Joel Comm and Gary Leland at Bitcoin 2019
July 12th, 2019 by DSholla 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 -
FATF Guidelines and What They Get Wrong About Bitcoin feat. Simon Lelieveldt
July 5th, 2019 by DSholla In this episode, Dave discusses the new Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines with Amsterdam-based regulatory consultant Simon Lelieveldt, who argues that these guidelines have gone way too far and are disproportionate, technically unsound and uneconomic. At the crux of this topic is the difference between how Facebook's Libra will accept regulation versus advocacy for online privacy by many in the Bitcoin community. **Resources:** **News:** [Despite Industry Pushback, G20 M... Read More -
Being John McAfee
July 3rd, 2019 by DSholla On today's episode, Dave and Grahm chat with the one and only John McAfee, currently living in exile in Cuba. They talk about freedom, Bitcoin, McAfee's 2020 Presidential run, the McAfee movie starring Michael Keaton, death threats and more! Read More
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