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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 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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast feat. Jameson Lopp
April 15th, 2019 by
DSholla **It's very, very easy to go from being a low profile, your average person who's just going about their life, to becoming a very high profile person who might get targeted by various bad actors. - Jameson Lopp** Welcome to The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, the source for all the news, commentary and thought leadership driving the financial revolution that is Bitcoin. In today's episode, hosts Dave and Grahm get you caught up on the SEC, China's proposed ban on crypto mining, the QuadrigaCX... 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 -
Bullish on Bitcoin | Bearish on Trade Relations feat. Jeffrey Tucker
May 28th, 2019 by DSholla **"It's extremely terrifying because it will absolutely impoverish us, it really well, if [Trump] gets his full agenda through, it's going to be a catastrophe. We've not seen anything remotely like this since 1930." - Jeffrey Tucker** Dave and Grahm are back with news and price narratives around 2019’s top performing financial asset. This episode's stories include mainstream media's Bitcoin FOMO, the real story of Laszlo Hanyecz — the guy behind Bitcoin’s pizza day, Dutch authoriti... Read More -
Proof of Wrongs: Debunking Faketoshi feat. Jameson Lopp
June 3rd, 2019 by DSholla In today's episode, Dave and Grahm sit down with Jameson Lopp to discuss his recent Op-Ed "How Many Wrongs Make a Wright", a comprehensive investigation into Craig Wright and his questionable claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto — the creator of Bitcoin. **Interview Resources:** [Op Ed:How Many Wrongs Make A Wright?](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-how-many-wrongs-make-wright/) [Lopp and Craig Wright Meeting in 2015](https://twitter.com/lopp/status/883331069617078272) **... Read More -
The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Quantum Narratives with Dan Held
May 20th, 2019 by DSholla **"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... 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 -
The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast feat. Kyle Torpey
May 14th, 2019 by DSholla 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... 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 -
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 -
Relax, Man...Bitcoin's Security is Fine feat. Dan Held
June 18th, 2019 by DSholla In this episode, Dave and Grahm cover the news: shadow banking, Binance’s spinoff company and explaining Bitcoin to your dad. Then they talk with the myth, the legend, the Texan, Dan Held. They discuss Held’s recent essay on Bitcoin’s Security, the halving and what is Bitcoin’s best use case (store of value or payments). Read More
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