From the Front Page - Let's Talk Bitcoin!
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #436 'We Need 30 Different Words for Different Kinds of Censorship'
May 31st, 2020 by
adam The rallying cry of the totalitarian is "He farted first", but if both systems have produced similar outcomes, is there much of a difference? Today's wide-ranging discussion features Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Adam B. Levine and Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #435 Bitcoin Miners, US Energy Producers and Moore’s Law
May 10th, 2020 by adam Mining bitcoin as a greener alternative? Inside the relative world of constant fuel production, lumpy demand and bitcoin-based load balancing.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #434 Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed
April 26th, 2020 by adam In a time of increasing censorship aimed towards protecting us, is truly private messaging possible? Why are we using "data driven" approaches when we know the data is wrong? Juggernaut's John Cantrell and HRF's Alex Gladstein help us see what the crisis has revealed.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #433 Coronavirus Impacts and Improving on Bitcoin With BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen
April 5th, 2020 by adam BitTorrent creator and Chia CEO Bram Cohen joins the hosts of Let's Talk Bitcoin! To discuss the limitations of Satoshi's approach to Nakamoto consensus, how he believes it can be improved and the lasting impacts of coronavirus lockdowns.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #432 How MKRs Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization
March 29th, 2020 by adam How do DeFi stablecoins actually work and what happened during the sudden, precipitous drop in crypto prices earlier this month? On today's show Andreas M. Antonopoulos leads us through a very interesting system and how it survived 'Black Thursday'.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #431 Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope
March 22nd, 2020 by adam From Boeing to Bitcoin in this week's discussion we're talking about our disrupted reality, the politically expedient path forward, why it almost certainly won't work, the alternatives to it, what this means for bitcoin and what you can do to help.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #430 ‘Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized’ 6 Years Later
March 15th, 2020 by adam After one of the most challenging weeks in recent memory we're talking about a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and revisiting Johnston's Law (anything that can be decentralized will be decentralized) with the man who coined the phrase so many years ago.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #429 Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)
March 1st, 2020 by adam Read MoreEarlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized world of bitcoin. Later, we hear from correspondent George Ettinger about the indications of a "Dumb Currency Singularity" taking place at the IRS right now.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #428 Decentralization Philosophy – Does Crypto Still Need Catalysts?
February 23rd, 2020 by adam Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss catalysts and CEOS in the world of blockchain projects, the organizational and organic structures of decentralization and to wonder whether crypto even needs Satoshi-like figures now that the fire of blockchain burns bright.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #427 Mainstream Moments and the CompuServe of Crypto
February 16th, 2020 by adam ##On Today's Show... With the price of bitcoin headed up again, the idea of blockchains and digital currencies has never been more palatable to the mainstream. We've seen this cycle before, but could this time be different? Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #426 - Bitcoin Taxes and Real World Scams!
February 9th, 2020 by adam ##On Today's Show... Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss the US tax treatment of "Virtual Currencies" and how scams find a home wherever opportunity exists, at least for a while. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #425 Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project
February 2nd, 2020 by adam ##On Today's Show... Years of jokes about “FaceCoin” and “ZuckBucks” have finally come to life – sort of. In a previous episode, LTB! host Andreas M. Antonopoulos talked about how some venture capitalists are monkeying around by downplaying the killer applications of open blockchains in favor of… bananas. Now he makes us wonder whether Libra will even survive to become a production network. Is Silicon Valley coming for banking? Will Libra’s challenges have any impact on open public blockchains? This talk took place on June 19th 2019 at the Scottish Blockchain Meetup in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #424 What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users?
January 26th, 2020 by adam ##On Today's Episode... The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show (Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murphy) gathered to discuss Lightning Network technology and two innovative approaches at the wallet level which simplify the new-user experience at a tangible, but seemingly minimal cost. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #423 Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors
January 19th, 2020 by adam In today's episode, we apply concepts and stories from "The Spider and the Starfish: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations", a formational book on pre-blockchain decentralization written in the early 2000s, as the centralized US military struggled to effectively dispatch a much smaller decentralized force in Afghanistan.
While the battlefield is different, the insight is perhaps even more relevant to the world of blockchain projects, their decentralized origins, and ambitions.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #422 ‘The Internet Was Illegal’ and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
January 12th, 2020 by adam #On Today's Show: In this wide-ranging conversation, CoinDesk Reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox discuss what crypto can learn from technology successes and failures in the '80s and '90s, and how in the future your personal AI will be a lot like lawyers today. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #421 Stone Money and Echoes of the Past
December 15th, 2019 by adam ##On Today's Show... We're listening to echoes of the past. In the midst of the biggest bubble yet, finding ourselves in the "then they laugh at you" phase, and with the china narrative rising for the first time as trade volumes overtook the rest of the world, I was joined by Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos in early 2014 for a conversation that is very different, yet somehow the same as we reacted in real time to all-time high prices of $220, But first, In the nearly seven years since we started talking Bitcoin, my favorite segment from my favorite writer is without question, the island of stone bitcoins by then-LTB managing editor George Ettinger. Bitingly funny and still one of the easiest ways to accurately explain how blockchains and tokens work without the need for technology at all, even if you know this story you'll learn a thing or two, at least I did. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #420 How Can Public Blockchains Have Real Privacy?
December 8th, 2019 by adam On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #419 Altcoins and Ancient History with Charlie Lee
December 1st, 2019 by adam On this week's episode….
Read MoreThe hosts are talking network effects, ad-hoc audits and more with early Bitcoin developer and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #418 Statechains, and Trading the Panopticon for Magical Internet Money
November 24th, 2019 by adam On today's episode, we hear from Eric Weinstein on the realities of modern times, and the hosts of Let's Talk Bitcoin! discuss upcoming scaling proposal "Statechains" with innovator Ruben Somsen.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #417 Adoption and Mimicry on the Blockchain
November 17th, 2019 by adam On today's episode of **Let's Talk Bitcoin!**, we’re jumping back into the deep end with a wide-ranging conversation on Mass Adoption, Cargo Cults, Synthetic Shorts and more... Read More
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