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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! #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! Show Summer Break
July 2nd, 2018 by adam ###The Let's Talk Bitcoin! show will return in late July / early August 2018. Read More -
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! #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! #387 POW, POS and Self Fulfilling Counter Prophecies
February 10th, 2019 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy join Adam B. Levine for an in-depth discussion on the ups and downs of consensus reality and the two "big" methods (Proof of Work and Proof of Stake) which we use to define it. Topic 1: Proof of Stake and Proof of Work Discussion Topic 2: Ethereum Update and Upgrade Path Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #246 Smart Contracts with Nick Szabo
September 12th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam), [**Stephanie**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/stephanie) and [**Andreas**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/andreas) spend an hour with crypto-scholar of note [Nick Szabo](https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4) in a wide ranging discussion covering Smart Contracts, Bitcoin and Blockchains. You can find more of Nicks perspective at his [homepage](http://szabo.best.vwh.net/) or [blog](http://unenumerated.b... 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! #384 Keys, Complexity and Community
December 23rd, 2018 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Adam B. Levine, Andreas Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy are joined by Trace Mayer to discuss the nascent #ProofofKeys movement. Later, the hosts answer listener questions as part of the Bitcoin Clock give-away detailed on episode #383. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #247 Understanding the New Economy Movement
September 15th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [Matthew Zipkin](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/pinheadmz) speaks with the Core Development team behind the [New Economy Movement (NEM)](http://nem.io/). ---- #Sponsors: ###[Tokenly](http://tokenly.com) ###[**KeepKey Hardware Wallet**](http://getkeepkey.com) (*Available Q3 2015*) --- ##Credits for Episode 247 Image Credit: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/uk-university-it-staff-being-excluded-from-transnational-education-delivery-finds-joint-sector... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #375 Blockchains are Forever (Mostly)
September 16th, 2018 by adam ###On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Stephanie, Jonathan, Andreas and Adam are back for a wide ranging conversation covering the now-defunct Bitcoin Alert system, the smart contracts arms race and a lot more. Look out on this episode for a bonus interview on the value of forever-tokens for projects other than money, with Joe Looney, one of the minds behind the Rare Pepe wallet. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #242 - Ride The Lightning Network
August 29th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show [Matthew Zipkin](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/pinheadmz) speaks with **Rusty Russell** of Blockstream about his work on the Lightning Network. They talk what it is, what it does, how it does it, why it matters and when it'll be something you're actually using. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #235 Grown Up Conversations
August 1st, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [Marc Hochstein](http://www.americanbanker.com/authors/marc-hochstein-34.html) speaks out in favor of Bitcoin (and not **just** the blockchain) * [Blythe Masters](http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/blockchain-technology-can-transform-banking-blythe-masters-1075707-1.html)'s Keynote at the American Banker Digital Currencies and the Blockchain Conference Audio provided by [Chris Derose](https://www.chrisderose.com/) ###Subscribe to the [**LTBn All Podcas... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #363 - Three Hitlers!
April 15th, 2018 by adam ##On Today's Episode... Stephanie Murphy, Andreas Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine sit down for their last recording before they're all on-stage together in Chicago. **This week, topics include:** MtGox Back From the Dead? Joking, but not Joking, with Vitalik India's Latest Ban and what it could mean Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #337 - No Rulers Here
July 9th, 2017 by adam ###On Today's Episode Andreas spends more than an hour answering questions about Segwit and the near term path forward with questions pulled from skeptical questioners at r/BTC Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #237 The Stars that Shine
August 11th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [**Stephanie**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/stephanie), [**Andreas**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/andreas) and [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) engage in a wide ranging discussion about bitcoin's role in the world of cryptocurrency and whether we're still calling the plays in a game whose outcome has already been determined. --- ###Subscribe to the [**LTBn All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoi... Read More
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