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Unhashed - Blockstream's Bitcoin Primer 4 (w/ Mario Gibney)
August 14th, 2020 by
BTCMedia This week are airing Mario’s final episode of his Bitcoin Primer series originally published to YouTube by Blockstream. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Anita Posch: Interviewed by Japanese Crypto-Exchange BTCBOX
August 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia Lina Kather from the crypto-exchange BTCBOX Japan in Tokyo invited Anita Posch to do an interview about her Bitcoin experiences in Africa, the reasons why she is doing the work she does, her takes on Altcoins, privacy, the importance of the Lightning Network and why she believes that Bitcoin will stay the world's dominant cryptocurrency in the future. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #3 Introducing Money (Giacomo Zucco)
August 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia "The goods that fare better in hardness, scaleness and darkness will compete, and the first one to reach a critical mass will start swallowing the others, as far as monetary uses are concerned." - Giacomo Zucco Continuing with the excellent series from Giacomo and Bitcoin Magazine, "Discovering Bitcoin: From Cavemen to the Lightning Network," we dive into Part 3 - Introducing Money. Building of the base concepts of savings in order to acquire time, of durability in a good to store that time, to investment in order to create greater productivity, and then to exchange and specialization, we finally introduce the ultimate good enabling cooperation on a massive scale, Money. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Shitty Hardware Wallets (w/@NVK)
August 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast: The Brazilian Waxer himself @NVK joins us to talk shitty hardware wallets, FUD vs responsible disclosure, copy-catting in the crypto space, fighting intellectual property battles, Ledger’s derivation path bug and email leak, the business of hardware wallets, the dangers of USB, and much more. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Obi Nwosu: The Power of Bitcoin
August 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Obi Nwosu is co-founder and CEO of Coinfloor - a UK based Bitcoin exchange. Coinfloor was founded in early 2013, so Obi has been on the scene for a long time. In this episode we talk about Obi’s background, the founding and growth of Coinfloor, get some Bitcoin history stories and dive into a bit of tech at the end - Obi has an engineering background. Obi is one of the good ones, it was a real treat to get to spend some time with him - I think you’ll agree. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #2 - About People [Giacomo Zucco]
August 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Continuing the series from Giacomo and Bitcoin Magazine on Discovering Bitcoin: From Cavemen to the Lightning Network. An excellent series with Part 2 working into the concept of specialization and finding those goods that can securely hold value and enable exchange at a new level. If you are new to Bitcoin, this series is a great place to start! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Lyn Alden: Bullish on Bitcoin – a Strategic Value Investors View
August 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Lyn Alden wrote a longform article about the 3 reasons why she is investing in Bitcoin. Lyn Alden is an investment strategist with a background in engineering and finance. She focusses on value investing with a global macro overlay. When I first heard Lyn Alden speaking I immediately knew, that I wanted to have her on my show, because her insights are smart, concise and I learned a lot about the global and US specific economical situation. I think it is one of the best interviews so far on my show. I hope you can take as much away from it, as I did. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Guy Swann: Two Bitcoiners Talking Bitcoin
July 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Pretty much all of you will know Guy, he’s the creator and host of Bitcoin Audible, one of the most valuable educational resources in Bitcoin. He’s also a buddy of mine and it’s always fun to chill and chat with him for a couple hours. We go all over the place in this one - we talk open source software, privacy, our post-truth society, go pretty deep on Taproot and why it’s such an important soft-fork upgrade, the emerging bitcoin-only industry and at the end we get bullish on price and the official beginning of the next bull run. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - The End of the Dollar Hegemony?
July 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Golden Sachs predicts a dollar dump, Ledger let’s customer data slip, and big tech is coming for you! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Andy Edstrom: Why Buy Bitcoin? Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow
July 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest today is Andy Edstrom from Los Angeles. Andy spent 17 years in the investment world on Wall Street, working for Goldman Sachs and is now a wealth manager at his familiy's firm West Cap Group. In the course of his consulting work, more and more people asked him about Bitcoin, that's why he wrote a book about it called "Why Buy Bitcoin - Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow". Andy Edstrom recently took on the role of "Head of Institutional at Swan Bitcoin" and as always this interview is no financial advice, please do your own research. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin - From Cavemen to Lightning, Part 1 [Giacomo Zucco]
July 29th, 2020 by BTCMedia Beginning an excellent introductory series into the ideas behind Bitcoin from the broadest spectrum available, taking us through the history of value from Cavemen all the way to the Lightning Network. Today we cover the introduction and part 1 of Discovering Bitcoin by Giacomo Zucco Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Vake: Bitcoin Past, Present and Future
July 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we sit down with Vake. He's been around for a long time. In this one we go back in history and talk about bitcoin in the 2013-2016 era, a lot of fun to dive back and will be some new stuff to a lot of you who, like me came in 2017 or later. We then talk about bitcoin in the here and now and move on to some speculation about the coming decade. This is good stuff - I know all you bitcoiners will enjoy! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Elena Tonoyan, LocalBitcoins COO: Bitcoin Provides Financial Inclusion and Will Grow
July 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Joining me is Elena Tonoyan, she is the Chief Operating Officer at LocalBitcoins, the peer to peer bitcoin exchange that was founded as early as in 2012. We are looking into the history of LocalBitcoins, it's growth, and optimistic outlook for the years to come. You will also learn about the values and usecases of Bitcoin that Elena finds important, because they solve real problems and have a positive impact on peoples lives. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Glory Holes and Soft Forks
July 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Paypal may integrate buying and selling Bitcoin soon, The Canadian Government wants you to use glory holes to social distance while having sex, and soft forks, soft forks, SOFT FORKS GALORE! Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - BIP 9, 8, or MSFA, How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next [Aaron Van Wirdum]
July 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Taproot is here! Now just how the hell do we decide to do the upgrade? Aaron Van Wirdum brings us another great piece at Bitcoin Magazine on the varied discussions on how to implement a Bitcoin soft fork in the post-SegWit days. Do we have PTSD, or are we ready for another leap in the Bitcoin protocol? Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Robert Allen: Building on Lightning
July 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia This week we sit down with Robert Allen - a bitcoiner who has taken the buidl ethos to heart and built the beginnings of the moneda network - a remittance app that uses the lightning network for payment rails. we talk about building on lightning, the future of the lightning net work and We also get into monetary policy, and more. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin, More Than An Inflation Hedge [Nick Neuman]
July 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we read a short article on Bitcoin Magazine that shines light an incredible benefit of the Bitcoin system that isn't so widely understood. It isn't simply an independent monetary policy, its an independent monetary system, and by that fact a hedge against the instability of much more than merely inflation. Listen to today's episode to find out more! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Gigi: Bitcoin From Speculative Asset to Savings Technology
July 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest today is Gigi a software developer and computer scientist. Gigi wrote "21Lessons", a book in which he shares his learnings from falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Two years ago he quit his job and started to work solely in the Bitcoin space. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Shitcoiner for President
July 10th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Bitcoin gets funding out the ass! Shitcoine and First Kiddie Fiddler Brock Pierce announces his independent run for president. And…Hamas has raised a laughable amount of money in crypto. Is this good or bad? Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Robert Breedlove: Understanding Time, Money and Bitcoin from First Principles
July 9th, 2020 by BTCMedia Robert and Brady discuss the synthesis of Robert's bitcoin studies, based on the works of others, most importantly The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. This discussion seeks to evaluate bitcoin and money from first principles. Read More
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