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4 Minute Crypto - Bitcoin Tweets Reach A 2 Year High
February 17th, 2020 by
BTCMedia Bitcoin hitting $10,000 catapulted it back into mainstream consciousness, but data shows that internet consumers were paying attention already. Statistics from monitoring resource Bit info charts reveal that in early February, mentions of Bitcoin on Twitter alone spiked to 2 year highs. DISCLAIMER: This article should not be taken as is, and is not intended to provide, investment advice. Read More -
CryptoQuikRead_352: Paying Yourself? Self-Payments Could Be a Key to Lightning Privacy" (Aaron Van Wirdum)
February 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia Despite its focus on payments and scaling the Bitcoin system, Lightning may have incredible potential for privacy opportunities and improvements. Pseudonymous developer ZmnSCPxj has been detailing and expanding on these concepts in recent months, and who better to lay it all out for us than BitcoinMagazine, and Aaron Van Wirdum? Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin: Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Is Inevitable
February 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Parker and I discuss much that ails our economic system: Keynesianism, quantitative easing and modern monetary theory. Then we get into the fix. We discuss Parker’s latest addition to the Gradually then Suddenly series titled “Bitcoin Obsoletes All Money”. I steelman some FUD and precoiner questions and arguments and Parker expertly delivers the answers. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. — Philipp E. Dettwiler on Merging Traditional Banking With Bitcoin and Digital Assets
February 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia Phil Dettwiler is Head of Custody Storage & Transaction Banking at SEBA Bank AG, the first crypto bank that was granted a banking license in Switzerland. Being a banker all of his life, he sees the investment opportunity in bitcoin and likes the possibility of independent banking. Phil also answers the question: Why do we need banks in Bitcoin? Read More -
QuikRead_349 Rise of SIM Swapping [David Hollerith]
February 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another piece from BitcoinMagazine.com, this one by author and podcast host David Hollerith, that breaks down the risks and details of SIM swap attacks and how you may be vulnerable to losing your bitcoins, simply by revealing your phone number. Don't miss this piece detailing out the attack, and listing out the Do's and Don'ts of Bitcoin security. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Cory Klippsten: Starting Up a Bitcoin Company
February 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Cory Klippsten is the founder and CEO of Swan, a bitcoin company. Cory and I chat about what it takes to start up a bitcoin company, we discuss the Taleb inspired Swan brand, fundraising for Bitcoin companies and how bitcoin is an incredibly positive black swan event. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. — Brandon Green: What to Expect From Bitcoin (In) 2020
February 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia In March the Bitcoin2020 conference is taking place in San Francisco. In this interview, I talk with Brandon Green, who is a project manager at BTC Inc. for the conference. BTC Inc. is also the company behind the Bitcoin Magazine and the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast network. We talk about the latest developments in Bitcoin, the halving, their suspended Twitter account and what you can expect from the conference. Brandon is the right hand to the CEO at BTC Inc. He’s been working in the Bitcoin space and writing for Bitcoin Magazine since early 2017. Read More -
CryptoQuikRead_346 - The Kindest Cut; Why The 2020 Bitcoin Halving [Peter C. Earle]
February 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Another great piece from Bitcoin Magazine written by Peter C. Earle, detailing the reasons why this next halving will make Bitcoin a true contender in the world of monetary policy. In a very short span, Bitcoin will become the most scarce & strictly defined financial asset on Earth... are you ready? Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Andy Edstrom: Investing in Bitcoin
January 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Andy Edstrom is a wealth manager who has fallen down the bitcoin rabbit hole. He started writing content to justify a small stake in bitcoin for his clients and that turned into the new book “Why Buy Bitcoin” - a great book to recommend to family and friends thinking about an investment in bitcoin. In this episode we get into that history and perspective, we discuss where the finance industry currently is in terms of moving toward embracing bitcoin as an asset. We talk about monetary maximalism how bitcoin might change our economy. And, as any good wealth manager would do, Andy has a thorough examination of bitcoin’s risk as an investment in the closing chapters of his book and we discuss them. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Tatiana Moroz on How Bitcoin Liberates Humanity and Gives Power to Creators
January 29th, 2020 by BTCMedia Tatiana Moroz is an American folk singer-songwriter, liberty activist, and peaceful revolutionary. She is in the Bitcoin space since 2012 and is pioneering creative autonomy and freedom as the creator of the world’s first artist cryptocurrency Tatiana Coin. Tatiana merges music with blockchain technology to renew the power of songwriters and creators. Her inspiring album “Keep The Faith” was released in 2017 and was funded completely with cryptocurrency. She wrote a song about Bitcoin, it’s called the “Bitcoin Jingle” and it is featured in this episode. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Knut Svanholm: Freedom and Hyperbitcoinization
January 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Knut Svanholm is the author of Sovereignty Through Mathematics. Knut and I talk about how this fiat monstrosity erodes our basic freedoms and how the discovery of absolute scarcity that is bitcoin will restore and protect those freedoms. We talk a bit about lighting and closeout by riffing for quite a while on the prospects of hyperbitconization and how it could affect our social order. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - How Locha Mesh Let's You Chat and Send Bitcoin Anonymously Without Internet
January 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. With the Locha Mesh device one can send text, audio, and Bitcoin without cell service or internet as long as the device has battery life. Locha Mesh nodes create high bandwith long range decentralized radio networks to connect devices at up to 4km away from each other, and relay information to reach longer distances. Read More -
Cryptoconomy QuikRead342: Bitcoin & the Primacy of the Digital World [Pascal Hugli]
January 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia Guy Swann read's Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World by Pascal Hugli on Bitcoinmagazine.com. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Yan Pritzker: The Money Red Pill, Bitcoin Tech and Swan Bitcoin
January 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia Yan Pritzker, the author of Inventing Bitcoin and cofounder/CTO of Swan Bitcoin, joins me to talk about his background, the money red pill that bitcoin serves up to us, bitcoin tech and his book. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Lisa Neigut on Why Bitcoin Is Cool and How She Became a C-Lightning Developer
January 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Lisa Neigut is an engineer and developer at Blockstream working on c-lightning. We met at the Lightning Conference in Berlin in October 2019 and talked about a variety of topics ranging from quantum experiments, Bitcoin in general, stocks as currency, to the future of the Lightning Network. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Jan Capek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool Mining
December 27th, 2019 by BTCMedia We will take a non-technical look into bitcoin mining in this episode. My guests are Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, the CEOs and Founders of Braiins, the company that is operating Slush pool, which is the world’s first bitcoin mining pool with more than 1 000 000 BTC mined since 2010. Jan and Pavels company is located in the Czech Republic in Prague. They are bitcoiners by heart and explain how pool mining works, what the challenges for miners are to be profitable, share their thoughts about the electricity consumption of proof-of-work and what they believe bitcoin will be in the future. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Money as a System of Control, Decentralization vs Centralization, Base Layer and Lightning Tech
December 25th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode Andreas and I talk about the early PC and Internet era and why it is often analogized to bitcoin’s evolution, we talk about how money has become coopted by governments drunk of Keynesian ideology, how money is used as a system of control and how bitcoin fixes this. In the second half of the discussion we talk tech - first base layer tech and then Lightning. We finish up with Andreas’ vision of a bitcoin future. Read More -
The Cryptoconomy - Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? - By Aaron Van Wirdum (audio article)
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia "Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called "Easypaysy," developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that would solve the need both of having to reuse Bitcoin addresses, & having to constantly generate new ones for every payment. Today we read the Bitcoin Magazine article by none other than Aaron Van Wirdum, breaking down exactly what it is, how it works, and what it might mean for the future of interfacing with the Bitcoin system. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees. Today it is one of the biggest and most respected crypto exchanges in the world. I met Austin at several bitcoin conferences and at the Baltic Honeybadger in Riga in October, we finally sat down to chat about his career and the developments in the bitcoin space since 2011. In 2013 he was co-founding the Bitcoin Center New York with Nick Spanos. He talks about how enthusiastically they have built the center and about the problems they ran into in the dawn of the Bit License. We also discuss his learnings in 2019 while visiting Uganda, Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe and much more. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Lucho Poletti: Bitcoin Art, Renaissance, Memes, Lightning, Finance
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Lucho Poletti is a bitcoin artist with an incredibly unique and beautiful style. Lucho has an interesting background in business and finance before he followed his passion into a career in art which eventually merged with another of his passions: bitcoin. In this episode Lucho and I discuss his that background story, delve into our economic situation and the state of global finance, we then move into his art career, his process and how it has evolved, we discuss a couple of his recent works and Lucho speculates about how a bitcoin future might unfold. Read More
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