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Bitcoin & Co. - Chimezie Chuta: Light Up Africa With Bitcoin Nodes
July 9th, 2020 by
BTCMedia "A lot of Nigerians are using Bitcoin. Majorly among the young population. Those between the age of 22 and 35-40 are deeply using Bitcoin", says Chimezie Chuta. He is a software developer, founder of blockchaingroup Nigeria and a Bitcoin user since 2015. With his "Spacebox" project he aims to put Africa on the map of Bitcoin and Lightning Network fullnodes. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Masters and Slaves of Money - Part 2 [Robert Breedlove]
July 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics story, and start to see it as a crime story, we are beginning to get the true picture.” - Robert Breedlove The epic conclusion of Breedlove’s “Masters and Slaves of money,” and the inevitable Guy’s Rant further exploring just how poisonous the corruption of our money is on the sustainability and moral fabric of society. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 1 [Robert Breedlove]
July 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Breedlove brings us another excellent write up, this time on the nature of monetary masters and the power dynamic they embody. Exploring the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the monetary origins of the decline of Western Africa, the logos, and the free speech of human value and time, "Masters & Slaves of Money" is a brilliant investigation to the monetary hierarchy of our world, and how its control has shaped history. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Casa's Wallet of Total Trust
July 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Blockstream’s liquid bridge is bugged, Lightning Network may be vulnerable to an easy attack, and Casa’s Jameson Lopp is shilling their wallet without being upfront about the 100% trust assumptions you must make with Casa to use it or even their 2-of-3 product. On top of this, there is no mnemonic…but at least google gets to hold your backup, right?! Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Obiwan Kenobit: Bitcoin and the Decade of Discontent
July 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we sit down with ObiWan Kenobit. We talk about what he calls the Decade of Discontent ahead of us as we transition through a currency collapse and into a new monetary era based on bitcoin. We talk about history through the lens of generational change guided by the ideas of William Strauss and Neil Howe and we talk about the second anniversary of his viral piece “Hyperbitcoinization: Winner Takes All” - about how the article holds up and any updates he might make to it 2 years on. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Rahim Taghizadegan: Money Is a Spontaneous Order Measuring the Cooperation of People
July 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Rahim Taghizadegan is an economist, book author and principal of the Scholarium, an independent learning enterprise based in Vienna, Austria. He studied physics, sociology and economy and is an expert on the Austrian School of Economics. His recent book is called "The Zero Interest Trap". Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - The Tiger King of Crypto
June 27th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast: we talk crypto Tiger King with Magdalena Gronowska. How did the founder of Quadriga cause such a colossal fuck up. How did he hide these fuckups for so long? And how did the Canadian Tax service not see these red flags years ahead of time? Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Prateek Goorha: Game Theory, Philosophy and Price Cycles
June 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we sit down with Prateek Goorha, an economist, professor and autodidact. Prateek has written some of the most under appreciated Bitcoin content out there. His writing runs the gamut from price cycle analysis to contract theory to philosophy. In this one we discuss all three. Be sure to check the show notes for a link to Prateek’s medium page and dive in for some great reading! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Moritz Wietersheim: Why Bitcoin Is Superior to Altcoins or Stock Nonsense Like Wirecard
June 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today's guest is Moritz Wietersheim. Moritz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Crypto Advance a company that focusses on security improvements and the secure management of private keys in the Bitcoin space. Together with CTO Stepan Snigirev the Specter wallet is developed, which allows you to have an air gapped and watch only wallet that runs together with your Bitcoin core node. That way you protect your privacy. Preparing for the interview I found out that Moritz and I we both, started to work full time in the bitcoin space in 2017. Moritz is working and living in Germany and Austria. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Assange's Extradition & Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom
June 24th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another excellent write up from Nozomi Hayase & Bitcoin Magazine, on the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange & the injustice of his extradition. It is an astonishing thing to see how many world changing systems, technologies, and institutions found their beginnings in a tiny group of mathematicians & activists who found a commonality on the internet around the principle of free speech, sharing ideas on a virtually unknown mailing list of self-proclaimed “cypherpunks.” Who knew how much it would shape our world? Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - ION Beta Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet
June 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia With the help of Casa and a number of other partners, Microsoft finally releases the beta of their new decentralized ID system, anchored to the Bitcoin mainnet. A potential solution to security and privacy in our increasingly digital future. By Peter Chawaga, and published at the amazing resource that is Bitcoin Magazine, we read and discuss "ION, Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity System, Launches Beta On Bitcoin Mainnet." The days of usernames and passwords may be behind us. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Alessandro Cecere: A Passion for Bitcoin
June 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Alessandro Cecere is CEO at Coinspree, a leading LATAM Bitcoin business based in Caracas, Venezuela. Coinspree provides custodial solutions to institutional investors and merchants. Coinspree has also launched the PandoraBox - a beautiful full node solution. El Sultan Bitcoin made waves on Bitcoin Twitter recently with his cypherpunk satellite setup. Alessandro is incredibly passionate and this episode is insanely bullish. Get yourself ready to get hyped - prep some fiat in case you need to smash that buy button during this ep. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Tim Akinbo: Bitcoin is a Store of Value for the African People
June 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest in this episode is Tim Akinbo. He comes from Nigeria and is involved in the Bitcoin space since 2014. I got to know Tim when I asked for bitcoin donations for a school in Harare, Zimbabwe. He contacted me on Twitter and offered to setup a BTCpayserver so that we can receive lightning payments, too. That was of great help. I looked him up and realized that Tim is also a Bitcoin Core contributor, Software developer and has a lot of experience with e-commerce and international payments. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Ruben's Swann Song
June 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast: we are gone! But we still have an episode for you all. Our very own Ruben Somsen sat down with Guy Swann (founder of Swan Bitcoin) over at Bitcoin Audible to discuss Statechains and Bitcoin tech. Guy asks some great questions and he happens to be a supporter of the show, so show him some love and subscribe to his podcast! Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Behki Mahlobo: Bitcoin in South Africa
June 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we sit down with Bheki Mahlobo, an economics student and active bitcoiner from South Africa. Bheki appears in the new bitcoin documentary Banking on Africa - which is great and you should definitely check it out. Bheki discovered Austrian economics in high school and has gone on to study economics, albeit of the Keynesian variety, at university but describes how he studies Austrian economics on his own. We discuss the state of the economy and of bitcoin in South Africa and running a full node! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Amiti Uttarwar: Developing Bitcoin – The Only Crypto Project With a Very Clear Goal
June 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this week's episode I had the pleasure to interview Amiti Uttarwar. She is one of the first female engineers contributing to the Bitcoin Core software. Amiti is working full time as a Core developer, focusing on the peer to peer aspect of the protocol. Her latest contribution is a pull request that improves wallet privacy. I enjoyed our chat a lot, because Amiti has a clear and concise way to communicate which had even a calming effect on me. Maybe her daily meditation practice is the reason for that. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Stephen Cole: Toward a Bitcoin Future
June 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we sit down with Stephen Cole, bitcoiner and investor. Stephen is well known on Bitcoin Twitter for his insightful, often funny and expert distilled tweets. He’s an investor in several great Bitcoin companies, including Swan. We talk about Stephen’s Bitcoin background, how he came to learn Austrian economics, the evolution of his political beliefs, and investing in bitcoin companies. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - The End of Bitcoin with Hasu
June 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Ruben and Mario talk with fan favorite Hasu. They discuss if Bitcoin can survive a Bitcoin standard, if custodial services will crowd out users for block space, what drives growth for a custodial banking layer, and how Bitcoin can avoid a negative outcome. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Chris Maurice: Chances and Challenges of Running a Bitcoin Exchange in Africa
June 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode I talk with Chris Maurice, the CEO and Founder of Yellow Card Financial, a Nigeria based bitcoin and crypto exchange. Chris started his entrepreneurial endeavors as a SEO consultant at the age of 16 after that he sold bitcoin on eBay and in the backrooms of Taco Bell restaurants. Chris tells us how he came up with founding an exchange and why he did that in Africa. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin Core 0.20 Released!
June 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia A great piece by Aaron & the Bitcoin Magazine team, detailing the new release of the Bitcoin reference client that explains multiple great improvements, simplifications, cleanup of the codebase, & hardening of client security. Removing the unnecessary, and building out new standards, another great release showing the promising direction of Bitcoin's unmatched reliability & independence continuing into the future. Read More
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