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The Anita Posch Show - Adam B. Levine: Bitcoin, NFTs and the Arts
May 20th, 2021 by
BTCMedia My guest is Adam B. Levine the managing editor for podcasts at Coindesk, and host of the longest-running English language talk show about Bitcoin called "Speaking of Bitcoin" (formerly known as Let's Talk Bitcoin). I appreciate Adam's work a lot, I have been an avid listener of his podcast for many years. Adam is also the CEO of tokenly.com, has minted some NFTs and had Metakovan on his show, who bought Beeple's NFT for $ 69 million - the most expensive NFT sold at an auction so far. Our topic is NFTs and how they are going to shape the art world of the future. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Alex Gladstein's Neighbor Cuts Down A Tree While We Talk About Bitcoin vs Human Rights Abuses
May 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we chat with special guest Alex Gladstein. Alex tells us about the efforts going on at the Human Rights Foundation where he works as Chief Strategy Officer. We get into bitcoin and other technology as a tool to free people from tyranny, the question of misplaced focus by many other human rights activist groups, and much more. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Check Your Financial Privilege [Alex Gladstein]
May 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia Another brilliant piece from Alex Gladstein and Bitcoin Magazine, this one on the incredible privilege of those inside the dollar bubble, looking out and claiming Bitcoin is useless or is bad for the world. They stand like hypocrites living without any of the problems that Bitcoin is specifically designed to fix, and is fixing. Three stories of those who live and experience the *real* world, give us a very different view of Bitcoin, & why it is critical for all of our futures that we stand behind it and see it succeed. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for Freedom [Alex Gladstein]
May 18th, 2021 by BTCMedia Another brilliant piece from Gladstein on why the Number Go Up technology is just the facade on the Freedom Go Up foundation of Bitcoin. As corporations, banks, & even governments adopt Bitcoin out of their own self-interest, they will unknowingly be stripping themselves of the asymmetry of power they currently hold over money. By transforming greed into freedom, Bitcoin will liberate the world. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - The 7 Primal Elements of Bitcoin [Paulo Sacramento]
May 15th, 2021 by BTCMedia Today we go deeper than the technical aspects of Bitcoin, less about the code and innovation itself, & more about the human element. What is it about Bitcoin that connects it to the primal elements inside us? What makes Bitcoin not a mere technology, but an ideology? And what can it tell us about Bitcoin's long term staying power? Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Gabriel Shipton: Defend Julian Assange, Defend Free Internet
May 13th, 2021 by BTCMedia This episode was recorded on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the perfect date for a conversation with Gabriel Shipton, half-brother of Julian Assange. We are talking about the current state of Julian, who is the first publisher charged under the US espionage act and is awaiting further trials locked up in Belmarsh high security prison, the connections between WikiLeaks, journalism and Bitcoin and why and how Bitcoiners should support Julian's case. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Alejandro de la Torre on Miner Taproot Signalling
May 12th, 2021 by BTCMedia Description: On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Mario interview Alejandro de la Torre of Poolin. We cover his time at btc.com, seeing the 2017 civil war from his insider perspective, and Poolin’s split away from Bitmain. We also dig into taproot signalling - the efforts to bridge communication gaps across cultures and industries, the firmware and node challenges for signalling, the unfortunate overlap of signalling and Chinese holidays, and what we as a community can do to encourage taproot activation in the coming weeks. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - William Clemente III: Data-Backed Bullishness
May 11th, 2021 by BTCMedia Will Clemente just finished his Sophomore year as a finance major. Since he dove down the rabbit hole about a year ago he's amassed almost 50k followers on Twitter looking to his on-chain analytics detailing why we should be bullish. In this ep we get some of that analysis from Will and learn more about his unique bitcoin story. Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Miss Aurra: Bitcoin Empowers Zimbabweans
May 6th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guest is Miss Aurra from Harare, Zimbabwe. I got to know her at the beginning of 2020, when I visited Zimbabwe to research the possibilities and the use of Bitcoin in the country. In May 2020 we started a donation campaign for the school that Miss Aurra is leading. It had to be closed down due to Covid and the school lost its building. We are discussing the difficult living situation in Zimbabwe and how Bitcoin has been helping through your donations. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Ruff Consensus
May 5th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk taproot signalling, theft on BSC DeFi platforms, and Charlie Munger surprising everyone with a perfectly nuanced take on bitcoin. We finish off trying to determine whether or not we should get rid of everyone's pets to save the environment. Probably, right? Read More -
Block Crunch - Spartan Capital on Upcoming DeFi Trends - Jason Choi & Ben Sparango
May 4th, 2021 by BTCMedia This week, my friend Ben Sparango (@bennybitcoins), currently growth at Solana and former investment analyst at Multicoin Capital, turns the spotlight on me. Ben interviews me on how I got into crypto, discusses my current investment thesis around DeFi, and my journey helping scale Spartan Capital from a $9M to a $200M fund. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - The Hidden Costs of the Petrodollar System [Alex Gladstein]
May 3rd, 2021 by BTCMedia Today we have another brilliant piece by Alex Galdstein, published on Bitcoin Magazine about the Petrodollar system, how it came about, why it has stuck around, & the horrible costs of maintaining it that so few are willing to acknowledge. Read More -
Block Crunch - Alpha Leak: Persistence is Targeting a Trillion Dollar Market
April 30th, 2021 by BTCMedia Legacy finance and DeFi are slowly converging, with massive industries beginning to explore public blockchain networks for novel use cases. Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - How Bitcoin Supports Democracy
April 30th, 2021 by BTCMedia The Central European Affairs podcast featured Anita Posch in an interview by Balasz Csekö about different aspects of Bitcoin, how blockchain is revolutionizing the global financial system, how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can help overcome Big Brother, and why every regulatory plan makes Bitcoin stronger. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Deathbed Jenkem
April 28th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, learn about Blockstream’s mining security token, Tesla taking bitcoin profits, chaos in the Turkish bitcoin scene, Iran’s state adoption of BTC, the mysterious Monsieur Personne forging NFTs, and some game theory analysis of how you stop an environmentalist attacker from…erm…paying miners too much money? Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin a Trojan Horse for Freedom
April 26th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guest is Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded it 2005. We talk about how Bitcoin helps to defend human rights and promote liberal democracy. Alex is also the Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009 and a co-author of "The Little Bitcoin Book". Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - The Last Days of Satoshi [Pete Rizzo]
April 26th, 2021 by BTCMedia Dont miss another incredible journey through Bitcoin's history by Pete Rizzo, in honor of the anniversary of Satoshi's disappearance in just a few days. What did people think of Satoshi, what really happened in the transition from Satoshi to Gavin, and what critical moments in Bitcoin history, may have led to the disappearance of its mysterious creator? A must read/listen. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Tickle Me Softly
April 20th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, the whole gang is together again to talk about “China unbans bitcoin!”, the weekend flash crash, Coinbase execs selling into the IPO, Signal’s MobileCoin, Xinjiang power blackout affecting mining, and when it is and is not OK to tickle people. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Two Taproot Activation Clients! [Aaron Van Wirdum]
April 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia With a short introduction to taproot and all the mess around the True/False activation dilemma, we cover another great piece from Aaron Van Wirdum at BitcoinMagazine breaking down why we have 2 different clients, what the conflict is exactly and what it might mean for Bitcoin over the next year. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Conclusion of the Long-Term Debt Cycle [Dylan Leclair]
April 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia We are at the precipice of the greatest change in our monetary system in nearly the past century. The long term debt cycle is in its endgame. What has led us here, and what future does Bitcoin make possible with its emergence coinciding with the conclusion of the legacy monetary regime. Taking a deeo dive on this topic with this new article at Bitcoin Magazine, written by Dylan Leclair. Read More
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