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Citizen Bitcoin - Danny Diekroeger: From Baseball to Bitcoin
October 27th, 2020 by
BTCMedia Danny Diekroger is a software engineer at CashApp and Bitgo before that. He has been writing some great threads educating about how bitcoin works and why we need it. He’s working on compiling those into a short book. In this one we get into Danny’s background as a pro baseball player, his evolution as a bitcoin builder, cover a few bitcoin education topics like Replace By Fee and Taproot and talk about why we need Bitcoin, especially in this moment. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Square puts $50M in Brainwallet
October 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Square purchases $50M worth of bitcoin, File Coin accidentally allows the sale of testnet coins, Bitmex changes leadership, why brainwallets are bad, taproot gets merged, Justin Sun ruins Bittorrent, and Coinbase starts paying Core developers. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Gloria Zhao: A College Student's Journey to Bitcoin Core Development
October 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Todays guest is Gloria Zhao, she is a Bitcoin Core developer, former president of "Blockchain at Berkeley" and will finish her Computer Science studies at the end of 2020. We discuss how Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are seen by her fellow college students, why she chose to work on Bitcoin only instead of all the other Silicon Valley stuff and blockchain projects that are around. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Don't NFTease Me (w/ Joe Looney)
October 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk to guest Joe Looney about his creation, Rare Pepe, one of the first Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in the space. We talk early days of Counterparty, why Ethereum took over the token game, the value of NFTs, and much more. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Brandon Quittem and Brekkie von Bitcoin: History in the Making
October 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia Brandon, author of the Bitcoin Mycelium series and Communications Lead at Swan Bitcoin and Brekkie von Bitcoin, Creative Director of Swan Bitcoin join Brady to discuss Microstrategy planting a flag, the bitcoin-only industry, pitching bitcoin to millennials and the cycles making history before our eyes. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole [Knut Svanholm]
October 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another from the amazing collection over at Citadel21.com, we dive even deeper down the rabbit hole with Knut's piece. What does it even mean to measure value with Bitcoin as our totem? What happens to prices in a perfectly finite monetary good? What would a future where the growth and productivity of the economy were captured by the money, rather than stolen by our money masters? Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Elyse Petersen: From Ancient Tea Currency To Using Bitcoin For Wholesale
October 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia Elyse Petersen is a food scientist and the founder of Tealet, a wholesale tea supply chain network. Tealet's business model is based on cutting out unnecessary middlemen between tea growers and buyers, same like in Bitcoin. Since 2013 Tealet is using Bitcoin for payments, which eliminates the inefficiencies of global financial systems and saves a lot of transaction costs. Tealet was one of the first companies worldwide to use Bitcoin. Read More -
Block Crunch - Will DeFi Scale on Layer 1 or 2? - Sam Bankman-Fried, Kain Warwick
October 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia It's no news that DeFi needs to scale - but will it happen on layer 2, or will projects move to other layer 1s? Serum's Sam Bankman-Fried (@SBF_Alameda) and Synthetix's Kain Warwick (@kaiynne) join us in discussing their opposite views on scaling Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - McAfee Dick Sashimi
October 12th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: a patent involving the acceleration of cryptographic operations on elliptic curves has expired, timelocks on Bitcoin may not be as straightforward as they appear, an uncontrolled resource consumption and out-of-memory vulnerability in Bitcoin, MuSig-DN allows signers to generate their nonces deterministically, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong elaborates on the company's mission statement, John McAfee has been arrested and charged with tax evasion, and the founders of Bitmex have been charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Ali Hamam: Putting His Company on a Bitcoin Standard
October 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia Ali Hamam is proprietor of Tahinis Restaurants in Ontario, Canada. Ali's family hails from Egypt. Much of his family's wealth was stolen by Egyptian capital controls when the emigrated to Canada. In this episode we get the story of Ali discovering bitcoin and embracing it as a standard for this company. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Zachary Kelman: Bitcoin an Alternative to the Current Unfair Financial System
October 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia Zachary Kelman is a New York-based attorney specializing in political, legal, and regulatory issues in and around Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technology. Prior to this he was working in banking, monitoring international money transactions, looking for suspicious activities. Coming out of this environment he was introduced to Bitcoin by his brother Daniel Kelman, who was the architect of the civil rehabilitation plan for Mt. Gox creditors and Zachary afterwards left banking for crypto projects in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - The Great Plague of Shitcoinery [Thibaud Marechal]
October 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another great piece on the incentives and misunderstanding of the shitcoin mindset. It isn't a technological revolution, it is fundamentally a monetary one! Thibaud breaks it down amazingly in this piece and Guy gets into some history of the shitcoin term and how so many projects have the entirely wrong understanding of the value in this revolution. Don't miss another excellent one from Bitcoin Magazine Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Max Hillebrand: The Bitcoin Nomad
October 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia Max Hillebrand is true bitcoiner. He’s practices what he preaches. Max is living the digital nomad life using Bitcoin, ruthlessly minimizing his exposure to fiat shitcoins. In this episode we talk about his nomadic lifestyle, using bitcoin as a unit of account, how to start getting paid in Bitcoin, base layer privacy, and philosophy. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Nic Carter: Bitcoin Disrupts Our Politicized Financial Infrastructure
October 1st, 2020 by BTCMedia Nic Carter is a Bitcoiner with a financial and philosophical background. I wanted to have him on the show for a long time. He is thoughtful and interesting to talk to as you will hear. We touch on some of his favourite topics like Bitcoin metaphysics, crypto-dollarization, historical references to free banking and the future of privacy and surveillance in the digital era. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics [Alex Gladstein]
September 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia "Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with all of their scary language about fraud and risk, when I send an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to you, it will get to you, no matter what. There is no point of censorship, seizure, or control." - Alex Gladstein Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Max Keiser: Hacking the Global Unconscious
September 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia Max Keiser is a true Bitcoin OG, having been in the Bitcoin space since it cost $1 and reporting on it on the Keiser report since then as well. In this episode we really dive into Max’s past, learn about what makes Max Max and — lessons from living in Harlem and going to NYU, Wall Street and finance history, an energy revolution and hacking the global unconscious to divert the course of human history. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme? The Story of Charles Ponzi
September 24th, 2020 by BTCMedia Wondering what a Ponzi scheme is? Somebody told you Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme? Listen to this episode of "The Context" where I tell the story of Italian born confidence trickster Carlo Ponzi. In 1920 it took him only nine months to defraud thirty thousand investors, who believed in getting rich quick, collecting 20 million USD in total. Ponzi promised 50% return on their investment in three months. His arrest in August 1920 brought down six banks and Ponzi’s investors were practically wipe... Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential [Ben Carman]
September 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Ben Carman, a developer with the awesome team at SuredBits, drops a BitcoinMagazine article today laying out Discreet Log Contracts and how they can be an exciting new addition to the functionality and power of the Bitcoin system. Privacy, cost savings, and non participating oracles to real world events; DLCs bring a new layer to both decentralizing markets on Bitcoin & the Lightning network. Listen to today's episode to find out more! Read More -
Block Crunch - Dispelling FUD: Questions about DeFi Favorites - Santiago R Santos (ParaFi Capital)
September 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Santiago Roel Santos (@santiagoroel), partner at ParaFi Capital, an active DeFi fund, joins us to answer your burning questions around popular DeFi projects: Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Stacy Herbert: The Dawn of the Bitcoin Renaissance
September 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Stacy Herbert is a well loved Bitcoiner - of course she coshosts Keiser Report with her partner Max Keiser. In this episode we get to know Stacy better, hear about the events in her life that prepared her to understand Bitcoin quickly when she and Max discovered it. And we talk about the coming Bitcoin Rennaisance! Read More
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