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The Anita Posch Show - Fereshteh Forough: Bitcoin in Afghanistan
January 21st, 2021 by
BTCMedia My guest is Fereshteh Forough, she is the founder of "Code to Inspire", which is the first coding school for women in Afghanistan. We will be talking about her journey and her learning's from being a refugee, the general situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which is one of the least developed nations in the world and of course about Bitcoin in Afghanistan and how it is used to support the female students of "Code to Inspire". Read More -
Block Crunch - Ponzi or Game Changer? Algorithmic Stablecoins Part II- Ben Simon, Mechanism Capital
January 20th, 2021 by BTCMedia In Part 2 of our discussion about algorithmic stablecoins, we are joined once again by Mechanism Capital analyst Ben Simon(@benjaminsimon97) Read More -
Bitcoin Audible -Winning Hearts & Minds for Bitcoin [Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack]
January 20th, 2021 by BTCMedia "In a world in which governments and companies continually encroach on personal liberties via surveillance and outright control, Bitcoin shines like a beacon of freedom." - Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack The anti-bitcoin narratives are going to flood in and have already started. We need to be ready for it, and that’s why this piece by Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack is a required listen/read. How do we answer the Fed, how do we respond to the propaganda and the ignorance? Find out in another of Bitcoin Magazine’s incredible recent pieces title, “Winning Hearts & Minds for Bitcoin” Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Derek Muhney: The Business of Bitcoin ATMs
January 14th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guest is Derek Muhney, Director of Marketing & Strategy at CoinSource the largest Bitcoin ATM network in the world. We are discussing the impact the 2020 pandemic is having on their business, about how Bitcoin ATMs work, and Bitcoin's future from his perspective. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - On Penis Flutes and Chastity Belts
January 14th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this (very R-rated) episode of the Unhashed Podcast, guest-host CryptoMags joins us to talk proposed FinCEN KYC regulation & SkyBridge Capital's BTC position, debate Lighting Network nodes, and predict peak Wrapped BTC. As usual, we end on a raunchy note about hacked chastity belts and stuff found in our parents' bedrooms. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin & the Printing Press [Anil]
January 13th, 2021 by BTCMedia The Printing press was a revolution in the spread of information and communication, leading to the Renaissance and the age of Science & Reason. Bitcoin is a revolution in the dissemination & spread of real economic value. It will create a Renaissance that will dwarf that of the printing press. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin's Killer App: Skin in the Game [Simon Cowell]
January 9th, 2021 by BTCMedia As Bitcoin established a universal value transfer protocol for the internet, we are going to begin to see unique monetization, and also incentive models that simply weren't possible before. One area, that historically has had deep ties to monetary incentive, but lost it in the digital age... was gaming. Listen to today's excellent article from Bitcoin Magazine and author Simon Cowell for a fascinating look at a Lightning tool built by ZebeDee, and what it may mean for the future of gaming. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - I am Peg
January 7th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Ruben explains softchains, Russian hackers being Russian hackers at Livecoin, moar Ripple popcorn, and Blockstream launches a fully open-sourced hardware wallet. For the lightning round, what really *is* a sidechain, and how much would you pay to mindmeld with Bill Gates? Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Desiree Dickerson, Ryan Gentry: Lightning is Bitcoin
January 7th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guests are Desiree Dickerson and Ryan Gentry. They are working for one of the - in my eyes - hottest companies in the Bitcoin space. Lightning Labs was founded in 2016 by Elizabeth Stark and Olaoluwa Osuntokun. The Lightning Network is a second layer protocol on top of the Bitcoin network. We will be talking about the Lightning Network, what it is and what it is enabling, their most interesting products and about their outlook for the Lightning Network in 2021. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Bonobos, Bitcoin and Brightness
January 3rd, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the unhashed podcast listen to ripple's security woes, our disappointment that Russell Okung's employers aren't speculating on BTC, boredom with big companies making large bitcoiner investments, and the best and worst of bitcoin in 2020 and 2021. Also, Ruben gets weird about bonobos and you'll learn things about light brightness. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Tom (@cannonscall): What a Year
December 31st, 2020 by BTCMedia My friend Tom (@cannonscall on Twitter) joins me to talk about starting this podcast together, this crazy year in Bitcoin and what only promises to be an even crazier year in 2021. Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Outlook 2021
December 31st, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest is Andreas M. Antonopoulos, who has been one of my biggest inspirations on my Bitcoin journey. We are discussing Bitcoin, the ultimate fairness system, why we need to strengthen privacy now, and his outlook for 2021. His talks have been inspiring and ensuring that is the space where my personal values and ethics find a place to work on something that is bigger than me, where I can contribute to changing the world to become a better place. Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a bitcoin and open blockchains educator, he coined the terms "Not your keys, not your coins" and "streaming money" and is the author of Mastering Bitcoin, the Internet of Money series and is currently working on the book Mastering the Lightning Network. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bullish on Bitcoiners [John Vallis]
December 29th, 2020 by BTCMedia Before continuing our ride through The Bitcoin Times, we have a fantastic piece fromJohn Vallisas part of the End of Year 2020 series with Bitcoin Magazine. One of numerous excellent articles looking back on 2020 and what it brought to Bitcoin, and what Bitcoin brought to it. John Vallis gives us a perspective of the change that Bitcoin instills, after all its just a tool, what really makes a difference, and where the change truly lies, is in us. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Ripple Strikes Blue Oil Lawsuit
December 28th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week's Unhashed Podcast: Coinbase has filed for permission to have an IPO, Ripple sued by the SEC because XRP is a security, MicroStrategy purchased another $650M worth of BTC and Stodgy Mass Mutual bought $100M, Calvin Ayre is buying a small poor archipelago of around 15,000 people North of New Zealand for BSV, FinCEN released a notice that would require money businesses to verify the identity of customers with digital currencies “held in unhosted wallets”, Suredbits has devised a Discreet Log Contract for Difference to hold a USD position, and the stolen email and mailing addresses for Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users has appeared online. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Colin Aulds on Online Privacy, Bitcoin Self-Custody, and Cryptocurrency Adoption
December 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Description: Colin Aulds of Privacy Pros, formerly known as BillFodl, and the Unhashed Podcast comes on the Digital Cash Network podcast to talk about privacy in cryptocurrency, from using VPNs to Faraday bags for phones and even hardware wallets. We also cover self-custody, and whether or not people should hold their own Bitcoin because of the risk of loss, or if they should trust other parties. Finally we go into the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and at what level will the average grandmother ever be comfortable holding their own keys. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - The Sovereign Company Thesis
December 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia We all know that Bitcoin creates sovereignty and protects the individual's right to own and use money without the permission of government. But everything it provides to the individual, it can provide to a company as well. With the BitMEX example giving us a taste of what could be, Christian Keroles takes us through a great, quick read on the sovereignty of business enterprise in a Bitcoin world, and how it fundamentally changes the dynamics of governance, and removes the power to shut down the capital of the world. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Ansel Lindner: Bitcoin 2020
December 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia Ansel Lindner is a long time bitcoiner and host of one of the longest running Bitcoin podcasts, Bitcoin and Markets. That podcast and getting to know Ansel in his Discord group really helped me understand Bitcoin in the early days. He also cohosts Fed Watch, a new podcast from Bitcoin Magazine. In this one we review the year in Bitcoin and go off on some interesting tangents from there. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Jukka Blomberg: LocalBitcoins in Latin America
December 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest is Jukka Blomberg, Chief Marketing Officer at LocalBitcoins, the biggest peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace in the world. With 6 million customers and operations in 189 countries LocalBitcoins is a global company with insights into the development of the Bitcoin space for every continent. We discuss the trading volume of Bitcoin in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and the different use-cases for Bitcoin in different regions of the world. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Eating J.Lo
December 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, there's no shortage of Bitcoin news: Bitonic taking the Dutch authorities to court, John Newbery launches Brink to fund core development, the Battle for P2SH, Square funding clean Bitcoin mining, and more institutions get involved. We round things off with a nice discussion about what each of us were to do if bitcoin failed, and the ethics of cannibalism. It gets about as weird as you expect it to. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Nicolas Dorier: Be Your Own Bank with BTCPay
December 10th, 2020 by BTCMedia Nicolas Dorier is a decentralized systems software developer and open-source advocate. He has been active in the Bitcoin community since 2014 and has contributed to several Bitcoin projects, including Bitcoin Core, before founding BTCPayServer, an open-source payment processor used by thousands of merchants globally. He is also the co-founder of METACO, a provider of security-critical infrastructure for financial institutions. Read More
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