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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 -
Unhashed Podcast - Earning Bitcoin Interest on your Bitcoin (w/ Ledn.io)
September 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we're joined by Ledn co-founders Adam Reeds and Mauricio Di Bartolomeo. We cover Ledn's bitcoin collateralized loans, interest accounts, and B2X leverage products. If you've ever wondered how interest is generated for bitcoin accounts, and wanted to understand what its risks are, this is the show for you. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Douglas Bakkum: Building Bitcoin Hardware Wallets to Empower Individuals
September 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest is Douglas Bakkum. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Swiss hardware wallet manufacturer Shift Crypto. Douglas holds a Phd in neuroscience and shifted his career from starting a scientific research lab in academia to building a hardware wallet manufacturer at a time, when no hardware wallets existed on the market. Douglas saw a problem and the need for a solution and started the company together with bitcoin core maintainer Jonas Schnelli in 2015. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum]
September 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another in the amazing "Genesis Files" series from Bitcoin Magazine, Aaron walks us through the history and the legacy of Hal Finney. From the introduction to the cypherpunks list, to the implementation of RPOW, all the way to Hal "running Bitcoin." Another excellent installment. If you want to learn more about the history of the cypherpunks and the forefathers of the Bitcoin system, the Genesis files is not to be missed. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Anil Patel: Bitcoin Education
September 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia Anil has been a bitcoiner since 2015 ever since the first ever Bitcoin ATM was installed in his neighborhood. He has traveled down the rabbit hole steadily ever since until he was eventually able to start working independently full time educating about Bitcoin. He’s been producing some very high quality threads, courses and workshops .As you all know, I’m all about Bitcoin education, so definitely had to have Anil on for a chat. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Bitcoin Beta for Boomers (w/ Andy Edstrom)
September 10th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Andy Edstrom joins us to talk about the financial case for Bitcoin. How do High Net Worth Investors think about Bitcoin? Is Bitcoin really a non-correlated asset and why is this important? And most importantly, what was Tim Draper thinking when he made his B-Cash sales pitch tweet? Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Liam Ball – Maui: Bitcoin Is Truth
September 10th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today I am talking with Liam Ball a real estate broker on Maui, who tells us his story of how he got into Bitcoin, why it is interesting to him, the parallels of Bitcoin to his personal journey and also my journey, his real life use cases with Bitcoin and why Bitcoin is real. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal]
September 9th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another great article at Bitcoin Magazine on the history of the internet, and how Bitcoin finally fulfills the ultimate vision of a monetary protocol native to the world wide web. After decades of failed attempts, we finally have an independent, decentralized, native language for communicating, verifying, and exchanging value in cyberspace. A new world is born. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - My Bitcoin Journey - E100
September 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia For episode 100 I went back into the early interview episodes and grabbed some clips of me sharing about the early days of my journey when I lacked any conviction at all about what was going on here up to recent episodes where I am bullish as fuck and utterly convicted that we’re all living through the dawn of the bitcoin renaissance right now. In between are clips that represent the ideas that I have gleaned from the great Bitcoiners I’ve had the opportunity to interview and discuss Bitcoin with over the past couple years and have become foundational to my understanding of Bitcoin. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - The Lightningest Round (w/ MikeInSpace)
September 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia On this, (sort of) centennial episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we have on long-time listener and Bitcoin media powerhouse MikeInSpace on to talk about...well nothing in particular. It's basically an extended lightning round where we pick at silly questions he's thrown at us on twitter over the last year and ask him just why he is the way that he is. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Dale Bewan: Using Bitcoin Only Since 2017
September 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Todays guest is Dale Bewan. He is a married father of two, living in Germany. Since 2017 Bitcoin is the only money Dale is using. He does not own or hold any Fiat currency like Euros or US Dollars. We will talk about his motivation for doing so, how his wife and children deal with it, why he is using different identities, what LSD has to do with it, his Silkroad experiences, if he gets paid in Bitcoin and much more. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #7 - Missing Pieces [Giacomo Zucco]
September 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia The conclusion of the amazing "Discovering Bitcoin" series, starting from cavemen and the very concept of hardness all the way to off-chain payments and the Lightning network! Listen to the entire series for the conceptual history of money, its virtualization, its corruption, its redesign, and the new paradigm we are now entering. A huge thanks to Giacomo for putting this together and to Bitcoin Magazine for having such awesome content to cover! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Guy Swann: Bitcoin Is a Revolution With Historical Impact
August 27th, 2020 by BTCMedia Guy Swann is the host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast, where he is reading Bitcoin articles and essays by different authors. In 2011 he found out about Bitcoin. Back then Guy used money he did not have to buy Bitcoin, just to watch it loosing it's value in the following bear market. For him, this was not the moment for an exit, it was the moment, when he really started to investigate and learn what Bitcoin is. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - When Maxis Shill ETH
August 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Bitcoin Maximalists like Jameson Lopp and Alena Vranova are shilling an Ethereum compliance coin that they are advisors on. Is this a hypocrisy that calls into question their whole reputation or a big nothing burger (or something in the middle)? Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #6 - Digital Contracts [Giacomo Zucco]
August 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia "In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the idea of using digital puzzles as a way to reproduce scarcity, and on the importance of a supply-control mechanism to grant some hardness to digital money, to explore concepts of proving ownership through signatures and scripts, and the technique known as CoinJoin." - Giacomo Zucco Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Croesus BTC: Bitcoin Will Change the World
August 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia -
Bitcoin & Co. - Kai Kremser: Coinfinity – Pushing Bitcoin Adoption in Austria Since 2014
August 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today I am talking with Kai Kremser a fellow Austrian working for Coinfinity, Austria’s first Bitcoin broker founded in 2014. Kai, a former software developer, is the product manager for the Card Wallet, that is produced by Coinfinity and the Austrian State Printinghouse. Coinfinity and Card Wallet are my longest standing loyal sponsors. I am very thankful for their support, but this did not change the questions I was asking. We are talking about their products, but also touch more general questions for instance bitcoin adoption in Austria and changes in the perception and trading volumes of bitcoin in the last months. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]
August 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it's "hardness." By what means can we get it back? Can we make a scarce money in the digital world, that has no authority, no ruler? Can we restore the freedom of decentralized money? Find out about the brilliant use of difficult puzzles, to achieve digital hardness, in part #5 of Giacomo's excellent series, "Digital Scarcity." Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #4 - A Wrong Turn & A New Plan [Giacomo Zucco]
August 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, this is an awesome set of articles covering thousands of years of monetary history and evolution all the way to The Lightning Network. Today's part is "A Wrong Turn," breaking down the process of innovating money to solve the "scaleness" problem, that ended up putting at huge risk of control and corruption, the "hardness" and "darkness" of our money. Into the age of full virtualization, what could possibly solve this? Do we need a New Plan? Read More
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