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Citizen Bitcoin - Jeff Booth: The Money of Tomorrow
May 29th, 2020 by
BTCMedia Today we sit down with Jeff Booth author of the new book The Price of Tomorrow. Jeff is a long time tech entrepreneur - He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades and he invests in and sits on the boards of many tech companies. Needless to say Jeff has his finger on the pulse of the global tech industry. In this disucssion we dive into the ideas he’s fleshed out in The Price of Tomorrow - deflationary technology in the time of inflationary monetary policy - the deep societal problems caused by inflationary money - how deflationary technology could combine with the deflationary money that is Bitcoin. We soberly examine the current state of affairs but also consider a bright future ahead and the path to get there. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Carla Kirk-Cohen: Bitcoin Is the Ability to Take Back Control Over Your Financial Situation
May 28th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today's guest is Carla Kirk-Cohen she is a developer at Lightning Labs and is living in Cape Town in South Africa. Carla is building infrastructure around lightning nodes that makes it easier for people to run their own nodes at home. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - How the Lightning Network will Grow Following Bitcoin's third Halving
May 27th, 2020 by BTCMedia An article by Peter Chawaga at BitcoinMagazine.com that touches on the many topics discussed during the Bitcoin Halving Livestream with many of the Lightning pioneers. With LSATs, keysend, LN messaging apps, and the new infrastructure layer for monetary applications. The future is bright, and today's episode is a great little morsel about what it to come. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Justine aka MsHodl: Rebuilding Society from the Bottom Up
May 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia Today we sit down with Justine, aka @MsHodl - Justine is a bitcoiner who drops smart takes on Twitter. We get into her background and rabbit hole story, we talk about how bitcoin could help rebuild society from the bottom up, about coming to bitcoin from different political perspectives, about “toxicity” in the space and much more. [@CitizenBitcoin](https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin) on Twitter [Citizen Bitcoin Podcast](https://citizenbitcoin.world/) [Citizen Bitcoin Layer One ... Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Ray Youssef: Bringing Bitcoin Into Africa With Gift Cards Is Solving Real Problems
May 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia On today's episode I talk with Ray Youssef, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace for money transfers serving about 4 million people in every country of the world. He says that in the next five years Africa with its tremendous growth in trading volume is going to become the leading crypto continent. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
May 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia DESCRIPTION: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." - Satoshi Nakamoto To kick off the Third epoch in Bitcoin we are officially rebranding to Bitcoin Audible, and beginning with the historic Whitepaper by Satoshi himself, revealing this incredible system to the world. Solving the Byzantine General's problem, a breakthrough in consensus, a structureless, distributed monetary system incentivizing cooperation and truth. The Whitepaper is the earliest window into a groundbreaking network that already has, and will continue, to change the world. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Erik Cason: Economic and Social Outcomes of Bitcoin
May 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia Erik is a crypto-anarchist, iconoclast, and thinker that has been working in the bitcoin ecosystem since 2012. His primary concerns are the intersections of political, economic, and social theory as they relate to bitcoin specifically - and in this episode we get into all these topics and we start with talk about his time at Coinbase - it’s a wide ranging discussion that was very interesting from start to finish. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Leo Wandersleb: Bitcoin Wallet Security to Avoid Exit Scams
May 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia Our topic today is all about Bitcoin wallets and their security. I am talking with Leo Wandersleb a german developer living in Chile, who is the founder of a project called Wallet Scrutiny. The goal of his project is to avoid exit scams through the verifiability of the wallet source code. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Aleks Svetski: Bitcoin is Natural Money
May 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia Aleks Svetski is founder and CEO of Swan’s Aussie autostacking ally - Amber. In this episode we talk about principles of liberty, freedom, short term thinking vs long term thinking, how an economy is complex like natural systems and natural money arises organically from a free market. It’s always great to hang out with Aleks. Read More -
The Honey Badger Dairies - Ben Arc AKA BTC Socialist, In The Middle Of Nowhere (Scotland)
May 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia Ben Arc (@BTCSocialist) is from Wales, but he's sitting out the corona crisis in the middle of nowhere in Scotland. A tinkerer by nature, Ben has been hacking together PPE equipment with a 3D-printer as well as other tools that could be of use in this emergency. We also discuss the LNBits project he's been furthering, why a socialist is interested in Bitcoin, and more. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Tuur Demeester: The Bitcoin Reformation in Times of COVID-19
May 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today I am talking with Tuur Demeester, who recommended Bitcoin as an investment to his readers at $5 back in 2012. I would say Tuur is a philosopher with a greater perspective and an historical approach to today's developments. We discuss his findings in his paper "The Bitcoin Reformation". Published that at the end of 2019 he is drawing comparisons between the Dutch reformation in the 16th century and the emergence of Bitcoin in this century. This bring us to discuss COVID-19 and Tuur's thoughts on the impact of this crisis on the Bitcoin reformation and he tells us which assets will stay liquid and accessible. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin is Common Sense by Parker Lewis
May 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia If you were worried that the previous installment of the Gradually, Then Suddenly Series was its conclusion, then you will not want to miss today’s read. Parker is back with another bomb to drop on the unavoidable reality of our times. It is a simple and irrefutable common sense, that money which one individual must fight and labor to obtain voluntarily, and which is simultaneously created at zero cost by any other institution or person, grants no advantage to the former. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Brandon Quittem and John Vallis: Bitcoin Symbiosis
April 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Brandon Quittem published last week the fourth and final installment of his wonderful mycelium/mushroom/medicine/symbiosis series. John Vallis, host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast, and I both slid right into Brandon’s DMs to schedule him for a pod. I love these two guys and it occurred to me that it’d be a ton of fun to do this thing all together. So we did. This is the first half of our 2 hour 40 minute conversation - you will find the second half on the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast feed. This was a blast, we had a wide ranging conversation that was not at all limited to Bitcoin. In the second half we get crazy cosmic so be sure not to miss it. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Robert Breedlove: Taleb and Bitcoin
April 24th, 2020 by BTCMedia Robert and I dive into the ideas of Nassim Taleb, laid out in his Incerto series, as they relate to bitcoin. A lot of Bitcoiners will know of and have read Taleb’s work, surely there are some of you listening who haven’t - this episode is great for both - enjoy! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - The Future of Bitcoin Is Big in Africa – With Alakanani Itireleng
April 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode I talk with Alakanani Itireleng, who founded the Satoshicentre in Botswana in 2014 and single-handedly built a growing Bitcoin community. She is the heart and center of Bitcoin education there, even the government is relying on her consultancy. We recorded this interview in February 2020, only days before the Covid-19 lockdowns went into effect. Her greatest ambition, the organization of a Bitcoin conference in Southern Africa will not come true soon. Read More -
The Honey Badger Diaries: Jameson Lopp, Mystery Location (USA)
April 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia As coronavirus sweeps the globe... civil liberties are threatened, physical cash is abandoned, money printers go brrr, ...and bitcoin is halvening. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Matt Odell: Life, Love, Humanity and Bitcoin
April 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia Matt Odell and I drink some whiskey and have a much needed pandemic hang out. We talk life, love, humanity and bitcoin. Enjoy and share the love. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Afriblocks, Lightning Network, COVID-19 & Answering Questions – Bitcoin in Africa
April 16th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode you will get to know a young man from Zimbabwe, Tongayi Choto, who is a software developer, entrepreneur and a bitcoin maximalist. He has founded Afriblocks, a Global Pan-African Freelance platform that connects professionals across the world. We talk about the problems young Zimbabweans are facing and his approach to make lives better. In the second part of this episode, I will answer listeners questions about the current use of bitcoin and other methods of payment in Zimbabwe. If you have a question, feel free to press the appropriate button on the episode page and record your question. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Read - Dont be Misled by Red Herrings - Treatise on Bitcoin & Privacy Part 2
April 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia A great closing to Giacomo's Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy at Bitcoin Magazine. What are the Red herrings we have to navigate to determine the truth of privacy on Bitcoin, and the many (non)alternatives? Is there a perfect privacy option, or do they all come with numerous costs and trade-offs? Read More -
The Honey Badger Diaries - Marcel Pechman, Campo Grande (Brazil)
April 12th, 2020 by BTCMedia Marcel Pechman (@noshitcoins) is a former equities trader turned Bitcoin Maximalist who writes for CoinTelegraph and several other publications. He lives in Campo Grande, Brazil. I chat with Marcel about the coronacrisis in Brazil, and the expected economic consequences from the crisis in his homecountry and abroad. Read More
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