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Bitcoin & Co:-Randy Brito on How People Are Using Bitcoin in Venezuela
February 27th, 2020 by
BTCMedia Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. In 2012 he started publishing educational material about Bitcoin in Spanish and translated the interface of the Electrum Wallet. We are talking about the economical situation in Venezuela, how authorities extorted miners in 2015 and how people are using bitcoin today. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. — Pascal Huegli on Today’s Problematic Monetary Colonialism
February 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia Pascal Hügli is a journalist working with financial media AG. He focuses on the topic of finance and economics. As such he considers himself as a life-long student trying to get a real understanding of the world. He’s the author of “Ignore at your own risk: the new decentralized world of Bitcoin and Blockchain”. He is also a lecturer at HWZ and moderates as well as debates in public. Read More -
CryptoQuikRead_354 - Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin [Mauricio Di Bartolomeo]
February 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin, as a new asset class, provides us with one of the most powerful tools for financial security in a custodial context: cryptographic proofs of reserve. We would be foolish to not make use of it. Let us not repeat the mistakes of the past. Another great piece from Bitcoin Magazine to shine a light on a critical issue for a future with sustainable sound money. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Adam Back: Bitcoin's Past and Future
February 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia Dr. Adam Back is a cypherpunk pioneer. His work on hashcash, a is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper and, lesser-known among bit coiners, but just as cool, his work on telescoping circuits is cited in the TOR white-paper. - these among many more contributions to the field of applied cryptography. In this episode we discuss cypherpunk history, bitcoin’s history and future, bitcoin privacy and Adam gives us an overview of the state of bitcoin tech. This was a great one, hope you all enjoy it. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Andy Edstrom: Investing in Bitcoin
January 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Andy Edstrom is a wealth manager who has fallen down the bitcoin rabbit hole. He started writing content to justify a small stake in bitcoin for his clients and that turned into the new book “Why Buy Bitcoin” - a great book to recommend to family and friends thinking about an investment in bitcoin. In this episode we get into that history and perspective, we discuss where the finance industry currently is in terms of moving toward embracing bitcoin as an asset. We talk about monetary maximalism how bitcoin might change our economy. And, as any good wealth manager would do, Andy has a thorough examination of bitcoin’s risk as an investment in the closing chapters of his book and we discuss them. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Tlon CEO Galen Wolfe-Pauly: Urbit Is The Personal Operating System For The 21st Century
February 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, which is building out Urbit. Galen discusses his vision for Urbit, how developers can work with it, what’s on the horizon for Urbit in the near future, and more. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Bitcoin Tweets Reach A 2 Year High
February 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin hitting $10,000 catapulted it back into mainstream consciousness, but data shows that internet consumers were paying attention already. Statistics from monitoring resource Bit info charts reveal that in early February, mentions of Bitcoin on Twitter alone spiked to 2 year highs. DISCLAIMER: This article should not be taken as is, and is not intended to provide, investment advice. Read More -
CryptoQuikRead_352: Paying Yourself? Self-Payments Could Be a Key to Lightning Privacy" (Aaron Van Wirdum)
February 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia Despite its focus on payments and scaling the Bitcoin system, Lightning may have incredible potential for privacy opportunities and improvements. Pseudonymous developer ZmnSCPxj has been detailing and expanding on these concepts in recent months, and who better to lay it all out for us than BitcoinMagazine, and Aaron Van Wirdum? Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin: Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Is Inevitable
February 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Parker and I discuss much that ails our economic system: Keynesianism, quantitative easing and modern monetary theory. Then we get into the fix. We discuss Parker’s latest addition to the Gradually then Suddenly series titled “Bitcoin Obsoletes All Money”. I steelman some FUD and precoiner questions and arguments and Parker expertly delivers the answers. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. — Philipp E. Dettwiler on Merging Traditional Banking With Bitcoin and Digital Assets
February 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia Phil Dettwiler is Head of Custody Storage & Transaction Banking at SEBA Bank AG, the first crypto bank that was granted a banking license in Switzerland. Being a banker all of his life, he sees the investment opportunity in bitcoin and likes the possibility of independent banking. Phil also answers the question: Why do we need banks in Bitcoin? Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #4 New Markets
August 24th, 2018 by
DSholla **"It was extremely difficult to create new books before the invention of the printing press. It was expensive and unsystematic. After the printing press, disseminating new books across the world became much simpler. The prices of books dropped and more people started reading. It’s the same way with the financial market today... It’s kind of like a world where there is only a couple hundred books, it’s not nearly as interesting as it could be."** **—Joey Krug** Read More -
QuikRead_349 Rise of SIM Swapping [David Hollerith]
February 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Another piece from BitcoinMagazine.com, this one by author and podcast host David Hollerith, that breaks down the risks and details of SIM swap attacks and how you may be vulnerable to losing your bitcoins, simply by revealing your phone number. Don't miss this piece detailing out the attack, and listing out the Do's and Don'ts of Bitcoin security. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. — Brandon Green: What to Expect From Bitcoin (In) 2020
February 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia In March the Bitcoin2020 conference is taking place in San Francisco. In this interview, I talk with Brandon Green, who is a project manager at BTC Inc. for the conference. BTC Inc. is also the company behind the Bitcoin Magazine and the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast network. We talk about the latest developments in Bitcoin, the halving, their suspended Twitter account and what you can expect from the conference. Brandon is the right hand to the CEO at BTC Inc. He’s been working in the Bitcoin space and writing for Bitcoin Magazine since early 2017. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Cory Klippsten: Starting Up a Bitcoin Company
February 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Cory Klippsten is the founder and CEO of Swan, a bitcoin company. Cory and I chat about what it takes to start up a bitcoin company, we discuss the Taleb inspired Swan brand, fundraising for Bitcoin companies and how bitcoin is an incredibly positive black swan event. Read More -
CryptoQuikRead_346 - The Kindest Cut; Why The 2020 Bitcoin Halving [Peter C. Earle]
February 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Another great piece from Bitcoin Magazine written by Peter C. Earle, detailing the reasons why this next halving will make Bitcoin a true contender in the world of monetary policy. In a very short span, Bitcoin will become the most scarce & strictly defined financial asset on Earth... are you ready? Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Lisa Neigut on Why Bitcoin Is Cool and How She Became a C-Lightning Developer
January 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Lisa Neigut is an engineer and developer at Blockstream working on c-lightning. We met at the Lightning Conference in Berlin in October 2019 and talked about a variety of topics ranging from quantum experiments, Bitcoin in general, stocks as currency, to the future of the Lightning Network. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Knut Svanholm: Freedom and Hyperbitcoinization
January 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia Knut Svanholm is the author of Sovereignty Through Mathematics. Knut and I talk about how this fiat monstrosity erodes our basic freedoms and how the discovery of absolute scarcity that is bitcoin will restore and protect those freedoms. We talk a bit about lighting and closeout by riffing for quite a while on the prospects of hyperbitconization and how it could affect our social order. Read More -
Cryptoconomy QuikRead342: Bitcoin & the Primacy of the Digital World [Pascal Hugli]
January 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia Guy Swann read's Bitcoin and the Primacy of the Digital World by Pascal Hugli on Bitcoinmagazine.com. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Tatiana Moroz on How Bitcoin Liberates Humanity and Gives Power to Creators
January 29th, 2020 by BTCMedia Tatiana Moroz is an American folk singer-songwriter, liberty activist, and peaceful revolutionary. She is in the Bitcoin space since 2012 and is pioneering creative autonomy and freedom as the creator of the world’s first artist cryptocurrency Tatiana Coin. Tatiana merges music with blockchain technology to renew the power of songwriters and creators. Her inspiring album “Keep The Faith” was released in 2017 and was funded completely with cryptocurrency. She wrote a song about Bitcoin, it’s called the “Bitcoin Jingle” and it is featured in this episode. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Money as a System of Control, Decentralization vs Centralization, Base Layer and Lightning Tech
December 25th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode Andreas and I talk about the early PC and Internet era and why it is often analogized to bitcoin’s evolution, we talk about how money has become coopted by governments drunk of Keynesian ideology, how money is used as a system of control and how bitcoin fixes this. In the second half of the discussion we talk tech - first base layer tech and then Lightning. We finish up with Andreas’ vision of a bitcoin future. Read More
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