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Unhashed Podcast - ETF Rising
February 24th, 2021 by
BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we are again joined by Mags, the loud librarian herself, to cover bcash delistings, microstrategy doubling down, Cryptopia's hacks (yes, that's plural), bull market company valuations, Nigeria's bitcoin ban, and the ins and outs of North America's first ETF launch. It gets a little gossipy at the end...we blame Mags for that. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Bitcoin is Venice [Allen Farrington]
February 24th, 2021 by BTCMedia "Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?" - Allen Farrington Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Lamar Wilson: Black Bitcoin Billionaire
February 22nd, 2021 by BTCMedia Lamar Wilson is a long time bitcoiner, software developer and entrepreneur. He cofounded the Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse and holds court there just about every day giving away sats and doing Satoshi's work. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Camila and Thevin Campton: Starting a Bitcoin Family
February 14th, 2021 by BTCMedia Camila and Thvevin's are newlywed Bitcoiners. Thevin has been falling down the rabbit hole for almost a year and Camila started her journey on a flight home from Florida on Thanksgiving during which she read The Bitcoin Standard. Since then they've become a Bitcoin-only family. We talk about their work, life, and hopes Bitcoin gives them for their family's future. Read More -
Fed Watch - Central Bank Update February 2021 - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast
February 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Fed Watch podcast, Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner give an update on central bank news in relation to bitcoin. This is the only podcast that tackles this intersection of macro and bitcoin, from a realistic and skeptical point of view. The cracks in the legacy financial system are fairly evident at this point, but it is not going to be a quick and easy transition to what is next. Bitcoin’s niche is growing and muscling into the territory of the legacy system. But it will happen in phases, without a centralized plan. This podcast examines that point friction. Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Mining and Censorship
February 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guest is Jameson Lopp, he calls himself a professional cypherpunk. His mission is to use his skills as a technologist to build tools that empower individuals. Our topic is nicely called "clean" mining or to say it in a more distinct way: censored mining. Is this an attack on Bitcoin and what are the possible strategies and outcomes? Jameson is the Co-founder & CTO of Casa a company dedicated to helping you to secure your bitcoin. It's the second time that Jameson is my guest, listen to our previous interview here. Read More -
Block Crunch - Dune Analytics: The Secret Weapon of Top Crypto Investors - Frederik Haga
February 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia Crypto is evolving rapidly as an asset class - analysts now have to wade through terabytes of data to surface opportunities that may generate alpha. At the center of this is Dune Analytics, a community-driven data platform favored by crypto diehards. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Shroomchains
February 16th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we take a break from out regular weekly news wrap-up. Instead, Mario and Ruben dig into fundamental questions about bitcoin Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Asset DNA, Explaining Bitcoin's Speculative Attack
February 14th, 2021 by BTCMedia With increased attention on the Bitcoin price and the speculative attack by Michael Saylor himself having paid off so extraordinarily well, its time to revisit the concept with an article by Croesus_BTC at Bitcoin Magazine. It's not merely something that might occur, or just a fun thought experiment, its in the very DNA of these assets. Borrowing dollars in a manipulated, low interest environment, may find its most productive and valuable use in simply buying Bitcoin. Read More -
The Anita Posch Show - Ben Arc: Building Bitcoin DIY Hardware and Software
February 13th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guest is Ben Arc from Wales. He is a FOSS hobbyist, advocate, and educator. FOSS stands for Free Open Source Software. Ben has been building hardware and software for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network since around 2014. We are talking about the Welsh Bitcoin scene and his projects like Bowser, a DIY Hardware Wallet, lnbits or the Nostr messaging client, which could enable completely decentralized markets and social media apps. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Well Endowed
February 9th, 2021 by BTCMedia 1. On Saturday, Bitcoin plebes on Twitter were angry with Elon for saying “Doge appears to be inflationary, but is not meaningfully so (fixed # of coins per unit time), whereas BTC is arguably deflationary to a fault. Transaction speed of Doge should ideally be a few orders of magnitude faster.” Bitcoin twitter was not amused. Doubly so when none other than Snoop Dogg renamed himself to Snoop Doge. 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 -
The Anita Posch Show - Farooq Ahmed: Bitcoin in Pakistan
February 4th, 2021 by BTCMedia My guest is Farooq Ahmed, President of the Bitcoin Association Pakistan. Pakistan is a country of over 200 million people, between Afghanistan and India. I recently released interviews with Fereshteh Forough and Sunny Ray about those countries as well. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading is banned in Pakistan at the moment, nonetheless the use of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining is rising. Read More -
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 -
Citizen Bitcoin - Brandon Quittem: It's a Strange Time to Be a Human
November 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia As most of you know Brandon Quittem is one of my best Bitcoiner friends - I just love to sit down to talk Bitcoin and see where we end up going. In this on we follow the white rabbit down many rabbit holes. It's a really fun hangout episode, grab yourself a beverage, a smoke, a little meditation, whatever your jam is, to relax and open your mind and join us on this little journey. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - How this Bull Run is Different [Abhay Aluri]
February 2nd, 2021 by BTCMedia We aren't in the same world, nor the same phase of Bitcoin as we were in 2017. This bull run seems not to be fueled by retail speculation and wall street gamblers, but instead its entering a phase where its a truly legitimized, investment grade asset that is being used as a first layer money to hedge against the infrastructure of the financial system, as well as against the increasing volatility and devaluation seen across all fiat currency. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Pablo Fernandez: Bitcoin Black Swans
January 31st, 2021 by BTCMedia Pablo Fernandez is a long time bitcoiner and software engineer. He recently joined the Swan engineering team. In this one we talk about Elon the Bitcoiner, the Gamestop Saga, his Bitcoin arbitrage scripts from back in the day and a bitcoin future. Enjoy! Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - The Best Deadly Sin
February 2nd, 2021 by BTCMedia On this week's Unhashed Podcast: Bitmex Research released a blog post about the transaction fee gathering capability of Bitcoin miners, the wallstreetbets subreddit nearly bankrupted the Melvin capital hedgefund by pumping shares of popularly shorted stocks, Gemini has launched an interest-earning program called Gemini Earn, a vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Bitcoin Core was disclosed by Core contributor and developer Andrew Chow, and Elon Musk changed his twitter description to #Bitcoin and then cryptically tweeted, “In retrospect, it was inevitable”. 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 - Even Clowns Can Wield Hurtful Hammers
January 31st, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we compare Harvard’s endowment with the Unhashed endowment, get bored by even more corporate BTC purchases, comment on wumpus’ role in the community, and why you should dump all your bitcoin because it can be double-spent now. Read More
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