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Meet the Taco Plebs - Memes Will Take Bitcoin To The Moon with @Chad_Capital
August 23rd, 2021 by
BTCMedia Understanding bitcoin can change your life. Once you do understand it, your entire system for evaluating what is worthy of your time, money and effort is also changed. I discussed this idea and more with The Bitcoin Conference’s latest addition to the team, Brad, on Twitter as @Chad_Capital. He and I discussed how he first heard about Bitcoin, which was a result of the infectious excitement many feel about Bitcoin once they understand it. In addition to this, we discussed the power ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD330: A Plague of Malice: The State v Julian Assange
August 23rd, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday, 30th March Company: SupportAssange.wauland.de Role: N/A A world where the people are afraid to hold institutions and governments accountable for their actions is a dystopian reality. Julian Assange founded Wikileaks in 2006 to defend against injustices, hypocrisy, and tyranny; he published the truth. And for these actions, he has spent ten years fighting for his freedom. Today is a call to action for everyone aligned with Bitcoin, freedom ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD329: Bitcoin’s Path to $10 Trillion with Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
August 20th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Wednesday 31st March Company: Gemini Role: Co-Founders Earlier this year, bitcoin hit a significant milestone when the market capitalisation (the price of the entire current supply) hit $1trillion for the first time. As Cameron Winklevoss said, "from white paper to $1 trillion, bitcoin is eating gold alive." Cameron and Tyler expect this trend to continue. With bitcoin as digital 'gold 2.0' that is more scarce, transferable and a better store of value ... Read More -
Block Crunch - Tranchess: $500M of Capital to DeFi Structured Products In One Week - Danny Chong, Tranchess, Ep. 159
August 20th, 2021 by BTCMedia Tranchess (@tranchess) is a new structured DeFi product offering a fixed income and Bitcoin exposure to users. Within one week of its launch, Tranchess has attracted $500M of capital in the protocol. I invited Tranchess co-founder, Danny Chong, to discuss the tranche product landscape, who are the next big wave of users in DeFi, and the challenges of creating sustainable protocol incentives. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may... Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Read_552 - Inside Cuba's Bitcoin Revolution [Alex Gladstein]
August 20th, 2021 by BTCMedia “This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows you to move value without trusting anyone, it connects you to the world, and it allows you to empower yourself and do things that are otherwise impossible,” he said. “It has created hope for those who want change.” Today Alex Galdstein takes us on another Bitcoin journey around the world, this time to Cuba. A communist regime where dissent is illegal, where 70% of the value of the currency is stolen ... Read More -
The Tatiana Show - A New Standard: Solving Inflation with DeFi with Joshua Scigala & Laurin Bylica of TheStandard.io
August 20th, 2021 by
TatianaMoroz The Standard's co-founders Joshua Scigala & Laurin Bylica join Tatiana to talk about the platform, how it came to be and why they believe it's so crucial to the future of crypto!
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Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - The Truth Behind Bitcoin's Opposition with Seb Bunney
August 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia Despite the multitude of opinions on Bitcoin and its future, the reality is that we are at a huge inflection point in history. Our guest today, Seb Bunney, explains why the decentralization of the economy presents us with an exceptional opportunity to build equality and escape this economic modern-day slavery perpetuated by banks and the government. Seb is a contributor to Bitcoin Magazine, and today we will be focusing on his most recent article titled, 'The Truth Behind Bitcoin’s Opposit... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD328: Bonds, Inflation and the GBTC Premium with Lyn Alden
August 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Friday 26th, March Company: lynalden.com Role: Macroeconomist This month we have seen the markets signal an expected increase in inflation; while bond prices are a good indicator, Lyn Alden explains that just looking at bonds or the Consumer Price Index (CPI) does not tell the whole story. Price changes can vary wildly in services, commodities, and especially asset prices, but inflation affects different people in different ways. Outside of inflation, ... Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Turning Dinosaur Farts Into Bitcoin
August 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk with special guest Steve Barbour of Upstream Data Inc. We learn about bitcoin mining, oil and gas wells, using stranded power, ASIC efficiency, heat re-usage, and more. Read More -
Bitcoin Bottom Line - Inflation and Politics
August 18th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this episode of the “Bitcoin Bottomline,” hosts Steven McClurg and C.J. Wilson discussed how to alter your portfolio allocation based on inflation, what the infrastructure bill means for Bitcoin and how legislative involvement plays a part in the Bitcoin space. This episode dove into the details of the proposed U.S. infrastructure bill, including providing perspective on the terminology in the bill. McClurg explained the term “broker” and how the definition of the word in the ... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Embracing Bitcoin w/ Kit Stanwood
August 17th, 2021 by BTCMedia It is often difficult for people to get into Bitcoin without already being primed to align with one of Bitcoin’s strange attributes. Parker Lewis described Bitcoins strangeness as “being counterintuitive, and then hyper-intuitive” after one puts in enough work to understand it. Like many Bitcoiners, Kit Stanwood needed to hear about Bitcoin a couple of times before it clicked. But once it did click, it became hyper-intuitive and she dove right in! Stanwood is now the social media m... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD327: How to Trade the End of a Bull Market with Willy Woo
August 17th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 25th March Company: Hypersheet Role: Co-Founder In the first two weeks of March, the bitcoin price bounced from around $45k to a new all-time high and local top of $62k. The price then dropped significantly, with many blaming CryptoQuant for the sell-off after posting a message in their Telegram group saying, "18,961 #BTC ($1,145,210,023) aggregated inflow to #Gemini: be careful downside risk from whale dumping" just moments before the price bega... Read More -
Block Crunch - Ex-Binance OG Disrupting How Projects Are Launched - Calvin Chu, Impossible Finance, Ep. 158
August 17th, 2021 by BTCMedia I'm excited to be joined by my friend Calvin Chu (@calchulus), former core team at Binance. At Binance, Calvin helmed initiatives such as Launchpad, and is now leveraging his experience to start IMPOSSIBLE FINANCE, a decentralized incubator for new crypto projects. We discuss what it takes to launch a successful token, regulatory compliance, and the landscape for decentralized launchpads. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may ho... Read More -
The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Basis of Lightning Technology 12 - NADO 44
August 17th, 2021 by BTCMedia Sjors is back! In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss BOLT 12 (Basis of Lightning Technology 12), a newly proposed Lightning Network specification for “offers”, a type of “meta invoices” designed by c-lightning developer Rusty Russell. Where coins on Bitcoin’s base layer are sent to addresses, the Lightning network uses invoices. Invoices communicate the requested amount, node destination, and the hash of a secret which ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD326: Bitcoin Rehab: American HODL Yells at Everyone
August 11th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 25th March Company: N/A Role: N/A Back in the fall, American HODL and I bet on the outcome of the US election, with Phil Geiger, from Unchained Capital as the arbiter. In this show, we got together to settle the bet. But so much has happened since we made the bet and I asked HODL to join us for a monthly bitcoin rehab show. Despite the massive gains bitcoin has made this last year, it feels like a wall of money is still to come. Money mana... Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Ruben Grows His Hair Out
August 11th, 2021 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk AMC accepting bitcoin, infrastructure bill shenanigans, Ee-lawn Musque's take on mining energy mix, how ETFs might or might not track the BTC price, half a billion dollars in a DeFi hack, and then finish off with some movie reviews. 1. AMC Theaters will accept the cryptocurrency bitcoin for movie tickets and concessions in the U.S. by the end of 2021, according to CEO Adam Aron, who first made the announcement during an earnings call on Mon... Read More -
Fed Watch - Taper Talk, Repos, China, and Bitcoin Advocacy - FED60
August 11th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Fed Watch” podcast, hosts Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner have a conversation about current Federal Reserve policy, headlines in the financial press, and rumors. Then we touch on PBoC and Evergrande problems in China. Lastly, the fun starts and we talk about the Infrastructure Bill and some hot takes about what to take away from it. It’s one of our longest episodes and a must listen for contrarian bitcoiner opinions. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Monetizing your Data w/ Stephan Dodge and Ian Major
August 10th, 2021 by BTCMedia Payments on the internet have always been a weakness. An entire Frankenstein mash up of surveillance, credit card payments, walled garden ecosystems emerged as the way for the internet and internet companies to monetize. Freemium and ad driven models became the way that users were monetized but if you get something for free you are the product and in 2021 this is turning into a problem. Stephan Dodge and Ian Major, the co-founders of BYOD, think bitcoin can fix this. Host Christian Kerol... Read More -
Meet the Taco Plebs - Bitcoin and Education w/ Satoshi Sarah
August 9th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I sat down with Satoshi Sarah, a new addition to the Bitcoin Magazine team. Sarah is extremely passionate about bitcoin education, which is what she will be working on at the magazine. She believes in the freedom and sovereignty offered by bitcoin, and is fascinated by the diversity in the community. Like me, Sarah is a zoomer, and sees life through a lens only offered by the experiences zoomers have collectively gone ... Read More -
Block Crunch - EGL: A New Protocol Solving High Ethereum's Gas Issue - Eleni Steinman & Uri Klarman, Ep. 157
August 5th, 2021 by BTCMedia High fees on Ethereum is a persistent problem. Founders of Ethereum Gas Limit (EGL), Eleni (@EleniThinks) and Uri (@UriKlarman), join us in discussing: 1. How miners control Ethereum's gas limit today 2. How it affects network fees 3. How EGL coordinate gas limit effectively 4. Implications with EIP 1559 Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed. ------------- Sponsors ------------- PARASWAP... Read More
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