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The Bitcoin Game #48: Digging Deeper (Part One) - Ryan X. Charles
August 22nd, 2017 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 48 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. In episode 47 you heard the Bitcoin Scaling panel I moderated at the State Of Digital Money in Los Angeles. While I loved being part of that panel, I really didn’t get to ask many questions. The time allotted to that panel went by so quickly that I really wanted more! So, I was able to arrange interviews with Ryan X. Charles and Eric Lombrozo to dig a bit deeper into some issues around scaling and Bitcoin forks. In this e... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #47: Scaling Bitcoin with Paul Puey, Tone Vays, Ryan X. Charles, and Eric Lombrozo
August 3rd, 2017 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 47 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. We recently had the State Of Digital Money, the first big Bitcoin conference in Los Angeles since 2015. Actually, I'm unsure if I should call it a Bitcoin conference, since the majority of the presentations were not directly related to Bitcoin. Luckily for me, I got to moderate a panel on scaling Bitcoin with notable Bitcoiners: Core developer Eric Lombrozo, longtime Bitcoin developer Ryan X. Charles, vocal trader and personal... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #46: Jameson Lopp - The Benefits of Coopetition in Adversarial Environments
July 8th, 2017 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 46 of *The Bitcoin Game,* I'm Rob Mitchell. In these times of uncertainty and division, Bitcoin could use some fence menders. Especially if they have technical chops and experience in the space. Jameson Lopp is just that kind of person. This episode contains his entire talk from The Future Of Bitcoin, the recent Bitcoin conference held in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The conference audio includes an extended intro from me as the MC of this event, and you'll hear just a bit ... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #45: Pamela Morgan, Crypto Estate Planning & Key Management
June 5th, 2017 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 45 of *The Bitcoin Game,* I'm Rob Mitchell. Sometimes it’s pretty cool being a Bitcoin podcaster. For instance, I was really curious about estate planning in terms of cryptocurrency and key management. So I reached out to expert Pamela Morgan, and she agreed to come on the show. Pamela has a law practice called Empowered Law, and she’s the CEO of Third Key Solutions. If you've pondered about best practices in key management and estate planning, please give this a li... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #44: Ryan Shea, Blockstack for Beginners
April 24th, 2017 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 44 of *The Bitcoin Game,* I'm Rob Mitchell. In today's episode, Blockstack co-founder Ryan Shea helps me understand what Blockstack is doing to create a decentralized web with local apps, secure DNS, identity anchored to the Blockchain, and more.  ##SHOW LINKS Blockstack - [blockstack.org](https://blockstack.org) Ryan on Twitter - [@... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #43: Monero's 'FluffyPony' Part 2
March 28th, 2017 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 43 of *The Bitcoin Game,* I'm Rob Mitchell. This is part two of my interview with Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni of Monero. In **[part one](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-42-riccardo-fluffypony-spagni)**, we focused on Riccardo's past and the early days of Monero. In today's episode, Riccardo gives his views on topics like Ethereum, Proof of Work, Monero's regular hard forks, Barry Silbert's love of Ethereum Classic, tinfoil hat theories about Gav... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #42: Monero's Riccardo 'FluffyPony' Spagni
February 26th, 2017 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 42 of *The Bitcoin Game,* I'm Rob Mitchell. My guest today is Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni of Monero, a cryptocurrency focusing on user privacy. Perhaps the best way to keep an eye on Riccardo (and his trolling antics) is to follow him on Twitter at [@FluffyPonyZA](https://twitter.com/fluffyponyza). Learn more about Monero at [getmonero.org](https://getmonero.org).  Roger is certainly a doer, and besides all th... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #38: Rodolfo Novak of Coinkite & Opendime
August 21st, 2016 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 38 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. It's always great interviewing a knowledgeable person who's not afraid to give an opinion, and Rodolfo Novak is that sort of guest. In this interview, we discuss Coinkite's early days, which started with a Blockchain explorer, custom Bitcoin payment terminals, a widely-used wallet hosting service, and a backend that utilizes hardware security modules of Coinkite's own design. And now, with Opendime, they've moved on to a fa... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #37: Back in the Saddle with Christopher Camp
July 15th, 2016 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 37 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. Everyone has a unique story. When I started this podcast, I really wanted to talk to Bitcoiners who hadn’t been exposed in Bitcoin media. There are a couple of really interesting local Bitcoin traders I've tried to interview, but surprisingly, sometimes it's easier to get a Bitcoin core developer on the show, than many of the lesser-known people who also have Bitcoin-centric lives.  Hello, welcome to episode 36 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. I have to admit, as cool as Ethereum has always sounded to me, I haven’t kept up on it. Then, earlier this month, the market cap of Ether surpassed one billion dollars, about a sixth of Bitcoin’s market cap. The price has come down a bit since then, but seeing the high valuation made me realize I’d b... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #35: Tales from Two Roundtables
March 6th, 2016 by Rob  Hello, welcome to episode 35 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. In today's episode I speak with [BTCC](https://www.btcc.com)'s COO Samson Mow, who attended the [Bitcoin Roundtable](https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable) in Hong Kong. Then I speak with Joseph VaughnPerling, who attended the 2016 [Satoshi Roundtable](http://satoshiroundtable.org). And at the ... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #34: Bitcoin Core Dev Peter Todd
February 17th, 2016 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 34 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell, and my guest is Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd. Peter was really open in this interview, and we talked about everything from his relationship with Gavin Andresen, to mistakes he made in his early days working with Bitcoin Core, and a dozen topics in between. A lot of Peter’s focus was on explaining what he feels are the differences between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic, and why he believes Core is the path to follow... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #33: Hacker J. Maurice
February 5th, 2016 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 33 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. J. Maurice is everything you’d expect in a [crypto-anarchist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism) hacker. When I had lunch with him before our interview, Maurice kept his phone powered off and explained he wouldn’t use a credit card, except maybe to pay for already-tracked air travel. After our meal, he used his [Trezor](https://www.bitcointrezor.com) to sign a Bitcoin payment on his laptop, via the cafe's W... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #32: Brock Pierce
January 15th, 2016 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 32 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. Today's interview is with Brock Pierce, chairman of the board of The Bitcoin Foundation, and a highly-accomplished VC in digital currency. Brock got involved in digital token entrepreneurship at a very young age, with a focus on gaming, an activity he excelled at. As he reached his mid-twenties, Brock's companies were doing $100,000,000 in business. By the time Bitcoin was released, Brock had become a veteran in the busines... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #31: Bitcoin, Micropayments, Action! With Valerian Bennett
December 19th, 2015 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 31 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. I used to run into Valerian Bennett frequently at Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetups in 2014. I thought he’d disappeared from the Bitcoin scene, only to realize how wrong I was. Valerian has taken his experience in mainstream television production, and combined it with his passion for Bitcoin, to create several online Bitcoin video services, with his partner, payment channels developer James Poole. I hope you enjoy our discussio... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #30: The Biggest Blockchain Company You've Never Heard Of
November 19th, 2015 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 30 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. What’s the oldest blockchain company you can think of? What if I told you a Blockchain company in Estonia called Guardtime was founded before the Bitcoin white paper was released? And what if I told you they are now a highly profitable company, doing large amounts of business with government, the world’s largest defense contractor, and a multinational communication technology company? I only found out about Guardtime... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #29: Bitcoin Journalist Brian Cohen
November 5th, 2015 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 29 of *The Bitcoin Game.* I'm Rob Mitchell. I first became acquainted with Bitcoin journalist [Brian Cohen](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/bcohen) in mid-2014, as we were both active on the then-new *Let’s Talk Bitcoin* platform. I saw he was doing some fairly serious Bitcoin journalism. Soon after I launched this podcast, I reached out to Brian for an interview. It took a year for us to finally connect, but I finally spoke to the man who digs up a lot of... Read More
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