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The Bitcoin Game #15 - Fun & Interviews at the Texas Bitcoin Conference Kickoff Party
April 15th, 2015 by
Rob Welcome to episode 15 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. While I usually try to be extremely professional on my podcast, this episode from the Friday night Kickoff Party for the Texas Bitcoin Conference may expose a slightly different side of me. I went straight from Austin–Bergstrom International Airport to Maria's Taco Express, where the party was held. I arrived to the sound of live music and a large patio area completely packed with Bitcoiners. I made my way through the crowd a... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #14 - Cryptocurrency Regulation Talk from the Texas Bitcoin Conference
April 7th, 2015 by Rob Welcome to episode 14 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. I recently attended the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and had a great time. I got to meet fellow LTB podcasters John Barrett and John Bush, people I listened to well before I started this podcast. I also got to meet some Bitcoin heroes of mine, as well as listeners to this show. To kick off my content from the conference, I bring you this informative but somewhat scary talk about Cryptocurrency Regulation, delivered by the very kno... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #13 - Rivetz and Trusted Computing with Steven Sprague
March 26th, 2015 by Rob Welcome to episode 13 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. For today’s episode I spoke with Steven Sprague, an expert in an under-utilized technology called the Trusted Execution Environment that exists in many of our devices. Steven leveraged his extensive knowledge in this field to launch Rivetz, a company dedicated to bringing personal security to Bitcoin transactions, and more. The capabilities of this technology give me hope that there will soon be a migration past the current brok... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #12 - Hacking and Security with Jaime Cochran
March 15th, 2015 by Rob Welcome to episode 12 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. My interview today is with Jaime Cochran, who's been very involved the hacking community, having been a hacker since her youth. Currently, Jaime works at Bitcoin company Gem as a security engineer. We talk about her background, and get her take on personal information security.  ##Magic Word ... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #11 - Paul Puey - How Bitcoin Will Revolutionize Mobile Payments
March 1st, 2015 by Rob Welcome to episode 11 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. It's great to live in a big city such as Los Angeles because of the opportunity to network with people doing amazing things in the Bitcoin space. While Paul Puey founded Airbitz from San Diego, he still has managed to attend enough Los Angeles Bitcoin meetups that he seems like a local. In January of this year, Airbitz was selected by Plug and Play to take part in their Startup Camp Accelerator in Silicon Valley. Paul still had no... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #10 - Talking Taxes with Jake Benson
February 15th, 2015 by Rob Welcome to episode 10 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. I wanted to really have fun and celebrate this 10th episode. I never knew if I'd be able to get ten episodes out, so this is quite an achievement for me. With that in mind, I decided to focus on something the entire cryptocurrency community loves to talk about… Taxes! While cryptocurrency taxes may not be a favorite topic, I actually had a lot more fun than I expected, speaking to Jake Benson, CEO and founder of LibraTax. Thi... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #9 - Gray Bright, Hardware Interfaces
February 2nd, 2015 by Rob Welcome to *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. In December of 2014, I went to visit Gray Bright, an Australian currently living in Los Angeles. He's been a maker all his life, and he graduated with an advanced degree in Robotic and Mechatronic Engineering. Gray has notable experience in product development, but what he enjoys making most are hardware / software creations that simply make him smile. Gray is also involved at mixing entertainment and comedy with tech and science. He shares two... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #8 - Danno Ferrin, Bitstamp & Visualization
January 18th, 2015 by Rob Welcome to *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. Danno Ferrin's current day job is working on Java for the Oracle Corporation. But for fun, Danno uses his programming skills to create visualization software for the BItcoin blockchain. In the wake of the large Bitstamp theft, Danno has been able to analyze some of the Bitcoin movements, using his software. Danno might be one of the most knowledgeable people about the loss, other than insiders like Bitstamp employees and the actual hacker (I ha... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game Presents - Musings Of A Shibe Podcast
December 31st, 2014 by Rob ####The Bitcoin Game presents a guest podcast # Musings Of A Shibe Podcast: # A Dogecoin P2P Sharing Economy Show ## The Promise of Blockchain Technology #### With your host Hiroja Shibe My name is Hiroja Shibe, I would like to thank Rob Mitchell for giving me this opportunity to speak to the listeners of *The Bitcoin Game* and the members of the Let's Talk Bitcoin community. As you can tell from my name, I am a member of the Altcoin/Dogecoin ... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #7 - Bitcoin Hero Jochen, aka Johoe
December 20th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to episode #7 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. The white hat hacker known as Johoe ("Yo-ho") rescued over 870 Bitcoins recently from addresses compromised by a temporary bug in Blockchain.info's web wallet. Today I'm honored to introduce Jochen ("Yo-hen"), who works as a computer science researcher at a university in Germany, and is known on BitcoinTalk.org as Johoe. Bitcoin is a hobby Jochen took up in early 2013, as he first discovered the repeated R value issue, due to a 2... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #6 - Adam B. Levine
December 8th, 2014 by Rob Hello, welcome to *The Bitcoin Game* #6. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. I spoke to Adam B. Levine a few weeks ago. We talked about his original Bitcoin podcast, *The Daily Bitcoin*, and why it morphed into *Let's Talk Bitcoin*, with Andreas Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy. In this interview, I found out how insanely early Adam wakes up each day, his takes on crypto crowd-funding platforms, as well as some of his grave concerns about potential U.S. governmental actions against crypto-projects ... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #5 - L.A. Bitcoin Meetup with Brock Pierce & Micah Winkelspecht
November 23rd, 2014 by Rob Welcome to episode five of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I present an uncut "fireside chat" between Bitcoin Foundation board member and longtime digital currency entrepreneur Brock Pierce, and Gem CEO/founder Micah Winkelspecht. Their conversation is followed by an audience Q&A (apologies for the sound quality of the audience questions). This was a Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup event held at the beautiful new Gem headquarters in Venice Beach, California, on Novem... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #4 - David A. Johnston
November 14th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to episode number four of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to serial entrepreneur and angel investor David Johnston. We discuss the distributed app projects he's involved in, his impressive business background, how he went all in on Bitcoin several years ago, and much more. David is a real champion of decentralization open source projects. Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim your share of the we... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #3 - Joseph VaughnPerling
November 7th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to episode number three of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to Joseph VaughnPerling at his alpaca ranch. We discuss Monero, the Crypto Kingdom game, Bitcoin's maximum block size proposal, the Bitcoin Specie Project, Sidechains, and a few tangents. Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim your share of the weekly distribution of LTBcoin. The magic word must be submitted within four days of this epis... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #2 - Factom
October 27th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to episode number two of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to Peter Kirby about Factom, a distributed application that functions as a scalable permanent system of record. We also talk about the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and finally, discuss the price and value of Bitcoin. Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim your share of the weekly distribution of LTBcoin. The magic word must be submitted within fo... Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #1 - Southern California Job Fair
October 15th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to the first episode of The Bitcoin Game. I was fortunate that Dan Roseman of the Bitcoin job board Coinality.com, decided to bring his Bitcoin Job Fair to Southern California on October 4th, 2014. The event was held at the Plug And Play Tech Center in Santa Monica. In this podcast you'll hear interviews with principal members of four Bitcoin businesses that were hiring at the job fair (there were many more than just these four!). I started with a quick chat with ExpressCoin CEO Will ... Read More
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