From the Front Page - What Bitcoin Did
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD325: Bitcoin Tech #3 - Wallets with Shinobi
August 3rd, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 23rd March Company: Block Digest Role: Host With Bitcoin, if you don't control your private keys, you don't own your bitcoin. That means the first thing you should do once you have bought bitcoin is to move it to a wallet you control. Bitcoin wallets come in all shapes and sizes and offer different use cases depending on the amount of bitcoin you have and how you intend to use it: For smaller amounts of bitcoin, mobile and desktop wallets ar... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD324: Bitcoin Philosophy with Gigi
July 26th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Friday 12th March Company: dergigi.com Role: Writer Bitcoin is an implicit rejection of the existing system. From the early cypherpunks to the recent multi-billion dollar CEOs, the people that take the plunge down the rabbit hole possess an ability to think outside-the-box. They come with an open mind and often discover that Bitcoin has changed them. The permissionless nature of Bitcoin means that anyone who is running a node and interacting with the n... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD322: Bitcoin in Space with Dhruv Bansal
July 13th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 16th March Company: Unchained Capital Role: Co-founder With SpaceX CEO Elon Musk “highly confident” that his company will land humans on Mars by 2026, the human colonization of another planet within our solar system has never been closer. Once humans settle on another world, one question that will have to be solved is what money will be used as the local currency? The obvious answer may, on the surface, be bitcoin. But how would that work? ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD321: Bitcoin as Investment Portfolio Insurance with Greg Foss
July 7th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 9th March Company: Validus Power Corp Role: Bitcoin Strategist Since early February, 10-year Treasury yields have risen from 1.13% to as high as 1.625%. This rise, which equates to 48 basis points, is the highest in a year and has sparked some bond investors to raise inflation concerns. While the Consumer Price Index (a metric for judging the level of inflation) is currently around 2%, analysts suggest the actual inflation rate could be as hig... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD320: The Sovereign Individual Pt 1 - Bitcoin: The Ultimate Offshore Bank with Robert Breedlove
July 6th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Sunday 7th March Company: Independent Role: Bitcoin Writer The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age is a prophetic book released in 1997 by William Rees Mogg and James Dale Davidson. The book was written before the widespread adoption of the internet, social media, and Bitcoin, yet predicted a future that is remarkably close to the one we live in today, opening with the quote, “The future is disorder.” In the book, ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD319: Bitcoin, Gold and Tax with Dominic Frisby
June 30th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 4th March Company: dominicfrisby.com Role: Author, Comedian & Voice Actor COVID-19’s impact on the global economy has been immense. Efforts to counter these effects have been varied, from unprecedented levels of money printing to increased taxation and other fiscal policies. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently announced that, in 2023, there will be an increase in corporation tax in the UK, claiming this would put the burde... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD318: Bitcoin Tech #2 - Nodes (Part 2) with Shinobi
June 29th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Saturday 6th March Company: Block Digest Role: Host The core fundamental aspect of Bitcoin is its censorship-resistant nature; this is only possible because the network is meaningfully decentralised. Bitcoiners achieve decentralisation across the world, running nodes. These nodes maintain the network rules, known as consensus, and ensure all transactions and blocks are valid by keeping a copy of the entire history of the blockchain. Following my... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD317: What Traditional Investors Think of Bitcoin with Raoul Pal
June 25th, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Thursday 4th February Company: Real Vision Role: Co-Founder & CEO Unlike almost every other market, in bitcoin, retail had the chance to front-run Wall Street. Since before bitcoin even had a price, the libertarians and cryptographers believed in bitcoin's ability to become the world's most dominant financial system. Bitcoin has been through many boom and bust cycles that were almost entirely retail-driven, yet the institutions have dominated the 2017 narrat... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD316: The Nation State Case for Bitcoin with Balaji Srinivasan
June 21st, 2021 by BTCMedia Location: Remotely Date: Friday 19th February Company: balajis.com Role: Angel Investor & Entrepreneur The corporate adoption of bitcoin has widely defined the last 12 months for bitcoin. Following Michael Saylor’s watershed move, companies such as Tesla and Square have been adding bitcoin to their treasuries. Many see the next logical step as nation-states adding bitcoin to their reserves. While some countries like Estonia and Malta have been very open to bitcoin, a large n... Read More -
WBD315 Bitcoin Tech #2 - Nodes (Part 1) with Shinobi
June 18th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Shinobi, the host of Block Digest. We discuss what a node is, why running a node is crucial for the network, which hardware & software to use, and the impact on privacy. Read More -
WBD314 - Sovereign Bonds & Bitcoin with Lyn Alden
May 7th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Lyn Alden, a macroeconomist and investment strategist. We discuss Tesla buying bitcoin, MicroStrategy's billion-dollar raise, hitting a $1 trillion market cap and the sovereign bond market. Read More -
WBD313 Bitcoin Bull Market Strategy - Feb ‘21 Trading Update with Willy Woo
May 5th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this interview, we discuss the Tesla & MicroStrategy news, the recent drop in price and what retail entering the market will mean for bitcoin. Read More -
WBD312 - $50k Bitcoin, What’s Next? With Bill Barhydt
May 3rd, 2021 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Bill Barhydt, the CEO and Founder of Abra. We discuss what $50k bitcoin means, increasing corporate adoption and which nation-state will be the first to embrace Bitcoin. Read More -
WBD311 - Bitcoin & The Sovereign Company with Christian Keroles & Robert Breedlove
April 19th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Christian Keroles, the Media Editor of Bitcoin Magazine and Robert Breedlove. We discuss the idea of sovereign companies, jurisdictional arbitrage and moving away from a state-controlled world. Read More -
WBD310 - Bitcoin’s Wild Start to 2021 with Cory Klippsten
April 16th, 2021 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Cory Klippsten, the founder of SwanBitcoin. We discuss how shitcoiners are invading Clubhouse, r/wallstreetbets, corporations buying Bitcoin, and which nation-states will first disclose a Bitcoin position first. Read More
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