From the Front Page - What Bitcoin Did
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WBD236 - Bitcoin UX & Marketing with Dan Held
July 14th, 2020 by
BTCMedia The very early believers in Bitcoin tended to fall into two camps, the Libertarians who were drawn to the censorship resistance & self-sovereignty of Bitcoin and the tech-savvy developers who saw a new experimental technology that was the first to truly offer a distributed & decentralised digital money. Read More -
WBD235 - The Myth of Deflation with Jeff Booth
July 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia In an inflationary Keynesian economic system, governments target low inflation to ensure a healthy economy and steady growth; however, inflation functions as a hidden tax on savings. Inflation also leads to a drop in purchasing power which drives the incentive to spend and invest rather than save. Read More -
WBD234 - Is Apple Abusing its Monopoly Power? With David Heinemeier Hansson
July 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia New concerns have been raised around Apple's business model after the company rejected future updates for Basecamp's newly launched email app Hey. Apple initially approved the app, but then put it on hold — meaning Basecamp couldn't submit any updates or bug fixes until it added an option for users to subscribe to Hey's service through an in-app purchase. Read More -
WBD233 - Next Level Bitcoin Privacy with Alex Gladstein & Chris Belcher
July 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia Privacy is a fundamental human right, and with society migrating away from physical to digital cash, we are losing one of the remaining ways to transact privately. Bitcoin is an entirely public ledger, in that every transaction is broadcast to everyone running the Bitcoin software. Anyone can view these transactions, but there are ways to obfuscate your spends and make it more difficult, or even close to impossible to follow the trail of transactions. Read More -
WBD232 - Bitcoin's Time is Now with Preston Pysh
June 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia With the current global economic outlook and rise in social unrest, we are living in unprecedented times. The coronavirus pandemic, subsequent lockdowns and preventative measures put in place by governments around the world has led to many businesses closing or relying on bailouts, and jobless figures are amongst the highest since records began. Read More -
Microsoft’s Bitcoin-Based Identity Tool with Daniel Buchner - WBD231
June 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia Social media is omnipresent with most all of us have a Twitter, Facebook or Google account, using them every day for both personal and business. We build connections, relationships and trust through them. However, these companies implement strict controls over the content on their platforms with shadowbanning and deplatforming growing. Read More -
Bitcoin Journalism with Leigh Cuen - WBD230
June 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia The role of a journalist is to question, educate and inform. A truly free press is a fundamental pillar of a free society, and unbiased and objective reporting is crucial in getting a broad understanding of any industry. Read More -
Spending Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir - WBD228
June 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Many Bitcoiners consider Bitcoin as gold 2.0, threatening the corrupt practices of central banking. As such, small blocks, the fee market and hodling are essential components of defeating fiat. With such staunch views from within the community, even just opening up these topics for debate can see a backlash from Bitcoiners. Read More -
Debunking Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Thesis with Bill Barhydt - WBD227
June 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia This week, Goldman Sachs held an investment advisory call for its clients during which it slammed Bitcoin as an investment and refused to accept it as an asset class. Read More -
WBD226 - Bitcoin Trading 101 with Flood
June 12th, 2020 by BTCMedia Despite being the best performing asset over the past decade, Bitcoin is an incredibly volatile asset and risky to trade. Outperforming the market is hard, and very few people manage to beat the strategy of buying and holding. Read More -
WBD225 - Bitcoin is the Answer with Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
June 9th, 2020 by BTCMedia The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, introduced Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to the world. The film told the story of how Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea to create Facebook, and would later settle for $65 million. Read More -
Liquid Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow - WBD224
June 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin: decentralised, permissionless, censorship-resistant and unconfiscatable. Unique properties which make it a unique form of money Read More -
Bitcoin in One Lesson - WBD223
June 2nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin can be intimidating for beginners. The protocol is complicated, the community can be unforgiving, silly mistakes can lose you money, and it is easy to succumb to altcoin marketing. Read More -
Is Bitcoin Trading a Dirty Business? With Willy Woo - WBD222
May 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia On May 11th, at block 630000 Bitcoin had its 3rd halving, cutting the block reward issued to the miners from 12.5BTC to 6.25BTC. This reduction in the subsidy is seen by many as a bullish event for Bitcoin. With the block reward cut in half, the amount of Bitcoin available for the miners to sell in the market drops from 1800 BTC/day to 900 BTC/day, reducing the sell pressure from newly minted coins. Read More -
Libertarianism & Politics with Adam Brown & Sean Finch - WBD221
May 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia Long before Bitcoin dropped on the world, libertarians have criticised government-issued fiat money, arguing that it goes against their core beliefs of political freedom and autonomy, viewing gold as a superior currency. Many libertarians were early to Bitcoin, understanding its sound monetary policy. Read More -
Bitcoin is Reshaping the World with Robert Breedlove - WBD220
May 23rd, 2020 by BTCMedia The properties for measuring the soundness of money include divisibility, durability, portability, recognizability and scarcity. Current government-issued and controlled fiat money fit some of these characteristics but, with the central bank’s ability to print money at will, the current system completely fails as a scarce resource. Read More -
Could Bitcoin Really be Heading to $288k? With Plan₿ - WBD219
May 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia Plan₿'s Stock-to-Flow model was warmly received by many in Bitcoin. The chart gave context to price action around halvings, validating the importance of scarcity. The S2F model does have critics, and with the third halving approaching, some had questioned whether the reducing subsidy drive price. Read More -
Bitcoin Purity with Rodolfo Novak - WBD218
May 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin attracts a broad range of enthusiasts with different backgrounds, experience and political beliefs. The spectrum is broad, from those who treat it purely as a speculative asset, happy to buy and hold, to those who head deep down the anti-state and hard money rabbit hole. Read More -
Bitcoin World #8: Bitcoin in Zimbabwe with Anita Posch - WBD217
May 12th, 2020 by BTCMedia Earlier this year, I travelled to Venezuela to find out the reality of Bitcoin adoption in the country and what I found didn’t exactly fit the widely accepted narrative. The truth is that while Bitcoin may have some use cases for the middle and upper classes, the poorest in Venezuela are surviving on a few dollars a month, and Bitcoin is not a useful currency for them. Read More -
The Role of Stablecoins with Jeremy Allaire - WBD216
May 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia By complementing Bitcoin trading, and making it easy to send digital dollars around the world, stablecoins continue to grow in popularity. Commercial banks operate on a fractional basis, holding only a small % of deposits. During challenging economic times, this can lead to what is known as a run on the bank, where depositors attempt to withdraw their funds. Read More
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