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WBD244 - Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Bitcoin
August 14th, 2020 by
BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder of Coinbase. We discuss the difficulties in running a large startup, regulations, the Neutrino acquisition & providing analytics to government agencies with Coinbase Analytics. Read More -
Block Crunch - From Apple to DeFi: Design Thinking in Crypto - Ian Lee, IDEO CoLab, Ep. 111
August 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia IDEO is a design studio known for designing the Apple mouse and championing design thinking in Silicon Valley in the 90s. Today, IDEO CoLab invests and helps DeFi projects find product market fit. Managing Director Ian Lee (@ianjohnlee) joins me in discussing: - Finding product-market fit for Layer 1s and DeFi - How design thinking benefits founders in crypto - How IDEO works with DeFi startups Read More -
Bitcoin & Co - Anita Posch: Interviewed by Japanese Crypto-Exchange BTCBOX
August 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia Lina Kather from the crypto-exchange BTCBOX Japan in Tokyo invited Anita Posch to do an interview about her Bitcoin experiences in Africa, the reasons why she is doing the work she does, her takes on Altcoins, privacy, the importance of the Lightning Network and why she believes that Bitcoin will stay the world's dominant cryptocurrency in the future. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #3 Introducing Money (Giacomo Zucco)
August 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia "The goods that fare better in hardness, scaleness and darkness will compete, and the first one to reach a critical mass will start swallowing the others, as far as monetary uses are concerned." - Giacomo Zucco Continuing with the excellent series from Giacomo and Bitcoin Magazine, "Discovering Bitcoin: From Cavemen to the Lightning Network," we dive into Part 3 - Introducing Money. Building of the base concepts of savings in order to acquire time, of durability in a good to store that time, to investment in order to create greater productivity, and then to exchange and specialization, we finally introduce the ultimate good enabling cooperation on a massive scale, Money. Read More -
WBD243 - Bitcoin is Punk Rock with Keith Levene
August 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia Bitcoin is the most significant disruption to money the world has seen in hundreds of years. It takes power away from centralised parties, and it allows any individual to be entirely self-sovereign and operate in an open system uncontrollable and uncensorable by anyone. Bitcoin is punk rock! Read More -
Chain Reaction - Erik Voorhees: Goodbye Tribes, It's Digital Assets Vs The World
August 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Erik Voorhees, a bitcoin OG and the CEO of Shapeshift. The two discuss Shapeshift's exchange, how its not Bitcoin vs Ethereum but Digital Assets vs the world, and what a crypto future looks like in terms of rebuilding the world in the face of a coming potential major currency debasements. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #441 Paypal, Banks and Real Life Infrastructure Inversion
August 9th, 2020 by
adam Join Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan for another wide-ranging discussion on the messy reality in which bitcoin and blockchains intersect real life. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Shitty Hardware Wallets (w/@NVK)
August 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast: The Brazilian Waxer himself @NVK joins us to talk shitty hardware wallets, FUD vs responsible disclosure, copy-catting in the crypto space, fighting intellectual property battles, Ledger’s derivation path bug and email leak, the business of hardware wallets, the dangers of USB, and much more. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Obi Nwosu: The Power of Bitcoin
August 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Obi Nwosu is co-founder and CEO of Coinfloor - a UK based Bitcoin exchange. Coinfloor was founded in early 2013, so Obi has been on the scene for a long time. In this episode we talk about Obi’s background, the founding and growth of Coinfloor, get some Bitcoin history stories and dive into a bit of tech at the end - Obi has an engineering background. Obi is one of the good ones, it was a real treat to get to spend some time with him - I think you’ll agree. Read More -
Delphi Digital Podcast: U.S. Dominance in the “New Normal”
August 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this episode, Kevin Kelly sits down with Sri Thiruvadanthai, the director of research for The Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, an independent economic research and consulting firm. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #2 - About People [Giacomo Zucco]
August 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Continuing the series from Giacomo and Bitcoin Magazine on Discovering Bitcoin: From Cavemen to the Lightning Network. An excellent series with Part 2 working into the concept of specialization and finding those goods that can securely hold value and enable exchange at a new level. If you are new to Bitcoin, this series is a great place to start! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Lyn Alden: Bullish on Bitcoin – a Strategic Value Investors View
August 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Lyn Alden wrote a longform article about the 3 reasons why she is investing in Bitcoin. Lyn Alden is an investment strategist with a background in engineering and finance. She focusses on value investing with a global macro overlay. When I first heard Lyn Alden speaking I immediately knew, that I wanted to have her on my show, because her insights are smart, concise and I learned a lot about the global and US specific economical situation. I think it is one of the best interviews so far on my show. I hope you can take as much away from it, as I did. Read More -
WBD242 - Bitcoin vs Gold with Peter Schiff
August 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia The reasons to hold either gold or Bitcoin are similar, yet the two assets possess different tradeoffs and risks. Bitcoiners often refer to Bitcoin as digital gold or gold 2.0, as they consider it a store of wealth like gold. Whether you prefer one asset or are a proponent of both, these assets help protect individuals against the broken fiat monetary system, inflation and a debt-based economy. Read More -
Block Crunch - The Secret to Synthetix's Success - Kain Warwick
August 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia Synthetix came out of nowhere in 2019 and became one of the largest DeFi projects today. Founder Kain Warwick (@kaiynne @synthetix_io) joins us in discussing some of your burning questions: Read More -
Delphi Digital Podcast - CZ: Binance’s Early Days To Handling Trillions in Volume
August 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia The early days of Binance, and how CZ overcame specific barriers and struggles. What scares CZ most about the space and his biggest mistakes that he had to overcome. Competing against centralized exchanges and decentralized versions (AMMs, DEXs, etc). Managing a decentralized team of 1,500 (up from 500) and plans to decentralize even further over time. Scaling Binance to be able to handle trillions in annual trade volume with goals of handling $100T in annual volumes. Much more! Read More -
WBD241 - Bitcoin’s Peaceful Revolution with Knut Svanholm
August 3rd, 2020 by BTCMedia At face value, libertarianism sounds perfect; more freedom, less intervention and limited or no state. However, I have struggled to understand how this would play out and if the idea of an anarchist society being civil and moral is just an ideological fallacy rather than a practical reality. Read More -
Proof of Love Ep. 68 - The Truth About Sex Trafficking with Elizabeth Nolan Brown
July 31st, 2020 by
TatianaMoroz Reason senior editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown has done extensive research and coverage on the topic of sex work and joins us in this episode to talk about it from a liberty-minded perspective. She also takes the time to define sex work vs. sex trafficking and explains how authoritarians use the latter term to punish and harm people who engage in sex work without coercion. She also details how inaccurate studies have led to paranoia about child sex trafficking. There’... Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Guy Swann: Two Bitcoiners Talking Bitcoin
July 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Pretty much all of you will know Guy, he’s the creator and host of Bitcoin Audible, one of the most valuable educational resources in Bitcoin. He’s also a buddy of mine and it’s always fun to chill and chat with him for a couple hours. We go all over the place in this one - we talk open source software, privacy, our post-truth society, go pretty deep on Taproot and why it’s such an important soft-fork upgrade, the emerging bitcoin-only industry and at the end we get bullish on price and the official beginning of the next bull run. Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - The End of the Dollar Hegemony?
July 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Golden Sachs predicts a dollar dump, Ledger let’s customer data slip, and big tech is coming for you! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Andy Edstrom: Why Buy Bitcoin? Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow
July 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia My guest today is Andy Edstrom from Los Angeles. Andy spent 17 years in the investment world on Wall Street, working for Goldman Sachs and is now a wealth manager at his familiy's firm West Cap Group. In the course of his consulting work, more and more people asked him about Bitcoin, that's why he wrote a book about it called "Why Buy Bitcoin - Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow". Andy Edstrom recently took on the role of "Head of Institutional at Swan Bitcoin" and as always this interview is no financial advice, please do your own research. Read More
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