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Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #6 - Digital Contracts [Giacomo Zucco]
August 26th, 2020 by
BTCMedia "In Part 6 of this “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the idea of using digital puzzles as a way to reproduce scarcity, and on the importance of a supply-control mechanism to grant some hardness to digital money, to explore concepts of proving ownership through signatures and scripts, and the technique known as CoinJoin." - Giacomo Zucco Read More -
Delphi Digital Podcast - Anton Bukov: From a $1B Volume DEX To Launching An Automated Market Maker
August 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Anton Bukov, the co-founder of 1InchExchange. This is the go-to episode on 1inch as a DEX aggregator, scaling to handle over $1B in volume in a short period of time and the launch and benefits of Mooniswap - a next generation AMM protocol. Read More -
The Tatiana Show - The Future of the Internet with Colin Cantrell
August 25th, 2020 by
TatianaMoroz Founder and architect of Nexus, Colin Cantrell joined Tatiana and Josh to talk about the future of the internet. Hint: it’s decentralized, open source and easy to use. Colin retells how the internet was designed to be decentralized, but became more of a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario. He goes into explaining the technical background of his company Nexus, comparing it to the “old internet” we have today. According to Colin, the internet and Bitcoin can both be consi... Read More -
Block Crunch - Nexus Mutual: The Missing Pillar in DeFi - Hugh Karp, Ep. 113
August 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia Hugh Karp (@HughKarp), founder of Nexus Mutual, the largest project that provides insurance-like coverage for DeFi users, hops on Blockcrunch to answer your questions. Read More -
WBD248 The Bitcoin Cypherpunk Box with Matt Hill & Aaron Greenspan
August 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Matt and Aaron from Start9. We discuss the growing demand for a private internet, retaining control of personal data, encryption and why bitcoin is fundamental to all of this. Read More -
WBD247 - Has the Bitcoin Bull Woken? With Anthony Pompliano
August 24th, 2020 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Anthony Pompliano, founder and partner at Morgan Creek Capital and the host of the Pomp podcast. We discuss his recent interview with Roger Ver, the economic impact of the coronavirus & the Bitcoin bull market. Read More -
Delphi Digital Podcast - Metaverse Musings - Anonymous: Running a Large Venezuelan Virtual Labour Arbitrage Operation
August 24th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Piers Kicks sits down with DuckM the Co-Founder of FancyHire for Episode 03 of Metaverse Musings. His operation is one of the most fascinating early examples of how the internet can unlock extreme economic niches, and the types of behaviours we can expect to develop with the emergence of the Metaverse. In this episode, DuckM walks us through the exciting bitcoin-enabled multi-million dollar businesses that are forming around large video game economies. Join us to learn more about what it takes to build a robust international operation whose business model is the export of cheap virtual labour from struggling economies. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Croesus BTC: Bitcoin Will Change the World
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Bitcoin & Co. - Kai Kremser: Coinfinity – Pushing Bitcoin Adoption in Austria Since 2014
August 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia Today I am talking with Kai Kremser a fellow Austrian working for Coinfinity, Austria’s first Bitcoin broker founded in 2014. Kai, a former software developer, is the product manager for the Card Wallet, that is produced by Coinfinity and the Austrian State Printinghouse. Coinfinity and Card Wallet are my longest standing loyal sponsors. I am very thankful for their support, but this did not change the questions I was asking. We are talking about their products, but also touch more general questions for instance bitcoin adoption in Austria and changes in the perception and trading volumes of bitcoin in the last months. Read More -
Block Crunch - Serum: What it Means for DeFi - Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX), Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana)
August 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Ethereum DeFi may soon face some competition from Serum - a high speed decentralized exchange built on Solana! Sam Bankman-Fried (@SBF_Alameda) and Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko), founders of FTX exchange and Solana, join us in discussing their joint creation. We talk: Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]
August 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it's "hardness." By what means can we get it back? Can we make a scarce money in the digital world, that has no authority, no ruler? Can we restore the freedom of decentralized money? Find out about the brilliant use of difficult puzzles, to achieve digital hardness, in part #5 of Giacomo's excellent series, "Digital Scarcity." Read More -
WBD246 Modern Monetary Theory with Stephanie Kelton
August 19th, 2020 by BTCMedia MMT is the antithesis to the Austrian school of thought that aligns with Bitcoin’s monetary policy of fixed supply and deflationary issuance. In this interview, I talk to Stephanie Kelton, professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University. We discuss the benefits of modern monetary theory, why increased spending may not lead to inflation, national debt and money printing. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Discovering Bitcoin #4 - A Wrong Turn & A New Plan [Giacomo Zucco]
August 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, this is an awesome set of articles covering thousands of years of monetary history and evolution all the way to The Lightning Network. Today's part is "A Wrong Turn," breaking down the process of innovating money to solve the "scaleness" problem, that ended up putting at huge risk of control and corruption, the "hardness" and "darkness" of our money. Into the age of full virtualization, what could possibly solve this? Do we need a New Plan? Read More -
Delphi Digital Podcast - Kurt Watkins: A 360° Crypto Legal Update
August 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Kurt Watkins, the founder of Watkins Legal. The two have a broad legal conversation on token generation events, DAOs (open law, Aragon and others), DeFi, privacy, GDPR, CEXS vs DEXs and more. Read More -
WBD245 - Bitcoin: The Hardest Money with Richard James
August 17th, 2020 by BTCMedia Throughout history, gold has been the hardest form of money, until 2009, when Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin. With a fixed supply of 21 million and a controlled issuance, Bitcoin is the hardest money we have ever seen. In this interview, I talk to Richard James, the creator of Hard Money, a film looking at how money has been corrupted and co-opted. We discuss Austrian economics, the similarities between gold and Bitcoin, Hard Money and modern art. Read More -
Unhashed - Blockstream's Bitcoin Primer 4 (w/ Mario Gibney)
August 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia This week are airing Mario’s final episode of his Bitcoin Primer series originally published to YouTube by Blockstream. Read More -
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
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