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What Bitcoin Did - WBD325: Bitcoin Tech #3 - Wallets with Shinobi
August 3rd, 2021 byBTCMedia
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 -
Block Crunch - Finding Conviction in a Crypto Bear Market - Arthur Cheong, DeFiance Capital, Ep. 156
August 3rd, 2021 byBTCMedia
DeFiance Capital is one of the first hedge funds that champion "fundamentals investing" - focusing less on market structure and technical analysis, more on things such as protocol revenues and user growth when formulating their trades. Founder Arthur Cheong (Arthur0x) joins me in discussing: Finding conviction in bear markets Finding valuation frameworks that matter in crypto How Arthur identifies successful projects Why DeFi is Arthur's primary focus Host: Jason Choi (@MrJ... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Why Bitcoin is Intelligent w/ Aleks Svetski
August 3rd, 2021 byBTCMedia
Aleks Svetski discussed his “Intelligent Guide To Bitcoin” and the misunderstandings about BTC that are often perpetuated. Many in the traditional financial space, government and academia have long dismissed Bitcoin as a silly toy for criminals and predicted that its price will go to zero. These predictions remain commonplace in the mainstream media to this day, despite the network’s astounding growth and the currency blasting past $30,000 prices and making inroads across the global... Read More -
Meet the Taco Plebs - The Importance of Orange Pills w/ Pleb.Hodl of Bull Bitcoin
August 2nd, 2021 byBTCMedia
Pleb.Hodl, Bull Bitcoin’s new head of marketing, discussed his rabbit hold journey and the importance of welcoming precoiners. In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s "Meet The Taco Plebs," I sat down with Bull Bitcoin’s newest head of marketing, Pleb.Hodl (@btcplebeian on Twitter) to discuss his unique Bitcoin rabbit hole story, his new position at Bull Bitcoin, the effect Bitcoin has on one’s mindset and much more. Pleb.Hodl went into detail about his experience being “fiat p... Read More -
The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Hardware Wallets and Blockstream’s Jade wallet - NADO 43
July 30th, 2021 byBTCMedia
In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron van Wirdum hosts one more interview without his regular cohost Sjors Provoost. Instead, he is joined by Blockstream’s Lawrence Nahum, one of the developers behind the Jade wallet, and Ben Kaufman, one of the developers of the Spectre wallet, which is specifically designed to work with hardware wallets. Aaron, Lawrence and Ben talk about what hardware wallets are, and discuss the design tradeoffs that different hardware wallets have take... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - The Infrastructure Bill is Bad for Bitcoin in America w/ Rep. Warren Davidson
July 30th, 2021 byBTCMedia
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 48 hours, you’ve likely heard about the last-minute addition of a cryptocurrency tax to the U.S. Senate’s forthcoming infrastructure bill. In this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host David Zell sat down with one of D.C.’s strongest Bitcoin supporters, Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH), to talk about the specific language and potential impact of this cryptocurrency tax legislation. As it stands now, the bil... Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - FIFA Grinding, The Silly PoW
July 28th, 2021 byBTCMedia
On this week's episode of the Unhashed Podcast we talk about the latest in NFT weirdness with celebrity "Stoner Cats", how video game grinding is the original PoW, Blockfi's regulatory setback, ThorChains incompetency, the new EU proposal on crypto regulations, and more! 1. In a hard hitting piece from Coindesk, a new animated web series, “Stoner Cats,” launches Monday, featuring Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Jane Fonda, and others. To watch the first f... Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Read_546 - Could Bitcoin Be Palestine's Currency of Freedom? [Alex Gladstein]
July 28th, 2021 byBTCMedia
“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” - Alex Gladstein Another brilliant addition to the Gladstein series from Bitcoin Magazine. Gladstein has been investigating Bitcoin's benefits for people all over the globe, those in the first world, the third, connected to the modern banking system, the entirely unbanked, those stuck under oppressive regimes, monetary colonialization, & behind walls of political tyr... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD324: Bitcoin Philosophy with Gigi
July 26th, 2021 byBTCMedia
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 -
Block Crunch - Perpetual: Building the Fastest Growing DeFi Derivatives Exchange - Nicholas Tong & Yenwen Feng, Ep. 155
July 26th, 2021 byBTCMedia
Perpetual Protocol, a decentralized derivatives exchange, is processing $100M in volume daily and one of the fastest growing DeFi projects. We invite their team on Blockcrunch to discuss Innovations in onchain derivatives design Creating sustainable incentives for adoption "Curie": the newest update in Perpetual Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed. ------------- Sponsors ------------... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Fighting for Freedom w/ Zuby
July 26th, 2021 byBTCMedia
During the 2020 lockdowns countries across the globe cracked down on their populations, forcing them inside their homes and closing down businesses from operating normally. Different countries and political structures reacted to these lockdowns in different ways. Most countries found themselves spiraling into more and more totalitarian rule and lockdowns. States have expanded their grasp and where not letting it go despite any real or false threats. In this interview with Thinker, Musici... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Investing with a Bitcoin Mindset w/ Louis Liu
July 22nd, 2021 byBTCMedia
For most investors, Bitcoin is still just a hedge. Bitcoin is a small allocation with tremendous upside. The majority of retail and institutional investors alike have yet to fully accept what Hyperbitcoinization is going to do to the world of finance. On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast Christian Keroles sits down with the CEO and Founder of Mimesis Capital, an institutional investor investing with a Bitcoin mindset. Louis, and young, energized, and brilliant investor cuts th... Read More -
Unhashed Podcast - Anyprevout Junkies Only
July 22nd, 2021 byBTCMedia
On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast we're airing an episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast where Ruben is interviewed. The main topic is "anyprevout", a soft fork for Bitcoin that helps the Lightning Network, as well as some of Somsen's L2 proposals such as statechains and spacechains. If you like the more technical episodes, be sure to check it out, and we'll be back next week with a regular show. Read More -
Bitcoin Audible - Read_544 - Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value [Bradley Rettler]
July 22nd, 2021 byBTCMedia
"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock in a company that produces a good or service. In virtue of the company producing a good or service and receiving money for the good or service, stock in that company is said to have intrinsic value. Methods of calculation of the intrinsic value of a stock usually involve calculating the value of the assets the company has and/or the expected future earnings. Bitcoin is not a company and produces no goods or services — so it lacks int... Read More -
Proof of Love - Living in the Age of Aquarius with Matt Welsh
July 21st, 2021 byTatianaMoroz
Musician and yogi Matt Welsh, AKA "BLUVNBU" joins Tatiana to chat about his music, spirituality, his connection with an amazing new blockchain project, and why he believes there's no better time to be alive than the new Age of Aquarius!
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Block Crunch - Goldfinch: the Endgame in DeFi? - Mike Sall, Ep. 154
July 20th, 2021 byBTCMedia
Mike Sall (@sall) is the co-founder of Goldfinch, a decentralized credit protocol lending to emerging markets and one of my favorite projects in the space. Mike and I discuss: Finding conviction as a founder How Goldfinch tackles distribution uniquely where others have failed Challenges of scaling a decentralized credit fund How Goldfinch got to its current traction Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Why Altcoins are Not a Threat to Bitcoin w/ Udi Wertheimer
July 20th, 2021 byBTCMedia
On today’s Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Christian Keroles sits down with the infamous Bitcoin Twitter personality and troll Udi Wertheimer to discuss why hard core Bitcoin faithful should not be so worried about Alternative Cryptocurrencies. Generally speaking Bitcoiners are very adversarial towards Altcoins and altcoiners. It is not unheard of to see Bitcoiner’s loudly decrying Altcoins as all scams and altcoin investors as foolish. Both Udi and Christian don't believe that Altcoins ar... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Bitcoin Beach and the El Salvador Bitcoin Law w/ Aaron van Wirdum, Jorge Valenzuela & Chimbera
July 15th, 2021 byBTCMedia
In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Aaron van Wirdum speaks with Jorge Valenzuela and Roman Martinez AKA Chimbera, two community leaders from the Bitcoin Beach project in El Zonte, El Salvador. Jorge and Roman tell the history of the Hope House, the heart of the Bitcoin Beach project, which aims to offer local youth a sense of community and perspective. They explain how their efforts have in recent years come to integrate Bitcoin, and what that process looked like. Jorge a... Read More -
The Delphi Podcast - Upshot: The Protocol That Pays People To Be Honest — Metaverse Musings Ep 27
July 14th, 2021 byBTCMedia
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 27 of Metaverse Musings with Nick Emmons, the founder and CEO of Upshot who are building a protocol that leverages peer prediction to incentivise people to answer subjective questions honestly. Upshot’s early application is around NFT appraisals, generating price feeds for esoteric, low velocity assets. The protocol is an incredibly powerful primitive, and has some compelling longer-term use cases. Nick is a true gigabrain and it’s a privilege t... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did - WBD322: Bitcoin in Space with Dhruv Bansal
July 13th, 2021 byBTCMedia
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
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