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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 -
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
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