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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #431 Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #432 How MKRs Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization
March 29th, 2020 by adam How do DeFi stablecoins actually work and what happened during the sudden, precipitous drop in crypto prices earlier this month? On today's show Andreas M. Antonopoulos leads us through a very interesting system and how it survived 'Black Thursday'.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #431 Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope
March 22nd, 2020 by adam From Boeing to Bitcoin in this week's discussion we're talking about our disrupted reality, the politically expedient path forward, why it almost certainly won't work, the alternatives to it, what this means for bitcoin and what you can do to help.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #430 ‘Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized’ 6 Years Later
March 15th, 2020 by adam After one of the most challenging weeks in recent memory we're talking about a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and revisiting Johnston's Law (anything that can be decentralized will be decentralized) with the man who coined the phrase so many years ago.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #429 Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)
March 1st, 2020 by adam Read MoreEarlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized world of bitcoin. Later, we hear from correspondent George Ettinger about the indications of a "Dumb Currency Singularity" taking place at the IRS right now.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #428 Decentralization Philosophy – Does Crypto Still Need Catalysts?
February 23rd, 2020 by adam Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss catalysts and CEOS in the world of blockchain projects, the organizational and organic structures of decentralization and to wonder whether crypto even needs Satoshi-like figures now that the fire of blockchain burns bright.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #427 Mainstream Moments and the CompuServe of Crypto
February 16th, 2020 by adam On Today's Show...
With the price of bitcoin headed up again, the idea of blockchains and digital currencies has never been more palatable to the mainstream. We've seen this cycle before, but could this time be different?
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #426 - Bitcoin Taxes and Real World Scams!
February 9th, 2020 by adam On Today's Show...
Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss the US tax treatment of "Virtual Currencies" and how scams find a home wherever opportunity exists, at least for a while.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #425 Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project
February 2nd, 2020 by adam On Today's Show...
Years of jokes about “FaceCoin” and “ZuckBucks” have finally come to life – sort of.
In a previous episode, LTB! host Andreas M. Antonopoulos talked about how some venture capitalists are monkeying around by downplaying the killer applications of open blockchains in favor of… bananas. Now he makes us wonder whether Libra will even survive to become a production network. Is Silicon Valley coming for banking? Will Libra’s challenges have any impact on open public blockchains? This talk took place on June 19th 2019 at the Scottish Blockchain Meetup in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #424 What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users?
January 26th, 2020 by adam On Today's Episode...
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show (Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murphy) gathered to discuss Lightning Network technology and two innovative approaches at the wallet level which simplify the new-user experience at a tangible, but seemingly minimal cost.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #423 Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors
January 19th, 2020 by adam In today's episode, we apply concepts and stories from "The Spider and the Starfish: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations", a formational book on pre-blockchain decentralization written in the early 2000s, as the centralized US military struggled to effectively dispatch a much smaller decentralized force in Afghanistan.
While the battlefield is different, the insight is perhaps even more relevant to the world of blockchain projects, their decentralized origins, and ambitions.
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