Podcast Episodes
Back to Search![Read_716 - How to Fix Banking & Money - PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740742/c1a-9mg94-7nqv4761ikx-birgdu.jpg)
Read_716 - How to Fix Banking & Money - PBDC vs CBDC [El Gato]
"and the uniparty is in strong agreement here. both know that losing control of the money and the banks is an existential threat to their aristocrati…
3 years ago
![Read_715 - Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740743/c1a-9mg94-04r1dg66avkx-u6cevy.jpg)
Read_715 - Clear and Present Danger [Joel Bowman]
"Thus was the dubious “clear and present danger” standard born. Holmes himself sought to redefine the standard later that same year when he dissented…
3 years ago
Basics_05 - The Node
Bitcoin is ultimately just a piece of software, the network – the global, censorship resistant, immutable system – is ultimately just a collection of…
3 years ago
![Read_714 - Bitcoin's Meme Wars [DerGigi]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740745/c1a-9mg94-49vqg268t455-7hkkcy.jpg)
Read_714 - Bitcoin's Meme Wars [DerGigi]
"The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further, who is allowed to have ac…
3 years ago
![Read_713 - How the Fed "Went Broke" [Lyn Alden]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740746/c1a-9mg94-mq8r0nz8hp9d-pdamaj.jpg)
Read_713 - How the Fed "Went Broke" [Lyn Alden]
"The financial system in the United States, and for most of the rest of the world for that matter, can basically be thought of as an Excel spreadshee…
3 years ago
Chat_79 - The Spirit of Bitcoin with John Vallis
I joined John today for an over 2 hour rip on the nature of Bitcoin, numerous technical developments, the trade offs of those in the past, the conseq…
3 years ago
Guy's Take #64 - No Way Back, Only a Way Out
There is no magic wand. There is no such thing as a free lunch. When we bail out an institution, a bank, or "depositors" for billions of dollars, som…
3 years ago
![Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740749/c1a-9mg94-jk0o49rdi7w4-asxu9k.jpg)
Read_712 - Lightning Prisms [DerGigi]
"One aspect that is still massively under-utilized is the programmability of Bitcoin. While simple things like scheduled payments and automated payme…
3 years ago
![Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740750/c1a-9mg94-zo5nzjxkt37k-dqceu7.jpg)
Read_711 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 2 [Matthew Pines]
"One immediate lesson many drew from this event was a reconsideration of the risk of fiat liabilities in an environment where trust is lacking (inclu…
3 years ago
![Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740751/c1a-9mg94-ddkn6qwxcvrr-6vc0ql.jpg)
Read_710 - The Future Geopolitical Order and Bitcoin, Part 1 [Matthew Pines]
"The 20th century was the first where technology enabled forms of violent state competition, as well as peaceful globalization, across the full scale…
3 years ago