Podcast Episodes
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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
Read_709 - The Breez Open LSP Model
"Lightning is the way to make bitcoin the universal mainstream currency it was designed to be. This is how we’re going to bring open financial servic…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740753/c1a-9mg94-gd412xodbg2x-9xp9nk.jpg)
Read_708 - Implications of Open Monetary & Information Networks, Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
"Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. From the top-down side, there is the deve…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_707 - Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks, Part 1 [Lyn Alden]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740754/c1a-9mg94-7nqv47pnhvmg-jlicgs.jpg)
Read_707 - Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks, Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
"For proponents of privacy and open networks to win becomes a matter of making the technology easy to use, too costly to stamp out, and well-understo…
3 years, 3 months ago