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Back to Search![Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740791/c1a-9mg94-jk0o49wnc4kk-4xv5lh.jpg)
Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]
"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years, a historic increase.…
3 years, 3 months ago
Guy's Take #61 - Blockchains, A Square Peg for Round Holes
There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to unlock your house, and how D…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740793/c1a-9mg94-k5m32rxoupr2-vkahzi.jpg)
Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski]
"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov Kozlo…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740794/c1a-9mg94-njp0wm9dc9m4-vwxtem.jpg)
Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi]
“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyo…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_680 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 2 [Farrington & Big Al]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740795/c1a-9mg94-33zvk824um3x-jpfnkg.jpg)
Read_680 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 2 [Farrington & Big Al]
"We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of bitcoin is to definanciali…
3 years, 4 months ago
![Read_679 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 1 [Farrington & Larson]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740796/c1a-9mg94-5r54gpv4bdgk-cayzzj.jpg)
Read_679 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 1 [Farrington & Larson]
"One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant could, at the same time,…
3 years, 4 months ago
![Read_678 - Toward a Node World Order [Micheal Goldstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740797/c1a-9mg94-njp0wm95bv7v-slztof.jpg)
Read_678 - Toward a Node World Order [Micheal Goldstein]
"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level of certainty about a monetary network that no hum…
3 years, 4 months ago
Chat_75 - Opting Out with Matt Hill
On the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended upon our lives, and on the tools and systems …
3 years, 4 months ago
![Read_677 - Maturation of Lightning, Growing Up By Going Vertical [Roy Sheinfeld]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740799/c1a-9mg94-04r1dgmztr6-ttprrv.jpg)
Read_677 - Maturation of Lightning, Growing Up By Going Vertical [Roy Sheinfeld]
"As the Web became much more complex, we now engage with multiple companies for each of those functions. Including all the writing, editing, commenti…
3 years, 4 months ago
![Read_676 - The State of Man - Proclaim Your Bitcoin, Part 2 [Simply Bitcoin]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740800/c1a-9mg94-o87n4grvb91-b06w9s.jpg)
Read_676 - The State of Man - Proclaim Your Bitcoin, Part 2 [Simply Bitcoin]
"The primary work undertaken by thieves to maintain their systems of thievery is manipulation. Deceit and lies are the tools of the trade for the thi…
3 years, 4 months ago