Podcast Episodes
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Read_557 - The Stairway to Omnipresence [DerGigi]
"the fact that bitcoin is now legal tender in a country is absolutely astonishing. Yesterday, some nerds discovered a system that allows magic intern…
4 years, 6 months ago
![Read_556 - Bitcoin Has Already Won [Akarsh Nalawade]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740952/c1a-9mg94-924v5k2nu450-f4wwuf.jpg)
Read_556 - Bitcoin Has Already Won [Akarsh Nalawade]
"There has never been a more secure, scarce, valuable, transportable, decentralized and networked asset in all of humanity’s history. It’s more mobil…
4 years, 6 months ago
Shitcoin Insider #006 - Proof of What?
Proof of stake, versus proof of work. Isn’t POW super wasteful, while POS is the cost free alternative that obviously is as equally secure? Are we th…
4 years, 6 months ago
![Read_555 - The Bitcoin Energy Debate & the Gold Resource Cost Debate [Nic Carter]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740953/c1a-9mg94-ddkn67d4bn30-hrj7t5.jpg)
Read_555 - The Bitcoin Energy Debate & the Gold Resource Cost Debate [Nic Carter]
"Long before we had the Bitcoin energy debate, we had the gold resource cost debate. The contours were similar: the costs associated with gold refini…
4 years, 7 months ago
![Read_554 - Finding Financial Freedom in Afghanistan [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740954/c1a-9mg94-mq8r03q4i3ok-p8xhg7.jpg)
Read_554 - Finding Financial Freedom in Afghanistan [Alex Gladstein]
“Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the wa…
4 years, 7 months ago
Chat #62 - Dave Smith & Part of the Solution
Dave Smith has finally done a Bitcoin episode! For those of you who missed this, I am making it available on my own feed and for those of you who do …
4 years, 7 months ago
![Read_553 - Bitcoin's "Naive" Monetary Policy [Natasha Che]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740956/c1a-9mg94-ddkn67d2t41q-zmonxl.jpg)
Read_553 - Bitcoin's "Naive" Monetary Policy [Natasha Che]
"Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary policy. Many people think government printing too much is evil, so a fixed money supply must be …
4 years, 7 months ago
![Read_552 - Inside Cuba's Bitcoin Revolution [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740957/c1a-9mg94-gd412qd5umm2-mvrcg0.jpg)
Read_552 - Inside Cuba's Bitcoin Revolution [Alex Gladstein]
“This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows you to move value without trusting anyone, it connects you to the world…
4 years, 7 months ago
![Read_551 - I Tried Hacking Bitcoin, and I Failed [Dan Kaminsky]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740958/c1a-9mg94-row10mooc2pj-fswkcp.jpg)
Read_551 - I Tried Hacking Bitcoin, and I Failed [Dan Kaminsky]
"By all extant metrics in security system review, this system should have failed instantaneously, at every possible layer. And, to be fair, it has f…
4 years, 7 months ago
![Read_550 - Bitcoin's Energy Use isn't a Problem, Here's Why [Lyn Alden]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740959/c1a-9mg94-gd412qddcd72-63zanb.jpg)
Read_550 - Bitcoin's Energy Use isn't a Problem, Here's Why [Lyn Alden]
"And it’s easier to sensationalize things for pageviews or political gain. For example, it’s commonly said that the Bitcoin network uses more ener…
4 years, 7 months ago