Podcast Episodes
Back to Search![Read_562 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 1 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740946/c1a-9mg94-60k7dp8mfzxg-odvput.jpg)
Read_562 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 1 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]
"The consensus is what matters. The breakthrough of proof-of-work and the difficulty adjustment is far more about harnessing energy and existing comm…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_561 - The Village and the Strongman [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740947/c1a-9mg94-wng9zv41fkpd-pewpwr.jpg)
Read_561 - The Village and the Strongman [Alex Gladstein]
“Sandwiched between Guatemala and Honduras, El Salvador — the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, with an average GDP per…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_560 - The Schumpeterian Bitcoin Cycle [Prateek Goorha]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740948/c1a-9mg94-49vqg846t22q-pwzhdk.jpg)
Read_560 - The Schumpeterian Bitcoin Cycle [Prateek Goorha]
"Schumpeter would have loved Bitcoin. He would have seen in Bitcoin a living representation of his theory of capitalism, so often quoted but rarely u…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_559 - The Dollar Burden & Why the US Will Adopt Bitcoin [Ansel Lindner]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740949/c1a-9mg94-7nqv458phrmq-5etazu.jpg)
Read_559 - The Dollar Burden & Why the US Will Adopt Bitcoin [Ansel Lindner]
"we often hear the U.S. dollar called an “exorbitant privilege.” Namely, that the U.S. benefits disproportionately from the dollar’s reserve currency…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_558 - Why Bitcoin, The Full Series Audiobook [Tomer Strolight]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740950/c1a-9mg94-p8dm90n1s9g2-ug63vs.jpg)
Read_558 - Why Bitcoin, The Full Series Audiobook [Tomer Strolight]
"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged as a vast and mysterious space to explore, with treasures, dangers and untold potential. A…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_557 - The Stairway to Omnipresence [DerGigi]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740951/c1a-9mg94-k5m32x5da7qo-ts1ygj.jpg)
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, 11 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years ago