Podcast Episodes
Back to Search![Read_547 - Scaling Lightning: To El Zonte... and Beyond! [Roy Sheinfeld]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740964/c1a-9mg94-zo5nz7omt2gp-rk1rk1.jpg)
Read_547 - Scaling Lightning: To El Zonte... and Beyond! [Roy Sheinfeld]
"Many tellings of El Salvador’s story have largely overlooked and understated the role of the Lightning Network. But make no mistake: any country cou…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_546 - Could Bitcoin Be Palestine's Currency of Freedom? [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740963/c1a-9mg94-60k7dp04u1m8-mikxqz.jpg)
Read_546 - Could Bitcoin Be Palestine's Currency of Freedom? [Alex Gladstein]
“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” - Alex Gladstein Another brilliant …
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_545 - The Ultimate Guide to Inflation [Lyn Alden]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740965/c1a-9mg94-gd412qd7t73w-fpdmdi.jpg)
Read_545 - The Ultimate Guide to Inflation [Lyn Alden]
A great piece today detailing out the different kinds, the nuances & the long history of inflation. What misconceptions do we still have about inflat…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_544 - Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value [Bradley Rettler]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740966/c1a-9mg94-gd412qd6u9k-osdukc.jpg)
Read_544 - Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value [Bradley Rettler]
"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock in a company that produces a good or service. In virtue of the company producing a good or s…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740968/c1a-9mg94-ddkn67d9crzj-g1rvji.jpg)
Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]
"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have revele…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740967/c1a-9mg94-04r1dm4ofvmq-wjab2r.jpg)
Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]
"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right combination of layer2s…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740969/c1a-9mg94-04r1dm4zh720-uogskp.jpg)
Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]
"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoi…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740971/c1a-9mg94-ddkn67dqi3j8-gl5jvp.jpg)
Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]
"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and th…
4 years, 11 months ago
Chat #61 - Libertarians & Bitcoiners Sitting in a Tree...
We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some major Bitcoiners and Libertarians together to talk about the tools available to us in th…
4 years, 11 months ago
![Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740972/c1a-9mg94-k5m32x5ri08v-u9597g.jpg)
Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]
"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on the pla…
5 years ago