Podcast Episodes

Read_472 - The Fiat Standard - Chapter 1 [Saifedean Ammous]

Season 2

"For the reader who has become familiar with the operation of bitcoin, a good way to understand the operation of fiat is by drawing analogy to the op…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_471 - The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard]

Season 2

"My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is only the first step. The second step will be speculative attacks that use bitcoins…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_470 - Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? [Jeffrey Tucker]

Season 2

“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means of storing and porting value, which in turn rests on secure titles to ownership of a scarce good.” - J…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_469 - The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo]

Season 2

"With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no lo…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_468 - Bitcoin is Hope [Robert Breedlove]

Season 2

“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in the world.” - Robert Breedlove

Another excellent piece from Breedlove, this time…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_467 - Bitcoin Doesn't Rely on Utilities [Rollo McFloogle]

Season 2

"But there is something even more interesting that happens with mining and electricity. Not only does Bitcoin mining add revenue to existing location…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Chat #53 - Bitcoin Security in the Age of Surveillance with Douglas Bakkum

Season 2

Had an excellent chat with the CEO of ShiftCrypto yesterday all about building Bitcoin hardware, the security trade offs, and creating secure tools f…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Read_466 - A Note on Bitcoin [James O'Beirne]

Season 2

"And replacing gold is just the start. Bitcoin isn’t just a better gold; because of its programmability, it’s a platform that will host the future of…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Read_465 - All the Bullish Cases for Bitcoin [Brandon Quittem]

Season 2

Want to hear all of the bullish cases for Bitcoin? Protection for pensions, the fiscal cliff we are speeding toward, capital movement for the wealthy…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Chat #52 - The Great Reset vs The Great Awakening with Adam Curry

Season 2

The inventor of podcasting, the Podfather himself Adam Curry, joins us today for an incredible chat about Bitcoin and re-decentralizing cyberspace. T…

5 years, 9 months ago

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