Podcast Episodes

Read_416 - The Root of Money? [Atlas Shrugged]

Season 2

"Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, “Don’t let him disturb you. You know, money is t…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_415 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 2 [Robert Breedlove]

Season 2

“When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics story, and start to see it as a crime story, we are beginning to get the true picture.” -…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_414 - Masters & Slaves of Money - Part 1 [Robert Breedlove]

Season 2

"Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_413 - Bitcoin, A Declaration of Monetary Independence [Jimmy Song]

Season 2

"The system is rigged." - Jimmy Song

How does out monetary system work and what does it even mean for the government and central bank to have printe…

5 years, 8 months ago

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Read_412 - Bitcoin's Town Square [Zane Pocock]

"Mempools are the centerpiece of the entire Bitcoin economy. And they are totally underrated." - Zane Pocock

Today we dig into a unique mental frame…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Read_411 - 21 Million is Non-Negotiable [Phil Geiger]

Season 2

"Distorting supply only serves to distort a currency’s ability to perform its job of storing and communicating value; it can’t make a currency more v…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Read_410 - Entering the Decade of Lightning [Elizabeth Stark]

Season 2

"#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it's like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet." - Elizabeth Stark

Today we read an artic…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Chat_42 - Pseu, Guy, & the Future of Bitcoin

Season 2

"Guy Swann returns to the show to discuss Bitcoin scaling, privacy, lightning, state chains, institutional solutions, owning your keys, and much more…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Read_409 - 57 Varieties of Pyrite [Rusty Russell]

Season 2

"Incentives have driven exchanges to become casinos, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect unregulated casinos to do. This is no place you ever…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Read_408 - Assange's Extradition & Bitcoin's Battle for Freedom [Nozomi Hayase]

“Years before the U.S. government’s assault on free speech escalated into the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, the mysterious creator of Bit…

5 years, 9 months ago

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