Podcast Episodes

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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…

6 years 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…

6 years 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…

6 years 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…

6 years ago

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Read_407 - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin [Vijay Boyapati]

Season 2

"the adoption of a superior form of money has tremendous multiplicative benefits to wealth creation for all members of a society." - Vijay Boyapati

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6 years ago

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Read_406 - Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet [Roy sheinfeld]

Season 2

"We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “Intergalactic Computer Network” in 1962" - Roy Shein…

6 years ago

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Read_405 - Bitcoin May Not Survive a Bitcoin Standard [Hasu]

Season 2

"While Bitcoin can control the number of users inside the network, it has no control over the number of users accessing the network through custodial…

6 years ago

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