What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack
810 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsWith What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin, economics and politics. From developers to investors, journalists to authors, you will learn about everything in the world of Bitcoin.
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Why Bitcoin’s Design Fixes Money with Nicholas Bowick
April 10, 2024 12:28 - 1 hour - 95 Bytes“People get conspiratorial about this, they observe ‘I’m getting fucked by the system everywhere I turn’...I think the far scarier reality is there’s just no one in charge at that level, we’ve absolutely not designed this thing at it’s highest level of operation.” — Nicholas Bowick Nicholas Bowick is a systems engineer in the aerospace industry. In this interview, we discuss emergent behaviors in complex systems, positive and negative feedback loops and chaos vs systemic antifragility. - -...
The Ultimate Bitcoin Use Cases with Alex Gladstein
April 08, 2024 16:27 - 1 hour - 75 Bytes“If you take savings, commerce, freedom, and power, that’s the bedrock of civilization; so if you don’t have these things…you’re living in a very poor country.” — Alex Gladstein Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the ultimate bitcoin use cases. How it is used in commerce, for freedom and how it fundamentally changes energy systems. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bitcoin - I...
Wall Street Embraces Bitcoin with James Lavish & Eric Yakes
April 05, 2024 12:56 - 1 hour - 83 Bytes“For the first time in the history of Wall St. we can be front-running the institutions and buying this thing and they still can’t do it; their hands are tied, they just can’t do it.” — James Lavish James Lavish is a macro analyst, and Eric Yakes is the author of The 7th Property. In this interview, we discuss Wall Street’s arrival into Bitcoin, why TradFi struggles to understand it and how Bitcoin is a new paradigm for investors. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. D...
Bitcoin - We’re Still Early with American HODL
April 03, 2024 13:07 - 1 hour - 81 Bytes“Eventually one of these days the price will move $65,000 and you literally won’t notice or care…are you really going to notice a difference between $2.62 million vs $2.68 million in your account? No, you’re going to look at it and go: ‘ah, it’s still 2.6’.” — American HODL American HODL is an OG Bitcoin investor. In this interview, we discuss ordinals & ‘spam’, why bitcoin makes for a better world, if Wall Street will attempt to change Bitcoin and why we are still so, so early. - - - - ...
Why We Must Upgrade Bitcoin with Vortex
April 01, 2024 12:44 - 1 hour - 72 Bytes“We only get this one chance…with Bitcoin to change money for the world, and if we don’t continue to upgrade it then it will simply create another elite.” — Vortex Vortex is a developer and OG Bitcoin podcaster. In this interview, we look back at the blocksize wars, talk about the challenges upgrading Bitcoin, the dangers of ossification and get into covenants and LNHance. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan...
How to Play the Money Game with Mark Moss
March 29, 2024 12:14 - 1 hour - 94 Bytes“If all I’m thinking about it is winning this game of money, this finite game, and trying to get as much money as I can right now, I’m losing; I’m playing the wrong game for the wrong environment.” — Mark Moss Mark Moss is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and host of The Mark Moss Show. In this interview, we discuss how to play the game of money, using debt and inflation to your advantage and how to retire off Bitcoin. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Su...
The Battle for Bitcoin with Bitcoin Mechanic
March 27, 2024 11:26 - 3 hours - 134 Bytes“It’s not a game, Bitcoin is life and death for billions of people and there is no one in Venezuela that’s excited about cats on the freakin’ chain; this is a mockery of the seriousness of what people are trying to do here.” — Bitcoin Mechanic Bitcoin Mechanic is a Bitcoin educator and Chief Boiling Officer at OCEAN. In this interview, we discuss the issues with arbitrary data on the Bitcoin blockchain, if filters can work as well as OCEAN mining pool and the need for greater decentralisati...
Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin Moonshot Revisited with Andy Edstrom
March 25, 2024 11:53 - 1 hour - 69 Bytes“There will be Harvard Business School case studies written about this…if Bitcoin does what we all think it can, if it reaches its potential, high school history books will have the name Michael Saylor in them.” — Andy Edstrom Andy Edstrom is a financial advisor, and the author of Why Buy Bitcoin.Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin strategy, Bitcoin vs gold & real estate as well as demand, adoption and the four year cycle. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN...
The Challenge of Scaling Bitcoin with David Seroy
March 22, 2024 13:15 - 1 hour - 74 Bytes“What’s appearing to be the best scaling solution is going to be ZK rollups, and it’s very emergent, and it’s very new, and it’s very bleeding edge; but net of all the tradeoffs, and there are definitely tradeoffs, I think it’s far superior than anything we’re seeing on Bitcoin.” — David Seroy David Seroy is a ZK rollup researcher. In this interview, we discuss the tradeoffs when scaling Bitcoin, the reality of ZK rollups in theory vs in practice as well as, the fee market and MEV on Bitcoi...
Bitcoin ETFs Have Changed the Game with Nik Bhatia
March 20, 2024 19:58 - 1 hour - 81 Bytes“I’m envisioning the entire Bitcoin future, where Bitcoin goes all the way…the ultimate measuring stick for banks, people, governments, individuals; it’s the unit account of the aggregate balance sheet of the world.” — Nik Bhatia Nik Bhatia is the founder of ‘The Bitcoin Layer’ & author of ‘Layered Money’. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin as an optimal base layer for the financial system, how the largest economic actors may be allocating to Bitcoin, and where the price could go. - - -...
The Maturing Bitcoin Narrative with Grant McCarty
March 18, 2024 20:45 - 1 hour - 114 Bytes“There’s something so real about this moment, and we’re no longer just in the speculative phase of ‘what could Bitcoin be?’...We’re also in the phase of: ‘look at what Bitcoin is doing today.’” — Grant McCarty Grant McCarty is the Co-Executive Director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. In this interview, we discuss evangelism and the Bitcoin revolution, why BPI is a crucial resource, flawed incentives in the education system, journalism and the shifting perception of Bitcoin. - - - - This...
The Perfect Bitcoin Allocation with Raphael Zagury
March 16, 2024 18:47 - 2 hours - 121 Bytes“This is by far the best asymmetric bet that you can make because even in very low probability scenarios…the upside potential, we’re not talking about 10x, it could be 100x in a very quick period of time if it really captures the monetary premium of these assets.” — Raphael Zagury Raphael Zagury is a CIO at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, how the ETFs changed everything, Bitcoin vs real estate and Bitcoin portfolio allocation. - - - - This episode’s sponsors...
Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision with Dhruv Bansal
March 14, 2024 17:32 - 1 hour - 87 Bytes“Layer 0 is deeply connected to time and energy, layer 1 is deeply connected to blockspace and mining pools… layer 2 is deeply connected to routing and the onion network which lives inside the Lightning network; it’s cool that each layer thinks it’s about one thing and winds up solving these unexpectedly adjacent problems.” — Dhruv Bansal Dhruv Bansal is a co-founder of Unchained Capital. In this interview, we discuss how Satoshi approached creating Bitcoin, Bitcoin’s deep relationship with...
The Case for $1 Million Bitcoin with Samson Mow
March 12, 2024 16:28 - 1 hour - 78 Bytes“I think this year we hit a million, if not this year then next year but it’s coming very soon.” — Samson Mow Samson Mow is the CEO at JAN3, the developer of Aqua Bitcoin, architect of Bitcoin Bonds and CEO at PixelMatic. In this interview, we discuss orange pilling nation states, scaling bitcoin to billions with Liquid and AQUA, and why he thinks Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2025 - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitc...
Bitcoin’s Biggest Bull Run with The Rational Root
March 09, 2024 12:24 - 1 hour - 69 Bytes“I think we’ll just get to prices from a million to 10 million at some point, and then Bitcoin is going to be such a big currency that it just becomes a better currency than the US dollar obviously…that will also be a gradual transition.” — The Rational Root The Rational Root is a Bitcoin on-chain & cycle analyst. In this interview, we discuss the pace of the current bull market, the impact of spot ETFs, what we can expect post-halving, and changing dynamics in the market. - - - - This e...
The Wall Street Bull Market with Checkmate
March 07, 2024 13:13 - 1 hour - 75 Bytes“These guys are probably better than you, and they’re here to take your money, so I think that’s important to remember that Wall St. is here to take your money and they’re bloody good at it.” — Checkmate Checkmate is Glassnode’s Lead On-chain Analyst and creator of checkonchain. In this interview, we discuss the validity of on-chain data, the different phases of the market, the impact of spot Bitcoin ETFs & how Wall St are coming for your Bitcoin. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - ...
The Bitcoin Strategy with Grant Gilliam
March 05, 2024 12:58 - 54 minutes - 53 Bytes“The free market is this release valve…the next wave of adoption comes, and bitcoin users and demand increases by 10x or more, are the companies going to be ready for it? I’m not sure, but that’s going to create opportunities for someone if they’re not to relieve that pressure.” — Grant Gilliam Grant Gilliam is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Ten31. In this interview, we discuss the state of venture capital in Bitcoin, the importance of sats flow, and Bitcoin treasury strategies. - ...
The Year of Sound Money with Doomberg
March 01, 2024 16:19 - 1 hour - 68 Bytes“There’s no reason why gold should be $40 an ounce higher in Shanghai then it is London. It is, which means some sophisticated player somewhere is getting free money, and free money doesn’t last forever.” — Doomberg Doomberg is an anonymous collective producing the world’s most popular financial substack. In this interview, we discuss why 2024 could be bullish for gold, global monetary warfare, the role of Bitcoin and the chaos of the election year. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN ...
Scaling Bitcoin Privately with John Light
February 28, 2024 15:37 - 1 hour - 64 Bytes“If it doesn’t have privacy then it’s not worth using, and if it’s not easy to use then people aren’t going to use it, and so we won’t need scale.” — John Light John Light is a bitcoin researcher working on product at Sovryn and previously the ZK-Rollup Research Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss rollups on Bitcoin, privacy & scaling and scaling bitcoin in a self sovereign way. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swa...
Bitcoin is Eating the World with John Arnold
February 26, 2024 15:20 - 1 hour - 60 Bytes“We’ve never really seen before true transmission of instantly-settled bearer-value…that will be the dominant apex-predator way of transacting ultimately, so every business, every economic interaction is going to have to respond to that in some way.” — John Arnold John Arnold is a Principal at Ten31. In this interview, we compare tradfi to bitcoin, discuss Bitcoin’s total addressable market, why bitcoin is a paradigm shift for businesses and how Bitcoin is eating the world. - - - - This ...
The Right to Bitcoin with Dennis Porter
February 23, 2024 10:59 - 1 hour - 68 Bytes“Bitcoin might be outside politics, Bitcoin might be outside government, but you are not…and so they can still enact laws that go after us as individuals.” — Dennis Porter Dennis Porter is the CEO & co-founder of the Satoshi Action Fund. In this interview, we discuss Satoshi Action Fund’s mission, the importance of self custody, working with regulators and the challenges of pushing pro-bitcoin regulation. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bitc...
Will the Dollar Implode? With Macro Alf
February 21, 2024 13:55 - 1 hour - 68 Bytes“For the system to really collapse you actually need first the dollar to get stronger and effectively to suck everything into a black hole until it can implode.” — Macro Alf Macro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strategy firm. In this interview, we discuss government spending, debt & deficits as well as the death of the dollar and the role of Bitcoin in the macroeconomic environment. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bit...
The Bitcoin Scaling Dilemma with Shinobi
February 19, 2024 13:49 - 1 hour - 102 Bytes“If we stop changing Bitcoin right now there is no way that even 1% of 1% of the planet will be able to afford to actually hold their own keys, to actually sovereignly control their own bitcoin, and everybody else it’s just pick your custodian, pick who you trust to hold your bitcoin for you.” — Shinobi Shinobi is a pseudonymous Bitcoin educator and the technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss scaling bitcoin in a self-sovereign way, covenants, OP_CAT and Bitcoin...
The Bitcoin Revolution with Quoth The Raven
February 16, 2024 13:32 - 1 hour - 104 Bytes“What happens when the bid gets bigger? What happens when 5 million pissed off Occupy Wall St, Gamestop, WallStreetBets…combined with the 2 million people that are still walking around with Ron Paul signs like I am, what happens when all those people join together and join the Bitcoin network?” — Quoth The Raven Quoth The Raven is an independent financial researcher. In this interview, we discuss why he was sceptical about Bitcoin, his distrust in the traditional system, inflation & quantit...
Why We Shouldn’t Trust BlackRock with Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin
February 14, 2024 11:40 - 1 hour - 98 Bytes“Whatever this new financial system is…ultimately is about trying to enable BlackRock to continue its massive expansion to own essentially everything with as little risk to them as possible.” — Whitney Webb Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is Editor in Chief at Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss the BlackRock ETF, their plans for a new financial system, media psy-ops & tokenizing everything. - - - - This ...
The Hidden Cost of Money with Seb Bunney
February 12, 2024 16:08 - 1 hour - 86 Bytes“It doesn’t matter, in any of these nation states, who you vote for; ultimately, I think until we actually re-align the incentives in society by separating money and state we will not have a system that actually supports the individual.” — Seb Bunney Seb Bunney is the co-founder of Looking Glass Education and author of The Hidden Cost of Money. In this interview, we discuss what money is, the effect that broken money has on society, fiat incentives and how Bitcoin fixes this. - - - - Thi...
Bitcoin Adoption, the Halving & Mining with Colin Harper
February 09, 2024 16:51 - 1 hour - 96 Bytes“All of the different sub communities in Bitcoin are really starting to ask themselves and the other sub communities ‘why are you here? Are we sacrificing everything for number-go-up?’ Well number-go-up is kind of the whole thing if you want actual outsized influence over the system that is leaving everyone scrambling for anything.” — Colin Harper Colin Harper is Head of Research and Content at Luxor Technology. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, media FUD, the impact of the ha...
Bitcoin’s CBDC Shadow with Sam Callahan
February 07, 2024 16:47 - 1 hour - 79 Bytes“The technology is forcing their hand, and every single time they have to centralise more, and more, and more; and, what they’re trying to build now is one unified ledger that connects all the CBDCs around the world.” — Sam Callahan Sam Callahan is the Senior Analyst at Swan Bitcoin and host of Swan Signal. In this interview, we discuss hyperbitcoinisation, the Bank for International Settlement, and the threat of central bank digital currencies. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: Iris Ener...
Bitcoin Dev Culture with Carla Kirk-Cohen
February 05, 2024 13:39 - 1 hour - 75 Bytes“Don’t read the comments but you have to because your job is to address those comments, that’s your work…right now it’s like 30 people doing customer service for the entire Bitcoin population and it’s not scalable.” — Carla Kirk-Cohen Carla Kirk-Cohen is a software engineer working on the Lightning Network at Chaincode Labs & a Board Member at Btrust. In this interview, we discuss bitcoin development & how it is currently funded, development culture & the state of the Lightning Network. - ...
Is Bitcoin Crossing the Chasm? With Harry Sudock
February 03, 2024 13:06 - 2 hours - 153 Bytes“All of our quality of life is better when resources are better utilised, and Bitcoin is going to bring that to energy markets in a dynamic and urgent way with very, very little gatekeeping.” — Harry Sudock Harry Sudock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Griid. In this interview, we discuss the importance of Bitcoin third places, censorship, ETFs & adoption, bitcoin mining and whether Bitcoin has just crossed the Chasm. - - - - This episode’s sponsors: Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Su...
Repricing the World in Bitcoin with Preston Pysh & Nico Lechuga
February 01, 2024 14:47 - 1 hour - 74 Bytes“What’s going to be really hard for people, especially people that are naysayers and think that this is just all hocus pocus money is once the price gets to about $500,000, now you need about a 10% position size to protect yourself from Bitcoin taking over.” — Preston Pysh Preston Pysh is a co-founder of The Investor Podcast Network and Nico Lechuga is a General Partner at Ego Death Capital. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin’s compound growth, how to gauge bitcoin adoption and how bitco...
Avoiding the Bitcoin ETF Rug Pull with Sam Abbassi & Xander Carpousis
January 30, 2024 14:05 - 1 hour - 68 Bytes“I don’t like the idea of blindly trusting when I can have something verified to me, and the whole ethos of Bitcoin is verify and don’t trust… if we build a massive financial ecosystem on top of these ETF products then we need to with absolute certainty know that that spot Bitcoin, the thing it’s backed against, exists and it’s there.” — Sam Abbassi Sam Abbassi is the founder and CEO of Hoseki and Xander Carpousis is Chief Revenue Officer at Hoseki. In this interview, we discuss the launch...
Live in Nashville with Marty Bent, Harry Sudock & Parker Lewis
January 28, 2024 13:26 - 1 hour - 101 Bytes“The trend that we’ve seen where there is the shuttering of functional nuclear power is one of the most significant crimes against humanity, and crimes against our future children, than any legislative decision that’s happened anywhere in the world.” — Harry Sudock Marty Bent is a Venture Partner at Ten31 and founder of the Bitcoin-focused media company TFTC.io, Harry Sudock is Chief Strategy Officer at Griid and Parker Lewis is a Bitcoin writer and educator and Head of Business Development...
Accelerate Bitcoin with Dylan LeClair
January 26, 2024 15:42 - 1 hour - 81 Bytes“We’re opening up the valve…for Bitcoin to just trojan horse onto the asset side…and all of a sudden it’s not just speculators in trouble when Bitcoin crashes, it’s systemic. And so, we’re obviously not there, not even close to there; but, Bitcoin taking fiat liquidity and going up against this massive pile of unpayable liabilities, that’s the story.” — Dylan LeClair Dylan LeClair is a Bitcoin and macro analyst working for Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss the pros and cons of...
The Bullish Case for Ordinals with Pete Rizzo
January 24, 2024 14:22 - 1 hour - 96 Bytes“We have to reach a technological supremacy; Bitcoin maximalism can’t stay as an ideology… because the goal is to ultimately subsume everything that is possible with cryptocurrencies into the network for the benefit of people who own Bitcoin.” — Pete Rizzo Pete Rizzo is the editor of Bitcoin Magazine, and one of Bitcoin’s leading journalists. In this interview, we discuss the role of Ordinals, Inscriptions and BRC20 tokens, whether they are a positive or negative for Bitcoin and the growing...
The Orange Pill with Dave Smith
January 19, 2024 15:13 - 1 hour - 78 Bytes“What you hope is that something like Bitcoin gets so mainstreamed that it’s too late for them to really be able to do anything about.” — Dave Smith Dave Smith is a comedian and host of ‘Part Of The Problem Podcast’. In this interview, we discuss libertarianism, government responses to COVID and the political climate in the UK and US. We also reflect on economic challenges facing individuals, particularly the younger generation's struggle with housing affordability, whilst critiquing govern...
Orange Pilling Wall Street with Hunter Horsley
January 17, 2024 17:45 - 1 hour - 66 Bytes“The world is going to change, we’re not at the end of what humans can do…the current thing has only been around for 50 years and currently has a lot of stress…and I think it’s incredibly exciting and meaningful that people in the Bitcoin space and for us, get to be part of proposing a solution.” — Hunter Horsley Hunter Horsley is the Co-founder and CEO of Bitwise. In this interview, we discuss the launch of the Bitcoin ETFs, including the impact on investors and the investment market, and ...
The Economics of Bitcoin Scaling with Lyn Alden
January 15, 2024 17:25 - 1 hour - 94 Bytes“How good are governments at maintaining their own little fiat bubble against the constant push of Bitcoin?…Whether you look at it as a very very large monetary asset globally or virtually the only one…that’s all still quite a bit out, but I have pretty high ambitions for what bitcoin can do.” — Lyn Alden Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist and investment strategist. In this interview, we discuss the challenges of promoting Bitcoin and its growing acceptance in mainstream media and finance. We de...
The Arrival of Bitcoin ETFs with James Seyffart & Alex Thorn
January 13, 2024 20:47 - 1 hour - 75 Bytes“You’re in the game now, this thing isn’t valuable if it’s not able to be used in a self-custodied manner, that’s the innovation, that’s the core innovation...we and the issuers got to take the story of Bitcoin’s true value out, that’s how they’re going to do it, that’s how they’re marketing it…we got to tell that story.” — Alex Thorn James Seyffart is an analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence covering ETFs, and Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy. In this interview, we explor...
The Genesis of Bitcoin with Aaron Van Wirdum
January 11, 2024 20:22 - 1 hour - 114 Bytes“If you want to understand someone, an individual, you kind of need to understand what their life has been like, where they came from…and I think the same is true for Bitcoin, if you really want to understand Bitcoin, you need to understand where it came from.” — Aaron van Wirdum Aaron Van Wirdum is a Bitcoin journalist and author of ‘The Genesis Book’. In this interview, we discuss the history of Bitcoin, including the importance of consensus algorithms and public key cryptography, early s...
Scaling Bitcoin with Giacomo Zucco, John Carvalho & Matt Corallo
January 09, 2024 13:58 - 1 hour - 103 Bytes“Within the Bitcoin mission, all of that stuff is a LARP. There is no gray; it’s entirely black or white. You’re either self-sovereign, or you’re not…if you want to have conversations about banking technology, custody technology, if that’s your interest, great. Just leave it out of my Bitcoin conversation.” — John Carvalho Giacomo Zucco is a Bitcoin educator, John Carvalho is CEO of Synonym, and Matt Corallo is a Bitcoin Core developer and open-source engineer at Block/Spiral. In this inter...
Bitcoin in Europe with Rachel Geyer
January 05, 2024 14:44 - 1 hour - 75 Bytes“If you want to change things you need to make sure the person who’s sitting at the table speaks the same language as the person opposite so that you can open that door so you can walk this idea in; and I strongly believe it’s going to be through Bitcoin mining that Bitcoin is going to become acceptable…in the western world.” — Rachel Geyer Rachel Geyer is Head of Education at Terahash, co-founder of Les Femmes Orange and Vice-Chair of the European Bitcoin Energy Association. In this interv...
Banking Bitcoin with Allen Farrington & Eric Yakes
January 03, 2024 13:31 - 1 hour - 88 Bytes“We need to build a system that is not going to create any sort of systemic centralisation and the incentives are aligned so that doesn’t happen, that can defend us against fiat money, now the question of whether or not fractional reserve money still emerges in that system is another debate.” — Eric Yakes Allen Farrington is the co-author of ‘Bitcoin Is Venice’ and Eric Yakes is the author of ‘The 7th Property’. In this interview, we do a deep dive into the future of the Bitcoin-centric fin...
2024, the Year of the Bitcoin Bull with Lyn Alden
January 01, 2024 13:57 - 1 hour - 68 Bytes“The United States is just set to structurally run these massive fiscal deficits…that’s called fiscal dominance, it’s where the central bank does not have full control…because the amount of public debt and the amount of public deficits are too big and forcing them to assist it.” — Lyn Alden Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist and investment strategist. In this interview, we discuss the success of Lyn's book before delving into the complexities of the current economic landscape, including the corr...
Running Bitcoin with Fran Finney
December 29, 2023 13:33 - 1 hour - 70 Bytes“I think it would be incredible if the bitcoin community was the community that made the difference with ALS…that was able to actually change things so that it doesn’t afflict people and end people’s lives in such a horrible way, the way it did for Hal.” — Fran Finney Fran Finney is the widow of the legendary Hal Finney, who received the first Bitcoin transaction. In this interview, we discuss her husband's impact, their life together, and his battle with ALS. We also talk about the importa...
The Unconstitutional Attack on Privacy with Peter Van Valkenburgh
December 27, 2023 13:58 - 1 hour - 69 Bytes“The problem is it’s this naked delegation of lawmaking authority to the unelected people within Treasury…you want them to have unconstrained power? Shouldn’t we just go back to a world where bipartisan legislation in Congress is what is consequential and not just the whims of every next administration?” — Peter Van Valkenburgh Peter Van Valkenburgh is director of research at Coin Center. In this interview, we discuss Coin Center's role in educating lawmakers, analysing policy proposals, an...
The End of the World as We Know It with Whitney Webb
December 22, 2023 15:48 - 1 hour - 89 Bytes“There is a fight being had right now about the future of Bitcoin and you have to decide which side you’re on.” — Whitney Webb Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist who founded Unlimited Hangout, which covers intelligence, tech, surveillance and civil liberties. In this interview, we discuss the importance of independent journalism, the challenges of media manipulation and the rise of tyranny. We also talk about the risks of AI, the influence of powerful figures like Elon ...
Bitcoin, a 30,000ft View with Jeff Booth & Alex Gladstein
December 20, 2023 11:50 - 1 hour - 70 Bytes“Imagine if it was a democratic process…and the government went to the people and said ‘hey who wants a 44% reduction in their purchasing power next Wednesday?’ Zero people would raise their hands obviously…devaluations can never be democratic; but the economic part of it is the hidden repression – this is the part they always hide from you.” — Alex Gladstein Jeff Booth is the Author of The Price of Tomorrow & General Partner at Ego Death Capital and Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer...
Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Bitcoin Agenda with Perianne Boring
December 18, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour - 67 Bytes“The entire global financial and monetary system are going to be impacted by this technology, and by just saying… ‘we don’t think it has any value, we don’t care, we don’t want it here,’ it gives that technological advantage to our adversaries and to everybody else.” — Perianne Boring Perianne Boring is the Founder and CEO of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. In this interview, we discuss Senator Elizabeth Warren's stance on crypto, her proposed anti-crypto legislation and the status of Bitc...
Bitcoin vs Economic Imperialism with Erik Hersman
December 15, 2023 15:31 - 1 hour - 63 Bytes“We really have to look at what people need and what people will use, and go to them and do real things that matter in their lives instead of having some fantasy of what we think people will want.” — Erik Hersman Erik Hersman is a co-founder of Gridless. In this interview, we discuss Africa, focusing on economic issues like inflation, devaluation and people’s struggles to make a living. We talk about Bitcoin’s potential to create economic opportunities in Africa, the importance of building ...