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Vlad Costea
On the Bitcoin Takeover podcast you're going to hear the builders and innovators who make the Bitcoin project valuable. It's thanks to their work that the BTC price goes up, and it's their efforts that convince large investors that Bitcoin is the future of money. Here you will find the projects and ideas that will radically improve Bitcoin in the future, presented by the creators and innovators themselves. Time to learn!
S13 E4: Lando Rothbardian & Travin Keith on ShopInBit
ShopInBit is the online store that lets you use your bitcoin to buy laptops, phones, watches & thousands of other items. In this episode, Lando Rothbardian & Travin Keith explain how they made it all happen & why you should use your BTC for shopping.
01:40:1114/02/2023
S13 E3: Casey Rodarmor on Ordinals, Inscriptions & Bitcoin Culture
Casey Rodarmor took the Bitcoin world by storm when he launched Ordinals: a modern and simplified approach to Colored Coins which lets anyone upload files to the Bitcoin blockchain to create digital artifacts (inscriptions). But what are the pros & cons?
03:21:3106/02/2023
S13 E2: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet's Beginnings and Future
Since launching in October 2018, Wasabi wallet positioned itself at the avant-garde of Bitcoin privacy. Almost 5 years later, Nopara73 reflects on the ideas and research that led to the creation of Wasabi, and also makes some predictions for the future.
01:57:2803/02/2023
S13 E1: Eric Sirion & Obi Nwosu on Fedimint & Fedi
Fedimint provides an easy way for people to create Chaumian mints using bitcoin – basically community banks which offer speed, scalability & privacy at the expense of trusting the bankers. In this episode, Eric Sirion and Obi Nwosu explain how it works.
48:5028/01/2023
S12 E17: Max Hillebrand on Wasabi Wallet's Development Roadmap
After Wasabi 2.0 launched, what's next for Bitcoin privacy? Max Hillebrand, CEO of ZK Snacks (the company which develops Wasabi) tells us why the Wabisabi protocol is such a big deal, what kind of challenges lie ahead & what is on the development roadmap.
01:18:3305/01/2023
S12 E16: Talkin' Bob Dylan Blues with Mike Jarmuz
Mike Jarmuz is a Bitcoin VC, best known as a co-founder of Lightning Ventures. However, in this interview we don't talk about any of that. Instead, we express our mutual love for Bob Dylan's music and share experiences from various concerts we attended.
01:14:2403/01/2023
S12 E15: Chris (OB_HODL) on Bumbee
Bumbee is the Bitcoin version of content monetization platforms such as Patreon & OnlyFans. It offers lower fees, a better form of money that can't be censored & the promise of fairness. In this episode, Chris (OB_HODL) explains how Bumbee helps creators.
01:21:3330/12/2022
S12 E14: Viktor Vecsei on IVPN & Internet Privacy
Viktor Vecsei is the COO of IVPN – a VPN service which takes privacy very seriously and also accepts payments via on-chain bitcoin and Lightning. In this episode, Viktor talks about what VPN services do, explains their limitations & compares their offers
01:31:1421/12/2022
S12 E13: Max Keidun on Baltic Honeybadger & DebiFi
Max Keidun is best known as a contributor to HodlHodl and co-organizer of the Baltic Honeybadger conference. But this year in Riga, he announced a new project: DebiFi, a bitcoin lending aggregator which helps take loans & borrow money without custodians.
39:2515/12/2022
S12 E12: Max Hampshire on Nym, Tor & Internet Privacy
Max Hampshire is responsible for developer relations at Nym – an internet privacy project which makes use of Chaumian mixnets in order to break the link between data packets. It's one of the most promising projects & definitely one worth learning about.
54:5009/12/2022
S12 E11: Lord Kristaps on JoinMarket, Bitcoin Privacy & Open Source Contributions
Kristaps Kaupe (Lord Kristaps) is an open source contributor who works on a handful of Bitcoin projects. Most notably, he is a maintainer of JoinMarket & a contributor to Bitcoin Core, RaspiBolt & SatSale. In this episode, he talks about privacy & more.
01:21:2530/11/2022
S12 E10: Paul Sztorc on Baltic Honeybadger 2022 & BIP 300
On the last day of Baltic Honeybadger 2022, BIP 300 creator and advocate Paul Sztorc joins the show to provide a summary of his two panels on Drivechaina and unpopular Bitcoin opinions. When he doesn't explain technical concepts, Paul makes funny jokes.
54:0321/11/2022
S12 E9: Christian Rootzoll & Matthew Croughan on RaspiBlitz + NixOS
This interview is the result of 2 separate recordings which took place in August and October 2022: in the first one, Christian Rootzoll talks about what's new with RaspiBlitz. In the second part, Matthew Croughan joins to talk about integrating NixOS.
01:11:0915/11/2022
S12 E8: Lisa Neigut on Running a Core Lightning Node
Lisa Neigut (@niftynei) works on Lightning network projects at Blockstream. In this interview, she provides some practical advice on running your own Core Lightning node on a home device. Also, she explains what happened to LND lately.
01:22:4710/11/2022
S12 E7: Dr. Maxim Orlovsky on RGB Layer 3
Dr. Maxim Orlovsky is the lead developer of RGB: a layer 3 protocol that's built on top of the Lightning Network which aims to make it easy for anyone to issue tokens, stablecoins & NFTs in a scalable client side-validated way.
41:3102/11/2022
S12 E6: Talking Politics with Ben de Waal, Alexandra Moxin & Karo Zagorus
During Hackers Congress 2022, after longer than a year of exchanging messages and planning, I finally managed to interview Ben de Waal about his left anarchist political views. Spontaneously, Alexandra Moxin & Karo Zagorus also decided to join.
01:29:4724/10/2022
S12 E5: Rodolfo Andragnes on Labitconf's 10th Anniversary
Labitconf is Bitcoin's own Lollapalooza – this is how Rodolfo Andragnes describes the event that he created. In November 2022, Labitconf celebrates its 10th annual anniversary, with a football world cup-themed return to the home country of Argentina.
01:16:1419/10/2022
S12 E4: Rahim Taghizadegan on Austrian Economics & Bitcoin as a Cult
Rahim Taghizadegan is an actual Austrian economist who teaches economics in Austria and founded his own university to preserve the tradition – Scholarium. In this episode, he explains the nuances of Bitcoin's cult-like culture & how he sees the future.
02:41:1012/10/2022
S12 E3: Kemal & Noor on the Adopting Bitcoin Conference in El Salvador
This year's Adopting Bitcoin conference from El Salvador will happen thanks to the efforts of Kemal and Noor. In this episode, they explain the progress that the country has made in the year that has passed since it adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.
01:31:5405/10/2022
S12 E2: Amir Taaki on the Early Days of Bitcoin
Amir Taaki joined Bitcoin in late 2010, and is responsible for creating the BIP system, the first alternative Bitcoin client (libbitcoin), and the first privacy-focused wallet (DarkWallet). In this interview, he reflects on the early days of Bitcoin.
43:1828/09/2022
S12 E1: Thomas Voegtlin on Electrum Wallet & Lightning Trampoline Nodes
Electrum is the most feature-rich Bitcoin wallet, and creator Thomas Voegtlin has been adding improvements to it since 2011. Right now, Thomas is making the Lightning Network accessible with Trampoline nodes that don't need to be online 24/7.
56:5124/09/2022
S11 E12: Bruce Fenton on Running for the US Senate as a Bitcoiner
After having had enough from the authoritarians, longtime bitcoiner Bruce Fenton has decided to take matters into his own hands and run for the US Senate to represent New Hampshire. In this interview, he explains why & gives us an insight of his platform.
Special thanks to Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet for sponsoring the show!
Time stamps:
00:46 – Intro
02:04 – Bruce Fenton selling 85 BTC to finance his campaign
03:31 – Why Bruce Fenton is different
05:35 – Is Bruce Fenton a constitutionalist?
07:38 – Freedom is what made America great
10:26 – Did Bruce Fenton get any support from mainstream politicians?
12:56 – Have bitcoiners given up on politics?
16:00 – Divisive issues raise more money, at the expense of nuance
20:00 – A national divorce?
23:30 – “Bowling Alone” by Robert D. Putnam and division
33:00 – Fighting for freedom vs taking freedom for granted
36:26 – The Founding Fathers of the USA were very young
40:00 – Safety vs freedom
41:40 – On China and authoritarianism
46:02 – Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
48:10 – Is Bitcoin a big part of Bruce Fenton’s campaign?
51:45 – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin would be bitcoiners if they lived today. Hamilton would have done ICOs and DeFi
55:30 – Carrying a copy of the Constitution during the campaign
56:40 – Both Bitcoin and the US Constitution are hard to change
01:03:30 – How the US Government is attacking Bitcoin
01:08:14 – Should Bitcoin become legal tender in the USA?
01:14:50 – What can Bruce Fenton do for the people of New Hampshire?
01:16:00 – Breaking the record for the longest filibuster
01:18:10 – Bringing people together
01:20:50 – What can a state do to nullify federal overreach?
01:21:55 – How does Bruce Fenton rank in the polls?
01:27:20 – Donating $17.76
01:29:30 – Is everything really good for Bitcoin?
01:33:00 – Freedom is like a muscle, you gotta train it
01:37:0121/08/2022
S11 E11: Peter Todd on Bitcoin Inflation, Lightning & Privacy
Recently, Peter Todd published a mathematical paper to explain how tail emission could work om Bitcoin. In this episode, he gets to explain why he thinks inflation is necessary to secure the Bitcoin network as the mining rewards get halved every 4 years.
01:34:2325/07/2022
S11 E10: Sergej Kotliar on Bitrefill, Saving Bankers & Bitcoin Shoes
As the CEO of Bitrefill, Sergej Kotliar has been offering a steady, predictable, reliable & seemingly-boring service for 7 years. However, Bitrefill is anything but boring: these days, the gift card company is trying to save the bankers & make NBA shoes!
45:3120/07/2022
S11 E9: Pavol Rusnak (Stick) on Trezor, SatoshiLabs & Open Source
Pavol Rusnak (Stick) is one of the most prolific contributors in the Bitcoin space. Since creating the Trezor hardware wallet with his friend Slush, he worked tirelessly to create open source standards that make using BTC more secure and private.
01:14:1412/07/2022
S11 E8: Joseph Tetek (SatsJoseph) on SatoshiLabs & Bitcoin Education in the Czech Republic
Joseph Tetek (SatsJoseph) is a well-known Bitcoin educator, author, and content producer from the Czech Republic. In this episode, he talks about his work at Satoshi Labs, some upcoming Trezor projects, and what it's like to promote Bitcoin in Czech.
41:3205/07/2022
S11 E7: Sodomak on Paralelni Polis and Crypto Anarchy
Sodomak is a cryptoanarchist who formerly worked as the CTO of Paralelni Polis in Prague. In this interview, he talks about the philosophical values of Paralelni Polis, the cafe's origins, and how it provides Bitcoin education to every customer.
53:1628/06/2022
S11 E6: Nicholas Gregory on Mercury Wallet, Statechains & Privacy
CommerceBlock CEO Nicholas Gregory is one of the engineering masterminds behind Mercury Wallet: a Bitcoin wallet which makes use of Statechains and provides privacy via CoinSwaps. In this interview, Nicholas talks about making bitcoin work as money.
01:20:0918/06/2022
S11 E5: Charlie Lee on Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB)
Initially, extension blocks & Mimble Wimble were Bitcoin proposals for scalability & privacy. But now that Litecoin married the two with MWEB via soft fork, Charlie Lee explains if & how we can have this solution type of solution added into Bitcoin.
01:10:4407/06/2022
S11 E4: Adam on the Bitcoin Bar in Budapest
In the heart of Budapest, there is this shrine of Bitcoin culture where you can taste the poison of strong liquors, boost your energy level with a copy, and pay your bill with BTC. In this episode, I interview Bitcoin Bar co-owner Adam.
16:5307/06/2022
S11 E3: Adrian, Patrick & Bastian on Lipa
Lipa is a Swiss-made open source project which aims to provide an easy way for small businesses (restaurants, bars, clubs) to accept bitcoin payments via Lightning network. In this episode, co-founders Adrian, Patrick, and Bastian explain how Lipa works.
26:1427/05/2022
S11 E2: Karliatto and Chill on Bleskomat, An Open Source Bitcoin ATM
Bleskomat is an open source project which aims to create a universally accessible Bitcoin ATM that swaps your dirty fiat currency for BTC via Lightning network. In this episode, co-founders Karliatto and Chill explain how their ATM works.
34:4812/05/2022
S11 E1: Pavlenex & Kukks (BTCPay) + Simon (Mempool.space) on Bitcoin Free Open Source Software
This season premiere is all about promoting the ethos of free open source software. Pavlenex and Kykks from BTCPay Server, accompanied by Mempool.space mastermind Soft Simon talk about their work and advice newcomers about the challenges of Bitcoin FOSS.
56:2109/05/2022
S10 E11: Rare Scrilla on DJPEPE, Music NFTs & Why Counterparty Is King
Rare Scrilla (formerly known as JScrilla) is a hip hop artist, music producer, and on of the most celebrated Bitcoin artists around. In this episode, Scrilla expresses his love for frogs, Bitcoin's Counterparty protocol, and the DJPEPE cards.
01:47:3803/04/2022
S10 E10: Joe Looney & Shawn Leary on Rare Pepes & The History of Counterparty
Joe Looney and Shawn Leary were there when the first Rare Pepe card was created. And as true scientists, they instantly started contributing with both art and infrastructure. In this episode, they talk about frog memes and the history of Counterparty.
02:07:0921/03/2022
S10 E9: Giacomo Zucco Ranks the Scamminess of Projects Built on Bitcoin
Giacomo Zucco did to Bitcoin maximalism what Elvis Presley has done to rock n roll: he didn't invent it, but he popularized it to the masses. And when Counterparty and Omni are making a comeback while Stacks rises, it is his duty to rate their scamminess.
01:30:2123/02/2022
S10 E8: Harry Halpin on Nym, Mixnets, Tor, and Rediscovering Forgotten Cypherpunk Inventions
Harry Halpin is a privacy lover and freedom advocate who embarked on an ambitious journey to create a better Tor, which is actually decentralized and provides incentives. The name of his project is Nym & it makes use of mixnets to prevent traffic analysis.
In this episode, Harry Halpin talks about the meaning and scope of privacy in the digital age, why the Nym project accepted a financial grant from the European Commission, why Nym provides better data anonymization than Tor, and how several cypherpunk ideas get rediscovered years later in order to fix contemporary problems.
01:36:0320/02/2022
S10 E7: Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch) on Improving Bitcoin Privacy
When I first met Yuval in November 2021, he was working to improve the Wabisabi protocol, trying to make Bitcoin transactions truly private. In this episode, we talks about both the innovations and challenges that we must face to attain fungibility.
02:14:1215/02/2022
S10 E6: Nik Oraevskiy on Bitcoin Reserve, Privacy & Non-Custodial Exchanges
Nik Oraevskiy is the CEO & co-founder of Bitcoin Reserve – a European non-custodial Bitcoin exchange which looks into adding all sorts of features & integrations (including Lightning, Liquid, and auto DCA). In this episode, we talk about keeping it real.
01:30:0902/02/2022
S10 E5: Lucas Ontivero on Wasabi Wallet, Wabisabi & Bitcoin Privacy
Lucas Ontivero is Nopara's first employee at Wasabi wallet. As a matter of fact, when he joined it wasn't even called Wasabi: the first name was Hidden Wallet. In this episode, Lucas talks about Bitcoin privacy research & the Wabisabi CoinJoin protocol.
02:13:5722/01/2022
S10 E4: Juan Galt on RarePepeWorld & Bitcoin NFTs
Juan Galt is a Bitcoin journalist and consultant who decided to go full-time Rare Pepe scientist. He sees historical value in Bitcoin (Counterparty) NFTs & also considers that we're witnessing the dawn of a new asset class. But is it really this bullish?
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro, Wasabi wallet, and Bitcoin Reserve. If you'd like to diversity your bitcoin portfolio into gold, make your BTC transactions more private, and also buy more bitcoin in Europe, then you'll definitely enjoy the musical ads!
01:42:4416/01/2022
S10 Special: Chris DeRose on Counterparty NFTs, Web 3 & Ladyboys
Chris DeRose joins the Bitcoin Takeover podcast for the 3rd time to talk about how he has been right all along about Counterparty, why he's never selling his Rare Pepes, and to which extent web 3 is a scam. Watch out for the rare DEROSEHEAD NFT cards!
02:59:5511/01/2022
S10 E3: Christian Moss, Shaban Shaame & Koji Higashi on Legendary Bitcoin NFTs
If you spend more than 10 minutes in the Bitcoin Counterparty NFT realm, you're gonna hear about Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes & SaruTobi. Well, this episode's guests are the OGs who created them & envisioned using blockchain assets as video game items.
Christian Moss, Shaban Shaame, and Koji Higashi (enumerated in order of appearance) talk about creating some of the first NFT series on Counterparty and pioneering video game assets before Ubisoft, Square Enix and Konami made it cool.
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the place where you buy gold with bitcoin), Wasabi wallet (the best desktop privacy wallet) and Bitcoin Reserve (the exchange were Europeans buy their BTC).
Time stamps:
00:00 – Introductions
11:33 – Spells of Genesis cards have always had monetary value
12:44 – How Christian lost the Nakamoto Card to Shaban
18:18 – Rare Pepes used to be considered expensive at $10
20:20 – The rising Bitcoin fees have stalled Counterparty NFT expansion
22:15 – Why Spells of Genesis stayed on Bitcoin
24:55 – Why Counterparty is different from ICO protocols and chains, but still got attacked and received hate from the Bitcoin community
28:30 – Pieter Wuille’s criticism of Counterparty
31:00 – Counterparty used to have the best wallets and user interfaces
34:08 – What changed about Counterparty when Ethereum’s ERC20 tokens launched?
36:26 – Spells of Genesis and Rare Pepes depict moments from Bitcoin history
41:20 – The Bitcoin blockchain only stores tokens and their related data, not jpegs or gifs
44:00 – NFTs vs ICOs (nobody ever collected ICOs)
49:30 – Counterparty assets need to be high-value
52:56 – Not your node, not your NFTs
59:30 – Will NFT valuation crash?
01:07:15 – Views on FakeRares
01:15:28 – What makes an NFT valuable?
01:18:30 – Computer-generated NFTs aren’t very interesting
01:20:30 – Jordan Peterson, frogs, and Pepes
01:21:20 – Why Rare Pepes failed on Ethereum
01:22:20 – NFTs used to be called just “tokens”
01:23:30 – Rare Pepes reflect a lot of our pop culture
01:25:15 – Satoshi’s Games minting NFTs on Liquid
01:28:00 – RGB on Lightning?
01:36:30 – Are you really spamming the Bitcoin network if you’re paying your fair fee?
01:42:10 – Royalties for your NFTs
01:48:46 – NFTs in video games
01:53:20 – Video gamers hate NFTs because they boil the oceans
02:05:1308/01/2022
S10 E2: Theo Goodman on Rare Pepes and Bitcoin Counterparty NFTs
Theo Goodman is a man of many talents: he writes, records, and produces music videos about Bitcoin, he draws frog memes, and also gives talks at conferences. Theo was one of the earliest Rare Pepe scientists. In this episode, he shares his wisdom.
Season 10 of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast is sponsored by Vaultoro (the gold and bitcoin exchange), Wasabi wallet (the best Bitcoin privacy wallet you can use), and Bitcoin Reserve (European BTC exchange by bitcoiners and for bitcoiners). Check them out if you want to support the show.
8:38 – Theo’s Bitcoin art-themed shows on World Crypto Network
9:50 – Bitcoin memes against Reddit censorship
25:44 – The Counterparty burn address and XCP genesis
31:30 – Does Counterparty help Bitcoin become more of a free speech computer network?
37:33 – NFTs getting traded just like shitcoins
41:38 – Why Ethereum sucks
46:33 – Bitcoin will outlive us, and therefore Counterparty is the vinyl of NFTs
54:30 – Counterparty NFT transactions pay for Bitcoin’s security budget
01:08:50 – How Counterparty can get censored
01:11:50 – Mercury wallet is really cool
01:14:32 – RGB on Lightning is a more scalable Counterparty
01:15:40 – The jpeg or gif from the NFT doesn’t get uploaded to the blockchain
01:17:31 – The token is the art
01:23:10 – Why didn’t Counterparty NFTs take off at first?
01:29:24 – Why is Pepe so important for the community?
01:31:14 – ICOs vs NFTs
01:34:09 – Where should Counterparty go from here?
01:36:20 – Theo’s “Economics” and “I am Satoshi” hit songs
01:36:58 – Music NFTs?
01:38:00 – Naming assets on Counterparty
01:39:50 – If the answer is 42, then what is the question?
01:40:14 – Theo’s dance moves and rareness
01:41:00 – Rare Pepes vs Fake Rares
01:49:25 – NFT NYC and Rare Pepes
01:50:30 – Are Rare Pepes alt-right?
01:52:00 – Dan Dark Pill feeling salty about not having access to the Pepes he created
02:07:1229/12/2021
S10 E1: Eric Martindale and George Burke on Portal and DeFi on Bitcoin Layer 3
Bitcoin and DeFi certainly don't sound like they belong in the same sentence. But cypherpunk Eric Martindale, accompanied by community builder and Silicon Valley BTC meetup organizer George Burke, are creating Portal: DeFi on Bitcoin layer 3.
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro, Wasabi Wallet, and Bitcoin Reserve. They're some of the finest, most useful, and most principled companies in the space, so you better check them out.
Time stamps:
01:39 – The Silicon Valley Bitcoin meet-up (which George Burke currently organizes)
02:58 – DeFi on Bitcoin’s layer 2
06:05 – What does Bitcoin maximalism actually mean?
10:22 – Why are layers necessary in Bitcoin development and why was Portal built on Lightning as opposed to Liquid?
14:20 – What is a layer 3 and why is Portal one?
21:32 – How Portal is using layer 3 and the ability to post orders
40:25 – Bitcoin privacy really matters
50:25 – Being lazy with privacy also makes governments lazy with their CBDCs
1:04:16 – Why it’s hard to find Bitcoin Core developers
01:07:30 – Eric Martindale’s “Privacy First” principle
01:11:30 – Why buying a pre-built node reintroduces trust in a trust-minimized system
1:15:45 – RISC V boards for Bitcoin nodes
1:20:53 – Eric Martindale is like a younger David Chaum
1:21:30 – What is the ELI5 explanation for Portal?
1:22:50 – What is Portal’s monetization model?
01:34:3129/12/2021
S9 E11: Satoshi Sound on the Bitcoin & Friends Show
Satoshi Sound is a co-producer of the Bitcoin & Friends animated show. Having joined the Bitcoin space in 2013, he is also involved in mining and has a background in gold. In this episode, we talk about all of these topics and give away some spoilers.
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (gold and bitcoin exchange) and Wasabi (privacy-centered BTC wallet).
Time stamps:
03:30 – Toxicity and principle
05:30 – The voluntary spirit, purity of intentions and consistency of advocacy among bitcoiners
08:14 – Satoshi Sound’s Bitcoin journey from 2014 and until today
11:30 – The Bitcoin-only story arc of the Bitcoin and Friends show
12:30 – The Bitcoin OG mentality and low-time preference
16:15 – Working for Peter Schiff and why Bitcoin is superior to gold
18:55 – Pricing bitcoin in gold?
25:00 – Can Bitcoin ETFs suppress the price?
31:57 – Gold custody vs BTC custody
33:00 – Turning Shamir shares into BIP39 backups for extra security
35:44 – Multisig in the era of travel restrictions and lockdowns
38:01 – The drawbacks of Shamir Secret Sharing and custodial multisigs
41:30 – Shamir on top of multisig keys?
45:10 – Bitcoin and Friends collaborating with Cobra?
48:04 – Lessons learned from producing the first season of Bitcoin and Friends
53:35 – Did Satoshi Sound do any voices in the Bitcoin and Friends show?
55:29 – Extra characters being written into the show
59:10 – Who is the villain in Bitcoin and Friends?
01:02:20 – Slight spoiler about the Mitalik character
01:05:20 – Mining BTC with a Butterfly Labs ASIC and GPUs back in 2013
01:07:15 – Mining Bitcoin with wasted natural gas (Permian Mining)
01:11:50 – How can you follow Satoshi Sound?
01:51:4309/10/2021
S9 E10: David St-Onge on Bitcoin Books
When he began researching Bitcoin, David St-Onge decided to purchase and read some of the most popular books on the topic. In this interview, he rates the one that he liked the most and makes recommendations about where you should begin your journey.
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the exchange where you only trade with honest money) and Wasabi (the bitcoin wallet that's optimized to protect your network-level and transaction privacy).
Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:41 Presentation
3:48 David’s book reading frenzy
7:49 Mastering Blockchain
11:58 Tokenomics
14:29 Stray Dog visits
15:08 Tokenomics (continued)
16:00 Mastering Bitcoin
19:16 David’s motivations to write his book
20:51 Programming Bitcoin
22:43 The Bitcoin Standard
23:40 What has government done to our money ?
25:15 Layered Money
26:20 The Bitcoin Standard (continued)
28:55 What has government done to our money ? (continued)
30:52 The Bitcoin Money Book
33:58 How David met his publisher
36:08 The little Bitcoin Book
42:41 21 Lessons
45:45 Inventing Bitcoin
50:05 The book of Satoshi
55:10 Why Buy Bitcoin
57:36 The Price of Tomorrow
1:04:02 Books about Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
1:08:46 The Lessons Of History
1:11:11 Sovereignty through mathematics
1:16:22 The short list
1:16:52 Tout sur Bitcoin (The short list)
1:18:17 Inventing Bitcoin (The short list)
1:18:46 Layered Money (The short list)
1:20:32 The Price of Tomorrow (The short list)
1:20:55 Future reading
1:21:45 The zero interest trap
1:24:30 Thoughts on Bitcoin courses
1:28:45 When did David decide to write his book ?
1:32:55 Where you can buy David’s book?
1:34:35 Bitcoin Twitter
1:35:44 How would David rate Vlad's BTCTKVR magazine ?
1:39:23 Layered Money (rating)
1:39:59 Conclusion
1:47:17 The Hidden book (The Blocksize War)
01:52:4617/09/2021
S9 E9: Max Hillebrand on Praxeology, Human Action & El Salvador
For most of his life, Max Hilleband has been an avid reader of Austrian Economics. So when the El Salvador bitcoin adoption as legal tender was announced, he couldn't help but express his perspective on the praxeological & human action implications.
This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet.
Time stamps:
1:40 – Intro
3:20 – The Austrian School of Economics
04:05 – Why the left-right dichotomy doesn’t make much sense
05:03 – What’s the deal with praxeology and what does it have to do with El Salvador?
10:18 – When is a country ready to adopt bitcoin?
15:00 – Denominating products and services in bitcoin
19:40 – Every country is pretty bad, but some are worse than others
20:05 – Democracy vs monarchy
36:02 – All previous forms of government have failed
40:00 – Choice, opting-out, and opportunity cost
44:50 – First reactions to El Salvador’s decision to adopt bitcoin as legal tender
51:30 – The short-term opportunity costs of adopting bitcoin in El Salvador
57:00 – The unforeseen consequences of adopting bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador
01:00:00 – Bitcoin revolution vs French Revolution vs American Revolution vs the Bolshevik Revolution
01:05:00 – After bitcoin wins, what’s next?
01:08:30 – Opting out by voting with your feet
01:14:20 – How can we consider and individual’s choices to be truly free in a world where everyone is trying to influence us?
01:23:30 – Keeping Bitcoin censorship-resistant with home mining
01:28:00 – Recommendations for computer operating systems (Qubes, Tails, Debian, Nix Bitcoin)
01:31:20 – NixOS vs Nix Bitcoin
02:32:20 – Reflexive behavior in relation to praxeology
01:39:00 – Schumpeter’s story
01:42:00 – Shitcoiners returning to bitcoin
01:44:00 – We never really had an altcoin (alternative to bitcoin)
01:45:25 – Sidechains & BIP 300 (Drivechains)
01:51:3107/09/2021
S9 E8: Kenichi Kurimoto & Hitomi Moriyama on Nayuta, Bitcoin & Lightning
In this episode, Kenichi Kurimoto & Hitomi Moriyama talk about the useful Bitcoin Lightning tools that Nayuta builds, and also comment on contemporary issues which range from monetary inflation in Japan to Bitcoin nodes and layer 3 applications.
55:4030/08/2021
S9 E7: Knut Svanholm on Sovereignty and Bitcoin in El Salvador
While most Bitcoin podcast interviews feature people who agree on almost every topic, this discussion with Knut Svanholm feels much more like a debate where we have opposing views. We talk about El Salvador, the state of sovereignty & why BTC is bullish.
Sponsored by Vaultoro & Wasabi Wallet.
Time stamps:
4:20 – Why did Knut Svanholm stick around the Bitcoin space?
7:20 – Bitcoin conferences are the new rockstar tours
9:55 – Opinions on “The Sovereign Individual” by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
15:47 – The free will paradox
17:30 – Bitcoin as financial atheism
19:00 – Faith in verification
20:15 – Linux and open source
23:30 – Bitcoin privacy
26:08 – Financial incentives vs ideology
28:33 – Karen culture and Chainalysis
35:00 – Stockholm syndrome and the brilliance of George Orwell
38:13 – The El Salvador situation
58:50 – Elon Musk, Michael Saylor, and corporations getting involved in Bitcoin
01:01:50 – Mining from home and altruism
01:12:23 – Miners, Taproot, and SegWit activation
01:19:55 – Bitcoin’s J-shaped price action and S-shaped user adoption
01:23:54 – Why we’re still in the early days of Bitcoin
01:28:00 – The issue of fake bitcoins that can create inflation on Revolut, PayPal & eToro
01:31:45 – Day trading is like the poker boom
01:32:20 – People quitting their jobs because of the bitcoin bull run
01:34:30 – HODLing vs trading
01:36:00 – Bitcoin and the environment
01:43:00 – Bitcoin memes and reality
01:47:20 – Inflation is coming
01:48:45 – Yearly lows are more interesting than all-time highs
01:49:30 – Lightning is readier than ever
01:55:50 – Bits vs sats
01:57:00 – The mempool is empty again in 2021
01:59:54 – Peter Schiff is always the bottom indicator
02:03:57 – If you’re a Karen and want to speak to the manager of Bitcoin, where do you go?
02:06:30 – Knut’s next book
02:08:58 – Is Bitcoin libertarian?
02:13:00 – Starship Troopers, Robocop and other films that Hodlonaut also loves
02:14:50 – Roko’s basilisk and the Honey Badger Basilisk
02:17:09 – Why we need more Bitcoin podcasts
02:21:05 – Bitcoin, Christianity and atheism
02:23:00 – Why podcasts are better than television and radio
02:25:00 – How and why limits can be helpful and productive
02:27:05 – Interviewing Chris DeRose and keeping up with him
02:32:00 – Debating Roger Ver?
02:34:20 – Shitcoinery at the Bitcoin 2021 conference
02:36:00 – Shitcoins today are basically Bitcoin sidechains
02:37:50 – Stablecoins are oxymorons, altcoins are no real alternatives
02:39:00 – There’s a lot of method acting in Ethereum
02:41:00 – Zooko is most likely still a hardcore bitcoiner
02:43:00 – Vitalik, the Magic Flute and opera
02:47:50 – Fame
02:49:53 – People want to be loved, just like Charles Foster Kane
02:52:00 – Why kids and inheritance matter
02:56:00 – The flaws of education in Sweden
03:08:05 – Social democracy in Sweden
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