The Bitcoin Podcast

We revisit the adult industry this week by featuring upscale London escort agency Fallen Angels. We had a chat with Miss Silvia's trusted colleague Coco, who provided us with great insight on how this industry + bitcoin go hand in hand. The benefits of using Bitcoin were greater for them then the traditional method so much so that they decided to make it their preferred method of payment. Who says humanity’s oldest industry shouldn’t be the one to propel Bitcoin into the future? Giggity Giggity Goo!

We here at The Bitcoin Podcast have been cutting the commerce grass with the ole' Lawnmower App for a little while now. Round up your everyday purchases, invest the spare change into bitcoin, and live your life happy. It's a nice slow n' steady way to accumulate the immortal coin of the almighty. These guys were cool enough to be one of our first guests and they've come back to tell us a bit about some of the cool new features. It's great...and...download the app now and get $5 free. That's free money, bitch! Do it!!

Back in 1999, the price tag of $199 could have secured you a Sega Dreamcast. Fast forward 16 years later, that same price point can acquire a physical bitcoin wallet the size of a credit card. Integrated with a little screen, a camera, a fingerprint sensor (yes, biometric authentication) and a few buttons, Case wallet is capable of executing transactions by itself. CEO Melanie Shapiro swings by to talk about the product and the usual ridiculous shenanigans you come to know and love. Episode 25 baby! Strap in.

This week we revisit the Mike Tyson ATM fiasco but instead of talking about it, we be about it. Peter Klamka, CEO of Bitcoin Direct, said Tyson is popular in several demographic groups — and his partnership has the potential to bring a whole swath of new users to bitcoin. We test this theory by inviting him into the think tank to get a first-hand account at his statements. In addition, we get ambushed by Blythe Meowsters! Oh, and bitcoin’s price is going bonkers. To the moon!

MadBitcoins is a uniquely styled cryptocurrency news resource and we bit his style. Hard. No bad blood though as he comes on the show and we yuck it up about starting a platform such as ours and what it takes to succeed as a successful media outlet. In addition, hot topics of discussion range from sidechains, Blythe ‘Bluth Misters’ Masters, and why Cleveland Brown would be a good bitcoin celebrity endorser.

OH YEAAAAHHH COMING IN WITH THE ELBOW SMASH! If you vote with ​your ​feet, you ​leave an ​organization and ​change to a new ​organization, ​service, or ​product. In this case, bitcoin and this week's guest venture capitalist Brock Pierce. He is also managing partner at Blockchain Capital & chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation. In addition to that we review the film DOPE. Also, Demetrick impersonates black celebrities endorsing bitcoin. It's OK, he's black too. He can do dat! Holla!

Bitcoin has mesmerized academics for cutting out the PayPals and governments usually required for digital money. Enter: Ledger. A peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. We chat with managing editors, Prof. Christopher E. Wilmer, University of Pittsburgh, and Richard Ford Burley. Join us this week as they shed some light on the journal as it strives to serve both the general public and the Bitcoin research community through the dissemination of high-quality and timely scholarly content.

They say being drunk is feeling sophisticated without being able to say it. Well we here at the Bitcoin Podcast know that those So every 10th episode we pour up some bubbly and get down to brass tax. This week, friend of the show Marc Buffington cracks open some Bud Light and talks computers, finance, and banking as he joins us in the roundtable. \*hic-BUUUUURP\*

Is the bitcoin brand disruptive? How do we deal with bitcoin's identity crisis and if it is in fact disruptive, is bitcoins kind of disruption undisciplined or groundbreaking? Gide, a public affairs consulting firm, and the Chamber of Digital Commerce announced a strategic partnership in which Gide will support the Chamber involving this issue. We’ve talked to Perianne Boring about the CDC side of things, now it’s time to invite Gide Principal Arika Pierce to give us some insight on her side of the merger.

Monday June 8, 2015 was a date that will go down in financial history. For on this date, the first cryptosecurity was created. It happened on Overstock.com’s new T0.com cryptosecurity trading platform. Specifically, the first piece of a $25-million digital bond issued by Overstock.com exclusively on the bitcoin blockchain. What better person to swing by and discuss this with us than Judd Bagley, the director of communications at Overstock. Plus, Marcello tells the gang about The Law of Diffusion of Innovation.