Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast we have a replay of last week's interview between Adam Back and Pete Rizzo on Satoshi's legacy. Adam Back the co founder and CEO of Blockstream and the investor of Proof of Work. Adam reflects on discovering Bitcoin and searching for the best information in the early days. He worked hard to understand the technical components as well as all of Satoshi's writing about Bitcoin. Adam is not a fan or over glorifying Satoshi or quoting Satoshi quotes. Adam thinks it is important for individuals to learn from Satoshi's thinking but to define Bitcoin based on the product and network itself. Dr. Back and Rizzo reflect on the difference between the stated intent of the bitcoin project, what is actually being built, and how Satoshi contributed to that ethos. Enjoy this wide ranging conversation on Satoshi's Authority, Influence, and legacy.  Topics:  How did Adam start to try and understand what Bitcoin was?  Do you think there’s any value in understanding what Satoshi thought about Bitcoin?  There’s an aversion in the Bitcoin development community about speaking about Satoshi. Can you talk about where that comes from?  Under Satoshi, Bitcoin had a very different development model. Bitcoin Core is today more of a meritocracy. Why does Bitcoin need a meritocracy?  Satoshi has been gone for 10 years. Is Satoshi Nakamoto still influential in Bitcoin today?  It’s been said nobody understands Bitcoin. Was it possible for Satoshi to understand Bitcoin?  What do you think was the biggest mistake that Satoshi Nakamoto made in building Bitcoin? Was it necessary to remove Satoshi ? Where does Satoshi Nakamoto rank in terms of the biggest intellectual contributors to Bitcoin?  Why do you think Satoshi hasn’t moved his Bitcoin? 

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Simon Lapscher the CEO of the Liquality wallet. Liquality is a very interesting wallet because they are focus on atomic swaps. In particular they are focused on atomic swaps with Bitcoin. Liquality makes it possible for your bitcoin to swap into any other currency they support trustlessly. One of the key users of the Liquality Wallet are bitcoiners looking to leverage the RSK blockchain. Liquality makes it easy, trustless, and seamless to squad intro RBTC on RSK.  Lapscher stresses the importance of a wallet which makes Bitcoin’s native features accessible to users. The Liquality wallet is designed to make Bitcoin and other digital assets/tokens interoperable and functional across the entire blockchain space. The guy is to make blockchain and trustless native features easy and accessible for average users. This includes features that bitcoiners are really excited about, Lightning, Coincoin, Batch transactions, Multi-sig and more.  Liquality plans to roll out Liquid support and atomic squaps between BTC and L-BTC. This will make Liquality the one stop shop for BTC Native features as well as atomic swaps with the extended Bitcoin Ecosystem.   Follow CK @ck_SNARKS Follow Simon and Liquality @simonlapscher & @Liquality_io

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Eric Weiss, CEO of the Bitcoin Investment Group Fund (BIG Fund). Eric was early to Bitcoin and saw its potential as an alternative store of value over the internet immediately! Eric was the person that helped introduce  Michael Saylor of Microstrategy to Bitcoin. Eric and Michael are long time friends and it was finally in the initial fall out of the COVID 19 lockdowns where finally Bitcoin as a money outside of the system started to make more sense to Saylor.  “Covid was kind of something that made a lot of people question.” - Eric Weiss Christian and Eric discuss people waking up to Bitcoin, How Bitcoin is actually good for the dollar, Bitcoin exceeding his expectations for 2014, BTC incentives and much much more.  Topics:  The Bitcoin Investment Group. Bonds to Bitcoin. Buying Bitcoin in 2014. Buying bitcoin vs business risk. Bitcoin’s incentives and game theory. Michael Saylor’s quick onboarding and conviction. Turning data into value Twitter: @Eric_BIGfund

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sat down with the CEO of Argo Blockchain (ARBKF) to cover all things mining. The conversation starts with a dive into Peter's Bitcoin story which starts in a hostel in Bali as these stories often do. Peter's journey from running that hostel to operating one of the largest public mining companies in the industry is a tad out of the ordinary.  Wall discusses how Argo breaks down their business among BTC Mining, Alt-coin mining, venture capital, and R&D. Of all of these pillars BTC Mining is by far the most important and the cash cow of the business. Argo is focused on deploying hashrate across the US with an emphasis on mining using renewable resources. Peter think's is not good that so much mining in China uses coal power, especially during the dry season. He and Argo see North America as being an opportunity to align Bitcoin with Green Energy while still being extremely competitive globally on energy costs. Peter thinks that Bitcoin mining can get the best of both worlds. Other topics covered in this podcast: Mining Bitcoin & treasury management The current ASIC market? How is the ASIC Market Changing? Misconceptions around Bitcoin mining and energy usage? Mining in North America. Mining Bitcoin in Texas.

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast host Christian Keroles and guest host William Clemente sit down with Rafael Schultze-Kraft the CTO of Glassnode. Glassnode is an onchain analytics company and they thrive by making it accessible and easy for Bitcoin enthusiasts, investors, and analysts alike can get their hands on cutting edge metrics and indicators for Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies.  Onchain analytics is the practice of using Blockchain node data to learn about the economic actors using a cryptocurrency. This interview is a high level overview of Glassnodes business, their target audience, and a deep dive on some of the most interesting onchain metrics that Rafeal uses every single day. We dive intro what makes the 2021 bull market look different that the 2017 bull market and what is making Rafeal extremely bullish on Bitcoin in the short and long term.  Below we outlined all of the metrics mentioned on the podcast.  Miner net position: The 30d change of the supply held in miner addresses https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=distribution.BalanceMinersChange&modal=loginForm Dormancy: the average number of days destroyed per coin transacted, and is defined as the ratio of coin days destroyed and total transfer volume https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.AverageDormancy&modal=loginForm Coin Days Destroyed: calculated by taking the number of coins in a transaction and multiplying it by the number of days it has been since those coins were last spenthttps://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.Cdd&modal=loginForm  Lifespan: he ratio of the sum of Coin Days Destroyed and the sum of all coin days ever created https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.Liveliness&modal=loginForm SOPR: computed by dividing the realized value (in USD) divided by the value at creation (USD) of a spent output https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.Sopr&modal=loginForm HODL Waves: Each colored band shows the percentage of Bitcoin in existence that was last moved within the time period denoted in the legend https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=supply.HodlWaves&modal=loginForm Entity Net Growth: The net growth of unique entities in the networkhttps://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=Entities&m=entities.NetGrowthCount&modal=loginForm NUPL: Net unrealized profit/loss https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.NetUnrealizedProfitLossAccountBased&modal=loginForm Follow Rafael Schultze-Kraft @n3ocortex Follow Glassnode @glassnode Follow William Clemente @

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University Craig Warmke. Professor Warmke is quite unique in academia because he has fallen deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. As a scholar in philosophy, ethics, and human nature Craig is fascinated by Bitcoin's incentive structure and the implications of Bitcoin on society. Professor Warmke is saddened by the state of academia and laments about the broken incentives around tenure that force academics to hyper specialize rather than encouraging them to take more complete and wholistic world views and studies. Warmke believes it is this hyper focus in academia that causes most academics to miss Bitcoin altogether. Professor Warmke is currently managing a research collective around the ethics and philosophy around Bitcoin called Resistance.money with 2 fellow Bitcoin Philosophers Andrew Bailey and Bradley Rettler. The three write papers to demystify why Bitcoin is good as well as they are working on a book titled Resistance Money. Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Professor Craig Warmke . Follow Craig on twitter @craigwarmke Learn More about Resistance Money at https://www.resistance.money/

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with the legendary Christian Langalis (Bitcoin Sign Guy). The two Christian's open up the podcast by discussing Bitcoin, Lockdowns, human freedom, and his historic moment holding up the buy Bitcoin sign behind Janet Yellen at a 2017 Federal Reserve testimony hearing. At the time Janet was the chair of the federal Reserve and now she is the United States Secretary of the Treasury.   Since Christian's immediate rise to Bitcoin meme legendary statues he has taken is passion for Bitcoin and freedom to the Urbit project where they are working on reinvesting the computer in a way that removes all the legacy technical debt and starts over with a fresh language and architecture to optimize computing for personal servers and p2p interactions. Urbit is pioneering the future of personal computing and running personal servers and Bitcoin is at the heart of it! Urbit has reached a point where it has several key usability primitives like storage, messaging, Bitcoin and more.   If you want to learn more about Urbit visit https://urbit.org/events/bitcoin-launch/ and reach out to support@tlon.io.   Sign up for an Urbit here: https://urbit.typeform.com/to/zQ9QOV3Z#source=ptp1

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with the Bitcoin Boomer Gary Leland. Gary is a life long entrepreneur where he created several small business, pioneered podcasting and founded one of the largest Podcasting event in the world. Gary has since fallen deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole and become an instrumental member of the Bitcoin community! Gary has gone all in on Bitcoin in a number of ways, first with his investments but also with his time, businesses, and energy. Gary has founded one of the best Bitcoin event in North America BitBlockBoom in Dallas Texas, he also hosts a daily Bitcoin podcast, and monthly Bitcoin Maximalist BBQs. Gary and Christian discuss the benefits of selling all of the fiat collectibles and stores of value for Bitcoin. Gary has personally sold thousands of dollar worth of memorabilia in order to buy Bitcoin. He is confident that Bitcoin will serve his children much better as a fungible store of value and it relieves him to remove clutter from his life. Gary is an incredible example of the positives that come from embracing Bitcoin. Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Gary Leland. Topics: Going all in on Bitcoin The Bitcoin Bull Run Bit Block Boom 2021 Bitcoin 2021 Embracing Bitcoin culture Texas Bitcoin and Freedom Selling your stuff for Bitcoin Educating Boomers on Bitcoin Learn more about BitBlockBoom https://bitblockboom.com/ @bitblockboom Follow Gary on Twitter @GaryLeland

Do not forget to subscribe to the new Fed Watch: Bitcoin and Macro new feed. Search for “Fed Watch - Bitcoin and Macro” on your podcast app. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fed-watch-bitcoin-and-macro/id1543640492 In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Fed Watch podcast, Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner reminisce about the year on the podcast so far and cover recent developments from the major central banks of the world. There have been so many great guests on Fed Watch this year so far that span a unique swath of bitcoin and macro. If you haven’t listened to these past episodes, subscribe and check out the back catalog. This year’s list of guests includes Max Kaiser, Nik Bhatia, Michael Lebowitz, Elliot Johnson, Mark Moss, Greg Foss, and Daniel Prince. Fed Watch has established itself as the bitcoin podcast which goes past the surface arguments about the monetary system, uncovering uncomfortable topics and diving deeply into how bitcoin will reshape that system. The main part of this episode is summarizing central bank related news for the last month, particularly the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the Federal Reserve. Articles mentioned in the episode China Digital Yuan Will Co-Exist With Alipay, WeChat, PBOC Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-25/china-digital-yuan-will-co-exist-with-alipay-wechat-pboc-says China Asks Banks to Curtail Credit for Rest of Year https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-06/china-is-said-to-ask-banks-to-curtail-credit-for-rest-of-year ECB tries to dispel myths about CBDC https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37744/ecb-bids-to-bust-cbdc-myths Lagarde Says Market Can Test ECB Resolve as Much as It Wants https://archive.ph/SyLZK Treasury General Account balance https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WTREGEN Thanks for listening. Make sure to visit our Sponsor b.tc/conference and find our new RSS feed! Written by Ansel Lindner Economist, author and bitcoin specialist. Find more from Ansel at the Bitcoin & Markets podcast (bitcoinandmarkets.com), the BitcoinDictionary.cc, and macro blog Bitcoin & Markets Research (BTCM.co).

In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian sits down with rising Bitcoin developer Ben Carman to discuss his cutting edge work in the Bitcoin Smart Contracting space as well as controversy and disputes Ben finds himself in as he trolls Bitcoin Twitter.   Ben and Christian first met far before Ben's rise to prominence int he Bitcoin community at the Bit Block Boom Conference in 2019. Since then, Ben has joined SuredBits as a leader in DLC technology. DLC's show promise as the smart contracting and oracle layer for the Bitcoin financial stack. Ben has since built Krystal Bull which is a wallet for hosting an oracle. Ben throws in his two cents on the Taproot activation discussion and educates CK about all of the benefits and features that Taproot enables.   Lastly we dive into a recent confrontation between Eric July and Ben. Eric is a prominent libertarian pendent who does not really recommend or educate his following on Bitcoin. Ben and other Bitcoin plebs joined Erics podcast to call out the fact that Eric and other libertarians that do not take action are LARPS and the fall out from that confrontation.   Topics: DLC's Bitcoiner Libertarian Show down. Intro to Ben, Suredbits DLCs Krystal Bull Why run an oracle? taproot Lot True v False The future and nature of Bitcoin finance. Why are libertarian's that deny bitcoin Larps Eric July's podcast.