Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

On November 3, 2020, the Associated Press declared Cynthia Lummis the winner of an open U.S. Senate seat for Wyoming, making her the first woman to ever represent the state in the upper chamber. But this wasn’t the only first marked by her historic win. As she’s emphasizes in this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Lummis is the most outspoken Bitcoin advocate to ever rise to elected office on The Hill. She discusses her own journey in realizing Bitcoin's unique store-of-value characteristics in 2013, her plans to educate Senate colleagues about the technology and importance of keeping the federal and legislative branches at bay in terms of misguided Bitcoin regulation. Be sure to watch the full interview for those highlights and more. Follow Peter Chawaga on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterChawaga Follow Cynthia Lummis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CynthiaMLummis

In this week’s Bitcoin Magazine Podcast CK sits down with the CEO of Lolli Alex Adelman. Alex is a long time entrepreneur in the cash back and rewards space and his entrance into the Bitcoin ecosystem has been absolutely game changing. Lolli leverages Bitcoin as a universal super liquid rewards point and have proven that they can drive real volume for retailers with Bitcoin back rewards.    Lolli has many of your favorite merchants and they offer an extremely easy and simple way to interface with the Bitcoin network. Most importantly for Bitcoiners, Lolli educates newbies about Bitcoin and allows them to withdraw their Bitcoin to their own Bitcoin Wallet.    Lolli has incredibly exciting plans for the future of their service and they are extremely optimistic about onboarding more and more amazing retailers to the earning potential that Bitcoin back can provide them.    We discussed the following topics.    Lolli ground breaking approach to Bitcoin as a universal reward point   How Lolli positioned itself to be successful with demographics outside of the normal BTC space.    Alex's mental model for Bitcoin    The potential of Sats as a universal reward point.    Whats next for Lolli and Sats back?    What are conversations with retailers like?    Are executives getting interested in bitcoin beyond just thinking of it as a marketing engine with Lolli?    Follow Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine  Follow ck @ck_SNARKs  Follow Alex Adelman @alexadelman 

We have very special episode this week featuring some of the godfathers of Bitcoin: Nick Szabo, Adam Back and David Chaum. This was recorded as a live panel from Seoul at Korea Blockchain Week and is laid out as a history of the ideas and events that led to Bitcoin from their first person accounts, plus their current thoughts on the experiment and what excites them about the future. From the cryptography and cypherpunk movements to David’s DigiCash, Adam’s Hashcash proof-of-work, Nick’s Bit Gold, and more. Their own contributions were foundational to the development of Bitcoin, and it was fascinating to have them together and playing off of each other in a discussion of that history. A special thanks for fact block for organizing.  

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Eclipse attacks. More specifically, they discuss the 2015 paper “Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network,” written by Ethan Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar and Sharon Goldberg, from Boston University and Hebrew University/MSR Israel. Support the Show! Follow Bitcoin Magazine on Twitter @BitcoinMagazine Follow Aaron van Wirdum @AaronvanW Follow Sjors Provoost @provoost Music: Song Title: Segwit Sounds By: The NakamoTones Album: Citadel Music Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Bitcoin Magazine's Peter Chawaga interviewed Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation about this dynamic between governments and encryption backdoors. The pair covered the recent draft resolution, the obstacles that those attempting to circumvent encryption will face, the importance of leveraging tools like Signal and Bitcoin and more.

Bitcoin has an unyielding apolitical nature, which oddly enough, makes it a political statement in today’s rampantly politicized world. In this episode of Fed Watch, Christian and Ansel discuss the recent US election and what it means for bitcoin. Their discussion is wide-ranging from election irregularities, to the rebound in mining hash power, to bitcoin price predictions for the near term. Topics:  Politics in the US was front page news Speculate Biden and the Fed The Dollar and the Yuan price action during the election. Bitcoin is global. Bitcoin price at 15260 Difficulty -16% adjustment followed by a +5 Adjustment

CK sits down with founder of the Amber App and The Bitcoin Times Aleks Svetski to discuss his recent Bitcoin Magazine Article "Because Bitcoin Is A Necessity, Its Economy Will Be Circular." This was a wide ranging conversation covering many of the first principle arguments for Bitcoin and sound money. This is a great podcast to share with bitcoin beginners. Link to the Article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/because-bitcoin-is-a-necessity-its-economy-will-be-circular Topics: *Bitcoin is the perfect money in that it embodies all of the properties and functions of money *Money is arguably the most important invention of mankind, and is the mechanism by which we measure time and energy and the communication medium through which we collaborate *Major transformations like Bitcoin are progressions which diffuse through society in memetic fashion. *When you look at modern economics and the fiat money *Discussing the issues with MMT *Local peaks and Valleys for our money system. *Payments and financial privacy will not get better under the existing system, they’re only going to get worse.

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, ck sits down with Simon Chamorro to discuss Valiu his amazing dollar platform. We dive deep into how he talks to regulators and how the Valiu team thinks about user experience.Finally we go deep into the financial issues in South America and how bitcoin and synthetic dollars are helping. You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter. Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs Simon Chamorro on Twitter @simonvaliu

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Open Timestamps, a Bitcoin-based time stamping project by applied cryptography consultant and former Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd. Open Timestamps leverages the security of the Bitcoin blockchain to timestamp any type of data, allowing for irrefutable proof that that data existed at a particular point in time. Support the Show! Follow Bitcoin Magazine on Twitter @BitcoinMagazine Follow Aaron van Wirdum @AaronvanW Follow Sjors Provoost @provoost Music: Song Title: Segwit Sounds By: The NakamoTones Album: Citadel Music Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

Fed Watch Podcast Discussions on Base Money and Bitcoin Our discussion on this episode of Fed Watch centers around “what is base money” and Matthew’s thoughts on some of the edge cases in the definition. We also attack the inflation/deflation debate from a whole different angle, a data driven angle thanks to Matthew’s research and knowledge on the subject. We don’t ask simple questions and expand the topic past the common hyperinflationary troupes of the end of the dollar. The listener will hear discussion on dollar liquidity, the history and current status of gold and silver, foreign reserves of the dollar, and, of course, where Bitcoin’s current status relative to other base money types. Matthew also shares some great charts which can be seen on the video version of Fed Watch on YouTube. https://youtu.be/l1ei12lWSeQ Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter. Ansel Lindner on Twitter @AnselLindner Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs Matthew Mežinskis on Twitter @crypto_voices and cryptovoices.com