Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

With Ansel Lindner stepping in, we decided to rebrand the show as FED Watch. FED Watch is a Bitcoin Magazine podcast that focuses on Macroeconomics while acknowledging Bitcoin’s growing role in the future.  This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss unemployment around the world.  Topics:  * Unemployment in America  * Teasing out the active labor force participation  * Unemployment globally * Cracks in China's Power * The transition to Bitcoin Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.  Ansel Lindner on Twitter @AnselLindner Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [SPONSORS]  Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required. eToro - The best one stop shop for everything Bitcoin and Crypto! Check out the best trading site at etoro.com! 

CK and new co-host Ansel Lindner discuss the recent ruling in German courts that deemed QE activity by the European Central Bank to be illegal.  Topics:  German courts said ECB's QE actions were illegal under German law EU law is supposed to trump German law German courts give ECB 90 days to stop QE Real risk of Euro break up Fun fact: European REPO is already separated by country Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.  Ansel Lindner on Twitter @AnselLindner Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [SPONSORS]  Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required. eToro - The best one stop shop for everything Bitcoin and Crypto! Check out the best trading site at etoro.com!

The millennial generation has now experienced 2 major downturns. How the macro environment has helped older generations unproportionally. How Housing and Education costs are holding millennials and Gen-Xers down. How older generations will not feel the pain of their decisions. Are we experiencing inflation or deflation? Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter. Colin Harper on Twitter @AsILayHodling Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [Guest] Andy Edstrom on Twitter @edstromandrew [SPONSORS] Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required. Etoro: The best one stop shop for all things Bitcoin Trading. Check out eToro.com!

WTF is Happening with the Fed!? - Is this Inflation? w/ Ansel Lindner - WTF 5 Colin Harper interview’s Ansel Lindner Bitcoiner and host of the Bitcoin and Markets podcast.  Topics:  The current global situation.  Oil futures going negative.  The difference between debt money, fiat money, and commodity money. What is the definition of inflation  What is the definition of deflation.  Ansel's strong dollar thesis.  Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.  Colin Harper on Twitter @AsILayHodling Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [Guest] Ansel Lindner on Twitter @AnselLindner & @btcmrkts [SPONSORS]  Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required. eToro - The best one stop shop for everything Bitcoin and Crypto! Check out the best trading site at etoro.com!  Bitcoinhalving.com - Join the 21 hour countdown to Bitcoin’s third halving.

This week Colin sits down with Pascal Hügli, head of research at Schlossberg & Co about what is MMT. Topics: * Switzerland is not imposing harsh mandates on its people * What is Modern Monetary Theory * MMT VS Austrian Economics * Debt to infinity and beyond * Central Bank Currencies Coping with the current uncertainty Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter. Colin Harper on Twitter @AsILayHodling Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [Guest] Pascal Hügli on Twitter @pahueg [SPONSORS] * Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy * Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required. * Etoro: The best one stop shop for all things Bitcoin Trading. Check out eToro.com! * Bitcoinhalving.com - Join the 21 hour countdown to Bitcoin’s third halving.

Colin Harper interview’s Nik Bhatia professor at USC, bitcoiner and researcher at OpenNode & Tantra Labs.  Topics:  What is QE? The Fed is buying everything!  The Run on Everything  The difference between an economic crisis and a financial crisis.  What is LIBOR OIS.  The Fed has ended price discovery.  Bitcoin as the base money for the future  Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.  Colin Harper on Twitter @AsILayHodling Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [Guest] Nik Bhatia on Twitter @timevaluebtc [SPONSORS]  Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required. Bitcoinhalving.com - Join the 21 hour countdown to Bitcoin’s third halving.

Following the COVID19 crisis the US government and specifically the Federal Reserve have been incredibly quick to action. Bitcoin Magazine brings you this special in an attempt to explain what the federal reserve is doing and how it affects you.  Topics:  Foreign Repo activity  Repo Explained Discussing MMT and the next stage in Keynesianism.  Potential modifications of the Volker Rule. https://www.thebalance.com/volcker-rule-summary-3305905 When relief? Breaking down the CARES act. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trillion-covid-19-stimulus-bill/ What to pay attention to next? Please rate and share the podcast!   You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.    Colin Harper on Twitter @AsILayHodling   Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs   [SPONSORS]  Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required.

Following the COVID19 crisis the US government and specifically the Federal Reserve have been incredibly quick to action. Bitcoin Magazine brings you this special in an attempt to explain what the federal reserve is doing and how it affects you.  Topics:  -Fed setting up two new credit facilities where buyers on secondary market can take out loans -Fed will be buying their debt -Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF), Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) and Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF)** -$1 trillion in daily repo -Unlimited QE--early march, announced $700 billion QE ($500 bln in treasury bons, $200bnl in MBS) -Zero interest rates -Zero reserve requirements -Bond yields are negative Primary dealers: J.P. Morgan, Barclays Capital, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup. TD Securities, Morgan Stanley, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Goldman Sachs Please rate and share the podcast! You can find us @BitcoinMagazine on Twitter.  Colin Harper on Twitter @AsILayHodling Christian Keroles on Twitter @ck_SNARKs [SPONSORS]  Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Investing Made Easy Bisq: Bisq is an open-source, peer-to-peer application that allows you to buy and sell Bitcoin in exchange for national currencies. No registration required.

  We're all quarantined! But don't worry, we're still bringing you the content you need in these critical (often boring) times. Sit back, relax, and enjoy our first quarantine episode. Colin Harper fills in for Peter Chawaga and is joined by Flip -- computer mastermind behind all things dot com over at Bitcoin Magazine. They discuss being quarantined, prepping, coin-mixing, the value of gold and other precious metals, and even their favorite quarantine recipes. Enjoy! Twitter Colin Harper - @AsILayHodling Flip - @flip_btcmag  

“The legacy of our civilization is a state based on a hierarchical system of control and specialization of labor, which leads to all of the modern problems we have. To create a different kind of society, that's free, where people have liberty and natural wealth, the emerging field of cryptography offers us power." -Amir Taaki With markets around the world plunging into a downward spiral, now is a great time to revisit the original reasons why people started working on Bitcoin. Amir Taaki was one of Bitcoin’s first-ever dedicated developers and perhaps the one most infamously focused on maintaining privacy and freedom from authority.  In 2014, Taaki created Dark Wallet, the first privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet to include a CoinJoin mixer. That same year, he received even more notoriety as Dark Wallet was twice named in the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) report on the potential money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks posed by cryptocurrencies.  In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Taaki, who after years spent working with the Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and helping build their society, is now contributing to multiple cryptocurrency and privacy projects not yet revealed to the public. Taaki takes a critical, perhaps unwarranted, view on the Bitcoin movement of today, but he also has a valuable perspective on many of the topics covered. Topics: What Bitcoiners can learn from the Free Software movement How Bitcoin has changed between 2014 and today, and why Taaki believes the ecosystem needs to create a new narrative. The pros and cons of American startup culture on Bitcoin's development How Taaki' opposing views of Bitcoin led to conflict with Gavin Andresen, and later the creation of the BIP system. How Taaki believes the Bitcoin of today is not radical enough The limits of mesh networks at a large scale Why Bitcoin needs a stronger narrative to defend against co-option by larger corporate and state entities. What Bitcoiners can learn from Taaki's experience helping build an autonomous free society in Syria The narrative the Bitcoin ecosystem needs to adopt according to Taaki Nym, the Barcelona hacker academy and Taaki's other unpublicized projects The similarities and limits of comparing Bitcoin to religion. Resources: Unix philosophy Amir Taaki on Bitcoin and Building Dissident Technology in 2020 The Rojava movement Anarchy in Kurdistan  Twitter: Amir Taaki (@Narodism) Dave (@dshollers) Bitcoin Magazine Sponsors: Etoro DISCLAIMER: The following content is for informational purposes only. You should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. Nothing contained in this presentation constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endo