Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
Read_598 - Why Every Fixed Income Investor Should Consider Bitcoin - Part 1 & 2 [Greg Foss]
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“General Motors, Ford, AT&T and GE have cumulative debt that is larger than the entire HY market. Downgrades of any one of these names likely im...
Guy's Take #51 - AOPP & the Travel Rule
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Twitter up in arms about a potentially invasive privacy measure and compliance for an invasive regulatory requirement, it's time to break down ex...
Read_597 - The 7th Property Ch1 - The Dimensions of Money [Eric Yakes]
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"What is money? Why is it used? Which type of money is best? And why?" - Eric Yakes Today we are diving into the foundational chapter of Eric Yakes' ...
Read_596 - Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species [Brandon Quittem]
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“This makes Bitcoin miners uniquely symbiotic with energy grids serving as “demand response” partners. If energy is ever in short supply, people...
Read_595 - Money Messiah: Part 2 [John Vallis]
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Money, in the ideal (which we’ll likely always only ever strive for, and not achieve), turns a portion of ‘our work, here and now’, into a port...
Read_594 - Money Messiah: Part 1 [John Vallis]
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Sacrifice is thus a critical component of value, as it is the use of one’s own limited resources, as that against which all action is measured an...
Read_593 - Bitcoin Heading to $30k? [Nik Bhatia]
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"This confluence of Fed hikes and investor naivety “presents the setup for a severe washout” as the “pernicious effects of rising interest rates...
Read_592 - First Impressions of Web3 [Moxie Marlinspike]
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they car...
Chat #66 - Will the Real Web3 Please Stand Up, with John Carvalho
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Our goal is basically to realize this concept we have created called the atomic economy. This is just my way to create a narrative and mental model t...
Guy's Take #50 - Lightning and the Web
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a follow up to the State of Lightning Report from Arcane Research and OpenNode, we dive into the possibilities for how Lightning will change the gl...
Read_591 - The State of Lightning - Part 2
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"What the Internet has done for information, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network will do for money. " - Elizabeth Stark Finishing the amazing report f...
Read_590 - The State of Lightning - Part 1
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Lightning Network, and the possibility to perform micropayments instantaneously, will most likely change how we pay for certain services. We al...
Read_589 - Proof of Stake & Stablecoins - Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Crypto exchanges with numerous coins have an incentive to get you excited about new coins, because they make money from trading volumes. Even if it...
Read_588 - Proof of Stake & Stablecoins - Part 1: A Centralization Dilemma [Lyn Alden]
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If Bitcoin were built on a proof-of-stake model, where the more coins you have the more votes you have on how the network functions, the large exchan...
Read_587 - Bitcoin & The American West [Croesus]
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"These pioneers are akin to the Bitcoiners who showed up post-Mt. Gox, through to the Class of 2020. These are the individuals who saw the promise an...
Read_586 - Bitcoin & Tesla's Peaceful Energy Vision [Level39]
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If Bitcoin had existed in Tesla’s time, it would have removed the need for a corrupted monetary arrangement. Bitcoin mining is a permissionless and...
Read_585 - Your Money AND Your Life [Edward Snowden]
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Neither is a Central Bank Digital Currency a State-level embrace of cryptocurrency—at least not of cryptocurrency as pretty much everyone in the wo...
Chat #65 - To Airgap, Or Not to Airgap? ...& Other Hardware Challenges with Lixin Liu & Douglas Bakkum
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you missed the awesome Twitter spaces we had with Lixin Liu from Keystone and Douglas Bakkum from Shift Crypto, you can't stop crying because we ha...
Read_584 - Yes, Bitcoin is a Smart Contract Platform [Shinobi]
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“'Smart contracts' as a term was coined by Nick Szabo back in 1996 before the idea of a blockchain was even a twinkling in Satoshi’s eye. They had...
Read_583 - Libertarianism & the Bitcoin Strategy [Stephan Livera]
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Even if we could somehow convince the world or the U.S. government to adopt a gold standard, there’s not really anything stopping them from claimin...
Read_582 - The World Bitcoin Will Build [Cory Klippsten]
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Money appreciates in value over time so that individuals can plan their future knowing their wealth will be protected. This leads to market partici...
Read_581 - The Vaccine Moment, Part 1 [Paul Kingsnorth]
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Often, in an argument, what people think they are arguing about is not the real subject of disagreement, which is deeper and often unspoken, if it ...
Read_580 - Bitcoin and Crypto Aren't the Same [Nik Bhatia]
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“If price is truth, then a market capitalization of over $1 billion for over 100 different cryptocurrencies tells a story: we live in a multicoin wo...
Read_579 - Our Best Shot at Liberty [Dr. Wolf Von Laer]
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The Bitcoin network itself and the personal owning of bitcoin is an act of peaceful rebellion against the fiat money system." - Dr. Wolf Von Laer Th...
Read_578 - The Irrelevance of Experts [Willem Van Den Bergh]
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“as the internet has slowly but surely eroded the obstacle of restricted information access in the past decades, the limiting factor for an individu...
Read_577 - The End of Super Imperialism [Alex Gladstein]
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Hudson’s thesis was that America had forced other countries to pay for its wars regardless of whether they wanted to or not. Like a tribute system,...
Chat #64 - Greg Foss & Preston Pysh on Bitcoin & the Bond Blowup
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have an incredible conversation with Preston Pysh and Greg Foss on the Bond markets, the shifting sands of the global financial world, and th...
Read_576 - Bitcoin Changes Our Perception of Money [Mike Hobart]
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The passage of time is one thing that we can never get back. Once it has been spent, there’s no refund. Time is the ultimate currency, forever pas...
Read_575 - Wonder if Bitcoin is Alien Technology? [Tomer Strolight]
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting, self-governing, and ever-lasting. But nobody has engineered anything to do ...
Read_574 - Lightning & The Internet - Choosing the Right Path [Roy Sheinfeld]
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"We’re revolutionaries. There’s no reason to be coy about it. Our goal is to replace fiat with bitcoin. “Disruption” is almost a quaint term f...
Read_573 - Why You Cant Have a PPE Curriculum Without Bitcoin [Hass McCook]
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Freedom, transparency, honesty, meritocracy, fairness, voluntaryism and hard work are great things one should strive toward, whether it is in devel...
Read_572 - Bitcoin & the US Fiscal Reckoning [Avik Roy]
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It is understandably difficult for most of us to imagine a monetary world aside from the one in which we've lived for generations. After all, the U.S...
Read_571 - The Quest For Digital Cash [Alex Gladstein]
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The fight that the cypherpunks mounted was one of the main reasons that the U.S. government lost the Crypto Wars. The authorities tried to stop the c...
Chat #63 - Hashing it Out with Harry Sudock
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Nodes are the law, and miners are the muscle." - Harry Sudock Harry Sudock, Vice President of Strategy at Griid, and I have a chat about the challen...
Read_570 - Unpacking the Great Hashrate Migration [Nic Carter]
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The precise magnitude and schedule for the westward move is currently unknown, but all signals seem to be indicating the greatest shakeup in the geog...
Read_569 - Calculating the Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin [Greg Foss]
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Wake up people, this is not a drill. Contagion risks are increasing due to potential global stagflation... The intrinsic value of BTC has increased...
Read_568 - The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Bitcoin [Bradley Rettler]
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Using Bitcoin can level the playing field for the world’s poor as we work toward economic justice.” - Bradley Rettler Author Bradley Rettler r...
Read_567 - Revenge of the Nodes - Part 2 - 21st Century Autonomy [Aaron Segal]
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Not only is the world experiencing greater dispersion of outcomes, it is also changing at an increasingly faster pace. Raw data is pouring torrential...
Read_566 - Revenge of the Nodes - Part 1 - 20th Century Authoritarianism... [Aaron Segal]
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The individual investor is professionalizing at the end of one of the biggest, most Homeric blow-out parties of all time. Forgive the cliched basebal...
Only the Strong Survive - Full Audio
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"In this piece we discuss our concerns around the broader “crypto” space beyond Bitcoin. Our arguments revolve around three primary themes: Philos...
Read_565 - Isaiah's Job [Albert Jay Nock]
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force ...
Read_564 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 3 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“As Gall’s Law suggests, we believe the general principle favoring Bitcoin’s layered architecture is not one of software engineering so much as ...
Read_563 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 2 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Lyn Alden captured this well in her excellent piece, An Economic Analysis of Ethereum, which we highly recommend in addition to our own...
Read_562 - Only the Strong Survive - Part 1 [Allen Farrington & Big Al]
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The consensus is what matters. The breakthrough of proof-of-work and the difficulty adjustment is far more about harnessing energy and existi...
Read_561 - The Village and the Strongman [Alex Gladstein]
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Sandwiched between Guatemala and Honduras, El Salvador — the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, with an average GDP ...
Read_560 - The Schumpeterian Bitcoin Cycle [Prateek Goorha]
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Schumpeter would have loved Bitcoin. He would have seen in Bitcoin a living representation of his theory of capitalism, so often quoted but rarely un...
Read_559 - The Dollar Burden & Why the US Will Adopt Bitcoin [Ansel Lindner]
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"we often hear the U.S. dollar called an “exorbitant privilege.” Namely, that the U.S. benefits disproportionately from the dollar’s reserve cur...
Read_558 - Why Bitcoin, The Full Series Audiobook [Tomer Strolight]
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged as a vast and mysterious space to explore, with treasures, dangers and untold potential. An...
Read_557 - The Stairway to Omnipresence [DerGigi]
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"the fact that bitcoin is now legal tender in a country is absolutely astonishing. Yesterday, some nerds discovered a system that allows magic interne...
Read_556 - Bitcoin Has Already Won [Akarsh Nalawade]
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"There has never been a more secure, scarce, valuable, transportable, decentralized and networked asset in all of humanity’s history. It’s more mo...
Shitcoin Insider #006 - Proof of What?
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Proof of stake, versus proof of work. Isn’t POW super wasteful, while POS is the cost free alternative that obviously is as equally secure? Are we t...
Read_555 - The Bitcoin Energy Debate & the Gold Resource Cost Debate [Nic Carter]
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Long before we had the Bitcoin energy debate, we had the gold resource cost debate. The contours were similar: the costs associated with gold refinin...
Read_554 - Finding Financial Freedom in Afghanistan [Alex Gladstein]
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the w...
Chat #62 - Dave Smith & Part of the Solution
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Smith has finally done a Bitcoin episode! For those of you who missed this, I am making it available on my own feed and for those of you who do n...
Read_553 - Bitcoin's "Naive" Monetary Policy [Natasha Che]
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary policy. Many people think government printing too much is evil, so a fixed money supply must be g...
Read_552 - Inside Cuba's Bitcoin Revolution [Alex Gladstein]
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows you to move value without trusting anyone, it connects you to the worl...
Read_551 - I Tried Hacking Bitcoin, and I Failed [Dan Kaminsky]
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"By all extant metrics in security system review, this system should have failed instantaneously, at every possible layer. And, to be fair, it has ...
Read_550 - Bitcoin's Energy Use isn't a Problem, Here's Why [Lyn Alden]
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"And it’s easier to sensationalize things for pageviews or political gain. For example, it’s commonly said that the Bitcoin network uses mor...
Guy's Take #49 - Backed by Truth
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin is a network, a money, a language, a system of rules, & a clock. Bitcoin is backed by Truth" - Guy Swann Links to other works mentioned...
Read_549 - Fiat Lux: The Origins of Modern Money [HeavilyArmedClown]
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The word “fiat” is growing more aggrandized in the modern lexicon, however, despite its increasing popularity it is often ill defined or misused. ...
Read_548 - This is Not a Drill! [Jake Chervinsky]
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Here's the deal with the US infrastructure bill: A new provision has been added that expands the Tax Code's definition of "broker" to capture nearly...
Read_547 - Scaling Lightning: To El Zonte... and Beyond! [Roy Sheinfeld]
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Many tellings of El Salvador’s story have largely overlooked and understated the role of the Lightning Network. But make no mistake: any country co...
Read_546 - Could Bitcoin Be Palestine's Currency of Freedom? [Alex Gladstein]
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” - Alex Gladstein Another ...
Read_545 - The Ultimate Guide to Inflation [Lyn Alden]
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A great piece today detailing out the different kinds, the nuances & the long history of inflation. What misconceptions do we still have about inf...
Read_544 - Another Way to Think About Bitcoin's Value [Bradley Rettler]
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Owning bitcoin is often put in contrast to owning stock in a company that produces a good or service. In virtue of the company producing a good or se...
Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled...
Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right combination of lay...
Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “a...
Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” a...
Chat #61 - Libertarians & Bitcoiners Sitting in a Tree...
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some major Bitcoiners and Libertarians together to talk about the tools available to us in the...
Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on the plan...
Guy's Take #48 - But Hoarding Money Destroys the Economy!...
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've all heard the criticism, sound money can't work because people will simply "hoard it." Obviously, per the Keynesians' demands, it is critical th...
Read_537 - Bitcoin is An Idea [DerGigi]
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is now." - DerGigi A...
Read_538 - Fighting Monetary Colonialism with Open Source Code [Alex Gladstein]
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Monetary repression continues to be hidden, and not spoken of in polite circles. The reality today for the 182 million people living in CFA nations i...
Read_537 - Bitcoin is An Idea [DerGigi]
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is now." - DerGigi A...
Read_536 - Bitcoin Information Theory B.I.T [Aaron Segal]
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"A deflationary monetary system of absolute hard money acts as a mirror for value creation. It is a compass to guide us toward a better economic path....
Read_535 - Analyzing Bitcoin's Network Effect [Lyn Alden]
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"A network effect is an attribute of a company or other system such that as more people use the network, the network becomes exponentially more valuab...
Read_534 - Bitcoin Mining & the Case for More Energy [Caulfield & Lindstrom]
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“All this to say, there is no optimistic version of the future in which humanity does not use significantly more energy than it does today.” - Hod...
Read_533 - Guy's Take on the "Why Bitcoin Series, Part 1"
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Completely left the intro and guy's take section out of the publishing for last week's episode, so figured I would drop it just for those who might li...
Read_533 - Why Bitcoin, The Series - Part 1 [Tomer Strolight]
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"For those with the curiosity to look, Bitcoin has emerged as a vast and mysterious space to explore with treasures, dangers, and untold potential." -...
Bitcoin Law - The El Salvador Legal Tender Bill
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I may have gotten ahead of myself but the vote is happening right now in El Salvador's Congress. It's being discussed and read on the floor & in o...
Guy's Take #47 - Legal Tender... And So It Begins
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you haven't seen it, don't miss out on this moment in history. Jack Mallers' announcement and speech at Bitcoin2021 on the massive moves they are m...
Read_532 - The Humanitarian & Environmental Case for Bitcoin [Alex Gladstein]
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If there is ever competition for the energy that the Bitcoin miners are buying, the miners turn off their machines, perhaps to turn them back on late...
Read_531 - Why Anthropologists are More Interested in Bitcoin than Economists [Mick Morucci]
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“At the core of economists’ fallacy is the belief that money is money by decree (because the state and its expert economists say so), which means ...
Read_530 - Privacy, Fungibility, Anonymity [nopara73]
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Technologies of anonymous communication, anonymous currency, and reputation systems have been invented. They cannot be un-invented. These are...
Read_529 - PART 2: The Inflation/Deflation Debate [Lyn Alden]
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"deflation is the natural order of a productive economy. If we were using a hard money standard like gold, for example, we would expect products to ge...
Read_529 - QE, MMT, Inflation & Deflation - Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Quantitative easing (QE) occurs when central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, create new money to buy government bonds or other securities. S...
Read_529 - Orange is the New Green [Knut Svanholm]
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Money condenses energy. Bitcoin is the first and only tool we have for converting electric energy to monetary energy. Now what does this do to the en...
Guy's Take #46 - Bitcoin is Dead... Again
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The price took a near 30% dump today. So let's talk about it. A short episode today while I take care of my pup. Have you been distraught with the c...
Read_528 - Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for Freedom [Alex Gladstein]
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Their goals were to separate money from governments and corporations, check the growth of the global surveillance state, and preserve human rights ...
Read_527 - Why Layer 2 & Sidechains Will Do All the Things!! [cAPSLOCK]
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“In my lifetime I have seen many technologies emerge. The Internet. Pocket super computers. Digital music. And the old guard fought it, trie...
Read_526 - Check Your Financial Privilege [Alex Gladstein]
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"only 13% of our planet’s population is born into the dollar, euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar or Swiss Franc. ...
Read_525 - One Does Not Simply Censor Bitcoin [Grubles]
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"How does anyone censor something abstract and intangible; something that can consist of an arrangement of numbers and letters, and can be transported...
Read_524 - The 7 Primal Elements of Bitcoin [Paulo Sacramento]
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“one of the main reasons for Bitcoin’s success is something that resonates with us as humans on a much deeper level: the primal elements of its br...
Guy's Take #45 - A Mental Framework for Scaling
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how often we cover these ideas, it still seems astonishingly common for new people to fall into the same old fallacies and the same misguide...
Read_523 - Fiat, Fascism, & Communism [Aleks Svetski]
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin’s security guarantee comes from the direct conversion of unforgeable energy into a fixed supply unit on an incorruptible monetary network. ...
Read_522 - The Hidden Costs of the Petrodollar System [Alex Gladstein]
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It is truly impossible for the petrodollar system to be green when it is based on black gold." - Alex Gladstein Today we have another brilliant piec...
Read_521 - You Are Not Prepared [Knut Svanholm]
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hyperbitcoinization is defined by the Nakamoto institute as “a voluntary transition from an inferior currency to a superior one, and its adoption is...
Read_520 - The Last Days of Satoshi [Pete Rizzo]
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"To be sure, by the waning days of 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto was still acknowledged for inventing Bitcoin, and was respected for growing the world's firs...
Read_519 - The Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future [Square & ARKinvest]
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin miners are unique energy buyers in that they offer highly flexible and easily interruptible load, provide payout in a globally liquid cryptoc...