Bitcoin Audible
Episodes
Read_499 - The Bitcoin Black Hole Effect [William Clemente]
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"If the US Dollar really was to reach an uncontrollable level of inflation, a last move by the Fed may be to do this same trade on a Federal level by ...
Read_498 - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? [Alex Gladstein]
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"So far, it seems that when governments try to ban or restrict Bitcoin, it ends up merely accelerating the adoption of the currency inside their count...
Chat #57 - Bitcoin History with Peter Todd, Brady Swenson, & Guy Swann on Swan Signal Live
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Peter Todd, a Bitcoin developer who has been around from the very beginning and even well before Bitcoin was released and Guy Swann who bought his fi...
Read_497 - Bitcoin is Venice [Allen Farrington]
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced...
Read_496 - Stocks Don’t Truly Discover Price, Bitcoin Fixes This [Casey]
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When we begin to value things in bitcoin, we can find their legitimate value, as bitcoin is the most legitimately-valued money. There are no manipu...
Read_495 - An Economic Analysis of Ethereum [Lyn Alden]
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The annual issuance rate with all those annotations kind of looks like it was drawn by a Bitcoiner making fun of Ethereum, but instead that’s fro...
Read_494 - Lightning Economics: Learning to Love Inbound Liquidity [Roy Sheinfeld]
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Supplying liquidity is an investment, and we need to treat it accordingly. Like lending money or buying stock, investors commit capital for a period ...
Read_493 - Asset DNA, Explaining Bitcoin's Speculative Attack [Croesus]
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"if the representation of reality in this article is correct, the highest and best use of a dollar of debt may simply be to buy bitcoin. Many more ind...
Guy's Take #42 - Bitcoin's Second Chapter Begins
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"In Chapter 1 we reached millions. In Chapter 2 we're going to reach billions and we're going to do it quickly. And Chapter 2 starts right now." - Ros...
Read_492 - What I Really Think of Bitcoin [Ray Dalio]
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"I believe Bitcoin is one hell of an invention. To have invented a new type of money via a system that is programmed into a computer and that has work...
Read_491 - Bitcoin Astronomy - The Second Law [Dhruv Bansal]
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Perhaps one of the great ironies of the future will be the Solcoin alliance between urbane Terrans and hillbilly belters." - Dhruv Bansal Continuing...
Reboot - Bitcoin Astronomy #1 [Dhruv Bansal]
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Preparing for the Second Part of Dhruv's incredible series, today we have a reboot of Part 1! Equal parts entertaining & intellectually intriguin...
Read_490 - How this Bull Run is Different [Abhay Aluri]
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"People aren’t trading bitcoin, they’re accumulating more and more of it over time and holding it long term (aka, “stacking sats“). This is ev...
Guy's Take #41 - Gamestop is the Battle, Bitcoin is the War
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Curious to know what the recent clown show of GameStop and r/WallStreetBets was all about? Well we get into it in today's rant about the phenomenal ar...
Read_489 - The Cantillon Effect 2.0 - Bitcoin is the First Truly Fair Money [CK_snarks & Deniz Saat]
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Because of Nakamoto’s deliberate actions and Bitcoin’s permissionless, free & open-source nature, bitcoin is the first truly neutral money....
Chat #56 - DLCs, PTLCs, the Oracle Problem & More with SuredBits' Nadav
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Any solution to the oracle problem, makes Bitcoin able to do anything that any other protocol out there can do." - Nadav Kohen So much cool technolo...
Guy’s Take #40 - Double Spends & Wittgenstein’s Money
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What the hell is everyone squealing about regarding this “critical flaw” and “confirmed double spend” on the Bitcoin network? Is this another ...
Read_488 - Wittgenstein's Money [Allen]
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"What would it seem like if it did seem like a global, digital, sound, open source, programmable money was monetizing from absolute zero?" - Allenf32 ...
Read_487 - Winning Hearts & Minds for Bitcoin [Andy Edstrom & Peter McCormack]
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"In a world in which governments and companies continually encroach on personal liberties via surveillance and outright control, Bitcoin shines like a...
Read_486 - The Moral Case for Bitcoin [Jimmy Song]
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Fiat money is a positivist money, a tool of governments pursuing a utopian vision. Bitcoin is a Natural Law money, a tool to protect individual lib...
Read_485 - Why Bitcoin Is Not a Ponzi Scheme [Lyn Alden]
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“From the beginning, Bitcoin has remained an open source and fully transparent project, and has the most organic growth trajectory of the indu...
Read_484 - Bitcoin & the Printing Press [Anil]
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“As books became more accessible and affordable, individuals were now personally consuming, reflecting upon and critiquing written texts. It was an ...
Chat #55 - Knut Svanholm & Andy Edstrom on Writing, Feedback Loops, & Bitcoin Haters in 2021
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An excellent chat today with 2 brilliant, bullish, & amazing writers in the Bitcoin space. Andy Edstrom, author of "Why Buy Bitcoin," and Knut S...
Read_483 - Bitcoin & the Hopf Cycle of the Internet [Giacomo Zucco]
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Hard times make strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - Giacomo Zucco Today's re...
Read_482 - The Stone Ridge Letter [Ross Stevens]
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Perhaps just in time, each U.S. citizen now has a choice. You can stay on the Fiat Standard, in which some people get to produce unlimited new units ...
Read_481 - Bitcoin's Killer App, Skin in the Game [Simon Cowell]
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. People play games because they are fun, not because they are on a blockchain." - Simon Cowell As Bitcoin esta...
Chat #54 - Part 2 of WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Closing out our recent chat with Jim & Hari from the "What Do We Know" podcast we have Part 2 of the show digging all into wallets, keys, how to b...
Read_480 - The Greatest Game, Part 2 [Jeff Booth]
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Learn about Bitcoin. Learn why its importance is so much greater than the wealth it might create for you and your family. When you do, teach others...
Read_479 - The Greatest Game, Part 1 [Jeff Booth]
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” - Buckmi...
Shitcoin Insider #004 - The Ripple Effect
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Just after the announcement of the SEC lawsuit, a filing that is just full of scammy goodness, the ongoing delistings of XRP, & a massive crash in...
Read_478 - Bullish on Bitcoiners [John Vallis]
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"After all, Bitcoin is just a tool, and it’s only revolutionary in so far as its unique attributes generate novel possibilities for action — that ...
Guy's Take #39 - Bitcoin is the Pin
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of one of history's greatest financial bubbles, represented both in a global debt crisis, as well as a bloated, subsidized financi...
Read_477 - Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization [Parker Lewis]
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The greatest trick that central banks ever pulled was convincing the world that individuals must perpetually take risk just to preserve value already...
Read_476 - The Legend of Prometheus [Aleks Svetski]
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"we should all take a moment to be deeply grateful for the introduction of an ark upon which we can board, and from which we can later rebuild.” -...
Chat #54 - WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have a crazy fun show after getting to hang with Jim & Hari (and James)from the What Do We Know podcast! A couple of guys who just wanted...
Happy HODL Day!
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“GF’s out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I’LL TELL YOU WHY…” - GameKyuubi The origins of the greatest meme in Bitcoin his...
Read_475 - The Sovereign Company Thesis [Christian Keroles]
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Today, bitcoin is still an alternative treasury asset, but as larger and more powerful organizations begin to use Bitcoin directly, they will begin...
Read_474 - The Fraying of the Petrodollar System - Part 2 [Lyn Alden]
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"As a decentralized and open source project, adopted by many programmers and proponents around the world, many intelligent people have dedicated their...
Read_473 - The Fraying of the Petrodollar System - Part 1 [Lyn Alden]
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Taking my view a step further, evidence shows that the global monetary system as currently structured is gradually re-aligning itself, and this fact ...
Guy's Take #38 - An Unstoppable Force
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not that a government has the ability to ban Bitcoin from their country, I think it's closer to the opposite: A country only has the ability to ...
Read_472 - The Fiat Standard - Chapter 1 [Saifedean Ammous]
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"For the reader who has become familiar with the operation of bitcoin, a good way to understand the operation of fiat is by drawing analogy to the ope...
Read_471 - The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard]
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is only the first step. The second step will be speculative attacks that use bitcoins ...
Read_470 - Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? [Jeffrey Tucker]
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means of storing and porting value, which in turn rests on secure titles to ownership of a scarce good.” ...
Read_469 - The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo]
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no lo...
Read_468 - Bitcoin is Hope [Robert Breedlove]
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Bitcoin is a battle ground to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in the world.” - Robert Breedlove Another excellent piece from Breedlove, this ...
Read_467 - Bitcoin Doesn't Rely on Utilities [Rollo McFloogle]
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"But there is something even more interesting that happens with mining and electricity. Not only does Bitcoin mining add revenue to existing locations...
Chat #53 - Bitcoin Security in the Age of Surveillance with Douglas Bakkum
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Had an excellent chat with the CEO of ShiftCrypto yesterday all about building Bitcoin hardware, the security trade offs, and creating secure tools fo...
Read_466 - A Note on Bitcoin [James O'Beirne]
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"And replacing gold is just the start. Bitcoin isn’t just a better gold; because of its programmability, it’s a platform that will host the future...
Read_465 - All the Bullish Cases for Bitcoin [Brandon Quittem]
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Want to hear all of the bullish cases for Bitcoin? Protection for pensions, the fiscal cliff we are speeding toward, capital movement for the wealthy,...
Chat #52 - The Great Reset vs The Great Awakening with Adam Curry
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The inventor of podcasting, the Podfather himself Adam Curry, joins us today for an incredible chat about Bitcoin and re-decentralizing cyberspace. Th...
Guy's Take #37 - Dear James Woods, Sincerely Guy Swann
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"All you can do with Bitcoin once you buy it is sell it, but you need somebody else to buy it from you." - Peter Schiff James Woods shared a tweet wi...
Shitcoin Insider #003 - Move Fast & Break Ethereum with Udi Wertheimer
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Just in time for one of the various ETH hard forks, both intentional and unintentional, we dig into the dirty details with Udi Wertheimer in this epis...
Read_464 - Poolin's Initiative to Activate Taproot [Aaron Van Wirdum]
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Taproot will unlock a new range of possibilities for Bitcoin, improving privacy and expanding smart contract possibilities” The code has been me...
Read_463 - A Symphony of Positivity [Eric Wall]
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It takes two nudges to convert a nocoiner. The vast majority of people got their very first nudge in 2017. These people are now primed for that secon...
Chat #51 - The Death of Nuance with Aleks Svetski
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's chat is with the brilliant and always entertaining Aleks Svetski (https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski). On the state of the world, our turbulent ...
Read_462 - 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin [Lyn Alden]
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin is more easily verifiable than gold, in terms of being a reserve asset and being used as collateral. It’s more frictionless to transfer tha...
Guy's Take #36 - Walking Tall
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does having savings, & the incentives reestablished by sound money, do to a person's *character?* How does it change who we are when we have ...
Read_461 - When Bitcoin Melts The System, Prosperity Steps In [Thibaud Marechal]
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The logical construct behind the dissection of today’s evils is actually very simple: money is broken; fix the money, fix the world." - Thibaud Mar...
Read_460 - The Hard Forks that Didn't Dilute Bitcoin [Nic Carter]
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If any of these forks had meaningfully gained ground relative to Bitcoin, the critics would have had a point. What’s the point of a monetary networ...
Shitcoin Insider #002 - The Pungent Smells of a Bitcoin Fork
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Back with another episode! In #2 we dive into the increasingly irrelevant fork of Bitcoin. What are they, where did they come from, and what exactly i...
Read_459 - Call me Ishmael [BitMex]
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"One can use a “brainwallet”. Refugees need to carry nothing with them, all they would need to do is remember a Bitcoin wallet passphrase. Funds, ...
Read_458- The Lightning Liquidity Marketplace [Peter Chawaga]
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Lightning Labs is positioning this release as a step toward an ecosystem of Lightning-based financial products, which it called “LiFi.” - Peter...
Read_457 - Our Most Brilliant Idea [Robert Breedlove]
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"When governments play God, civilizations burn in Hell." - Robert Breedlove The 3 pillars of free markets all hinge on fair, honest, reliable money. ...
Read_456 - Bitcoin at 12 [Nic Carter]
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I believe Bitcoiners have this in common. They recognize that they have undertaken a near-hopeless task. Creating a global, neutral, apolitical settl...
Guy's Take #35 - The Next Domino...
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We may have just seen the beginnings of central banks entering the Bitcoin game theory. The game is about to get real. Bitcoin has suddenly broken on...
Read_455 - Bitcoin and the Rhythms of History [Brandon Quittem]
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Individuals can opt-out of their local currency by joining the Bitcoin life raft. Protect purchasing power, rather than go down with the sinking ship...
Read_454 - The Last Word on Bitcoin's Energy Consumption [Nic Carter]
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you cannot sell your energy anywhere, the existence of a global buyer for energy is a godsend." - N...
Read_453 - Lies, Deception, & Unnatural Money [Nik Hoffman]
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"money printing only “works” if the majority of people don’t even realize that it is steadily devaluing their earnings and savings. People must ...
Read_452 - How Will Bitcoin Lead to More Freedom [Jim Epstein]
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It had a big impact on May, who melded the "Other Plane" with "Galt's Gulch" from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was a safe haven for rational and ...
Chat #50 - Dawn of the Age of Bitcoin with Erik Cason
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin and the cryptographic systems that empower it, are not merely another new tech to make use of. They are a fundamental shift in the ability to ...
Read_451 - Multisig Appreciation Day [Marty Bent]
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"When compared to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds or "fine art" that act as stores of value for many individuals, bitcoin that is held in a multisig ...
Read_450 - Getting Lightning Ready for Global Takeover [Roy Sheinfeld]
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Breez wallet makes some major announcements today with their first release candidate of the wallet into the wild. Bringing the dream of a fully non-cu...
Guy's Take #34 - TAPROOT IS MERGED!!
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A major step toward the next era of Bitcoin was made today. The code is final, and it is now in the Bitcoin codebase as of today. The next steps are a...
Read_449 - Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole [Knut Svanholm]
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Value is a strange concept because while it is arguably very real, it is entirely subjective, and because of this there is no yardstick or kilogram t...
Chat #49 - The Tahini's Bitcoin Standard
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the dominoes continue to fall, we chat with the owner of the amazing Tahini's restaurant on their journey to a Bitcoin Standard. Why Bitcoin? What ...
Read_448 - Crypto, Truth & Power [Erik Cason]
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I believe that Satoshi Nakamoto, Whoever he/she/it/them is/was, was first and foremost a strategist of the cypherpunk traditions. This is extremely...
Guy's Take #33 - The Canary in the Coal Mine [On Marty's 839th Bent]
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's been a bit of Bad News. The canary doesn't seem to be moving, and its time that we take our situation seriously. As Bitcoin becomes both more ...
Read_447 - Bitcoin Isn't Slow, Its Highly Secure [Vlad Costea]
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"So the next time somebody says that “shitcoin X” is faster than Bitcoin or claims that Bitcoin is slow, show them the criteria that truly count i...
Read_446 - The Great Plague of Shitcoinery [Thibaud Marechal]
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Battles in the money market aren’t about incremental technology features, but fundamental monetary properties. Bitcoin is a pragmatic monetary evol...
Guy's Take #32 - Rights, Incentives & the Bitcoin System
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are rights and can Bitcoin enable us to make better sense of them? It is very common to hear that education is a "right," that healthcare, a fai...
Shitcoin Insider #001 - DeFi & Ponzinomics
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Were you ever just deathly curious about what Defi really is? What is going on behind the scenes of the token wrapped token printing yield machines? O...
Chat #48 - Sovereignty in a Box with Matt Hill
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are we on the verge of a new revolution in personal computing? Matt Hill and the team at Start9Labs believes we are, and are helping to build our path...
Read_445 - A Human Rights Response to Bitcoin Critics [Alex Gladstein]
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Contrary to what the critics would have you believe with all of their scary language about fraud and risk, when I send an on-chain Bitcoin transactio...
Read_444 - Things Bitcoiners Don't Want to Hear [Shinobi]
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I am talking about the inability to confront shortcomings with layers of the system. The inability to confront substantial threats or attack surfaces...
Read_443 - On Bitcoin's User Experience [DerGigi]
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Some concepts are essential, removing them because you want a better UX might turn out to be fatal.” - Gigi En excellent piece from SwanBitcoi...
Read_442 - DLCs are on Bitcoin! New Functionality & Potential [Ben Carman]
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously tho...
Chat #47 - Magic Gold with Michael Saylor
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring on Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy after they have announced a $425 million investment into Bitcoin. With a move to making Bitcoin...
Read_441 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 2]
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Instead of relying on accountants, regulators, and the government, Bitcoin relies on a global network of peers to enforce rules, shifting enforcement...
Read_440 - Bitcoin, A Novel Economic Institution by ARKinvest [Part 1]
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If one transaction can be censored and controlled, can’t all transactions be censored and controlled? Can’t the powers-that-be deprive participan...
Read_439 - Genesis Files: Hal's Quest for Digital Cash [Aaron van Wirdum]
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real suc...
Guy's Take - Open Source Society in a Patented World [#31]
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a world drowning in patent trolls, insane intellectual property restrictions, and a reality where someone who neither can build a product, nor came...
Read_438 - Blockchain Proof of Work is a Decentralized Clock [grisha]
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"This explanation rests on illustrating a few interesting properties of how Proof-of-Work is used in the blockchain that are not immediately obvious a...
Read_437 - A Monetary Layer for the Internet [Thibaud Marechal]
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And wit...
Bitcoin is One for All - By Parker Lewis
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unabridged, Uninterrupted, & unmatched. Parker Lewis's most recent installment of the "Gradually, Then Suddenly" series. Read the original and ch...
Chat #46 - Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property in the age of Bitcoin
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I'm like 'I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,' it's ingenious right?" - @NKinsella ...
Read_436 - Don't Fear the Reaper [Nic Carter]
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bitcoin’s supply schedule cannot change, because Bitcoin is the supply schedule. Any alteration produces something that is decidedly non-Bitcoin." ...
Read_435 - Discovering Bitcoin #7 - Missing Pieces [Giacomo Zucco]
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"As we conclude our “Discovering Bitcoin” series, we will build on the use of digital signatures and of the CoinJoin paradigm to explore concepts ...
Read_434 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 2 [Parker Lewis]
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The same is not true of the current monetary system. In the current structure, dollars can either be earned by delivering value to others within the ...
Read_433 - Bitcoin is One for All - Part 1 [Parker Lewis]
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"By manipulating price levels, the Fed isn’t just preventing smaller intermittent fires from naturally running their course while creating larger fi...
Hal’s Day - Bitcoin & Me [reboot]
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing back an old post for Hal’s Day. 6 years ago today we lost Hal Finney. This post was one of his last on the BitcoinTalkForums, knowing he wo...