Anita's Bitcoin Show
Episodes
Miss Aurra, Zimbabwe: Bitcoin Changed My Whole Life
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is the start of a new series about Bitcoin in Africa. I have been traveling to Zimbabwe and Botswana in February 2020 to find out if...
Gloria Zhao: A College Student's Journey to Bitcoin Core Development
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Todays guest is Gloria Zhao, she is a Bitcoin Core developer, former president of “Blockchain at Berkeley” and will finish her Computer Science st...
Elyse Petersen: From Ancient Tea Currency To Using Bitcoin For Wholesale
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elyse Petersen is a food scientist and the founder of Tealet, a wholesale tea supply chain network. Tealet’s business model is based on cutting out ...
Zachary Kelman: Bitcoin an Alternative to the Current Unfair Financial System
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zachary Kelman is a New York-based attorney specializing in political, legal, and regulatory issues in and around Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain techn...
Nic Carter: Bitcoin Disrupts Our Politicized Financial Infrastructure
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nic Carter is a Bitcoiner with a financial and philosophical background. I wanted to have him on the show for a long time. He is thoughtful and intere...
Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme? The Story of Charles Ponzi
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wondering what a Ponzi scheme is? Somebody told you Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme? Listen to this episode of “The Context” where I tell the story of I...
Douglas Bakkum: Building Bitcoin Hardware Wallets to Empower Individuals
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Douglas Bakkum. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Swiss hardware wallet manufacturer Shift Crypto. Douglas holds a Phd in neuroscience a...
Liam Ball - Maui: Bitcoin Is Truth
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am talking with Liam Ball a real estate broker on Maui, who tells us his story of how he got into Bitcoin, why it is interesting to him, the p...
BCH, BSV, BTG, BTC, BTC2, BTCV...What to Invest In?
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This time I am answering questions by a listener named Thamzin:What is the difference between Bitcoin Vault and LocalBitcoins?What are all those diffe...
Dale Bewan: Using Bitcoin Only Since 2017
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Todays guest is Dale Bewan. He is a married father of two, living in Germany. Since 2017 Bitcoin is the only money Dale is using. He does not own or h...
Guy Swann: Bitcoin Is a Revolution With Historical Impact
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Guy Swann is the host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast, where he is reading Bitcoin articles and essays by different authors. In 2011 he found out about...
Kai Kremser: Coinfinity - Pushing Bitcoin Adoption in Austria Since 2014
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am talking with Kai Kremser a fellow Austrian working for Coinfinity, Austria’s first Bitcoin broker founded in 2014. Kai, a former software...
Anita Posch: Interviewed by Japanese Crypto-Exchange BTCBOX
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lina Kather from the crypto-exchange BTCBOX Japan in Tokyo invited Anita Posch to do an interview about her Bitcoin experiences in Africa, the reasons...
Lyn Alden: Bullish on Bitcoin - a Strategic Value Investors View
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lyn Alden wrote a longform article about the 3 reasons why she is investing in Bitcoin. Lyn Alden is an investment strategist with a background in eng...
Andy Edstrom: Why Buy Bitcoin? Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Andy Edstrom from Los Angeles. Andy spent 17 years in the investment world on Wall Street, working for Goldman Sachs and is now a we...
Elena Tonoyan, LocalBitcoins COO: Bitcoin Provides Financial Inclusion and Will Grow
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joining me is Elena Tonoyan, she is the Chief Operating Officer at LocalBitcoins, the peer to peer bitcoin exchange that was founded as early as in 20...
Gigi: Bitcoin From Speculative Asset to Savings Technology
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Gigi a software developer and computer scientist. Gigi wrote “21Lessons”, a book in which he shares his learnings from falling d...
Chimezie Chuta: Light Up Africa With Bitcoin Nodes
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“A lot of Nigerians are using Bitcoin. Majorly among the young population. Those between the age of 22 and 35-40 are deeply using Bitcoin”, says C...
Rahim Taghizadegan: Money Is a Spontaneous Order Measuring the Cooperation of People
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rahim Taghizadegan is an economist, book author and principal of the Scholarium, an independent learning enterprise based in Vienna, Austria. He studi...
Moritz Wietersheim: Why Bitcoin Is Superior to Altcoins or Stock Nonsense Like Wirecard
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Moritz Wietersheim. Moritz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Crypto Advance a company that focusses on security improvements and the sec...
Tim Akinbo: Bitcoin is a Store of Value for the African People
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guest in this episode is Tim Akinbo. He comes from Nigeria and is involved in the Bitcoin space since 2014. I got to know Tim when I asked for bitc...
Amiti Uttarwar: Developing Bitcoin - The Only Crypto Project With a Very Clear Goal
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode I had the pleasure to interview Amiti Uttarwar. She is one of the first female engineers contributing to the Bitcoin Core sof...
Chris Maurice: Chances and Challenges of Running a Bitcoin Exchange in Africa
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Chris Maurice, the CEO and Founder of Yellow Card Financial, a Nigeria based bitcoin and crypto exchange. Chris started hi...
Carla Kirk-Cohen: Bitcoin Is the Ability to Take Back Control Over Your Financial Situation
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Carla Kirk-Cohen she is a developer at Lightning Labs and is living in Cape Town in South Africa. Carla is building infrastructure ...
Ray Youssef: Bringing Bitcoin Into Africa With Gift Cards Is Solving Real Problems
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode I talk with Ray Youssef, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace for money transfers serving about 4 million peo...
Leo Wandersleb: Bitcoin Wallet Security to Avoid Exit Scams
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our topic today is all about Bitcoin wallets and their security. I am talking with Leo Wandersleb a german developer living in Chile, who is the found...
Tuur Demeester: The Bitcoin Reformation in Times of COVID-19
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am talking with Tuur Demeester, who recommended Bitcoin as an investment to his readers at $5 back in 2012. I would say Tuur is a philosopher ...
Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Removes Power From the Few and Gives It to the Many
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is one of my favourite people in the space Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We are going to talk about the adoption of Bitcoin, censorship and...
Part 6: The Future of Bitcoin Is Big in Africa - With Alakanani Itireleng
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Alakanani Itireleng, who founded the Satoshicentre in Botswana in 2014 and single-handedly built a growing Bitcoin communi...
Part 5: Afriblocks, Lightning Network, COVID-19 & Answering Questions - Bitcoin in Africa - The Ubuntu Way
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode you will get to know a young man from Zimbabwe, Tongayi Choto, who is a software developer, entrepreneur and a bitcoin maximalist. He ...
Part 4: If Bitcoin Works in Zimbabwe, It Works Everywhere - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fourth part of the six-part series about Bitcoin in Africa is an interview with a young woman from Harare. She calls herself a Digipreneur and is ...
Part 3: Using Bitcoin in Zimbabwe - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the third part of the six-part series about Bitcoin in Africa you will hear from two early bitcoin adopters based in Harare. We speak aboutthe diff...
Part 2 Zimbabwe: Living in a Multi-Currency World - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 2nd episode of a six-part series about Bitcoin in Africa. In February 2020, right before the start of quarantine and travel restrictions d...
Part 1 Zimbabwe: Ideal Conditions for Bitcoin? - Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Way
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this 1st part of the “Bitcoin in Africa” podcast documentary you get an insight about the current living situation of Zimbabweans and the count...
BUC Live: Digital Scarcity - Will Central Banks Be Obsolete Within This Century?
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a live recording of a panel discussion at the “Value of Bitcoin Symposium” in Vienna, March 5th 2020. We discussed the advantages and disa...
Connie Gallippi: A Pioneer Bridging the Gap Between the Non-Profit Space and Bitcoin
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Connie Gallippi is the Founder and Executive Director of BitGive. In May 2013, she founded BitGive, the first government recognized Bitcoin 501(c)(3) ...
Randy Brito: How People Are Using Bitcoin in Venezuela
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. In 2012 he started publishing educational material about Bitcoin in Span...
Pascal Huegli: The Problem With Today’s Banking and Monetary Colonialism
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Hügli is a journalist working with financialmedia AG. He focuses on the topic of finance and economics. As such he considers himself as a life...
Philipp E. Dettwiler: Merging Traditional Banking With Bitcoin and Digital Assets
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Dettwiler is Head of Custody Storage & Transaction Banking at SEBA Bank AG, the first crypto bank that was granted a banking license...
Brandon Green: What to Expect From Bitcoin (In) 2020
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In March the Bitcoin2020 conference is taking place in San Francisco. In this interview I talk with Brandon Green, who is a project manager at BTC Inc...
Tatiana Moroz: Bitcoin Is a Tool to Liberate Humanity and Gives Power to Creators
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tatiana Moroz is an American folk singer-songwriter, liberty activist, and peaceful revolutionary. She is in the Bitcoin space since 2012 and is pione...
Locha Mesh - Chat and Send Bitcoin Anonymously Without Internet
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. With the Locha Mesh device one can send text, audio, and Bitcoin without...
DEBNK: Building Global Trustless Peer Banking on Top of Bitcoin
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My guests in this episode are Patrik Tjokorda, Josef Tětek and Tomas Marada, we met at the Hackers Congress in Prague. They are working on a project ...
Alexandra Moxin: Bitcoin Changes the Power Dynamic - Back to the Individual
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Moxin is the host of the Advance Tech Podcast and a moderator at Bitcoin conferences, living in Vancouver in Canada. We met at the Baltic Ho...
Lisa Neigut: Bitcoin Is Mind-Boggling Cool and How She Became a C-Lightning Developer
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Neigut is an engineer and developer at Blockstream working on c-lightning. We met at the Lightning Conference in Berlin in October 2019 and talke...
Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool Mining
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We will take a non-technical look into bitcoin mining in this episode. My guests are Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, the CEOs and Founders of Braiins, t...
Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees...
Smuggler: A Cryptoanarchists View on Bitcoin, Democracy, Dark Nets and Privacy
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Bitcoin & Co. podcast is a bitcoin-only show that’s focusing on the why of Bitcoin. Why is it important for humanity, w...
Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Will Never Die, It’s a Pure Form of Economic Interaction
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jameson Lopp is very well known in the Bitcoin space for his wide expertise on security, technology and privacy. He is maintaining and curating a Bitc...
John Carvalho: Bitcoin Is Not About Getting Rich, It Is Meant to Be Freedom Money
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Wether you are a newbie or a Bitcoin enthusiast, this interview with John Carvalho, one of the rare people with strong views and rhetorical talent at ...
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21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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The Nodl Team: Behind the Scenes of Building Bitcoin Nodes
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Let me introduce you to two true Bitcoiners: Ketominer and his business partner, who are building bitcoin and lightning full nodes under the brand “...
Jimmy Song: Bitcoin Makes Human Civilization Grow Again
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Regret is thinking you’re late. Gratitude is thinking you’re early. It’s still early to get B...
Juraj Bednar: Using Bitcoin Is like a Filter for People with an Open Mind
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Juraj Bednar is an entrepreneur, hacker and co-founder of Paralelná Polis Bratislava and Prague’s Paralelní Polis. It hosts a hackerspace called I...
BUC Live: Lightning Hardware and Nodes Panel from The Lightning Conference Berlin
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a Bitcoin & Co. live recording from the worlds first lightning conference that has been taking place this weekend in Berlin. For ...
Janine Roemer: Censorship Resistant Journalism Needs Censorship Resistant Money
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Janine Roemer is an independent journalist, who went from technophobe to cypherpunk. She heard about Bitcoin in 2012 and is working in the Bitcoin spa...
Dan Held: Silicon Valley Fundamentally Doesn't Understand Bitcoin
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Held is the Director of Business Development for all products of Kraken. Kraken is one of the worlds biggest and well known cryptocurrency exchang...
Hass McCook: Bitcoin Is the Monetization of Energy. If It Does Not Succeed, Humanity Is in for a Bad Time.
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Todays guest is Hass McCook, he is a civil engineer working on economic infrastructure like building roads and tunnels and has a lot of experience in ...
Rodolfo Novak Bitcoin Goes to Zero or It Goes to the Moon
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rodolfo Novak is an entrepreneur and a long time bitcoiner. He is building products like the OpenDime, the Coldcard Wallet, the BlockClock and is expe...
The Petro Is a Scam and Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Send Money to Venezuela
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Aníbal Santaella Sánchez and Paola Rodriguez-Giustiniani from Venezuela. The couple left the country three years ago and live in Scotland now. ...
Max Hillebrand Is Busting FUD About the Lightning Network
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Max Hillebrand is an economist who started reading Keynes when he was 9 and got into Bitcoin at the age of 16. He says “Bitcoin is for e...
Federico Spitaleri the Lightning Network Enables Innovation in Gaming and Pricing
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Federico Spitaleri is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Satoshi’s Games. A gaming web platform on top of the Lightning Netwo...
Satoshi Freeathlon a Sports Event to Raise Awareness for Bitcoin
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A group of sport- and Bitcoin enthusiasts got together to challenge themselves in a 4 day race with 14 km of swimming, 280 km of biking and 63 km of r...
BUC Live: The Fight Against Money Laundering with Cryptocurrencies
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Starting 10 January 2020, virtual currency service providers in Austria will be subject to the same know-your-customer and anti-money laundering oblig...
Matt Corallo on the Social Good of Bitcoin and the Mindset of a Bitcoin Developer
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Early Bitcoin Core developer Matt Corallo started working on Bitcoin in 2011. At that time he still attended high school and lived in Germany near Fra...
Max Keidun About the Possibilities of Non-Custodial Solutions and Memenomics in Bitcoin
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Max Keidun is the CEO of the non-custodial, peer to-peer Bitcoin exchange hodlhodl. He was born in the former USSR and started his career as a journal...
Andreas M. Antonopoulos Busting Arguments Against Bitcoin and Revealing Real Risks
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode common misconceptions and FUD about Bitcoin like high volatility, energy consumption, inequalities in the distribution of weal...
Richard Myers About Bitcoin Without Internet and the Importance of Financial Freedom
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Myers is the product engineer for txTenna, a project that extends the range for sending and receiving bitcoin transactions over the Blockstrea...
Thomas Voegtlin About Creating the Electrum Wallet, Best Practices to Secure Your Funds and His Design Principles
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Voegtlin was a researcher in computer science, specialized on machine learning and neural networks before he discovered Bitcoin at the end of 2...
Caitlin Long About Financial Freedom and Why Bitcoin Matters
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Been in Bitcoin since 2012 and a blockchain evangelist since 2014, Caitlin is the Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and gubernatorial app...
Leah Wald on Possibilities for Women in the Bitcoin Space and Why We Still Are in a Bear Market
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Wald is a development economist, financial analyst and Partner & Executive Vice President at Lucid Investment Strategies. Together w...
Adam Back on the Magic of Cryptography and Why Bitcoin Matters
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Back is the inventor of Hashcash, a method to prevent spam emails, that was used with minor changes as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His w...
Demelza Hays the Way to the Highest-Quality Money, the Next Bitcoin Bull Market and Advice for Small Investors
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Demelza Hays is a crypto researcher, asset manager, entrepreneur and is teaching at the University of Liechtenstein courses on blockchain technology. ...
Shermin Voshmgir about Bitcoin as a Governance Revolution
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and the founder of BlockchainHub ...
Robby Schwertner About Blockchain Use Cases with Return on Society and Asian Markets
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robby Schwertner, aka CryptoRobby is an advisor, speaker and analyst in the blockchain space. His mission can be summarized with the hashtag #ReturnOn...
Aaron van Wirdum “It’s Bitcoin or Bust.”
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron van Wirdum is a technical editor for the Bitcoin Magazine. He started writing articles debunking Bitcoin myths in his personal blog in 2013.We a...
Alena Vranova on the Importance of User Experience in Bitcoin
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I met Alena Vranova at the Israel Bitcoin Summit in Tel Aviv in January 2019. We talked about how she got into Bitcoin, why user experience is the mos...
The Lightning Network Explained with René Pickhardt
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Lightning is Bitcoin”, says René Pickhardt a mathematician, data scientist and contributor to the Lightning Network. We ...
Pamela Morgan on Inheritance Planning for Crypto-Assets
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I am talking with Pamela Morgan. She is the author of “Crypto-Asset Inheritance Planning: A Simple Guide for Owners” a book about ...
Blockchain and Data Privacy with Lawyer Prof. Nikolaus Forgó
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó is the Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna in Austria. We are talking...
Bitcoin and the Austrian School of Economics with Rahim Taghizadegan
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Rahim Taghizadegan about the interconnections between a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and the ideas and philosophy of the Au...
Andreas M. Antonopoulos on Bitcoin, Privacy, Human Rights and the Future of Bitcoin
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts with 440,00...
Saifedean Ammous, Economist and Author of “The Bitcoin Standard”
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Saifedean Ammous is talking about Austrian economics, it’s relation to Bitcoin, what sound money and inflation are, why proof-of-wor...