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Bitcoin in Asia - Bitcoin Mining and Communications with Nishant Sharma - BIA 27 Oct 14, 2020

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Our guest this week is Nishant Sharma, a long time bitcoin mining industry insider in China who is now a founder and partner of BlocksBridge Consulting, a communications strategy and advisory firm focused on the Bitcoin mining sector and serving some of its largest companies. Nishant has been in the mining space since 2014, including 4 years at Bitmain in Beijing. We discuss his time at Bitmain, seeing it grow from a two digit employee company to a dominant player in the industry, trends in the mining space outside of China, state of mainstream and industry media coverage and more.

Bitcoin Booming Around the Globe w/ Ray Youssef - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast Oct 11, 2020

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Ck sits down with one of the most inspiring and impressive entrepreneurs in the Bitcoin industry. Ray Youssef is the head of Paxful, the leading p2p Bitcoin trading. Ray is on a mission to spread financial freedom to the world. We cover recent news pertaining to Paxful as well as make predictions on where bitcoin is going. Timestamps: 0:00-0:58 Intro 0:59 - 1:56 What is happening in the world of P2P finance 5:13 - 7:14 Discussing Bitcoin and Tether as global clearing layers. 7:14 - 8:34 Tether v Bitcoin on Paxful 9:00 - 11:17 How does tether’s Success affect your Bitcoin Thesis? 11:14 - 13:07 Discussing the inherent risk associated with Tether adoption on paxful. 13:30 - 15:48 Discussing having to pull Paxful operations from Venezuela. 15:55 - 17:10 Bitcoin is already unstoppable but its still too hard for average people. - ray 22:21-24:41 Ray talking about how Bitcoin and open source tech will take over. 25:45 - 26:38 Ray talks about why he fights for financial freedom and bitcoin.

The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - The Perpetual One-Way Peg - NADO 12 Oct 09, 2020

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In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Ruben Somsen returns to explain his proposal to combine blind merged mining and perpetual one-way pegs in order to create a new type of sidechain. The bad news: it won't make you rich but it could help scale Bitcoin!

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https://medium.com/@RubenSomsen/21-million-bitcoins-to-rule-all-sidechains-the-perpetual-one-way-peg-96cb2f8ac302

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Music:
Song Title: Segwit Sounds
By: The NakamoTones
Album: Citadel Music
Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

Fed Watch - Macro Update! Bitcoin Winning Against Governments - FED 26 Oct 07, 2020

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This week, CK and Ansel recap prior guests, discuss recent Federal Reserve quiet, the ECB digital Euro study and trademarking of the term, and dive in deeply into the Bitmex, Bitcoin, and Tether. One of the big topics is the way in which Tether and now Bitmex are fighting the most powerful regulator in the world, the US government, and they seem to be at least winning right now.

Links: Fed CBDC research https://cointelegraph.com/news/federal-reserve-bank-reveals-details-of-digital-dollar-research

ECB Digital Euro paper https://cointelegraph.com/news/ecb-to-consider-further-digital-euro-study-in-2021

Trademark of “Digital Euro” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/ecb-applies-for-digital-euro-trademark-amid-feasibility-study

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Bitcoin Dictionary: http://bitcoindictionary.cc/

Bitcoin in Asia - Growing a Global Bitcoin Company with Huobi's Ciara Sun BIA 26 Oct 05, 2020

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Our guest this week is Ciara Sun, Head of Global Business and Markets at Huobi Group. Ciara joined Huobi in 2019 first focusing on growth of its institutional business and in her role now now overseeing its growth and product strategy around the world, she gives a great look into what goes into running and growing a global bitcoin company with a diverse range of products. And one that is continuously rolling out new products in very cutthroat markets, including rollouts this year in the futures space, mining pool space, and more. It was interesting to get a look under the hood at how huobi operates, how they plan expansion and navigate regulation around the world and how Ciara is thinking about current trends and the future.

Bitcoin in Venezuela 2020 w/ Alessandro Cecere (El Sultan Bitcoin) Oct 04, 2020

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As part of our Bitcoin in Venezuela double header, @ck_SNARKs and Venezuelan Bitcoin entrepreneur Alessandro Cecere ,@elsultanbitcoin, sit down to talk Bitcoin and how it is being implemented and used in Venezuela.

Find Alessandra @Elsultanbitcoin and @coinspree

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The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Accounts for Bitcoin, Easypaysy! - NADO 11 Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode Sjors and Aaron discuss Jose Femenias' Easypaysy proposal, an account system for Bitcoin, on Bitcoin. They also announce groundbreaking news: The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado now has its own RSS-feed!

Aaron's article covering Easypaysy on Bitcoin Magazine

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-need-accounts-one-developer-thinks-figured

The BIP in Github

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0047.mediawiki

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Fed Watch - Economic Crisis Analysis w/ Lyn Alden - FED 25 Sep 30, 2020

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One of the great macro pundits of the last few years, Lyn Alden joins us, for one of the most important episodes of Fedwatch. Lyn has a fantastic grasp of history and macro economics. In this interview, we wanted to focus on placing our current time into a historical context comparing it to previous cycles which we can learn from. We also continue our search for a definition of money today, and agreement on a definition of money, inflation, and deflation.

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https://www.lynalden.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact Rebel Capitalist Pro: https://www.georgegammon.com/rebel-capitalist-pro/ Elliot Wave Trader: https://www.elliottwavetrader.net/news/ Find us: Bitcoin Magazine: https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine Bitcoin Magazine YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtOV5M-T3GcsJAq8QKaf0lg Christian: https://twitter.com/ck_snarks Ansel: https://twitter.com/AnselLindner Bitcoin Dictionary: http://bitcoindictionary.cc/

Bitcoin in Asia - Bitcoin in South Africa with Chris Becker BIA 25 Sep 28, 2020

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We are actually in South Africa this week after some newsworthy M&A there involving the Luno exchange and DCG. Our guest is Chris Becker, Blockchain Technologies Lead at Investec based out of Johannesburg. Investec is a commercial and investment bank with a significant presence in South Africa, and Chris started their blockchain practice in 2016 - he talks about Bitcoin in South Africa in that time frame, DCG’s acquisition of Luno, the landscape of Bitcoin companies in SA and trends he sees in adoption there. He also puts Austrian economics in the context of fiscal and monetary policy in SA and Bitcoin.

The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Explaining Signet - NADO 10 Sep 25, 2020

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Sjors and Aaron discuss Signet, a new type of testnet for Bitcoin that was merged into Bitcoin Core last week. They also discuss the original version of testnet and its problems, as well as alternative testing environment regtest.

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Music:
Song Title: Segwit Sounds
By: The NakamoTones
Album: Citadel Music
Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

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