Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Fed Watch - Macro Economics and Central Banking 101 w/ Kenny Rowe - FED 24 Sep 23, 2020

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This week on Bitcoin Magazine's Fed Watch, Ck and Ansel sit down with a Bitcoin OG and listener of the show, Kenny Rowe to answer his basic questions about the Fed and Macro. Kenny is currently at Urbit and has been working on Bitcoin and Crypto projects for many years now. Kenny and Urbit are pioneers in the sovereign server movement.

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Bitcoin Dictionary: http://bitcoindictionary.cc

Bitcoin, Human Rights, and the Oslo Freedom Forum W/ Alex Gladstein Sep 22, 2020

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This week CK and the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein sit down to discuss the current state of human rights, Bitcoin's role in the fight for human rights, and the upcoming virtual Oslo Freedom Forum.

Find Alex on Twitter @Gladstein

Find the Human Rights Foundation @HRF

The 2020 Virtual Oslo Freedom Forum is this week on September 24th and 25th.

Learn more about the virtual Oslo Freedom Forum and get your ticket below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-oslo-freedom-forum-tickets-116651629163

Bitcoin in Asia - An Institutional Approach with Dave Chapman BIA 24 Sep 21, 2020

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Our guest this week is Australian Hongkonger and Bitcoin entrepreneur Dave Chapman. Dave is the Executive Director of the publicly listed BC Group and its subsidiary OSL (osl.com), one of Asia's leading digital asset platforms. OSL recently became the first recipient of approval in principle for Type 1 and Type 7 licenses from the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, allowing them to operate a virtual asset trading platform and deal in securities. It is a significant step from Hong Kong regulators and the result of an intentional approach from OSL. Dave and I discuss that process and its significance, trends that he sees in institutional adoption and more.

Dave on Twitter @IAmDaveChapman

OSL on Twitter @osldotcom

The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Schnorr Signatures and Libsec256k1 - Nado 9 Sep 18, 2020

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Schnorr signature support was merged into the libsec256k1 library last week. In the episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss what the libsecp256k1 library is, why it matters for Bitcoin, and what it means that Schnorr signature support was merged. Sjors also briefly explains what he ultimate send RPC is, his own pull request that was recently merged into Bitcoin Core as well.

Helpful Links:

The Power of Schnorr:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-power-of-schnorr-the-signature-algorithm-to-increase-bitcoin-s-scale-and-privacy-1460642496

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Music:

Song Title: Segwit Sounds

By: The NakamoTones

Album: Citadel Music

Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

Fed Watch - Long Live the Bond King w/ Steven Van Metre - FED 23 Sep 16, 2020

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Steven’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRIQM-CUkxVazVPv980YZsw

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetreSteven

In this interview, we are joined by macro commentator Steven Van Metre. He has become well-known for his clear articulation of a contrarian macro take which focuses around the coming recession, bonds, and the dollar.

Timestamps:

4:06 - 4:24 Talking about Bonds and their role in the global economy.

8:42 - 11:21 Steven explains what this mean for the dollar

16:09 - 17:39 How QE works

22:17 - 24:00 Stocks V Bonds

24:32 - 26:14 Where do you see the next 5-10 years?

29:55 - 31:04 Will Bitcoin do well in a down turn?

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Bitcoin in Asia - Advertising Bitcoin with Leo Weese BIA 23 Sep 14, 2020

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Our guest this week is Leo Weese, a long time Bitcoiner in Hong Kong and a Cofounder and president of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong. The Bitcoin Association has been a significant advocate for and communicator about Bitcoin since 2014 as it has established one of the strongest Bitcoin communities in Asia. One of its recent initiates, an advertising campaign highlighting Bitcoin’s traits and potential as magic internet money and digital gold among other taglines has made waves. We discuss how that came to be, why the quotes and tag lines are timely, why Leo thinks we need to be thinking bigger about Bitcoin’s potential in light of monetary policy and the structure of capital flows around the world and much more.

The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Statechains w/ Ruben Somsen - Nado 8 Sep 11, 2020

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Aaron and Sjors welcome their first guest on to the show, Ruben Somsen, to discuss his proposals for Statechains on Bitcoin! Statechains allow you to send keys not UTXO and it offers quite a few scaling and functionality improvements!

Helpful Links:

Ruben's presentation on Bitcoin Magazine about Statechains: https://youtu.be/CKx6eULIC3A

Aaron's Bitcoin Magazine article on Statechains: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/statechains-sending-keys-not-coins-to-scale-bitcoin-off-chain

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Music:

Song Title: Segwit Sounds

By: The NakamoTones

Album: Citadel Music

Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

Fed Watch - Taking the Orange Pill w/ Stacy Herbert Fed Watch 22 Sep 09, 2020

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In this interview, we are joined by bitcoin legend Stacy Herbert. We talk about her background in Hollywood and how she and Max found bitcoin. It is a wide ranging conversation about GIABO “Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation” and the long term very accurate narrative that she and Max have crafted over the last 10 years. She is a memer and storyteller and that really comes through in this interview.

Max Keiser Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV

Orange Pill podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1263314 S

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The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - What is an XPub? - Nado 7 Sep 04, 2020

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In this episode of the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Sjors and Aaron explain what an xpub is and how it is used by Bitcoin wallets.

Helpful Links:

http://rosenbaum.se/book/grokking-bitcoin-4.html#_hierarchical_deterministic_wallets
https://walletsrecovery.org

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Music:

Song Title: Segwit Sounds

By: The NakamoTones

Album: Citadel Music

Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

Fed Watch - Surprising Admissions in the Fine Print from Jackson Hole - FED 21 Sep 04, 2020

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This is Fed Watch, the Bitcoin Magazine podcast and show focused on bringing together the worlds of Macro Finance and Bitcoin. This week on Fed Watch hosts CK and Ansel Discuss Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell's speech at the Jackson Hole Federal Reserve Meeting. The hosts also discuss deflation in Europe and the ECB's inability to create inflation. We close the show out with Bitcoin Technical Analysis and Fundamentals.

Powell’s Speech PDF transcript: https://www.bis.org/review/r200827d.pdf

Hypothesis highlights: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bis.org%2Freview%2Fr200827d.pdf&group=__world__

The speech meant to announce their new consensus statement and framework of how they interpret their mandate from Congress. It was the culmination of a 2 year internal audit and research. The speech is organized into parts, (a) Evolution of Fed tools/framework from inflation fighter to deflation fighter, (b) the four key economic developments motivated our review, (c) discussion of unemployment side of the mandate, and (d) discussion of the inflation side of their mandate.

ECB link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-inflation/europes-inflation-plunge-to-raise-red-flags-at-ecb-idUSKBN25S4GD

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