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The Bitcoin Immune System w/ Cory Klippsten Sep 02, 2020

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CK and Cory Klippsten of Swan Bitcoin sit down for a wide ranging conversation covering Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Community, The importance of sound money to Society and much more! Follow Cory on Twitter @coryklippsten Follow Swan Bitcoin @SwanBitcoin Follow CK @ck_SNARKs Follow Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine

The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - Payment Pools and Taproot - NADO 6 Aug 28, 2020

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In this episode of the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Sjors and Aaron discuss the future of Bitcoin Scaling. This podcast is all about Taproot and the cool feature it enables called Payment pools.

Topics

What are payment pools? Why they need Taproot. The UX of sharing UTXOs How Payment pools work with lightning

Helpful Links:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/building-on-taproot-payment-pools-could-be-bitcoins-next-layer-two-protocol

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Music:

Song Title: Segwit Sounds

By: The NakamoTones

Album: Citadel Music

Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

Fed Watch - "Banking in The Shadows with Jeff Snider" - FED 20 Aug 26, 2020

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Today, we have the privilege to sit down with Head of Global Research at Alhambra Investments Jeff Snider. We run through the basics of the eurodollar system, why people get it wrong when talking about the Fed, and where we are going from here. Of course, we finish up getting Jeff to talk about bitcoin, and what he says might surprise you! Alhambra Investments: https://alhambrapartners.com/commentaryanalysis/ Alhambra Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp8Xi-sPTL9VyZpHTPfLA-g Making Sense, Eurodollar University iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense/id1506469669 Before the interview, we have some time to talk about several other topics about the Fed and global money issues: Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2020/federal-reserves-cunha-state-and-timeframe-digital-dollars/ IMF tweet on “Cryptocurrencies” https://twitter.com/IMFNews/status/1297640002604527621?s=20 Kristy-Leigh Minehan on a rumored big player coming to Bitcoin ASICs https://twitter.com/OhGodAGirl/status/1295942087582482432?s=20 Find us:

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Bitcoin in Asia - Bank of Hodlers Founder and CEO Darshan Bathija BIA 22 Aug 24, 2020

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Our guest this week is Darshan Bathija, founder and CEO of Bank of Hodlers (bankofhodlers.com), an asset backed lending and borrowing platform that I think we will be hearing a lot more of in the future. The company runs out of Singapore and Darshan and most of his team are currently working out of India. Darshan gives great insight into the lending and borrowing markets for retail and institutions in their different geographies from Southeast Asia to Europe and the Americas. He also goes deep on the retail banking sector and monetary policy in India and what his long term vision is for a Bitcoin first bank.

Darshan on Twitter @darshanbathija

Bitcoin Magazine Interview: Investing in Bitcoin with Brian Estes Aug 21, 2020

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CK sits down with Brian Estes CEO of Blockchain fund Off The Chain Capital. We discuss Brian's story investing in Bitcoin and Bitcoin start ups and learn more about how Brian and Off The Chain think about Bitcoin and the future of the internet. Topics: Congresses understands that Bitcoin can’t be regulated Bitcoin has out preformed Brian's initial investment in Coinbase. Bitcoin is the best preforming asset class 9 out of the last 11 years. Bitcoin improves a portfolio's sharp ratio. Brian’s Short term prediction Follow Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine & BitcoinMagazine.com Follow Brian Estes @BrianEstes32

FED Watch - "FedNow and Bitcoin Bull"- FED 19 Aug 19, 2020

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This week CK and Ansel cover what’s new in the world of the Fed as well as riff on Bitcoin’s recent price action.

Topics:

FedNow payment network announcement

Covering recent speech from Brainard of the Fed

Bitcoin Metrics and price action.

Useful Links:

FedNow: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20200806a.htm

Brainard speech: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/brainard20200813a.htm

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Bitcoin in Asia - Bitmain in North America with Raymond Walintukan BIA 21 Aug 11, 2020

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Our guest this week is Raymond Walintukan, Director of Mining Operations North America for Bitmain. His perspective as someone in charge of running and growing a separate geography for a Chinese company and for Bitmain in particular is an interesting one. We talk about that situation, the workflow, the growth strategy, and dive into how it works operationally and how it fits into the broader Bitmain effort. Raymond also details Bitmain’s North American footprint, the nuances of working with public and private utilities in the US and mining trends that he sees heading into this next Bitcoin cycle.

The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado - The Time-warp Soft Fork & Bitcoin Cash's Difficulty Adjustment Drama - NADO 5 Aug 07, 2020

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In this episode of the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Sjors explains the "time-warp attack" on Bitcon and Aaron explains the unfolding drama with the bcash difficulty adjustment.

Helpful Links:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/miners-are-milking-bcashs-difficulty-adjustments-and-why-problem1

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-bcash-mining-shouldnt-affect-bitcoin-much-bitcoin-mining-could-ruin-bcash

https://read.cash/@jtoomim/dark-secrets-of-the-grasberg-daa-a9239fb6

https://blog.bitcoinabc.org/2020/07/23/announcing-the-grasberg-daa/

https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/bips/blob/cleanup-softfork/bip-XXXX.mediawiki

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Follow Bitcoin Magazine on Twitter @BitcoinMagazine

Follow Aaron van Wirdum @AaronvanW

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Music:

Song Title: Segwit Sounds

By: The NakamoTones

Album: Citadel Music

Produced by: Bitcoin Audio

FED Watch - “Fed Insider Reveals What’s Really Going On (w/ Danielle DiMartino Booth)” - FED 18 Aug 05, 2020

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Danielle DiMartino Booth

Bio CEO & Chief Strategist, Quill Intelligence https://quillintelligence.com/ The author of FED UP: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America Worked at the Fed, advisor to Dallas President Richard W. Fisher during the GFC

Other topics covered this week: FOMC statement from last week https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200729a.htm FOMC holds policies steady.

Places all blame on the virus. The virus has its own dual mandate here 1) distract from systemic weakness and failures 2) help manipulate sentiment, hopefully sentiment will recover as virus pressures abate ECB and Bundesbank view Germany’s Constitutional Court’s demands met http://archive.vn/S6vAN Euro spike discussed in context of a longer recession

Bitcoin in Asia - The Developing Environment for Bitcoin Businesses in South Korea BIA 20 Aug 03, 2020

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Our guest this week is Dr. Youree Lee, Chief Business officer of Peertec, Co-Founder of W-Foundation, and professor at Hanyang University, based out of Seoul. Peertec is a part of Peer.com a corporate group which includes the exchange GDAC, the Korean media BlockInPress and the Deconomy conference there among other entities. We talk about regulatory developments in Korea over the last year, including Korea’s new tax plan regarding cryptocurry and additional guidance for licensed exchanges. Youree gives additional context for the exchange landscape and the nuances of operating as a fiat on/off ramp into bitcoin. We also talk about how the bear market has been in Korea and signs and trends that she is seeing as we enter a new phase.

Dr Lee on Twitter @ylee727

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