Crypto Voices

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Daniel Lacalle: Central banks are saving us? May 13, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 91 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Show Sponsor: https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Matthew and Fernando interview expert economist and fund manager Daniel Lacalle. If you haven't heard of Daniel, do check out his blog, books, and videos on his website (links below), or find him often on many mainstream business news channels such as Bloomberg. This interview was originally recorded in video on Fernando's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jgJia9q4Os&feature=youtu.be Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/dlacalle_IA https://www.dlacalle.com/en/ https://mises.org/profile/daniel-lacalle Show Sponsor: https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Saifedean Ammous: Economic principles & Bitcoin Apr 17, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 90 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Show Sponsor: https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Matthew interviews Dr. Saifedean Ammous, Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard. Saifedean comes back on the show for an in depth discussion on some classical principles of (Austrian) economics, of which he is currently lecturing online in his second Principles of Economics course, available now (link below). We cover what makes Austrianism different from mainstream Keynesianism, why Austrianism's common sense isn't so "common," what a true monopoly is (can you find one?), and some debates among Austrians in money and banking. We also cover the Bitcoin upcoming halvening (is it priced in?), mining centralization, and gold. Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/saifedean https://saifedean.com/ https://saifedean.com/academy/ https://saifedean.com/book/ https://mises.org/profile/saifedean-h-ammous https://mises.org/profile/juan-ram%C3%B3n-rallo-juli%C3%A1n Show Sponsor: https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Alec Harris: Halo Privacy & Bitcoin Apr 09, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 89 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Show Sponsor: https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Matthew interviews Alec Harris, Managing Director of Halo Privacy, providing secure communications via cryptography and managed attribution for a variety of clients. Alec is an expert in the privacy world, protecting many types of clients. We talk first and foremost how Covid-19 will affect our privacy going forward. Alec overviews some of the main services that Halo Privacy offers, and how they can help you secure your online profile. We also discuss the overlap that Bitcoin has to all of this, including contrasting cash in the physical world versus the digital world. Alec has written many insightful blog posts on privacy, and we discuss two of them. The first is very detailed, and concerns actually obfuscating your personal identity and not tying it to your physical address. The second is a bit more lighthearted, touching on all of the Zoom meetings around the world occurring due to the quarantine. Alec's comments and steps offered toward getting on the right path to privacy are very insightful, and concrete even if you're a beginner. Privacy is a spectrum, but Alec makes the great point that anyone can and should at least take those first steps and start that journey toward better privacy. Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://www.haloprivacy.com/#s-solutions https://medium.com/@chalice.perky470/disappear-here-dc710873190c https://medium.com/@chalice.perky470/zoommorons-4d698bdcf3ed https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00006897 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133189/ Show Sponsor: https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Monetary Base Compendium (2019 Q4) Mar 11, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 88 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Show sponsor, please use this link to help us out! https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Matthew updates on the Crypto Voices Monetary Base exhibit for 2019 Q4. This episode will be a lot easier if following along with the tweet thread, which is here: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1227949623362379778?s=20 Or, you can also follow along with the exhibits here: cryptovoices.com/basemoney Bottom line: Bitcoin is currently the #9th largest base money in the fiat world. Bitcoin is currently the #11th largest base money in the fiat world, including past base monies gold & silver. Bitcoin is unquestionably unlike anything else in the (financial) world. However, if you are going to try and compare Bitcoin's supply with other supply curves in the financial world, don't. The only money supply you can compare it to is fiat's "Monetary Base," or "Base Money." Firstly, something needs to be used as a medium of exchange to technically be called "money." Gold and silver used to be. Fiat is now. Bitcoin very well could be. But don't get carried away. We need to compare bitcoin (and gold... and silver) to fiat's "base money" supply, and *only* to the base money supply. M1/M2/M3 and all others simply aren't comparable. Why? Because those supplies include "claims" on base money. In this episode, we review the 2019Q4 tweet thread in depth, covering: 1) Some of the economic, seismic changes of China and India; 2) What reserve balances really are, and how we economically look at them; 3) What other bank balances economically are (we are the creditors, banks are the debtors); 4) The methodological changes we've made with gold and silver, from using "all-time" gold and silver mined ounces, to using estimated, liquid gold and silver outstanding ounces (bullion plus jewelry); 5) The deeper meaning behind mainstream journalism's economic assumptions, views, and narratives pushed, versus their effort in actually providing well-thought data to their audience. Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: cryptovoices.com/basemoney https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1235971075604963335?s=20 https://twitter.com/crypto_voices/status/1236311922812862467?s=20 https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1235805267167604736?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1230109497546461184?s=20 https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1230119972027932673?s=20 Show sponsor, please use this link to help us out! https://hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Adam Back: Two Bitcoin interviews (back-to-back) Feb 22, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 87 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Dr. Adam Back, applied cryptographer, inventor of proof-of-work system Hashcash, and CEO of Blockstream. In this one we go around the horn covering economics, money, gold, silver, properties of good money, payments, savings, permission-less tech, alternative implementations, Schnorr and Taproot upgrades, hashing collisions, upgrading the hashing algorithm itself, and privacy (tradeoffs). Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/adam3us https://blockstream.com https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf https://tatourian.blog/2016/11/19/building-ultra-reliable-software/ https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/fm-why-def-reject.html https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6312924 Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Amir Taaki: (Bitcoin) Revolutionary Jan 30, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 86 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Amir Taaki, early Bitcoin developer, hacker, revolutionary, and political activist. We discuss an interesting array of topics on geopolitics, from communism to capitalism, the role of religion, the role of leaders, the role of weapons, and the role of money. Amir shares some stories from his early days in Bitcoin, both things he appreciated, and those he thinks Bitcoin should improve upon. We spend a good amount of time on political and economic activism as well, such as agorism, how fighting ISIS in Syria shaped Amir's worldview, and what he hopes to help those in Catalonia achieve. The latter part of the interview focuses on Amir's goals and challenges for his Polytech Acadamey. If interested, join the Telegram group here: https://t.me/PolytechAcademy Amir will present more on this at Eric Voskuil's (current Libbitcoin maintainer) Crypto Econ 2020 Summit this 29 February in Vietnam. Registration and info here: https://cryptoecon.org/ Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/Narodism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taaki https://libbitcoininstitute.org/ https://www.amazon.com/Manifesto-Democratic-Civilization-Abdullah-%C3%96calan/dp/8293064420 Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Michel Rauchs: Benchmarking Bitcoin Jan 23, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 85 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Michel Rauchs, former cryptocurrency and blockchain lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, and founder of digital asset advisory firm Paradigma. Michel covers the many benchmarks and metrics he and his colleagues have researched and developed at Cambridge, including the Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, as well as the true user base of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Michel is very detailed and analytically-driven, and extremely bright in parsing through the noise. We continue the discussion beyond the hard metrics, and review the true utility of Bitcoin versus other systems. We also review the various categories of possible, future digital fiat systems, at the central bank digital currency (CBDC) level, stablecoin level, and corporate coin level (Libra). Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/mrauchs https://www.paradigma.lu https://mrauchs.com/about/ https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/people/ https://www.cbeci.org https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/publications/global-cryptocurrency/#.XimnYC2B2u4 https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/publications/2nd-global-cryptoasset-benchmark-study/#.Ximq5S2B2u4 Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Rodolfo Novak: Bitcoin ethos, Cold Card & Crypto Voices 3rd anniversary show Jan 09, 2020

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Crypto Voices: Episode 84 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Rodolfo Novak, CEO and co-founder of Coinkite, the maker of Opendime and Coldcard, the latter of which is an ultra-secure bitcoin hardware wallet. Rodolfo joins for this 3-year anniversary show of Crypto Voices! Rodolfo gives a full overview on the latest Coldcard Mark 3, covering all security features, the interface and setup, PSBTs, interacting with the microSD card, and what makes open-source hardware development different. He shares some great lessons and challenges when it comes to trust-minimization in the open-source world. We spend a good portion of the show covering Bitcoin's ethos after all these years, who needs it, what it's useful for, as well as some interesting (possible) sector use cases, such as in the pot and porn industries. We discuss privacy, geopolitics, inflation, interest rates, and more. Rodolfo also gives his outlook on bitcoin in the future. As you might imagine, he's quite bullish on the technical side alone. Remember, as Rodolfo has said on two different CV shows, "If you're not running your own full node, you're not doing Bitcoin." Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/nvk https://twitter.com/Coinkite https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet https://twitter.com/OPENDIME https://coinkite.com/ https://coldcardwallet.com/ https://opendime.com/ Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Trace Mayer: Proof of Keys, Bitcoin, & gold (Both paper & real!) Dec 19, 2019

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Crypto Voices: Episode 83 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Trace Mayer, longtime Bitcoin advocate and founder of the public service initiative Proof of Keys. The 2nd annual celebration is coming up on 3 January 2020. Trace covers from A to Z on what Proof of Keys is all about, how to partake in the initiative, best practices, and his personal recommendations in climbing the mountaintop to monetary sovereignty. It's a fantastic initiative than anyone in the world can participate in, with just a little bit of hardware, knowhow, and personal responsibility. We also spend a good bulk of the interview comparing bitcoin and gold. The parallels between the ancient monetary metal and the future digital medium of sound money are fascinating. We talk about gold's monetary history, particularly during World War II, the well known gold price suppression schemes, paper gold leveraged by bullion banks and central banks, how much gold reserves "officially" compare with their monetary base, and all the positive contrasts and future possibilities bitcoin offers compared with gold's mechanics. The "paper gold" we talked about is well referenced here: https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/what-sets-the-gold-price-is-it-the-paper-market-or-physical-market/ Listen on to learn more, and how to signal and participate in Proof of Keys Links for more info: https://twitter.com/tracemayer https://www.proofofkeys.com https://www.bitcoin.kn Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Dave Chapman: BC Group & Bitcoin in Asia Dec 12, 2019

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Crypto Voices: Episode 82 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Dave Chapman, Executive Director of BC Group, the first and still only publicly traded fintech and digital asset company in Asia. We start off with Dave's background and his journey into banking and financial services, and how he eventually moved to Hong Kong and discovered bitcoin. Dave has been through many bitcoin cycles, both as a personal enthusiast and as an entrepreneur. We discuss the various products and services BC Group offers, from their OSL brokerage and trading platform to white labeling, and why they're primarily focused on institutional clients. We spend a lot of time taking the pulse of the regulators in Hong Kong and in Asia, what they want to see, what they don't want to see, and some of the progress Asian markets in particular have made in the digital asset space. We compare the more restrictive Chinese model with various other Asian markets. We talk central bank digital currencies and the emerging digital and economic landscape between East and West. We briefly touch upon the political situation and safety in Hong Kong, a city that Dave loves to live and work in, and will continue to do so. We close with some predictions for 2020. Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://twitter.com/IamDaveChapman https://twitter.com/HughDMadden https://twitter.com/MarketsMaven https://twitter.com/bctechgroup https://twitter.com/osldotcom https://bc.group/en https://osl.com/en/ https://anxone.io/ Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

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