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On this episode of Speaking of Bitcoin, NFT early adopter MetaKovan (Vignesh Sundaresan) joins the hosts for part two of our three part exploration. This time we discuss the B.20 token project, plus the ongoing challenges and opportunities of India.
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On this episode of Speaking of Bitcoin, NFT early adopter MetaKovan joins the hosts for part one of our three part exploration.
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In this episode we're taking a break from the craziness of 2021 and traveling back to a simpler time, the summer of 2011...
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Join Atom & Atlas as they begin their journey into the world of BitCoin!
Special Note: Our second collectible episode NFT is now up for bid. It’s another no-reserve auction format which will end sometime between March 20th and 21st.
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This week on Speaking of Bitcoin, we’re digging into voting - and how could, or would putting voting on a blockchain help? How would it even work? We discuss.
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For this first one, only a single token is available in a no-reserve auction format which will end sometime between March 13th and 14th.
This week on Speaking of Bitcoin, we’re digging into a good question you’ll often hear from new users. In this wide ranging discussion, hosts Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine discuss concepts like price anchoring, the milibit question, why a thousand Dogecoin isn’t better, finding financial comfort zones and more.
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Simply by existing, Bitcoin provides an unstoppable alternative to regional currency monopolies.
In this episode of Speaking of Bitcoin, join Stephanie Murphy, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine for a look at the most important aspects of bitcoin, it’s relationship to power and how that power has influenced every corner of our lives.
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In this episode of Speaking of Bitcoin (originally recorded in early January, 2021), join Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan as they dig into the much discussed but often poorly understood ‘Taproot’ improvement.
This long-in-the-works, multi-part bitcoin improvement proposal is nearing deployment but will likely take years to fully manifest in the wallets and applications we use. Even so, taproot is set to impact the protocol significantly in the areas of scale, privacy and the ability to create and execute more complex ‘smart contracts’ on bitcoins’ native layer.
In this episode, we dig into the meaning and implications of the upgrades major componants in an easy to understand way and then go into the technical explanation to provide you with all the technical details as well.
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In this special episode, tune in to Speaking of Bitcoin's first correspondent segment with George Frankly. We'll be back with full length episodes next week and segments from George and a growing roster of topic specific correspondents will start popping up in the middle or end of our shows in the near future.
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On this episode of Speaking of Bitcoin, CoinCenter’s Research Director, Peter Van Valkenburgh, joins the hosts for a discussion about FinCEN’s “Self Custodied Wallet” rule. The recently proposed, much commented attempt to extend rules which govern how banks must report on their customers would apply to companies like CoinBase plus a whole lot more. It’s a bit of a wonky topic, but one that’s critically important as bitcoin continues its march towards the mainstream and governments seek to grapple with the implications.
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On this episode of Speaking of Bitcoin, passions run hot as the hosts dig into the events and significance surrounding Gamestop, Wall Street Bets and the growing sense of outrage as perceptions of lawlessness go mainstream.
“Every market tends to have these effects where the rich gets richer, where wealth accumulates, that’s something that occurs in social systems… it’s a natural outcome of other inequalities that exist, and bitcoin doesn’t fix that,” said educator, author and host Andreas M. Antonopoulos. “But there’s something especially galling about the idea that once wealth inequality has started, that wealth can be used to buy power, that power can be used to buy access, and that power and access can be used to buy impunity. And when the rules can be changed, not just before or after the fact, but during the trade… When teh rules of the market can be changed even against participants who were, in good faith, assuming that the same rules applied to them, that’s particularly galling. What bitcoin fixes, what decentralized finance fixes is not inequality, what it fixes is that wealth and access and power do not give you the ability to change the rules in the middle of the game. And that, on its own, is revolutionary.”
“I genuinely believe that this is the most transformative financial event of the past decade, since 2009,” opined host and Themys.io CEO Jonathan Mohan, “In 2009 everyone learned that America is the country where if you’re too big, you will not be allowed to fail. Too big to fail means once you’re rich enough, everyone else will suffer so you don’t fail. There’s a coordinated cabal of people coming together and telling retail “You’re too small to succeed, we’re going to do something, it’s going to be blatant. We’re going to stick our neck 50 paces past the edge of the cliff…. But if you call us out on it because you’re not part of the club, and we lose money because of it… Who are you? We’re everything. You’re nothing. You’re too small to succeed. You don’t get to do that.’
And the way the government and these companies respond will let us know if America will go from being a country that said ‘if you’re too big we won’t let you fail’, to being the country that says ‘If you’re too small, we goddamn sure won’t let you succeed.”
Links for Jonathan's anecdote:
* https://www.vocativ.com/326039/how-one-4chan-board-is-trying-to-fight-isis-in-syria/index.html
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbwUdmHd5MA&feature=youtu.be
* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/5/19/anonymous-and-the-arab-uprisings
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