Austria is a country very close to my heart, so it has saddened me greatly to see what has become of such a wonderfully free place. It was my pleasure in this episode to get the time to speak to Austrian Bitcoin and privacy advocate Der Gigi – who has sadly left the…
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Chatter #220 – Max Hillebrand On Privacy, Freedom, and Cypherpunk Philosophy
Max Hillebrand is free software engineer an economist who started reading Keynes when he was 9 and got into Bitcoin at the age of 16. He says “Bitcoin is for everyone”, even his grandmother runs a Lightning node. Max came across my radar as a Bitcoin enthusiast, but he really peaked my interest…
Peter McCormack – Bitcoin Block Size Debate [Is BTC Truly Bitcoin?]
So when I spoke to Peter McCormack, host of What Bitcoin Did, I was curious as to whether he thought that BTC is Bitcoin or whether it even matters. I wanted to ask him about the Bitcoin block size debate (also known as the fork wars), why the bitcoin block size was important, and whether the block size debate was even relevant!
Chatter #214 [Live] – Greg Foss On Bitcoin, Bonds, and Leaving The Trading World
Greg Foss spent 32 yrs trading in the credit markets at a hedge fund before he left and found the wonders of Bitcoin. He believes that fiat currency is a Ponzi scheme, that it will continue to debase, and that the current system is simply borrowing future prosperity. We got into some really…
Chatter #213 [Live] – Peter McCormack On Bitcoin, Revolution, and Changing The World
I am delighted to have Peter McCormack, Bitcoin Maximalist and host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast on this episode of the show. I have been thinking a lot about the crumbling of the 20th-century institutions across the world, such as media, government, and finance, and wondering how we might achieve some sort…
Kurt Wuckert Jr: Craig Wright Is Satoshi Nakamoto
Most people don’t claim to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is. I’ve seen people make all sorts of outrageous claims that the famed Bitcoin creator is folks like Elon Musk or Vitalik Buterin, all the way to theories stating that Satoshi is a psyop created by the CIA in order to prepare the world…
