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 #225 – Steven Boykey Sidley & Simon Dingle: Beyond Bitcoin – DeFi and The End Of Banks
I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people about Bitcoin, DeFi, and other crypto-currencies and blockchain technology and about how they are going to change the world of finance. However, it wasn’t until I got the chance to read Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks by Steven Boykey Sidley…
Chatter #216 – Prof Heaven Crawley: A Real Discussion On Refugees, Asylum Seekers, And The Channel
Over the past weeks and months, I have endlessly heard about the migrant crisis in the channel and about untold numbers of refugees crossing into Britain in order to seek asylum. I have had so many questions about the crisis that are simply not mentioned or addressed by those who are covering the…
Chatter #209 – Simon Youel On Positive Money, Inflation, and Quantitative Easing
Have you ever wondered how a government budget works? How borrowing works? Whether the magic money tree really exists? Positive Money are a group hoping to educate people on how a sovereign government has the ability to create and spend money. Simon Youel is Head of Policy & Advocacy at Positive Money, a…