Podcast: Bitcoin Audible

Chat #54 – WTF is Bitcoin Anyway? With Jim & Hari

Today we have a crazy fun show after getting to hang with Jim & Hari (and James)from the What Do We Know podcast! A couple of guys who just wanted to know WTF a Bitcoin was, and we get into all of it in a 2 hour marathon. This is part 1, with part 2 on the way.

Check out the What do We Know podcast with Jim & Hari and their other crazy topics they dig into by visiting the link below:
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Happy HODL Day!

“GF’s out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I’LL TELL YOU WHY…” – GameKyuubi The origins of the greatest meme in Bitcoin history. For all the rest of the Bitcoin holidays, check out the calendar over at thecryptoconomy.com: https://thecryptoconomy.com/calendar/ — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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Read_475 – The Sovereign Company Thesis [Christian Keroles]

“Today, bitcoin is still an alternative treasury asset, but as larger and more powerful organizations begin to use Bitcoin directly, they will begin to tear away from the overreach of governments. This in and of itself will challenge the dynamics of governance and the nature of nation states as we currently know them.” – Ck_snarks…

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Read_474 – The Fraying of the Petrodollar System – Part 2 [Lyn Alden]

“As a decentralized and open source project, adopted by many programmers and proponents around the world, many intelligent people have dedicated their careers to Bitcoin. It’s hard to find a more voracious group of people than those in the Bitcoin community, and increasingly over time, Wall Street money has poured in as well.” – Lyn…

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Read_473 – The Fraying of the Petrodollar System – Part 1 [Lyn Alden]

“Taking my view a step further, evidence shows that the global monetary system as currently structured is gradually re-aligning itself, and this fact will have important ramifications for investments over the long run.” – Lyn Alden We start today into another amazing piece from Lyn Alden that digs into the history, the cycles, the problems,…

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Guy’s Take #38 – An Unstoppable Force

“It’s not that a government has the ability to ban Bitcoin from their country, I think it’s closer to the opposite: A country only has the ability to ban itself from Bitcoin.” – Guy Swann Today we’ve got my speech from BitBlockBoom to close out the week. One I’ve been meaning to share for some…

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Read_472 – The Fiat Standard – Chapter 1 [Saifedean Ammous]

“For the reader who has become familiar with the operation of bitcoin, a good way to understand the operation of fiat is by drawing analogy to the operation of bitcoin using concepts like mining, nodes, balances, and proof of work. My aim is to explain the operation and engineering structure of the fiat monetary system…

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Read_471 – The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard]

“My own prediction is that slow bleed has been accelerating and is only the first step. The second step will be speculative attacks that use bitcoins as a platform. The third and final step will be hyper-bitcoinization.” – Pierre Rochard We are entering a new phase of the Bitcoin game theory. What really happens when…

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Read_470 – Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? [Jeffrey Tucker]

“What Bitcoin is depends on its use as a means of storing and porting value, which in turn rests on secure titles to ownership of a scarce good.” – Jeffrey Tucker It can be incredibly difficult to make sense of, and imagine the immense amount of value provided by the Bitcoin system. And so often…

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Read_469 – The Untold Story of the First Bitcoin War [Wirdum & Rizzo]

“With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no longer operated as it did in those early days.” – Aaron & Pete Before the great block size wars of 2017, there was the first war of the…

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