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- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin vs. QE Infinity and the 4 Archetypes of the Halving Debate
The bitcoin halving is just two weeks away. While the COVID-19 crisis pushed attention off the momentous event for a while, the discussion is coming back fast and strong. Google searches for the bitc…
00:17:09 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
LTB!: Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed
On today's show we've got a pair of interviews for you. First we speak with John Cantrell, the author of Juggernaut, a new messaging layer 3 application being built on top of layer 2 lightning networ…
00:49:48 |
Sun 26 Apr 2020
RESEARCH: Bitcoin Halving 2020 the 'Arms Race' for Miner Efficiency Intensifies
In this episode of the Bitcoin Halving 2020: Miner Perspective podcast series, we take a trip down memory lane back to the early days of bitcoin when miners first began competing for network rewards.…
00:39:00 |
Sat 25 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Starting a Bitcoin Startup During the COVID-19 Crisis, Feat. Yan Pritzker
Yan Pritzker is the CTO and cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, an automated bitcoin only investing app aiming to be the best onramp to bitcoin. He is also the author of Inventing Bitcoin.
On this episode, h…
00:52:05 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: We Don’t Need Big Brother to Beat This Virus
One of the key aspects of most plans to reopen the economy is digital contact tracing. This would be an apparatus whereby mobile phones kept track of the other mobile phones they had been physically …
00:19:17 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
AFRICA: Fighting Scams and Preaching Bitcoin in Botswana, Feat. Alakani Itireleng
In this episode Anita speaks with Alakanani Itireleng, who founded the Satoshicentre in Botswana in 2014 and single-handedly built a growing Bitcoin community. She is the heart and center of Bitcoin …
00:45:20 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: The History of the Dollar System From Bretton Woods to QE Infinity, Feat. Luke Gromen
QE infinity. Corporate bailouts. Nudgin UBI. The incredible economic phenomena going on now didn’t happen out of the blue. They are the byproducts of a key events spread across the 70 year history of…
01:16:04 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: From Proof of Health to UBI: How Everything Changes Post COVID-19, Feat. Joe McCann
Joe McCann currently works in cloud and AI at Microsoft and has spent decades in tech, crypto, and open source communities. He recently wrote a piece called “A New, New World Order” all about the sec…
01:02:43 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Bearish or Bullish? What Oil, Defi Hacks and Cash Hoarding Tell Us About Markets
It’s hard to look at recent news from both crypto and traditional markets and not feel like we’re getting pretty mixed signals. Stocks have been recovering, but oil is hitting historic lows. DeFi suf…
00:22:59 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
LEIGH: BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen on 'a System That Doesn't Suck'
On today’s episode CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen sits down with Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol and CEO of Chia. In this wide ranging interview they talk Bram’s early interest in “hard p…
00:45:31 |
Sun 19 Apr 2020
RESEARCH: The Market Impacts of a Bitcoin Halving Explained
For more information about the bitcoin halving, download the free CoinDesk Research explainer report which features over 30 different charts and additional commentary from mining industry experts.
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00:38:18 |
Sat 18 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why Money Is Losing Its Meaning, Feat. Jared Dillian
Bitcoiners are particularly sensitive to Fed intervention in markets, but the degree to which the Fed is willing to print to backstop basically all risk is drawing the attention of even normal market…
00:41:39 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Libra vs. DCEP? The Battle for the Future of Money Heats Up
This week saw the latest salvos in the battle for the future of money.
Libra announced that it would be moving away from a single currency that was backed by a basket of national currency to a model…
00:18:58 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
AFRICA: Bitcoin Maximalism, Entrepreneurs and COVID-19 in Zimbabwe (Part 5 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)
In this episode, we'll join Anita Posch in Zimbabwe as she speaks with Tongayi Choto, a software developer, entrepreneur and a bitcoin maximalist. He founded Afriblocks, a Global Pan-African Freelanc…
00:39:17 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: What the Economy Will Look Like 6 Months From Now, Feat. Ryan Selkis
As week (one million, it seems) of the COVID-19 lockdown plods on, many are wondering what the economy will look like on the other side.
Ryan Selkis is the CEO and founder of Messari. He was one of t…
00:49:15 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: The $20,000 Human IPO and 5 Other Crypto Stories That Have Nothing to Do With COVID-19
Even as the market tries to make sense of everything happen (or ignores it, depending on your perspective), crypto keeps on plugging along.
Today on The Breakdown @NLW looks at 5 recent crypto stori…
00:21:45 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
ANNA: Making Sense of the SEC's Case Against Telegram
Telegram, the popular messaging app, has big plans for its blockchain Telegram Open Network, or TON. It also had one of the biggest token sales in history, followed by a huge legal fight over it.
The…
00:45:51 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
RESEARCH: How Miners are Preparing for Lower Block Rewards
How are bitcoin (BTC) miners strategizing for the upcoming halving event in which block reward subsidies will be cut by 50 percent? On this week’s episode of “Bitcoin Halving 2020: Miner Perspectives…
00:33:06 |
Sat 11 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Quantitative Tightening and 5 Key Questions for Our Changing World
As we wrap up another crazy week - 6.6m more jobless claims, $2.3T more in stimulus - this episode offers a few key themes and questions for bitcoiners and the crypto-minded to think about over the l…
00:16:35 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Rebuilding the Resilience Economy, Feat. Anthony Pompliano
As host of the Pomp Podcast, author of the daily Off The Chain newsletter, and founder partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, Anthony Pompliano is one of the best known media personalities and inves…
00:53:29 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
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