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What Bitcoin Did
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Hosted by Peter McCormack. Against many challenges, Bitcoin, the worlds first true cryptocurrency has survived for over a decade. With What Bitcoin Did, podcast host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin. From developers to investors, journalists to Bitcoin company CEOs, you will learn about everything that is happening in the world of Bitcoin.
What Bitcoin Did
16h ago
“It’s a check on the system, no bailouts, you can do your funny games and printing money over here and all that’s going to do is accrue value to Bitcoin.”
— Rob Hamilton
Rob Hamilton is a co-founder and the CEO of AnchorWatch. In this interview, we discuss polarisation in geopolitical vs Bitcoin spheres, American ethos and the Bitcoin-Trump alliance, the bitcoin-dollar games being played, Bitcoin leverage attacking the dollar, and Bitcoin’s adoption inflection point.
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What Bitcoin Did
16h ago
“It’s almost like changing your operating system…it’s not a simple process; you’ve got to delete some of the old stuff, you’ve got to upload a bunch of new stuff then you can start operating on a new system.”
— Christian Keroles
Christian Keroles is the Director of Financial Freedom at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the virality and volatility of the adoption chasm, mental models for hyperbitcoinisation, and the rewards of Bitcoin repricing the world.
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What Bitcoin Did
1w ago
“Bitcoin is essential to the plans of a lot of these people, but there is still time to build tools on Bitcoin or utilise Bitcoin to neuter a lot of the plans that they have.”
— Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is the author of The Bitcoin Dollar. In this interview, we discuss the Bitcoin dollar system, corruption & compromised elites and proliferating the US dollar hegemony.
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What Bitcoin Did
1w ago
“These people have been very serious and played very dirty, and created insane instability just to keep the dollar the global reserve currency because it gives a lot of advantages just to the US…they intend to keep those advantages even if it means a different system.”
— Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is the author of The Bitcoin Dollar. In this interview, we discuss the bitcoin-dollar system, financial terrorism, and how intelligence agencies have captured elites, global finance firms, and tech giants to ..read more
What Bitcoin Did
2w ago
“We’re going to move to a world where having private keys resolves most problems because the only thing AI cannot fake is computational proof of work.”
— NVK
NVK is the founder of Coinkite and a board member at OpenSats. In this interview, we discuss the threat of centralised AI, building a decentralised alternative with Bitcoin, and the power of open source in resisting a surveillance technocracy.
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What Bitcoin Did
2w ago
“The code that is running inside it, we know this is our code, there is no way for you to run malicious code…if you buy any other hardware wallet you have no guarantee…if you don’t have a secure element then maybe it’s a genuine device, maybe not.”
— Charles Guillemet
Charles Guillemet is the Chief Technology Officer at Ledger and Ian Rogers is Chief Experience Officer at Ledger. In this interview, we discuss vulnerabilities and the foundations of secure Bitcoin wallet design, exploits and grey markets, secure silicon vs opensource, and building tools for the future of digital freedom ..read more
What Bitcoin Did
2w ago
“I don’t know the point where this thing breaks again…I’d caution people to look at it the other way…they can kick the can down the road a lot longer than you believe.”
— Matthew Mežinskis
Matthew Mežinskis is the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast and Porkopolis Economics. In this interview we discuss the history of central bank debt and crises, money destruction & printing, hyperinflation, and Bitcoin’s base money update and price models.
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What Bitcoin Did
3w ago
“Personally I don’t really need those models, I believe Bitcoin is going to go eventually to a million dollars…and I expect at least prices above $140K this cycle.”
— The Rational Root
The Rational Root is a Bitcoin on-chain & cycle analyst. In this interview, we discuss the Bitcoin ETF flows and how this cycle compares to previous ones, where we are on Root’s spiral chart, the supply dynamics at play and how liquid supply is dropping rapidly.
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What Bitcoin Did
3w ago
“Antpool’s in a place, let’s say Foundry’s in a place, whoever, they start doing weird things…miners would just pull their hashrate away; so, where we get into bigger problems is where let’s say Foundry, and Riot, and Marathon, and Cleanspark all get a knock at the same time.”
— Marshall Long
Marshall Long is the Head of Architecture for Rhodium Enterprises. In this interview, we discuss the risks of mining centralisation from both the miner & pool perspective and how we can mitigate these and the geopolitical arms race for Bitcoin mining.
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What Bitcoin Did
3w ago
“What happens when those that have all the Bitcoin rise to the top? Do we become just another parasitic class?... Or do we become men and women of virtue?”
— Aleks Svetski
Aleks Svetski is an entrepreneur, author and Bitcoin advocate. In this interview, we discuss his upcoming book “The Bushido of Bitcoin,” governance & power vacuums, monarchy vs democracy, CEO-kings, and virtues for a Bitcoin world.
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