What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack
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With What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin, economics and politics. From developers to investors, journalists to authors, you will learn about everything in the world of Bitcoin.
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With What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin, economics and politics. From developers to investors, journalists to authors, you will learn about everything in the world of Bitcoin.
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Episodes
The Maturing Bitcoin Narrative with Grant McCarty
3/18/2024
“There’s something so real about this moment, and we’re no longer just in the speculative phase of ‘what could Bitcoin be?’...We’re also in the phase of: ‘look at what Bitcoin is doing today.’”
— Grant McCarty
Grant McCarty is the Co-Executive Director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. In this interview, we discuss evangelism and the Bitcoin revolution, why BPI is a crucial resource, flawed incentives in the education system, journalism and the shifting perception of Bitcoin.
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CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth
Bitcoin Policy Summit - Washington, D.C - April 9th, 2024
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Duration:01:57:49
The Perfect Bitcoin Allocation with Raphael Zagury
3/16/2024
“This is by far the best asymmetric bet that you can make because even in very low probability scenarios…the upside potential, we’re not talking about 10x, it could be 100x in a very quick period of time if it really captures the monetary premium of these assets.”
— Raphael Zagury
Raphael Zagury is a CIO at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, how the ETFs changed everything, Bitcoin vs real estate and Bitcoin portfolio allocation.
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Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth
Bitcoin Policy Summit - Washington, D.C - April 9th, 2024
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Duration:02:04:45
Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision with Dhruv Bansal
3/14/2024
“Layer 0 is deeply connected to time and energy, layer 1 is deeply connected to blockspace and mining pools… layer 2 is deeply connected to routing and the onion network which lives inside the Lightning network; it’s cool that each layer thinks it’s about one thing and winds up solving these unexpectedly adjacent problems.”
— Dhruv Bansal
Dhruv Bansal is a co-founder of Unchained Capital. In this interview, we discuss how Satoshi approached creating Bitcoin, Bitcoin’s deep relationship with time, how markets drive decentralisation, and scaling vs ossification.
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Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth
Bitcoin Policy Summit - Washington, D.C - April 9th, 2024
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Duration:01:30:10
The Case for $1 Million Bitcoin with Samson Mow
3/12/2024
“I think this year we hit a million, if not this year then next year but it’s coming very soon.”
— Samson Mow
Samson Mow is the CEO at JAN3, the developer of Aqua Bitcoin, architect of Bitcoin Bonds and CEO at PixelMatic. In this interview, we discuss orange pilling nation states, scaling bitcoin to billions with Liquid and AQUA, and why he thinks Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2025
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IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
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CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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Duration:01:20:10
Bitcoin’s Biggest Bull Run with The Rational Root
3/9/2024
“I think we’ll just get to prices from a million to 10 million at some point, and then Bitcoin is going to be such a big currency that it just becomes a better currency than the US dollar obviously…that will also be a gradual transition.”
— The Rational Root
The Rational Root is a Bitcoin on-chain & cycle analyst. In this interview, we discuss the pace of the current bull market, the impact of spot ETFs, what we can expect post-halving, and changing dynamics in the market.
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CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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Duration:01:11:12
The Wall Street Bull Market with Checkmate
3/7/2024
“These guys are probably better than you, and they’re here to take your money, so I think that’s important to remember that Wall St. is here to take your money and they’re bloody good at it.”
— Checkmate
Checkmate is Glassnode’s Lead On-chain Analyst and creator of checkonchain. In this interview, we discuss the validity of on-chain data, the different phases of the market, the impact of spot Bitcoin ETFs & how Wall St are coming for your Bitcoin.
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IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
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Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
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CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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Duration:01:17:28
The Bitcoin Strategy with Grant Gilliam
3/5/2024
“The free market is this release valve…the next wave of adoption comes, and bitcoin users and demand increases by 10x or more, are the companies going to be ready for it? I’m not sure, but that’s going to create opportunities for someone if they’re not to relieve that pressure.”
— Grant Gilliam
Grant Gilliam is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Ten31. In this interview, we discuss the state of venture capital in Bitcoin, the importance of sats flow, and Bitcoin treasury strategies.
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CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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Duration:00:54:15
The Year of Sound Money with Doomberg
3/1/2024
“There’s no reason why gold should be $40 an ounce higher in Shanghai then it is London. It is, which means some sophisticated player somewhere is getting free money, and free money doesn’t last forever.”
— Doomberg
Doomberg is an anonymous collective producing the world’s most popular financial substack. In this interview, we discuss why 2024 could be bullish for gold, global monetary warfare, the role of Bitcoin and the chaos of the election year.
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CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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PlebLab - Startup Day - March 14 2024
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Duration:01:10:24
Scaling Bitcoin Privately with John Light
2/28/2024
“If it doesn’t have privacy then it’s not worth using, and if it’s not easy to use then people aren’t going to use it, and so we won’t need scale.”
— John Light
John Light is a bitcoin researcher working on product at Sovryn and previously the ZK-Rollup Research Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss rollups on Bitcoin, privacy & scaling and scaling bitcoin in a self sovereign way.
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IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
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Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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PlebLab - Startup Day - March 14 2024
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Duration:01:05:25
Bitcoin is Eating the World with John Arnold
2/26/2024
“We’ve never really seen before true transmission of instantly-settled bearer-value…that will be the dominant apex-predator way of transacting ultimately, so every business, every economic interaction is going to have to respond to that in some way.”
— John Arnold
John Arnold is a Principal at Ten31. In this interview, we compare tradfi to bitcoin, discuss Bitcoin’s total addressable market, why bitcoin is a paradigm shift for businesses and how Bitcoin is eating the world.
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Duration:01:22:23
The Right to Bitcoin with Dennis Porter
2/23/2024
“Bitcoin might be outside politics, Bitcoin might be outside government, but you are not…and so they can still enact laws that go after us as individuals.”
— Dennis Porter
Dennis Porter is the CEO & co-founder of the Satoshi Action Fund. In this interview, we discuss Satoshi Action Fund’s mission, the importance of self custody, working with regulators and the challenges of pushing pro-bitcoin regulation.
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This episode’s sponsors:
IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
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Duration:01:09:19
Will the Dollar Implode? With Macro Alf
2/21/2024
“For the system to really collapse you actually need first the dollar to get stronger and effectively to suck everything into a black hole until it can implode.”
— Macro Alf
Macro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strategy firm. In this interview, we discuss government spending, debt & deficits as well as the death of the dollar and the role of Bitcoin in the macroeconomic environment.
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This episode’s sponsors:
IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
CheatCode - Bedford, UK - April 12-13
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Duration:01:10:11
The Bitcoin Scaling Dilemma with Shinobi
2/19/2024
“If we stop changing Bitcoin right now there is no way that even 1% of 1% of the planet will be able to afford to actually hold their own keys, to actually sovereignly control their own bitcoin, and everybody else it’s just pick your custodian, pick who you trust to hold your bitcoin for you.”
— Shinobi
Shinobi is a pseudonymous Bitcoin educator and the technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss scaling bitcoin in a self-sovereign way, covenants, OP_CAT and Bitcoin development culture & risks.
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IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
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Duration:01:44:54
The Bitcoin Revolution with Quoth The Raven
2/16/2024
“What happens when the bid gets bigger? What happens when 5 million pissed off Occupy Wall St, Gamestop, WallStreetBets…combined with the 2 million people that are still walking around with Ron Paul signs like I am, what happens when all those people join together and join the Bitcoin network?”
— Quoth The Raven
Quoth The Raven is an independent financial researcher. In this interview, we discuss why he was sceptical about Bitcoin, his distrust in the traditional system, inflation & quantitative easing and what led to him changing his mind on Bitcoin.
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Duration:01:47:03
Why We Shouldn’t Trust BlackRock with Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin
2/14/2024
“Whatever this new financial system is…ultimately is about trying to enable BlackRock to continue its massive expansion to own essentially everything with as little risk to them as possible.”
— Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is Editor in Chief at Bitcoin Magazine. In this interview, we discuss the BlackRock ETF, their plans for a new financial system, media psy-ops & tokenizing everything.
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Duration:01:41:17
The Hidden Cost of Money with Seb Bunney
2/12/2024
“It doesn’t matter, in any of these nation states, who you vote for; ultimately, I think until we actually re-align the incentives in society by separating money and state we will not have a system that actually supports the individual.”
— Seb Bunney
Seb Bunney is the co-founder of Looking Glass Education and author of The Hidden Cost of Money. In this interview, we discuss what money is, the effect that broken money has on society, fiat incentives and how Bitcoin fixes this.
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Duration:01:28:57
Bitcoin Adoption, the Halving & Mining with Colin Harper
2/9/2024
“All of the different sub communities in Bitcoin are really starting to ask themselves and the other sub communities ‘why are you here? Are we sacrificing everything for number-go-up?’ Well number-go-up is kind of the whole thing if you want actual outsized influence over the system that is leaving everyone scrambling for anything.”
— Colin Harper
Colin Harper is Head of Research and Content at Luxor Technology. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, media FUD, the impact of the halving on miners and we look back at the mining industry in 2023.
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Duration:01:38:52
Bitcoin’s CBDC Shadow with Sam Callahan
2/7/2024
“The technology is forcing their hand, and every single time they have to centralise more, and more, and more; and, what they’re trying to build now is one unified ledger that connects all the CBDCs around the world.”
— Sam Callahan
Sam Callahan is the Senior Analyst at Swan Bitcoin and host of Swan Signal. In this interview, we discuss hyperbitcoinisation, the Bank for International Settlement, and the threat of central bank digital currencies.
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Duration:01:21:09
Bitcoin Dev Culture with Carla Kirk-Cohen
2/5/2024
“Don’t read the comments but you have to because your job is to address those comments, that’s your work…right now it’s like 30 people doing customer service for the entire Bitcoin population and it’s not scalable.”
— Carla Kirk-Cohen
Carla Kirk-Cohen is a software engineer working on the Lightning Network at Chaincode Labs & a Board Member at Btrust. In this interview, we discuss bitcoin development & how it is currently funded, development culture & the state of the Lightning Network.
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Duration:01:16:55
Is Bitcoin Crossing the Chasm? With Harry Sudock
2/3/2024
“All of our quality of life is better when resources are better utilised, and Bitcoin is going to bring that to energy markets in a dynamic and urgent way with very, very little gatekeeping.”
— Harry Sudock
Harry Sudock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Griid. In this interview, we discuss the importance of Bitcoin third places, censorship, ETFs & adoption, bitcoin mining and whether Bitcoin has just crossed the Chasm.
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This episode’s sponsors:
Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Braiins - Bitcoin Mining Company
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Duration:02:38:42