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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #238 - Law and Code
August 15th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
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Jerry Brito, Executive Director of [Coin Center] speaks about the in-development "California Bitlicense" and responds to issues raised by the EFF last week
- Notable Futurist Cory Doctorow presents a ...
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The Bitcoin Game #23 - Mainstream Investing with the Bitcoin Investment Trust
August 14th, 2015 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 23 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
I decided to experiment with buying Bitcoin a new way; I bought shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust. The trust is the first, and I believe the only current way a U.S. citizen can add an investment in Bitcoin to a recognized retirement account. You can buy shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust with symbol GBTC using a standard brokerage account, just like buying a stock or ETF. You could argue that one doesn't actually o...
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The Africoin Report #2: My Trip to Kenema City
August 14th, 2015 by
Chernoh Saeed Sow I was born in Kenema in 1992, during the rebel war. Kenema was among the towns that the rebels captured from early 1997 to 2000. They killed thousands and destroyed properties, which led to the backwardness of the people there and the country as a whole. ...
My trip to Kenema was another dream come true. I was eager to return back to my childhood town that I left in 2009 when I was 17. I was welcomed there like a prince, due to my hard work. People promoted my visit via social media, and I felt at home again. I brought them news of a great technology that will change the mindsets of many in the future.… The good news was bitcoin.
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #12 David Yamanaka, A Network Aborning
August 12th, 2015 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
We have the pleasure of talking with David Yamanaka, a consumer experience specialist and avid supporter and pursuer of that which empowers the individual. He has been a very active member in the Project SAFE community and is great at doing all manner of quantitative analyses regarding any system you might throw at him.
The installers are coming!!
Magic Word
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #237 The Stars that Shine
August 11th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
- Stephanie, Andreas and Adam engage in a wide ranging discussion about bitcoin's role in the world of cryptocurrency and whether we're still calling the plays in a game whose outcome has already been determined.
Subscribe to the [LTBn All Podcasts feed](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoi...
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EB91 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability And The Road Ahead
August 10th, 2015 by
Epicenter Close to two years after the initial whitepaper, the revolutionary Ethereum network has finally launched. The decentralized smart contract platform is, without a doubt, the most exciting cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. The versatile platform with its turing-complete scripting language aspires to power the distributed applications of the future.
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us for the second time to discuss the Frontier Launch, future plans for scalability, governance and ...
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The New Renaissance #3 Superorganisms
August 9th, 2015 by
Arthur S. Falls Arthur Speaks with Sarah Perry about how the values of online communities are translated into technology and also about a human meta-entity called an egregore.
Content for today's episode was provided by Sarah and Arthur.
The episode was edited by Arthur.
Music was provided by Marcamillion.
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XCP Weekly Update #11 - Old ideas, New Methods
August 9th, 2015 by
Robert Ross This weeks episode is sponsored by Coindaddy – a crypto 2.0 services company that makes blockchain technologies easier to understand and use.
Weekly Update #11:
Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities.
I am happy to announce the...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #236 Missing Pieces
August 8th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
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Adam speaks with Colin Kwan, COO of Magnr.com about Greece, Africa and what comes next.
- Then we step away from bitcoin for a formerly private and very interesting behind-the-scenes look at what exactly happened in Greece and some of the challenges they face. This recording comes to us courtesy of [Zerohedge.com](http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-27/full-audio-recording-varoufakis-drachma-plan...
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The Africoin Report: Bitcoin Makes It Possible
August 8th, 2015 by Chernoh Saeed Sow This is the first article in the Africoin Report, which was founded for all Africans and people around the world who are interested in Bitcoin — both those already in the community and newcomers. The forum on WhatsApp has already benefited many beginners and has grown bigger than expected.
We plan to use this blog as channel for education about the cryptocurrency. I created the Africoin Report to invite all 'Bitcoin gurus' to mingle and share ideas with us in a forum for online teaching and learning.
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #11 Francis Brunelle, Community in Action
August 5th, 2015 by John Ferguson In this Episode
First off we start this episode with several pieces very encouraging news from the MaidSafe development team.
Then we have a chat with one of the most active Project SAFE community members, Francis Brunelle, from Montreal, Canada. Francis hosts the largest SAFE Network meet-up in the world and is extremely active pursuing various projects related to forwarding the SAFE Network, before and after launch. He also has other interests which he is working on, including help...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! Presents: The Start Up #1
August 4th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine The Start Up Show Notes
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The Start Up is a show featuring the founders of new companies. We want to discover how they took an idea and transformed it into a marketable product or service. Starting a business is challenging and rewarding. Our goal is gain insight into the minds of entrepreneurs on their journey to success.
- Our first guest is Adam B. Levine, the founder of The Let's Talk Bitcoin Network and Tokenly.com.
Credits for The Start Up #1
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EB90 – Dave Hudson: Insights From The Data Mine And Other Adventures Around The Block
August 3rd, 2015 by Epicenter Bitcoin mining and the intricate game theory that surround it is a topic that we've visited many times. Difficult to grasp in its complexity, it is these dynamics that determine the security of Bitcoin in the short and in the longer term. This time we were joined by none other than Dave Hudson. He is the author of the leading mining blog hashingit.com, VP of Software at PeerNova and had a long career in chip manufacturing including at Qualcomm.
We talked about dynamics in the mining marke...
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Episode #73: Distributed Consensus on Cannabis Genetics
August 2nd, 2015 by
John Barrett On today's show I interview Kevin McKernan the Chief Scientist at Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen Lifesciences. Kevin talks to us about everything from the Human genome project gone bad to free market regulations and testing in the Cannabis field, families moving to Colorado to help their children get relief from epileptic seizures, the opiate crisis in America and how Bitcoin blockchain technology is helping us move toward personalized medicine and away from the dangers inherent in one size fi...
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XCP Weekly Update #10 - American Banker and Bitnation
August 2nd, 2015 by Robert Ross Weekly Update #10:
Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities. You can find a complete breakdown of everything discussed on this show by going to this XCPassets.org news blog o...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #235 Grown Up Conversations
August 1st, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
- Marc Hochstein speaks out in favor of Bitcoin (and not just the blockchain)
- Blythe Masters's Keynote at the American Banker Digital Currencies and the Blockchain Conference
Audio provided by Chris Derose
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The Bitcoin Game #22 - Blockchain Technology Panel from SODM15
July 30th, 2015 by Rob Hello, welcome to episode 22 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
In today’s podcast you’ll hear the Blockchain Tech panel from the State Of Digital Money conference, which took place earlier this year in Los Angeles. I thought it was a very fun panel that was filled with many insights. You might say the panel was stacked a bit on the side of blockchain tech over Bitcoin, and Bitcoin maximalists (amongst others) may not agree with some of the points made. But hopefully everyone can st...
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #10 Paige Peterson and the Seeds of SAFE
July 29th, 2015 by John Ferguson In this Episode
Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Paige Peterson, who works for MaidSafe in the area of community and development outreach, and much more.
Magic Word
Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's listener award distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to submit a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 1pm Pacific Time on Aug...
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The Power of Nothing
July 29th, 2015 by
Andy Tudhope This is a post about bitcoin and the zero, the omphalos, the womb that contains us all, that begins us all and welcomes us back when we have lived through whatever heaven or hell we make of this one life we are given.
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SovereignBTC #71 Dmitry Murashchik of Mycelium
July 28th, 2015 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of SovereignBTC, John Bush interviews Dmitry Murashchik, Community Manager at Mycelium. Dmitry is responsible for bringing community feedback about Mycelium Wallet and other applications to Mycelium Developers. In this interview, John and Dmitry talk about the latest from Mycelium, the the state of the economy, and insights surrounding the recent blockchain spam attacks. They also both revel in their disdain for all things government and regulation.
Also in this podcast, ...
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