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The Tatiana Show with Guest Catherine Bleish
May 18th, 2015 by
Tatiana Moroz Hey everyone! I started doing the Tatiana Show on Liberty.me a couple months ago. I got the OK to take the audio and share it here on LTB. I hope you like it! This week's guest is Catherine Bleish, an unschooling mom who has travelled with her husband and kids across America, spreading the word about bitcoin and freedom. On this episode, I talk with Cat about the Bitcoin Bus and how their journeys have evolved over the past three years.
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EB79 – Rodolfo Novak: Coinkite And The Feature Factory
May 18th, 2015 by
Epicenter Started in May 2013, Coinkite has by now almost advanced to senior citizen status in the short-lived Bitcoin startup space. CEO Rodolfo Novak joined us for a discussion about what drove their initial interest in Bitcoin, why they initially focused on providing 'bank-like' services and how they've transitioned to powering the infrastructure of countless Bitcoin startups with their API. We also discussed multi-sig and the business strategy they pursued that allowed them to be profitable and no...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #213 Undertow
May 16th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Stephanie, Andreas and Adam discuss the recent FINCEN settlement with Ripple and its implications both for the protocol and the cryptocurrency space as a whole.
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The Bitcoin Game #17 - Yoshi Goto, Nicolas Courtois & Shawn Wilkinson
May 14th, 2015 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 17 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
In this episode I speak with Yoshi Goto of BitMain (maker of the AntMiner), outspoken cryptographer Nicolas Courtois, and Storj creator Shawn Wilkinson. These interviews took place at the 2015 Texas Bitcoin conference. Nicholas Courtois and Shawn Wilkinson were both speakers at this conference, while Yoshi Goto has presented at other Bitcoin events.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #212 Hypercapitalsm and the Austrian Approach
May 12th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Thanks to Rob from the Bitcoin Game for recording content on todays show, live at the Texas Bitcoin Conference.
- Austin Fatheree shares his idea for "Hypercapitalism" and how it's possible with available technologies rightnow. He lays out his plan to tweak our concept of capitalism, change the incentives and empower the wor...
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EB78 – Trent McConaghy: Ascribe And The Internet Of Ownership
May 11th, 2015 by Epicenter The idea of using the Bitcoin blockchain to represent and track the ownership of off-chain assets is almost as old as Bitcoin itself. One of the startups that is pursuing this vision is Berlin-based Ascribe, which allows creators to register ('ascribe'), transfer and archive digital art.
Ascribe CTO Trent McConaghy joined us for a fascinating discussion of their ambitious goals to enable a so-far elusive secondary market for digital art, help creators monetize their work and ultimately r...
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Bitcoins and Gravy #67 Brain Wallets Explained!
May 11th, 2015 by
John Barrett On today's show I am thrilled to be talking with Nick Pudar in Detroit, Michigan. Nick takes us on a journey to a place that very few people even know exists. That place is the brain wallet where it is now possible to store a small or a large amount of bitcoin wealth in your memory. We talk about Entropy, Diceware, bathtubs and 50 million, billion Jupiter water balloons. Nick does a fantastic job of helping us understand the true dangers of bitcoin brain wallets and the true value of them as we...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #211 - The Slippery Slope
May 9th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Stephanie, Andreas and Adam catch up on Andreas new business Third Key Solutions and Stephanies recently completed audiobook "The Book of Satoshi".
Then, Andreas breaks down the [Bitcointalk.org subpoena](h...
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Launching XCPassets.org
May 6th, 2015 by
Robert Ross After going through the forums for Counterparty, I noticed that there have been many requests for a website that displays all of the actively developed tokens for Counterparty. So I decided to build XCPassets.org.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #210 Ancient History with Erik Voorhees
May 5th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Stephanie, Andreas and Adam speak with Jon and Erik of Shapeshift.io about Erik's long history in cryptocurrency, the opportunities he's identified and the businesses he's built.
..."It demonstrated the power of Bitcoin to do old business models in a new way... Showing them that **someth...
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EB77 – Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin
May 4th, 2015 by Epicenter Few question that educating people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is one of the most important and challenging tasks to achieve mass adoption. And perhaps even fewer disagree that there is no one more gifted at communicating the revolutionary potential of Bitcoin than Andreas M. Antonopoulos. A technologist, entrepreneur, LTB host and author, he has been speaking, writing and educating about Bitcoin for years and become one of the most popular people in the Bitcoin space.
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Bitcoins And Gravy #66: Pamela Morgan: Third Key Solutions is Here!
May 3rd, 2015 by John Barrett On today's show I interview attorney Pamela Morgan, the CEO of Third Key Solutions. Third Key Solutions provides consulting and cryptographic key management solutions for companies using decentralized digital currencies.
Working closely with Andreas Antonopoulos who serves as the Chief Technology Officer and with Richard Kagan the Business Advisor, Pamela puts her entrepreneurial and legal skills to work to help her clients reduce risk in the Bitcoin sphere. Third Key Solutions can customize...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #209 The Tool for the Job
May 2nd, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
..."You could be running your Prestashop ecommerce based website that is everything that's always been familiar to you... You've installed the Blockmarket plugin and sync'd your inventory to the Syscoin Decentralized Marketplace on the blockchain and witho...
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Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour Day 8 & 9 BTC in Keene and the Bus' Brakes Need Some Love
May 1st, 2015 by
SovereignBTC In this Uncoinventional Living Bitcoin Bus Tour update John gives a recap of Days 8 and 9 with the family together on the bus for the first time taking a trip to Keene to check out Corner News, a newsstand that has accepted BTC for years. John also shares the results of using the WageCan Debit Card to pay for the car rental. Finally, the family get's the bus to a mechanic to look at the brakes, which would end up causing lots of troubles for the Blushes further down the road.
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Bitcoin Consumer Fair 2015
April 29th, 2015 by
Michael Pair Shownotes
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First, is a panel discussion with Eric Martindale of BitPay, Dmitry Murashchik of Mycelium, and Shawn Wilkinson of Storj.io. This panel was moderated by Stan Johnson. They explore several aspects and issues within the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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Adella Toulon-Foerster is the Vice President of Coin Outlet, a distributor of Bitcoin ATMs focusing on the needs of the under banked.
- Eric Martindale returns to talk about a history of BitPay and their new multi signature solution ca...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #208 Control and Responsibility
April 28th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
- Adam, Andreas and Stephanie discuss improvements, trends, advantages and weaknesses as they've experianced them over the last few years. As bitcoin clients go native and adapt to the environments which surround them, are we gaining or losing?
*This session was recorded the last week of March so some of the time refere...
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EB76 – Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: From Selfish Miners To The Miner's Dilemma
April 27th, 2015 by Epicenter Bitcoin's approach to solving the double spending problem is to make a collusion and attack on the network prohibitively expensive. One of the main factors that will determine Bitcoin's chance of survival in the long-term is whether the behavior that maximizes the profits of miners contributes to or sabotages the health of the network.
The game theory that determines this is complex and our understanding of it still incomplete. But research is increasing and two people who have been at the fo...
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P2P Connects Us Episode 17 - Meghan Murphy
April 27th, 2015 by
John Light On today's episode we're going to be talking about the recent Bittorrent Incorporated layoffs, the PopcornTime domain name suspension, crowdfunding for an immortal Library of Alexandria, and last but certainly not least, Meghan Murphy joins the show to talk about HandUp and their mission to help the homeless.Bitseed bitcoin full node hardwareokTurtles FoundationLet's Talk Bitcoin - "Gradual Progress"Bittorrent confirms layoffsuTorrent quietly installs cryptocurrency mining softwareBrian Hoffman ... Read More -
Bitcoins and Gravy #65: Men Will Be Angels?
April 26th, 2015 by John Barrett On today's show I have the great privilege of speaking with Ian Panchevre. Ian is a political scientist from Yale whose primary studies include political theory and political psychology. Most recently, Ian has been researching the internal politics of the Bitcoin community. He's interested in both the "informal power networks" that have formed among miners and core developers, as well as the "formal power structures" like the Bitcoin Foundation. He will be self-publishing his research paper at ...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #207 - Unique Variations
April 25th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
- Adam speaks with Eric, Brandon and John - three of the founders behind Grantcoin whose belief distribution, incentives and a focus on merchant adoption are needed to reach a truly globally relevant token. We talk promise, pitfalls and who gets to decide if automated mining isn't the thing.
Read More...Grantcoin is a way that people in their communities can participate in deciding where capital is going to flow... - Eric, Grant...
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