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P2P Connects Us Episode 14 - Pokereum
March 16th, 2015 by
John Light On today's episode we're going to be talking about Califonia's attempt to institutionalize a bitcoin business cartel, the release of the MercurcyEx decentralized exchange and DNSChain 0.5, the addition of bitcoin to TAILS OS, and last but certainly not least, Ola and Patrick from Pokereum join the show to tell us about their peer-to-peer solution to the mental poker problem. Bitcoin: Be Your Own Bank bookEpisode Sponsor: Roolo.io, P2P Bitcoin ExchangeFree RossCalifornia attempts to institutiona... Read More -
Bitcoins and Gravy EP #59: Yanis Varoufakis
March 15th, 2015 by
John Barrett On today's show I travel all the way to the beautiful island of Greece to speak with finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Yanis sets us straight about the history of economics and about how some of the old models we hold onto need to be left behind as we open our minds to new paradigms and new freedoms for all people.
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The Bitcoin Game #12 - Hacking and Security with Jaime Cochran
March 15th, 2015 by
Rob Welcome to episode 12 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
My interview today is with Jaime Cochran, who's been very involved the hacking community, having been a hacker since her youth. Currently, Jaime works at Bitcoin company Gem as a security engineer. We talk about her background, and get her take on personal information security.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #195 - Glass Books and a Good Night's Sleep
March 14th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine *Subscribe to the LTBn All Podcasts feedor the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed and never miss an episode again.
On Todays Show
Stephanie interviews Joshua of Vaultoro an exchange that eschews dollars or other fiat currencies to trade Bitcoin directly against vaulted gold.
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Victoria Van Eyk Interviews Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin for the Other 6.5 Billion (Audio)
March 14th, 2015 by
Martin In April 2014, Victoria van Eyk of ChangeTip had the pleasure of sitting down with Bitcoin thought leader Andreas Antonopoulos to ask in-depth questions about the industry. The following is a recorded interview that explores how Bitcoin and blockchain technology can actually change the world for the other 6.5 billion. (Warning: Contains strong language in the later stages of the interview.)
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An Alternate Reality for LTBcoin
March 13th, 2015 by John Light Recently on my LTB network podcast, P2P Connects Us, Matthew Deiters joined the show to talk about his company, Assembly. Assembly is a collaboration platform for open source software projects with a twist: contributors actually get paid if the project is successful in the market. The way it works is that someone with an idea for an app creates a project on Assembly and is issued an initial sum of “Assembly coins.” At the time that they are issued, the coins aren't worth anything bec... Read More -
ChangeCup NYC Brings Coffee and Care to Homeless: Interview with dmnyc, Part 1
March 13th, 2015 by
Cheryl Hulseapple After countless people walked over the body of a homeless man on the Upper West Side of New York City before someone called an ambulance, Daniel Modell (dmnyc on the forums) decided he didn’t want to be “the one who walked by.” He wrote on the blog that he created: "If just one person had decided not to walk past this man, and instead, stop to talk to him, ask if he needed some help, just show him that someone cared, he might not have died that day in such a sad way." ...
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SovereignBTC #56 Jason King on Bitcoin and Philanthropy
March 11th, 2015 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of SovereignBTC, John Bush talks to Jason King, founder of Sean's Outpost about how he got involved with Bitcoin and how crypto-currency is shaping the non-profit world.
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Dream Bitcoin Foundation to Organize March 21 CoinFest Event in Ghana, Africa
March 11th, 2015 by
David R. Allen Earlier this year, I met a young man while experimenting with Getgems messenger. His goal was clear: to bring awareness to his city and country about the use of Bitcoin. Philip Agyei Asare is active in his community and needs financial help to follow his dream. The Dream Bitcoin Foundation will be organizing a Bitcoin-focused event on March 17, 2015 in Kumasi called CoinFest. . . .
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #194 - John C. Barrett and Patrick Byrne
March 10th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine *Subscribe to the LTBn All Podcasts feedor the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed and never miss an episode again.
If you'd like to take a look at the Request for Proposals for the redesign of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Network, here it is
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On today's show I am honored to be speaking with a modern day American patriot,...
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EB69 – Thomas Voegtlin - Electrum, Spv Wallets And Bitcoin Aliases
March 9th, 2015 by
Epicenter Powering an estimated 5-10% of all Bitcoin transactions, Electrum is one of the leaders of the Bitcoin wallet space. The open-source walled was started in 2011 and played a key role in the development of the light-weight SPV wallets. Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us for a discussion of Electrum, their recent 2.0 release and the rapidly evolving Bitcoin wallet space in general.
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- The evolution of Bitcoin wallets and what motivated him to start Electrum
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Bitcoins and Gravy #58 Mad Potcoins!
March 8th, 2015 by John Barrett On today's show I am speaking with Hubert, the host of Mad Potcoins. Hubert lives in Denver where he enjoys legally growing a small crop of Marijuana plants for his own enjoyment. Hubert I and talk about everything under the sun including organic growing versus using chemicals and pesticides, the difficulties growers, head shops and dispensaries are having in procuring and keeping bank accounts and how some of these problems might just be solved by Potcoin, the official coin of the International...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #193 - The Good Ol' Days
March 7th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine *Subscribe to the LTBn All Podcasts feedor the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed and never miss an episode again.
On Todays Show
Stephanie takes the reigns and leads listeners through some of the earliest segments produced on the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show.
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P2P Connects Us Special #2 - Cypherpunkd E5
March 4th, 2015 by John Light Welcome to another special episode of the P2P Connects Us podcast! I recently released version 1 of my new book entitled "BYOB: Using Bitcoin to Be Your Own Bank" at beyourownbankbook.wordpress.com, and in light of this special occasion I thought that for this special episode I'd take you back in time once again to the early days of bitcoin. Hiro White of Agorist Radio interviews a cypherpunk named Mids, discussing bitcoin's history, how bitcoin is different from previous attempts at digital cur... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #192 The Foundations of a Programmable Society
March 3rd, 2015 by Adam B. Levine *Subscribe to the LTBn All Podcasts feedor the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed and never miss an episode again.
On Todays Show
Charles Hoskinson shares his thoughts on algorithmic governance and more in this lecture on The Foundations of a Programmable Society
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Transparency: A Fresh Look at the Bitcoin Foundation, Part Two
March 2nd, 2015 by
Sam J. In my first post in this series I introduced some basic aspects of the foundation and provided a single example of what I call fragmented communication; in part two, I will look at what information is and isn't currently available from the Bitcoin Foundation website. Read More -
Epicenter Bitcoin #68 – Kamikaze Attack, Block Halving And The Perils Of Proof-Of-Work
March 2nd, 2015 by Epicenter Is Bitcoin secure from attacks that could destroy the currency? To a large part, this is determined by how expensive it is to carry out an attack and by the potential profits the attacker could generate. Ideally, an attack is so expensive to carry out that no profit-driven attacker would engage in it.
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Bitcoins and Gravy #57 Alpha Point: Powerful Software!
March 1st, 2015 by John Barrett On today's show I speak with Vadim Telyatnikov, the CEO of Alpha Point. Alpha Point is powerful software that allows you to launch an exchange in days not months. Alpha Point supports multiple languages, interfaces and protocols. It also supports any and all fiat and cryptocurrencies. Throughout the interview we talk about Hedge funds and exchanges, how Alpha Point is different from its competitors and of course about the future of everyone’s favorite currency - Bitcoin!
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The Bitcoin Game #11 - Paul Puey - How Bitcoin Will Revolutionize Mobile Payments
March 1st, 2015 by Rob Welcome to episode 11 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
It's great to live in a big city such as Los Angeles because of the opportunity to network with people doing amazing things in the Bitcoin space. While Paul Puey founded Airbitz from San Diego, he still has managed to attend enough Los Angeles Bitcoin meetups that he seems like a local. In January of this year, Airbitz was selected by Plug and Play to take part in their Startup Camp Accelerator in Silicon Valley. Paul still had no...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #191 Bitcoin is Fur the People
February 28th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine *Subscribe to the LTBn All Podcasts feedor the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed and never miss an episode again.
On Todays Show
Stephanie and Andreas speak with Economist, entrepeneur and gentleman of high style Jeffrey Tucker in this wide ranging discussion.
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