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...

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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On today's show I travel to Australia’s Gold Coast, the Miami beach down under where beer does flow and men do indeed chunder - all except my special guest Bitcoin Comedian Michael Connell. Michael talks to us about how he got into comedy and how he got into bitcoin. And throughout this episode we get to hear Michael’s classic and hilarious bits about money, the NSA, philosophy and of course bitcoins! Listeners get ready to laugh your butts off and rest assured that this is clean comedy that...

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I travel down under to Adelaide, Australia to speak with Simon Edhouse, the CEO of BitTunes. BitTunes is reinventing global music distribution by creating a people powered platform. Simon talks to us about how this platform allows P2P file sharing to achieve its full potential as the optimal internet distribution mechanism and how he aims to monetize the exchange of digital data. Simon is a man of conscience who has been following the legacy of his family in working for...

On today's show I speak with David Schwartz, the Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs and one of the architects of the Ripple protocol. David was developing encrypted cloud storage and messaging systems for organizations like CNN and the NSA when he discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and soon became active in the Bitcoin community as "JoelKatz". In late 2011, he was hired by Jed McCaleb to design and implement what is now the Ripple network. David gives us a fantastic explanation of what Ripple really is...

On today's show I am honored to be speaking with a modern day American patriot, Mr. Patrick Byrne - the CEO of overstock.com. Patrick teaches us about public education in the United States and how it is sadly broken on many levels - with more money often going to administration than to our teachers and our students. Patrick also tells us the truth about the SEC. He talks to us about mobsters on Wall Street and the crooked games they've all but perfected to rob this co...

On today's show I am honored to be speaking with Dr. Charles Evans, Professor of Finance and Economics at Barry University in beautiful Miami Shores, Florida. Dr. Evans talks to us today about fool’s Gold, Dolphin tanks that replace shark tanks, the Lighthouse project by Mike Hearn and how a lot of people may be unknowingly stepping over sacks of money in their rush to get rich.

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Hidden in each episode of Bitcoins and Gravy is a Magic Word. I know that it may sou...

On today's show I interview Gary Dykstra a Detroit transplant living in Indonesia on the beautiful island of Bali. Gary tells us about Bitcoin in Bali and how it’s now possible to vacation in Bali and spend only Bitcoins. We get an update on the Ubud weekly meetup and we learn about the BitIslands.com social experiment going on right now. Gary also tells us about late night parties, monkeys that will steal your sunglasses and off road motorcycling through the jungle....

On today’s show I am fortunate to have back at The Tree House Studio one of my favorite authors, Max Hernandez. Max talks to us about his novel, Thieves Emporium, a compelling journey into a dystopian future where the innocent and the not so innocent live, work and play on the dark side of the internet. Throughout this interview Max shares with us his vision of the past the present and the future!

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Thieves Emporium can be purchased in ebook format with fiat from Amazon, Barne...

On todays show I fly all the way to Madrid, Spain  and man are my arms tired! There I meet up with Alberto Gomez Toribio, the CEO of Coinffeine, an open source peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin exchange platform. Imagine Bitcoin jacked up on caffeine and thats Coinffeine. When Coinffeine launches youll be able to buy and sell bitcoins securely and anonymously without having to rely on a centralized exchange like MtGox or Bitstamp. It's like BitTorrent for your bitcoins... plus a whole lot more! ...