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Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

The Bitcoin Magazine Podcast is on a mission to stay on top of what's happening with everything Bitcoin, guiding listeners through the major stories shaping the price, philosophy and community around the financial revolution. The show will also feature brief interviews from leading experts in the space.
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Episodes

How to Understand the Bitcoin Market With Rafael Schultze-Kraft

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast host Christian Keroles and guest host William Clemente sit down with Rafael Schultze-Kraft the CTO of Glassnode. Glassnode is an onchain analytics company and they thrive by making it accessible and easy for Bitcoin enthusiasts, investors, and analysts alike can get their hands on cutting edge metrics and indicators for Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies. Onchain analytics is the practice of using Blockchain node data to learn about the economic a...

Apr 20, 20211 hr 1 min

The Philosophy of Bitcoin with Professor Craig Warmke

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University Craig Warmke. Professor Warmke is quite unique in academia because he has fallen deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. As a scholar in philosophy, ethics, and human nature Craig is fascinated by Bitcoin's incentive structure and the implications of Bitcoin on society. Professor Warmke is saddened by the state of academia and laments about the broken incentives aro...

Apr 15, 20211 hr 5 min

Escaping the Cloud with Bitcoin Sign Guy

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with the legendary Christian Langalis (Bitcoin Sign Guy). The two Christian's open up the podcast by discussing Bitcoin, Lockdowns, human freedom, and his historic moment holding up the buy Bitcoin sign behind Janet Yellen at a 2017 Federal Reserve testimony hearing. At the time Janet was the chair of the federal Reserve and now she is the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Since Christian's immediate rise to Bitc...

Apr 13, 202149 min

All In On Bitcoin w/ Gary Leland

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with the Bitcoin Boomer Gary Leland. Gary is a life long entrepreneur where he created several small business, pioneered podcasting and founded one of the largest Podcasting event in the world. Gary has since fallen deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole and become an instrumental member of the Bitcoin community! Gary has gone all in on Bitcoin in a number of ways, first with his investments but also with his time, businesses...

Apr 08, 20211 hr 1 min

Fed Watch - Central Banks Update Q1 2021 - FED 48

Do not forget to subscribe to the new Fed Watch: Bitcoin and Macro new feed. Search for “Fed Watch - Bitcoin and Macro” on your podcast app. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fed-watch-bitcoin-and-macro/id1543640492 In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Fed Watch podcast, Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner reminisce about the year on the podcast so far and cover recent developments from the major central banks of the world. There have been so many great guests on Fed Watch this year...

Apr 07, 202148 min

Bitcoin Smart Contracts with Ben Carman

In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian sits down with rising Bitcoin developer Ben Carman to discuss his cutting edge work in the Bitcoin Smart Contracting space as well as controversy and disputes Ben finds himself in as he trolls Bitcoin Twitter. Ben and Christian first met far before Ben's rise to prominence int he Bitcoin community at the Bit Block Boom Conference in 2019. Since then, Ben has joined SuredBits as a leader in DLC technology. DLC's show promise as the s...

Apr 06, 202141 min

Banking on Bitcoin with Max Carjuzaa

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Max Carjuzaa the cofounder and ceo of Money on Chain. Money on Chain is a fascinating new trustless application built on the RSK side chain. RSK is a sidechain that pegs 1 to 1 with Bitcoin and allows users to leverage a turing complete computing environment. Money on Chain is part of the emerging decentralized finance and banking movement coming to bitcoin in a more native way. Money on Chain allows users to lever...

Apr 01, 202140 min

Optimizing Bitcoin with Gloria Zhao

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian Keroles sat down with young Bitcoin developer Gloria Zhao to discuss her story and contributions to Bitcoin core. Gloria grew up in the bay area and led the elite Blockchain at Berkeley group at UC Berkeley. Gloria discusses the misaligned incentives for top college developers pulling them toward altcoin and defi projects. Gloria stated that she needed to be in tune with herself and her motivations in order to see Bitcoin Core as a viabl...

Mar 30, 202154 min

Bitcoin Failure Scenarios with Keagan McClelland

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Bitcoin engineers and cofounder of Start9 Keagan McClelland to discuss different ways he sees Bitcoin potentially filing in the future. Start9 is a hardware and software company dedicated to making individuals more sovereign. Start9’s flagship product is the Embassy personal server. Start9 sees individuals running their own server for things like email, encrypted messaging, and Bitcoin as being critical for the fut...

Mar 23, 202157 min

Looking Forward to Bear Arms N’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir

This week on “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast”, host Joe Rodgers sat down with Ragnar Lifthrasir , owner of Guns N’ Bitcoin , to discuss his upcoming freedom technology conference Bear Arms N’ Bitcoin being held in Austin, TX on April 10-11. The conference is focused on 3D printing firearm technology and bitcoin privacy hardware and software. They discussed the state of the world, the conference, the Bitcoin circular economy who shared his thoughts about this with Bitcoin Magazine last November “ It’s ...

Mar 18, 202137 min

Conviction in Bitcoin w/ George Mekhail

In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Host Christian Keroles sits down with George Mekhail of BitcoinIs and the OC Bitcoin Network. George has been making waves in the Bitcoin community both with his regular virtual and in person meets up but also with his thought provoking articles. Two of his recent articles published with the Bitcoin Magazine IN A SOCIALLY-DISTANT WORLD, BITCOIN IS COMMON GROUND https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/in-a-socially-distant-world-bitcoin-is-common-groun...

Mar 16, 202149 min

Why Bitcoin Matters With Hong Fang

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast host Christian Keroles sat down with the CEO of OKCoin Hong Fang for a wide ranging conversation about why Bitcoin, onboarding new people, and Hongs personal journey with bitcoin. Since taking over as the CEO of OKCoin, Hong has taken swift action to better adapt the exchange for new user onboarding for for better aligning the exchange and platform with Bitcoin native technology. OKCoin has taken the lead in adopting Bitcoin layer 2 technology like Ligh...

Mar 11, 202148 min

Questioning Bitcoin Narratives With Eric Wall

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast host Christian Keroles sits down with Eric Wall CIO of Arcane Assets. Eric comes on to the show to walk through some of his qualms with common Bitcoin Narratives. Eric has a strong understanding of Bitcoin and is bullish on the asset but does not think that all of the narratives and talking points around bitcoin are directionally correct or viable. Eric once asked his twitter following if he was a shitcoiner or a bitcoiner, Peter McCormack responded that...

Mar 09, 20211 hr 6 min

How Bitcoin Alleviates Human Suffering W/ Nozomi Hayase

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast host Christian Keroles sits down with Nozomi Hayase for a wide ranging and cosmic conversation. Nozomi's back ground is in studying psychology from both traditional and alternative perspective. She brings a fascinating insight and direction to the world we are living in today as well as captivating narratives for how Bitcoin can help alleviate human suffering. This conversation is very high level and future looking into what a Bitcoin future looks like....

Mar 04, 202145 min

Securing Your Bitcoin with Parker Lewis

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Christian sits down with Parker Lewis of Unchained Capital to discuss several key topics in Bitcoin. We open up discussing Parker's Gradually then Suddenly Blog series and how impactful it has been in educating institutions and Bitcoiners a like. We go into depth on what Parker thinks of when it comes to Bitcoin education and how Bitcoin goes from being counter intuitive to hyper intuitive. We go in depth into How to store your bitcoin and how Unchaine...

Mar 02, 202149 min

Explaining Taproot Activation and LOT=True VS LOT=False - The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado 29

For more technical content like this Subscribe to The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado in your primary podcast app! http://nadobtc.btc.libsynpro.com/website In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss activation of the Taproot soft fork upgrade, and more specifically, the lock-in on timeout (LOT) parameter. The LOT parameter can be set to either “true” (LOT=true) or “false” (LOT=false). LOT=false resembles how several previous soft forks were activated. Min...

Feb 26, 202141 min

Bitcoin Technology & Economics w/ James O'Beirne

For this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Christian Keroles sits down with Bitcoin developer and economist James O’Beirne. James is a Bitcoin core developer with very unique experiences across disciplines being both a bitcoin core contributor as well as a well learnt macro economics scholar. James takes us through his journey from ChainCode Labs in New York to DG Labs back to the states and now to his current project Bitnomial Bitcoin Futures & Options Exchange. James also walks us t...

Feb 25, 202150 min

Bitcoin and Podcasting 2.0 with Anita Posch

This week, Christian sits down with long time Bitcoin podcaster and advocate Anita Posch. Anita is the host of the fantastic Anita Posch show where she highlights the efforts of bitcoiners around the globe especially bitcoiners in Africa and Latam. In this episode ck and Anita focus in on new Podcasting technology being built on top of the bitcoin lightning network. Podcasting started as the ultimate way for individuals to broadcast information without corporate influence. It was a medium for th...

Feb 23, 202140 min

Building on Bitcoin W/ Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Host Christian Keroles sits down with long time Bitcoiner and cofounder of the RSK Bitcoin Sidechain Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar. RSK has been live on top of Bitcoin since 2018 and has been quietly building a fantastic ecosystem of wallets, Decentralized order-books, Bitcoin backed stablecoins and more. The projects being built on and enabled by RSK have been making an incredible amount of hype in the Bitcoin community and they are all enabled by the RSK s...

Feb 18, 202146 min

If You Are Not Long Bitcoin, You Are Short Bitcoin — W/ Anthony Scaramucci & Matt Odell

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Bitcoin Magazine advisor, Matt Odell sits down with Anthony Scaramucci the cofounder of Skybridge Capital to discuss his Bitcoin Fund and his thoughts on Bitcoin. Scaramucci's echoing of Bitcoin first principles thinking at the institutional investor class is incredibly validating of the Bitcoin narrative. Anthony explains why he could not invest in Bitcoin at sub $1,000 because the asset was simply not large enough for his funds strategy. According to...

Feb 16, 202140 min

What Bitcoin Started w/ Erik Voorhees

This week, host Christian Keroles sits down with early Bitcoin adopter and entrepreneur Erik Voorhees. Erik has had an enormous impact on Bitcoin's history starting early companies, participating in the scaling wars, and embracing the Ethereum ecosystem. Erik sees the Bitcoin space in different way than many bitcoiners. Erik describes everything with in the "crypto" ecosystem as part of the same tree and although there are nefarious use cases and scams, that does not invalidate the entire space ...

Feb 11, 202150 min

Banking with Bitcoin w/ Steven Schnall CEO of Quontic Bank

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with CEO of Quontic Bank Steven Schnall to discuss Quontic's recent move to offer a Bitcoin back debit card. The Bitcoin Back debit card offer users 1.5% cash back in the for of Bitcoin. This represents Quontic's first official cryptocurrency product and a massive step for Bitcoin's financialization as Quontic is firmly a legacy banking institution. Steven and Christian discuss Quontic's history and mission driven purpo...

Feb 09, 202130 min

The Good Word of Bitcoin with Isaiah Jackson

Joe Rodgers had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Isaiah Jackson to discuss his upcoming book, Bitcoin and Black America Volume 2. Before the interview I read a copy of his first book which laid the groundwork explaining Bitcoin to noobs, but it was written especially for black people. The book covers monetary history and how black people have gotten little to no support from bankers here in America and goes on to make the case that Bitcoin and black people are a no brainer. Jack...

Feb 04, 202142 min

Teaching Bitcoin w/ @anilsaidso

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Host Christian Keroles sits down with Anil (@AnilSaidSo on Twitter) to discuss his amazing Bitcoin educational content. Anil has made a name for himself in the Bitcoin community because of the amazing and simple distillations of very complex and important concepts for understanding Bitcoin. Anil creates amazing Twitter threads, web pages and short ebooks to explain concepts like, Why Bitcoin is Neutral, Bitcoin V the Dollar, Notable Bitcoiners, Explaini...

Feb 02, 202140 min

Wining Hearts and Minds for Bitcoin w/ Andy Edstrom and Peter McCormack

In this week's Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Christian Keroles sits down with Andy Edstrom and Peter McCormack to discuss their recent contribution to Bitcoin Magazine Wining Hearts and Minds for Bitcoin . Both Peter and Andy believe that Bitcoin is inevitable and has already won but it can be easier or harder depending on how bitcoin evangelists educate. They believe that thru rhetoric and appeals to moral foundation theory, Bitcoin evangelists can better explain to skeptics and newcomers the numer...

Jan 28, 202155 min

Bitcoin and Satoshi in Venezuela w/ Javier Bastardo

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, ck sits down with Javier Bastardo from Satoshi en Venezuela. This is a wide ranging, real and heart felt conversation about the real trials that the Venezuelan people are subject to because of the totalitarian regime currently in control. Javier tells of his story discovering and living on Bitcoin since 2017 and how Bitcoin gave him both financial stability and community during his persecution living in Venezuela. While Javier is hopeless for Venezuela ...

Jan 26, 202155 min

How to Store Your Bitcoin w/ Douglas Bakkum of Shift Crypto - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

This week ck sits down with long time Bitcoiner and builder Douglas Bakkum. Douglas is the CEO and cofounder of hardware wallet maker Shift Crypto. Douglas and his team have been working hard from very early on to create a hardware wallet experience that is suitable for newbies but has the most important advanced features for maximum sovereignty, safety and trustlessness. This is a very wide ranging conversation covering Douglas's history, the inspiration for Shift Crypto, the Bitbox 02, and all...

Jan 21, 202146 min

Fed Watch - Another Government Letdown - FED 37

Do not forget to subscribe to the new Fed Watch: Bitcoin and Macro new feed. It will be separate from Bitcoin Magazine. Exclusively on the new feed, starting on the next interview with the great Max Kaiser. Search for “Fed Watch - Bitcoin and Macro” on your podcast app. In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Fed Watch,” Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner ​discuss the broad macroeconomic atmosphere in which bitcoin finds itself. We touch on bitcoin mining, price, the dollar, commodities, and the...

Jan 20, 202129 min

Bitcoin Activism with cryptograffiti - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

Joe Rodger's had the opportunity to sit down with legendary Bitcoin activist artist cryptograffiti this week to discuss his latest project, Bitcoin vs The Fed . You have probably seen cryptograffiti’s art before. He's well known for his mosaic pictures of Hal Finney and JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon but he's most well known for his art piece called United Nodes of Bitcoin which depicts a U.S. $1 bill with a hooded George Washington and subtle nods to bitcoin propaganda all over the bill. Follow cry...

Jan 19, 202138 min

Fed Watch - Bitcoin 2021: A New Hope - FED 36

Find “Fed Watch”’s new RSS feed: Search for “Fed Watch - Bitcoin and Macro” on your podcast app. In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine ’s “Fed Watch,” Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner look back at the events of the last few weeks and put them into a macro perspective. They also give us an optimistic vision of the next year that only the Bitcoin Space can offer. Topics covered Censorship and Bitcoin Twitter Macro cycles like the 4th Turning Assets like gold, the dollar, and commodities Bitcoin p...

Jan 14, 202132 min
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