Crypto Voices: Episode 48 This is a rebroadcast of Stephan Livera's interview with Fernando, entitled "SLP13 – Bitcoin as ultimate asset, with Fernando Ulrich." Original show details here: http://livera.libsyn.com/slp13-bitcoin-as-ultimate-asset-with-fernando-ulrich-austrian-economist
Crypto Voices: Episode 47 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Max Keidun & Roman Snitko, CEO & CTO of Hodl Hodl, the P2P crypto exchange that doesn't hold your funds, and organizers of the popular Baltic Honeybadger Bitcoin Conference in Riga, this year from 22-23 September, 2018. Max and Roman give an overview of the agenda and style of this year's Honeybadger. They also update on new products and improvements in the Hodl Hodl bu...
Crypto Voices: Episode 46 (Part II) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Giacomo Zucco, co-founder of Blockchain Lab Consulting, BHB Network, the RGB open-source project, and Bitcoin maximalist. We continue our discussion on Bitcoin, money, and central banking. Giacomo speculates on how this competitive relationship will develop over the years, and what other effects this will have on the economy and business. We move on to RGB and tokeniz...
Crypto Voices: Episode 46 (Part I) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Giacomo Zucco, co-founder of Blockchain Lab Consulting, BHB Network, the RGB open-source project, and Bitcoin maximalist. We discuss many views and facets of Bitcoin, money, and central banking. Giacomo speculates on how this competitive relationship will develop over the years, and what other effects this will have on the economy and business. Some interesting history...
Crypto Voices: Episode 45 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Saifedean Ammous, economics professor and author of the new book, The Bitcoin Standard. We discuss Saif's background and why he decided to write "the book we all wanted to have written" covering Bitcoin, banking, and economics. Saif explains the importance of Bitcoin's supply schedule and the difficulty adjustment; the anatomy of monetary demand versus monetary supply; the prop...
Crypto Voices: Episode 44 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL The Factor 2.9 crew from Stockholm interviews Matthew about Bitcoin. Show aired 12 June 2018. Matthew breaks down some of the origins of the Crypto Voices show, his long-term views for Bitcoin, why it's a brilliant economic invention, and how it will benefit society. Links for more info: https://medium.com/@Ulrich_98986/an-economic-definition-of-cryptotokens-3ac66d3cba20 Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & I...
Crypto Voices: Episode 43 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Stephan Kinsella, longtime advocate of private property and personal liberty, and expert on intellectual property law. We discuss broad ranging issues on Bitcoin and private property. Is Bitcoin really property per se, and does anyone truly own bitcoin(s)? Also, how does the nature of intellectual property (or lack thereof) play into the open-source aspects of Bitcoin? What is Bitcoin? Is Bi...
Crypto Voices: Episode 42 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Danielius Stasiulis, co-founder of BitDegree. We discuss the ever-present topic of education, and the possibility of disrupting and bringing its cost down via the blockchain. This is the second show on Crypto Voices covering a project on Ethereum that has leveraged an ICO. We start by discussing Danielius's business background in Lithuania and Eastern Europe, and why he decided to get into t...
Crypto Voices: Episode 41 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Jameson Lopp, professional cypherpunk. We start asking Jameson 'what is Bitcoin?'. We explore some of his prior writings, and get his latest perspectives on difficult topics (in the world of Bitcoin) such as roadmaps, scaling, technical upgrades, and consensus. We take some time to unpack the idea of bugs in the code and the human factor involved in dealing with them if and when ...
Crypto Voices: Episode 40 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Dr. Lawrence White, professor of economics at George Mason University and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. This is a continuation of sorts of our very first episode/guest with Dr. George Selgin (who has worked closely with Dr. White over the years, and originally studied under him). Dr. White is an expert in monetary and banking history. He begins with a broad overview of fra...
Crypto Voices: Episode 39 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Zooko Wilcox, co-founder of the Zcash cryptocurrency protocol and CEO of the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company. Very interesting and broad discussion on the various social and economic implications of privacy. Zooko explores the numerous reasons for privacy coins, where Bitcoin has taken us with its success, how he hopes Zcash can take us further, why it's needed, and how privacy co...
Crypto Voices: Episode 38 (Part II) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew (Fernando had to jet after Part I) interviews Paul Sztorc, computer scientist and founder of Bitcoin Hivemind and Drivechain protocols. This episode is part II of II. In Part II we discuss some of Paul's recent writings and updates on the Drivechain protocol, and how Bitcoin can scale via sidechains. Related to this we discuss Bitcoin maximalism versus altcoin development. As for Drivechain, ...
Crypto Voices: Episode 38 (Part I) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Paul Sztorc, computer scientist and founder of Bitcoin Hivemind and Drivechain protocols. This episode is part I of II. We discuss Paul's journey into prediction markets, and their potential in a decentralized market using Bitcoin; how a prediction market works and some of its features; governance and affecting political change via prediction markets; building prediction...
Crypto Voices: Episode 37 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Jeremy Gardner, co-founder & managing partner at Ausum Ventures. We discuss Jeremy's history at Augur and his current view on the platform for the future; his thoughts on ICOs in general and the state of the market today; his thesis on which and how many decentralized protocols there will be in the future; his interest in venture and what he and his team are focusing on at Au...
Crypto Voices: Article 48 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Category: Markets & political Author: Andreas Antonopoulos Originally published: 12-Mar-2014 Published at: Andreas M. Antonopoulos Source: https://antonopoulos.com/failure-is-an-option/ Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening! This recording is a reproduction of author Andre...
Crypto Voices: Episode 36 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Paul Puey, founder and CEO of mobile blockchain wallet Edge. We discuss lots of security topics in Bitcoin and other crypto assets, specifically regarding the average user’s concerns. Paul details his history in tech and how we got into Bitcoin, as well as why he decided to found Edge (formerly known as Airbitz). We cover the current differences between the newly branded Edge wal...
Crypto Voices: Article 47 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Category: Investment Author: Henry Brade Originally published: 9-Jun-2016 Published at: Medium Source: https://medium.com/@Technomage/10-good-reasons-to-buy-bitcoin-now-9c5438893df9#.bdi9txje1 Narrator: Crypto Voices https://cryptovoices.com/ Production: Mama Studios http://www.mamastudios.eu/ Music: New Friend Music http://newfriendmusic.com/ Thanks for listening! This recording is a reproduction of author He...
Crypto Voices: Episode 35 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Henry Brade, co-founder and CEO of Prasos. Matthew and Henry discuss a good variety of current Bitcoin topics, from adoption to regulation. Henry details the Prasos model and a few of their key services, including Coinmotion and Denarium. Henry overviews how he got into Bitcoin, including his pre-Bitcoin days as a poker player, and how some of his political and economic views have changed si...
Crypto Voices: Episode 34 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Žilvinas Šilėnas, President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute. Good discussion getting back to basics on the state of classical liberal thought and economics in Eastern Europe, particularly in Lithuania. Žilvinas and his team at LFMI are doing amazing work advocating for classical liberal economic policies in their country, and their influence goes beyond their borders. H...
Crypto Voices: Episode 33 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Patrick Byrne, founder & CEO of Overstock. Fascinating discussion with a busy executive, we are grateful for the time Patrick spent with us covering everything they are doing at Overstock with blockchain technology. We begin with Patrick's background, moving from philosophy to Wall Street. We discuss the complexities of running a publicly traded company, and the many dealin...
Crypto Voices: Episode 32 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview RSK Labs CEO Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar. We discuss many of the technicalities of RSK, which is the first general purpose smart contract platform secured by the Bitcoin network. We discuss RSK Labs' vision for scaling programmable contracts on Bitcoin, how their system relates and works with Ethereum, security and consensus issues, and how they are progressing from being a more c...
Crypto Voices: Episode 31 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview RegTech Executive Juan Llanos. We discuss Juan's history in regulatory and legal frameworks, and how he eventually found the crypto world. Juan overviews his outlook on crypto regulation and compliance in the next few years, including an interesting take that many politicians "on the inside" already own cryptoassets, so regulatory interpretations could be drawn from that conclu...
Crypto Voices: Episode 30 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Jonathan Mohan. This is the final interview we did on location in New York in October 2017! We discuss Jonathan's thoughts regarding hodling Bitcoin and its forks from a composite perspective, and then spend the majority of time covering his ideas and consulting work on smart contract and counterparty risk. The crux of the issue has to do with effectively arbitrating disputes w...
Crypto Voices: Episode 29 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song. We discuss Jimmy's thoughts on 2017 in crypto (what he's learned and what he's written about), the risk of hard forks, what will scare you to sell(?), his post on Crypto Keynesians vs. Crypto Austrians, Bitcoin's role as a medium of exchange vs. store of value, Bitcoin's position as a base-level protocol, the value overflow incident of 2010, effect...
Crypto Voices: Episode 28 (Part II) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Eric Voskuil from Libbitcoin. This is part two in a two-part episode! We discuss Eric's background, the Libbitcoin protocol implementation, and then focus the remaining 1.5 hours covering a variety of interesting cryptoeconomic topics that Eric has written in the Libbitcoin wiki, including threat level paradox, axiom of resistance, government fiat, reserves versus sav...
Crypto Voices: Episode 28 (Part I) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando interview Eric Voskuil from Libbitcoin. This is part one in a two-part episode! We discuss Eric's background, the Libbitcoin protocol implementation, and then focus the remaining 1.5 hours covering a variety of interesting cryptoeconomic topics that Eric has written in the Libbitcoin wiki, including threat level paradox, axiom of resistance, government fiat, reserves versus savi...
Crypto Voices: Episode 27 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew gives a (not brief) Happy New Year intro to a recording of the Cryptoeconomics panel at the Baltic Honeybadger Bitcoin Conference in Riga, Latvia, which occurred on 26 November, 2017. The intro (on Jan 2018 valuations, cryptocurrencies vs. ICOs) was recorded on 5 January 2018. The panelists were Andreas Antonopoulos (@aantonop), Adam Back (@adam3us), Henry Brade (@Technom4ge), Tuur Demeester (@TuurDeme...
Crypto Voices: Episode 26 (Part II) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Chris Beams from Bisq, the decentralized crypto asset exchange. This is part two in a two-part episode! We discuss a variety of interesting topics covering the Bisq platform, including how "decentralized" it actually is, the current (and planned) governance among its founders and stakeholders, the role and creation of the BSQ colored coin on Bitcoin's blockchain (including its dist...
Crypto Voices: Episode 26 (Part I) Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew interviews Chris Beams from Bisq, the decentralized crypto asset exchange. This is part one in a two-part episode! We discuss a variety of interesting topics covering the Bisq platform, including how "decentralized" it actually is, the current (and planned) governance among its founders and stakeholders, the role and creation of the BSQ colored coin on Bitcoin's blockchain (including its distr...
Crypto Voices: Episode 25 Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew & Fernando discuss Bitcoin scaling and Bitcoin Cash with Roger Ver. Roger is a high profile investor and entrepreneur, CEO of Memory Dealers, the first investor in Bitcoin startups, owner of Bitcoin.com, and proponent of Bitcoin Cash. We discuss a variety of economic and security factors surrounding scaling, the base max block size, censorship, role of nodes, role of miners, forks, altcoins, and mo...
