Hello, welcome to episode 46 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. In these times of uncertainty and division, Bitcoin could use some fence menders. Especially if they have technical chops and experience in the space. Jameson Lopp is just that kind of person. This episode contains his entire talk from The Future Of Bitcoin, the recent Bitcoin conference held in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The conference audio includes an extended intro from me as the MC of this event, and you'll hear just a bit of...
Jul 08, 2017•45 min•Ep. 46
Hello, welcome to episode 45 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. Sometimes it’s pretty cool being a Bitcoin podcaster. For instance, I was really curious about estate planning in terms of cryptocurrency and key management. So I reached out to expert Pamela Morgan, and she agreed to come on the show. Pamela has a law practice called Empowered Law, and she’s the CEO of Third Key Solutions. If you've pondered about best practices in key management and estate planning, please give this a listen. ...
Jun 06, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 45
Hello, welcome to episode 44 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. In today's episode, Blockstack co-founder Ryan Shea helps me understand what Blockstack is doing to create a decentralized web with local apps, secure DNS, identity anchored to the Blockchain, and more. SHOW LINKS Blockstack - blockstack.org Ryan on Twitter - @ryaneshea Blockstack on GitHub - Github.com/blockstack Ryan on GitHub - shea256 Ryan's Blog posts - medium.com/@ryanshea STAY IN TOUCH https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http:...
Apr 24, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 44
Hello, welcome to episode 43 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. This is part two of my interview with Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni of Monero. In part one , we focused on Riccardo's past and the early days of Monero. In today's episode, Riccardo gives his views on topics like Ethereum, Proof of Work, Monero's regular hard forks, Barry Silbert's love of Ethereum Classic, tinfoil hat theories about Gavin Andresen, Riccardo's CEO title, and much more. SHOW LINKS Monero - getmonero.org Monero Con...
Mar 29, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 43
Hello, welcome to episode 42 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. My guest today is Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni of Monero, a cryptocurrency focusing on user privacy. Perhaps the best way to keep an eye on Riccardo (and his trolling antics) is to follow him on Twitter at @FluffyPonyZA . Learn more about Monero at getmonero.org . STAY IN TOUCH https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com [email protected] Bitcoin tipping address: 1G8HDg5EsPQpamKYS2bDya9Riv9xv1nVo5 I set up a Mo...
Feb 25, 2017•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 42
Hello, welcome to episode 41 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell, and my guest today is Charlie Shrem. When I got into Bitcoin, the two ways I was most familiar with to buy Bitcoin were to wire money to Mt. Gox in Japan, or go to the local 7-Eleven to send cash to BitInstant. It's not hard to see why BitInstant became one of the biggest Bitcoin companies in the U.S., until it stopped doing business in 2013. Charlie Shrem was BitInstant's CEO and Co-Founder, he was very active in the community,...
Jan 14, 2017•31 min•Ep. 41
My name is Rob Mitchell, and it's hard to believe this is my 40th episode of The Bitcoin Game . I was a fan of Let's Talk Bitcoin from day one, since it launched right after I got into Bitcoin. I reached out to Adam B. Levine early on, and worked with the LTB Network in various capacities. During that time, I recorded a number of interviews that weren't quite publishable, for one reason or another. But after attending a Bitcoin Job Fair, I eventually collected enough solid content to release my ...
Dec 30, 2016•48 min•Ep. 40
Hello, welcome to episode 39 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. Odds are, if you are into Bitcoin, then you know Roger Ver, a.k.a. Bitcoin Jesus. And you possibly are aware that Roger is a huge proponent of increasing Bitcoin's maximum block size as soon as possible. But he's not just talking about it, he's taking action, as you'll hear. Roger is certainly a doer, and besides all the Bitcoin companies Roger is involved with, he's done things like donate over $150,000 to Ross Ulbrect’s legal ...
Sep 05, 2016•38 min•Ep. 39
Hello, welcome to episode 38 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. It's always great interviewing a knowledgeable person who's not afraid to give an opinion, and Rodolfo Novak is that sort of guest. In this interview, we discuss Coinkite's early days, which started with a Blockchain explorer, custom Bitcoin payment terminals, a widely-used wallet hosting service, and a backend that utilizes hardware security modules of Coinkite's own design. And now, with Opendime, they've moved on to a fascina...
Aug 21, 2016•51 min•Ep. 38
Hello, welcome to episode 37 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. Everyone has a unique story. When I started this podcast, I really wanted to talk to Bitcoiners who hadn’t been exposed in Bitcoin media. There are a couple of really interesting local Bitcoin traders I've tried to interview, but surprisingly, sometimes it's easier to get a Bitcoin core developer on the show, than many of the lesser-known people who also have Bitcoin-centric lives. I met Christopher Camp at my first Bitcoin meet...
Jul 15, 2016•31 min•Ep. 37
Hello, welcome to episode 36 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. I have to admit, as cool as Ethereum has always sounded to me, I haven’t kept up on it. Then, earlier this month, the market cap of Ether surpassed one billion dollars, about a sixth of Bitcoin’s market cap. The price has come down a bit since then, but seeing the high valuation made me realize I’d better get caught up on Ethereum, now that it’s the second biggest cryptocurrency. And who better to help me than Ethereum’s golden-...
Mar 25, 2016•37 min•Ep. 36
This is an excerpt from episode 35 of The Bitcoin Game with Samson Mow and Joseph VaughnPerling: The-bitcoin-game – The-bitcoin-game-035-tales-from-two-roundtables == LINKS == Bitcoin Roundtable medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable Samson's Dramatic Tweets from the Bitcoin Roundtable twitter.com/Excellion/status/700855910269214720 == SPONSOR == While much of Bitcoiners' time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care abou...
Mar 06, 2016•5 min
Hello, welcome to episode 35 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. In today's episode I speak with BTCC 's COO Samson Mow, who attended the Bitcoin Roundtable in Hong Kong. Then I speak with Joseph VaughnPerling, who attended the 2016 Satoshi Roundtable . And at the end of the show, I put together a little something based on Samson's dramatic tweets from the Bitcoin Roundtable. Please let me know if you enjoy it. SHOW LINKS BTCC Bitcoin Roundtable Samson's Dramatic Tweets from the Bitcoin Round...
Mar 06, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 35
Hello, welcome to episode 34 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell, and my guest is Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd. Peter was really open in this interview, and we talked about everything from his relationship with Gavin Andresen, to mistakes he made in his early days working with Bitcoin Core, and a dozen topics in between. A lot of Peter’s focus was on explaining what he feels are the differences between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic, and why he believes Core is the path to follow at thi...
Feb 18, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 34
Hello, welcome to episode 33 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. J. Maurice is everything you’d expect in a crypto-anarchist hacker. When I had lunch with him before our interview, Maurice kept his phone powered off and explained he wouldn’t use a credit card, except maybe to pay for already-tracked air travel. After our meal, he used his Trezor to sign a Bitcoin payment on his laptop, via the cafe's Wi-Fi. There's nothing in particular Maurice is trying to hide, he simply wants to live his l...
Feb 05, 2016•39 min•Ep. 33
Hello, welcome to episode 32 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. Today's interview is with Brock Pierce, chairman of the board of The Bitcoin Foundation, and a highly-accomplished VC in digital currency. Brock got involved in digital token entrepreneurship at a very young age, with a focus on gaming, an activity he excelled at. As he reached his mid-twenties, Brock's companies were doing $100,000,000 in business. By the time Bitcoin was released, Brock had become a veteran in the business of ...
Jan 12, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 32
Hello, welcome to episode 31 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. I used to run into Valerian Bennett frequently at Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetups in 2014. I thought he’d disappeared from the Bitcoin scene, only to realize how wrong I was. Valerian has taken his experience in mainstream television production, and combined it with his passion for Bitcoin, to create several online Bitcoin video services, with his partner, payment channels developer James Poole. I hope you enjoy our discussion. SHOW...
Dec 20, 2015•56 min•Ep. 31
Hello, welcome to episode 30 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. What’s the oldest blockchain company you can think of? What if I told you a Blockchain company in Estonia called Guardtime was founded before the Bitcoin white paper was released? And what if I told you they are now a highly profitable company, doing large amounts of business with government, the world’s largest defense contractor, and a multinational communication technology company? I only found out about Guardtime, thanks to ...
Nov 17, 2015•40 min•Ep. 30
Hello, welcome to episode 29 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. I first became acquainted with Bitcoin journalist Brian Cohen in mid-2014, as we were both active on the then-new Let’s Talk Bitcoin platform. I saw he was doing some fairly serious Bitcoin journalism. Soon after I launched this podcast, I reached out to Brian for an interview. It took a year for us to finally connect, but I finally spoke to the man who digs up a lot of the breaking stories that make Bitcoin news. Right after ou...
Nov 05, 2015•27 min•Ep. 29
Hello, welcome to episode 28 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell. When I scheduled an interview with CoinCube CEO Robert Allen, I felt pretty skeptical. My gut told me a cloud-based Bitcoin-trading-bot would be something like a cloud-mining Ponzi-scheme on steroids. I wondered, would this interview be my first exposé? Would my "gotcha" questions be too difficult for Robert to field? Listen to find out! 7/19/16 UPDATE: For the sake of being informative, the gains in my CoinCube-traded account t...
Oct 22, 2015•49 min•Ep. 28
Hello, welcome to episode 27 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. I’ve been a podcast listener for many years now, so when I got interested in Bitcoin, listening to Bitcoin podcasts was a natural. I think Adam B. Levine launched The Daily Bitcoin the same day I first searched for Bitcoin podcasts. And I've been hooked on Bitcoin podcasts ever since. Bitcoins and Gravy has always been a hugely influential show for me. In a sea of podcasts with poor audio quality and barely existent production ...
Oct 09, 2015•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 27
Hello, welcome to episode 26 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. Back some months ago, Los Angeles had its first Bitcoin conference called The State Of Digital Money . Jeff Garzik (Bitcoin Core Developer for BitPay and CEO of Dunvegan Space Systems) was the featured speaker, and he gave a presentation called The Future of Bitcoin . I originally believed the presentation needed the accompanying visual slides, but after giving the audio of Jeff's presentation a fresh listen, I realized the aud...
Sep 24, 2015•38 min•Ep. 26
Hello, welcome to episode 25 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. If I were to meet Marco Streng on the street, I’d never guess he hands-on controls perhaps the largest amount of hashing power in the world. Marco is the CEO and cofounder of Genesis mining, a company that mines for profit, and also offers cloud mining. I met Marco back at the State Of Digital Money conference in Los Angeles earlier this year, as he was one of the speakers. I've always been skeptical about cloud mining. At wors...
Sep 10, 2015•40 min•Ep. 25
Hello, welcome to episode 24 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. Earlier this month I got to speak with Andrew Lee from Purse, a company that allows people to use Bitcoin to buy stuff on Amazon, and at pretty large discounts. My own first thought about Purse was that it was some strange company trying to shoehorn its way between Bitcoiners and Amazon. But after talking to Andrew, I now see Purse as a company that is helping to spread the use and adoption of Bitcoin throughout the world. Ther...
Aug 27, 2015•44 min•Ep. 24
Hello, welcome to episode 23 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. I decided to experiment with buying Bitcoin a new way; I bought shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust. The trust is the first, and I believe the only current way a U.S. citizen can add an investment in Bitcoin to a recognized retirement account. You can buy shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust with symbol GBTC using a standard brokerage account, just like buying a stock or ETF. You could argue that one doesn't actually own B...
Aug 14, 2015•44 min•Ep. 23
Hello, welcome to episode 22 of The Bitcoin Game , I'm Rob Mitchell. In today’s podcast you’ll hear the Blockchain Tech panel from the State Of Digital Money conference, which took place earlier this year in Los Angeles. I thought it was a very fun panel that was filled with many insights. You might say the panel was stacked a bit on the side of blockchain tech over Bitcoin, and Bitcoin maximalists (amongst others) may not agree with some of the points made. But hopefully everyone can still appr...
Jul 31, 2015•58 min•Ep. 22
Hello, welcome to episode 21 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. This podcast is my opportunity to learn from all types of people involved in cryptocurrency. For today’s episode I spoke to Marco Cuesta of Alt-Options. This company is aiming to bring a high-end option trading platform to Bitcoin. Alt-Options earned 2nd place at the startup pitch competition at Inside Bitcoins in Chicago shortly after this interview took place, and the company is planning to go live with Bitcoin option trading ...
Jul 17, 2015•35 min•Ep. 21
Hello, welcome to episode 20 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. On April 18th, 2015, Los Angeles Bitcoiners were treated to our city’s first Bitcoin conference, called The State Of Digital Money 2015 (or SODM15). I recorded a lot of great content at this conference, and in today’s episode, I bring you the first of these recordings. Presentation: The Transformation of Global Commerce by Steve Beauregard, CEO & Founder at GoCoin @GoCoinCEO | @GoCoin https://www.gocoin.com Panel: Merchant &...
Jul 02, 2015•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 20
Welcome to The Bitcoin Game #19, the Mega Interview Episode! I’m Rob Mitchell, and in today’s episode you’ll hear 17, yes 17, never-before heard interviews from the Texas Bitcoin conference. In order of appearance: Nick Spanos – New York Bitcoin Center Elisabeth Grothe-Møller – CommonCollection Troy Fearnow – CryptoArt Kimberly Morgan – Texas Coinitiative Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. – Economic Consultant Catherine Bleish – The Bit Mom Andy Gonzalez – San Antonio Crypto Network Bradley Rotter – Infin...
Jun 13, 2015•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 19
Hello, welcome to episode 18 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. In today's show we start with a presentation by Jeremy Gardner, who co-founded the College Cryptocurrency Network and is Director of Operations at Augur. In his talk, Creating a Sustainable Blockchain Ecosystem, Jeremy gives his views on blockchains now and into the future. Then we turn to experienced market trader and economist Adam Hayes, who presents What Factors Give Cryptocurrencies Their Value: An Empirical Analysis. Hope ...
May 29, 2015•43 min•Ep. 18
