An important practice in raising children is reading to them. My guests today, Chris and Frieda Bobay have created a wonderful children's book, Bitcoin for Kiddos. Our kids are the future and the book "Bitcoin for Kiddos" which was written and illustrated by Chris and Frieda Bobay was born out of a lack of educational material for children around this digital asset. Chris and Frieda wanted to start a fun and engaging dialogue with kids on the subject of money and where Bitcoin fits in. The world...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Mario Gibney is the Community Manager at LEDN, he was formerly at Blockstream and he is also the co – host of the Unhashed Podcast. Mario sits down with Cedric to dicsuss: - His rabbit hole story - How financial services for Bitcoin works while having to account for liquidity, collateral requirements and price volatity - What is the UTXO set - Why were SegWit and Taproot such important upgrades to the Bitcoin Network and what do they do for it - Schnorr signatures, consensus, his favorite part o...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Saifedean Ammous is a world-renowned economist and author of The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking and the forthcoming textbook Principles of Economics. Saifedean and Cedric sit down to discuss the effects of The Fiat Standard on families, art, culture, architecture, how fiat goes against our very nature and whether Saif is optimistic about the future of humanity and civilization. LEDN is a se...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Matt Hill sits down with Cedric to discuss Start9, building technology for the individual, the Embassy personal server, and how you can leverage the dark net for private Bitcoin, Lightning Network, data, messaging and social media. Matt is the CEO/Co-Founder of Start9, found and developer of WorkBlast and the co-creator of Borker. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 conference. LEDN.IO is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growin...
Nov 21, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Kyle Murphy, the Co-founder of Austin Bitcoin Club and CEO of Pleb Industries sits down with Cedric for a gripping conversation about Kyle's time in the military, Afghanistan, why we were really there, becoming a 240lb roid raging monster & how he's orange pilling all of Austin. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 conference. LEDN.IO is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to see what it...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 83
In this eye-opening episode, Cedric sits down with Texas Slim the author of The Harvest of Deception, The Leverage of the Seed, Political Beef Deception, High Values Lifestyles, and Source of the Seed to discuss why we have medical and chemical companies growing our food, nutritional starvation, the hijacking of our tastebuds, food addiction, false commodities, fake meat, how it's big business to kill people, why food intelligence is the citadel of your mind and what you can do about it! This ep...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 82
The Bitcoin 2022 Conference celebrates bitcoin over 4 days (April 6-9th, 2022) with 4 different passes. The four days include Industry day, 2 days of main events and speakers, and lastly, a festival day which is a day of music and networking. Prices will continue to rise over the next few months so get in early and use the code BitcoinMatrix for 10% off at http://tixr.com/pr/BitcoinMatrix/26217 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 81
The Bitcoin 2022 Conference celebrates bitcoin over 4 days (April 6-9th, 2022) with 4 different passes. The four days include Industry day, 2 days of main events and speakers, and lastly, a festival day which is a day of music and networking. Prices will continue to rise over the next few months so get in early and use the code BitcoinMatrix for 10% off at http://tixr.com/pr/BitcoinMatrix/26217 _____________________________________________________________________ Tomer Strolight 丰 Slayer of Lies...
Oct 18, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 80
In this very special chat, Vijay Boyapati returns for the third time to discuss where we are in the current Bitcoin cycle, his macroeconomic outlook, the history of the cypherpunk movement, Satoshi, the power to control the transmission of value, Facebook's Libre, and Bitcoin's Nuclear Option. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 conference. LEDN.IO is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. If you want to ...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of LEDN.IO. LEDN provides financial products with a mission to help clients across the globe unlock the power of digital assets to build wealth for the long term. Operating in over 100 countries, LEDN offers interest-bearing savings accounts and Bitcoin-backed loans, enabling clients to access dollars or additional Bitcoin without needing to sell any of their existing holdings. Mauricio grew up in Venezuela where he and his fami...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Morgen Rochard is a Certified Financial Advisor, Certified Financial Planner, Registered Life Planner, podcaster, founder of Origin Wealth Advisors and the author of Personal Finance, The Simplified Beginners Guide to Eliminating Financial Stress, Building Wealth, and Achieving Financial Freedom. At Origin, Morgen focuses on driving personal connections and getting to the root of the financial success of her clients. This is a natural extension of her mission to help others live their most fulfi...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 77
You will not want to miss this epic rip with the Bitcoin Radical. In this wide-ranging and free-flowing conversation with gnarley libertarian, independent thinker & truth seeker Surfer Jim, the Bitcoin Radical, we cover his life-long passion of surfing, the parasites that write rules on paper, Chamath, shitcoins, regulatory capture, toxic maximalism, Bitcoin's immaculate conception, integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, the desire to do good, the seven habits of highly effective people and wh...
Sep 21, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Ben Kaufman is a young, shadowy, super-coder, unlicensed software engineer, coding at Specter Wallet and Chief Conspiracy Theorist at Clown World Today News. In this very special episode, Ben calls in from an undisclosed location to discuss leaving Israel, building the open-source Bitcoin project Specter Wallet, utilizing the Bitcoin Network as an underground railroad system for the 21st century and deplatforming. This episode was brought to you by LEDN, Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin 2022 con...
Sep 13, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 75
"The only way to learn is to begin by admitting to yourself: 'I don't know'. This is also the only way to be free." - Tomer Strolight Tomer Strolight is a long time bitcoiner who has recently started writing prolifically about the insights he has gained over the years. Tomer is the host of For The Love Of Bitcoin podcast and a popular writer within the Bitcoin space. Tomer Strolight strives for and believes in sovereignty, truth and integrity. In this very special chat, Tomer reads from and we d...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 74
"What happens when the oil & gas lobby become pro bitcoin? Do we even need a #btc lobby at that point!?! The Oil & Gas industry is really powerful and really wealthy!" - Adam O Adam O AKA Denver Bitcoin is the business development officer for the US market for Upstream Data, a company that pairs modular bitcoin mining datacenters to natural gas engines, to convert waste energy (natural gas), into the best form of money the world has ever known - bitcoin. Adam is a pioneer in this emergin...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 73
In this chat with heavyweight boxing contender Adam Kownacki we talk about his time growing up in the Polish neighborhood of Greenepoint, Brooklyn, how he got into boxing, experiencing his first loss, his upcoming rematch with Robert Helenius in Las Vegas this October and proving yourself. This episode is brought to you by LEDN. LEDN is a secure, simple and easy to use platform for managing and growing your digital wealth. LEDN is the first digital asset lender with transparency and security of ...
Aug 23, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher, CFA charterholder, and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Securities where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. Previously, Nik worked the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensinve trading experience in money markets and interest rate futures. After starting his teaching career, Nik felt the urge to bring his research on ...
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Hass McCook AKA Friar Hass is a Retired Chartered Professional Civil Engineer, researching & writing on Bitcoin's environmental, economic & spiritual impact since 2014. Recently he has written several articles about Bitcoin’s positive environmental impact including Projecting Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use, Bitcoin Emits Less Than 2% of the Worlds Military-Industrial Complex Carbon Emissions, Bitcoin Emits Less Than 5% of the Legacy Financial Sector’s Carbon Emissions & A Comparison of ...
Aug 08, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Freelance artist Jessica Vaugn is a writer, photographer and model who is best known for her work with the legendary brand Playboy. Jessica started tumbling down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole in 2020. She says that it completely changed her life and the way she views the world. As a freelancer, she’s always been keen on making independent choices. But it wasn’t until the pandemic lockdowns, that she realized government-run economic systems limited her personal freedoms. Aleks Svetski is the host of th...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 69
In this wide-ranging & engaging conversation with Adam Meister AKA The Bitcoin Meister AKA The Disrupt Meister AKA The Strong Handed Unique Beast joins me to discuss: - The worship of complexity - Personal responsibility as the new counter-culture - The cowboy spirit of America - Will Elon Musk fork Btc? - El Salvador, Fedcoins, Roger Ver, Mike Hearn, the block-size wars, Tone Vayes, Giacomo Zuco attacking Trace Meyer in Las Vegas, Nic Carter, Richard Heart, Erik Vorhees, American Hodl, Bide...
Jul 20, 2021•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 68
"Most people don’t understand the cost of being free or the cost of having masters." Lamar Wilson AKA Big Marh is a long time bitcoiner, software developer & Co-founder of the Black Bitcoin Billionaires group on Clubhouse where he holds court almost every single day. In this wide-ranging conversation Lamar joins me to discuss love, freedom, humor, motivation, community building, debt slavery, the Federal Reserve, Elon Musk, entrepreneurism, spending two btc on a transmission, his rabbit hole...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 67
"I'm not leaving the world for my children the way the boomers left the world for us." In this wide ranging conversation with Clancy Rodgers from Citadel 21 U.S. who is also a Hodling Artist, Tolling Queen, Big Titty Toxic Bitch & the author of What Happens When Walmart Buys $1 Billion Of Bitcoin? recently published in Bitcoin Magazine, Clancy zooms in to talk about how her family's photos were hacked, the death of her ego, shitposting on Facebook & Twitter, the 2020 election, Obama, Mel...
Jul 10, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Pierre Rochard has been involved with Bitcoin as a researcher, investor, and software developer since February 2013. He co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute to curate the best primary source literature on Bitcoin and cryptography. In addition to developing Bitcoin software, Pierre is an outspoken advocate for Bitcoin's decentralized governance. In 2017 he began co-hosting the Noded Bitcoin Podcast . Pierre is widely recognized as an authority on the investment case for Bitcoin. We discuss: ...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 65
"We’re not entering a dark age, we’ve been in one." Michael Krieger gradually recognized that his true passion centers upon writing on issues of significant societal importance given the extremely challenging times we live in. This realization culminated with his losing interest in financial markets & eventually launching his website Liberty Blitzkrieg in early 2012. In this very special conversation we discuss: - Leaving the crowded streets of Manhattan for the open spaces of Boulder - How ...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Stephen Chow is an art patron - 100% of his savings goes to supporting his favorite living artists. His goal is to support living artists from as many cultures as he can, working in a wide variety of mediums and cultural traditions. He would rather sponsor ONE new masterpiece from an artist of his choosing, at his own expense, knowing full well that it could fail, than be given ALL of the lost masterpieces in the history of art. In his free time, he transcribes Bitcoin podcasts into the written ...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 63
“Everybody is up to their eyeballs in debt, but they can’t make the price of credit any cheaper.” Dylan LeClair is the author of The Conclusion of the Long Term Debt Cycle & the Rise of Bitcoin. He writes content about on-chain analytics & the financial markets for Bitcoin Magazine. We discuss: - How bitcoin is designed to pump forever - Are we at a midcycle peak - Is it risky to borrow to buy btc - QE, UBI, El Salvador, the Triffin Dilemma, Michael Saylor, how cash is trash & more...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 62
"Bitcoin is the most important innovation to happen to money in 1,000 years." - Vijay Boyapati In this very special episode, Vijay returns to talk with Ced about his new book the Bullish Case for Bitcoin & where we are in this cycle. We discuss: - What are the common mistakes made during a bull run - How a bull market tests your conviction more than a vicious bear market - Is the current cycle different than prior cycles - El Salvador, nation state adoption, inflation & the Berlin Wall -...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 61
In this mind-blowing conversation with the author of Wikileaks: The Global Fourth Estate, History is Happening, Nozomi Hayase & I discuss: - Did we trade authenticity for acceptance - Is pyschology used to move public opinion & manufacture consent - The stadium of democracy - The post-human future, superhumans & is humanity forking off - How Bitcoin affects our connection to reality, natural law & instinct - Snowden, Assange, MLK Jr, God, religion, Jesus, liberation psychology &a...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 60
In this conversation, I speak with Javier Bastaro, a journalist for Cointelegraph, based in Caracas, Venezueala about hyperinflation, dollarization, the diaspora and the political, economic and human crises in Venezuela. Will Venezuela turn into the new Cuba? How bad did things get in 2016? How deep is the current crisis that Venezueala is facing? "Bitcoin makes you understand how deeply and important money is to the realization of the individual and to the realization of the citizen."...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 59
NVK is the Co-Founder & CEO of Coinkite, the company behind uber-popular Bitcoin hardware products like the Coldcard, OpenDime, BlockClock & several other dope ass pieces of hardware that allow users to engage in Bitcoin safely & conveniently. We discuss: - The origins of Coinkite, Coldcard Wallet, Opendime & the BlockClock Mini - How Bitcoin products are pinatas for security - What sets the Coldcard Wallet apart - Common errors, misconceptions & advice around Bitcoin securit...
May 31, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 58
