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Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

Nov 29, 2020

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous, Author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard and Principles of Economics, to discuss:

- The Fiat Standard

- Principles of Economics

- The University system

- "The Science"

- Lockdown hysteria

- Unexpected externalities from lockdowns

- much more

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Nov 26, 2020

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Coldcard testnet attack

- John Newbery and Mike Schmidt launch new bitcoin development initiative

- Chainalysis raising $100M at $1B valuation

- Microstrategy exploring bitcoin "data products"

- Gold funds falling while bitcoin pumps

- Bisq v1.5.0

- Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.2.0

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Nov 24, 2020

Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss: 

- Origins of podcasting

- Podcasting 2.0

- Value for Value

- Sphinx chat

- Streaming payments

- Automatic royalties/distributions

- Self censorship and advertising

- Open publishing and distributed money make sense together

- Distrust in media

- much more 

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Nov 19, 2020

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- taproot activation hits 55% miner support taprootactivation.com

- Second richest Mexican is now a bitcoiner 

- Senator Lummis on fire

- the mooch considering a bitcoin play 

- Citi likes bitcoin now 

- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.9 

- Electrum v4.0.5 

- ThunderHub v0.10.3 

- Tails v4.13 

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Nov 17, 2020

Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, to discuss:

- Graham's Bitcoin journey

- Starting Voltage

- The Lightning Network + node operators

- Necessary infrastructure

- Encrypting data in the cloud 

- Security tradeoffs

- Cloud Computing landscape

- Centralization risks

- much more

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