SLP30 Bitcoin-backed loans and financial services, with Zac Prince of BlockFi

Dr Guido Hülsmann, Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute, and Economics Professor at the University of Anger, France, joins me in this very special episode. We talk about government monetary intervention compared with a free market in money. We discuss many topics: The process of government monetary intervention and deterioration in quality of money Which kind of monetary intervention is worst? Interaction of reserve requirements with capital requirements How businesses and banking differ in a free market economy versus our fiat money economy The tendency towards one most saleable good or money, even within the cryptocurrency world Comments on 'stock to flow' ratio and hard money Dr Hülsmann's economics book recommendations for listeners Dr Guido Hülsmann links: Website: http://www.guidohulsmann.com/ Guido Hülsmann's The Ethics of Money Production: https://mises.org/library/ethics-money-production Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done To Our Money?: https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money Hans-Hermann Hoppe How Is Fiat Money Possible?: https://mises.org/library/how-fiat-money-possible-or-devolution-money-and-credit Ludwig von Mises Theory of Money and Credit: https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit Huerta de Soto Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles: https://mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles Philipp Bagus In Defense of Deflation - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319134277 Stephan Livera Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2 Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss

5 Feb 201954min

Rui Gomes & João Almeida (CTO, co-founder) of OpenNode join me in this episode to discuss why they turned down Roger Ver's $1.25M, as well as the vision of OpenNode in enabling Bitcoin & Lightning payments. Topics include: Background on OpenNode Service structure and fees Rejecting Roger Ver's $1.25M offer and why Why OpenNode is Bitcoin-only Comparison of OpenNode with self-hosted BTCPayServer approach How users can set up Getting tech support Plans over the next year or so Growth markets for Bitcoin Lightning payment OpenNode Links: OpenNode invite link (affiliate link): https://app.opennode.co/join/1b454baa-b233-45c0-8f0a-13893d4ae960 OpenNode website: https://www.opennode.co/ OpenNode twitter: https://twitter.com/opennodeco Rui Gomes Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruigomeseu João Almeida Twitter: https://twitter.com/joaodealmeida94 Stephan Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/stephan-livera-podcast/id1415720320?mt=2 Subscribe on Android: https://subscribeonandroid.com/anchor.fm/s/7d083a4/podcast/rss

2 Feb 201949min

Marty Bent, host of the Tales From the Crypt podcast, and editor in chief of Marty's Bent joins me in this episode. We talk about Bitcoin content creation and curation, and also touch on the shifts in thinking from 'mainstream' economics required to understand Bitcoin. Marty Bent links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Marty's Bent Newsletter: martysbent.com Tales from the Crypt Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt TFTC21 Podcast twitter account: https://twitter.com/TFTC21 Stephan Livera links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ BTC/LN donation: https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

24 Jan 201948min

Nicolas Dorier, a Bitcoin developer, joins me in this episode to talk about the open source project he started, BTCPayServer. BTCPayServer allows you to start accepting Bitcoin payments with 0% fees & no third-party. It is built with security, privacy and censorship-resistance at its core. We cover: Why Nicolas started BTCPayServer What BitPay did to drive Nicolas to start his own open source version Cost and ease of setting up BTCPayServer Hardware node products that can be configured with BTCPayServer built in Upcoming BTCPayServer features such as fiat exchange How you can get involved Nicolas Dorier & BTCPayServer links: Nicola Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier BTCPayServer website: https://btcpayserver.org/ BTCPayServer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpG9WL6TJuoNfFVkaDMp9ug BTCPayServer Github: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver BTCPayServer Twitter: https://twitter.com/BtcpayServer BTCPayServer Slack: http://slack.btcpayserver.org/ Stephan Livera links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

20 Jan 201950min

Giacomo Zucco, well known Bitcoin advocate, Supremo of BHB Network, and bitcoin consultant/teacher joins me in this episode. We talk: His Bitcoin 'rage quit'! The recent trend of Lightning Network custodial wallets, and whether this is on net a good or bad thing Thoughts on altcoins - are some of them honest, good faith efforts? Might they be technologically interesting, but still not monetarily relevant? Bitcoin financialisation - Does Bitcoin need financialisation or does finance need Bitcoin? Attacks on Bitcoin that may come Giacomo links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco Giacomo’s ‘rage quit’ thread: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1084411808734240769 The B: https://theb.foundation/ BHB Network: https://www.blockchainlab.it/ Stephan links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ Patreon: http://patreon.com/stephanlivera Tallycoin (BTC/LN donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

15 Jan 20191h 15min

Sjors Provoost (Bitcoin Core developer) joins me to discuss a range of topics: Bitcoin Core Development and Review Working towards hardware wallet support in Bitcoin Core Sjors' article, "A Crime on Testnet" - with privacy & fungibility implications Sjors Links: Sjors Twitter: https://twitter.com/@provoost “A Crime on Testnet”: https://medium.com/provoost-on-crypto/a-crime-on-testnet-6d95ede8da03 Episode Ad/Sponsor: BUIDL Bootcamp with Justin Moon Learn to code Bitcoin: https://buidlbootcamp.com/

8 Jan 20191h 3min

Jeff Deist joins me to discuss Bitcoin and the application of Austrian economics in understanding Bitcoin. Topics: Market selection of money The potential for a hard money standard to restrict govt spending Why Austrian Economists are split on Bitcoin Why credit would be much tighter under a hard money standard The deflation and 'hoarding' argument - dispelled The educational strategy pursued by the Mises Institute Jeff's recommended Austrian economics books for Bitcoiners Jeff Deist and Mises Institute links: Jeff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffdeist Mises Institute: https://mises.org/ Mises Institute Twitter: https://twitter.com/@mises

4 Jan 201943min

Aleks Svetski (CEO, co-founder of Amber) joins me in this fiery episode to talk about the blind excesses of 'Crypto' over the last few years and more: - Crazy excesses that we saw over the last few years - STO's - Security Token Offerings - "Crypto Traders" - "Crypto Hedge Fund Managers" - Bitcoin as asymmetric bet - Dollar Cost Averaging - Amber and the service offering Aleks and Amber links:  - Amber website: https://getamber.io/ - Aleks Twitter: https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski - Article "A world full of Blind Excess": https://hackernoon.com/a-world-full-of-blind-excess-b7fb42357d43 Stephan links: - Website: http://stephanlivera.com/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StephanLivera - Tallycoin (BTC/Lightning donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

3 Jan 20191h 2min