![Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_543 - There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever [Smithsonian Magazine]
"For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even ...
16 Jul 202138min
![Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_542 - Sidechains for Scaling, Thunder Network [Paul Sztorc]
"Bitcoin (BTC, the currency) in its current form can scale – enough to process every txn in the world! It just needs the right combination of layer2s." - Paul Sztorc What would it look like if we coul...
13 Jul 20211h 19min
![Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_541 - A Treatise on Altcoins [Andrew Poelstra]
"Of course, “developing your own cryptosystem” is the purview of only cranks and researchers, so it was reasonably assumed that none of these “altcoins”, as they were called, could ever be plausibly p...
7 Jul 20211h 33min
![Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_540 - Bitcoin & the American Idea [Alex Gladstein]
"Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and that our true march is “of the mind” and not the swor...
5 Jul 20211h 9min

Chat #61 - Libertarians & Bitcoiners Sitting in a Tree...
We had an awesome discussion on Twitter spaces, getting some major Bitcoiners and Libertarians together to talk about the tools available to us in the endless fight for liberty, & why Bitcoin should b...
2 Jul 20212h 50min
![Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_539 - The Theological Conquest of Money [Erik Cason]
"Bitcoin over the last ten years has create a single global movement that is loyal to no nation-state, no government, no military anywhere on the planet; but towards an ethics of a commonality of weal...
1 Jul 202153min

Guy's Take #48 - But Hoarding Money Destroys the Economy!...
We've all heard the criticism, sound money can't work because people will simply "hoard it." Obviously, per the Keynesians' demands, it is critical that we incentivize consumption and investment or th...
29 Jun 202159min
![Read_537 - Bitcoin is An Idea [DerGigi]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_537 - Bitcoin is An Idea [DerGigi]
"As Victor Hugo reminds us: nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Bitcoin is here to stay; and Bitcoin’s time is now." - DerGigi Another chapter in Gigi's upcoming book 21 Ways, today...
27 Jun 20211h 3min



















