Bitcoin Audible

"There has never been a more secure, scarce, valuable, transportable, decentralized and networked asset in all of humanity’s history. It’s more mobile than gold. It appreciates faster than property. I...

7 Sep 202141min

Proof of stake, versus proof of work. Isn’t POW super wasteful, while POS is the cost free alternative that obviously is as equally secure? Are we throwing hashes into the wind for no reason, or is th...

6 Sep 20211h 49min

"Long before we had the Bitcoin energy debate, we had the gold resource cost debate. The contours were similar: the costs associated with gold refining and extraction were a waste; they were too great...

4 Sep 202149min

“Farzan and her family traveled by foot, car and train thousands of miles through Iran and Turkey, finally making it to Germany in 2017. Along the way, dishonest middlemen and common thieves stole eve...

2 Sep 202158min

Dave Smith has finally done a Bitcoin episode! For those of you who missed this, I am making it available on my own feed and for those of you who do not know Dave Smith, he has the best podcast on lib...

30 Aug 20211h 10min

"Bitcoin fails as a money b/c of its naive monetary policy. Many people think government printing too much is evil, so a fixed money supply must be good. The reality: a money that cannot expand would ...

24 Aug 202156min

“This technology goes around blockades and government restrictions, it allows you to move value without trusting anyone, it connects you to the world, and it allows you to empower yourself and do thin...

19 Aug 20211h 27min

"By all extant metrics in security system review, this system should have failed instantaneously, at every possible layer. And, to be fair, it has failed at other layers – BitCoin thefts have occurre...

17 Aug 202134min