“I’m envisioning the entire Bitcoin future, where Bitcoin goes all the way…the ultimate measuring stick for banks, people, governments, individuals; it’s the unit account of the aggregate balance sheet of the world.”
— Nik BhatiaNik Bhatia is the founder of ‘The Bitcoin Layer’ & author of ‘Layered Money’. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin as an optimal base layer for the financial system, how the largest economic actors may be allocating to Bitcoin, and where the price could go.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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With What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin, economics and politics. From developers to investors, journalists to authors, you will learn about everything in the world of Bitcoin.

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“When people try to bring their own views to Bitcoin and say that Bitcoin is an expression of those views, I would just say Bitcoin is an expression of lots of different views, and there’s no one thing that Bitcoin is.”
— Bradley RettlerAndrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke are all professors of Philosophy, Allen Farrington is an investor and author of Bitcoin is Venice. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin in academia, the Resistance Money thesis and the philosophy of money and Bitcoin.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Consensus - May 29-31, 2024

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Bitcoin is Resistance Money with Andrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler, Craig Warmke, & Allen Farrington

“It’s not a one decade adoption story, it’s a multi-decade, massive trend change in how money works.”
— Lyn AldenLyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Natalie Brunell is the host of the Coin Stories Podcast, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, Thomas Pacchia is co-owner of Pubkey, and Christopher Gordon from Bridge2Bitcoin. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin wins, and the CheatCode for business.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Consensus - May 29-31, 2024

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How Bitcoin Wins with Lyn Alden, Natalie Brunell, Alex Thorn, Thomas Pacchia, & Christopher Gordon

“If we stick with the financial system as it is, it leads inexorably towards total control of your life…the state having total control over what people spend, how they can spend it, how much they can spend, and what you can buy.”
— Alex GladsteinAlex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Natalie Smolenski founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin is a cheat code for human rights, privacy, sovereignty and the reciprocal loss of trust.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Bitcoin & Human Rights with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski

“Bitcoin is how life should always have been, the cheatcode is fiat money printing…if you print money you get wealthier while other the others who use the money get poorer; but with Bitcoin nobody can print money anymore, and that means the cheatcode is finally gone, and what feels like a cheatcode right now is actually just human life.”
— Max HillebrandLyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Preston Pysh is a founder of The Investor Podcast Network, Allen Farrington is the author of Bitcoin Is Venice & Max Hillebrand is an economist & entrepreneur. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin vs fiat, inflation and why Bitcoin is the best money.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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The Economics of Bitcoin with Lyn Alden, Preston Pysh, Allen Farrington, Max Hillebrand

“Right now, Lightning is not able to support billions of users around the world…when you add the 3 technologies together: Bitcoin, Lighting, and ecash, you have a solution that can give you incredible levels of privacy and scale to billions of users.”
— Obi NwosuIn this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCode conference. This panel was titled A CheatCode for Payments, and was hosted by Natalie Brunell, with Calle (Cashu), Obi Nwosu (Fedi) & Ben Arc (LNBits). They discussed the past & present of Ecash, the power of lightning and the future of payments.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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