Citizen Bitcoin

Brady and JP (@jpthor__ on Twitter) get into the Binance reorg discussion, Proof of Work, Bitcoin’s path to global monetization and the resulting bitcoin-induced post-scarcity civilization. JP gives a very useful overview of the Taproot/Tapscript bitcoin improvement proposal dropped by Pieter Wuille on Monday and the earlier-released Schnoor signature proposal. And we go over his Medium articles describing his Volume-Weighted Market Cap metric.

Dan and Brady discuss the nature of money, why proof of work is efficient, bitcoin's cycles, marketing and narratives, the prospects of institutional money adopting bitcoin and why hodlers will become history's greatest investors.

In this first Basement Bulletin monthly recap episode Guy Swann of The Cryptoconomy Podcast joins Brady and Tommy to talk about the Bitfinex/Tether situation, significant Wasabi Wallet updates, the Faketoshi/BSV shitstorm, and Matt Odell's FinalMessage.io project.

Eric Meltzer, co-creator and spokesperson for the Satoshi's Treasure alternative reality game, joins Brady to talk about the hunt for $1M worth of bitcoin.

Brandon Quittem burst onto the bitcoin scene like a mushroom breaking through three inches of asphalt when he published the first part of his bitcoin-fungi analogy in December 2018. I love biology and nature in general, and have a particular interest in mushrooms and fungi - they are incredibly interesting lifeforms - and I enjoy foraging for morels in the springtime. So Brandon was toward the top of my list of bitcoiners to talk to when I started doing these interview episodes. In this one Brandon and I start of with some talk about this Faketoshi/Hodlonaut mess and a piece about Bitcoin culture wars that Brandon published a couple months ago. We talk about potential future culture wars around privacy and fungibility vs chain transparency for supply verification and about the declining subsidy and transition to a fee market to support network security. Then we dig into the mycelium and mushroom analogy and Brandon gives us a preview of the upcoming third and final part of the series.

Uncle Marty joins Brady to talk about what it's like being the most loved bitcoiner in the world, how his experience in finance shaped his early understanding of bitcoin, how bitcoin will change the financial industry, we rant about bitcoin energy FUD, talk price for a bit and finish with Marty's vision of a bitcoin world 50 years from now.

Pierre Rochard and Brady get into the history of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, the basics of how it works, onboarding new users to Lightning and how BIP 157 can help, the problem of inbound capacity and how Lightning Loop can help, Lightning Power Users and the Node Launcher and what our Bitcoin future will look like - spoiler - "Renaissance" was mentioned again.

Brady and Tommy are back in the old church basement in Lawrence, KS to talk some bitcoin. We talked about the financial practice of rehypothecation, its potential effects on bitcoin and what bitcoiners can do to thwart this threat.

Matt Odell and I went for over two hours talking governance, mining, UASF, self-sovereignty, Austrian economics, Canada, privacy, Venezuela and Bitcoin's future. We also drank some Laphroaig and got cosmic for our boy Marty Bent.

Peter McCormack’s work on What Bitcoin Did has just straight up inspired me to keep pushing forward on this podcast. I really just wanted to sit down and get to know him better. We get into Peter’s history growing up in Bedford, England, discovering the internet and creating websites and brands. We talk about building What Bitcoin Did, Peter’s podcasting process, a bit of English football and his hopes and dreams of becoming the King of Bedford, England and buying the Bedford Town Football Club. It was a ton of fun and I hope you all enjoy this chat as well.