Citizen Bitcoin

Robert and Brady discuss the synthesis of Robert's bitcoin studies, based on the works of others, most importantly The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. This discussion seeks to evaluate bitcoin and money from first principles.

Michael Goldstein is president of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute and a long time bitcoiner who has done much to help educate about bitcoin. In this discussion we get into the art of internet trolling, bitcoin memetics, Austrian economics and the nature of money, the current global macroeconomic situation and how it relates to bitcoin, the future of bitcoin, and we dive into another rabbit hole that he’s known for: carnivory. It was great to get to talk with Michael and hope our discussion helps you all on your bitcoin journey.

Rui Gomes, Lead Software Engineer at OpenNode, joins me for a wide-ranging discussion about bitcoin, lightning, how he became a computer nerd, building one of the first Lapps, and his experience helping build OpenNode from early days.

Nick Neuman joined me to talk about his work as Head of Product at Casa, I think, the best product team in bitcoin. We discuss the new Sats App, running a Casa full node, Casa’s Keymaster seedless multisig services and then get into the future of bitcoin.

Coinicarus, host of the Fun With Crypto podcast, joins me and Tommy to discuss August 2019 in bitcoin. We talk Lightning Network, Casa, Nodl, Raspi 4, the Sats App, Coldcard MK3, Justin Moon's multisig proof of concept, the Little Bitcoin Book, and, finally Craig Wright is officially recognized as a fraud.

Obiwan Kenobit has been into bitcoin for many years now and over the past year or so has been producing some great contributions to the growing library of bitcoin education content - particularly his widely read Medium post titled "Hyperbitcoinization: Winner Takes All" - and a series of great threads on Twitter. I’ve included links to the article and many of his threads in the show notes and be sure to follow him @obiwankenobit on bitcoin twitter. Excited to host Obiwan for his first bitcoin podcast, hope you all enjoy it.

Murad is a well known bitcoiner who really burst onto the scene last year with a couple great medium posts and twitter threads and, of course, some fire podcast episodes. But Murad hasn’t recorded a podcast for a while and I was grateful to be able to talk with him today. He recently cofounded Adaptive Capital, a crypto hedge fund and in this episode we talk a bit about how it’s going at Adaptive Capital, about the near to medium term prospects for the bitcoin price, Murad explains some of the onchain analytics he uses and explains how and why he uses technical analysis in combination with the onchain analysis. We then get into the nature of money and the possible socio-cultural outcomes of bitcoin.

Ben Prentice is a bitcoiner who, like myself, finally dived down the bitcoin rabbit hole in 2017. Ben has been focused on the economic lessons bitcoin has to teach us. He’s consumed a lot of the Austrian economics source literature and has started distilling that down into some fire threads on Bitcoin Twitter. I was excited to get a chance to sit down and chat bitcoin with him today. Just a couple bitcoiners talking bitcoin, one of my favorite things to do.

Steve Barbour is the owner of Upstream Data in Canada, a company offering modular and portable bitcoin mining hardware to the oil and gas industry. Steve and I discuss his background and the process of building Upstream Data and designing the line of Ohmm mining products that allow oil and gas producers to capture the value of wasted energy as bitcoin. We also discuss the broader mining industry and what bitcoin has taught Steve.

We’re joined by David Bennett of the “Bitcoin And…” podcast - a fave of mine - we dissect how the Libra hearings relate to bitcoin, talk about product announcements from Lolli, Lightning Labs and Saifedean Ammnous, preview a couple important bitcoin anniversaries coming up in August.