What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

Why Bitcoin is the Austrian School of Economics in ACTION!

How Entrepreneurship helps others create, retain and utilize their freedoms

How money is formed in prison

Why community coins, like Steem, are so significant

My guest today is Charlie Shrem, Bitcoin pioneer, founder of BitInstant, Founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and serial entrepreneur. Ever since I met Charlie at the 1st Latin American Bitcoin Conference (in 2013), I was super impressed with how he saw the world. He’s a young guy, still in his mid-20’s, and his mind is constantly looking for ways to build and create value for others. The true mindset of an entrepreneur and I noticed it right away.

In high school, Charlie found that he was proficient with computers and created a business around solving computer and printer problems. In college he saw the success of Groupon and created a similar business where he would sell excess inventory from local warehouses. In his senior year of college, while studying Economics, Charlie found Bitcoin…and it changed his life.

As a self-proclaimed student of the Austrian School of Economics (www.mises.org), which of course he didn’t learn about from his college professors, Charlie saw Bitcoin as the Austrian School in ACTION! Common criticism is laid on the Austrian School in the form of “sure, this sounds great in THEORY, but where has it been put into practice?” Bitcoin was finally the opportunity and real-life example that Charlie had been waiting for.

The BItcoin Problem: In 2011, there weren’t many good places to buy/sell Bitcoin. A company called TradeHill was one of the prominent exchanges, but they were slow and prone to wire issues. Losing bank accounts and wire routes were very common for early Bitcoin companies, especially exchanges.

The BitInstant Solution: Seeing this problem, Charlie decided to build a company, BitInstant, to help alleviate the wait times to buy Bitcoin. He could fund his corporate account at Tradehill, and introduce new access points for clients to place orders. Instead of taking weeks to purchase Bitcoin, it now took only a few hours. Rather than wiring to Tradehill directly, you could fund your BitInstant account from ~1M locations in the US including Walmart, 7-11, CVS and Walgreens. Talk about convenience!

Robert P. Murphy, an Associated Scholar with the Mises Institute and author of many books, discusses the Fed-induced booms and busts in the economy and stock market; the bigger-than-ever housing bubble; and where libertarians agree and disagree with Donald Trump’s economic proposals.

Trump has been making waves the last few days with his appointment announcements. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly of the current appointments. Thank you for joining me on the twenty-fifth episode of The LAVA Spurt, The Trump Appointments Edition.

Just after Thanksgiving, Fidel Castro died at 90 years old. Fidel first came to power in Cuba in 1959 and ruled there for over 50 years! People on the left love to praise Cuba and they loved the heck out of Fidel! But what is really the truth? Did Fidel really improve the lives of the Cuban people or did he make life much worse? What is life like today for the Cuban people? Cuba really is a good example that communism doesn’t work and socialism/communism is anything but compassionate! Capitalism and the Free Market are the best ways to help the poor and with examples like Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea, it’s amazing people like Bernie Sanders still get the support they do get.

What causes social change?

Is it the “right politicians getting elected? Investment in non-profits? Or entrepreneurs creating experiences that change beliefs?

Isaac was recently interviewed on The Social Change Podcast about his theory of social change. He covers his intellectual evolution about how social change happens, from politics, to non-profit, to founding Praxis.

Learn why politics is not the way to create a better world and how Praxis contributes to Isaac’s mission of making people free.

Topics Covered:

Why politicians aren’t ideological

Public choice theory

The beliefs of the masses are changed through experiences

Uber as an example of social change

Actions are more important than opinions

How Praxis helps create a freer world

RJD has Justin join him as he discusses his favorite and most disappointing tv shows of 2016.

This is episode 152 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!

Today we have two marvelous guests with us, Michael W. Dean and Derrick Slopey. Both gents are behind numerous Bitcoin- and liberty-friendly projects, so today’s show is chalk full of things they’re working on.

We’ll kick off the show with a discussion about BipCoin and Dot-Bip. The former is an extra anonymous cryptocurrency based on the CryptoNote technology. The latter is a Namecoin-like DNS system that will resist censorship with ease.

Also on the list for today: FeenPhone, the BipCot No-Government License, cats, and tons more.

Tune in for a wild ride with two masterminds! Your hosts are Daniel Brown and Tim Baker. Enjoy!

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Tim and Brian spend some time going over the jobs report from Friday and debunk a few misleading numbers. They also chat more about the call to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. Before cutting the podcast short, the duo discusses some of their picks for NFL Sunday.

Tatiana and Josh interview Dr. Benjamin Lozano of True North Business Exchange & Mike of BitStashers.com & Jeremy Epstein.

Dr. Benjamin Lozano is Co-Founder & CEO of True North Business Exchange, the world’s first smart contract-executed public platform for buying and selling US small business financial securities. Benjamin has been Professor in Finance and Political Economy at SF State University, was former CPO at RHS, and financial engineer at RHC hedge fund. As Curriculum Coordinator for the Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism, Benjamin built an interdisciplinary finance program at UC Santa Cruz. He’s authored a manual on the ontology of structured finance, titled Of Synthetic Finance (Routledge, Frontiers of Political Economy, 2014).

-Mike is a trained Industrial Designer with big passions for Bitcoin as well as the Maker movement. He decided to mix his two passions and create BitStashers, which is a website to purchase cold storage wallet solutions for cryptocurrencies. They offer custom designs and love to work with groups and organizations to help spread awareness anyway they can. Coming up in April, BitStashers will be sponsoring CoinFestUK2017 and they will also have some fun things planned. Mike is a born and bred designer with a passion for bitcoin that hopes to bring the digital side of Bitcoin into the tangible side of the real world!

- Jeremy Epstein, CEO of Never Stop Marketing, has 20 years of international marketing experience in helping to bring innovative technologies into the mainstream. Most recently, Jeremy was VP, Marketing at Sprinklr which grew from a $20mm valuation and 30 people to $1.3 bn valuation and 900 people in 3 years. Previous work experience at Microsoft and consultant to start-ups, mid-market firms, and enterprises, including JNJ. He is the author of numerous whitepapers and a book, has presented to hundreds of audiences in 15 countries, and led 50+ person marketing organizations. Jeremy currently works with some of the leading and most innovative companies in the blockchain/decentralization space including OB1 and OpenBazaar. Jeremy takes great joy in being an early adopter of new technologies, celebrating the victories (like buying Bitcoin at $80) and the defeats (too many to list) equally. He discovered his calling for marketing while living in Tokyo in 1997 after reading Peppers and Rodgers "The 1:1 Future" and hasn't looked back since. Jeremy was a history major at Johns Hopkins, a skill which he wholeheartedly believes prepared him for the marketing profession.

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In protest of what you might ask? The fact that Hillary lost the election. Now, I LOVE the idea of every banning together not to pay taxes. If just a few million people decided not to pay the government would be helpless to come after them. But the outrage over the alleged injustice is down right comical.

What about the poor? What about the sick? What about the old (and the young for that matter.) What about all the special interest groups liberals drag out every time you talk about cutting a few billion dollars out of the budget?

What’s most concerning is just how badly people understand the Constitution and the government it establishes. I’ll give you all the details on today’s show.