This week’s learnings: buy and earn bitcoin now.
_Bitcoin dipping, what’s next?
_volatility is good
_where Bitcoin is needed the most
_Sub-Saharan Africa’s trading volume up in 2021
_Bitcoin, NFTS and the arts
_US regulatory crackdown will spur decentralization
Music: Rarescrilla https://twitter.com/ScrillaVentura
Image credit: https://twitter.com/LinaSeiche
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My guest is Adam B. Levine the managing editor for podcasts at Coindesk, and host of the longest-running English language talk show about Bitcoin called “Speaking of Bitcoin” (formerly known as Let’s Talk Bitcoin). I appreciate Adam’s work a lot, I have been an avid listener of his podcast for many years. Adam is also the CEO of tokenly.com, has minted some NFTs and had Metakovan on his show, who bought Beeple’s NFT for $ 69 million – the most expensive NFT sold at an auction so far. Our topic is NFTs and how they are going to shape the art world of the future.

“The value of the key is not how it looks like, it’s what it does.” – Adam B. Levine about NFTs


Adam B. Levine’s podcasting and Bitcoin story
Why Metakovan paid $69 Mio. for Beeple’s NFT
Advantages and responsibility of being your own bank
Technology adoption
Democratization of art and gatekeepers
Technological problems to be solved
How to mint a NFT
Tezos, Mintable, Rarible, Nifty gateway
Artists revenue split and rewards
The new renaissance and the Medici patronage model
Lightning network and podcasting
Adam sent 5 bitcoin to Adam Curry
Tokenly project, crowdfunding with tokens

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With this week’s Tesla dismissing Bitcoin for its energy use and at the same time Elon Musk pumping the joke currency Doge another level of hypocrisy has been reached. We’re looking into why Elon Musk suddenly dismisses Bitcoin, how Tesla’s income relying on renewable energy credits, Elon Musk pumping Doge, and why Bitcoin doesn’t change to proof-of-stake?
With shout outs to Andreas M. Antonopoulos, John Carvalho and Gabriel Shipton on behalf of Julian Assange.
Image credit: https://twitter.com/laughingmantwit/status/1392611155135315974
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This episode was recorded on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the perfect date for a conversation with Gabriel Shipton, half-brother of Julian Assange. We are talking about the current state of Julian, who is the first publisher charged under the US espionage act and is awaiting further trials locked up in Belmarsh high security prison, the connections between WikiLeaks, journalism and Bitcoin and why and how Bitcoiners can support Julian’s case.

The current state of Julian Assange
WikiLeaks and the history of the charges
The US against Julian Assange
No extradition from the UK, but Belmarsh prison
WikiLeaks achievements
The blocking of WikiLeaks bank connections
Bitcoin and WikiLeaks
Press Freedom, quo vadis?
No free internet without WikiLeaks and Bitcoin
Call for support and donations

The prosecution of Julian Assange can be stopped, but we need your help. An easy way you can do something is by donating as much bitcoin as you can afford through our portal at the below link. Our goal is to raise 40 bitcoin to pay for the appeal and associated campaigning. Donations are totally legal/tax deductible and are made through the Germany-based not-for-profit Wau Holland Foundation.
Donate here: https://wauland.de/en/donate/moral-courage/#77
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Don’t mess with Bitcoin, the most interesting stories in Bitcoin:
_Bitcoin empowers Zimbabweans
_Buckminster Fullers’ energy and wealth vision
_Iran trying to regulate mining
_censored mining
_mining more decentralized
_Taproot activation
_Buffett and Munger yelling at Bitcoin
_DeFi on Bitcoin
_global adoption of Bitcoin
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My guest is Miss Aurra from Harare, Zimbabwe. I got to know her at the beginning of 2020, when I visited Zimbabwe to research the possibilities and the use of Bitcoin in the country. In May 2020 we started a donation campaign for the school that Miss Aurra is leading. It had to be closed down due to Covid and the school lost its building. We are discussing the difficult living situation in Zimbabwe and how Bitcoin has been helping through your donations.

Who is Miss Aurra?
Living conditions
Economical situation in Zimbabwe
Problems in getting money in and out of the country
The use of bitcoin in Zimbabwe
Bitcoin’s volatility
The effects of donations
What one donor did
Workshop about Bitcoin with teachers
Reaction of people knowing about Bitcoin
Government, Bitcoin and free speech

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The Central European Affairs podcast featured Anita Posch in an interview by Balasz Csekö about different aspects of Bitcoin, how blockchain is revolutionizing the global financial system, how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can help overcome Big Brother, and why every regulatory plan makes Bitcoin stronger.
Civitas Institute is a European knowledge center created for the purpose of promoting European democracy and European integration through analyses and debates in the widest possible societal groups, without ideological bias but with a firm belief in pluralistic democracy and freedom.
Topics:

Anita Posch’s Bitcoin story
How Bitcoin can promote democracy
Blockchain revolutionizing the global financial system
Bitcoin’s most important use case
Central Bank Digital Currency
Big Brother and privacy
Regulation makes Bitcoin stronger

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My guest is Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded it 2005. We talk about how Bitcoin helps to defend human rights and promote liberal democracy. Alex is also the Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009 and a co-author of “The Little Bitcoin Book”.
Topics:

Alex Gladstein’s Bitcoin story
Bitcoin’s importance as a human rights tool
Mainstream media causing damage
Savings instrument and unstoppable payment network
How Bitcoin has been helping
Countries where it’s needed the most
Surveillance and Bitcoin
Bitcoin a Trojan horse

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My guest is Franco Amati, founder of Bitcoin Argentina and member of laBitconf – the biggest Bitcoin conference in Latin America, the Bitcoin embassy Buenos Aires, and Bitcoin Iberoamérica foundation. We are discussing the importance of Bitcoin for the people of Argentina, who have to deal with harsh capital controls that allow them to only buy foreign currency up to 200 USD per month with 65% tax and an inflation of 50%.

Franco Amati’s Bitcoin story
50% Inflation in Argentina
How capital controls hurt the people
Use cases for Bitcoin in Argentina
Confiscation through fake rates
Message about a ban of Bitcoin
Importance of the Lightning Network

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I sat down with Shermin Voshmgir, a researcher and author of “Token Economy” to discuss the hype around NFTs and how in the future every part of the economy will be merged into crypto. Shermin is the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. On a personal sidenote: in early 2017 Shermin’s keynote about Bitcoin and open blockchains spurred my attention and deepened my interest to work in that field.

“You can’t run a decentralized network like a centralized company.” – Shermin Voshmgir

Topics:

Token definition
Potential use-cases
Identity and Web 3.0
Thoughts on regulation of DeFi
Why the real economy and financial markets will merge
Future of the token economy
Bottlenecks to mass adoption

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