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  • The Bitcoin Game 14 - Cryptocurrency Regulation Talk - Texas Bitcoin Conference

    Welcome to episode 14 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    I recently attended the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and had an amazing time. I got to meet fellow LTB podcasters John Barrett and John Bush, people I listened to well before I started this podcast. I also got to meet some Bitcoin heroes of mine, as well as listeners to this show.

    To kick off my content from the conference, I bring you this informative but somewhat scary talk about Cryptocurrency Regulation, delivered by the very knowledgeable Carol Van Cleef. The presentation is followed by a panel discussion, and ends with questions from the audience.

    Cryptocurrency Regulation Panel

    Carol Van Cleef, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

    Joel Aud, Texas Department of Public Safety, Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Division

    Timothy L. Evans, Sr. Council, Enforcement, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

    Helena Margarido, Partner at HMO Advogados and Cofounder of the Brazilian Bitcoin Foundation

    Perianne Boring, Chamber of Digital Commerce

    Paul Snow, CEO, Factom and the Texas Bitcoin Conference

    I hope you'll tune in for upcoming episodes of The Bitcoin Game that will include details on what it was like for me to attend my first major Bitcoin conference, and you'll also get to hear my interviews with Bitcoiners including Erik Vorhees, Bruce Fenton, Shawn Wilkinson, John Bush, and many many more.

    So let's go back to Sunday morning, March 29, 2015, at the Texas Bitcoin Conference at the Moody Theater in Downtown Austin...

    MAGIC WORD

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 8:00pm Pacific Time on April 14, 2015.

    SHOW LINKS

    Texas Bitcoin Conference texasbitcoinconference.com

    BSA - Bank Secrecy Act www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/bsa

    OFAC - Office of Foreign Assets Control www.treasury.gov/resource-center/…ges/default.aspx

    AML - Anti-Money Laundering www.finra.org/industry/issues/an…i-money-laundering en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering www.fincen.gov/news_room/aml_history.html

    KYC - Know Your Customer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer www.irs.gov/Businesses/Internat…-Approved-KYC-Rules

    UDAP- Unfair & Deceptive Acts & Practices www.nclc.org/issues/unfair-a-de…s-a-practices.html

    MSB - Money Services Business www.fincen.gov/financial_institu…s/msb/amimsb.html

    18 U.S.C. 1345 - Injunctions Against Fraud www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCOD…artI-chap63-sec1345

    Stealth Of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307279987

    ProTip project from Chris Ellis protip.is

    SPONSOR

    The State Of Digital Money (The first real Los Angeles Bitcoin Conference!) www.cureativ.com/sodm/#digitalmoney stateofdigitalmoney.eventbrite.com/?discou…oingame Get 20% off with Discount Code: bitcoingame UPDATE: I'll be MCing this event!

    MUSIC

    All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Mark Denham. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    STAY IN TOUCH

    Twitter.com/TheBTCGame TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    Bitcoin Tips Accepted: 151h7LvbbJpFrX6Z2Muurd6c28yqMJUQWi

    1 hr 19 min
  • The Bitcoin Game 13 - Rivetz And Trusted Computing With Steven Sprague

    Welcome to episode 13 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    For today's episode I spoke with Steven Sprague, an expert in an under-utilized technology called the Trusted Execution Environment that exists in chips inside many of our devices. Steven leveraged his extensive knowledge in this field to launch Rivetz, a company dedicated to bringing personal security to Bitcoin transactions, and more. The capabilities of this technology give me hope that there will soon be a migration past the current broken security paradigm. And perhaps Bitcoin's need for ultimate security will be a catalyst to expand the use of this technology.

    MAGIC WORD Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 9:00am Pacific Time on April 2, 2015.

    SHOW LINKS Rivetz rivetz.com

    Wave Systems www.wave.com

    Trusted Execution Environment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_exe…tion_environment

    Trustonic www.trustonic.com

    Twilio www.twilio.com

    Omni Foundation www.omni.foundation

    Apple's Secure Enclave (and other info) www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

    Mobile World Congress www.mobileworldcongress.com

    Steven Sprague on Kaiser Report (Steven is on 15 minutes in) rt.com/shows/keiser-report/2…isode-732-max-keiser/

    Texas Bitcoin Conference texasbitcoinconference.com/conferences/austin2015

    SPONSOR Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain bkeychain.com

    MUSIC All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Mark Denham. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    STAY IN TOUCH Twitter.com/TheBTCGame TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

    30 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #12 - Hacking And Security - Jaime Cochran

    Welcome to episode 12 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    My interview today is with Jaime Cochran, who's been very involved the hacking community, having been a hacker since her youth. Currently, Jaime works at Bitcoin company Gem as a security engineer. We talk about her background, and get her take on personal information security.

    Magic Word

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners are now given a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 7:49am (7:49 Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on March 22.

    Show Links

    Gem https://gem.co

    AOL http://www.aol.com

    IRC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

    Raspberry Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org

    The Grugq https://twitter.com/thegrugq

    P.O.R.T.A.L. (Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty) https://github.com/grugq/portal

    Chronicle.su http://chronicle.su

    Jaime Cochran on Twitter https://twitter.com/asshurtACKFlags

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain I'll be giving away three of these keychains, one to a new Twitter follower, one to someone who tweets me at TheBTCGame, and one to someone comments on this page. http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    Please let me know how you like the new intro music. All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Mark Denham. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay in touch

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

    31 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #11 - Paul Puey - How Bitcoin Will Revolutionize Mobile Payments

    Welcome to episode 11 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    It's great to live in a big city such as Los Angeles because of the opportunity to network with people doing amazing things in the Bitcoin space. While Paul Puey founded Airbitz from San Diego, he still has managed to attend enough Los Angeles Bitcoin meetups that he seems like a local. In January of this year, Airbitz was selected by Plug and Play to take part in their Startup Camp Accelerator in Silicon Valley. Paul still had no problem trekking back to another Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup, this time to present a compelling view of Bitcoin's place in the future of mobile payments. Paul also talks about the Airbitz mobile wallet, an app for Android and iOS that is aimed squarely at making Bitcoin as easy to use for mobile payments as possible.

    Magic Word

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners are now given a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 7:15am (7:15 Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on March 8.

    Show Links

    Presentation Slide Show (slick, requires Adobe Flash or special app to view) https://prezi.com/nyeeozca95pw/how-bitcoin-will-revolutionize-mobile-payments-la

    Presentation Slide Show (simple Flickr gallery of slides) https://www.flickr.com/photos/btckeychain/sets/72157648781096203

    AirBitz https://airbitz.co

    Gyft https://www.gyft.com

    eGifter https://www.egifter.com

    Fold App https://foldapp.com

    Purse https://purse.io

    Plug and Play http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com

    Perhaps the first well-attended Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup http://spelunk.in/2013/06/07/los-angeles-bitcoin-meetup-2

    UPDATE: Paul referred to a presentation about Payment Channels give at the San Francisco Bitcoin Devs. The name of the presentation he referred to is "Scaling Bitcoin to Billions of Transactions Per Day" and it can be seen here: https://youtu.be/8zVzw912wPo

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Mark Denham. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay in touch

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    New podcast artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

    41 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #10 - Talking Taxes With Jake Benson

    Welcome to episode 10 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    I wanted to really have fun and celebrate this 10th episode. I never knew if I'd be able to get ten episodes out, so this is quite an achievement for me. With that in mind, I decided to focus on something the entire cryptocurrency community loves to talk about… Taxes!

    While cryptocurrency taxes may not be a favorite topic, I actually had a lot more fun than I expected, speaking to Jake Benson, CEO and founder of LibraTax. This was my opportunity to ask every tax accounting question I could think of related to cryptocurrency.

    I also spent a little time with LibraTax, and I wasn't convinced it had the features I needed. But after getting some tips from Jake on hidden capabilities and techniques, I think I'll be using LibraTax to help with my accounting this year. So if you think you might want to give LibraTax a spin, listen to the entire episode, and you'll get some specific tips towards the end.

    While Jake certainly seems like a tax expert to me, please do not use this podcast for personal tax advice. Consult with a tax professional, or do your own research to make sure you file your taxes correctly. There certainly are gray areas when it comes to tax regulation, especially with new financial technologies. So there's often an aggressive and a conservative approach that can be taken.

    I apologize that the content discussed in this episode may not be of any bearing to some listeners. I didn't bury the magic word too deep this time, so give the episode a chance, and maybe you'll find the discussion is more interesting than you expect. Or maybe not.

    I'll be attending the Texas Bitcoin Conference in March (not April), please say "hi" to me if you'll be there too.

    MAGIC WORD Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. If you haven't set up an account yet, what are you waiting for? The magic word must be submitted by noon (12:00 Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on February 19th.

    SHOW LINKS LibraTax www.libratax.com

    Digital Currency Council (DCC) www.digitalcurrencycouncil.com

    LibraTax YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHASzhAU…X1cj0nIpog/videos

    Article on Bitcoin Accounting (not referenced, has different views) findaccountingsoftware.com/expert-advi…-accounting

    Article on Bitcoin Accounting (not referenced, has different views) findaccountingsoftware.com/expert-advi…-accounting

    New Bitcoin Accounting article by Ryan "Two-Bit Idiot" Selkis www.investopedia.com/university/def…t-irs-snow-you

    BitcoinTaxes (another Bitcoin accounting site) bitcoin.tax

    SPONSOR Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain bkeychain.com

    MUSIC All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Steve Lunn. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    STAY IN TOUCH Twitter.com/TheBTCGame TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    New podcast artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

    1 hr 7 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #9 - Gray Bright Hardware Interfaces

    Welcome to The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    In December of 2014, I went to visit Gray Bright, an Australian currently living in Los Angeles. He's been a maker all his life, and he graduated with an advanced degree in Robotic and Mechatronic Engineering. Gray has notable experience in product development, but what he enjoys making most are hardware / software creations that simply make him smile. Gray is also involved at mixing entertainment and comedy with tech and science. He shares two of his Bitcoin-related creations, and we chat about other cryptocurrency subjects.

    Magic Word

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. If you haven't set up an account yet, what are you waiting for? The magic word must be submitted by 8:00am (8:00 Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on February 6th.

    Show links

    Gray Bright's site http://graybright.com

    Gray at the L.A. Bitcoin Meetup Show & Tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptT0R2vlp0

    Gray's Bitcoin Ticker Page http://graybright.com/bitcoin-ticker/index.html

    Mining Energy Talk on BitcoinTalk.org https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=897878.msg9882760#msg9882760

    Dogecar Pit Crew LA Party http://spelunk.in/2014/05/07/shibes-celebrate-dogecoin-in-los-angeles-at-the-dogecar-pit-crew-la-party

    Bitcoin Specie https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269535.0

    The Tomorrow Show (hopefully video will be here soon) http://TheTomorrowShow.io

    Gray Bright's New "Groupie Stick" http://www.groupiestick.co

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay in touch with the show

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    New podcast artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

    40 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #8 - Danno Ferrin, Bitstamp & Visualization

    Welcome to The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    Danno Ferrin's current day job is working on Java for the Oracle Corporation. But for fun, Danno uses his programming skills to create visualization software for the BItcoin blockchain. In the wake of the large Bitstamp theft, Danno has been able to analyze some of the Bitcoin movements, using his software. Danno might be one of the most knowledgeable people about the loss, other than insiders like Bitstamp employees and the actual hacker (I have not been able to secure an interview with these parties). He speculates on what happened, and we also discuss a few other topics.

    I hope you enjoy this interview with Danno Ferrin.

    January 20, 2015 Update: Danno has seen more transactions since this postcast was released, check out his blog for the most recent observations and analyses. http://blog.cryptocrumb.com/2015/01/bitstamp-theft-two-weeks-later.html

    Magic Word

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. If you haven't set up an account yet, what are you waiting for? The magic word must be submitted by 2:00pm (14:00 Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on January 22th.

    Show links

    Coinbase BitHack (Bitcoin Hackathon) http://blog.coinbase.com/post/80997000003/announcing-the-coinbase-bithack-winners

    Danno Ferrin's Bitcoin Visualizing App (due in March 2015) http://numisight.com

    About University of California-San Diego researcher Sarah Meiklejohn http://www.coindesk.com/researcher-tracks-bitcoin-movements-anonymity

    CoinDesk article about Bitstamp featuring blockchain analysis by Danno Ferrin http://www.coindesk.com/analysis-bitstamp-hacker-stolen-additional-1-75-million

    Bitstamp's Reopening Announcement https://www.bitstamp.net/article/bitstamp-is-open-for-business-better-than-ever

    Bitstamp Cold Wallet Address 1JoktQJhCzuCQkt3GnQ8Xddcq4mUgNyXEa https://blockchain.info/address/1JoktQJhCzuCQkt3GnQ8Xddcq4mUgNyXEa

    Theft Address 1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf https://blockchain.info/address/1L2JsXHPMYuAa9ugvHGLwkdstCPUDemNCf

    BitGo http://bitgoinc.com

    Peter Todd tweet about Bitstamp on servers hosted by Amazon Web Services https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/554005770493521920

    Danno Ferrin Blog http://blog.cryptocrumb.com

    Danno Ferrin Twitter (Bitcoin Account): @Numisight https://twitter.com/Numisight

    Danno Ferrin Twitter (Java/Groovy Account): @Shemnon https://twitter.com/shemnon

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay in touch with the show

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    New podcast artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

    39 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #7 - Bitcoin Hero Jochen AKA Johoe

    Welcome to episode #7 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

    The white hat hacker known as Johoe ("Yo-ho") rescued over 870 Bitcoins recently from addresses compromised by a temporary bug in Blockchain.info's web wallet. Today I'm honored to introduce Jochen ("Yo-hen"), who works as a computer science researcher at a university in Germany, and is known on BitcoinTalk.org as Johoe. Bitcoin is a hobby Jochen took up in early 2013, as he first discovered the repeated R value issue, due to a 2013 bug in Android's random number generator that affected the security of some Bitcoin wallet apps.

    Jochen has literally raced against other hackers to grab Bitcoin in compromised addresses, knowing his opponents have no intention of returning any Bitcoin they grab first.

    Aside from this being the first audio interview of Jochen aka Johoe, this is also the first time he tells the Bitcoin world that it was he who returned 17 Bitcoins to Counterparty, after their Counterwallet had a temporary bug earlier this year that also produced repeating R values.

    Jochen talks about a call he recently received from Coinbase, as well as the trade-offs of Coinbase vs. Blockchain.info wallets.

    Magic Word

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. If you haven't set up an account yet, what are you waiting for? The magic word must be submitted by 11:40pm (Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on December 24th.

    Show links

    Jochen first addresses repeating R value issue due to 2013 Android RNG bughttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251743.msg2890179#msg2890179

    Counterparty Bug first addressed by Jochen on BitcoinTalk.org https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.msg6354731#msg6354731

    Jochen discovers the recently compromised Blockchain.info addresses https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.msg9774894#msg9774894

    Blockchain.info Wallet https://blockchain.info/wallet

    Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com

    Counterparty Wallet https://counterwallet.io

    April 11, 2015 UPDATE: Johoe discovered a security issue with the Trezor, which has now been patched http://johoe.mooo.com/trezor-power-analysis

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Bitcoin tip address: 1G8HDg5EsPQpamKYS2bDya9Riv9xv1nVo5

    Stay in touch with the show

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    44 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #6 - Adam B. Levine of Let's Talk Bitcoin

    Hello, welcome to The Bitcoin Game #6. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell.

    I spoke to Adam B. Levine a few weeks ago. We talked about his original Bitcoin podcast, The Daily Bitcoin, and why it morphed into Let's Talk Bitcoin, with Andreas Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy. In this interview, I found out how insanely early Adam wakes up each day, his takes on crypto crowd-funding platforms, as well as some of his grave concerns about potential U.S. governmental actions against crypto-projects that have benefitted from crowd-funding. Adam talked a bit about Tokenly, his newest entrepreneurial venture, while also letting me know about his newest technological passion (our conversation left me wondering if Adam might ever consider leaving the Bitcoin space for a fertile technology space that isn't being threatened by any governments). And as a fairly new podcaster on Adam's network, I got to ask Adam questions about my position, and the Let's Talk Bitcoin network in general. If you're a fan of Adam B. Levine, I think this will be an interesting show for you.

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim your share of the weekly distribution of LTBcoin. The magic word must be submitted by 2pm (Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on December 12.

    Referenced Audio

    Adam's first Bitcoin podcast

    Stephanie Murphy introduces the first episode with guest Andreas Antonopoulos

    Adam explains the necessary change to The Daily Bitcoin (relaunches as Let's Talk Bitcoin)

    Show links

    Adam's first Bitcoin podcast https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-episode-1

    Stephanie Murphy introduces the first episode with guest Andreas Antonopoulos https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-feature

    Adam explains the necessary change to The Daily Bitcoin (relaunches as Let's Talk Bitcoin) https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/inside-the-bubble-the-daily

    Oculus Rift DK2 https://www.oculus.com/dk2/

    MyPowers (gives a 403 error, hmmmm…) http://mypowers.com

    Swarm http://swarm.fund

    Koinify http://koinify.com

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay in touch with the show

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    Bitcoin tip address: 1G8HDg5EsPQpamKYS2bDya9Riv9xv1nVo5

    48 min
  • The Bitcoin Game #5 - L.A. Bitcoin Meetup with Brock Pierce & Micah Winkelspecht

    Welcome to episode five of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I present an uncut "fireside chat" between Bitcoin Foundation board member and longtime digital currency entrepreneur Brock Pierce, and Gem CEO/founder Micah Winkelspecht. Their conversation is followed by an audience Q&A (apologies for the sound quality of the audience questions).

    This was a Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup event held at the beautiful new Gem headquarters in Venice Beach, California, on November 13, 2014. Andreas Antonopoulos had been scheduled to speak that evening, but his flight from the East Coast was canceled, and as hard as he tried (including piloting a Cessna to a nearby airport), he was unable to make it. Fortunately, both Brock and Micah are amazing and knowledgeable Bitcoin speakers, so I believe everyone who attended felt extremely satisfied. There were too many topics covered to list, but below are relevant links from the discussion.

    Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim your share of the weekly distribution of LTBcoin. The magic word must be submitted by 5am (Pacific Time / GMT-8:00) on November 27.

    Show links

    Brock Pierce on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/brockpierce

    Micah Winkelspecht on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/winkelspecht

    Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup Group http://LosAngelesBitcoin.org

    Gem https://gem.co

    Tether (formerly RealCoin) https://tether.to

    Stephanie Murphy talks to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne about the upcoming Medici Platform. Next listen to Patrick Byrnes' Keynote speech from October's Inside Bitcoins conference. Think you ownstock? Patrick explains the worrisome reason you do not. http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-153-medici-and-the-pretense-of-law

    Blockstream (sidechains white paper) http://www.blockstream.com

    Tatiana Coin http://www.tatianacoin.com

    Swarm http://swarm.fund

    Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com

    Sponsor

    Bitcoin Keychains (two-sided) http://bkeychain.com

    Music

    Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay in touch with the show

    https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

    Bitcoin tip address: 1G8HDg5EsPQpamKYS2bDya9Riv9xv1nVo5

    1 hr 24 min

About The Bitcoin Game

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The Bitcoin Game, hosted and produced by Rob Mitchell since 2014, is a podcast dedicated to exploring Bitcoin.