The Bitcoin Podcast

Dee and Corey go straight into the Interview with Cedric Dahl, an OG of the Bitcoin space, to talk about Bitcoin's dominant (and growing) use on the darknet markets. Cedric runs a think tank called 'The 1000x Group', which monitors crypto adoption to look for early signals of long term value creation. The group studies history's most successful tech investors and applies their learnings to crypto.

For the final episode of our User Research in Web 3 series. Aqeel is joined by Hester Bruikman the self-proclaimed "Product people translator" at Status. We examine how boots on the ground field research methodologies provide the necessary context required to develop products for Crypto and Web3 technologies. Learn about how in-person local research provides opportunities for serendipitous connections and allows you to follow the trail of information to get to the core of the problem space.

Dee and Corey speak upon predictions they have had on the show about the cryptocurrency space and how many of these predictions have come true. One of these predictions is mining and we now have nuclear power plants mining cryptocurrency.

Dee also ponders - Are we in The End Game of Bitcoin becoming the standard for the financial framework of the world?

For part 3 of the 4 part User Research series Reem and Aqeel had the great pleasure of speaking with Georgia Rakusen about the skills and expertise required to create a high impact User Research strategy. We dive deep into the role of cognitive biases at the intersection of psychology and technology. Examining the process behind leveraging Quantitative and Qualitative methodologies to make informed product and business decisions. It is important to ensure that the data and method of collection is not impaired by an ignorance of cognitive biases to provide meaningful value to end customers.

Lucian and Evan Van Ness start off by justifying their caffeine addiction and shilling Yerba Mate. Evan and Josh Stark wrote a detailed update on developments that spanned the Ethereum ecosystem, we pick out some datapoint highlights for our listeners. For example they demonstrated, with data, how multiple individual DApps on Ethereum have produced more in fees than every other base chain outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Dee and Corey get in-depth with Bitcoin Historian Richard Mcdaniel, aka NghtRppr, aka LordofWar, aka OGoftheOGs #369 on BitcoinTalk forum on his early experience with Bitcoin. Richard shares what believes the future holds for Bitcoin and how the legality of Bitcoin will shake out.

Althea is a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth. This allows people to set up decentralized ISPs in their communities. In an Althea network, instead of one ISP at the top collecting monthly payments, many different people can earn money by expanding and strengthening the network.

For the second part in our 4 part User Research series Aqeel and Reem speak with Omna to learn more about how the design teams in Web3 eco-system approach Quantitative and Qualitative research methodologies to better understand the end users and what the actual value proposition is for their service offering. Learn about the challenges and solutions when it comes to user recruitment, privacy, open source products, and synthesizing insights.

Evan put out a new Year in Ethereum, which is a comprehensive update on how much can get done in this space in just 365 days. Gavin Andresen layout the next logical step for tornado cash, wallet integration. Coffee futures tokenized. Plasma group + VC $$ = Optimism. Starkware provides data showing that cutting gas costs (and increasing block sizes) wouldn't increase uncle rate and proposes a 4x increase. LivePeer introduces Streamflow, with probabilistic micropayments.

Corey and Dee talk about what is mass-adoption for Bitcoin? How we as community view what mass-adoption looks like throughout the years of Bitcoin existences. Does Bitcoin need governments to intervene to obtain adoption, or can we as a community grow with the Auntie measure?