THE Bitcoin Podcast

"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement, bitcoin is an expressive association.

Bitcoin is free speech protected by the First Amendment and therefore regulating bitcoin has clear constitutional implications."

On this Bitcoin Out Loud episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads "Bitcoin’s Protection under the First Amendment" by Ross Stevens.

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"What is lacking in order to make the developing countries as prosperous as the United States is only one thing. Capital. And, of course, the freedom to employ it under the discipline of the market and not the discipline of the government."

In this Austrian Audible episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads Lecture 5: FOREIGN INVESTMENT, from Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow by Ludwig von Mises, AKA Mises' Six Lessons

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"We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money. Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down. Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act."

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, by Eric Hughes. Read out loud by Walker. Read it for yourself: https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

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“The only barrier that you would not join Nostr right now is because the other platforms have more users and they can use that as leverage today. But that's not going to be the case in many years… those who are starting to get their followers already on Nostr are taking a significant advantage over everybody else because they're to grow faster. And we all know how network effects happen. It just so happens that on Nostr, the network effects themselves are owned by the creator.”

On this Nostr Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Vitor Pamplona, the creator of the all-in-one Nostr client for Android, Amethyst.

SHOW NOTES

Follow VITOR on Nostr: https://nosta.me/npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

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https://www.amethyst.social/

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“What if Bitcoin were to monetize to reach some parity with gold in the next five, 10, 15 years… How should the United States make decisions now to maximize its advantage relative to its adversaries if that scenario were to pass?”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Matthew Pines. We explore the potential future of Bitcoin, particularly its possible parity with gold, and discusses the strategic decisions the United States should consider to maximize its economic advantage in a world where Bitcoin gains prominence. We also discuss whether World War 3 is going to happen, what it would look like, national security, UAPs, and more.

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Follow Matt on X: https://x.com/matthew_pines

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"When you look at the historical track record of fiat currencies, if you run out the clock long enough, they all go to zero. And that may be what's happening here. Bitcoin is demonetizing arbitrary process. And that's its promise to me."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Bill Miller IV, Chief Investment Officer of Miller Value Partners. The conversation explores the nature of Bitcoin as a superior accountability system compared to fiat currencies, value investing and Bitcoin, the importance of property rights, and stability in economic systems.

Follow Bill on X: https://x.com/billfour

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With Peter McCormack closing down What Bitcoin Did, you may be feeling lost, unsure of what Bitcoin podcast to fill the gaping void left by Peter’s absence… Look no further than THE Bitcoin Podcast, a show for newcomers and seasoned psychopaths alike.

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Hi, I’m Walker, the host of THE Bitcoin Podcast, AKA @titcoinpodcast.

I’m a family man, I’m a Bitcoiner, and, like most of you, I still have a job mining fiat so I can stack sats. You probably know my brilliant, stunning, and hilarious wife, Carla Bitcoin. We got our start in the Bitcoin space making short-form comedy, satire, and music videos. But since we had our incredible son, Apollo, Carla has taken a step back from content creation–and she was the real talent anyway–so I did what every Bitcoiner eventually does; I started a podcast.

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"When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in digital age, that's a profound statement, because you do look at states in which people do not have privacy, they can't have freedom in the digital age."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with UNCLE ROCKSTAR.

We discuss the political landscape, the importance of privacy in the digital age, and the role of developers in creating freedom tech, the impact of social media algorithms on discourse, the potential of Nostr as a privacy-preserving protocol for open source development, and the necessity of building parallel systems to foster individual sovereignty.

ROCKSTAR'S LINKS:

Nostr: https://primal.net/rockstar

X: https://x.com/r0ckstardev

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"One in seven Americans hold [Bitcoin]. They're in every district. They're in every congressional district. They are in every party. They are part of every political ideology. We're everywhere. We are everywhere and we are many in number."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Troy Cross. Troy is a Professor of Philosophy at Reed College and a FUD-busting Bitcoiner. He recently published a report on Bitcoin Adoption in the United States: https://www.thenakamotoproject.org

TROY'S LINKS:

X: https://x.com/thetrocro

Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l

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“If Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and the big banks decided to gang up on Proton, they can still do the same thing to us today, right? So from that moment to today, I think I've always been the advocate of how can we get this powerful concept [Bitcoin] that enabled Proton to survive 10 years ago and make it more widespread and make it more common? Because I think the future of business, democracy, freedom, it really depends on this.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Andy Yen, the CEO and Founder of Proton. Not only does Proton offer encrypted email, VPN, file storage, and a password manager, but they recently announced they’re launching Proton Wallet, a self-custodial Bitcoin-only wallet, which is currently in beta but will soon be available to their 100 million users worldwide.

ANDY'S LINKS:

X: https://x.com/andyyen

Proton Wallet: https://proton.me/wallet

Proton: https://proton.me/

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