THE Bitcoin Podcast

"The best way to fight tyranny is through comedy… The most effective way to fight these people is actually not through brute force but to laugh these people out of relevancy."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Alex Strenger about White Dudes for Kamala, going viral at the DNC, mocking the establishment into oblivion, how to troll, the power of satire, right and left wing hypocrisy, Bitcoin, Nostr, and a whole lot more.

ALEX’S LINKS:

Fountain: http://fountain.fm/show/bOKPvkazjYp4BBLXNnis

Nostr: npub1kdm6a6lntmsh7pvq75qwvm6x5udf7vgn9c3yzds6gn4pvgd9t2vs4xfxmh

Stacker News: https://stacker.news/alexstrenger

Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AlexStrenger

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thealexstrenger?si=NrtHiwIogFB15QVo

X: https://x.com/TheAlexStrenger

IG: @showtimealexstrenger

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"If someone wants to change Bitcoin in a way that is detrimental to even a minority of the Bitcoin users, they're probably going to be unsuccessful because there's going to be vehement pushback."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with MURCH. Murch is a computer scientist, engineer at Chaincode labs, co-host of Bitdevs and the Chaincode Podcast, and moderator of the bitcoin stack exchange, answering literally thousands of questions about Bitcoin over the years. Murch and I discuss the Bitcoin development process, changing vs maintaining Bitcoin, ossification, privacy trade-offs, address reuse, and potential improvements like silent payments, quantum resistance, bitcoin tail emissions, ZK Roll-Ups, covenants, and Layer 2 scalability solutions like Lightning, ecash, fedimint, etc, plus their trade-offs. Murch also reviews the upcoming Bitcoin Core 28 release and what it means for you.

MURCH'S LINKS:

X: https://x.com/murchandamus

Nostr: npub1j5mp526z5fkz9wkrk6mt5nzu43xndyrwkr8mnqngdqwytgcpc5vqcnsd5c

https://bitdevs.org

https://podcast.chaincode.com

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"When you make it as a Bitcoiner, you deserve it because you took the risk that most other people don't take because they're too afraid."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with The Coin Dad, creator of the Bitcoin Mining Museum. We get into how the museum got started, walk through the history of bitcoin mining, talk about mining centralization risks, small-town America mining Bitcoin, mining Bitcoin at home, and a whole lot more.

The Coin Dad on X: https://x.com/TheCoinDad

Bitcoin Mining Museum on X: https://x.com/BTCMiningMuseum

Web: https://bitcoinminingmuseum.com

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“Coming out of a bear market, everyone who's been daily DCAing, everyone who's just been using Bitcoin as their savings and they save regularly, when they're all in the green, I think that that is a signal. That's a signal that the bull market's starting again.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker Wicked Smart Bitcoin Bitcoin data visualization, about HODL waves, why dollar cost averaging is the best way to save in Bitcoin, bull market signals, bitcoin mining and hashrate, bitcoin vs fiat technology, the importance of UTXO management, and a whole lot more.

Wicked's Links:

X: https://x.com/w_s_bitcoin

Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedsmartbitcoin

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"I will sell every Bitcoin I ever own, and I will invest every dollar back into the industry that helps the world the most."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Gary Cardone about why he donated 12.8 bitcoin to Donald Trump, censorship, why Bitcoin needs better marketing, decreasing the size of the government, the digital transformation, the 2024 election, and a whole lot more.

Gary on X: https://x.com/GaryCardone

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"The goal of the government should be to leverage the fiat system as it is to protect American lives and American prosperity as much as it can while hedging bets on what I think the future will be, which will be Bitcoin, because we all know that the fiat dollar won't be around forever."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Samuel Armes about lobbying against CBDCs, Bitcoin and politics, Trump vs Kamala, and a whole lot more.

Samuel on X: https://x.com/samuelarmes

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"If we take care to build good stuff in an honest, transparent way–and this is also why open source is so incredibly important–then we can build a new financial system that actually scales without compromising on the core values."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks STADICUS. Stadicus is an IT engineer and the Product Lead at BitBox. We cover a range of topics around Bitcoin self-custody, open-source software, the Dark Skippy attack, and a whole lot more.

For links to the blog posts mentioned in this talk, check out the episode shownotes: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/words/f/stadicus-bitcoin-self-custody-security

STADICUS’ LINKS:

Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1ryruj25km6k23qct2vl7p96wprl63e5uu5wc65ex3luu62mvy7hsw9yjc6

X: https://x.com/Stadicus3000

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"it's literal magic… We're doing magic with magic internet money using free and open protocols that a bunch of weirdo and cypherpunk hackers built because they cared about financial privacy. They cared about being able to do peer-to-peer stuff. It exists, and it's here."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with NiftyNei (aka Lisa). Lisa is a a developer, Bitcoin and lightning protocol expert, and educator through her Base58 Bitcoin engineering school. She also hosts developer conferences around the world called BTC++. They discuss Bitcoin education, scaling Bitcoin, the Lightning network, ecash, fedimints, covenants, the Bitcoin ecosystem vs the fiat banking system, and a whole lot more.

NIFTY'S LINKS:

Nostr: https://primal.net/niftynei

X: https://x.com/niftynei

btc++: https://btcpp.dev/

base58: https://base58.school/

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"Bitcoin is neutral and these other cryptocurrencies are not. They have insiders, whether it's founders, whether it's boards, whether it's companies… Bitcoin is a neutral internet money and these other projects aren't."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Bradley Rettler. Brad is the Director of the new University of Wyoming Bitcoin Research Institute and co-author of “Resistance Money.” They discuss the launch of the Bitcoin Research Institute, what Bitcoin critics fail to understand, Bitcoin vs "crypto," politics and Bitcoin, metaphysics and money, and a whole lot more.

BRAD'S LINKS:

Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1jddnc9ma408dey575wcsqhg5jtc2n7765y4gdnnrswlwgqnnat7swe4s60

X: https://x.com/rettlerb

Web: https://www.resistance.money/

Bitcoin Research Institute: https://www.uwyo.edu/bitcoin

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"It doesn't matter if the existing system prints $2 trillion, $8 trillion, $50 trillion. It's just different pieces of paper. And Bitcoin measured against a piece of paper will look like it's going up. But all prices relative to Bitcoin are actually going down and will forever."

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker talks with Jeff Booth about inflation vs deflation, Fedi and open protocols, the price of everything vs Bitcoin, and how to play a different game and break out of the fiat matrix.

JEFF'S LINKS:

Start a federation: https://www.fedi.xyz/

Nostr: https://primal.net/jeffbooth

Web: https://www.jeffbooth.ca/

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