What Bitcoin Did

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Bitcoin and Crypto trading, strategy, business and mining

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Is Hyperinflation Coming? w...

10.27.2021

“I expect the 2020s to be a pretty inflationary decade. Now hyperinflation has not been my base case in developed markets, but I don’t rule it out as a possibility.” — Lyn AldenLocation: Remotely Date: Monday 25th October Company: lynalden.com ...

What Bitcoin Did episodes:

10.27.2021 Is Hyperinflation Coming? with Lyn Alden “I expect the 2020s to be a pretty inflationary decade. Now hyperinflation has not been my base case in developed markets, but I don’t rule it out as a possibility.” — Lyn AldenLocation: Remotely Date: Monday 25th October Company: lynalden.com ...
10.25.2021 The Resiliency of the Bitcoin Network with Nick Hansen “The China ban also demonstrates the resiliency of the bitcoin network and the bitcoin mining network. As long as there’s one computer running bitcoin, bitcoin won’t die, so we’ve effectively created this new lifeform that’s going to far outlast all ...
10.22.2021 Fighting for Bitcoin in Congress with Aarika Rhodes “I would do a great job in Washington and I would serve my constituents well, but I’m also at a disadvantage in Washington because I’m not corrupt. ” — Aarika RhodesLocation: Los Angeles Date: Sunday 17th October Role: Teacher & ...
10.20.2021 Turning Bitcoin into Clean Water with Scott Harrison “People would say I’m never giving you bitcoin if you’re going to turn it into this cash trash, but if you’re willing to hold it, I’d give it to you now… we said we’re going to call it the Bitcoin ...
10.18.2021 From Bars to Bitcoin with Justin Rhedrick “When I had gone to prison...I was still looking for a way to win, it didn’t matter where I was at, I’m always focused on how do I win.”— Justin RhedrickSHOW DESCRIPTIONLocation: Austin Date: Thursday 7th October Project: From Bars ...
10.15.2021 Inflation & the Role of Bitcoin with Steven McClurg “If the government is printing 5% more dollars and they’re using that money to do things, they have essentially taxed you with the money that you already have without you knowing it.” — Steven McClurgLocation: Nashville Date: Wednesday 29th September ...
10.13.2021 Bitcoin and the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning with Avik Roy “If Bitcoin ever does compete with Treasury bonds as the premier store of wealth in the world that’s a really really big deal, that transforms the entire way the world economy works.” — Avik RoyLocation: Austin, TX Date: Thursday 7th ...
10.11.2021 Hidden Danger in the Infrastructure Bill with Abraham Sutherland & Greg Xethalis “This is an amendment to the tax code but it’s really a new criminal prohibition on peer-to-peer transfers and it’s been overlooked.” — Abraham SutherlandLocation: Austin, TX Date: Friday 8th October Company: Independent, Multicoin Capital Role: Independent, General Counsel and ...
10.08.2021 WBD: Live in Nashville with Preston Pysh & Marty Bent “The price appreciation on bitcoin is not coming from an ETF, the price appreciation that’s going to make bitcoin scream over $1 million a coin, is going to be when the fixed income market comes to the realization that the ...
10.06.2021 Bitcoin & the Financial Transformation with Greg Carson “Move glacially slow and design for inevitability, that’s the bitcoin thesis...I think that thesis makes bitcoin hard to beat, it’s hard to beat someone that never gives up, and bitcoin is never going to give up. ” — Greg CarsonLocation: ...
10.04.2021 The Bitcoin v Crypto War with Udi Wertheimer, Crypto Cobain, Alex Gladstein & Allen Farrington “On a long enough timeline every single social, political, etc., pressure is going to be applied to test the strength of these systems and anything that’s not strong enough will be erased.” — Crypto CobainLocation: New York Date: Wednesday 29th ...
10.01.2021 The Failure of Ethereum Governance with Lane Rettig “Anytime you have a centralisation of power and wealth and influence in the hands of a small number of people…it’s so easy to delude yourself either as an individual or as an organization into thinking, just a few more years.” ...
09.28.2021 Is the Cycle Going to Break? With Willy Woo “It’s not a cycle in my reckoning… I don’t think we’re going to top and have another four-year revolution, where we have a one-year bear market. It’s not looking like that at all.” — Willy WooLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 23rd ...
09.26.2021 Credit Risk & The Bitcoin Hedge with Greg Foss & Andy Edstrom “Over time bitcoin will be the benchmark for proper capital allocation and everything else is going to pay the pauper, and Western Union? Uh, I’m sorry guys, but your business is going the way of the horse and buggy.” — ...
09.24.2021 Twitter Integrates Bitcoin with Jack Mallers “I can send $10 from my house in the United States to my friend David in El Salvador instantly and at no cost over twitter. Why would anyone ever use Western Union again?” — Jack MallersLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 23rd ...
09.22.2021 Bitcoin Mining 101 with Harry Sudock “What Bitcoin does is it demonetises the political class and empowers the productive class... that’s what better money does for people is it takes the people who are just rent-seeking in our political structure, and it says to them, ‘I’m ...
09.20.2021 The Embedded Growth Problem with Rob Hamilton “These underlying currents that aren’t talked about in our economic system that causes malinvestment, and it’s a lot of forsaking the possibility of the future for immediate-gratification today.” — Rob HamiltonLocation: New York Date: Friday 17th September Role: Programmer & ...
09.16.2021 ESG & Institutional Bitcoin Investment with Kevin O’Leary “If you are able to get the institutions just a 1% allocation that’s a trillion dollars worth of buying, so now you’re talking about a million dollar bitcoin...smell the fucking roses, the opportunity is there, you got to get on ...
09.13.2021 The Financial Reset with John Mauldin “Right now everybody wants the government to be really big, and we don’t want to pay for it, and that’s not going to get resolved until we have a crisis.” — John MauldinLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday 7th September Project: Mauldin ...
09.10.2021 Bitcoin vs Gold #2 with Peter Schiff & Greg Foss “I still view Bitcoin as being the best asymmetric return opportunity I’ve seen in 32 years of managing risk. That doesn’t mean I don’t own gold.” — Greg FossLocation: Remotely Date: Friday 3rd September Company: Euro Pacific Asset Management & ...
09.08.2021 Tokenised Securities & NFTs on Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow “You can see that something that would normally be controlled and limited resale or retail-discouraged becomes a giftable, freely-tradeable, build your own market, build your own app on top of it if you must, you can do anything with it.” ...
09.06.2021 Bitcoin Mass Adoption with Yan Pritzker “This could actually be the thing that fixes a lot of societal problems and it just felt to me like I had to work on it...I don’t see any more pressing problem than fixing the money in the world that ...
09.03.2021 Bitcoin Risk Assessment with Lyn Alden “If you’re on the titanic and you think you’re unsinkable, you’re more likely to hit an iceberg, whereas if you’re on the titanic you still want to be looking out for icebergs.” — Lyn AldenLocation: Remotely Date: Sunday August 29th ...
09.01.2021 Will Bitcoin End The State? with Stephan Livera “My view of rights is they are inalienable...the government does not give you rights; it’s on the government not to impinge on your rights.” — Stephan LiveraLocation: Dallas, TX Date: Thursday 26th August Company: The Stephan Livera Podcast and Swan ...
08.30.2021 Gradually then Suddenly Pt 4: Bitcoin & The Money Printer with Parker Lewis “The Central Bank can control the supply of its currency; it cannot make people value it. And, if I know that the central bank can print trillions of dollars at zero cost, I will stop valuing that, as will everyone.” ...
08.27.2021 Bitcoin v the Banking Rails with Willy Woo “This cycle is not a 2013 double pump and a blow off top, this is completely different. This is the new 2020 onwards cycle which we’ve never seen before.” — Willy WooLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 26th August Company: Hypersheet Role: ...
08.25.2021 Teaching Kids About Bitcoin with Michael Caras & Violet Mauceri “You know about digital currency from when you are a little kid...but they don’t have any way to deal with it, except now with bitcoin they can; they can understand the finite supply, they can understand that it’s uncensorable, nobody ...
08.20.2021 Bitcoin Rehab: Money for Enemies with American Hodl & Jason Williams “It’s already the reserve currency of the internet which is a global phenomenon so it’s already the reserve currency of the digital world, so it’s already won, Bitcoin has won.” — American HODLLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 6th August Role: N/A, ...
08.18.2021 The Rise of Bitcoin Nations with Dan Held “Bitcoin hodlers across the world I think only number probably 100-200 million, which is awesome, that’s incredible that we’re in the hundreds of millions era of bitcoin hodlers, but I think the real game begins at a billion, and we’re ...
08.16.2021 The Road to Hyperbitcoinisation with Knut Svanholm “If the game we’re playing is money, there is only one winner and the best form of money is that winner and that’s what bitcoin is… there’s no competition there.” — Knut SvanholmLocation: Remotely Date: Wednesday 4th August Role: AuthorHyperbitcoinisation ...
08.13.2021 S2F, Gold & the Big Reset with Plan₿ & Willem Middelkoop “Because it is the best money and it’s so superior to fiat money, it’s so fucking dangerous to central bankers, and the elite and everyone in the system because this house of cards is on the verge of collapse. And ...
08.11.2021 A Quant Trader’s View on Bitcoin with Sam Trabucco “Long term, yes bitcoin’s price is moving, in general it’s moving up...the short term moves where sometimes it goes up 20% then down 20% the next week, that’s driven by the leverage I think more than anything.” — Sam TrabuccoLocation: ...
08.09.2021 Fighting Regulation with Decentralisation with Erik Voorhees & Udi Wertheimer “Regulators are not going to be happy that there are unregulatable systems out there...Bitcoin has shown that if you get to a degree of decentralization you cannot be stopped.” — Erik VoorheesLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday 3rd August Company: ShapeShift / ...
08.06.2021 Bitcoin On-chain & Macro Analysis with Will Clemente & Dylan LeClair “The models all break to the upside if the trust is lost in the system, if the legacy market cracks...then bitcoin’s going to moon in dollar terms again because that marginal seller is like - wait, I don’t need to ...
08.04.2021 Gradually then Suddenly Pt 3 - Bitcoin is Common Sense with Parker Lewis “Everyone is afforded equal rights under the law of bitcoin, nobody gets to print money...when the Fed prints 3 trillion dollars they hit a button on a computer screen and suddenly 3 trillion dollars appear, did that create any economic ...
08.02.2021 Bitcoin & The Decentralised Future with Michael Casey “We’re going down the path of black and white, good and evil because we have a centralised approach to it that is fundamentally out of touch with what we really should be thinking about. ” — Michael CaseyLocation: Remotely Date: ...
07.30.2021 The Big Short Squeeze with Willy Woo “We’ve had massive amounts of little guys buying, they bought the covid dip, they bought this 2-month bottom, they’re like little geniuses; the hodlers are outdoing the so-called whale-trader conspiracy...the little guys are really nailing it.” — Willy WooLocation: Remotely ...
07.28.2021 Nassim Taleb’s Bitcoin Black Paper with Lyn Alden “We’re seeing bitcoin monetize in real-time, what gold went through over thousands of years Bitcoin’s going through in so far 12 years, so it went from zero to a $trillion market cap...it’s trying to find its total addressable market.” — ...
07.26.2021 F**k You Passports with Katie The Russian “As the world becomes borderless for us remote workers and people with borderless money...we don’t see the borders anymore; and because of that the borders will start to fall.” — Katie The RussianLocation: Remotely Date: Monday 19th July Project: Plan ...
07.23.2021 Bitcoin Tech #6 - The Threat of Internet Centralisation with Shinobi & Dhruv Mehta “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance…’how prevalent is an attack’ is not really an important question, ‘how possible is an attack’ is the important question. When the value is 10x of today or 20x of today what people are ...
07.21.2021 Lightning Series: Privacy and Security with Christian Decker & Carla Kirk-Cohen “Lightning is built on top of the main chain, so you are bringing your on-chain privacy with you, although there’s a transactional increase in privacy...if you send a UTXO from Coinbase to fund your channel, Coinbase knows you sent that ...
07.19.2021 Debt Cycles & the Rise of Bitcoin with Greg Foss & Dylan LeClair “The reality is that Bitcoin will outcompete every other money going forward...at this point during the monetization process is going to increase 10, 100, 500-fold maybe.” — Dylan LeClairLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 15th July Company: Validus Power Corp, Bitcoin Magazine ...
07.16.2021 Lightning Series: Why Bitcoin is Global Money with Jack Mallers “Never before have we had a monetary network that all you need is an internet connection and by plugging in and operating on the same standard you’re natively interoperable with everyone else in the world on it.” — Jack MallersLocation: ...
07.14.2021 Lightning Series: Running a Node with Openoms & Rootzoll “If you’re not in control of your keys it’s not your bitcoin...and it’s a little the same with your node; not your node, not your rules…” — RootzollLocation: Remotely Date: Wednesday 7th July Project: RaspiBlitz Role: Role: DevelopersBitcoin operates thanks ...
07.12.2021 Lightning Series: Mastering Lightning with Andreas M. Antonopoulos & René Pickhardt “All the stuff that I’m working on is built on the shoulders of giants…I didn’t invent the Lightning Network, when I saw this technology I thought it was just beautiful.” — René PickhardtLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 5th July Project: aantonop.com ...
07.09.2021 Gradually then Suddenly Pt 2 - Bitcoin First Principles with Parker Lewis “The underpinnings of the dollar are identical to the underpinnings of the Bolivar, it costs zero to produce 3 trillion bolivars, and it costs zero to produce 3 trillion dollars...goods are becoming more expensive because the underlying monetary unit is ...
07.07.2021 Why Altcoins are Technically Flawed with Nadav Kohen “You don’t want to use the blockchain unless there’s actually some kind of dispute; all cooperative transactions in the world can exist off of the blockchain and there’s no reason to actually use a blockchain for them” — Nadav KohenLocation: ...
07.05.2021 Bringing Bitcoin to Tonga with Lord Fusitu’a “The economy will first benefit by every customer having a disposable income increase by 30% and... simultaneously with that extra 30%, there are some who are going to be saving it rather than putting it into the economy and stacking ...
07.02.2021 Bitcoin Rehab: Straight Toxic with CJ Wilson & American HODL “Hero worship leads to disappointment, broken hearts, and posters being torn off the wall...everybody is subjected to the same rules on the internet.” — CJ WilsonLocation: Remotely Date: Friday 25th June Project: CJ Wilson Racing, WBD Employee of the Month ...
06.30.2021 How Bitcoin Derivatives Work with Juthica Chou “You need to be able to withstand the fluctuations because one of the biggest dangers of leverage is you get closed out at precisely the wrong time...if you’re short and bitcoin rips up you get closed out.” — Juthica ChouLocation: ...

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What Bitcoin Did episodes:

Is Hyperinflation Coming? with Lyn Alden

The Resiliency of the Bitcoin Network with Nick Hansen

Fighting for Bitcoin in Congress with Aarika Rhodes

Turning Bitcoin into Clean Water with Scott Harrison

From Bars to Bitcoin with Justin Rhedrick

Inflation & the Role of Bitcoin with Steven McClurg

Bitcoin and the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning with Avik Roy

Hidden Danger in the Infrastructure Bill with Abraham Sutherland & Greg Xethalis

WBD: Live in Nashville with Preston Pysh & Marty Bent

Bitcoin & the Financial Transformation with Greg Carson

The Bitcoin v Crypto War with Udi Wertheimer, Crypto Cobain, Alex Gladstein & Allen Farrington

The Failure of Ethereum Governance with Lane Rettig

Is the Cycle Going to Break? With Willy Woo

Credit Risk & The Bitcoin Hedge with Greg Foss & Andy Edstrom

Twitter Integrates Bitcoin with Jack Mallers

Bitcoin Mining 101 with Harry Sudock

The Embedded Growth Problem with Rob Hamilton

ESG & Institutional Bitcoin Investment with Kevin O’Leary

The Financial Reset with John Mauldin

Bitcoin vs Gold #2 with Peter Schiff & Greg Foss

Tokenised Securities & NFTs on Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow

Bitcoin Mass Adoption with Yan Pritzker

Bitcoin Risk Assessment with Lyn Alden

Will Bitcoin End The State? with Stephan Livera

Gradually then Suddenly Pt 4: Bitcoin & The Money Printer with Parker Lewis

Bitcoin v the Banking Rails with Willy Woo

Teaching Kids About Bitcoin with Michael Caras & Violet Mauceri

Bitcoin Rehab: Money for Enemies with American Hodl & Jason Williams

The Rise of Bitcoin Nations with Dan Held

The Road to Hyperbitcoinisation with Knut Svanholm

S2F, Gold & the Big Reset with Plan₿ & Willem Middelkoop

A Quant Trader’s View on Bitcoin with Sam Trabucco

Fighting Regulation with Decentralisation with Erik Voorhees & Udi Wertheimer

Bitcoin On-chain & Macro Analysis with Will Clemente & Dylan LeClair

Gradually then Suddenly Pt 3 - Bitcoin is Common Sense with Parker Lewis

Bitcoin & The Decentralised Future with Michael Casey

The Big Short Squeeze with Willy Woo

Nassim Taleb’s Bitcoin Black Paper with Lyn Alden

F**k You Passports with Katie The Russian

Bitcoin Tech #6 - The Threat of Internet Centralisation with Shinobi & Dhruv Mehta

Lightning Series: Privacy and Security with Christian Decker & Carla Kirk-Cohen

Debt Cycles & the Rise of Bitcoin with Greg Foss & Dylan LeClair

Lightning Series: Why Bitcoin is Global Money with Jack Mallers

Lightning Series: Running a Node with Openoms & Rootzoll

Lightning Series: Mastering Lightning with Andreas M. Antonopoulos & René Pickhardt

Gradually then Suddenly Pt 2 - Bitcoin First Principles with Parker Lewis

Why Altcoins are Technically Flawed with Nadav Kohen

Bringing Bitcoin to Tonga with Lord Fusitu’a

Bitcoin Rehab: Straight Toxic with CJ Wilson & American HODL

How Bitcoin Derivatives Work with Juthica Chou

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