What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

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With What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin, economics and politics. From developers to investors, journalists to authors, you will learn about everything in the world of Bitcoin.

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From Paralysis to Bitcoin w...

01.27.2023

“When we made that drive home, we got home, we got in the driveway. And when we were in the driveway I was crying because it was a realisation that, at that point, I didn’t accomplish what I wanted to ...

What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack episodes:

01.27.2023 From Paralysis to Bitcoin with Kale Hyder “When we made that drive home, we got home, we got in the driveway. And when we were in the driveway I was crying because it was a realisation that, at that point, I didn’t accomplish what I wanted to ...
01.25.2023 The Great Uprising with Vivek Ramaswamy “Every species that becomes sentient and develops “When you tell people they cannot speak, that is when they scream. But when you tell people they cannot scream, that is when they tear things down.” — Vivek RamaswamyVivek Ramaswamy is an ...
01.23.2023 Bitcoin Security + the Future of AI with Jameson Lopp “Every species that becomes sentient and develops technology that is sufficient to start creating signals that propagate through the universe, eventually also hits this inflexion point, which we may be close to, wherein the power of the technology becomes uncontrollable, ...
01.20.2023 Trapped Inside The Collapse of FTX with Travis Kling “The bad guys are kicking the shit out of the good guys. Look at what just happened, this shit is in shambles right now. The space has this attack vector from intelligent sociopaths, and they’ve done so much damage at ...
01.18.2023 How Bitcoin Can Expand the Grid in Africa with Erik Hersman “There’s 600 million people in Africa that don’t have access to electricity. That’s a lot. That’s two-thirds of the world’s total that don’t have access to electricity that’s here. And so what we all should be trying to do is ...
01.16.2023 What Do Economists Get Wrong About Bitcoin with Josh Hendrickson “There’s this weird thing with economists: we always talk about ‘monopoly is bad, competition is good,’ but then when it comes to money, we’re like: ‘oh, no, just the Federal Reserve can do the money.’” — Josh HendricksonDr. Josh Hendrickson ...
01.13.2023 Bear Market Analysis with Dylan LeClair “Even if bitcoin has all of this native adoption and organic use, the real driver of all of this, globally, is the 100 trillion dollars of a forced buying of dollars; because you’re short dollars, it’s dollar liabilities.” — Dylan ...
01.11.2023 Bitcoin: A Year in Review with Matt Odell “I’m not trying to single out you. There are many, many content creators in the space, event planners in the space, that give rosier coverage to sponsors. And then when the sponsor rugs all of their audience they say ‘no ...
01.09.2023 GBTC Leverage Death Rattle? With Steven McClurg “Bitcoin goes in four-year cycles based on halving, and I’m sure two years from now when everything is fine again, and prices go up again, people are going to get excited, they’re going to get greedy, and they’re going to ...
01.07.2023 China & America’s Economic War with Matthew Pines “It’s not being looked at properly as a realistic scenario that, say, by 2030 you could have several countries that have meaningful holdings of bitcoin as part of this geo-economic arrangement, and this is a way for them to hedge.” ...
01.06.2023 Defending Bitcoin in DC with David Zell “In much the same way that the internet changed the world, and changed how we interact with information, Bitcoin has changed how humanity interacts with value and money.” — David ZellDavid Zell is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Policy Institute ...
01.03.2023 2023 Bitcoin & Macro Outlook with Lyn Alden “If you have a recession, and you print a tonne of money and throw stimulus at it, you can get out of that recession quicker. But then you’ve done it at the cost of higher debt, and then potentially for ...
12.30.2022 Doomberg on Energy “Harnessing low-energy fuels is an entirely different challenge, as we’re finding out, and Germany is finding out the hard way; look, everywhere it’s tried it ends up with a more expensive grid, a dirtier grid, and a less reliable grid.” ...
12.28.2022 Debt, Deficit, Spending & Tax with Dominic Frisby “In a libertarian society where the government doesn’t do anything the responsibility falls on citizens to do stuff, at the moment, that responsibility is the state’s; so, with freedom comes responsibility.” — Dominic FrisbyDominic Frisby is a British author, comedian, ...
12.23.2022 How Lightning Drives Global Bitcoin Adoption with Danny Scott “Visa and Mastercard, SWIFT… the innovation on them has grinded to a halt, it doesn’t really change, nothing really happens, it doesn’t move, it’s very centralized, it’s very controlled. What we have with the Bitcoin Lightning network, it’s open, interoperable, ...
12.21.2022 The Queen of Scams with Jamie Bartlett “It’s a gigantic pyramid scheme with all sorts of organised crime and money laundering angles to the story as well, but at the centre of it, it’s just this woman who built a very sophisticated scam and then disappeared with ...
12.19.2022 The Death Spiral of Western Economies with Dan Tubb “It’s not like you can just evaporate the UK from the system; if you did this, if you knocked out UK sovereign debt, you would cause a domino effect that took out the entire western financial system.” — Dan TubbDan ...
12.16.2022 The Reformed Libertarian with Mike Brock “It’s just impossible for me to believe that there’s this set of perfect rules, that if you follow them you will achieve this moral maxima and we will get closer to utopia.” — Mike BrockMike Brock is the lead at ...
12.14.2022 The Creep of Marxism with Mark Moss “If you look at the long-term secular trend, there’s been three trends: one has been globalisation; so we’ve increased peace, we’ve increased global trade. Two, we’ve increased the population. And three, we’ve increased the money supply…and all three are reversing.” ...
12.12.2022 Bitcoin - Enemy of the State with BTC Sessions “He messaged me, and he said: ‘Hey, man, I’m on a backup phone, just so you know, police just raided my house and they literally took everything. I just wanted to give you a heads-up.’ And I’m thinking: is that ...
12.09.2022 Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species with Brandon Quittem “Bitcoin mining is everything you don’t understand about energy, combined with everything you don’t understand about Bitcoin.” — Brandon QuittemBrandon Quittem is a writer and Communications Director for Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss his latest article: ‘Bitcoin is ...
12.07.2022 Fighting the Bitcoin Mining FUD with Troy Cross “The story I want to be true about mining is that it strengthens grids, it lowers electrical rates for citizens for ordinary ratepayers, and it helps us green the grid, helps us mitigate methane…those stories were wrong during the bull ...
12.05.2022 A Climate Change Debate with Nate Harmon and Steve Barbour “We can’t just let these people die…I came up with the best plan that I could possibly do and that’s to bring them as much energy as possible in the least damaging way because if you have unlimited energy you ...
12.02.2022 Can Bitcoin Bridge the Political Divide? With Ted Cruz “I am an enthusiastic fan of Bitcoin and I want to say to everyone here thank you for what you’re doing to drive the Texas economy, to drive the American economy, to modernise energy, to strengthen resiliency of the grid, ...
11.30.2022 How the IMF & World Bank Exploit Poor Countries with Alex Gladstein “You talk about the CIA and American foreign policy during the Cold War…that’s like level one. We’re on a second level here, the IMF and World Bank are operating on a meta-level, like we’re above Cold War politics, we’re at ...
11.28.2022 The Fight for Bitcoin with Cory Klippsten “This is something that I heard from all the crypto funds back in 2017/2018…you can promise any blockchain crypto magic that you want, it can solve whatever problem you say it’s going to solve; and there’s no truth in advertising, ...
11.25.2022 Bitcoin Mining in Distress with Nick Hansen “This time last year, most profitable time to mine ever in Bitcoin; people shovelling money in as quickly as they can. Less than 12 months later, it’s the least profitable time to mine ever. It’s very difficult to make massive ...
11.23.2022 Finding Bitcoin Signal with Jeff Booth “Theft in money will divide us all, and that theft in money will take us likely to war and maybe the end of human species… or it will concentrate all control in very few super overlords. And the rest of ...
11.21.2022 The FTX Contagion with Jesse Powell “I think we can’t lose sight of what we’re really fighting for here, which is all of those people to be included in the financial system, financial privacy, the separation of money and state; these things are way bigger than ...
11.18.2022 QE Infinity with James Lavish & Greg Foss “There are five institutions that control $30 trillion of assets in this world. You’ve got Fidelity Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, and UBS, that control $30 trillion. So when they get in, and they actually put it in their portfolios, it ...
11.16.2022 Bitcoin is the Answer with Preston Pysh “When you look at prices as they’re trying to destroy demand, the thing that people aren’t talking about is are they destroying supply faster; and if they are, prices aren’t coming down, they might actually keep going up.” — Preston ...
11.14.2022 Unpacking the FTX Fraud with Lyn Alden “We appear to have actual fraud, various types of fraud, essentially a Ponzi scheme, and that’s different from even just a normal casino… you can have a crypto casino, and it just makes money from fees, and most traders get ...
11.12.2022 The Lightning Energy Market with Austin Mitchell “Imagine the Lightning Network being very similar to the energy system itself and how it moves money, where every physical node now has its own node in the Lightning Network. And when energy moves in one direction, money moves in ...
11.09.2022 Why Won’t the SEC Approve a Bitcoin ETF? With Perianne Boring “I think these policy fights for Bitcoin, this is the fight of my generation; and I think it’s absolutely important that we as Bitcoiners, and people who care about this technology, understand these political fights, these legal fights because if ...
11.07.2022 The Fundamentals of Bitcoin’s Value with Phil Geiger “Society is formed through humans cooperating and… the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; when people get together and collaborate and cooperate, we produce something that is way more impressive and better than any single individual can ...
11.04.2022 Bitcoin Can’t Lose with Parker Lewis “The only way for that system to subsist into the future is for them to print more and more money, and in either scenario, whether they print money or they don’t, the economic engine collapses.” — Parker LewisParker Lewis is ...
11.02.2022 Censorship & State Capture with Nic Carter & Lane Rettig “You could describe Proof of Stake in two words: shareholders vote. And guess what, that is how the world works already… I want to build a system that at least has the potential to be democratising, and move towards decentralisation, ...
10.31.2022 How Capital Misallocation Warps Money with Steven Lubka “If everyone uses a 12-inch ruler to build a house, and then one day, the government wakes up, and they change out all the rulers for an 11-inch ruler, but they don’t tell anybody…that distorts everything in the system because ...
10.28.2022 The Philosophy of Money with Andrew Bailey “Bitcoin isn’t like a new theory about what kinds of money are possible, it’s more like a bulldozer that says: you’re all wrong, you need more tools to think properly about money; here’s a totally new kind of money that ...
10.26.2022 How Cheap Credit Distorts Money with Joe Consorti “The rates have been locked at 1, 2, or 3%...that’s completely distorted the way that people allocate capital; whether it’s human capital or it’s physical capital, they’ve gone ahead and done things specifically because the money is essentially free, rather ...
10.24.2022 The White House is Wrong About Bitcoin Mining with Nic Carter “My whole objective here was just to really meticulously go through their document and show that they don’t have a better command of the facts then we do, they’re relying on bad data, they’re relying on bad sources and academics, ...
10.21.2022 Cathie Wood on Bitcoin “My background is both economics and finance. So I feel very confident in what I’m saying: this is the first global private, meaning no government oversight, digital rules-based monetary system. When I’m explaining it like that I ask everyone to ...
10.19.2022 Science, Health and Bitcoin with Sam Abbassi “That’s the one thing Bitcoin does really well is that it has these property rights that allow you to enforce the fact that you do own Bitcoin. And so that’s what I’m most focused on: building a great wrapper and ...
10.17.2022 How the US Dollar Shortage is Driving Global Instability with Jeff Snider “You have to understand what the Fed says in public is not what it says in private. You look at some of the academic studies, the literature, they know they have no idea what they’re doing. But their job requires ...
10.14.2022 Bitcoin, The Critical Money Layer with Nik Bhatia “All of that monetary profligacy over the last 10 years put the Fed’s reputation on watch; everybody and their mother knows about the Fed and its willingness to just do QE infinity, and so in a post-pandemic world where they ...
10.12.2022 The Path of Freedom and Sovereignty with Natalie Smolenski “The only way that tyranny is prevented is a strong civil society that the state actually becomes concerned about.” — Natalie SmolenskiNatalie Smolenski is an Executive Director of the Texas Bitcoin Foundation and a Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. ...
10.10.2022 Europe in Crisis with Lyn Alden “This period looks a lot like the 1940s, which is when you have a combination of high debt and high inflation, which is not what you had in the 70s. In the 70s they had low debt and high inflation, ...
10.08.2022 Why Fiat Drives the Wealth Divide with Avik Roy “Free enterprise and individual liberty and innovation/entrepreneurship do actually increase prosperity for lower and middle-income people, they’ve done that all over the world; we’ve lifted a billion people out of poverty in India and China over the last 20 years...and ...
10.06.2022 Bitcoin, Unleashing an Ocean of Energy with Nathaniel Harmon “Where I think the real valuable conversation is, is not debating the science because again, I am a scientist, and I can back that shit up with fucking receipts. And that’s not going to be a fun debate for anybody. ...
10.04.2022 How Bitcoin Helps Mitigate Climate Change with Harald Rauter “Can we run the same models, but with better data? Can we get to a 1.5-degree world? And that’s the ultimate nuclear argument for how Bitcoin mining actually makes sense…where does it make sense to engage with policymakers, to actually ...

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