What Bitcoin Did

By Peter McCormack

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“It’s not even about the financial gain; sure maybe it’ll 10x, maybe it’ll 100x, maybe it’ll 2x. I don’t really care. It’s about the freedom.” — Kevin LehtiniittyLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 14th October Company: Prime Trust Role: Chief Product OfficerOver ...

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10.30.2020 Fintech and Bitcoin with Kevin Lehtiniitty “It’s not even about the financial gain; sure maybe it’ll 10x, maybe it’ll 100x, maybe it’ll 2x. I don’t really care. It’s about the freedom.” — Kevin LehtiniittyLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 14th October Company: Prime Trust Role: Chief Product OfficerOver ...
10.27.2020 Shit Bitcoiners Say with Rusty Russell “This irrational exuberance is where I’m like you know what… calm the fuck down, this stuff is not promised to you, number will not always go up, it is not guaranteed to hit $100k, $288k or whatever fucking number you ...
10.23.2020 The Case for $500K Bitcoin with Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss “The question in our mind is not so much does it get to $500K, but how quickly.” — Cameron WinklevossLocation: Squadcast Date: Tuesday 20th October Company: Gemini Role: Co-FoundersIn August, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss released The Case for $500K Bitcoin. ...
10.20.2020 Becoming a Bitcoin Core Developer with Amiti Uttarwar “I think that having a global currency is inevitable at some point, whether in our lifetime or another, and I think Bitcoin is the kind of global currency I’d like to see.” — Amiti UttarwarLocation: Squadcast Date: Thursday 17th September ...
10.16.2020 Bitfinex - The Hacks, Tether and Bitcoin with Paolo Ardoino “It’s important to us to support Bitcoin and to show respect to the coin that made all of this possible.” — Paolo ArdoinoLocation: Squadcast Date: Monday 7th September Company: Bitfinex Role: CTOBitfinex is one of the oldest and largest Bitcoin ...
10.14.2020 The Bitcoin Bull Bull Bull with Michael Saylor ““I think that Bitcoin is the best hope that people have to make the world a better place, by providing this sovereign empowerment.” — Michael SaylorLocation: Squadcast Date: Thursday 8th October Company: MicroStrategy Role: CEOIn August, MicroStrategy made the bold ...
10.13.2020 Bitcoin in the Boardroom with Michael Saylor “I realised I’m on a melting ice cube of $500 million worth of money, the purchasing power is dwindling at 10% to 20% a year, I have to do something.” — Michael SaylorLocation: Squadcast Date: Thursday 8th October Company: MicroStrategy ...
10.09.2020 Bitcoin Toxicity with Giacomo Zucco & Neil Woodfine “It may be one shot, it’s important, the consequences on civilisation are huge, so we want to be over-cautious about not compromising the culture or the technical features of Bitcoin.” — Giacomo ZuccoLocation: Squadcast Date: Thursday 24th September Company: BHB ...
10.06.2020 How Bitcoin is Helping Protesters in Belarus with Alex Gladstein & Jaraslau Likhachevski “I’ve never been a crypto enthusiast, I never believed in it… until this summer.” — Jaraslau LikhachevskiLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 30th September Company: Human Rights Foundation & BYSOL Role: Chief Strategy OfficerBelarus is in the midst of massive protests, sparked ...
10.02.2020 What is Bitcoin? With Parker Lewis, Robert Breedlove & Vijay Boyapati “Of anything I have ever looked at in my life, I would put Bitcoin as nearest to inevitable as I could.” — Robert BreedloveLocation: Squadcast Date: Tuesday 22nd September Company: Unchained Capital, Parallax Digital & Senior Software Engineer Role: Head ...
09.29.2020 Bitcoin: A Novel Economic Institution with Yassine Elmandjra “Bitcoin is not going away… whether or not you like it, whether or not you have qualms with it, whether or not your government has banned it or you know of a government has banned it. It lives and breaths ...
09.25.2020 The World's First Crypto Bank with David Kinitsky & Marco Santori “The bottom line is that a bank is a big deal… banking is the granddaddy of it all, it’s the bottom of the financial services stack.” — David KinitskyLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 23rd September Company: Kraken Financial & Kraken Role: ...
09.22.2020 Why a Currency Devaluation is Likely with Lyn Alden “There is a pretty asymmetric reward for holding Bitcoin.” — Lyn AldenLocation: Squadcast Date: Monday 21st September Company: lynalden.com Role: MacroeconomistWhen COVID-19 struck, governments across the world implemented unprecedented stimulus packages to help what were already fragile economies, which had ...
09.18.2020 Bitcoin: The Great Disruption with Luke Gromen “The system of the last 50 years is over, it hasn’t worked, it has broken down.” — Luke GromenLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 9th September Company: FFTT, LLC Role: FounderIn 1971 Nixon announced that the US would sever all ties between ...
09.15.2020 How to Protect Your Bitcoin with Nick Neuman & Jameson Lopp “The definition of easy for an early Bitcoiner, cypherpunk is much different than the definition of easy for somebody who is just getting started with Bitcoin.” — Nick NeumanLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 19th August Company: Casa Role: CEO & CTOOne ...
09.13.2020 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum: 24th & 25th September On 24th & 25th September The Human Rights Foundation hold their annual Oslo Freedom Forum. With COVID this event will be virtual for the first time ever. To register for the event and find out more go to https://oslofreedomforum.com/.This episode’s ...
09.11.2020 Does Bitcoin Have Gatekeepers? With Andreas M. Antonopoulos “If this system only works if everybody adopts it at the highest level of financial sovereignty and highest level of technical skill and highest level of ideological purity… it’s not going to work.” — Andreas M. AntonopoulosLocation: Squadcast Date: Thursday ...
09.08.2020 BTC vs ETH Technicals with Andrew Poelstra, Tadge Dryja, Vitalik Buterin & Patrick McCorry Location: Squadcast Date: Thursday 3rd September Company: Blockstream, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Ethereum, PISA Research Role: Director of Research, Research Scientist, Founder, Co-founder & CEOIn my recent Bitcoin Vs Ethereum show, I was joined by Samson Mow and Vitalik Buterin ...
09.04.2020 Bitcoin Has Entered Phase 5 with PlanB, Jeff Booth & Preston Pysh “Once you have seen, you cannot unsee. Once you get it, there is no way back.” — PlanBLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 2nd September Company: Independent Trader, Entrepreneur & Author, The Investors Podcast Role: Bitcoin Quant Analyst, Independent & HostWhen Plan ...
09.01.2020 INX: Legitimate Token or S***coin? With Alan Silbert, Jameson Lopp & Samson Mow “ICO’s and those kind of scams have poisoned the well to the point where people can’t really tell what is a real business and what is not a real business anymore.” — Samson MowLocation: Squadcast Date: Monday 31st August Company: ...
08.28.2020 BTC Vs ETH Episode Review with Udi Wertheimer “I think that Ethereum is a convoluted mess and I don’t know what it’s good for but fine; other people like it. Good for them.” — Udi WertheimerLocation: Squadcast Date: Monday 24th Aug Company: Independent Role: Developer and Consultant, Bitcoin ...
08.25.2020 The Banking Lending Crisis with FEDUPBIZOWNER “I think banks are scared shitless. I think they know what’s sitting on their books and they’re praying like holy hell that they will still be solvent in 12 months.” — FEDUPBIZOWNERLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 5th August Company: N/A Role: ...
08.21.2020 Protecting Your Bitcoin Privacy with Max Hillebrand “For me, the guiding principle is to reduce the number of seconds that I hold fiat shitcoins.” — Max HillebrandLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 12th August Company: Wasabi Wallet Role: ContributorMany newcomers to Bitcoin mistakenly think of it as private, but ...
08.18.2020 WTF is Happening in 2020? With Guy Swann, Ben Prentice & Heavily Armed Clown “It doesn’t matter if the world is ready for Bitcoin, because it is coming like a freight train.” — Heavily Armed ClownLocation: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 12th August Company: The Cryptoconomy & WTFhappenedin1971.com Role: Host & CreatorsModern Monetary Theory is a ...
08.16.2020 Bitcoin Vs Ethereum with Samson Mow & Vitalik Buterin “It comes down to what you think money is, and money is really a zero sum game. We’re not going to walk around in a world with thousands or tens of thousands of monies.” — Samson MowLocation: Squadcast Date: Thursday ...
08.14.2020 All Things Bitcoin with Andrew Poelstra, Giacomo Zucco, Jack Mallers, Matt Odell & Nic Carter “Bitcoin is a technology that is built for people that are paranoid and prepared, and unfortunately, the world has delivered on that paranoia this year.” — Nic CarterLocation: Zoom Date: Wednesday 5th July Company: Blockstream, BHB Network, Zap & Strike, ...
08.14.2020 One Thing About Bitcoin Over the last three years, I have had a huge array of guests from cypherpunks, developers, economists, libertarians, activists, Wall Street veterans and punk rock legends all with one thing in common; Bitcoin.In this episode, to celebrate What Bitcoin Did’s ...
08.11.2020 Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand with Yaron Brook “I think the government is necessary. A necessary good, not a necessary evil.” — Yaron BrookLocation: Zoom Date: Wednesday 5th July Project: The Yaron Brook Show Role: HostAyn Rand was a Russian-American philosopher and author who developed a philosophical system ...
08.07.2020 The Bitcoin Cypherpunk Box with Matt Hill & Aaron Greenspan “I don’t think you can do the future that we envision, without Bitcoin.” — Matt HillLocation: Zoom Date: Monday 27th July Company: Start9 Labs Role: CEO/Co-Founder & Co-Founder/Head of EngineeringThe birth of the internet caused one of the most significant ...
08.04.2020 Has the Bitcoin Bull Woken? With Anthony Pompliano “Having the #2 podcast, I learned everything I know about podcasting from Peter because he is definitely better than me and his show is definitely better than mine, and he is really handsome and cool.” — Anthony PomplianoLocation: Zoom Date: ...
07.31.2020 Modern Monetary Theory with Stephanie Kelton “The people who were so sure that deficits drive interest rates up or that QE is inflationary, those people who asserted those things with real fervour, I think are demonstrably wrong.” — Stephanie KeltonLocation: Zoom Date: Wednesday 29th July Company: ...
07.28.2020 Bitcoin: The Hardest Money with Richard James “To really be in the right mindset, to be receptive to Bitcoin, you’ve got to realise that you’ve got a problem, you’ve got to realise that these people are stealing from you.” — Richard JamesLocation: Zoom Date: Tuesday 21st July ...
07.24.2020 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Bitcoin “There is really no excuse I can give you, so all I can tell you is we make mistakes as well, and a lot of building a company is trying to learn from mistakes and just get better over time.” ...
07.21.2020 Bitcoin is Punk Rock with Keith Levene “You vote with your fucking money man, it’s that simple. What is the fucking point of voting for anyone.” — Keith LeveneLocation: Zoom Date: Monday 13th JulyBitcoin is the most significant disruption to money the world has seen in hundreds ...
07.17.2020 Bitcoin vs Gold with Peter Schiff “Bitcoin is the new kid on the block, so Bitcoin has something to prove, gold doesn’t.” — Peter SchiffLocation: Zoom Date: Wednesday 15th July Role: CEO and Chief Global StrategistThe reasons to hold either gold or Bitcoin are similar, yet ...
07.14.2020 Bitcoin’s Peaceful Revolution with Knut Svanholm “If you are a libertarian, and you are not into Bitcoin, you are wasting your time because, this is it, this is the shot, this is the best shot, I would say it’s the only shot that we have at ...
07.10.2020 What Now for Bitcoin? With Nic Carter, Tuur Demeester, Robert Breedlove & Alex Leishman Location: Zoom Date:Tuesday 30th June Company/project: Castle Island Ventures, Adamant Capital, Parallax Digital & River Financial Role: Partner, Founding Partner, Founder & FounderThe global economy is in a precarious position. With the coronavirus enforced lockdowns closing down businesses around the ...
07.07.2020 #Unity2020: Ending the Two-Party System with Bret Weinstein “The obvious thing to do, if you want to win elections in the US, is make policy on behalf of the people… but they can’t do it, because the purpose of these parties is corruption.” — Bret WeinsteinLocation: Zoom Date: ...
07.03.2020 WTF is Going on in the Markets? With Raoul Pal, Caitlin Long & Travis Kling “This isn’t going to be Trump’s problem, this isn’t going to be J. Powell’s problem, this isn’t Biden’s problem, this isn’t Mnuchin’s problem. It’s not going to be any of their problems, it’s going to be our problem.” — Travis ...
06.30.2020 The 1 Bitcoin Trump Bet with American HODL & Phil Geiger “Pete, if me and you watch the election together and Trump wins, I’m going to feel this weird mix of feelings because I will have just taken 5 grand of you… but I’m also going to be pretty fucking worried ...
06.26.2020 Bitcoin UX & Marketing with Dan Held “We each have independent narratives, in terms of how we talk about Bitcoin, but we’re each part of the same team and I think we all agree that our objective here is to convert as many people to Bitcoin as ...
06.23.2020 The Myth of Deflation with Jeff Booth “We have grown up in a different world, we’ve been programmed that deflation is a bad thing.” — Jeff BoothLocation: Zoom Date: Friday, 19th June Role: Entrepreneur & AuthorIn an inflationary Keynesian economic system, governments target low inflation to ensure ...
06.21.2020 Is Apple Abusing its Monopoly Power? With David Heinemeier Hansson “If Apple chooses in their soul and absolute power to squash us now, there is literally nothing we can do but take it.” — David Heinemeier HanssonSHOW DESCRIPTIONLocation: Zoom Date: Wednesday, 17th June Project: Basecamp Role: Founder & CTONew concerns ...
06.19.2020 Next Level Bitcoin Privacy with Alex Gladstein & Chris Belcher “The evolution of Bitcoin privacy has gone from creating doubt, to hopefully, in the future, making it impossible to link coins to a person. That is the key.” — Alex GladsteinLocation: Zoom Date: Tuesday 16th June Project: Human Rights Foundation ...
06.16.2020 Bitcoin's Time is Now with Preston Pysh “The thing that is creating this destruction, which is the decades-long of inflationary monetary policy, has actually sowed the seed of opportunity to counter it, and I think that counter is Bitcoin.” — Preston PyshSHOW DESCRIPTIONLocation: Zoom Date: Friday 12th ...
06.12.2020 Microsoft’s Bitcoin-Based Identity Tool with Daniel Buchner “What we most care about is entering stuff in the most immutable, hardened record imaginable, and right now that’s Bitcoin.” — Daniel BuchnerLocation: Zoom Date: Thursday 28th May Project: Microsoft Role: Head of Decentralised IdentitySocial media is omnipresent with most ...
06.09.2020 Bitcoin Journalism with Leigh Cuen “When I say these things, the reactions I have had in the past that are most comparable, are when I was studying extremist groups.” — Leigh CuenLocation: Zoom Date: Friday 5th June Project: Coindesk Role: JournalistThe role of a journalist ...
06.05.2020 Bitcoin & Black America with Isaiah Jackson “The plight of black people is not going to change, before, or after this unless we do something about it, economically.” — Isaiah JacksonLocation: Zoom Date: Wednesday 3rd June Project: Bitcoin & Black America Role: AuthorOn May 25th George Floyd ...
06.02.2020 Spending Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir “How does having an asset go up in value change the world? It doesn’t, it’s not going to replace central banks, if anything they will co opt it. What really changes things is the transactions.” — Ragnar LifthrasirLocation: Zoom Date: ...
05.29.2020 Debunking Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Thesis with Bill Barhydt “It’s their financial incentive, for their client base to not want to put 10% of their assets in Bitcoin.” — Bill BarhydtLocation: Zoom Date: Thursday 28th May Project: Abra Role: Founder & CEOThis week, Goldman Sachs held an investment advisory ...

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What Bitcoin Did episodes:

Fintech and Bitcoin with Kevin Lehtiniitty

Shit Bitcoiners Say with Rusty Russell

The Case for $500K Bitcoin with Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss

Becoming a Bitcoin Core Developer with Amiti Uttarwar

Bitfinex - The Hacks, Tether and Bitcoin with Paolo Ardoino

The Bitcoin Bull Bull Bull with Michael Saylor

Bitcoin in the Boardroom with Michael Saylor

Bitcoin Toxicity with Giacomo Zucco & Neil Woodfine

How Bitcoin is Helping Protesters in Belarus with Alex Gladstein & Jaraslau Likhachevski

What is Bitcoin? With Parker Lewis, Robert Breedlove & Vijay Boyapati

Bitcoin: A Novel Economic Institution with Yassine Elmandjra

The World's First Crypto Bank with David Kinitsky & Marco Santori

Why a Currency Devaluation is Likely with Lyn Alden

Bitcoin: The Great Disruption with Luke Gromen

How to Protect Your Bitcoin with Nick Neuman & Jameson Lopp

2020 Oslo Freedom Forum: 24th & 25th September

Does Bitcoin Have Gatekeepers? With Andreas M. Antonopoulos

BTC vs ETH Technicals with Andrew Poelstra, Tadge Dryja, Vitalik Buterin & Patrick McCorry

Bitcoin Has Entered Phase 5 with PlanB, Jeff Booth & Preston Pysh

INX: Legitimate Token or S***coin? With Alan Silbert, Jameson Lopp & Samson Mow

BTC Vs ETH Episode Review with Udi Wertheimer

The Banking Lending Crisis with FEDUPBIZOWNER

Protecting Your Bitcoin Privacy with Max Hillebrand

WTF is Happening in 2020? With Guy Swann, Ben Prentice & Heavily Armed Clown

Bitcoin Vs Ethereum with Samson Mow & Vitalik Buterin

All Things Bitcoin with Andrew Poelstra, Giacomo Zucco, Jack Mallers, Matt Odell & Nic Carter

One Thing About Bitcoin

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand with Yaron Brook

The Bitcoin Cypherpunk Box with Matt Hill & Aaron Greenspan

Has the Bitcoin Bull Woken? With Anthony Pompliano

Modern Monetary Theory with Stephanie Kelton

Bitcoin: The Hardest Money with Richard James

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Bitcoin

Bitcoin is Punk Rock with Keith Levene

Bitcoin vs Gold with Peter Schiff

Bitcoin’s Peaceful Revolution with Knut Svanholm

What Now for Bitcoin? With Nic Carter, Tuur Demeester, Robert Breedlove & Alex Leishman

#Unity2020: Ending the Two-Party System with Bret Weinstein

WTF is Going on in the Markets? With Raoul Pal, Caitlin Long & Travis Kling

The 1 Bitcoin Trump Bet with American HODL & Phil Geiger

Bitcoin UX & Marketing with Dan Held

The Myth of Deflation with Jeff Booth

Is Apple Abusing its Monopoly Power? With David Heinemeier Hansson

Next Level Bitcoin Privacy with Alex Gladstein & Chris Belcher

Bitcoin's Time is Now with Preston Pysh

Microsoft’s Bitcoin-Based Identity Tool with Daniel Buchner

Bitcoin Journalism with Leigh Cuen

Bitcoin & Black America with Isaiah Jackson

Spending Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir

Debunking Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Thesis with Bill Barhydt

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