What Bitcoin Did

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Bitcoin and Crypto trading, strategy, business and mining

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The Big Short Squeeze with ...

07.30.2021

“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 ...

What Bitcoin Did episodes:

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: ...
06.28.2021 Is Bitcoin in a Bear Market? with Willy Woo “Bitcoin’s now fighting the final boss in the video game, it’s really up against the central bankers, and much earlier than we ever thought...because El Salvador decreed this as legal tender the World Bank by their own charter have to ...
06.25.2021 El Salvador Macro Outlook with Lyn Alden “In a market that’s so held up by quantitative easing and fiscal stimulus, when you start to see these reverse repos and the Fed starts talking about the potential for tapering next year… that certainly gives the market some jitters.”— ...
06.23.2021 Why El Salvador Made Bitcoin Legal Tender with President Nayib Bukele “This is just exercising our sovereign right to adopt legal tenders, like we adopted the US dollar in the year 2001...the only difference probably is the reasons why we are doing this; in 2001, it was probably done for the ...
06.18.2021 El Salvador - The Whole Story with Jack Mallers “From the start, the conversation was about financial inclusion, open systems, open monetary networks, free markets, how the existing financial system is broken, and how in theory, the world is a much more free, economically liberal place if the monetary ...
06.16.2021 The Truth About Bitcoin's Energy with Harry Sudock “The whole energy argument...it doesn’t take into account the physics and engineering of how the energy is produced, and it doesn’t take into account the economic reality that we are always seeking out lower cost power.” — Harry SudockLocation: Miami ...
06.14.2021 Understanding Anarchism with Michael Malice “People by their nature prefer to cooperate, not because they are genuinely kind, but because conflict and violence is very very expensive; if you have a knife fight you are getting stabbed, even if you win.” — Michael MaliceLocation: New ...
06.11.2021 Central Banking, Bonds & Inflation with William Elman & Greg Mercer “A lot of the tools that we’re using today to combat this coronavirus crisis were cooked up in 2008 during the great financial crisis, but now they’re on steroids; they’ve completely blown up to magnitudes that are unprecedented.” — Greg ...
06.09.2021 Gradually then Suddenly Pt 1 - Killing the FUD with Parker Lewis “It is unnerving when a bunch of virtue signalers...having no appreciation for the fact that 85% of the people in the world live in poverty and they don’t have access to a reliable form of money that could pull them ...
06.07.2021 Bitcoin Tech #5 - Bitcoin Consensus with Shinobi “I cannot stress this enough; when you are trying to gauge consensus for an upgrade proposal, it is not a democracy. Absolutely not. It is not voting; it is not majority wins. That is not how things are done.” — ...
06.02.2021 Eric Weinstein on Bitcoin “I feel like the bitcoin community is one of the best communities to take on the future… we’ve got rich, smart, heterodox, idealistic, iconoclastic pirates. OK, what are we doing?” — Eric WeinsteinLocation: Los Angeles Date: Thursday 27th May Project: ...
05.31.2021 ESG, Tesla and Energy FUD with Lyn Alden “I’m wary of greenwashing, things that basically consist of virtual signalling about being green... we’re more interested in looking like we’re solving the problem rather than actually solving the problem.” — Lyn AldenLocation: Los Angeles Date: Friday 28th May Project: ...
05.28.2021 Bitcoin Has No Leaders with Dan Held “Bitcoin grows more antifragile with these sorts of events... they’re going to lose influence pretty fast, and pretty soon, the market doesn’t care what they have to say.” — Dan HeldLocation: Chicago Date: Wednesday 26th May Project: Kraken Role: Growth ...
05.26.2021 From the Petrodollar to a Bitcoin Standard with Alex Gladstein & Nic Carter “It’s reasonable to think that in the next 10-15 years, we’ll start seeing a real shift. Whether it’s to a bi-polar world or a multi-polar world or potentially a world where we no longer have the petrodollar as the reserve ...
05.24.2021 The Sovereign Individual Pt 2 - The Logic of Violence with Robert Breedlove “If you’re operating in a purely free market, the presupposition is that you should only be rewarded commensurate to how well you satisfy the wants of others basically; the better you serve mankind the richer you become.” — Robert BreedloveLocation: ...
05.21.2021 Is the Bitcoin Bull Market Over? With Willy Woo “The people who were most scared and the reason why markets dropped so much this time, was these guys that sold their coins, they were new participants...holding whale-sized quantities of bitcoin which creates a new concentration of wealth. What happened ...
05.19.2021 Bitcoin, A Fiduciary Duty with Nik Bhatia “If you are ignoring Bitcoin now, as a growth manager, you are ignoring that an alternative monetary reality has come into existence on this planet.” — Nik BhatiaLocation: El Salvador Date: Saturday May 8th Project: USC Marshall School of Business ...
05.17.2021 The Magic of Bitcoin with Tomer Strolight “Fiat Money is like this dark magic, it distorts all those magical properties which allows for this immense coordination across billions of people in the world without ever having to talk to one another...fiat money destroys this, and Bitcoin fixes ...
05.14.2021 Bitcoiners Control the World with David Bailey “He who controls the money controls the world, and Bitcoin is the money now, and bitcoiners control the world, and the rest of the world is waking up to this fact. This is the new Davos...fuck the old world.” — ...
05.12.2021 The Indy500 Bitcoin Car with Jack Mallers & Ed Carpenter “Sometimes all it takes to change the world is just care enough. That’s how I think about the bitcoin community, we wear hoodies, we’re weird, we’re nerdy, we don’t have girlfriends, all of the memes. But, you know what you ...
05.10.2021 SurferJim Yells a Little Bit with SurferJim & American HODL “If we lived in a world where you could trust your money, you could then trust your ability to just go work hard like you already do…when the money is fixed, all this bullshit goes away.” — SurferJimLocation: El Salvador ...
05.07.2021 Value Investing and Bitcoin with Peter Doyle “There’s not many asset classes that could save you the way that bitcoin can, and I think people are just lazy and they’re not paying attention to what’s happening.” — Peter DoyleLocation: Remotely Date: Wednesday 21st April Company: Horizon Kinetics ...
05.05.2021 All In on Bitcoin with Sean Culkin “Bitcoin is hope, and it is traveling, and people are becoming aware of it…I’m ready to do this and I don’t really view this as a risky thing.” — Sean CulkinLocation: Remotely Date: Monday 3rd May Company: Kansas City Chiefs ...
05.03.2021 The Truth About Inflation with Lyn Alden “CPI is a really crappy statistic for the most part… housing has gone up faster than CPI, food has gone up faster than CPI, healthcare has gone up faster than CPI, tuition has gone up faster than CPI, the cover ...
04.30.2021 Bitcoin Tech #4 - Wrapped Bitcoin & Sidechains with Shinobi & Nadav Kohen “Blockchains solve a very specific problem, that’s their big innovation, but they suck at pretty much everything else.” — Nadav KohenLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday 27th April Company: Block Digest, Suredbits Role: Host, Software EngineerSince Bitcoin’s inception, scaling has been a ...
04.28.2021 The Bitcoin Supercycle Revisited with Dan Held “The TL;DR of the supercycle theory: what happens when the world wakes up to Bitcoin?” — Dan HeldLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday 27th April Company: Kraken Role: Growth LeadWhen Dan Held first wrote about a possible bitcoin supercycle back in 2019, ...
04.27.2021 Pantera's $115k Bitcoin Price Target with Dan Morehead “My prediction is that Bitcoin will be 213% higher a year from now...that puts it at $200K a year from now, and I know it sounds crazy but I think it’s likely to happen. ” — Dan MoreheadLocation: Remotely Date: ...
04.26.2021 The Last Days of Satoshi with Pete Rizzo “ Satoshi kind of left an unfinished product, because in order for it to be finished, it had to solve the riddle of him.” — Pete RizzoLocation: Remotely Date: Wednesday 21st April Company: Kraken & Bitcoin Magazine Role: EditorTen years ...
04.23.2021 Strike Launches in El Salvador with Jack Mallers, Miles Suter & Michael Peterson “The world now has an open monetary network, it’s the first one of all time, and throughout the history of the world, open networks really defeat closed networks and usher in a lot of change and innovation and disruption.” — ...
04.21.2021 Bitcoin ETFs Unlock a Wall of Money with Steven McClurg & Jeff Kilburg “Think of 10,000 people sitting outside the amusement park trying to get in, that’s the institutional investment community…that’s the next leg higher, that’s $100K Bitcoin.”— Jeff KilburgLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday 20th April Company: Valkyrie Role: CIO, PartnerSince the Winklevoss applied ...
04.19.2021 Ledger Hack Revisited with Pascal Gauthier & Matt Johnson “ It’s not data that we need, it’s not data that we want, and so the only reason why we are doing all of this and why it sounds complex is because we have these legal obligations everywhere in the ...
04.16.2021 The Psychological Barrier of a $100k Bitcoin with Willy Woo “You’re definitely a moron… if you sell in a bullrun and try to buy back lower, that doesn’t work.” — Willy WooLocation: Remotely Date: Thursday 15th April Company: Hypersheet Role: Co-FounderBitcoin has broken an all-time high again, rallying to over ...
04.14.2021 Bitcoin v The Banks with Simon Dixon & Bill Barhydt “I’m truly blessed to be able to be involved in the disruption of the entire financial system one product at a time, until eventually Peter can just say Fuck the Banks.” — Simon DixonLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday 13th April Company: ...
04.12.2021 Bitcoin Rehab: BitcoinTINA Yells at Everyone with American HODL & BitcoinTINA “This business of crashing, that’s only because we’ve had these stupid idiots who had too much bitcoin who thought they could play with this market, and they’re wrong; they can’t play with the market. Bitcoin is going to be ripped ...
04.09.2021 COVID Lockdowns: One Year On with Zuby “I do really, really hope that things sort of snap back and people quite quickly go to normal just as quickly as they fell into this weird sort of madness and totalitarianism, but I think that it’s a real fight.” ...
04.07.2021 Bitcoin HODL FOMO with Brady Swenson “Money is the pillar of civilisation, and our money is broken, its breaking down, its crumbling.” — Brady SwensonLocation: Remotely Date: Monday 5th April Company: Swan Bitcoin Role: Head of EducationThe current bitcoin bull market has been unlike any before. ...
04.05.2021 A Plague of Malice: The State v Julian Assange “The law in Julian’s case was constantly abrogated top to bottom; conventions of asylum, human rights, due process, and conspiracy...a plague of malice” — John ShiptonLocation: Remotely Date: Tuesday, 30th March Company: SupportAssange.wauland.de Role: N/AA world where the people are ...

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What Bitcoin Did episodes:

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

Is Bitcoin in a Bear Market? with Willy Woo

El Salvador Macro Outlook with Lyn Alden

Why El Salvador Made Bitcoin Legal Tender with President Nayib Bukele

El Salvador - The Whole Story with Jack Mallers

The Truth About Bitcoin's Energy with Harry Sudock

Understanding Anarchism with Michael Malice

Central Banking, Bonds & Inflation with William Elman & Greg Mercer

Gradually then Suddenly Pt 1 - Killing the FUD with Parker Lewis

Bitcoin Tech #5 - Bitcoin Consensus with Shinobi

Eric Weinstein on Bitcoin

ESG, Tesla and Energy FUD with Lyn Alden

Bitcoin Has No Leaders with Dan Held

From the Petrodollar to a Bitcoin Standard with Alex Gladstein & Nic Carter

The Sovereign Individual Pt 2 - The Logic of Violence with Robert Breedlove

Is the Bitcoin Bull Market Over? With Willy Woo

Bitcoin, A Fiduciary Duty with Nik Bhatia

The Magic of Bitcoin with Tomer Strolight

Bitcoiners Control the World with David Bailey

The Indy500 Bitcoin Car with Jack Mallers & Ed Carpenter

SurferJim Yells a Little Bit with SurferJim & American HODL

Value Investing and Bitcoin with Peter Doyle

All In on Bitcoin with Sean Culkin

The Truth About Inflation with Lyn Alden

Bitcoin Tech #4 - Wrapped Bitcoin & Sidechains with Shinobi & Nadav Kohen

The Bitcoin Supercycle Revisited with Dan Held

Pantera's $115k Bitcoin Price Target with Dan Morehead

The Last Days of Satoshi with Pete Rizzo

Strike Launches in El Salvador with Jack Mallers, Miles Suter & Michael Peterson

Bitcoin ETFs Unlock a Wall of Money with Steven McClurg & Jeff Kilburg

Ledger Hack Revisited with Pascal Gauthier & Matt Johnson

The Psychological Barrier of a $100k Bitcoin with Willy Woo

Bitcoin v The Banks with Simon Dixon & Bill Barhydt

Bitcoin Rehab: BitcoinTINA Yells at Everyone with American HODL & BitcoinTINA

COVID Lockdowns: One Year On with Zuby

Bitcoin HODL FOMO with Brady Swenson

A Plague of Malice: The State v Julian Assange

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