What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

“It’s a check on the system, no bailouts, you can do your funny games and printing money over here and all that’s going to do is accrue value to Bitcoin.”
— Rob Hamilton

Rob Hamilton is a co-founder and the CEO of AnchorWatch. In this interview, we discuss polarisation in geopolitical vs Bitcoin spheres, American ethos and the Bitcoin-Trump alliance, the bitcoin-dollar games being played, Bitcoin leverage attacking the dollar, and Bitcoin’s adoption inflection point.

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This episode’s sponsors:

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Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“It’s almost like changing your operating system…it’s not a simple process; you’ve got to delete some of the old stuff, you’ve got to upload a bunch of new stuff then you can start operating on a new system.”
— Christian Keroles

Christian Keroles is the Director of Financial Freedom at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the virality and volatility of the adoption chasm, mental models for hyperbitcoinisation, and the rewards of Bitcoin repricing the world.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“We’re fighting over the 4th American republic, and each time it’s slightly different…but either way we’re going to the brink of collapse or failure here and hopefully we come out on top.”
— Brandon Quittem

Brandon Quittem is the VP of Revenue at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss The Fourth Turning, how the cycles play out and what they mean, the clear signs we’re in a fourth turning, the possibility of total war and how Bitcoin can be instrumental in the proceeding first turning.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“Bitcoin is essential to the plans of a lot of these people, but there is still time to build tools on Bitcoin or utilise Bitcoin to neuter a lot of the plans that they have.”
— Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is the author of The Bitcoin Dollar. In this interview, we discuss the Bitcoin dollar system, corruption & compromised elites and proliferating the US dollar hegemony.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“These people have been very serious and played very dirty, and created insane instability just to keep the dollar the global reserve currency because it gives a lot of advantages just to the US…they intend to keep those advantages even if it means a different system.”
— Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is an independent investigative journalist and founder of Unlimited Hangout & Mark Goodwin is the author of The Bitcoin Dollar. In this interview, we discuss the bitcoin-dollar system, financial terrorism, and how intelligence agencies have captured elites, global finance firms, and tech giants to control a new monetary system.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“We’re going to move to a world where having private keys resolves most problems because the only thing AI cannot fake is computational proof of work.”
— NVK

NVK is the founder of Coinkite and a board member at OpenSats. In this interview, we discuss the threat of centralised AI, building a decentralised alternative with Bitcoin, and the power of open source in resisting a surveillance technocracy.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“The code that is running inside it, we know this is our code, there is no way for you to run malicious code…if you buy any other hardware wallet you have no guarantee…if you don’t have a secure element then maybe it’s a genuine device, maybe not.”
— Charles Guillemet

Charles Guillemet is the Chief Technology Officer at Ledger and Ian Rogers is Chief Experience Officer at Ledger. In this interview, we discuss vulnerabilities and the foundations of secure Bitcoin wallet design, exploits and grey markets, secure silicon vs opensource, and building tools for the future of digital freedom.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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“I don’t know the point where this thing breaks again…I’d caution people to look at it the other way…they can kick the can down the road a lot longer than you believe.”
— Matthew Mežinskis

Matthew Mežinskis is the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast and Porkopolis Economics. In this interview we discuss the history of central bank debt and crises, money destruction & printing, hyperinflation, and Bitcoin’s base money update and price models.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth CheatCode - Sydney, Australia Oct 25–26
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----- If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following: Become a Patronand get access to shows early or help contribute Make a tip: Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2S QR Codes: Bitcoin If you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank you Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer| TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and family Subscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium|YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

“Personally I don’t really need those models, I believe Bitcoin is going to go eventually to a million dollars…and I expect at least prices above $140K this cycle.”
— The Rational Root

The Rational Root is a Bitcoin on-chain & cycle analyst. In this interview, we discuss the Bitcoin ETF flows and how this cycle compares to previous ones, where we are on Root’s spiral chart, the supply dynamics at play and how liquid supply is dropping rapidly.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth
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“Antpool’s in a place, let’s say Foundry’s in a place, whoever, they start doing weird things…miners would just pull their hashrate away; so, where we get into bigger problems is where let’s say Foundry, and Riot, and Marathon, and Cleanspark all get a knock at the same time.”
— Marshall Long

Marshall Long is the Head of Architecture for Rhodium Enterprises. In this interview, we discuss the risks of mining centralisation from both the miner & pool perspective and how we can mitigate these and the geopolitical arms race for Bitcoin mining.

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This episode’s sponsors:

IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably
Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan
Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here
Ledger- State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet
Casa - Take control of your digital wealth
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----- If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following: Become a Patronand get access to shows early or help contribute Make a tip: Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2S QR Codes: Bitcoin If you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank you Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer| TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and family Subscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium|YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.