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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Inflation’s Hidden Cost wit...

06.27.2022

“A lot of people, particularly intellectuals, like to complain about our consumerist culture in America. Well, what creates a consumerist culture? A monetary policy that destroys the long-term value and reward for saving your own money.” — Avik RoyAvik Roy ...

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06.27.2022 Inflation’s Hidden Cost with Avik Roy “A lot of people, particularly intellectuals, like to complain about our consumerist culture in America. Well, what creates a consumerist culture? A monetary policy that destroys the long-term value and reward for saving your own money.” — Avik RoyAvik Roy ...
06.24.2022 Bitcoin Privacy with Matt Odell “I’ve already come to the conclusion that with or without me, with or without you, with or without anyone in this room, Bitcoin will be the money of the world. So it’s up to us to make sure that it’s ...
06.22.2022 Bitcoin: The Perfect Machine with American HODL “In the long run, Bitcoin will have been a story about when a bunch of imperfect humans met a perfect machine, and what happened - that’s the story of Bitcoin.” — American HODLIn this interview with American HODL, we discuss ...
06.20.2022 Is Hyperinflation Coming? With Preston Pysh “This is a math problem, this is just math, they can’t take that out; looking at everything that’s about to go down in my opinion in the coming two to four quarters… things are about to get insane.” — Preston ...
06.17.2022 Bitcoin is a Black Hole with Harry Sudock “The economy is not a combustion engine, where you change a fan belt, and it starts or stops. The economy is a large, complex multivariate emergent social phenomenon. And because of that, when you poke one side of the bear, ...
06.15.2022 The Crisis Across All Markets with Peter Doyle “You could see how inflation could spin out of control under certain environments. Now, I’m not saying that’s going to happen, it’s not going to happen probably in the next several weeks. But it doesn’t take a lot, where the ...
06.13.2022 The Reality of Web3 with Lane Rettig “We have to get back to the original vision of Bitcoin and the cypherpunks, which is that in a sense, Bitcoin and crypto in general, is outside of any particular nation-state system.” — Lane RettigLane Rettig is a former Ethereum ...
06.10.2022 The Fed, Inflation and Bitcoin with Steven McClurg “You watch the Fed very carefully: you analyse every word; you try to see where interest rates are going; you try to see what the Fed’s doing. There’s an old adage, don’t fight the Fed.” — Steven McClurgSteven McClurg is ...
06.08.2022 The Culture Wars with Michael Moynihan “You can convince people of these things much easier now because they believe that speech is violence and nobody likes violence…there’s a reason, a very specific reason that you recast words as violence because nobody wants to be opposed to ...
06.06.2022 A Lesson in Bitcoin Volatility with Dan McArdle “Picking the highs and lows is an impossible game, so I think the best advice for people is: know what you own and why you own it.” — Dan McArdleDan McArdle is co-founder of Messari Crypto and creator of casebitcoin.com. ...
06.03.2022 The Crisis of Inflation with Lyn Alden “I think we’re going through a quote-unquote ‘fourth turning,’ so a time period where we’re examining our existing institutions. We’re decreasing our level of trust in them, whether it’s governments, whether it’s media, whether it’s corporations… basically the things that ...
06.01.2022 Why Terra Luna Collapsed with Jonathan Wu “The larger these stable coins are, the more adoption there is, and the more stable they’re likely to be. But then the worse and more contagious the effect is if it fails. It’s almost like you have to be really ...
05.30.2022 Can Bitcoin Help Tackle Human Trafficking with Victor Boutros “When you look at the giving trends of the Bitcoin community, what’s interesting is they’re not like the traditional philanthropic community, they’re not really interested in Symphony tickets, or the art. They’re looking at ‘where are there game-changing impacts that ...
05.27.2022 Censorship Resistant Social Media with Justin Rezvani “It’s the worst parts of us that sometimes are displayed on these centralised networks because it’s driven by these algorithms, and I do think that the algorithms don’t know the difference between love and hate because they’re not humans; they ...
05.25.2022 Bitcoin in El Salvador - Part 2 with Nayib Bukele “I don’t think it’s going to work, I’m sure it’s going to work. Because the fundamentals are there. We can have some bumps in the road like everything… but, the fundamentals are the same. And it’s going to work because ...
05.23.2022 The Bitcoin Awakening with John Vallis “I think we’re at the precipice of really next-level civilizational change, and it’s probably going to be messy a little bit in the transitionary period. But on the other side of this, or as we move forward, I think more ...
05.19.2022 Why are Bitcoin Forks Contentious with Adam Back “It’s a competition of ideas… and it’s a collaborative competition of ideas. So if you propose an organised set of ideas as a proposal, some parts of them might end up being good and used, and some parts might not. ...
05.16.2022 Texas is Bitcoin Country with Will Cole “What’s the end game? It is honestly to do less harm. Bitcoin doesn’t actually need politicians to make it succeed, it will succeed on its own merits; what would be helpful is to not have people actively attacking it and ...
05.13.2022 The Risks of Hyperbitcoinisation with Rob Hamilton “The idea is that fix the money fix the world, the thing that’s often said, and that most of our problems in the world come from bad money. And I think my point is that malevolence in man is something ...
05.11.2022 Bitcoin is Truth with Jeff Booth & Austin Hill “Human rights don’t come easily, they actually have to be fought for; fought for with encryption, fought for with principled individuals, fought for with giving people other alternatives, and the best alternative is economic sovereignty.” — Austin HillJeff Booth is ...
05.09.2022 Bitcoin & Absolute Freedom with Junseth “I don’t understand the moral position of absolute freedom, and the reason is because, when I hear people talk about it, it’s very obvious to me that absolutely everybody knows that there are limits to freedom, so absolute freedom is ...
05.06.2022 I Was in a Cult with Tuur Demeester “The short of it is that I was involved in an online cult, I think it’s fair to call it that way…. and it’s not like I lived in a commune, but it was really involved. And a lot of ...
05.04.2022 The Anarchist Lens with Michael Malice “There are certainly genuinely evil people who do not hesitate to sacrifice entire nations to further and maintain their hold on power, and that to have some kind of civil discussion about this is so missing the mark, it’s not ...
05.02.2022 Why Bitcoin is the Best Money with Lyn Alden “All of these monetary transitions involve people that could think of the unthinkable. And that could look past how the system currently is and envision: if you just start with a blank sheet of paper, how could it be? What ...
04.29.2022 The Bitcoin Adoption Supercycle with Dan Held “We have a lot of things that make me extremely bullish on Bitcoin… did I wish this to happen on the world? Absolutely not, I wish we didn’t need to have Bitcoin because we could trust, but we can’t.” — ...
04.27.2022 Bitcoin, The Greatest Money System with Darin Feinstein “The one thing that’s certain is it’s never going away because this is the best accounting technology, which is instrumental to run the world, that has ever been invented. And so the rest of it is just noise to me, ...
04.25.2022 Is There a Moral Case for Fossil Fuels? with Alex Epstein “If you have any influence on a situation, and you’re using that influence to prevent or discourage low cost, reliable energy, I think you’re contributing to the life catastrophe that is widespread poverty.” — Alex EpsteinAlex Epstein is a philosopher ...
04.22.2022 Bitcoin Energy Markets with Shaun Connell “You can put on this Bitcoin miner attached to your nuclear facility… and since your Bitcoin mining site can be dialled up and dialled down for how it’s dispatched, you’ve just put a supercharger on your nuclear plant; you can ...
04.20.2022 The Power of Decentralisation with Adam Curry “When we say Bitcoin fixes this it’s now so clear, it is the only non-corruptible network… you see it right there on the blockchain, you can check it by your own rules everything. That’s really the only thing we have ...
04.18.2022 Freedom Technologies & Civil Disobedience with Austin Hill “There are so many opportunities to use freedom technologies to build civil disobedience, to put power into the hands of individuals, and Bitcoin’s a part of that.” — Austin HillAustin Hill is a cypherpunk & former Blockstream CEO. In this ...
04.15.2022 The Distortion of Money with Jeff Booth “These ideas of communism and free-market collide, and they’re both communism over time. And that sounds harsh, but it’s a control structure. There is no free market, if there’s a distortion of money, because everything else is on top of ...
04.13.2022 The Moral Case for Bitcoin with Jimmy Song “The moral case for Bitcoin is that you don’t have this cesspool of theft, corruption and cronyism that you do with the US dollar. Fiat money is just straight up evil, it is an institution of corruption, of theft, of ...
04.11.2022 End of the Long-Term Debt Cycle with Dylan LeClair “There’s some pretty big stuff happening behind the scenes. I’m no commodities expert, I’m not in this every day, but I’ve been watching the charts and it’s like, my god, there’s something’s breaking. You see volatility across commodities, equities, credit ...
04.08.2022 Free Speech & Printed Guns with Cody Wilson “What’s a desperate decision that can actually start a symbolic chain reaction? And then how do I pursue that? How do I do something like an artistic act or a creative object that could be received by an audience as ...
04.06.2022 Beyond Bitcoin Maximalism with Pete Rizzo “We’ve swung very heavily towards putting bitcoin’s asset on this pedestal, that Bitcoin is this asset that does not compete with anything, but it has these Invincible qualities. And I think that what we might find is that we’ve over-optimised ...
04.04.2022 Collectivism v Individualism with Robert Breedlove “What the fuck is society? Is it this group of people? Is it that group of people? It’s a useful fiction – we’re describing a group of people with a fictional term, like society, or collectivist, or communist, or whatever ...
04.01.2022 Innovating on Bitcoin with Steve Lee “If it’s too hard to manage your own keys, which even today it is too hard for people, that we wind up in a world in which just a few global custodians hold all the keys and that’s unlikely to ...
03.30.2022 Hyperbitcoinisation with Christian Keroles “I feel like so many people that have multiple Bitcoins, 100% of their focus is to get more Bitcoin, or they’re playing this trading game, and they just don’t appreciate how many Bitcoin they already have. I’m just saying, appreciate ...
03.28.2022 Bitcoin’s Clean Energy Revolution with Nic Carter & Troy Cross “The best new idea I’ve come across… it’s a market-based, voluntary, bottom-up mechanism to resolve individual qualms around sustainability relating to ownership of bitcoin.” — Nic CarterNic Carter is a Partner at Castle Island Ventures, and Troy Cross is a ...
03.25.2022 Truth, Energy, & Bitcoin with Marty Bent “Once you have international trade getting settled in Bitcoin instead of the dollar, I think that’s when you’ll know: alright, we’re under a Bitcoin standard. ” — Marty BentMarty Bent is the founder of the Bitcoin focused media company TFTC.io, ...
03.23.2022 Bitcoin Is for Anyone with David Zell “Most people are good, and have good ambitions for the world, and want things to be better, and so the goal is not to just scream at someone when you disagree with them, it’s to figure out what values you ...
03.21.2022 A Progressive View of Bitcoin with Margot Paez “How do we get to the point where people can talk to each other? The only place where I’ve really seen that happen is in Bitcoin; so to me the social value of Bitcoin is massive because here we’re forced ...
03.18.2022 Bitcoin & National Security with Matthew Pines “A legit Central Bank, with a material amount of capital moving into Bitcoin, it was entirely a theoretical proposition. I think what’s happened in the past two weeks has made that now plausible… you could see it in the next ...
03.16.2022 The End of the Dollar Hegemony with Nic Carter “Right now the integrity of the dollar is in question, people don’t trust US power, US is withdrawing from the international sphere, the international institutions we set up in 1944 are fraying; nobody really trusts them anymore.” — Nic CarterNic ...
03.14.2022 Economic Warfare in Russia & Ukraine with Lyn Alden “We’ve assumed global peace: no geopolitical issues, we’re all gonna kumbaya, get together; and as we enter a world where that’s not the case anymore, we have to put more resiliency into our supply chains, more duplication – so if ...
03.12.2022 The Background to the Russia-Ukraine War with Scott Horton “You hear this all the time: well, how come Ukraine doesn’t have the right to join whatever military alliance they want? You hear that every day, all day, well, just think about that. Is that really true? Is anyone thinking ...
03.10.2022 The Growth of Decentralisation with Travis Kling “I think the digital world is going to continue to eat the analogue world and how dystopian or not that ends up being will be entirely a function of the individuals that are working towards one eventual outcome or the ...
03.08.2022 The Future of Bitcoin Banking with Bill Barhydt “All those bankers we just talked about would laugh at this conversation because they would say, ‘what the fuck are you talking about? Bitcoin standard? Bitcoin is a joke.’… It’s like buying Facebook stock 15 years ago, you know, it’s ...
03.06.2022 A Bitcoin Civilization with Ragnar Lifthrasir “You have a right to free speech and a right to religion, but I think the first right is a right to survive; your first human right is the right to live, your first human right is a right to ...
03.04.2022 Don’t Get Bitcoin Rekt with Andy Edstrom “Bitcoin is this unbelievably unparalleled asset, that respects your time spent, and your labour, and it puts it into this safe and growing in value bank in cyberspace as Saylor says. But you can screw it up if you lever ...

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