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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“You’re basically putting this powder keg together of a situation that’s going to be exploding in Q3 and Q4 this year. And so, while I think ultimately it will be good for Bitcoin, it could be quite volatile on the ...

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05.26.2023 A Debt Jubilee to Save the Economy with Arthur Hayes “You’re basically putting this powder keg together of a situation that’s going to be exploding in Q3 and Q4 this year. And so, while I think ultimately it will be good for Bitcoin, it could be quite volatile on the ...
05.24.2023 The Case of Roman Sterlingov with Tor Ekeland & Mike Hassard “What should scare the fuck out of everybody involved with Bitcoin here is, if that’s accurate, if they can get federal criminal jurisdiction by simply doing that, that means that any prosecutor in the United States can sit down at ...
05.22.2023 Ledger Recover with Pascal Gauthier, NVK, Matt Odell & Harry Sudock “The thing with security is it works today, the question is: is it going to work tomorrow? There are new attackers, there’s new ways to attack etc which is why security is an always-evolving technology. ” — Pascal GauthierPascal Gauthier ...
05.19.2023 Is Bitcoin Warfare? With Jason Lowery “We had irrigated land, we had army. We had goods travelling across the sea, we had navy. We had goods travelling across the air, we had air force… So what happens when civilization expands its footprint into cyberspace? How do ...
05.17.2023 10 Rules for Life with Michael Saylor “There’s this phrase Bitcoin fixes this… I’m of the opinion that Bitcoin fixes everything. I think Bitcoin is a solution to every city, every state, every country, every corporation, every network, every application, every product.” — Michael SaylorMichael Saylor is ...
05.15.2023 1000 Years of Inflation with Rune Østgård “The people who worked as economists, who were against inflation, they were basically frozen out of the universities, etc. They, the politicians, wouldn’t listen to them.” — Rune ØstgårdRune Østgård is the Author of ‘Fraudcoin: 1000 Years with Inflation as ...
05.12.2023 How Fedimint Scales Bitcoin with Obi Nwosu “We’re effectively the outsource business development arm for the entire Bitcoin ecosystem… Inherent in our model is that we win by ensuring the entire ecosystem wins. ” — Obi NwosuObi Nwosu is a co-founder of Fedimint and a board member ...
05.10.2023 A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin with Bradley Rettler “If you had to step behind the veil of ignorance and forget who you are in the world, would you want to step back into a world that had Bitcoin or that didn’t have Bitcoin? And for most people in ...
05.08.2023 Busting the GBTC Trust with David Bailey “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and there’s so much fucking smoke at DCG you can’t breathe.” — David BaileyDavid Bailey is the co-founder & CEO of BTC Inc. In this interview, we discuss the upcoming Bitcoin Conference in Miami, the ...
05.05.2023 Gold, Bitcoin & Inflation with Lawrence Lepard “We need to live in a deflationary world. Therefore, we need a currency which matches that world. So we’re trying to push an inflationary currency story (based on Keynes’s wrong premises), against a deflationary world that needs more efficiency, not ...
05.03.2023 Escaping Hyperinflation in a Rolls Royce with Freddie New “Why I feel perhaps Bitcoin and its properties appealed more to me than to some other people…I was lucky to have strange experiences as a kid, which I feel made the advantages of a money which you can carry in ...
05.01.2023 WBD Live in Bedford with Jeff Booth, James Lavish, Lawrence Lepard & Ben Arc “When people are talking about Bitcoin price going up, that is not what’s happening. Everything is falling against Bitcoin forever. That’s what’s happening. And so when you’re measuring Bitcoin price going up, you’re actually defaulting to the currency that’s being ...
04.29.2023 Why Deflation is the Key to Abundance with Jeff Booth “Everything in the world has counterparty risk to that debt except for Bitcoin… if you’re measuring from Bitcoin then you’re seeing prices falling to the marginal cost of production everywhere.” — Jeff BoothJeff Booth is the Author of The Price ...
04.27.2023 Recession is Coming with James Lavish “There’s just too much leverage in the US system, they can’t let the market drawdown too deeply, we can’t go into too deep of a recession; and everybody knows this, they’ve been conditioned to it and this is the QE ...
04.24.2023 The Regulatory Threat to Bitcoin with Jason Brett “What’s keeping me up is I don’t really know if the ‘banking crisis’ is over, we’ve done another temporary measure. But it was a process of many months, and then a couple of years where maybe we’ll face the repercussions, ...
04.21.2023 The Truth About Bitcoin Mining with Lane Rettig “All this article serves to do is force you to one side or the other. Either you kind of go into this sceptical about Bitcoin or maybe not knowing much about it and come out of it feeling very strongly ...
04.19.2023 Scaling Bitcoin Privacy with Calle “This was the reason why I think ecash is coming back now: because it needed Bitcoin. Ecash is almost worth nothing if you don’t have a free sovereign monetary layer below it… and we found the base money of the ...
04.17.2023 The Sovereign Debt Bubble with Luke Gromen “We know where we are in the debt cycle, we know where we are with energy. And so then it comes down to the key points: when there is tension in the market, when there’s volatility in treasuries - okay, ...
04.14.2023 The Failure of Central Banking with Matthew Mežinskis “We are at peak central banking at the moment. The only thing more peak would be a nationalisation of the entire system, and no other bank, full CBDCs…the central bank’s basically controlling all the retail money: did you spend too ...
04.12.2023 Bitcoin’s Wall’d Garden with Eric Wall “This group of Bitcoiners that we’ve cultivated for the last couple of years, they are not going to help us to grow this community by a tenfold or a hundredfold anymore. That’s a small clique of people that has now ...
04.10.2023 The Corruption of Power & Influence with Ahmed Gatnash “Lack of accountability, lack of representation, oppression, corruption, dysfunctional institutions leading to dysfunctional economies where people can’t make enough to survive; and there’s only so much you can take of that before you reach the end of your tether.” — ...
04.07.2023 The Failure of Government Economic Policy with Dan Tubb “For every £1 the government collects in taxes, it spends £1.30. And the debt element of that is going up all the time, and you’re not getting anything for that. And effectively we’re in a spiral, a debt spiral.” — ...
04.05.2023 The Decentralisation of Bitcoin Mining with Braiins “What is the end goal for V2? Is allowing miners to build the block themselves, but at the same time use the money aspect of pool mining…the money would be still the same, but the transaction selection would be distributed, ...
04.03.2023 The Global Financial Crisis 2? With Lyn Alden “The end game, that’s where it gets tricky, because there’s really no plan to ever stop the fiscal deficits. Debt to GDP is very, very high. And the world’s never been in this position before where we have an entirely ...
03.31.2023 The Bushido of Bitcoin with Aleks Svetski “Now that we’re in a time of peace - and we don’t need war anymore, and war is bad, and all that sort of stuff - we can do away with the whole warrior culture, the warrior ideology. And what ...
03.29.2023 Why Mainstream Media is Failing Us with Izabella Kaminska “The system is better off with a neutral asset that can price everything because, without a neutral asset, you have no pricing of anything…money must be neutral. And there is no neutral money outside of Bitcoin at the moment.” — ...
03.27.2023 A Bitcoin Reality Check with Sergej Kotliar “Do we want everybody in the world to be orange-pilled, and to share in all of the shared values of the Bitcoin community? And do we think that’s a realistic goal? Or do we want as many people as possible ...
03.24.2023 The Economics of Privacy with Max Hillebrand “That meatspace layer between the computer and your brain is unencrypted…if this last mile is not encrypted, then all of the securities that we can gain in cyberspace are null and void. Now, because you type in your 24 words, ...
03.22.2023 Why Progressives Need Bitcoin with Trey Walsh “We’ve politicised everything. Problems aren’t problems anymore. For the left: what is their approach? For the right: what is their approach? And it’s because the political system is broken. And obviously, most of the listeners and we know it’s also ...
03.20.2023 Bitcoin’s Operation Chokepoint with Doomberg “Ejection from the banking system can be random. Happens for political reasons in the US all the time. It’s rarely reported about. And, in a way, it’s more devastating than being on probation for having been convicted for something, because ...
03.17.2023 Bank Runs, Bailouts & Bitcoin with Caitlin Long “The Fed’s going to end up having to expand its balance sheet again, to proverbially print money, in order to provide the extra cash for the banks to be able to meet the demand deposit withdrawal; the banks should have ...
03.15.2023 Beginners Guide Part 3/3 - How to Buy & Hold Bitcoin with Dan Held “With Bitcoin, we’re finally free. We’re finally free with our money to do whatever we’d like with it…so if a government becomes onerous, and they start to crack down on transactions or crack down on different types of races, religions, ...
03.14.2023 Beginners Guide Part 2/3 - What is Bitcoin? With Harry Sudock “Bitcoin is beautifully simple: from a mind-virus perspective there are only 21 million, what you own, you own, it’s yours, you’re in control. It puts the burden and the responsibility back on the individual, and therefore the opportunity rests on ...
03.13.2023 Beginners Guide Part 1/3 - Why Bitcoin? With American HODL “The way in which you think about it will not be the way in which you think about it in 10 years time, but you are involved in something here that is going to be one of the defining things ...
03.10.2023 Building a Bitcoin Community with Thomas Pacchia “It’s a special thing when somebody comes in and they pay in Bitcoin. And they go through sort of the ritual of getting out the separate POS and it’s the Zeus wallet, which has an awesome user interface. And you’ll ...
03.08.2023 What Does Bitcoin Actually Fix with George Kaloudis “I think money is an instrument for change, but it’s not the change itself. And it’s a very powerful tool, and it depends on who wields it and what kind of change gets implemented. If a bad person has good ...
03.06.2023 How the Fed “Went Broke” with Lyn Alden “What they did back in 2008…they said, ‘Well, we’re going to create a tonne of new base money, we’re going to buy some of those assets to reliquefy the system.’ And so, it’s not an exaggeration to say it’s essentially ...
03.03.2023 WBD Live - NYC: Junseth on Ordinals with Junseth “Bitcoin for the first time gives you the sovereign and particular right to your finances to spend, to trade, and that’s something we didn’t know that the government couldn’t take away from you. Bitcoin is the manifestation of the God-given ...
03.01.2023 The Future of Bitcoin Banking with Eric Yakes “The whole point is that we have enough self-custody to where the system remains permissionless so that we don’t turn into digital gold 2.0. That’s the whole point. Maybe that’s 20% of all Bitcoin, maybe that’s 30%. I have no ...
02.27.2023 Do Ordinals Make Bitcoin Better or Worse Money? With Rob Hamilton “Bitcoin exists. Any sort of moralistic lens of perspectives of what it should be doing is a conversation, but Bitcoin works as this anarchic system where there’s no one in control, and everyone gets to use it however they want; ...
02.24.2023 Grayscale, the SEC & Genesis with Michael Sonnenshein “A lot of regulators all around the world are looking to see how US regulators treat Bitcoin…I would say that anybody who is broadly involved in the crypto space, you want to see Grayscale win this lawsuit.” — Michael SonnensheinMichael ...
02.22.2023 Scaling Bitcoin Culture with Amanda Cavaleri “If I were a decision maker in the US I would probably want to figure out how to embrace Bitcoin to make the US dollar stronger. I think that’s a pretty smart move. We’ll see if that happens.” — Amanda ...
02.20.2023 Economics in One Podcast with Ben Prentice “It’s the idea that you use logic to come to the wrong conclusion, and because you are using logic, you think you came to the right conclusion…what Henry Hazlitt argues in this book, Economics in One Lesson, is that there’s ...
02.17.2023 The Frontier of Bitcoin Mining with Lee Bratcher “This industry has so much potential to be a demand side battery for any grid (but especially the Texas grid, because we have so much of it and we have so much stranded energy that because of transmission congestion) that ...
02.15.2023 Bitcoin Mining & the Energy Grid Transition with Troy Cross & Shaun Connell “Bitcoin’s an intelligence test, but it’s also an epistemic humility test. You don’t have to know everything about Bitcoin, nobody knows everything about Bitcoin. The question is, do you pretend you know when you don’t? And if you do you’ll ...
02.13.2023 The Future of Bitcoin Mining & Security with Sam Wouters “We honestly just don’t know how much we actually need to fend off all of these potential attacks…it’s kind of like with physical security: you could spend $100,000 every month on physical security and someone might still figure out a ...
02.10.2023 Responding to a Financial Crisis with Jason Brett “You may not care what the government’s doing and you may think what I’m doing is a total waste of time…but here’s the problem, they’re thinking about you…is Bitcoin going to work, are we going to see this revolution through ...
02.08.2023 The Evolution of Bitcoin Narratives with Harry Sudock “If you believe that there is a pending climate crisis and you do not believe in nuclear energy technology, you’re anti-human and I no longer know how to relate to you on the merits.” — Harry SudockHarry Sudock is Chief ...
02.06.2023 The Future of Nuclear Energy with Everett Redmond “You’re seeing a lot of support for nuclear now… I think the momentum behind nuclear is growing more and more with climate change… we’re in a very good path moving forward to build out a lot more nuclear to provide ...
02.03.2023 The Truth About Nuclear Energy with Anthony Jared “I don’t like to call myself an environmentalist because that’s such a subjective term, but I’m very, very, very conscientious of the environment... I try extremely hard to make sure that my carbon footprint is very small, and I’m telling ...

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