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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The Debt Tsunami with Caitl...

12.01.2023

“We will hit an insolvency in the US at some point…we’re nowhere near as the naysayers think we are, now that said, it could happen tomorrow because the financial system is that unstable.” — Caitlin LongCaitlin Long is the Founder ...

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12.01.2023 The Debt Tsunami with Caitlin Long “We will hit an insolvency in the US at some point…we’re nowhere near as the naysayers think we are, now that said, it could happen tomorrow because the financial system is that unstable.” — Caitlin LongCaitlin Long is the Founder ...
11.29.2023 Bitcoin Mining Economics with Steve Barbour “There’s so much more to happen in Bitcoin mining tech that we’re only really starting to scratch the surface I think.” — Steve BarbourSteve Barbour is the president of the Bitcoin mining infrastructure company Upstream Data. In this interview, we ...
11.27.2023 RFK Jr on Media, US Debt & Bitcoin “We have freedom of expression, but if the government then can punish you by shutting down your bank accounts without even charging you with a crime, they have the ultimate power to turn us into slaves.” — Robert F. Kennedy ...
11.24.2023 Bitcoin on the Ballot with Vivek Ramaswamy “Freedom to code, freedom for financial self-reliance, and most importantly freedom to innovate free from regulatory overreach.” — Vivek RamaswamyVivek Ramaswamy is a 2024 US presidential candidate. In this interview, we discuss Vivek’s decision to run for president, his experiences ...
11.22.2023 Milei's Argentine Revolution? With Stephan Livera “Maybe he can try to remove subsidies, maybe he can remove labour market regulations... maybe he can lower the taxes and lower the spending. Fundamentally as a libertarian you want to lower the spending, lower the size of the state, ...
11.20.2023 Macro, Fed Pivot & Bitcoin with Steven McClurg “I see us going to $100,000 by the end of next year, easy…and that’s ignoring a Bitcoin spot ETF; that is a complete game changer.” — Steve McClurgSteven McClurg is a Co-Founder of Valkyrie Investments. In this interview, we discuss ...
11.18.2023 Bitcoin for Banking Failures with Parker Lewis “There are just a lot of signs written on the wall, all over the banking system…all over every central bank in the world, that says the situation where we’re at now is more precarious, and I can’t envision it becoming ...
11.16.2023 Ensuring Bitcoin Wins with Lee Bratcher “42% of people under the age of 29 own digital assets in Texas and the US is probably similar…10 years from now every presidential candidate will have a platform and in all likelihood it’s got to be pro.” — Lee ...
11.14.2023 Life Liberty & the Pursuit of Bitcoin with Robert Breedlove “Bitcoin gets you to a world of more localism…so presumably you would have less proceeds to fund these bullshit false narratives, you’d have less of the systemic lying, less of the systemic stealing, and this would be a more peaceful ...
11.10.2023 Is the Bull Market Back? With Alex Thorn “During the bear market between 2013 and ‘17 it was like ‘bitcoin is for criminals,’ now the largest asset manager on earth says it’s part of a ‘flight to quality’ trade; it’s truly remarkable.” — Alex ThornAlex Thorn is the ...
11.08.2023 Bitcoin’s Full Potential Value with Jesse Myers “This sounds crazy, and I get that, $10 Million per Bitcoin is what this resulted in and I think it’s kind of conservative in its estimates, and that’s crazy.” — Jesse MyersJesse Myers is co-founder and COO of Onramp Bitcoin. ...
11.06.2023 Bitcoin vs the Infinite Money Printer with Luke Gromen “They’re not going to cut the entitlements, they’re going to print the money, and they’re going to print the money with oil at $90…they’re going to print the money with Bitcoin at $35,000… they’re going to print the money.” — ...
11.03.2023 The Fight for Bitcoin Against CBDCs with Mark Moss “I think this is the goal that they’re going to... so control your movement, but then really control your money, because at the end of the day without the freedom to transact, there’s no freedom.” — Mark MossMark Moss is ...
11.01.2023 How Bitcoin Fights Tyranny with Erik Cason “If I’m not wrong about Bitcoin, then I believe this is the most radical apparatus that has ever put its hands in humanity and that is the only thing that can save us from the potential annihilation of total war ...
10.30.2023 The Economics of AI & Bitcoin Mining with Daniel Roberts “If you want to keep pushing more renewables onto the grid in the absence of a price signal, in the absence of underlying demand, there’s only one group that pays for that, it’s the taxpayer.” — Daniel RobertsDaniel Roberts is ...
10.27.2023 The Economic Impact of AI with Matthew Pines & Chester Ney “The worst case scenario is short timelines, fast takeoff, meaning very soon we’re going to hit some non-linear inflection point and it’s going to be…game over.” — Matthew PinesMatthew Pines is the Director of Intelligence at Krebs Stamos Group and ...
10.25.2023 Bitcoin Financial Advice with Pierre & Morgen Rochard “In order to match inflation, to meet long term goals, and to do all the things people want to do in their lives, they’re being forced beyond their risk tolerance…in my mind, Bitcoin even though it’s a volatile asset, you’re ...
10.23.2023 Scaling Bitcoin with Christian Decker “How much of the management burden, how much of the security burden can we take away from users while they are learning, while they are reaping the benefits of using bitcoin?…Maybe they only become interested once you’ve seen the upside.” ...
10.21.2023 Are Central Banks Losing Control? With Lyn Alden & Natalie Smolenski “Those that don’t want issues focused on the money divide people to focus on other things…they don’t really care about any of these views, what they’re trying to do is sew chaos.” — Lyn AldenLyn Alden is a macroeconomist and ...
10.19.2023 Here Comes Bitcoin with Steve Lee & Haley Berkoe “People think I’m here to make them money, I’m just here to make money better” — BitcoinIn this episode, we are joined by Steve Lee, the Lead at Spiral, Haley Berkoe, PM at Spiral and… Bitcoin. We discuss whether Bitcoin ...
10.17.2023 Bitcoin Mining: Adapt or Die with Nick Hansen & Matthew Williams “The reason this is actually different is because there is actual proof-of-work, there is demonstrable economic activity happening…you’re just giving up some of the yield, or some of the margin that you would produce from that mining yield to somebody ...
10.13.2023 The Debt Spiral with Preston Pysh & James Lavish “It’s not just some random Bitcoiner and some guy from Cincinnati talking about this debt spiral anymore, it’s everybody on Wall Street, it’s very credible people…the math isn’t working anymore and this is looking like we’re crossing the event horizon ...
10.11.2023 Building the Global Financial System with David Marcus “You can theorise a lot about the experience we’ve had, but having lived it has changed my worldview and my appreciation in such a way that now I have this unshakeable conviction that Bitcoin is the only form of neutral ...
10.09.2023 How the Federal Reserve Works with Joseph Wang “When you have more political centralised control, there’s a lot more vulnerability to things like corruption and mismanagement and I think that’s where we’re headed; so, I’m actually quite pessimistic for the global economy for the next decade.” — Joseph ...
10.07.2023 Decentralise Everything with William Casarin “How can protocols improve humanity?…It’s just computer code, it’s just a way for computers to talk to each other, it’s a protocol; and somehow that simple idea is having huge impacts on the world.” — William CasarinWilliam Casarin is a ...
10.05.2023 Bitcoin’s Cultural Revolution with Steve Lubka “As we contemplate this, what may be a phase-change in industrial society, what are the questions we need to be asking?” — Steven LubkaSteven Lubka is Managing Director of Private Client Services at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, they discuss ...
10.03.2023 Hyperbitcoinisation Can’t Happen with Mike Brock “Even if you come in with normie assumptions about economics and normie assumptions about politics and normie assumptions about the world, I think you can come up with a really really powerful bull case for Bitcoin… There’s so many good ...
09.29.2023 The Free Market for Money with Peter St Onge “The value proposition of Bitcoin, how it can change the world, it’s to a certain degree abstract… when you actually spend time in these countries where currency collapse is a reality, it opens your eyes as a Bitcoiner.” — Peter ...
09.27.2023 The Bitcoin Debate with Jeff Booth & George Gammon “Bitcoin gives us the ability to transact outside of the system…I think there is massive, massive, massive value and Bitcoin is sensational, and Bitcoin will, in my opinion, overachieve.” — George GammonJeff Booth is the Author of The Price of ...
09.25.2023 Making Bitcoin Carbon Negative with Daniel Batten “We’re in a position – because of that cheap price of electricity – where the people who are doing this form of Bitcoin mining, they’ll be one of the most resilient on the network.” — Daniel BattenDaniel Batten is an ...
09.22.2023 The Breaking of the Global Economy with Nik Bhatia “You can imagine a world in which people actually have more power than institutions and governments…Bitcoin has the ultimate power in making the world a better place for people.” — Nik BhatiaNik Bhatia is the founder of ‘The Bitcoin Layer’ ...
09.20.2023 All Roads Lead to Bitcoin with Checkmate “.1% to 1% is gargantuan numbers, just extraordinary numbers, if bitcoin does in fact achieve 1% balance sheet capacity everywhere…it makes a lot of sense, it’s the perfect currency to settle between enemies for oil, which creates enemies.” — CheckmateCheckmate ...
09.18.2023 Macroeconomics & On-Chain Data with Nik Bhatia & Willy Woo - WBD Live in Sydney “We know from history that increased trade reduces the likelihood of armed conflict…so what if Bitcoin can contribute to world peace?” — Nik BhatiaOn September 9th What Bitcoin Did hosted a live show in Sydney. In this second of two ...
09.16.2023 WBD Live in Sydney Pt 1 with Checkmate, Daniel Roberts & Rusty Russell “People understand what they own now, why they own it; you don’t step in front of the FTX train without knowing why the hell you’re here, that takes serious guts and serious conviction.” — CheckmateOn September 9th What Bitcoin Did ...
09.14.2023 Orange Pilling Through Sport with Steven Nelkovski & Patrick O'Sullivan “The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is, if it works with baseball, it works with anything…if you think about value for value, the model, it changes everything.” — Patrick O'SullivanSteven Nelkovski is the CEO of Perth Heat and Patrick O’Sullivan is ...
09.12.2023 Solving the Unsolvable Problems with Michael Dunworth “Bitcoin’s going to be the key ingredient to humanity going the next level, to something like the unified field theory, which is basically where we know how to control every particle in the universe; and, that’s not all that far ...
09.08.2023 Valuing Bitcoin with Peter Dunworth “The first valuation framework is simple in that there’s $6.3 trillion of global trade that happens on a daily basis, and if you divide $6.3 trillion by the 900 BTC that are minted on the day you get to $7 ...
09.06.2023 Is Chainalysis Prosecuting Innocent People with L0la L33tz “This software is being used to imprison people, it’s being used for compliance reasons, to censor transactions. So, if this thing is inaccurate we’re just randomly pointing fingers at people. This is neither just nor democratic.” — L0la L33tzL0la L33tz ...
09.04.2023 Part 3: How Bitcoin Fixes Money with Lyn Alden “As the first time where hard asset, bearer asset money can move at the speed of telecommunications globally… it’s one of the first technologies in money that can improve it that’s not centralising, it’s arguably decentralising, and that’s what makes ...
09.01.2023 Part 2: How Money Broke with Lyn Alden “The amount of games and shenanigans and corruption that goes on in all these…different currencies, from the big ones and especially the small ones, it’s remarkable; and, it’s largely technological limitation that got us to this point.” — Lyn AldenLyn ...
08.30.2023 Part 1: The Emergence of Money with Lyn Alden “Commodity money is like nature’s ledger…bank money is basically a ledger governed by nation states…and then open-source money like Bitcoin is money governed by the users.” — Lyn AldenLyn Alden is a macroeconomist and investment strategist. In this interview, we ...
08.28.2023 How Central Banks Broke Money with Matthew Mežinskis “It’s the good people that are suffering, the bad people are never going to comply with you anyway, so you’re not accomplishing anything. I do think the Bitcoin will help to change that.” — Matthew MežinskisMatthew Mežinskis is the creator ...
08.25.2023 The Growing Culture War with Konstantin Kisin “Freedom has tradeoffs, freedom will mean you’re less safe and freedom means people will say things you don’t like; I’m okay with that, because I don’t want to live in totalitarian China and I don’t want to live in Soviet ...
08.23.2023 What Nostr Did with Ben Arc “The model we have now which is corrupt and a bit evil, that will probably still exist, it’s just you have a choice as a user to not use that model.” — Ben ArcBen Arc is a free open-source software ...
08.21.2023 The Debanking of Nigel Farage “If the desire of the big institutions to basically prevent a flight of money into bitcoin…what on earth do people do?” — Nigel FarageNigel Farage is a prominent British broadcaster and former politician. In this interview, in the wake of ...
08.18.2023 Orange Pilling Your Kids with Samantha de Waal “Bitcoin is – in my opinion – the future of money… so why trade it for Euro, or Pounds, or Dollars if you’re going to hold onto the Bitcoin and be able to use it in the future?” — Samantha ...
08.16.2023 The Breakdown of Trust with Doomberg “One of the things that held up the US dollar hegemony was the state of our institutions and the quality of our financial markets and the rule of law… and the level of corruption and criminality that is on blatant ...
08.14.2023 Will Blackrock Be Bitcoin's Suddenly Moment? With Parker Lewis “The endgame of all these currencies is hyperinflation, the Dollar, the Euro, the Yen…the Yuan, the Ruble, all of them; but I think when one of those currencies that’s run by more of a developed nation…that’s when everyone is forced ...
08.11.2023 The Bitcoin Mutiny with Tony Giorgio “We want to get to the point where any Lighting node on the network can be an LSP for anyone else, that’s the dream.” — Tony GiorgioTony Giorgio is the co-founder and CEO of Mutiny Wallet, a self-custodial lightning wallet. ...
08.09.2023 Money Printing & the Debt Spiral with Macro Alf “This direct connection that mainstream economics wants to draw between the amount of bank reserves in the system and lending, stimulating the economy, doesn’t exist.” — Macro AlfMacro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strategy firm. ...

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