What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

“Bitcoin is how life should always have been, the cheatcode is fiat money printing…if you print money you get wealthier while other the others who use the money get poorer; but with Bitcoin nobody can print money anymore, and that means the cheatcode is finally gone, and what feels like a cheatcode right now is actually just human life.”— Max HillebrandLyn Alden is a macroe

“Right now, Lightning is not able to support billions of users around the world…when you add the 3 technologies together: Bitcoin, Lighting, and ecash, you have a solution that can give you incredible levels of privacy and scale to billions of users.”— Obi NwosuIn this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCode conference. This panel was titled A CheatCode for Payme

“I’m not going back to that system ever, I’m going to fight and use my time and energy to move this across the world…and as you start to understand that, more and more people join us and the world moves from our intention to what it should be.”— Jeff BoothIn this interview, American HODL, Preston Pysh, Harry Sudock and Jeff Booth join us from the recent CheatCode confer

“What we need to move to is just removing the attention signal as the input to the algorithm and using a value-signal instead; because, then we can still have ranked feeds, but they’re no longer driven by a metric that doesn’t really align with the content creator, and doesn’t really align with the listener.”— Oscar MerryOscar Merry is the Founder of Fountain podcasts.

“If you care about customer harm you wouldn’t put these frictions in place because I can go and buy Bitcoin right now from whoever the hell I want using a VPN and you can’t stop me.”— Freddie NewFreddie New is the Head of Policy at Bitcoin Policy UK. In this interview, we discuss current and proposed legislation affecting Bitcoin and why it often backfires, changing minds

“People get conspiratorial about this, they observe ‘I’m getting fucked by the system everywhere I turn’...I think the far scarier reality is there’s just no one in charge at that level, we’ve absolutely not designed this thing at it’s highest level of operation.”— Nicholas BowickNicholas Bowick is a systems engineer in the aerospace industry. In this interview, w

“If you take savings, commerce, freedom, and power, that’s the bedrock of civilization; so if you don’t have these things…you’re living in a very poor country.”— Alex GladsteinAlex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the ultimate bitcoin use cases. How it is used in commerce, for freedom and how it fundamen

“For the first time in the history of Wall St. we can be front-running the institutions and buying this thing and they still can’t do it; their hands are tied, they just can’t do it.”— James LavishJames Lavish is a macro analyst, and Eric Yakes is the author of The 7th Property. In this interview, we discuss Wall Street’s arrival into Bitcoin, why TradFi struggles to un

“Eventually one of these days the price will move $65,000 and you literally won’t notice or care…are you really going to notice a difference between $2.62 million vs $2.68 million in your account? No, you’re going to look at it and go: ‘ah, it’s still 2.6’.”— American HODLAmerican HODL is an OG Bitcoin investor. In this interview, we discuss ordinals & ‘spam

“We only get this one chance…with Bitcoin to change money for the world, and if we don’t continue to upgrade it then it will simply create another elite.”— VortexVortex is a developer and OG Bitcoin podcaster. In this interview, we look back at the blocksize wars, talk about the challenges upgrading Bitcoin, the dangers of ossification and get into covenants and LNHance.-