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'œone of the main reasons for Bitcoin's success is something that resonates with us as humans on a much deeper level: the primal elements of its brand, which when combined, turn it into a belief system." - Paulo Sacramento Today we go deeper than the technical aspects of Bitcoin, less about the code and innovation itself, & more about the human element. What is it about Bitcoin that connects it to the primal elements inside us? What makes Bitcoin not a mere technology, but an ideology? And what can it tell us about Bitcoin's long term staying power? The Seven Primal Elements of the Bitcoin Brand:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-seven-primal-elements-of-bitcoin Mentioned in the episode to explore the topic further:Sally Hogshead, FascinateThe Cryptoconomy Holiday Calendar Don't forget to get your BitBox02 with discount code "GUY" for 5% off at guyswann.com/bitboxYou should already be stacking, but take the work out of it by do it automatically with Swanbitcoin.com/guy (free sats to start your plan)

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One of the biggest updates to DeFi is here - the launch of Uniswap's groundbreaking v3. But how does it work? What are its tradeoffs? How will it affect DeFi? Former quant trader, DeFi power user and developer Will Sheehan (@willburforce_) joins us in answer any questions you have about Uniswap v3, and the wider DeFi landscape. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

This episode was recorded on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the perfect date for a conversation with Gabriel Shipton, half-brother of Julian Assange. We are talking about the current state of Julian, who is the first publisher charged under the US espionage act and is awaiting further trials locked up in Belmarsh high security prison, the connections between WikiLeaks, journalism and Bitcoin and why and how Bitcoiners should support Julian's case. The current state of Julian Assange WikiLeaks and the history of the charges The US against Julian Assange No extradition from the UK, but Belmarsh prison WikiLeaks achievements The blocking of WikiLeaks bank connections Bitcoin and WikiLeaks Press Freedom, quo vadis? No free internet without WikiLeaks and Bitcoin Call for support and donations The prosecution of Julian Assange can be stopped, but we need your help. An easy way you can do something is by donating as much bitcoin as you can afford through our portal at the below link. Our goal is to raise 40 bitcoin to pay for the appeal and associated campaigning. Donations are totally legal/tax deductible and are made through the Germany-based not-for-profit Wau Holland Foundation. Donate here: https://wauland.de/en/donate/moral-courage/#77 Shownotes on the episode page

Description: On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Mario interview Alejandro de la Torre of Poolin. We cover his time at btc.com, seeing the 2017 civil war from his insider perspective, and Poolin's split away from Bitmain. We also dig into taproot signalling - the efforts to bridge communication gaps across cultures and industries, the firmware and node challenges for signalling, the unfortunate overlap of signalling and Chinese holidays, and what we as a community can do to encourage taproot activation in the coming weeks.

Will Clemente just finished his Sophomore year as a finance major. Since he dove down the rabbit hole about a year ago he's amassed almost 50k followers on Twitter looking to his on-chain analytics detailing why we should be bullish. In this ep we get some of that analysis from Will and learn more about his unique bitcoin story.

Ravencoin's Tron Black joins Tatiana & Josh for a fascinating discussion about the project. From its origins and goals to the technology specifics, you'll learn tons about the currency and its blockchain, from the challenges of keeping fairness in the mining community to regulatory issues that the entire blockchain space are dealing with. Plus, Tron's thoughts on Dogecoin's rise, Elon Musk's involvement, and what sets Ravencoin apart from it. About the Guest: Tron Black is a freedom advocate, crypto developer, entrepreneur, and founder of two startups which were sold to publicly traded companies. Since early 2013, Tron has been working in the crypto-currency space as a miner, developer, investor, and trader. He was one of the first five employees of t0 (tzero), and helped issue the first publicly traded SEC acknowledged parallel crypto-equity forOverstock.comand the world's first crypto bond offering. Tron was a Principal Developer for Medici Ventures which invests in a portfolio of companies including TZero, Bankorus, Bitt, Voatz, Minds, Chainstone Labs, Ripio, SettleMint, Vinsent, and Spera. Tron is currently the President of the Ravencoin Foundation. Tron has given away crypto-currencies to hundreds of people to help increase awareness of how value now moves as easily as e-mail. He's written articles about Bitcoin, Monero, Dash, STOs and Ravencoin, and been featured on many crypto-currency podcasts. He regularly gives talks on crypto-currency topics worldwide. Tron is currently an advisor to TZero, TUSC, Realio.fund, EquaStart, and the lead developer for Ravencoin (RVN) which is both a top crypto-currency and a leading crypto-asset platform. If you like this content, please send a tip with BTC to1Q2QHoNowg8D2QzWhBQU1YrraG771aCpgS More Info: Tatiana Moroz '“https://www.tatianamoroz.com Ravencoin Project -https://ravencoin.org Ravencoin Foundation -https://ravencoin.foundation Ravencoin Campus -https://download.ravencoincampus.org Friends and Sponsors of the Show: Proof of Love '“http://proofoflovecast.com/ Crypto Media Hub '“https://www.cryptomediahub.com/ Global Crypto Advisors '“http://globalcryptoadvisors.com You have been listening to the Tatiana Show. This show may contain adult content, language, and humor and is intended for mature audiences. If that's not you, please stop listening. Nothing you hear on The Tatiana Show is intended as financial advice, legal advice, or really, anything other than entertainment. Take everything you hear with a grain of salt. Oh, and if you're hearing us on an affiliate network, the ideas and views expressed on this show, are not necessarily those of the network you are listening on, or of any sponsors or any affiliate products you may hear about on the show.

The Delphi Podcast Hosts Yan Liberman and Colm Buckley have Kieran Warwick and Aaron Warwick, Co-Founders of Illuvium, on the podcast to discuss the upcoming launch of their new game. The group discuss Kieran and Aaron's story to better understand the genesis of Illuvium. Afterwards they go into all aspects of the game, ranging from token econ to long term vision.

Bitcoin is not slowing down after its massive start to 2021, and February has been another incredibly bullish month for bitcoin. First, following Tesla's announcement that they bought $1.5bn of bitcoin for their corporate treasury, the price surged above $50,000 for the first time. A few days later, with the bitcoin price at $53,763, the market capitalisation of bitcoin broke $1 trillion. Although bitcoin has since dropped back below the $1 trillion market cap, some analysts have suggested that if bitcoin can hold above that level, this de-risks bitcoin as an investment. With this, some institutional investors may begin to see bitcoin as a more feasible option. In this interview, I talk to Lyn Alden, a macroeconomist and investment strategist. We discuss Tesla buying bitcoin, MicroStrategy's billion-dollar raise, hitting a $1 trillion market cap and the sovereign bond market.

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tascha Punyaneramitdee of Alpha Finance. The two discuss Alpha's token economic plan (staking and unlocked features per product), value accrual, backstopping risk in the platform, growing to take on DeFi giants while staying nimble and releasing cutting edge products, AlphaX's perpetual product and much more. Tascha is a magical founder. As a recap, we originally hosted Tascha on December 4, 2020 - view this episode here.

My guest is Miss Aurra from Harare, Zimbabwe. I got to know her at the beginning of 2020, when I visited Zimbabwe to research the possibilities and the use of Bitcoin in the country. In May 2020 we started a donation campaign for the school that Miss Aurra is leading. It had to be closed down due to Covid and the school lost its building. We are discussing the difficult living situation in Zimbabwe and how Bitcoin has been helping through your donations. Who is Miss Aurra? Living conditions Economical situation in Zimbabwe Problems in getting money in and out of the country The use of bitcoin in Zimbabwe Bitcoin's volatility The effects of donations What one donor did Workshop about Bitcoin with teachers Reaction of people knowing about Bitcoin Government, Bitcoin and free speech How to donate More Zimbabwe related interviews and contentShownotes on the episode page

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk taproot signalling, theft on BSC DeFi platforms, and Charlie Munger surprising everyone with a perfectly nuanced take on bitcoin. We finish off trying to determine whether or not we should get rid of everyone's pets to save the environment. Probably, right? Cryptonews writes: Bitcoin's long-awaited Taproot upgrade - its biggest upgrade since SegWit in 2017 - has been kicked off with Speedy Trial - giving miners three months to signal readiness to enforce the upgrade. The first of six epochs has failed to lock in the upgrade. On May 1, the network saw another mining difficulty adjustment, which signalled the beginning of the 'will it-will it not activate' phase of the Taproot upgrade, a proposed protocol upgrade that should improve Bitcoin's privacy and flexibility. Simply said, Speedy Trial's aim is to allow the upgrade activation attempt to fail or succeed quickly - making a difference between no mandatory activation and the guarantee that taproot would be activated. The mining difficulty of Bitcoin is adjusted every 2016 blocks, or approximately every two weeks. What the miners have before them now is the current signalling period of 2016 blocks, with six activation epochs set in the period of three months, during which 90% of the blocks have to signal for Taproot activation - meaning, they have to include a signal bit into the mined blocks. If this 90% threshold is reached, the upgrade will be locked in, then activated in November. If miners don't lock in Taproot, another mechanism can be used to try again. '" https://cryptonews.com/news/bitcoin-taproot-speedy-trial-begins-but-no-lock-in-in-this-e-10143.htm Coindesk writes: Spartan Protocol, a decentralized protocol built on Binance Smart Chain for incentivized liquidity and synthetic assets, was exploited earlier Sunday UTC due to 'œa flawed liquidity share calculation' in the protocol, resulting in a loss of more than $30 million, according to a Medium post by on-chain analysis and security startup PeckShield. "In particular, the specific hack inflates the asset balance of the pool before burning the same amount of pool tokens to claim an unnecessarily large amount of underlying assets," the post read. "What we know so far '" attacker used $61 million in BNB to overcome the pools via a[n] as yet unknown economic exploit path to remove roughly $3 million in funds from the pools," according to the official Twitter account of Spartan Protocol, which first reported the incident around 12:21 a.m. UTC on May 2. According to Spartan Protocol's official website, the decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity platform "provides community-governed and programmable token emissions functions to incentivize the formation of deep liquidity pools." The attack came just a few days after Binance Smart Chain's DeFi exchange Uranium Finance lost more than $50 million in an exploit on April 28 from a similar attack. The attack on Spartan Protocol makes it the sixth-biggest monetary exploit in DeFi history, according to Rekt, after EasyFi's $59 million, Uranium Finance's $57.2 million, Kucoin's $45 million, Alpha Finance's $37.5 million and Meerkat Finance's $32 million. '" https://www.coindesk.com/binance-smart-chains-spartan-protocol-loses-30m-in-exploit At the Berkshire-Hathaway Shareholders conference, BRK vice Chairman Charlie Munger did not mince words when it came to bitcoin, stating 'œ'˜Of course, I hate the bitcoin success and I don't welcome a currency that's useful to kidnappers and extortionists, and so forth. Nor do I like just shoveling out a few extra billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. So I think I should say modestly that I think the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization. And I'll leave the criticism to others.' To which Warren Buffet added 'œI'm okay on that one.' Is this just another case of '&

Since last month's episode with Willy Woo, bitcoin went from ~$30,000 to a new all-time high of over $58,000. This price action came on the back of a couple of massive announcements: Tesla added $1.5bn of bitcoin to its company treasury. MicroStrategy announced a raise of $600m in a convertible senior note sale to buy bitcoin before reassessing and increasing the raise to $900m. Upon completion of the raise, the company estimated the proceeds to be close to $1.05bn The bitcoin market cap broke through $1 trillion While corporations are still driving the bitcoin price, Willy Woo believes that we have entered a new phase of the bull market and that retail traders have arrived. As stated in his recent newsletter: "Bitcoin's blockchain is seeing 20,000 new users per day, this is a sudden 3x increase over the normal 5,000-10,000 per day previously. It's a very sure sign that retail investors are now coming in. They typically start ramping up in numbers during the middle phases of bull markets." In this interview, we discuss the Tesla & MicroStrategy news, the recent drop in price and what retail entering the market will mean for bitcoin.

Tatiana is in the beautiful & pristine mountains of Oregon with an update on her travels, including some awesome new projects she'll be announcing more about soon! If you like this content, please send a tip with BTC to1Q2QHoNowg8D2QzWhBQU1YrraG771aCpgS More Info: Tatiana Moroz '“https://www.tatianamoroz.com TokenFM - https://token.fm Friends and Sponsors of the Show: Proof of Love '“http://proofoflovecast.com/ Crypto Media Hub '“https://www.cryptomediahub.com/ Global Crypto Advisors '“http://globalcryptoadvisors.com *You have been listening to the Tatiana Show. This show may contain adult content, language, and humor and is intended for mature audiences. If that's not you, please stop listening. Nothing you hear on The Tatiana Show is intended as financial advice, legal advice, or really, anything other than entertainment. Take everything you hear with a grain of salt. Oh, and if you're hearing us on an affiliate network, the ideas and views expressed on this show, are not necessarily those of the network you are listening on, or of any sponsors or any affiliate products you may hear about on the show.

This week, my friend Ben Sparango (@bennybitcoins), currently growth at Solana and former investment analyst at Multicoin Capital, turns the spotlight on me. Ben interviews me on how I got into crypto, discusses my current investment thesis around DeFi, and my journey helping scale Spartan Capital from a $9M to a $200M fund. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.