Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Bitcoin OG and entrepreneur Bobby Lee to discuss his new book The Promise of Bitcoin. Bobby discusses how he discovered Bitcoin early from his brother Charlie Lee the creator of Litecoin. Bobby Cofounded the largest Bitcoin exchange in China BTCC before running into regulatory issues and ultimately selling the exchange in 2018. Since 2018 Bobby has been working on The Promise of Bitcoin to help Bitcoin curious newbies fast track the education process to learn why Bitcoin is important and why Bitcoin will be successful. The Book is filled with excellent examples and explanations to help a new bitcoiner understand where Bitcoin is going and why that is good for humanity. Lee also focuses on dispelling common myths about Bitcoin that have been spread in the mainstream and encouraging users to take self custody of their Bitcoin. The book is very focused on making Bitcoin digestible to a non technical audience.  We close out the interview with some of Bobby’s predictions for Bitcoin in the next 10 years. Please enjoy this history rich and wide ranging conversation with Bobby Lee.  Find the Book: https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Bitcoin-Future-Money-Work/dp/1260468674

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with the Mayor of Jackson Tennessee Scott Conger to discuss Scott’s recent interest in Bitcoin. Scott has been the Mayor of Jackson for a few years now and is actually the 3rd person in his family to serve as Mayor of Jackson. Mayor Conger has a very long term commitment to the community in Jackson and wants to see the best for his city. Scott sees Bitcoin as an ideal way for his city to secure its financial future as well as to encourage young remote tech workers to lay down roots in Jackson.  The Pandemic and remote work have revealed a massive opportunity for small to medium sized cities to compete for tech talent and work when they used to be crushed by the major tech hubs like San Francisco and New York. Mayor Conger has been watching Mayor Suarez of Miami closely and taken the cue from him to dive into how embracing Bitcoin can help his city be more competitive.  Christian and Scott reflect on how bitcoin has been relatively de-risked and how his education into Bitcoin taught him more about what is wrong with the current system.  Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation Mayor Scott Conger!  If you want to read more about Mayor Conger and Jackson Tennessee read about his Bitcoin journey in Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/meet-the-tennessee-mayor-whos-ready-to-embrace-bitcoin

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles is joined by Bitcoin Magazine researcher Dylan LeClair and pioneer on-chain analyst David Puell. As Bitcoin leads the way for crypto currency adoption and acceptance market participants are starting to embellish in massive pump and dump activities around alternative coins. This portion of a bitcoin Bull market is often referred to as ALT Season, Puell sets appropriate expectations around how bitcoiners should see things play our this bull market. Puell also breaks down his scenarios for this bull market. We transition the topic to trading and which on-chain and macro indicators Puell uses to gain alpha. Lastly we close out with conversation around a super cycle and Bitcoin’s role in the future of finance.  Follow David Puell: @kenoshaking Follow Dylan LeClair: @BTCization Follow ck: @ck_SNARKs Questions covered:  Why are shitcoin outperforming so much in 2021?  Bull market ending early?  Current state of the Bitcoin market on-chain?  Effect of the derivatives and futures market in the market structure of bitcoin?  Increasing amount of liquidity attempting to arbitrage the contango trade up against the global fiat credit markets  Can the contango yields be thought of as a “time value of money” of sorts?  Do you expect volatility to significantly decrease in the coming years as

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host CK sits down with Mike Colyer the CEO of Foundry a wholly owned subsidiary of DCG focused on Mining in the US. Foundry is making a massive effort to bring hashrate to North America both with physical hardware as well as with building the Foundry Mining Pool. Mike is extremely proud of how much hashrate is flowing into the US and that Foundry's pool has peaked into the top 5 BTC mining pools as well as Foundry being one of the very first mining pools to signal for Taproot upgrade of Bitcoin. One of the key ways that Foundry is building out a competitive mining environment in the US is by financing other operations to acquire energy contracts and mining equipment. Foundry understands that nation states will have to build a strategy around Bitcoin mining and he wants to make sure the that hash rate is as evenly distributed around the globe as possible. Topics: Mining in north America Cost per kilowatt in the best geographies The role of mining in geopolitics. Volatility in Bitcoin's Hashrate and what that means. The players in the asic game and the nature of the asic market. Foundry financing self mining or equipment in North America How the mining ecosystem evolving over the course of this year.

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast we have a replay of last week's interview between Adam Back and Pete Rizzo on Satoshi's legacy. Adam Back the co founder and CEO of Blockstream and the investor of Proof of Work. Adam reflects on discovering Bitcoin and searching for the best information in the early days. He worked hard to understand the technical components as well as all of Satoshi's writing about Bitcoin. Adam is not a fan or over glorifying Satoshi or quoting Satoshi quotes. Adam thinks it is important for individuals to learn from Satoshi's thinking but to define Bitcoin based on the product and network itself. Dr. Back and Rizzo reflect on the difference between the stated intent of the bitcoin project, what is actually being built, and how Satoshi contributed to that ethos. Enjoy this wide ranging conversation on Satoshi's Authority, Influence, and legacy.  Topics:  How did Adam start to try and understand what Bitcoin was?  Do you think there’s any value in understanding what Satoshi thought about Bitcoin?  There’s an aversion in the Bitcoin development community about speaking about Satoshi. Can you talk about where that comes from?  Under Satoshi, Bitcoin had a very different development model. Bitcoin Core is today more of a meritocracy. Why does Bitcoin need a meritocracy?  Satoshi has been gone for 10 years. Is Satoshi Nakamoto still influential in Bitcoin today?  It’s been said nobody understands Bitcoin. Was it possible for Satoshi to understand Bitcoin?  What do you think was the biggest mistake that Satoshi Nakamoto made in building Bitcoin? Was it necessary to remove Satoshi ? Where does Satoshi Nakamoto rank in terms of the biggest intellectual contributors to Bitcoin?  Why do you think Satoshi hasn’t moved his Bitcoin? 

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Simon Lapscher the CEO of the Liquality wallet. Liquality is a very interesting wallet because they are focus on atomic swaps. In particular they are focused on atomic swaps with Bitcoin. Liquality makes it possible for your bitcoin to swap into any other currency they support trustlessly. One of the key users of the Liquality Wallet are bitcoiners looking to leverage the RSK blockchain. Liquality makes it easy, trustless, and seamless to squad intro RBTC on RSK.  Lapscher stresses the importance of a wallet which makes Bitcoin’s native features accessible to users. The Liquality wallet is designed to make Bitcoin and other digital assets/tokens interoperable and functional across the entire blockchain space. The guy is to make blockchain and trustless native features easy and accessible for average users. This includes features that bitcoiners are really excited about, Lightning, Coincoin, Batch transactions, Multi-sig and more.  Liquality plans to roll out Liquid support and atomic squaps between BTC and L-BTC. This will make Liquality the one stop shop for BTC Native features as well as atomic swaps with the extended Bitcoin Ecosystem.   Follow CK @ck_SNARKS Follow Simon and Liquality @simonlapscher & @Liquality_io

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Eric Weiss, CEO of the Bitcoin Investment Group Fund (BIG Fund). Eric was early to Bitcoin and saw its potential as an alternative store of value over the internet immediately! Eric was the person that helped introduce  Michael Saylor of Microstrategy to Bitcoin. Eric and Michael are long time friends and it was finally in the initial fall out of the COVID 19 lockdowns where finally Bitcoin as a money outside of the system started to make more sense to Saylor.  “Covid was kind of something that made a lot of people question.” - Eric Weiss Christian and Eric discuss people waking up to Bitcoin, How Bitcoin is actually good for the dollar, Bitcoin exceeding his expectations for 2014, BTC incentives and much much more.  Topics:  The Bitcoin Investment Group. Bonds to Bitcoin. Buying Bitcoin in 2014. Buying bitcoin vs business risk. Bitcoin’s incentives and game theory. Michael Saylor’s quick onboarding and conviction. Turning data into value Twitter: @Eric_BIGfund

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sat down with the CEO of Argo Blockchain (ARBKF) to cover all things mining. The conversation starts with a dive into Peter's Bitcoin story which starts in a hostel in Bali as these stories often do. Peter's journey from running that hostel to operating one of the largest public mining companies in the industry is a tad out of the ordinary.  Wall discusses how Argo breaks down their business among BTC Mining, Alt-coin mining, venture capital, and R&D. Of all of these pillars BTC Mining is by far the most important and the cash cow of the business. Argo is focused on deploying hashrate across the US with an emphasis on mining using renewable resources. Peter think's is not good that so much mining in China uses coal power, especially during the dry season. He and Argo see North America as being an opportunity to align Bitcoin with Green Energy while still being extremely competitive globally on energy costs. Peter thinks that Bitcoin mining can get the best of both worlds. Other topics covered in this podcast: Mining Bitcoin & treasury management The current ASIC market? How is the ASIC Market Changing? Misconceptions around Bitcoin mining and energy usage? Mining in North America. Mining Bitcoin in Texas.

This week for the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast host Christian Keroles and guest host William Clemente sit down with Rafael Schultze-Kraft the CTO of Glassnode. Glassnode is an onchain analytics company and they thrive by making it accessible and easy for Bitcoin enthusiasts, investors, and analysts alike can get their hands on cutting edge metrics and indicators for Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies.  Onchain analytics is the practice of using Blockchain node data to learn about the economic actors using a cryptocurrency. This interview is a high level overview of Glassnodes business, their target audience, and a deep dive on some of the most interesting onchain metrics that Rafeal uses every single day. We dive intro what makes the 2021 bull market look different that the 2017 bull market and what is making Rafeal extremely bullish on Bitcoin in the short and long term.  Below we outlined all of the metrics mentioned on the podcast.  Miner net position: The 30d change of the supply held in miner addresses https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=distribution.BalanceMinersChange&modal=loginForm Dormancy: the average number of days destroyed per coin transacted, and is defined as the ratio of coin days destroyed and total transfer volume https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.AverageDormancy&modal=loginForm Coin Days Destroyed: calculated by taking the number of coins in a transaction and multiplying it by the number of days it has been since those coins were last spenthttps://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.Cdd&modal=loginForm  Lifespan: he ratio of the sum of Coin Days Destroyed and the sum of all coin days ever created https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.Liveliness&modal=loginForm SOPR: computed by dividing the realized value (in USD) divided by the value at creation (USD) of a spent output https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.Sopr&modal=loginForm HODL Waves: Each colored band shows the percentage of Bitcoin in existence that was last moved within the time period denoted in the legend https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=supply.HodlWaves&modal=loginForm Entity Net Growth: The net growth of unique entities in the networkhttps://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=Entities&m=entities.NetGrowthCount&modal=loginForm NUPL: Net unrealized profit/loss https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=&m=indicators.NetUnrealizedProfitLossAccountBased&modal=loginForm Follow Rafael Schultze-Kraft @n3ocortex Follow Glassnode @glassnode Follow William Clemente @

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University Craig Warmke. Professor Warmke is quite unique in academia because he has fallen deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. As a scholar in philosophy, ethics, and human nature Craig is fascinated by Bitcoin's incentive structure and the implications of Bitcoin on society. Professor Warmke is saddened by the state of academia and laments about the broken incentives around tenure that force academics to hyper specialize rather than encouraging them to take more complete and wholistic world views and studies. Warmke believes it is this hyper focus in academia that causes most academics to miss Bitcoin altogether. Professor Warmke is currently managing a research collective around the ethics and philosophy around Bitcoin called Resistance.money with 2 fellow Bitcoin Philosophers Andrew Bailey and Bradley Rettler. The three write papers to demystify why Bitcoin is good as well as they are working on a book titled Resistance Money. Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Professor Craig Warmke . Follow Craig on twitter @craigwarmke Learn More about Resistance Money at https://www.resistance.money/