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The name Satoshi Nakamoto first appeared in a white paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2008, which outlined the technical framework and underlying principles of Bitcoin. The paper was released under the name Satosh
We know that most likely, bitcoin in the future will be worth a lot more than bitcoin now. But this information is useless if you lose your bitcoin. Either you fall victim to a scam or you just misplaced your seedphrase. So how do we ensure tha
So you're telling me I have to write down this random assortment of 12 or 24 english words and never show them to anyone and that list of words will secure my entire fortune? Yeah, you pretty much got it. Today we're exploring how bitcoin walle
A Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC for short, is a digital version of a fiat currency that is issued directly by the government/central bank. People often confuse CBDCs with cryptocurrencies since they are both digital in nature, but that
Today we go over 3 more criticisms of Bitcoin. In particular, does Bitcoin represent or promote radical ideologies? Is Bitcoin used for crime? And, has Bitcoin failed as an inflation hedge? Today we wrap up the mini-series on responding to crit
Is Bitcoin worthless because it has no intrinsic value? What do I have to say to someone who says "I love blockchain but not bitcoin"? Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme? I answer all these questions and more in today's episode. We're doing rapid fire m
This week I address the age-old criticism of bitcoin and its energy usage. Is Bitcoin a worthwhile endeavour for us to be spending our electricity on, and why is it a bad idea if we switch bitcoin to another consensus method such as Proof of St
Why Bitcoin? As in, why should we choose Bitcoin specifically as the basis of our monetary system rather than something else like another digital asset or just our current existing financial system? Also, why can't something better just come al
The Byzantine Generals Problem is an issue that presents itself in distributed computer networks. A blockchain is an example of a decentralized distributed computer network. How do we keep such a system in sync when there is no central authorit
This week we explore more moral reasons why bitcoin should succeed. Tossing aside technological and economical reasons for just a moment, what moral benefits can be derived from using Bitcoin instead of fiat as our monetary standard? Fiat requi
Is inflation good? Is deflation bad? If you've ever been to any sort of post-secondary education on topics related to economics in the Western world, you've most likely been taught that we need a small amount of inflation, which is good for the
A flywheel, or more scientifically known as a "positive feedback loop", is a system where the output of that system is also the input that's needed to keep the system going. For example, things like social media, emails, fax machines, and Blu-r
We've spent several episodes already talking about the important and pivotal role that gold has played in our history in serving as money. We use the term "gold standard" to describe something that is the best or the highest quality in a given
This week, we again discuss the 6 properties of money, but armed with the knowledge of how bitcoin works. We'll evaluate how bitcoin fits into the 6 properties which are: durability, portability, divisibility, homogeneity, scarcity, and accepta
This week we talk about what exactly bitcoin is, the technology behind what makes it work, and elude to its potential to fix a lot of the problems that we see with our fiat monetary system. We'll discuss what bitcoin has in common with the wild
Imagine that you're an official in the Roman Empire in 117 CE at the greatest extent of Rome. Your empire stretches from what is now Portugal to the mouth of the Euphrates River (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait). Among your many duties, you have to
This week, the story begins in 1944 against the backdrop of the Appalachian Mountains in New Hampshire, where delegates from 44 nations gathered to create the Bretton Woods System, which defined how global economics would work for the decades t
All about who I am and why I started this podcast. My name is Andy and this is a new thing we're trying. This episode is where I go over from beginning to end,, my personal story about how I got into the Bitcoin space. If you're new to the spac
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