This is episode 170 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
First up today, we definitely have to cover Bitcoin’s recent SegWit UASF drama. The acronym stand for “user activated soft fork” and many hope the concept will allow Segregated Witness to activate sooner.
As it stands, we need 95% of Bitcoin’s mining power to signal support for SegWit before it activates, but that kind of consensus …
This is episode 169 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
To kick things off today, we’ll dive into a discussion about a Bitcoin mining method called ASICBOOST. The concept makes Bitcoin miners as much as 30% more efficient, which could generate an estimated $100 million in additional annual revenue for a large mining operation. Efficiency is usually a good thing, but ASICBOOST comes with extra baggage …
This is episode 168 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast! This week we have two main topics lined up: Heleum and Amir Taaki.
To kick things off, we have a fantastic guest with us, Pace Ellsworth, the creator of Heleum. The upcoming service will automatically and algorithmically trade your money between several world currencies and cryptocurrencies. Rather than trying to game a single exchange pair (like …
This is episode 167 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
Bitcoin Unlimited drama continues. This week, one popular Bitcoin exchange, Bitfinex, announced an interesting new feature called Chain Split Tokens. No one knows if or when Bitcoin Unlimited will become a thing, but CSTs allow traders to get involved early. One (current) Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin Core plus one Bitcoin Unlimited, which reflects the way things …
This is episode 166 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
Bitcoin’s had a crazy few weeks. The mempool is flooded, fees are soaring, and the community is buzzing about a hard fork. One of Bitcoin’s largest mining pools made switch to Bitcoin Unlimited. Then Unlimited nodes started crashing because of a bug in the code.
What does all of this mean? We like to remain calm …
This is episode 165 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
Daniel is out of town this week but Tim and John still have an outstanding show planned! First up, they’ll dive into John’s theory about dystopian cryptogarchy. We covered the idea of blockchain-based governance last week, but John still has plenty of ideas about the kind of world it would create if it really existed.
Then …
This is episode 164 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
This week we have a special guest with us, the founder of a decentralized autonomous organization called TheBlexit. He goes by the nickname Free From Chains and we loved his comments during a few of our recent shows, so we figured we’d bring him on the air!
Free will share some thoughts on blockchainarchy – …
This is episode 163 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!
First up this week, we’ll investigate a convoluted story about phantom stock.
A few years back, Dole Food’s CEO decided to go private by buying up all of his company’s publicly owned shares. Then months later, a court ruled that he didn’t pay a fair price for each share. This meant that he owed a few …
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