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Adam - Let's talk Bitcoin!

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Looking forward to your feedback

Really enjoyed it!

I'm happy to see (hear) that the long intros were chopped off and that the editing is much less intrusive.

I'm also very pleased with the length, which was exactly the time of my evening walk.  :P

Looking forward the next one!

Is that permanent placement?  Pretty sweet  ;D

Good stuff guys.

Glad you got Bradley Jansen from freebanking.org ... he very aptly spelled out what is going to be the coal face in the regulatory reaction (via the abominable Bank Secrecy Act). Monetary freedom is not going to be a reality until the laws around money and private banking are changed.

Bradley was great, although I don't know how hopeful the future is after that discussion LOL - His big point is that we know what happens if nothing changes, so it's better to have at least a chance by being pro-active in the fight.   I'm not sure if that's good advice or bad but we definitely need to start thinking about it more as a community.

Great to see Daily Bitcoin is back in new form. I think you should post infomation about this to Daily Bitcoin thread so that everyone will notice that the name and format of show has slightly changed.

Great show as always. New format seems really good.

What a good guest to have on the show, I really enjoyed listening to what he had to say!

Keep up the good work guys!

You should be able to do whatever shaping you might want with the RSS feed

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow

what's Stephanies's Ph.D in?

you never bothered to ask him "who" Fincen is going to prosecute.

We talked about it after the show, he didn't know the specifics.


Not Cryptography ;)  It's escaping me for the moment, she was involved with medical research until recently.

Did he give any nonspecific information not mentioned in the show?

A couple things:

Bradley:

Me:
Him:


I'm talking to Jon Matonis about providing counterpoint on the next ep.

That's actually a teaser clip from the next episode - I needed to post it for I could get a response from a guy who is currently going through the hurdles to start an exchange, and figured might as well release it on the stream.

mindtomatter - If you get in touch with Bradley Jansen, can you ask him about accepting donations in Bitcoin at freebanking.org, as they only accept PayPal. That is ironic or a safety thing?

Great podcast by the way.

I'd really like to see something in the way of some recommended donation sites for helping bitcoin out regarding FinCen. Is freebanking.org the best place to start for now?

IAS

Great show, looking forward to hear more  :)

I already poked bradley about that, no response on the topic yet.

We're still finding our feet here, Bradley has his perspective but he's definitely an outsider to cryptocurrencies.   I don't have anything I can comfortably recommend to you besides to give you a donation address for myself and tell you I'm building my platform so we can have this conversation in a way that makes sense.  Since that interview went live, I've met two people who are very passionate about educating the US legislature about Bitcoin and helping Bitcoin understand their priorities a little better - We're building the community roundtable to have a quick-reaction force ready with quotes or interview subjects if and when events start moving fast.

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If you're looking for something specific to FinCEN like a legal defense fund or something, I'll have to get back to you once the dust settles.

Just listened. Great work!

Thanks Charles

.1 BTC Donation sent. I believe in what you (and we) are doing. Keep up the great work - you and your guests are a great service to the bitcoin community. Looking forward to more shows.

IAS

ps - I was just talking about a legal defense in general.

Thanks,
I asked Bradley again about accepting bitcoin donations - He basically said they do not currently because they were unclear on the legal and tax implications.  I noted that FinCEN guidance was pretty clear so long as they don't sell the bitcoins for US Dollars.  He said they were currently working on accepting bitcoin donations, and I linked him to coinwidget.com

Hopefully there will be a solution up soon.

Thanks for the donation - We've recieved .82btc from the various donation addresses (I separate it to track where donations come from) for Episode 1 of Lets Talk Bitcoin!

Breakdown:
Soundcloud page - Two donations totaling .12btc
Email Donation - One donation .10btc
"Building Platforms" address - One donation  .10btc
Main Page widget - One donation - .50btc

Love the show!

It is a bi-weekly event correct?  Are there two particular days in the week you are targeting to release (like Tues/Fri or something like that)?

That 0.1 was from me :) Sterling work, keep it up!

Thanks :) We will.


Saturdays and Tuesdays, next episode should be out tomorrow afternoon pacific standard time.

Main Post updated with Episode 2 information

Really enjoyed the podcast!

If you really are going to talk about alt-coins next week, could you mention that some Bitcoin users (me, for example) hate Litecoin?  ;D

I can't stand the pump & dump attitude related to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2u3BNiANVA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2u3BNiANVA)

However I'm all in favor of alt-coins with new features, such as Namecoin.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Namecoin

Eh, right, that needs some reality. If you focus on the real struggles that Bitcoin faces, such as exchanges, the uncertainly on how governments will regulate it, and merchant adoption, none of those are solved in the least by using another alt-chain.

Any way you want to promote/pump/dump your coin is fine but don't do it by bashing Bitcoin. Outsiders just won't understand. They see all cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin. They don't appreciate the difference between mining algorithms in the least. They just see uncertainty and infighting and reconsider "should I do this cryptocurrency thing"?

thank you, great show

Hey guys,
Thanks for the comments - I am very skeptical of alt-coins personally for exactly that reason:

I think the biggest hurdle in Bitcoins future will be legislative and regulatory, and none of those things can be solved by an alt-coin - I thought Andreas made a really great point about how alt-coins COULD address that problem, but only when there is actually a reason to do it (i.e. they're banned)

I was initially curious about the alt-chains but after watching SolidCoin I determined it was better to stick with the original which had been very thoroughly vetted.

The Litecoin bump seems more about contingency planning in case of technical issues with BTC (i.e. the encryption is broken and we need to switch to a new scheme) than anything else, and as I mentioned I do not think it will be a technical hurdle but rather legal/regulatory.  I do not think this is commonly understood with the people who support litecoin as the likely successor to BTC.

More for my Litecoin hatred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOCKm4aEIXE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOCKm4aEIXE)

No! It wasn't the second, and it's not by the "Bitcoin community"! YARG!

What was the second?  I actually am looking for someone who has been paying attention to the alt coins and can relay the history and rough timeline, that sound like you frozenlock?

I was the guest on episode 46 of POP CULTIVATION, we spent about an hour talking about Bitcoin and answering his questions.

This was a very casual show, there is a small amount of swearing - it is uncut and unedited so if you're into that, have at.

It's on the podcast feed (http://letstalkbitcoin.com/rss) or available at my blog (http://mindtomatterblog.tumblr.com/post/49142963582/giancarlodittamo-bitcoin-a-digital-currency).

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Nan sorry, I didn't look much into altcoins until recently.

I do know however that Namecoin was already there back in 2011 when I started looking into Bitcoin.

You could probably find someone to answer your questions in the alternate cryptocurrencies subforum.

Thanks, I'm going to try to cover Bitcoin more than we have--and I welcome more allies against the BSA and FinCEN!

Thanks, Adam, yes, we're working on it.

adam the quality just keeps getting better! well done!

Thanks Paulie!

Also, episode 3 has been delayed a day due to a scheduling mixup, you can read details about it here and also listen to episode 46 of POP CULTIVATION, which I appeared on as a guest talking about Bitcoin http://letstalkbitcoin.com/post/49277689923/excuse-our-delay-we-record-our-host

Any mention of the Bitcoin Education Project?

I don't think so, I'll add the to my list of "Things I can do better next time"

I edit myself for a reason, tangents are many.

I'll get a press package to you on it. We should have a website/blog something done by the end of the week.

Next episode is today, amirite?

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Episode 003 for May 1st, 2013 - The Future of Money

• Project Talk! - Phone-A-Coin, OpenPaperWallet & Porc Therapy!
• Max Keiser is getting klever or maybe krazy, why is this “Smart Guy” recommending Bitcoin do the impossible?
• Interview with Paul Hughes - How Resilient is Bitcoin?
• Altcoins, Namecoins, Litecoins, Hayekcoins - We discuss the Cryptocurrency Competition
• Community Roundtable Member, Elizabeth Ploshay has some helpful advice on how to educate your political representatives about the Future of Money

Saturday's episode is looking good :)

As in "release tonight" good?  :D

Expectation management :) Saturday.

You should work for BFL. Then need some help in that department

Yeah that's a real weakness,
I consult and my rates are very reasonable in BTC adam@mindtomatter.org

Before starting the shows, I'd been volunteering my time as "community liason" at one of the Kickstarters I backed... Good lord do people have unrealistic assumptions, it can turn even a successful project into one everybody involved (creator included) just f'ing hate, and wish they'd never seen.

My rates are cheap because it hurts my brain to see good people failing because they just can't get away from their own limited point of view.

Episode 4 "The Horrible Warnings" released, front page updated.

Yolo!

Some feedbacks:

The intro where you present everyone, the purpose of the podcast and everything
was kinda long. Especially for those who listened to the other podcasts.

Between the first and second part, there was a long musical part.
If I listen to a podcast, it's for hearing people talk.  ;)

Really enjoyed the ID scheme!

BitcoinATM: The story might be much more interesting... the other cofounder is the SilverVigilante;
he already works with Jeff Berwick on other projects. I urged him to speak up, but still nothing.  :(

MtGox: This is why I love the free market. Everyone's bitching about MtGox, but the fact is that
they provide a service and (at least for now) they are better than everyone else. They've also remained
unhacked for a surprisingly long period of time. Especially considering they are probably the prime target.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U)
I also wonder why nobody mentioned the elephant in the room... it seems the contract is incredibly one-sided
to benefit Coinlab. Why the hell did Mark signed this in the first place?

Anyhow, keep up the good work!  ;D

There was a long musical part, and I put it in as a test to see how people liked it.  I've been using them for transitions and thought it might be good to have a longer break since this was a more host-intensive show.  Thanks for the feedback on it, as you can tell this is all an experiment :)

The long intro - It's about 2 and a half minutes - I thought adding music under it might help a little, and it does change every episode - kind of an update about where the show is before it.  I figure it's easy to skip on most podcast players chunks of 30s, but I am looking to make it shorter, or to spread out the information a little more.

We actually did talk about the elephant in the room, it wasn't really a one-sided contract.  It may seem that way, but signing the contract prevented the creation of probably their most connected US challenger to date.  The partnership means that Gox basically keeps their monopoly on market trading, rather than losing their US customers when Coinlab's exchange is much easier to get money into, and comply with relevent tax law.

Turning a competitor into a subsidiary partner is a good move by Gox - They just failed to deliver for whatever reason.

Enjoyed the show. A comment about the donations issue.

I expect that many people like me will think "I'd like to donate. But I don't want to do it every week" so that's why people are donating in the .1-1BTC range rather than the 0.01 x hundreds of people version you were hoping for.

Like, for myself, I donated 0.1 thinking of it as ~$15 USD and thinking "that's my contribution for the next month or two, let's see how this goes". And then if I think you're providing me a really valuable service and I enjoy the show, I can do the same again later.

Of course, once automated payment systems are up and running, that would be a great option for micropayments :)

Comment on the content: the ID-tied-to-BTC-address concept is excellent. There seems to be a connection with the Namecoin concept and what Julian Assange was saying to Eric Schmidt in that transcript.

Your concerns about tying monetary value to speech are valid, and I am worried about that too, but I believe/hope they will be addressed by the free market. That is to say, just as now people can interact via facebook if they want to, or on an open forum with anonymous login if they want to, so in the future fora will form based on BTC identities for those who see value in that (avoidance of spam and fraud or anything else), and other fora will form with other user groups in mind. There is no need to try and regulate anything away.

At a deeper level, I think the "ID in BTC" concept, like the "smart property" concept has great philosophical significance for the way society develops from here. I have an idea in my mind based around reification, Platonic ideals and entropy but that's for another time...

Yes I do remember you talking about the Quid pro quo, but in my opinion this really isn't of the same magnitude.

MtGox was removing only one (theoretical) competitor, at the cost of giving away much.

This move was risking to alienate part of their customers; many people really
didn't like the idea of MtGox simply transferring private information like this.
(Which was expressed quite clearly on the forum.)

I, for one, really didn't like the move to US soil.

Gox also pretty much has a de facto monopoly on market trading anyway.
People buy BTCs from different exchanges, but if they want to trade, they mostly just send their BTCs to Gox.
I don't really see any reason why buyers at Coinlab would have stayed at CoinLab.

The contract mentioned that Gox was supposed to help CoinLab with the liquidity and know-how.
This, alone, is a huge chunk! We've seen again and again exchanges appearing with what you call the amateurs hour.
What were they lacking? For the most part, liquidity and know-how.

CoinLab also gained the prestige that comes with associating with the oldest and most successful Bitcoin exchange.
From a startup which initial plan was to GPU mine on gamers computers... let's just say it was a more than necessary PR boost.

And this is all assuming that CoinLab indeed had some important footholds in the
banking world that would prevent banks from arbitrarily closing their account.

Oh and CoinLab, by the contract, is also prohibited from entering in competition with MtGox for only 2 years.

It's probable that Mark saw things I didn't see, but that deal really looks one-sided to me.  ???


Edit: Related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yNWUcmfJoQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yNWUcmfJoQ)

I like this show a lot.

That's a good point about the frequency issue.  Without counting, .10 donations are probably the single largest number, with .01 and .02 being close seconds.

Maybe that should be the ask - .1 per month (8 shows)  - I'm really curious to see how the donation thing develops - looks very promising.

I really think the Bitcoin ID concept is a huge deal, I've started helping organize the open source project along with Joe - We're going to use the Let's Talk Bitcoin! forum as a proof-of-concept and then roll it into a few very important projects within the bitcoin decision-making world.  If you know any User Interface/User Experience guys please send them my way.

Enjoying the shows Adam. I tend to agree with "waxing". I donated .1 as a "subscription" of sorts. I listen to maybe 5 - 10 podcasts fairly regularly and donating $15X(5-10) a month is just too steep for me (and probably many of us). But, I guess it is supply and demand. Also, we will have to see where BTC goes to and stabilizes at ( a long ways away...)

I think we all appreciate the show and what is more alarming to me is that so few people donate at all. As you said on the show it would be nice to see more .01 donations and less larger donations, as the few shouldn't carry the many. Then again, it is a "free" show, so we'll have to see where things settle down to. If you have over a 1000 listeners, donations and supporting the show shouldn't be a problem.

Looking forward to listening to #4.

Thx again,
IAS

fucking ace job dudes

 :o

Thanks for your thoughts, thats basically my theory as well - And I know many of our listeners do not have Bitcoins yet, so it's one of those "everybody's new" problems.  As it stands right now we're reaching 2,000+ people per episode through the various release methods, and the number is going up steadily.

Wow, episode 4 was a GREAT episode.  :o

I tell you what, I am so excited about the possibilities of the blockchain and am glad you got to talking about it.
I looked at the Wiki page for blockchain uses https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain) and the list just keeps growing and growing (e.g. - decentralized DNS, voting, file storage, time stamping, etc.). What an ingenious(al) idea to use it as a log-in method and further to use bitcoins as a "deposit" of sorts to thwart off spamm accounts on sites such as this one, twitter, etc. Sorry for the poorly worded observation but watching this technology develop is something to behold. We need a running list of alternative uses of the block chain.

Antifragile = BTC = Black Swann (and not necessarily in that order).

IAS

ps - Adam - If you are over 2000 listeners by episode 4, the future looks really bright for you guys and of course, us as well.  ;D

Thank you :)

The "omfg" factor about many of these new "built on top of the blockchain" technologies and solutions is substantial.  I'm trying to find a mix between dissecting news and helping to present new ideas and projects, I think we're pretty good for now.

Since Episode 4 released about 14 hours ago we've had 757 listens on the various soundcloud embeds, 177 downloads from the podcast feed (up to 573 subscribers there) - I don't have numbers for stitcher yet, but our numbers are looking better, faster, every episode.

It's very promising.

Also during this time: We've already had 8 people donate to episode 4, two people donate to episode 2, and one to episode 3 - Support ranges from .05 to .00888809 but like I said, it's the number of supporters not the amount of support.  Every time we release a new episode, I hear from more people doing cool thing :) It's very exciting, I think so long as I do the work and build the team we're going to have meaningful success.

I'm trying to get Max Keiser for an interview to discuss his dollar Peg idea, hard dude to nail down but I'm making progress.

I actually think he was serious, because he knows it's way more about optics than reality.   Also I have it on good authority that MK is very invested in the success of bitcoin, and is working in a variety of ways to help it towards greater adoption. 

Thank you :)

Ep5 is going to be out late tonight, several hours past the usual release - I found myself with too much content generation and not enough editing time, so I've got a pile in front of me.  Episode 6 should be released early (on friday) for the same reason

Nice podcast enjoyed it a lot

Thank you,
Episode 5 will be out in the next 6 hours - Our experiment with multitrack recording is now over thanks to major synchronization problems that needed to be corrected manually.

Episode 5 is up.

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Episode 006 for May 10th, 2013 - Cyprus & Serendipity (http://letstalkbitcoin.com/post/50105902110/lets-talk-bitcoin-episode-006-cyprus)

• The Forbes Meetup & Andreas
• The Smallest ASIC Miners yet!  Is it worth your time?
• Michael Hill on Bitcoin and the Cypriot Calamity
• Making History - Satoshi’s Square & The Cafe Meetups that became the Stock Exchange
• Bad Actors on the Blockchain - Busting Myths & Rumors
• The Distinguished Jeffrey Tucker on the Serendipity of Bitcoin, and his journey from Skeptic to Enthusiast

Great work  :)

Thanks :)

I love your show thanks, +cointip mindtomatter 50mPPC

Hi Everybody,
I've handed off posting-to-the-forums duty to an associate, the new thread for this show is located
here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206489.0

I'll still be checking it frequently, I look forward to continuing the conversation with you.