Let's Talk Bitcoin! #6 "Cyprus & Serendipity" Big Jeffrey A. Tucker Interview

[mindtomatter]

Just listened. Great work!

Thanks Charles

[Its About Sharing]

.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.

[mindtomatter]

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

[jag2k2]

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)?

[waxwing]

Soundcloud page - Two donations totaling .12btc

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

[mindtomatter]

Soundcloud page - Two donations totaling .12btc

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

Thanks We will.

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)?

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

[mindtomatter]

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Episode 002 - All Things Butter!

• Project Talk!
• Listener "Daryl" Takes the first Horrible Warning of the Week award with his story about Bitfloor
• The Anti-Gox: We talk about everything Buttercoin
• Promises Promises!  Paypal weighs in on Crypto + The Latest, Greatest 250Gh/s Mining Gear - Does anybody buy the hype?
• I sit down with David Perry of CodingInMySleep.com for a heart-to-heart on Butterfly Labs
• Is Bitcoin the way out of government corruption for third world countries?
• Correspondent Peter Dushenski checks in on De-Geekifying Cryptography.

Main Post updated with Episode 2 information

[Frozenlock]

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? 

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

Litecoin (...), that's going to be the Facebook to Bitcoin's Myspace

We could see the Bitcoin market completely tank and move over to Litecoin in a day

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

[wumpus]

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

Litecoin (...), that's going to be the Facebook to Bitcoin's Myspace

We could see the Bitcoin market completely tank and move over to Litecoin in a day

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"?

[yona]

thank you, great show

[mindtomatter]

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

Litecoin (...), that's going to be the Facebook to Bitcoin's Myspace

We could see the Bitcoin market completely tank and move over to Litecoin in a day

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"?

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.

[Frozenlock]

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

Litecoin is the second decentralized, peer to peer currency, that was created by the Bitcoin community.

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

[mindtomatter]

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

Litecoin is the second decentralized, peer to peer currency, that was created by the Bitcoin community.

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?

[mindtomatter]

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 or available at my blog.

[Frozenlock]

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?

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.

[Freebanking.org]

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.

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

[Freebanking.org]

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

[paulie_w]

adam the quality just keeps getting better! well done!

[mindtomatter]

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

[charleshoskinson]

Any mention of the Bitcoin Education Project?