[PODCAST] Coinbase: The Best Bitcoin Podcast In The Universe, by Plato and Hiro

[PLATO]

donations: 1cnbseFLHKbybsdyoyydjSd38xFxyNDJW

EDIT 08.14.12 added ep5
EDIT 08.27.12 added ep6
Hi all!

Hiro White of Agorist Radio hosted three episodes of a Bitcoin podcast called Coinbase last year, they were really kickass and we were sad to see him stop.

Now I'm joining him and we are starting the show back up again. Here are our episodes:

download COINBASE 004 (66mb mp3)

Episode 4 was recorded on July 31 2012, topics:

Bitcoin Cars by Wikispeed!
HashKing and other Bitcoin Loan Sharks
Bitcoin sets 7 Euro Record
btc.to shortens Bitcoin addresses
BTC-E Hack: fishy!
Clientside Javascript Offline Wallets
Bitcoinica/Zhoutong: fishy and unprofessional!
BTC Buckets
Pietrust

Plus plenty of tangents on verifying signatures on served code, authenticating with Namecoin, rubber hose cryptanalysis and Bitcoin Justice.

download COINBASE 005 (36mb mp3)

Episode 5 was recorded on August 13 2012, topics:

Bitcoinica Sued
Electrum client
Brainwallet.org
libcoin
Statists flock to donate BTC to Mark Warden's campaign fund
John Matonis quotes (one, two)
Three Dot Bit DNS registrars(one, two, three)

download COINBASE 006 (43mb mp3)

Episode 6 was recorded on August 20 2012, topics:

Pirate/BS&T
Market Manipulation is easy when MtGox holds high market share
Don't Use MtGox As An Ewallet, Noobs
New Hashrate Record
Firstbits vs btc.to
Vanitygen
http://betsofbitco.in/


Not affiliated with coinbase.com.

Enjoy,
:-PLATO

[apetersson]

very nice!

interesting topics, good information. great podcast for the bitcoin nerd

a little feedback:
your microphone seems a bit overdriven try adjusting the incoming volume a bit, and use a audio leveling later.
the pacing of information was almost too high from time to time.

[PLATO]

glad you guys liked it. sorry bout audio. my mic is too sensitive (picking up ambient PC fan noise) and hiro's clips when he gets excited. plus we record over VOIP over shitty US telecom wires.

if anyone happens to have audio engineering wizardry solutions to improve audio in post, i opened a Reddit thread asking for help: http://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/xhlwr/im_editing_a_podcast_one_speaker_has_occasional/

feel free to suggest topics for us to cover next week!

:-PLATO

[Inaba]

Needs an RSS feed so I can put it in my catcher.

Also, what mics are you using?

[apetersson]

http://agoristradio.com/?feed=rss2

[terrytibbs]

You can do the podcast live with the crappy VOIP quality, but make sure to also record using software such as Audacity, and send those recordings to the person in charge of mixing.

[bbit]

sweeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PLATO]

that RSS is all agorist radio shows, hiro and I are working on providing a specific one for coinbase.

terrytibbs, that's a good point, we will make sure we are both using our local recordings next episode.

inaba I am using this mic http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836111601

[dvide]

Oh nice I thought this was gone for good! Glad to see it's back.

[PLATO]

Bump for new ep see OP

[World]

cool info Electrum client Brainwallet.org thx

[apetersson]

i made something for you:

this is an rss feed of agorist radio with only the coinbase episodes:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ff73309fe1f7ecff705cca0968b55169&_render=rss

took me 30 seconds in yahoo pipes

[PLATO]

Hi thanks apeterson, for me that just downloads a .run file when I click it in chrome. It DOES work when I add it to google reader. I am hassling Hiro to get a proper RSS feed set up.

[Tril]

To contribute bandwidth, I am running a bittorrent tracker and seed for EP005.
http://tril.tunes.org/torrent/coinbase-EP005.mp3.torrent

I'm willing to do this for future shows (or the past ones if someone asks). If you want to link my torrents on the agoristradio site, PM me and we can come up with a better DNS name.

[moocow1452]

If you still have the fuzzies, Levelator (http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/) is incredible with white noise cleanup. And a opening theme wouldn't hurt, as that's the Podcast thing to do.

[n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU]

Love your podcast, a much needed service.

Suggestion: interview segments with Bitcoin luminaries and some of the more bizarre and controversial characters on this forum (e.g. Dank).

[PLATO]

Episode 6 posted see OP

[Tril]

torrent for EP006 posted: http://tril.tunes.org/torrent/

[PLATO]

thanks tril!

[PLATO]

By the way if anyone wants to donate coins so I can buy a better mic, send them to 1cnbseFLHKbybsdyoyydjSd38xFxyNDJW