What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

Updated: 17 May 2024 • 515 episodes
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With What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack talks to experts in the world of Bitcoin, economics and politics. From developers to investors, journalists to authors, you will learn about everything in the world of Bitcoin.

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“This insatiable demand for energy & compute was…going to fuel the next wave of how society works and interacts together; and I think, 6 years on it’s playing probably faster than even we expected.” — Daniel Roberts Daniel Roberts is the co-founder of IREN. In this interview, we discuss surging demand vs power scarcity

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“Artificial stability brings instability into the system…when you try to push a balloon underwater, you can keep it under water but then the pressure starts building...” — Macro Alf Macro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment strategy firm. In this interview, we discuss QE & debt in Japan, instability

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“The people that changed the world were not the activists, they were the entrepreneurs, and in order to be an entrepreneur, you have to not be in jail.”— NVK NVK is the founder of Coinkite and a board member at OpenSats. In this interview, we discuss new incentives with increasing attacks on privacy, oppressive vs smal

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“There is no way back, I think we’ve crossed the event horizon…they’re going to do everything they can to keep it together as best they can, but at the end of the day it all leads to monetary debasement.” — Lawrence Lepard Lawrence Lepard is an Investment Manager and Austrian Economist and Quoth The Raven is an indepen

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“There’s just so much to do just in terms of understanding the code better and fortifying it…sometimes you need to invasively change something in order to make it more scalable...so it’s not ‘don’t ever change the code,’ be conservative and not try to ‘move fast and break things.’” — Gloria Zhao Gloria Zhao is a Bitcoi

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“To believe that Bitcoin will stop changing I think is a fallacy, and it means that Bitcoin will die, because…Bitcoin is software and software never stops to evolve.” — Calle Jack Mallers is the Founder & CEO of Strike, American HODL is a Bitcoin Educator, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy and Calle

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