What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

Updated: 26 Apr 2024 • 506 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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“It’s not a one decade adoption story, it’s a multi-decade, massive trend change in how money works.” — Lyn Alden Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Natalie Brunell is the host of the Coin Stories Podcast, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, Thomas Pacchia is co-owner of Pubkey, and Christopher Gordon fr

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“If we stick with the financial system as it is, it leads inexorably towards total control of your life…the state having total control over what people spend, how they can spend it, how much they can spend, and what you can buy.” — Alex Gladstein Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundati

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“Bitcoin is how life should always have been, the cheatcode is fiat money printing…if you print money you get wealthier while other the others who use the money get poorer; but with Bitcoin nobody can print money anymore, and that means the cheatcode is finally gone, and what feels like a cheatcode right now is actuall

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“Right now, Lightning is not able to support billions of users around the world…when you add the 3 technologies together: Bitcoin, Lighting, and ecash, you have a solution that can give you incredible levels of privacy and scale to billions of users.” — Obi Nwosu In this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCo

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“I’m not going back to that system ever, I’m going to fight and use my time and energy to move this across the world…and as you start to understand that, more and more people join us and the world moves from our intention to what it should be.” — Jeff Booth In this interview, American HODL, Preston Pysh, Harry Sudock a

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“What we need to move to is just removing the attention signal as the input to the algorithm and using a value-signal instead; because, then we can still have ranked feeds, but they’re no longer driven by a metric that doesn’t really align with the content creator, and doesn’t really align with the listener.” — Oscar M

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