Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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S1 E2 Remastered: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Politics
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00:00 Intro: Why This Episode Matters
04:16 Welcome: John Carvalho, the Bitcoin Error Log
05:17 Bitcoin Politics and the Early Days
06:39 The Bitcoin Foundation: Ego Platform or Useful Body?
08:53 First Contact: Silk Road, Forums and IRC
11:40 Buying Bitcoin in 2012: Mt. Gox, Dwolla and BitInstant
13:20 The Foundation’s Founders and Its Failures
15:45 The Rebranding Effort and Why It Failed Again
17:04 The Impossibility of Organizing Benevolent Bitcoin
20:04 Bitcoin Core, Communication and the Leaderless Project
23:50 No Official Narrative: Bitcoin’s Many Stories
25:49 Consensus as the Lowest Common Denominator
28:01 Should Everything Be on a Blockchain?
28:58 Surviving Market Cycles: Everyone Who Sold Was Wrong
32:46 Bitcoins Want to Be Free: The Lord of the Rings Theory
34:05 Roger Ver Attacks Andreas Antonopoulos
37:08 How Big Is Bitcoin Really? The Coinbase Illusion
40:52 Media Conglomerates and Hidden Concentration
42:13 Decentralization Theater and arewedecentralizedyet.com
42:47 Refusing BitPay and Political Spending
44:46 Censorship Resistance as Bitcoin’s Core Purpose
46:46 Debunking “Swiss Bank Account in Your Pocket”
48:26 What Caused the 2017 Bull Run?
51:31 Stocks as Stores of Value and What Bitcoin Will Cure
53:44 No College Degree: Comic Books, Punk Rock and Design
56:19 Massachusetts [Redacted]: Growing Up Arguing
57:21 Preparing for the Roger Ver Interview
58:32 The Bcash Moment: Triggered, Not Scripted
1:00:46 Roger’s Debate Tactics: Zoom In, Zoom Out
1:04:36 Skepticism as a Survival Skill
1:05:32 Blockstream: Great Developers, Unclear Business Model
1:09:28 r/btc Conspiracies and the AXA Myth
1:13:48 Roger’s War Chest and the Cost of Fighting Markets
1:18:17 Will Roger Ever Come Back to Bitcoin?
1:20:40 Pepe Politics and the Attention Economy
1:22:11 The Evolution of Bitcoin and the Lightning Generation
1:23:06 Bitrefill, Gift Cards and the Circular Economy
1:26:09 Steemit Critique: Gamify, Don’t Scam
1:27:16 Brave, BAT and the Nonsense of Paid Attention
1:30:52 Hitchcock’s Bladder Rule and Final Questions
1:31:55 Hyperbitcoinization: Hype, Greed and Small Wins
1:35:17 Nation States Secretly Accumulating Bitcoin?
1:36:29 Bitcoin and the Shift in Global Power
1:39:32 Merchant Adoption and the Tax Man Problem
1:42:06 Bitcoin in 10 Years: Disruption Incoming
1:43:43 Bitcoin Is a Consensus Ponzi (and So Is All Money)
1:44:26 The Cantillon Effect and Inflationary Money
1:47:59 Closing: A Bitcoin Every Thousand Years
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