You, Me, And Btc: Liberty & Bitcoin

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/e101This is episode 101 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up today, we’re joined by Mr. Drew Phillips from Bitcoin Not Bombs. The organization has partnered with Antiwar.com to run a pro-peace haiku contest with TONS of prizes. Drew will share the reason for the contest, how to enter, who’s involved, and much more.Then after that, we’ll chat about a fundraiser going on for ProTip. Chris Ellis has developed a Raspberry Pi-based Bitcoin fullnode that he’s currently selling to raise money for the decentralized tipping platform. We’ll cover the specifics of ProTip, this fullnode, and more.Today’s hosts are Daniel Brown and Tim Baker. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think ProTip can change the way content is created!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit (check out their contest here) and BitcoinTalk.club.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! E

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/e100This is episode 100 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!For this week’s very special episode, we have three very special guests: Andrew Lee, Cyril Blanc, and Adrian. All of them are fans of the show and they’ll join us to share some thoughts about You, Me, and BTC and about Bitcoin in general.We’ll also spend some time reflecting on our own crazy journey over the 100 weeks. Your hosts are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us what you think about the last 100 weeks of You, Me, and BTC and what you expect for the next 100 weeks in Bitcoin!If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little bit of support helps.Tips appreciated: 1Kiy8x4pwMS7RQuH7xDeVcfqeup7gUTqA

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/e99This is episode 99 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!This week, we’ve got several little things to cover. First up, we’ll chat about a new pro-peace haiku contest from Antiwar.com and Bitcoin Not Bombs. The top three prizes total 1.7 BTC, so you’ll definitely want to check it out.Then after that, we’ll discuss why Satoshi Nakamoto would be ineligible for a Nobel Prize. Last week we mentioned that he might receive a nomination, but we now know that the prize cannot be awarded anonymously.We’ll also chat about a new Bitcoin Escort Database, some art stuff from John, a Bitcoin training program for IRS agents, and tons more. Your hosts are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think Bitcoin really makes it easier to avoid taxes!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit (check out their contest here) and BitcoinTalk.club.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use th

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/ba11This is another Bitcoin and the Arts podcast with John Stuart! This month, John is chatting about some high-class artists who refuse to sell their work for Bitcoin. Some journalists from Observer recently visited a large art show and discovered that none of the artists were interested in Bitcoin. Many even scoffed at it.Should this bother crypto-loving artists (like John)? Should we just let those people reject Bitcoin and move on? Are there any ways that we can better promote crypto to people who really have no interest in it? Tune in now for John’s thought on all that and tons more!Leave a comment and tell us if you think there really are lots of artists who accept Bitcoin!And remember to tune in the first Saturday of every month for more Bitcoin and the Arts!If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little bit of support helps.Tips appreciated: 1Kiy8x4pwMS7RQuH7xDeVcfqeup7gUTqA

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/e98This is episode 98 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up today, we’re discussing Satoshi Nakamoto’s potential nomination for the Nobel Prize in Economics. We’re definitely excited for this possibility, but Tim’s not too sure that Nobel Prizes are all they’re cracked up to be. We’ll also discuss a rule that may have been broken that could disqualify the nomination.Then after that, we’ll chat about some new blockchain tools from Microsoft. It’s great to see a tech giant taking an interest in blockchains, but we want to make sure that it won’t dilute the real benefits of crypto.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown and Tim Baker. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think a Nobel Prize for Satoshi would benefit the Bitcoin community!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit and BitcoinTalk.club.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little bit of

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/e97This is episode 97 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up this week, John and Daniel sit down with Jordan Ale, the founder of a Bitcoin directory called Enjoy Bitcoins. Jordan will share how his site works, what it’s good for, and some of the best features. We’ll even discuss our favorite Bitcoin services on the list and mention some from our ancient “Best Bitcoin Services” series.Then after that, Tim and Daniel will mull over the concept of fiat currency. What does that term even mean? Could Bitcoin actually be considered fiat currency? If so, what really makes it different than paper money?Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think Bitcoin is fiat currency!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsor, LuckyBit.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little bit of support helps.Tips appreciate

Main Page: http://ymb.tc/e96This is episode 96 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!A relatively new forum over at Roger Ver’s Bitcoin.com hopes to establish a more open and civil Bitcoin discussion platform. To get things going, Ver has invited 40 Bitcoin superstars to host ‘ask me anything’ sessions on the forum. Today, we’ll chat about possible pros and cons of this endeavor and share some thoughts about the best ways to discuss anything on the internet.Then after that, Daniel will share his interesting experience with Facebook advertising. He probably shouldn’t haven’t been, but he really was surprised when he saw that you can target categories as specific as “high spenders at mid-range restaurants.”Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us what you think is the best way to discuss Bitcoin!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsor, LuckyBit.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the s

This is episode 95 of You, Me, and BTC - your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Carl Mark Force IV, the rogue DEA agent on the Silk Road case, was just sentenced to 78 months in prison. Should he have gotten a smaller sentence due to his stressful work environment? Was the judge really trying to preserve public trust? Tune in for our thoughts on those questions and more. Tim will even share why he likes Force more than most government agents, in a sense.Then after that, we’ll discuss Adam Draper’s opinion about the difference between Bitcoin and the blockchain. They’re very similar, but big money definitely prefers the term blockchain, and we’ll try to guess why that is.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us what you think of Carl Mark Force IV and his sentence!We'd also like to thank this episode's sponsor, LuckyBit.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little

This is episode 94 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up this week, we’re addressing some hate mail that we got after our last episode. As part of that, we’ll share a bit about the background of You, Me, and BTC and discuss some of our goals.Then after that, we’ll cover the Purse hack that occurred over the weekend. I was one of the first people to notice the breach, so I’ll explain how it all went down for me. We’ll also share some general security tips and chat about Purse’s quick response to the issue.Then to wrap things up, we’ll touch on some Bitcoin price analysis, the video game Portal, and more.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us what you think of Purse’s response to the hack!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsor, LuckyBit.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little bit of support helps.Tips appreciated: 1Kiy

This is episode 93 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!We’re kicking off this week’s show with a discussion about Gemini, the Winklevosses twins’ new Bitcoin exchange that has just been approved in New York. The registration process they chose was even more rigorous than applying for a BitLicense and we’ll discuss how we feel about such strong regulation. Will it unbalance the free market? Will government approval attract more Bitcoin investors?Then later in the show, you’ll get a sneak peak into the way we prepare for each episode. My co-hosts left their mics on while searching for potential discussion topics and we decided to share that recording with you. They’ll touch on some crazy drama regarding Coin Fire, the validity of news and other information on the internet, and much more.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think the Winklevoss twins and Gemini will benefit the Bitcoin community!We’d also like to thank this epi

This is another Bitcoin and the Arts podcast with John Stuart! This month’s show is all about an idea that is still developing in the mind of singer-songwriter Imogen Heap. She calls it Mycelia, and it’s a way for artists to store every bit of information about their music (everyone that helped create it, who’s reusing it, etc.) in a decentralized manner. Combined with cryptocurrency and smart contracts, the distributed database should help eliminate the massive overhead and countless middlemen present in our existing music distribution systems.John will discuss the present state of the project, how crypto-knowledgeable Imogen Heap seems to be, where this idea could take the music industry, and much more. Tune in right now because this is where it’s at!Leave a comment and tell us if you think Imogen Heap’s Mycelia idea will ever become a reality!And remember to tune in the first Saturday of every month for more Bitcoin and the Arts!If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, pleas

This is episode 92 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up today, we’re chatting about a digital piggy bank that is currently under development. It’s supposed to help kids grasp the value of saving money and it allows Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals. We’ll share our thoughts on the product’s design, its effectiveness, and much more.Then later in the show, we’ll cover some news about the Ethereum project. The developers are struggling to come up with enough funds and Vitalik Buterin has announced some changes that should help them adjust to a smaller budget.We’ll also briefly touch on a Western Union location that now accepts Bitcoin.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think the ERNIT piggy bank will help kids learn about saving money!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit and BitcoinTalk.club.If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let

This is another wild edition of #YMBLive – your [live] liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Today, we’re covering another Silk Road investigator gone rogue. A deep web user called Diamond claims to be an FBI agent has been threatening, blackmailing, and extorting black market operators for years. One such operator, Variety Jones, is now in fear for his life and has decided to turn himself in for protection. Tune in for our thoughts on Jones’ decision!Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think Variety Jones will really find protection by turning himself inIf this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, or anything else, please use the share buttons to let others know about it! Every little bit of support helps.

This is episode 91 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!A few days ago, 21 Inc. announced a new product called the 21 Bitcoin Computer. It’s essentially a small, versatile Bitcoin miner attached to a Raspberry Pi computer. It can run as a full Bitcoin node, mine a nearly constant stream of funds, and is supposed to streamline the sale of digital goods and services. Today, we’ll discuss how it works and how useful it might be. We’ll also make some guesses about where hardware like this could take the Bitcoin infrastructure and what products 21 might be planning for the future.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think the 21 Bitcoin Computer will be as revolutionary as they claim!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit and BitcoinTalk.club.

This is episode 90 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!This week, we’re chatting about a brand new partnership between at least nine big banks around the globe. They’ve all decided that a blockchain could provide huge benefits to the world of finance, so they want to develop some protocols for creating and using such a tool. We’ll discuss how legitimate and how helpful we think a big bank blockchain would be, the morality of bankers in general, and tons more.But before all that, a quick public service announcement.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think the big bank blockchain will be transparent!!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit and BitcoinTalk.club.

This is episode 89 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!The bulk of today’s show is about censorship in the free market. Theymos, the owner of the Bitcoin subreddit, recently banned discussion about BitcoinXT and the blocksize debate, upsetting many users. We all agree that he has the right to censor his own subreddit, but we’ll have a heated debate about whether or not that right even needs to be mentioned. Is it worth discussing the validity of private censorship or should we jump straight to talking about the merits of this specific decision? We’ll also chat about a decentralized version of Reddit that currently under construction.But before all that, we’ll briefly share some thoughts about offchain Bitcoins and bank-owned blockchains.Your hosts today are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think most people understand the right of private censorship!!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit and BitcoinTalk.club.

This is another Bitcoin and the Arts podcast with John Stuart! This month, John chats with Dustin, the creator of the BTC Art Gallery!Dustin once realized that art was incredibly important, even in the Bitcoin space, but no one was organizing all of the great Bitcoin artwork scattered across the internet. That led him to create a place where all kinds of art – everything from memes to comics to digital paintings and more – could be collected for the world to see. John and Dustin will discuss the power of memes, the connections between art and Bitcoin, how the developers’ feel about Bitcoin art, and TONS more. Dustin will even share a story about his mom’s reaction to a “physical” Bitcoin. Enjoy!!Leave a comment and tell us what you think about the BTC Art Gallery!!And remember to tune in the first Saturday of every month for more Bitcoin and the Arts!

This is episode 88 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!One Bitcoin user recently discovered that his ISP, AT&T, was blocking the internet port used by Bitcoin Core. We don’t know how widespread the issue is or why AT&T chose to do this, but we’re still fairly concerned. So today, we’ll share more about this story and discuss what it could mean. Is AT&T targeting Bitcoin? How do we feel about gigantic corporations having so much control and so little competition? How easy is it to get around problems like this?Tune in for our thoughts on all that and tons more! Your hosts are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!We should also mention that since recording this episode, AT&T has claimed that they are not blocking Bitcoin at all. Fortunately, we heavily addressed that possibility in this episode so our discussion is still quite relevant.Leave a comment and tell us what you think about ISPs having this kind of power!!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, Lu

This is episode 87 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Today we’re unpacking possible connections between smart contracts and crime. Some have argued that smart contracts will make it much safer and more convenient for bad actors to commission and commit all sorts of crime. In a certain sense, we agree, but we also have plenty of reasons to believe that our world will not suddenly become overrun with murder and vandalism. Tune in for a complex but insightful discussion!Your hosts this week are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and tell us if you think smart contracts will lead to an increase in crime!!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsors, LuckyBit and BitcoinTalk.club.

This is episode 86 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!This week’s show is all about BitcoinXT, a Bitcoin fork proposed by Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn. We’ll chat about why the blocksize debate has been so wild, the cultural differences between security engineers and software engineers, the fairness of the blockchain’s dispute resolution mechanisms, and tons more.We’ll use the following articles as a starting point for our discussion:- Forking hell: A spat exposes unwieldy governance at the digital currency- Bitcoin’s Block Size Debate Tests Its Community Governance- Block Size: Bitcoin Does Not Scale EffectivelyWe should also mention in these shownotes that some possibly malicious code has been discovered in BitcoinXT. Unfortunately, that news did not come to our attention before we recorded this show, so we encourage you to read about it in this article (http://shitco.in/2015/08/19/the-bitcoin-xt-trojan/).Your hosts this week are Daniel Brown and John Stuart. Enjoy!Leave a comment and t