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Recorded & Released five days a week, The Daily Bitcoin drops you into the conversation with Adam B. Levine, Paul Russo, and Eli Sklar as they explore the news and happenings in the world of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies. Intended for those new to or learning about Bitcoin, each episode starts with a discussion or plain-english definition of one of the many intricate workings of the Bitcoin network.

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It's a complicated topic! Learn along with the hosts as their diverse perspectives look at these issues from multiple angles.

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The Daily Bitcoin - Episode 1

Word of the Day: "Blockchain"

NEWS:
    Government Fees, Parking Tickets May Soon Be Paid in Bitcoin

    Inside the Bitcoin Bubble: A Q&A With BitInstant’s Stressed-Out CEO

    The World’s Most Expensive Pizza

    The New Renaissance - How Bitcoin Millionaires will change the world.

    Bitcoin: Money of the Future or Old-Fashioned Bubble?

    Foxycart currently accepts/uses Bitcoin.  Open-source e-commerce shopping cart!

    listentobitcoin.com - “HEAR” bitcoin in real time!

You can read the full ShowNotes for this episode at the link below. 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14qspa-e29mY5uLFT1W2B4R9wN4xleq_nnoZDxYbYDiw/edit?usp=sharing

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The Daily Bitcoin - Episode 2 for April 9th, 2013

Topics:

    MtGox - What’s up with the lags? 

          -Mt. Gox had over 1 hour 15 minutes of lag today!  This is just COMPLETELY unacceptable.

    Is Gox to blame for the crash? Are we going to ask/pose that question?

    Is gox buying at 140-149 to prevent the crash further?

    ? ASICs? I have spoke with multiple people at BFL.  And I have “confirmations” that they exists.


Scuttlebut

1. Israel Update: Right now it looks like most of it is just people panicking for not getting their coins, and there isn’t anything out of the ordinary going on. Just large transaction going overseas, so the banks are not happy with it. I really don’t think the banks are doing anything at this point, malice or not.

2. What are the top 3 BTC countries/services?  Apparently USA is #1, with Germany #2...

3. How many coins on average do people own?

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The Daily Bitcoin - Episode 3 for April 10th, 2013

EPISODE 4 - APRIL 11, 2013

Concept of the day: Wallets Address, & Security
Wallet

A wallet is a container that stores both your receiving addresses (public) and spending (private) key
Address

An address is like the money clip in your pocket in that it gives you an easy, single place to store value that you might like to spend.  When you’re not actively spending it, you keep it in a small transparent safe - You can see everything inside of it, but  you can’t access the money kept in each money clip inside without the right key or combination.  Once you use the right combination, the safe opens and you can access the value inside to use however you like.   

The lock on the safe is “Wallet Encryption”
Wallet Encryption:

Wallet encryption uses a scheme called “AES-256” to encrypt only the private keys that are held in a wallet. The keys are encrypted with a master key which is entirely random.

Adam: What’s encryption?

Paul: Encryption is a process of encoding messages or information in such a way that third parties cannot read it, but authorized parties can.

This master key is then encrypted.

Adam: What does a key look like?

Paul: It’s not a physical key, more a random string of numbers and letters that you can access and use when you put in your correct password.

At runtime, the client loads the wallet as it normally would, however the keys are stored in encrypted form. When the passphrase is required it will be asked for from the client, otherwise it must first be entered on the ‘command line’. When wallet passphrase encryption becomes enabled, any unused keys from the keypool are flushed and new keys protected with encryption are added. For this reason, make a new backup of your wallet so that you will be able to recover the keys from the new key pool should access to your backups be necessary.  And lastly, ALWAYS use good ‘passwords’ as your passphrase!  You are only as strong as

your weakest link.

NEWS

1. The Crash

    MTGOX is DOWN! (on purpose)

What caused the crash?

Is it like the crash of June 11?

Stolen Bitcoins because of a malware on mtgox look-alike-site?

2. Libertarian Party (United States) now accepting bitcoin.
3. Bitcoin mining botnet has become one of the most prevalent cyber threats


THE DAILY SCUTTLEBUTT

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1. CONFIRMED - Someone has toured the BFL offices!

2. http://www.kncminer.com/ - new ASIC company?

3. Picnic Wine Co. - first alchohol company to accept Bitcoin?

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The Daily Bitcoin - Episode 4 for April 11th, 2013

If you enjoy the show, please vote us up on Reddit! We've had a number of people vote down and complain about this nearly 40 minute episode less than 20 minutes after I've uploaded it...
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----Editors Note
This has been one heck of a week, this is our fifth show produced in five days and doing nearly all the technical work myself (Adam B. Levine) and then doing the shows as well has been quite a feat, but it's also been incredibly fun and absolutely exhilarating. 

 Thank you VERY MUCH for listening to our brand new project, the enthusiastic response has led us to decide that this is a worthwhile format that we intend to continue for at least the rest of the year.  The hosts may change at times (Eli is getting married and going on a honeymoon next month!) but the point is this:  Complicated topics need explanation, and it's not a one-time conversation that provides the whole picture.

Over the next few months we'll be improving the quality further and rolling out the Weekly show, I am actively looking for those who would like to be audio journalists to work with me on that project - If you are interested, please email me at adam@mindtomatter.org. 

 You do not need experience, or technical expertise - You just need to believe that most media reporting is unacceptably poor quality, and have the want to change that for the better.

If that's you, this is your opportunity - Don't miss out.

To everyone, please share this with your friends and relatives and thank you for helping make The Daily Bitcoin show such a success in its first week. 

 If you'd like to support what we're doing, please send tips to 17a9wVHHwmDo8pPfjsmgfpob72P9SNU9i5 - 

No amount is too small, we charge our advertisers (Two 30 second slots starting next week) in Bitcoin, and we pay our contractors in Bitcoin.   it's working really really well so far even as the price has been all the heck over the place.

Thank you for listening, 
Adam B. Levine
Lead, The Daily Bitcoin Show

SHOWNOTES: 

Feature Friday!  

Today the Daily Bitcoin Show is proud to feature an interview with security & decentralized systems expert Andreas M. Antonopoulos during the first half of the show

And a long form discussion topic for the second half.

Discussion Topic: Let’s Kill Bitcoin!

Scenarios:

1. 51% Attack - Bill gates building the ultimate mining machine to take over bitcoin

2. Shutting down the internet

3. Malicious buyer buys enough bitcoins to control a portion of the market, and then dumps

4. DoSing The Blockchain

5. Someone like a “Bill Gates” buys millions of dollars worth of mining rigs and starts mining and/or fills up the blockchain with millions and millions of small transactions

6. Govt shut down



The Daily Bitcoin - Feature Friday! Episode 5 for April 12, 2013

Hi Everybody,
Adam B. Levine Here from The Daily Bitcoin - Thanks to everyone who listened, tipped or wrote in during our first week worth of shows.    

This is not a conventional episode, but a call for help & some explanation of what's going on.  If you'd like to join in our quest, please email adam@mindtomatter.org - We are looking for potential hosts, researchers, writers, and outside the box thinkers to join the team. 

When I started looking for help in building the first professional take on a Bitcoin focused audio news source, the plan was to do a weekly show made up of unscripted "live" but recorded host segments, paired with scripted "correspondent segments".   The show is basically a platform for independent reporters to reveal and talk about their findings.
  
In some cases this means investigative journalism, interviewing and asking the obvious questions of the people behind the headlines.  To others it provides a megaphone to get new ideas or opportunities into the growing community interested in the possibilities enabled by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

When I started talking about this plan with those who expressed interest, I found quite a bit of support in the forms of guidance as well as investment.  I was advised to think bigger, so I incorporated video into my plans - Live video host segments, and illustration or animation for the contributor segments to make the ideas more accessible.

Even with the funding in-place, that pushed the time to get ready a month or two out... In the meantime I had met my two co-hosts, Eli & Paul - They were both very interested in doing a daily show, and since my weekly project had been pushed back I agreed we'd give it a try for a week to see how it goes.

And it went quite well by any standards.   With no promotion, no subscriptions, and a minimal of press attention (Thanks BitcoinMagazine) the episodes produced last week have netted more than 7,000 listens, but internally things were breaking down.

In order to release the show at that pace, I basically was devoting myself to nothing but the show from early in the morning until near midnight each night.  not that anything in particular took that long - More that there was so much stuff going on with Bitcoin AND the need to record, edit, and publish the show.  At the end of our first week, we still didn't have any ways to subscribe to the show so I spent part of Saturday and almost all of Sunday trying to fix that problem.   

At the same time, it became apparent that there were fundamental differences between where I want the show to go, and where our angel investor did.  On Sunday I made the decision after speaking with a number of advisers to return his investment and finance the project myself.

On Monday the adrenaline of the week started to wear off and the amount of work we had taken on became apparent - In order to maintain the pace of release, it meant our small team had to be 100% efficient with the content we spent our time developing, so when over an hour of interview was requested removed by the interview subject, the lack of any margin-of-error became really obvious.

Monday night I slept instead of editing, and we started talking internally about what a sustainable schedule would look like.  The appeal of a daily show is definitely there, but the amount of work required to produce something high quality is too much for our small team.  If we hired the staff required to support the level of production, it would require a large investment and meaningful, immediate cashflow to sustain it.

The whole point here is to bring real journalism and analysis of complicated topics to an interested and basically unserved audience. 
 
So here's where we are now:
The Bitcoin Show will be moving to a twice-weekly format, running about an hour per episode.  We'll have a rotating cast of hosts with different perspectives and varied viewpoints.  We'll have frequent interviews, and occasional contributor segments.  And when we've built up a small backlog of content we'll start releasing timely interviews or segments on non-show days to keep you up to the minute.

If we have success with that format, are able to deliver it consistently, and the demand for a daily show still exists, we will look at doing a Bitcoinstarter.com or Kickstarter.com crowdfunding campaign to raise the necessary funds to make that happen in a sustainable way.

Thanks to everyone who helped build the show to the point we're at now, Especially Eli Sklar, Paul Russo, Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.  

Please feel free to send feedback negative or positive to adam@mindtomatter.org

We look forward to returning with episode 6 of The Daily Bitcoin, presented twice a week for the foreseeable future.

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Ep001 - Pilot

Shownotes: 
US Exchange Bitfloor forced shut, Can Exchanges Even Exist in the US?

What is FinCen, and Why it's the biggest threat to Bitcoin with Bradley Jansen of FreeBanking.org

Listener Question: Why don't people sell Bitcoins for Credit Cards or Paypal?

It's all about Perspective when we break down switching from Bitcoins to Milli-Bitcoins

Butterfly Labs: a tale of Promises Broken & the Lesson of dealing with volatile currencies.

Is Mining Causing global warming?  Andreas Takes on Krugman and brings the heat.

Correspondent Farzod Hashemi tells us about burying treasure with your mind.


Let's Talk Bitcoin! Episode 001 for April 23rd, 2013

Clip from Saturday's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin!    Paul Hughes picks up the ball after Bradley Jansen's interview on Show 1 and runs it in the other direction.     Full interview runs about 15 minutes, stay tuned!

You can view Paul's Bio here http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.paul.hughes

E-Gold & Exchanges - Let's Talk Bitcoin! #2 Preview Clip

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E02 - All Things Butter! - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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E03 - The Future of Money - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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On Episode 4:
Project Talk - Fr33AID, Bitcoin ID, and Bitcoin Neutrality
Listener Mail: Litecoins, ASICs and Bitcoin Banks?

My interview with Joe Cascio of the Bitcoin ID Project, where we discuss his plan to take back your identity, eliminate site-specific logins, and put the spammers out of business by keeping your online identity in the blockchain.

Today's Horrible Warning: BitcoinATM Blows Up

And because we just couldn't not talk abou tit, todays Other Horrible Warning: Coinlab Sues Mt. Gox - What's Going on here?  We investigate.

E04 - The Horrible Warnings - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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E05 - Communication is Key! - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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E06 - Cyprus & Serendipity - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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E07 - Ripple & The Deflationary Business Model - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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E08 - Our Bright Future - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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E09 - Bitcoin 2013 Kickoff! - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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Topic List: 
Why Satoshi Dice is Gone from the land of the free
Why Panama?
Bitcoin based autonomous region, and the lesson of the Honduras free zone
Behind the man, history and hopes
Why Join, then Leave the Free State Project?
Why this time really is different
What's the scenario that keeps you up at night?
What do you think of Ripple in its current iteration?
Are Bitcoin Businesses Possible in the US?
What's Wrong with Mt Gox?
Is Bitcoin the future, or is it just Cryptocurrencies in general?
What do you think of Alt-Coins?


Bitcoin 2013 - Erik Voorhees Interview - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

This episode was recorded on 5/19/2013 at 10pm, after the conference had closed.  Stephanie Murphy & I were joined by Andreas of www.bitcoinupdate.com

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E10 - A Brave, New World - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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Conference 2013 - Mike Hearn Interview - Let's Talk Bitcoin!

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