Nadim Kobeissi of the Capsule decentralised social media project describes the need for an alternative to the existing big-tech offerings and the reason the Internet Computer was chosen as a hosting layer.

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The Island of Stone Bitcoins

In the early days of Bitcoin, a few idealistic individuals attempted to live entirely on the bitcoin currency. Nine years and an abundance of technological developments later, is an entirely closed-loop bitcoin economy possible, or even useful?

Join hosts Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos as they reflect on bitcoin’s evolution as a currency and commodity. In the early days, an era of retail adoption as merchants began to accept bitcoin from their customers seemed to point to a bright future for daily bitcoin use. The 2013 IRS addendum treating bitcoin as a commodity, rather than as a foreign currency, quickly made transactions a burden with onerous tax reporting requirements, dimming that retail bitcoin future.

In the time since, the crypto community has adopted a HODL mindset. Why spend bitcoin if it’s disinflationary in nature and will bring you more value in the future? Those idealistic individuals' dreams of bitcoin as a daily currency may no longer align with bitcoin's maturation.

Developments in layer 2 technology, like the Lightning Network, have allowed experiments in bitcoin as legal tender to be not only a possibility, but a pragmatic choice for governments like El Salvador’s. With news of Ukraine considering following in El Salvador’s footsteps, will clusters of closed-loop bitcoin life bloom around the world?

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Today's show featured Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan. This episode was edited by Jonas, with music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats. Our album art is based off a photo by Ishan_@seefromthesky on Unsplash, modified by Speaking of Bitcoin

SOB #482 - Life on Bitcoin (2021 Edition)

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Stephanie, Andreas and Adam are joined by Jonathan Mohan for a discussion of perverse incentives and illusory power.

This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin and featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #331 - Incentives and Illusions

###On Today's Episode

Stephanie, Andreas and Adam are joined by Jonathan Mohan for a discussion of central bank reactions, plus the past and future of the emerging ICO ecosystem.

This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin and featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #332 - Shut Up And Take My Money!

###On Today's Episode

Andreas and Adam discuss UASF, hard forks, soft forks, chain forks and more.

This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin and featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #333 - On Consensus and All Kinds of Forks

###On Today's Episode

Andreas and Adam are joined by Erik Voorhees to discuss Entrepreneurial-ism, ICOs and Shapeshift's Smart Contract product, Prism.  

This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin and featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Erik Voorhees and Adam B. Levine

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #334 - Solving for Liquidity and Counterparty Risk

###On Today's Episode

Ryan X. Charles, one of the founders of Yours.org, sits down with Adam at the LTB Homestead to discuss micropayments, paywalls, lightning networks, payment channels, bitcoin, litecoin, and why Yours doesn't need it's own token.

Want to hear Ryan's Post-Mortem of the reddit cryptocurrency experiment? Listen to [episode 189: The Story of Reddit Notes](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-189-the-story-of-reddit-notes)

This episode featured content from Ryan X. Charles and Adam B. Levine.  This episode featured music by Jared Rubens and Mind to Matter.  This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin.

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #335 - Was That Worth Paying For?

###On Today's Episode

We listen in to Dr. Craig Wright's controversial talk and the Q&A which follows on his plans to scale Bitcoin on-chain with his company nChain.

This episode featured content from the Future of Money conference.  This episode featured music by Jared Rubens.

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #336 - Radical On-Chain Scaling

###On Today's Episode

Andreas spends more than an hour answering questions about Segwit and the near term path forward with questions pulled from skeptical questioners at r/BTC

Content provided by Andreas and Adam, Music by Jared Rubens and Mind to Matter.  This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin.

Let's Talk Bitcoin! #337  - No Rulers Here

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