Welcome to episode number three of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to Joseph VaughnPerling at his alpaca ranch. We discuss Monero, the Crypto Kingdom game, Bitcoin's maximum block size proposal, the Bitcoin Specie Project, Sidechains, and a few tangents.  

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Show links:  
 
Malibu Alpaca Ranch 
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2337951

My first Bitcoin Meetup - June 5, 2013
http://spelunk.in/2013/06/07/los-angeles-bitcoin-meetup-2

XBT Card
http://xbt-card.com

Monero
http://monero.cc

Crypto Kingdom
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=819073.0

Joseph's Max Block Size Article 
http://www.bizforum.org/Journal/www_journalJVP018.htm
 
Bitcoin Specie
http://coldhardca.sh  
  
Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.   
  
Stay in touch with the show: 
  
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame  
http://TheBitcoinGame.com  
rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

The Bitcoin Game #3 -  Joseph VaughnPerling

Welcome to episode number four of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to serial entrepreneur and angel investor David Johnston. We discuss the distributed app projects he's involved in, his impressive business background, how he went all in on Bitcoin several years ago, and much more. David is a real champion of decentralization open source projects.

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**Show links** 
 
Ethereum
https://www.ethereum.org

David's Crowdsale Best Practices White Paper on GitHub   
https://github.com/DavidJohnstonCEO/CrowdsaleBestPractices

DApps Fund  
http://www.dappsfund.com
  
Andreas Antonopoulos speaks with the Canadian Senates' Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce  
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-152-towards-innovation-and-progress

La`Zooz -  Decentralized Transportation & RideSharing Platform  
http://www.lazooz.net

Factom (white paper due November 17, 2014)  
http://www.factom.org

Storj  
http://storj.io

Maidsafe  
http://maidsafe.net

BlockAuth  
https://blockauth.com

Blockstream - Sidechains White Paper  
http://www.blockstream.com

**Music** 

Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. The last song features vocals by Angelo Spyropoulos. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast. 
  
  
**Stay in touch with the show** 
  
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame  
http://TheBitcoinGame.com  
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

The Bitcoin Game #4 - David A. Johnston

Hello, welcome to The Bitcoin Game #6. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell.

I spoke to Adam B. Levine a few weeks ago. We talked about his original Bitcoin podcast, The Daily Bitcoin, and why it morphed into Let's Talk Bitcoin, with Andreas Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy. In this interview, I found out how insanely early Adam wakes up each day, his takes on crypto crowd-funding platforms, as well as some of his grave concerns about potential U.S. governmental actions against crypto-projects that have benefitted from crowd-funding. Adam talked a bit about Tokenly, his newest entrepreneurial venture, while also letting me know about his newest technological passion (our conversation left me wondering if Adam might ever consider leaving the Bitcoin space for a fertile technology space that isn't being threatened by any governments). And as a fairly new podcaster on Adam's network, I got to ask Adam questions about my position, and the Let's Talk Bitcoin network in general. If you're a fan of Adam B. Levine, I think this will be an interesting show for you.

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SHOW LINKS
Adam's first Bitcoin podcast
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-episode-1

Stephanie Murphy introduces the first episode with guest Andreas Antonopoulos
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/the-daily-bitcoin-feature

Adam explains the necessary change to The Daily Bitcoin (relaunches as Let's Talk Bitcoin)
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/inside-the-bubble-the-daily

Oculus Rift DK2
https://www.oculus.com/dk2/

MyPowers (gives a 403 error, hmmmm…)
http://mypowers.com

Swarm
http://swarm.fund

Koinify
http://koinify.com

SPONSOR
Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain
http://bkeychain.com

MUSIC
Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

Thanks for listening!

STAY IN TOUCH
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

The Bitcoin Game #6 - Adam B. Levine of Let's Talk Bitcoin

Welcome to The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

In December of 2014, I went to visit Gray Bright, an Australian currently living in Los Angeles. He's been a maker all his life, and he graduated with an advanced degree in Robotic and Mechatronic Engineering. Gray has notable experience in product development, but what he enjoys making most are hardware / software creations that simply make him smile. Gray is also involved at mixing entertainment and comedy with tech and science. He shares two of his Bitcoin-related creations, and we chat about other cryptocurrency subjects.


MAGIC WORD
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SHOW LINKS
Gray Bright's site
http://graybright.com

Gray at the L.A. Bitcoin Meetup Show & Tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hptT0R2vlp0

Gray's Bitcoin Ticker Page
http://graybright.com/bitcoin-ticker/index.html

Mining Energy Talk on BitcoinTalk.org
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=897878.msg9882760#msg9882760

Dogecar Pit Crew LA Party http://spelunk.in/2014/05/07/shibes-celebrate-dogecoin-in-los-angeles-at-the-dogecar-pit-crew-la-party

The Tomorrow Show (hopefully video will be here soon)
http://TheTomorrowShow.io

Gray Bright's New "Groupie Stick"
http://www.groupiestick.co


SPONSOR
Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain
http://bkeychain.com


MUSIC
Music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast. 

Thanks for listening!

Stay in touch with the show
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

New podcast artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

The Bitcoin Game #9 - Gray Bright Hardware Interfaces

Welcome to episode 10 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

I wanted to really have fun and celebrate this 10th episode. I never knew if I'd be able to get ten episodes out, so this is quite an achievement for me. With that in mind, I decided to focus on something the entire cryptocurrency community loves to talk about… Taxes!

While cryptocurrency taxes may not be a favorite topic, I actually had a lot more fun than I expected, speaking to Jake Benson, CEO and founder of LibraTax. This was my opportunity to ask every tax accounting question I could think of related to cryptocurrency.

I also spent a little time with LibraTax, and I wasn’t convinced it had the features I needed. But after getting some tips from Jake on hidden capabilities and techniques, I think I’ll be using LibraTax to help with my accounting this year. So if you think you might want to give LibraTax a spin, listen to the entire episode, and you'll get some specific tips towards the end.

While Jake certainly seems like a tax expert to me, please do not use this podcast for personal tax advice. Consult with a tax professional, or do your own research to make sure you file your taxes correctly. There certainly are gray areas when it comes to tax regulation, especially with new financial technologies. So there's often an aggressive and a conservative approach that can be taken.

I apologize that the content discussed in this episode may not be of any bearing to some listeners. I didn't bury the magic word too deep this time, so give the episode a chance, and maybe you'll find the discussion is more interesting than you expect. Or maybe not.

I'll be attending the Texas Bitcoin Conference in March (not April), please say "hi" to me if you'll be there too.

MAGIC WORD
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SHOW LINKS
LibraTax
http://www.libratax.com

Digital Currency Council (DCC)
http://www.digitalcurrencycouncil.com

LibraTax YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHASzhAU1sZXtX1cj0nIpog/videos

Article on Bitcoin Accounting (not referenced, has different views)
http://findaccountingsoftware.com/expert-advice/the-cfos-guide-to-bitcoin-part-2-taxes-and-accounting

Article on Bitcoin Accounting (not referenced, has different views)  
http://findaccountingsoftware.com/expert-advice/the-cfos-guide-to-bitcoin-part-2-taxes-and-accounting

New Bitcoin Accounting article by Ryan "Two-Bit Idiot" Selkis  
http://www.investopedia.com/university/definitive-bitcoin-tax-guide-dont-let-irs-snow-you

BitcoinTaxes (another Bitcoin accounting site)  
https://bitcoin.tax

SPONSOR
Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain
http://bkeychain.com

MUSIC
All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Steve Lunn. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

Thanks for listening!

STAY IN TOUCH
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

New podcast artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

The Bitcoin Game #10 - Talking Taxes With Jake Benson

Hello, welcome to episode 17 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

In this episode I speak with Yoshi Goto of BitMain (maker of the AntMiner), outspoken cryptographer Nicolas Courtois, and Storj creator Shawn Wilkinson. These interviews took place at the 2015 Texas Bitcoin conference. Nicholas Courtois and Shawn Wilkinson were both speakers at this conference, while Yoshi Goto has presented at other Bitcoin events.

MAGIC WORD
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SHOW LINKS
BitMain
https://www.bitmaintech.com

AntPool
https://antpool.com

Nicolas Courtois
http://nicolascourtois.com

Ethereum
https://www.ethereum.org

Ralph Merkle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle

Neal Koblitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Koblitz

RFC 6979
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6979

Johoe interviewed on The Bitcoin Game
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe

Storj
http://storj.io

Shawn Wilkinson's Site
http://super3.org

Challenge-Response Authentication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge%E2%80%93response_authentication

Factom
http://factom.org

Maidsafe
http://maidsafe.net

Texas Bitcoin Conference
http://texasbitcoinconference.com

Send Small Donations to Red Cross for Nepal Earthquake Recovery
https://blog.changetip.com/donations-red-cross-nepal-earthquake

SPONSOR
Bitcoin Keychains by Bkeychain
You’ve seen these keychains on dozens and dozens of websites, it’s about time you had one of your own! These substantial metal keychains make great conversation starters, and they also make great gifts to or from Bitcoiners. You can find a list of online retailers at Bkeychain.com, and several support Bitcoin so much, they don’t even accept fiat currency. So what are you waiting for?
http://Bkeychain.com

MUSIC
All music in this episode was created by me.

Thanks for listening!

STAY IN TOUCH
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

The Bitcoin Game 17 - Yoshi Goto - Nicolas Courtois - Shawn Wilkinson

Hello, welcome to episode 25 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

If I were to meet Marco Streng on the street, I’d never guess he hands-on controls perhaps the largest amount of hashing power in the world. Marco is the CEO and cofounder of Genesis mining, a company that mines for profit, and also offers cloud mining. I met Marco back at the State Of Digital Money conference in Los Angeles earlier this year, as he was one of the speakers.

I've always been skeptical about cloud mining. At worst, you're simply putting money into a ponzi scheme. At best, you have to trust that even a legit company doesn’t get hacked, go broke, or have another issue that can beset any company. Yet Marco was able to restore my trust that there are legitimate companies providing cloud-mining services. Of course, there’s always the unknown variables of future price and future difficulty, which can render a net loss, to even the best-laid cloud-mining plans.

Stepping back from profitability concerns, cloud-mining services enable smaller players to help secure the network. So I think anyone who supports the security of Bitcoin can see the benefit of legitimate cloud-mining services, which reduces the friction for eager miners to contribute hash power to the network.

== TWITTER GIVEAWAY ==
I will be posting a question or two about the podcast on Twitter. First to tweet back the correct answer will win either a Bitcoin Keychain or the brand new Bitcoin Fork Pen (both pictured below). So follow me at this URL: https://twitter.com/theBTCgame

Order the brand-new Bitcoin Fork Pen and the well-known Bitcoin Keychain together, for only $12 (includes shipping within USA). http://BitcoinForks.com/deal


== MAGIC WORD ==
Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 5am Pacific Time on September 17, 2015.

== SHOW LINKS ==
Genesis Mining
https://www.genesis-mining.com

New York's BitLicense
http://www.dfs.ny.gov/legal/regulations/adoptions/dfsp200t.pdf

BitcoinXT
https://bitcoinxt.software/#sec-hardfork

SideChains White Paper
https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf

Lightning Network
https://lightning.network

BIP-100
https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100/blob/master/bip-0100.mediawiki#Abstract

BIP-101
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0101.mediawiki#Abstract

BIP-102
https://github.com/jgarzik/bips/blob/2015_2mb_blocksize/bip-0102.mediawiki#Abstract

Bitcoin Wisdom - Mining Calculator
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator

Bitcoin Wisdom - Difficulty
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Magazine - Possible $500,000 Bitcoin Cloud Mining Ponzi Scheme Uncovered https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20702/exclusive-possible-500000-bitcoin-cloud-mining-ponzi-scheme-uncovered

Life Inside A Bitcoin Mine (streaming video from Genesis Mining's Iceland facility)
http://www.lifeinsideabitcoinmine.com

Video of Marco's presentation at State Of Digital Money 2015  
https://youtu.be/oAXtTftPTkI




== MUSIC ==
All the music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me! If you're curious, the music was created in GarageBand (by Apple), Animoog (by Moog Music), and Figure (by Propellerhead). Please contact me if you'd like more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

== STAY IN TOUCH ==
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

Thanks for listening!

The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

The Bitcoin Game 25 - Mining At Scale With Marco Streng

Hello, welcome to episode 26 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

Back some months ago, Los Angeles had its first Bitcoin conference called The State Of Digital Money. Jeff Garzik (Bitcoin Core Developer for BitPay and CEO of Dunvegan Space Systems) was the featured speaker, and he gave a presentation called The Future of Bitcoin. I originally believed the presentation needed the accompanying visual slides, but after giving the audio of Jeff's presentation a fresh listen, I realized the audio is really good on its own. I even found it refreshing to hear a core developer speak on a variety of Bitcoin topics, without having to weigh in on the current contentious block size debate. So relax and enjoy this presentation by Jeff Garzik.

Jeff's The Future of Bitcoin slides
http://www.slideshare.net/jgarzik/the-future-of-bitcoin-state-of-digital-money-2015-conference

== TWITTER GIVEAWAY ==

Follow me on twitter at theBTCgame, because I’ll be asking questions related to this episode. The first person to tweet the correct answer wins their choice of either a classic Bitcoin keychain or a Bitcoin Fork Pen. I just ask that you follow me, and if you win, you’re not allowed to enter another giveaway for 90 days.

For more information about the Bitcoin Fork Pen, go to BitcoinForks.com
For more information about the classic Bitcoin Keychain, go to Bkeychain.com

Note: I will send a Bitcoin Fork Pen to Core Devs upon request. Offer valid while supplies last.

== MAGIC WORD ==

Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 5am Pacific Time on October 1, 2015.

== SHOW LINKS ==

Dunvegan Space Systems
http://www.dunveganspace.com

BitPay
https://bitpay.com

State Of Digital Money
http://www.cureativ.com/sodm/#digitalmoney

Linux projects by Jeff Garzik
http://linux.yyz.us/projects.html

Headers First Synchronization
https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/headers-first-sync

Pay to script hash (P2SH)
https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Pay_to_script_hash

Payment Channels in BitcoinJ
https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments

Lightning Network (implementation of Payment Channels)
https://lightning.network

Impulse Protocol (implementation of Payment Channels)
http://impulse.is

BIP 65 - CheckLockTimeVerify
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki

Mike Hearn - Turing Festival 2013 - Tradenet (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/Pu4PAMFPo5Y

BitPay's ChainDB whitepaper
https://bitpay.com/chaindb.pdf

Sidechains white paper
https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf

Rusty Russell on Lightning Network
http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=450

Jeff's presentation on YouTube
https://youtu.be/oRG0nzSUpSU



== MUSIC ==

All the music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me, with some funky vocal noises on one clip by Michael Coleman.

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

Thanks for listening!

The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Publicly published on September 24th, 2015

The Bitcoin Game 26 - Jeff Garzik The Future of Bitcoin

(See full show notes at TheBitcoinGame.com, episode 27)

Hello, welcome to episode 27 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

I’ve been a podcast listener for many years now, so when I got interested in Bitcoin, listening to Bitcoin podcasts was a natural. I think Adam B. Levine launched The Daily Bitcoin the same day I first searched for Bitcoin podcasts. And I've been hooked on Bitcoin podcasts ever since.

Bitcoins and Gravy has always been a hugely influential show for me. In a sea of podcasts with poor audio quality and barely existent production values, Bitcoins and Gravy sounded as well-produced as any podcast I'd ever heard. Even the short musical pieces between segments were done to perfection. John also experimented with characters and fictional entertainment on some episodes, which really helped it stand out as something a bit different.

Even after spending time with John Barrett at the 2015 Texas Bitcoin Conference, I still find he reverts back to a larger-than-life persona when I listen to him podcast. When I realized John Barrett missed releasing the August 9, 2015, episode of Bitcoins and Gravy, I really took notice. I checked in with John, wanting to make sure he was okay. He said he was, but that he was moving to every other week. But then a couple more weeks went by, and still no new episodes appeared. It was clear something was up, and I was happy he agreed to be on my show.

We spoke for almost two and a half hours, everything from light-hearted talk to John’s very strong views about various subjects. While I thought we’d be bantering more, John really takes a subject and runs with it. Fans of John Barrett and Bitcoins and Gravy won’t want to miss this episode.

MAGIC WORD
Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 7am Pacific Time on October 16, 2015.


Bitcoins And Gravy
http://bitcoinsandgravy.com


MUSIC
I created the intro and outro music, but the rest is by John Barrett. Be sure to check out John's complete songs, along with lyrics and more at the Bitcoins and Gravy song archives: http://bitcoinsandgravy.com/bitcoins-and-gravy-song-lyrics-archive

STAY IN TOUCH
https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com

Thanks for listening!

The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

The Bitcoin Game 27 - John Barrett of Bitcoins and Gravy

Hello, welcome to episode 28 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

When I scheduled an interview with CoinCube CEO Robert Allen, I felt pretty skeptical. My gut told me a cloud-based Bitcoin-trading-bot would be something like a cloud-mining Ponzi-scheme on steroids. I wondered, would this interview be my first exposé? Would my "gotcha" questions be too difficult for Robert to field? Listen to find out!

MAGIC WORD

Stay tuned for the magic word in this episode, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners have one week from the release date to magic word claim credit. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 1:00pm Pacific Time on October 29, 2015.

SPONSOR

While much of Bitcoiner's time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own your own Classic Bitcoin Keychain or the new Bitcoin Fork Pen.

http://bkeychain.com
http://bitcoinforks.com


SHOW LINKS

CoinCube
http://coincube.io

CoinCube Performance History Chart
https://coincube.io/performance

Gold Rehypothecation (article)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-24/rehypothecation-gold-and-why-it-matters

Naked Shorting (Naked Short Selling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling

Trend Following
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_following

Moving Average
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average

Whipsaw Effect
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/whipsaw.asp

Efficient-Market Hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

Edward Thorp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp

Market Maker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker

Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
http://amzn.to/1Mc9suV

Monte Carlo Simulator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

MUSIC

All the music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me! If you're curious, the music was created in GarageBand (by Apple), Animoog (by Moog Music), and Figure (by Propellerhead). Please contact me if you'd like more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

Thanks for listening!

Tipping address for this episode:
1F731bAUStLNJn8gWfPekvVkcCZNsPhBz6

The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

The Bitcoin Game 28 - Would You Trust A Bitcoin Trading Bot?

Hello, welcome to episode 32 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.

Today's interview is with Brock Pierce, chairman of the board of The Bitcoin Foundation, and a highly-accomplished VC in digital currency. Brock got involved in digital token entrepreneurship at a very young age, with a focus on gaming, an activity he excelled at. As he reached his mid-twenties, Brock's companies were doing $100,000,000 in business. By the time Bitcoin was released, Brock had become a veteran in the business of digital currency. Brock was primed to recognize the innovation that Bitcoin introduced, and he quickly became one of the most involved venture capitalists in the Bitcoin space. The first half of this episode focuses on Brock's background.

In the second half of my interview, I ask Brock to speak about various aspects of the Bitcoin Foundation, which has faced its share of criticism in the past several years.

== SHOW LINKS ==

Mike Hearn Exits Bitcoin
https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7

L.A. Bitcoin Meetup (August 21, 2013)
http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Bitcoin/events/133070952

Sanctum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctum_(game)

Ultima Online
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online

Everquest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest

Asheron’s Call
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheron%27s_Call

IGE
http://www.ige.com

GoCoin
http://gocoin.com

Stampery
https://stampery.com

Blockchain Capital
http://blockchain.capital/index.html

Bitcoin Foundation
http://bitcoinfoundation.org

Brock Pierce on Twitter
https://twitter.com/brockpierce

== MAGIC WORD ==

Stay tuned for the magic word in this episode, and submit it to your LTB Network account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBCoin. Listeners have one week from the release date to claim the magic word credit. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on January 22, 2016.

== SPONSOR ==

While much of Bitcoiners' time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own your own Classic Bitcoin Keychain or the newer Bitcoin Fork Pen.

http://bkeychain.com
http://bitcoinforks.com

Bitcoin Keychains and Bitcoin Fork Pens

== MUSIC ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me.

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin tipping address for this episode:
1JLWcXBGNhgTwp4hrr5yRCm6W7bi6bavw3

Thanks for listening!

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network / LTB Network on January 15, 2016.
LetsTalkBitcoin.com / TheBitcoinGame.com

The Bitcoin Game 32 - Brock Pierce

Hello, welcome to episode 33 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.

J. Maurice is everything you’d expect in a crypto-anarchist hacker. When I had lunch with him before our interview, Maurice kept his phone powered off and explained he wouldn’t use a credit card, except maybe to pay for already-tracked air travel. After our meal, he used his Trezor to sign a Bitcoin payment on his laptop, via the cafe's Wi-Fi. There's nothing in particular Maurice is trying to hide, he simply wants to live his life free from surveillance of his location and financial activities.

Also known as Wiz, J. Maurice was part of the WizSec team that performed an in-depth analysis of the Bitcoins missing from Mt. Gox. He's also been called Roger Ver's go-to guy when it comes to personal defense from hackers. Maurice has many financial clients too, but as they often turn to him after they've experienced a breach, this work is usually confidential. While Maurice calls Tokyo home, I spoke to him in Los Angeles, as he was just finishing a project here.

== SHOW LINKS ==

The Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoins (WizSec's info-packed second report)
http://blog.wizsec.jp/2015/04/the-missing-mtgox-bitcoins.html

WizSec's Kim Nilsson gives a thorough explanation about Mt. Gox (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/jn9nTPyKyyQ?t=6m48s

How Roger Ver Got Hacked, and What He Did to Stop it (Coindesk)
http://www.coindesk.com/how-roger-ver-hacked-what-he-did-stop-it

Zcash (Zerocash)
http://zerocash-project.org

J. Maurice @Wiz (Twitter)
https://twitter.com/wiz

== MAGIC WORD ==

Stay tuned for the magic word in this episode, and submit it to your LTB Network account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBCoin. Listeners have one week from the release date to claim the magic word credit. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on February 12, 2016.

== SPONSOR ==

While much of Bitcoiners' time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own your own Classic Bitcoin Keychain or the newer Bitcoin Fork Pen.

http://bkeychain.com
http://bitcoinforks.com

== BITCOIN HISTORIC PRICE LOOKUP ==

Sometimes I'm doing accounting and I wish there was a quick tool to help look up the U.S. dollar value of a past Bitcoin transaction. So I asked Joe Looney to build it for me, and I'm sharing this tool with listeners. Nothing amazing here, it just looks up a historic Bitcoin price (in USD) then multiplies that rate by the Bitcoin amount you enter. Please let me know if you have any feedback on this price lookup tool.
BitcoinHistoricPrice.com

== MUSIC ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me.

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin tipping address for this episode:
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Thanks for listening!

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network / LTB Network on February 5, 2016.
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The Bitcoin Game 33 - Hacker J. Maurice (Wiz)

Hello, welcome to episode 34 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell, and my guest is Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd.

Peter was really open in this interview, and we talked about everything from his relationship with Gavin Andresen, to mistakes he made in his early days working with Bitcoin Core, and a dozen topics in between. A lot of Peter’s focus was on explaining what he feels are the differences between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic, and why he believes Core is the path to follow at this juncture. Additionally, we touch on Peter's Coinbase double-spend, perceived issues with Replace By Fee, and private blockchains.

== SHOW LINKS ==

Freenet
https://freenetproject.org

Distributed hash table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

Hash Cash, by Adam Back
http://www.hashcash.org

Peter Todd communicating with Adam Back and Hal Finney in 2001
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/bluesky/2001-March.txt

Bitcoin Core
https://bitcoincore.org

Bitcoin Classic
https://bitcoinclassic.com

Segregated Witnesses (hey, Peter says it this way!)
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits

IBLTs (Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables)
http://popeller.io/index.php/2015/10/09/bitcoin-block-propagation-with-iblt-infographic

Bitcoinocracy.com
http://bitcoinocracy.com

Replace-By-Fee
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-developer-jonas-schnelli-explains-controversial-transaction-replace-by-fee-feature-1454343556

Mastercoin (now Omni)
http://www.omnilayer.org

Tree Chains
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04388.html

Proof Chains
https://github.com/proofchains/python-proofchains

21
https://21.co

PeterTodd.org
https://petertodd.org

== MAGIC WORD ==

Stay tuned for the magic word in this episode, and submit it to your LTB Network account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBCoin. Listeners have one week from the release date to claim the magic word credit. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time on February 24, 2016.

== SPONSOR ==

While much of Bitcoiners' time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own your own Classic Bitcoin Keychain or the newer Bitcoin Fork Pen.

http://bkeychain.com
http://bitcoinforks.com

== BITCOIN HISTORIC PRICE LOOKUP ==

Sometimes I'm doing accounting and I wish there was a quick tool to help look up the U.S. dollar value of a past Bitcoin transaction. So I asked Joe Looney to build it for me, and I'm sharing this tool with listeners. Nothing amazing here, it just looks up a historic Bitcoin price (in USD) then multiplies that rate by the Bitcoin amount you enter. Please let me know if you have any feedback on this price lookup tool.
BitcoinHistoricPrice.com

== MUSIC ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me.

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin tipping address for this episode:
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Thanks for listening!

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network / LTB Network on February 17, 2016.
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The Bitcoin Game #34: Bitcoin Core Dev Peter Todd

Hello, welcome to episode 38 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.

It's always great interviewing a knowledgeable person who's not afraid to give an opinion, and Rodolfo Novak is that sort of guest. In this interview, we discuss CoinKite's early days, which started with a Blockchain explorer, custom Bitcoin payment terminals, a widely-used wallet hosting service, and a backend that utilizes hardware security modules of CoinKite's own design. And now, with OpenDime, they've moved on to a fascinating new type of Bitcoin hardware that's best use cases are still to be determined.

Rodolfo was also happy to give his opinions on the $70 million Bitfinex theft, the Ethereum fork, the scaling debate, and more. Note that Coinkite's co-founder and CTO is Peter D. Gray (and Peter Todd serves as an advisor to Coinkite).

== SHOW LINKS ==

OpenDime.com
https://opendime.com

CoinKite.com
https://coinkite.com

Beautyon on OpenDime
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/exquisite-opendime-ad1195a2790e

OpenDime Review (posted after our interview)
https://news.bitcoin.com/opendime-bitcoin-stick-review

@OpenDime on Twitter
https://twitter.com/OPENDIME


== MAGIC WORD ==

Stay tuned for the magic word in this episode, and submit it to your LTB Network account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBCoin. Listeners have one week from the release date to claim the magic word credit.

== SPONSOR ==

While much of Bitcoiners' time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own your own Bitcoin Keychain or the newer Bitcoin Fork Pen.

http://bkeychain.com
http://bitcoinforks.com

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin tipping address for this episode:
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Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game!

== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network / LTB Network on August 21, 2016.
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The Bitcoin Game (an LTB Network podcast)

The Bitcoin Game #38: Rodolfo Novak of Coinkite & Opendime

My name is Rob Mitchell, and it’s hard to believe this is my 40th episode of The Bitcoin Game. I was a fan of Let’s Talk Bitcoin from day one, since it launched right after I got into Bitcoin. I reached out to Adam B. Levine early on, and worked with the LTB Network in various capacities. During that time, I recorded a number of interviews that weren’t quite publishable, for one reason or another. But after attending a Bitcoin Job Fair, I eventually collected enough solid content to release my first episode of The Bitcoin Game on October 15, 2014. A bit under 20 episodes per year isn’t so bad, is it?

Regular listeners are aware that my releases have been less frequent in 2016. So I felt extra pressure to do something special for my year-end, 40th episode. I sent messages to over 100 cryptocurrency enthusiasts, inviting them to record a holiday or new year greeting. I made suggestions, such as reviewing 2016 or making predictions for 2017, but I tried to make it open-ended. I ended up with submissions from 26 people who in some cases represent very divergent viewpoints. It’s a jam packed, ad-free show; I hope you enjoy!

Oh, before I forget…

I want to propose that on January 3rd, the 8th anniversary of Bitcoin's genesis block, every cryptocurrency aficionado take a day to chill on the arguing, so we get a sense of what it’s like to be a huge, cohesive group. Can you go so far as to find someone you typically take issue with, and compliment them on something you genuinely value about that person? I’m just asking for one day a year. Who’s with me?

== Guest Order Of Appearance ==

Greetings are in order from shortest to longest.

Charlie Shrem
intellisys.ai

Matt Corallo
bluematt.bitcoin.ninja

Emin Gün Sirer
HackingDistributed.com

Jonas Schnelli
github.com/jonasschnelli

Marc Hochstein
AmericanBanker.com

Rodolfo Novak
opendime.com

John Light
lightco.in

The Crypto Show
TheCryptoShow.com

Tatiana Moroz
TatianaMoroz.com

Amanda B. Johnson
youtube.com/dashorg

Brian Cohen
BitOfThis.com

Riccardo Spagni
getmonero.org

David Bailey
evinceit.com

Zooko Wilcox
z.cash

Paul Boyer
MadMoneyMachine.com

Bruce Fenton
facebook.com/bruce.fenton.page

Joseph VaughnPerling
coldhardca.sh

Tuur Demeester
AdamantResearch.com

Pepe Cash (forwarded courtesy Joe Looney)
rarepepedirectory.com

Bitcoin Uncensored
soundcloud.com/bitcoinuncensored

Kyle Torpey
kyletorpey.neocities.org

Tim Tayshun
ezCoinAccess.com

John Ferguson
SafeCrossroads.net

Pamela Morgan
thirdkey.solutions

Arthur Falls
etherreview.info

John Barrett
bitcoinsandgravy.com

"It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Bitcoin" by John Barrett

== SPONSOR ==

All participants in this episode are hereby offered their choice of a Bitcoin Keychain or a Bitcoin Fork Pen. In lieu of taking physical possession, a Counterparty token, redeemable for either product, may be requested. Simply contact Rob with a physical mailing address or Counterparty address.

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== STAY IN TOUCH ==

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Bitcoin tipping address for this episode:
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== CREDITS ==

The Bitcoin Game box art is based on an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Non-holiday music by Rob Mitchell

"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies", "We Wish you a Merry Christmas", "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", "Angels We Have Heard on High", "Angels We Have Heard on High (Piano)", "Jingle Bells (Calm)", & "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Silent Night Piano" & "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" courtesy of www.freexmasmp3.com

Published on the LTB Network on December 30, 2016.
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The Bitcoin Game #40: 2016 Year End Special!

Hello, welcome to episode 48 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

In episode 47 you heard the Bitcoin Scaling panel I moderated at the State Of Digital Money in Los Angeles. While I loved being part of that panel, I really didn’t get to ask many questions. The time allotted to that panel went by so quickly that I really wanted more! So, I was able to arrange interviews with Ryan X. Charles and Eric Lombrozo to dig a bit deeper into some issues around scaling and Bitcoin forks. In this episode I talk to Ryan; you’ll hear Eric in episode 49.

UPDATE: Things move fast in Bitcoin! Five days after this interview, Ryan announced Yours will be moving to Bitcoin Cash: https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles/status/900083785726910465

== SHOW LINKS ==

The Bitcoin Game #47: Scaling Bitcoin with Paul Puey, Tone Vays, Ryan X. Charles, and Eric Lombrozo
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-47-scaling-bitcoin-with-paul-puey-tone-vays-ryan-x-charles-eric-lombrozo

Ryan X. Charles Twitter
https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles

Yours
https://www.yours.org

Bitcoin Cash
https://www.bitcoincash.org

SegWit2x
https://segwit2x.github.io

Bitcoin Core
https://bitcoincore.org

Ryan X. Charles: Could Yours adopt Bitcoin Cash?
https://www.yours.org/content/80d01701980a5490bd1984f589b82c2bf92b95e045634b6b35bf87f3c48b3d90

The Original “Ripple” company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(company)

That time I met Ryan X. Charles in The Netherlands (The Future Of Bitcoin presentation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJxZ6VHDkU

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Twitter: @TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin tipping address:
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Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game!

== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell, except “Entry of the Gladiators” was written by Julius Fucik, and performed by an unknown midi transcriber, via Garageband.


The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network / LTB Network on August 22, 2017.
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The Bitcoin Game #48: Digging Deeper (Part One) - Ryan X. Charles

Hello, welcome to episode 53 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. In this episode I speak to Zac McClure of TokenTax, in what I feel is one of the more in-depth cryptocurrency tax discussions I’ve ever heard on a podcast. We discuss everything from like-kind cryptocurrency exchanges to the idea of selecting specific cost-basis cryptocurrency when giving a gift. We also cover some of the features of TokenTax, a new service to help people manage cryptocurrency taxes.


== SHOW LINKS ==

TokenTax
https://tokentax.us

Zac McClure on Twitter
https://twitter.com/ZacharyMcClure

TokenTax on Twitter
https://twitter.com/tokentax

My Intro Tax Talk, Episode #10 with Jake Benson of Libra Tax
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-10-talking-taxes-with-jake-benson

Zac's Tax Talk on Blockchannel
https://soundcloud.com/blockchannelshow/episode-38-crypto-taxes-made-easy-with-tokentax



== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! Should I make 50 more episodes, or was 50 enough? Let me know!

Twitter: @TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin (Segwit) tipping address:
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Bitcoin (Legacy) tipping address:  
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Litecoin tipping address:
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Bitcoin Cash tipping address:
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Ethereum tipping address:
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== SPONSOR ==

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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell or some funky jam Rob was involved in.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network / LTB Network on March 24, 2018.
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The Bitcoin Game #53: Advanced Crypto Taxes with Zac McClure

Welcome to episode 56 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I met Peter Kroll at a Bitcoin conference about a year ago. When I asked Peter what his involvement was with Bitcoin, he told me he created the original Bitcoin paper wallet at BitAddress.org. I was pretty impressed, having used his tool often! Peter had kept it a secret that he was behind BitAddress.org until late 2014, and even since then, he's kept a pretty low profile. We cover a ton of topics in this exclusive interview, including Peter's introduction to Bitcoin, his paper wallet system, Bitcoin's division, and much more.

Note: We've recently migrated our primary content host from Soundcloud to Libsyn, so that’s why our Soundcloud numbers have dropped off recently.

== EPISODE LINKS ==

CHECK OUT THIS EPISODE’S SHOW NOTES PAGE FOR MORE LINKS, INFO, ETC.:
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-56-paper-wallet-inventor-peter-kroll

The First Bitcoin Paper Wallet
https://BitAddress.org

Peter's SlashDot introduction to Bitcoin
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/0149234/mint-it-yourself-with-a-browser-based-bitcoin-miner

Curaçao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curaçao

Peter "PointBiz" Kroll on BitcoinTalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17857

First BitAddress.org thread on BitcoinTalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43496

BitcoinTalk BitAddress.org art contest posted by Mike "Casascius" Caldwell https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92969

BitAddress.org on GitHub
https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org

BitAddress Changelog
https://www.bitaddress.org/CHANGELOG.txt.asc

Entropy (Hackaday article)
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/02/what-is-entropy-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it

BitcoinJS
https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib

Tom Wu's JSBN Library
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/

Live USB Linux
https://www.linuxliveusb.com

BitKey (bootable USB image for cold wallets)
https://bitkey.io

Tails
https://tails.boum.org

Canton Becker's Bitcoin Paper Wallet
https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com

Ian Coleman’s BIP39 Mnemonic Converter Tool
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

Coldlar (new hardware wallet)
https://www.coldlar.com

Coinbin (offline transaction signing library, uses QR codes)
https://coinb.in

Estonia - National ID Card RNG Flaw
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/security_flaw_i.html

Generating private keys with dice
http://kiararobles.com/blog/generating-private-keys-with-bitcoin-dice.html

Monero
https://getmonero.org

Decred
https://www.decred.org

Counterparty
https://counterparty.io

Peter Kroll - Private Key Custody - Crypto Mexico - Ethereum Devcon 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLaVk-3pDk

Peter on Twitter
https://twitter.com/pointbiz1

Peter on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/user/pointbiz

== SPONSOR ==

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== STAY IN TOUCH ==

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Litecoin tipping address:
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Bitcoin Cash tipping address:
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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on July 4, 2018.
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The Bitcoin Game #56: Paper Wallet Inventor Peter Kroll

Welcome to episode 59 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm happy to bring to you part one of an interview with Cypherpunk and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back. Dr. Back talks about topics such as his first computers, his early privacy-oriented work, Hashcash vs. other proof-of-work, various early electronic money systems, and his work on Bitcoin Confidential Transactions. Get ready to soak in some history from one of the people whose "work" became an integral part of Bitcoin.

== EPISODE LINKS ==

Adam Back (Adam3us) on Twitter
https://twitter.com/adam3us

Dr. Back's Info Page
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam

Blockstream
https://blockstream.com

Malta (Crypto-friendly)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/how-malta-became-a-hub-of-the-cryptocurrency-world-quicktake

Dr. Back's First Computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

PGP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

Cypherpunks Mailing List
https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/getting-started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list

Adam's Credential Library for Ecash & DigiCash
http://cypherspace.org/credlib

David Chaum's Ecash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash

Stefan Brands' DigiCash
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash

Adam Back's Eternity
http://www.cypherspace.org/eternity

Usenet News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

Pseudonymous Remailers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonymous_remailer

Hal Finney (integrated PGP into remailers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)

Adam Back's Hashcash
http://www.hashcash.org

Spam Assassin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_SpamAssassin

Microsoft Digital Postmarks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Postmarks

SYN Cookies, by Dan Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_cookies

Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail (PDF)
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/pvp.pdf

Old communication between Peter Todd, Adam Back and Hal Finney
https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/bluesky/2001-March.txt

Wei Dai's B-Money
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money

Nick Szabo's Bit Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Bit_gold

Hal Finney's RPOW - Reusable Proof of Work
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html

TPM - Trusted Platform Module
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

Confidential Transactions
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/confidential-transactions-how-hiding-transaction-amounts-increases-bitcoin-privacy-1464892525

Elements (Sidechain)
https://elementsproject.org

Liquid (Sidechain)
https://blockstream.com/liquid

== SPONSOR ==

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== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! 

Twitter: @TheBTCGame
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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on October 24, 2018.
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Note: We've recently migrated our RSS feed (and primary content host) from Soundcloud to Libsyn. So if you notice the Soundcloud numbers have dropped off recently, that's the reason.

The Bitcoin Game #59: Dr. Adam Back

Welcome to episode 60 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm happy to bring to you part two of my interview with Cypherpunk and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back. In this episode, we take a deep dive into Liquid, Blockstream's new federated sidechain. 

== EPISODE LINKS ==

Adam Back (Adam3us) on Twitter
https://twitter.com/adam3us

Blockstream
https://blockstream.com

Lightning Network White Paper by Joseph Poon & Thaddeus Dryja
https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

Duplex Micropayment Channels by Christian Decker & Roger Wattenhofer
https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/716b955c130e6c703fac336ea17b1670/duplex-micropayment-channels.pdf

ETHZ (where Christian Decker earned his Bitcoin PhD)
https://www.ethz.ch/de.html

Rusty Russell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell

C-Lightning
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

Liquid
https://blockstream.com/liquid

Liquid Assets
https://blockstream.com/2018/07/02/liquid-issued-assets

Confidential Transactions
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/confidential-transactions-how-hiding-transaction-amounts-increases-bitcoin-privacy-1464892525

ERC-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERC-20

Counterparty
https://counterparty.io/docs/faq-xcp

UTXO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspent_transaction_output

Bulletproofs
https://crypto.stanford.edu/bulletproofs https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066.pdf

Tether
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)

Proof of Burn
https://www.coinbureau.com/education/proof-of-burn-explained

Public Key vs. Public Address
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3filud/whats_the_difference_between_public_key_and

Lamport Signatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_signature

The Byzantine Generals Problem
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf

Schnorr Signatures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnorr_signature

ECDSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm

Denial-of-Service Attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Tor
https://www.torproject.org

Liquid Block Explorer
https://blockstream.com/2018/08/02/accelerating-liquid-adoption-liquid-block-explorer

NBitcoin by Nicolas Dorier
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/768412/NBitcoin-The-most-complete-Bitcoin-port-Part-Crypt

Green Address Wallet
https://greenaddress.it

KYC Compliance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

Paul Sztorc talks about Sidechains, Drivechain, Liquid
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-377-sidechains-drivechains-and-the-apple-store

RootStock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RootStock

Spark Lightning Wallet by Nadav Ivgi
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/spark-new-gui-lightning-wallet-bitcoin-now-available-download

Lightning Splice-In, Splice Out (and more)
https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/day-2-of-the-chaincode-labs-lightning-residency-669aecab5f16

SPV Wallet
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Simplified_Payment_Verification

Neutrino Lite Bitcoin Client
https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino/blob/master/README.md

Lightning Watchtower
https://www.coindesk.com/laolu-building-watchtower-fight-bitcoin-lightning-fraud/

ABCore by Lawrence Nahum (BTC full node on Android)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore

Hardware Wallet
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet

== STAY IN TOUCH ==

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== CREDITS ==

Music by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on November 3, 2018.
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The Bitcoin Game #60: Dr. Adam Back Part 2 - Liquid

Welcome to episode 68 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I introduced myself to Paul Sztorc at Bitcoin 2019 (bitcoin2019conference.com) and asked him if he'd be up for an interview. I was thrilled that he gave me an unqualified "yes." This ended up being, by far, my longest interview of the conference, and I appreciate that Paul was willing to hang out with me for a big chunk of the second day of the event. I really feel like I got to know Paul in this longest episode I've released in awhile. Hope you enjoy it!


== EPISODE LINKS ==

Paul Sztorc on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Truthcoin

Truthcoin
https://www.truthcoin.info

Bitcoin Hivemind
http://bitcoinhivemind.com

Drivechain
https://www.drivechain.info

Link to Paul's Bitcoin 2019 Panel
https://youtu.be/gCtwg7Qecc4

Paul Sztorc talks about Sidechains, Drivechain, and Liquid on Let's Talk Bitcoin
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-377-sidechains-drivechains-and-the-apple-store

Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23193004

Bill Nordhaus
https://economics.yale.edu/people/william-d-nordhaus

Buzzfeed's Intrade Article
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewrice/the-fall-of-intrade-and-the-business-of-betting-on-real-life

Howard Dean's Yell
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-battle-cry-that-backfired

Election Betting Odds
https://electionbettingodds.com

Cassandra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra

R
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

My episode with Adam Back focusing on Liquid (we discuss Paul Sztorc at 50:47)
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-60-dr-adam-back-part-2-liquid

Futarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futarchy

The Wisdom of Crowds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

My 2015 Interview with Joey Krug (starts at 32:40)
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-15-fun-interviews-at-the-texas-bitcoin-conference-kickoff-party

Augur
https://www.augur.net


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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on July 18, 2019.
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The Bitcoin Game #68: Paul Sztorc

Welcome to episode 69 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I attended Bitcoin 2019 in June and recorded a bunch of great interviews. But only one interview was with someone I kind of knew, and that was Doug Scribner. He's been in the scene a long time, and recalls buying Bitcoin at Porcfest from Charlie Shrem, Erik Voorhees, and Roger Ver. His first major project, WatchMyBit, was a bit ahead of its time (pun unintended). Now he's focused on Vault Logic, a multi-purpose, Bitcoin-capable, "Smart ATM" hardware and software platform.


== EPISODE LINKS ==

Doug Scribner on Twitter
https://twitter.com/dougscrib

VaultLogic
https://vaultlogic.com

VaultLogic on Twitter
https://twitter.com/realvaultlogic

Early article on Robocoin (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/2013/10/bitcoin-atm-gallery

Quorum (JP Morgan)
https://www.goquorum.com

Cryptospace
https://www.cryptospaceus.com

Article on Overstock's Patrick Byrne and Ravencoin
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/06/ravencoin-rvn-overstock-ceos-favorite-altcoin-is-up-497-year-to-date

Medici Ventures (subsidiary of Overstock)
https://www.mediciventures.com


== SPONSOR ==

While much of a Bitcoiner's time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own the world famous Bitcoin Keychain.

BTCKeychain.com


== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! 

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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on August 5, 2019.
TheBitcoinGame.com
LetsTalkBitcoin.com

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The Bitcoin Game #69: Doug Scribner's Smart ATM

Welcome to episode 70 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm always wanting to learn things via my podcast, and hopefully it helps others learn too. So when I heard Michael Flaxman on Stephan Livera's podcast, I thought he was such a compelling guest that I just had to have him on The Bitcoin Game. In this episode we dive into details about Bitcoin, security, and multisig.


== EPISODE LINKS ==

Michael Flaxman on Twitter
https://twitter.com/mflaxman

Michael Flaxman's Website
https://www.michaelflaxman.com

Michael Flaxman's Bitcoin Multisig Hardware Wallet Comparison
https://bitcoin-hardware-wallet.github.io

Michael's In-Depth Article on Multisig
Coming Soon!

Michael Flaxman on Stephan Livera Podcast (Hardware Wallets)
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97

Mt. Gox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox

2014 Proof of Reserves article
https://www.coindesk.com/krakens-audit-proves-holds-100-bitcoins-reserve

PyCoin (Open Source Library)
https://pypi.org/project/pycoin/0.51/

Shamir's Shared Secret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

Coldcard Hardware Wallet
https://coldcardwallet.com

Trezor Hardware Wallet
https://trezor.io

Ledger Hardware Wallet
https://www.ledger.com

Hardware Wallet Passphrase (Trezor guide)
https://blog.trezor.io/passphrase-the-ultimate-protection-for-your-accounts-3a311990925b

Hardware Wallet Mnemonic Seed Phrase / BIP 39
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Mnemonic_phrase

Ian Coleman's BIP 39 Tool
https://iancoleman.io/bip39

BIP 174 / Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) Github
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0174.mediawiki

Crypto Steel (One of several Seed Backup Solutions)
https://cryptosteel.com

Multisig
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature
 Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
https://electrum.org

Electrum Personal Server Github
https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server

Secure Element (Gemalto site - supplier to Ledger)
https://www.justaskgemalto.com/us/what-is-a-secure-element/

Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet

Random Number Generator (RNG)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation

Segwit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit

Bitcoin Core
https://bitcoin.org/en/download

Graphical User Interface (GUI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface

Bitcoin Testnet
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet

Nonce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

Tails OS
https://tails.boum.org


== RECOMMENDED EPISODES ==

If you liked this episode, I bet you'll like my fairly exclusive interviews with Peter Kroll, the creator of the paper wallet, and white-hat hacker Johoe, who recovered Bitcoin during the 2013 Android RNG issue.

The Bitcoin Game #56: Paper Wallet Inventor Peter Kroll
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-56-paper-wallet-inventor-peter-kroll

The Bitcoin Game #7: Bitcoin Hero Jochen AKA Johoe
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe


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BTCKeychain.com


== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! 

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Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

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Lightning Network tipping:
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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on September 7, 2019.

Note: We've migrated the RSS feed to Libsyn, in case you're wondering why our Soundcloud numbers aren't what they used to be.

The Bitcoin Game #70: Michael Flaxman, Securing Bitcoin

Welcome to episode 71 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

I met Brian Lockhart while having lunch at Bitcoin 2019 this summer. Brian recently joined the team at Casa, which happened to have just released details on the Node 2. So this seemed like the perfect time to have Brian as a guest.

I learned a lot from Brian, including how Bitcoin got on his radar (hint: it's the tech), his five-year Bitcoin Rip Van Winkle experience, and the Casa Node 2. We even review some recently highlighted security trade-offs with the Node, as well as my own case of Lightning fever.

If you've ever wanted to know more about Brian Lockhart or the Casa Node, this episode is for you!


== EPISODE LINKS ==

Brian on Twitter
https://twitter.com/BrianLockhart

Casa on Twitter
https://twitter.com/casahodl

Casa
https://keys.casa

Bitcoin 2019
https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/bitcoin-2019

BitBlockBoom!
https://bitblockboom.com

Latin American Bitcoin Conference
https://www.labitconf.com

Quant
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialcareers/08/quants-quantitative-analyst.asp

Black–Scholes Model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model

Trace Mayer on Stephan Livera Podcast
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/115

Microsoft Xbox
https://www.xbox.com

Bitcoin White Paper
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Tableau Software
https://www.tableau.com

Altcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/what-altcoin

Ethereum
https://www.ethereum.org

Seattle Bitcoin Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/seabtc

ICO
https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-ico

Lightning Network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

Michael Flaxman on The Bitcoin Game
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-70-michael-flaxman-securing-bitcoin

Bryan Bishop on Stephan Livera Podcast
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/108

Casa Keymaster
https://keys.casa/keymaster

Casa Node 2
https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2

Casa Gold
https://blog.keys.casa/casa-gold-membership-overview-casa-node

Nodl
https://www.nodl.it

Lightning in a Box
https://lightninginabox.co

RaspiBlitz
https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz

My Node
http://mynodebtc.com

BTCPay
https://btcpayserver.org

Electrum
https://electrum.org

Block Explorer
https://wiki.trezor.io/Blockchain_explorer

Addressing Security Concerns about Casa Node
https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/

Electrum Will Support Lightning Payments (coded in Python)
https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-590 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192855.0

Lightning Labs
https://lightning.engineering

Lightning Network Trust Torch
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/lightning-torchs-bitcoin-payment-is-running-a-worldwide-marathon

Zap Wallet
https://zap.jackmallers.com

Casa Sats App
https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback

What are “Sats”?
https://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/what-are-sats

Peter Todd on The Bitcoin Game
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-34-bitcoin-core-dev-peter-todd

Dr. Adam Back on The Bitcoin Game (Part 1)
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-59-dr-adam-back

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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on October 25, 2019.
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The Bitcoin Game #71: Brian Lockhart

Welcome to episode 72 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. This episode came about in an unexpected way. I had the opportunity to speak with Guy Hirsch (USA Managing Director for eToro) at the CIS conference in Los Angeles. My plan was to grab some sound bites from Guy to use in podcast episodes as part of eToro's sponsorship. But I'm such a curious person that I couldn't help but ask a bunch of genuine questions I had about the platform. Turned out, the brief interview was interesting and informative enough that I decided to release it as a stand-alone episode. So, if you've wondered about eToro after seeing them practically everywhere in the crypto space (not to mention the snazzy eToro commercial with Alec Baldwin), this episode will get you up to speed!


== EPISODE LINKS ==

Guy Hirsch on Twitter
https://twitter.com/GuyHirsch

Alec Baldwin's eToro ad
https://youtu.be/GBBuFuHAxoY


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BTCKeychain.com


== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! 

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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on November 27, 2019.
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LetsTalkBitcoin.com

Note: We've migrated the RSS feed (and primary content host) from Soundcloud to Libsyn. So if you noticed the Soundcloud numbers aren't nearly as high as they used to be, that's the reason.

The Bitcoin Game #72: eToro's Guy Hirsch

Welcome to episode 73 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. When I started paying attention to Bitcoin Twitter in 2013, I noticed a guy named Tim Pastoor, who seemed pretty well-respected by the Bitcoin Twitter community. He and I eventually became good friends on Twitter, so much so that we hung out for a long afternoon when I visited Amsterdam a few years ago. Tim has been focused on peer-to-peer identity and reputation systems for the past five years, supporting Martti Malmi's work in the space (Martti was the first coder to work with Satoshi on Bitcoin). Twitter's Jack Dorsey recently garnered a ton of attention promoting the goal of decentralized social media, and P2P identity may well be the base layer for such projects. Hope you enjoy our talk!

Oh, and a correction Tim gave me after our interview - Microsoft's Distributed ID project is now called Ion.



== EPISODE LINKS ==

Tim Pastoor on Twitter
https://twitter.com/timpastoor

Jack Dorsey's Tweet about Decentralized Social Media
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

Complementary Currencies (LETS, Brixton Pound, etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_currency

Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

Martti Malmi (article)
https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/10/8751933/the-shy-college-student-who-helped-build-bitcoin-into-a-global

Identifi (now Iris)
https://identifi.github.io/

Microsoft Decentralized Identity
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your-identity

W3C Decentralized Identifiers
https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core

Carsten Keutmann's Digital Trust Protocol
https://medium.com/@carstenkeutmann_96497/digital-trust-protocol-c37e17eeca20

Sovrin
https://sovrin.org

Urbit ID
https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-id

Sockpuppet Account
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)

Sybil Swarm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Six Degrees of Separation Principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Metcalfe's Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

Network Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

Microsoft's Ion (Decentralized Identity)
https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion

Anchoring into the Blockchain
https://medium.com/@edhonour/how-anchors-help-ensure-authenticity-on-the-blockchain-3359051a181

TJ Miller on The Adam Carolla Show (see part two)
https://adamcarolla.com/tj-miller-and-mark-geragos

Switchboard Operator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchboard_operator

Bell Labs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs

Iris GitHub
https://github.com/irislib

Iris Proof-of-Concept
https://iris.to


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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on December 26, 2019.
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LetsTalkBitcoin.com

Note: We've migrated the RSS feed from Soundcloud to Libsyn. That's why our Soundcloud numbers aren't nearly as high as they used to be.

The Bitcoin Game #73: Tim Pastoor, P2P Identity

Welcome to episode 74 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. The Bitcoin Game has been a featured podcast on the LTB Network since 2014!

A few facts about David Jevans: In the late '90s, David attended monthly Cypherpunk meetups in Palo Alto. David hired Nick Szabo to help with IronKey (David's previous business, a secure USB product). And David is currently the founder and CEO of CipherTrace, one of the big three "blockchain analysis" companies.

David's past and present positions give him a uniquely informed perspective, and I was fascinated to hear his takes. We discuss a wide range of topics, from details about CipherTrace's work, to hardware wallets, supply-chain security, CryptoCapital, Quadriga, BTC-E, CoinJoin, OPSEC, and tons more.


== EPISODE LINKS ==

CipherTrace
https://ciphertrace.com

David on Twitter
https://twitter.com/davejevans

Cypherpunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

Nick Szabo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

IronKey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronKey

ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography

2000 Financial Cryptography Conference
https://ifca.ai/fc00/program.html

David Chaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

DigiCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash

Mt. Gox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox

CoinJoin
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin

Wasabi Wallet
https://wasabiwallet.io

OPSEC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)'s "Travel Rule"
https://ciphertrace.com/fatf-crypto-travel-rule


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== STAY IN TOUCH ==

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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on January 31, 2020.
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The Bitcoin Game #74: David Jevans of CipherTrace

Welcome to episode 75 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. I'm Rob Mitchell.

I started podcasting in late 2014, and one of the greatest things to happen in those early episodes was landing an exclusive longform interview with Dr. Jochen "Johoe" Hoenicke, the 2014 Bitcoin Hero. Badass white hat Bitcoin hacker Johoe (at least that's what I call him) rescued insecure Bitcoin UTXOs from Blockchain.info wallets before they could be taken by less-scrupulous hackers. This was after his contributions to understanding the RNG issues with Android Bitcoin wallets in 2013. He also rescued insecure Bitcoin from one other platform, which he admits for the first time in this interview. Some months after this interview, Johoe responsibly published a side-channel attack on a TREZOR, which eventually led to Satoshi Labs hiring him as a TREZOR Cryptographer. Johoe's Bitcoin mempool stats site is yet another contribution he's made to the space.

This is the only audio (or video) interview with Johoe that I'm aware of, and it's worth a listen if you didn't catch it the first time. It's even educational, as Johoe explains concepts like how Bitcoin signatures work and what specifically went wrong with various wallets, in a way that's accessible for non-technical people like myself.

Hope you enjoy my first "rebroadcast" to celebrate 75!


== EPISODE LINKS ==

Johoe first addresses repeating R value issue due to 2013 Android RNG bug https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251743.msg2890179#msg2890179

Counterparty Bug first addressed by Johoe on BitcoinTalk.org
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.msg6354731#msg6354731

Johoe discovers the recently compromised Blockchain.info addresses
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.msg9774894#msg9774894

Blockchain.info Wallet
https://blockchain.info/wallet

Coinbase
https://www.coinbase.com

Counterparty Wallet
https://counterwallet.io

Johoe demonstrates TREZOR side channel attack (April 2015)
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/crypto/trezor-power-analysis

Satoshi Labs announces hiring Johoe as TREZOR Cryptographer
https://blog.trezor.io/ethical-hacker-and-bitcoin-hero-johoe-joins-satoshilabs-as-trezor-cryptographer-36c9a6b10d52

Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Statistics site
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,all


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== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! 

Twitter: @TheBTCGame
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Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

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== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on February 28, 2020.
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LetsTalkBitcoin.com

Note: We migrated our RSS feed (and primary content host) to Libsyn; SoundCloud is just a legacy feed.

The Bitcoin Game #75: 2014 Interview with Dr. Jochen "Johoe" Hoenicke

Welcome to episode 76 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. I'm Rob Mitchell.

Today's interview is with Andrew Tierney, otherwise known online as Cybergibbons. Andrew hacks everything from oil rigs at his day job, to Cryptocurrency hardware wallets and smart locks in his free time. We conducted this interview a bit before COVID-19 had taken over the planet, back in the good old days (a few weeks ago), when we were more worried about malware than going to the grocery store without an N95 mask. Andrew and I discuss hacking hardware wallets, general security, IoT devices, home routers, his day job as a hacker for hire, and other stuff too. I hope you enjoy!


== EPISODE LINKS ==

EPISODE LINKS
Andrew's Twitter
https://twitter.com/cybergibbons

Andrew's Blog
https://cybergibbons.com

Pen Test Partners
https://www.pentestpartners.com

Bitfi Hardware Wallet Hack Article
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/30/john-mcafees-unhackable-bitfi-wallet-got-hacked-again

Abe Snowman
https://twitter.com/AbeSnowman

Oversoft
https://twitter.com/oversoftnl

Saleem
https://twitter.com/saleemrash1d

Shadow Ops
https://twitter.com/Shadow0pz

Trezor
https://trezor.io

Ledger
https://www.ledger.com

BC Vault
https://bc-vault.com/shop/bc-vault

Multisig
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature

Shamir's Secret Sharing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

Secure Element (blog post)
https://www.intrinsic-id.com/pros-cons-secure-elements

Pen Test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test

Caravan Multisig (Unchained Capital)
https://unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives

Rubber Ducky
https://latesthackingnews.com/2017/06/16/20456

OpenWrt
https://openwrt.org

Tomato
https://advancedtomato.com

Ubiquiti Routers
https://www.ui.com/products/#edgemax


== THE BITCOIN GAME IS SPONSORED BY ETORO ==

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Join now at b.tc/etorogame.


== STAY IN TOUCH ==

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! 

Twitter: @TheBTCGame
http://TheBitcoinGame.com
Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com

Bitcoin (SegWit) tipping address:
34MB6Lj1e2X7rHof7A8r1gHbYL3zNRJH2N

Lightning Network tipping:
https://tippin.me/@TheBTCGame


== CREDITS ==

All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.

The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.

Published to the LTB Network on March 30, 2020.
TheBitcoinGame.com
LetsTalkBitcoin.com

Note: We migrated our RSS feed (and primary content host) to Libsyn; SoundCloud is just a legacy feed.

The Bitcoin Game #76: Andrew "Cybergibbons" Tierney

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