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Peter, I've really been enjoying your show - you've had some really high caliber guests on. Keep it up.

I just listened to #44 yesterday with Steve Keen, and while I appreciated his unique perspective, it absolutely drove me nuts that there was little push-back on his arguments against bitcoin in the last 10-15 minutes of the episode. Partially, I think it was just his surface-level understanding of the protocol, but it would be great to hear some debate on the finer points, such as Keynesian vs Austrian economics, energy consumption dedicated to hard money, the value of hard money in today's world, etc. I could just hear Saifedean in my head rebutting each of his objections.

Have you considered hosting any debates on subjects like this? I think a contrarian perspective is healthy, but I think it would be helpful to tease apart the arguments a little more. Particularly where energy consumption is concerned, I think debate would be a healthy thing. There are some good arguments on both sides that would be worthwhile to consider.

listening to Adam and Gavin is way better than going crazy trying to find out who the hell satoshi is.. thanks for the post.

Timestamps for the " Mentioned in the interview " topics would be nice.

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isn't bathhouse barry the one that originally let them have swift access back?

Disconnect the Saudis.

First time to hear his talk, just a good speaker

This is such a great talk by Andy. I love his way of speaking.

I did a detailed tutorial on how to take out loans on Maker last week :)
https://youtu.be/sLRDWTtNC04

This is such a great talk by Andy. I really like how he describes this as the Financial Reformation moment.

Like the protestant reformation, people in the financial reformation are not asking permission nor forgiveness from the large institutions that they take issue with, they are simply reorganizing their society at the grassroots level in a way that they can have direct interaction with the forces that organize their lives.

maker is great, i hold some myself

Aside from its practical applications, the blockchain movement can be seen as a populist response to the lack of meaningful reform within the financial sector since the crisis of 2008. This is the sentiment that was famously captured by the indignant inscription on the Bitcoin genesis block: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” At MakerDAO we believe that by adding the key feature of stabilization, Dai fully realizes Satoshi Nakamoto's vision of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. To do this, we have borrowed many different ideas from traditional finance and in the process created a truly holistic foundation for a more rational financial system. In this talk we will dive deep on the philosophical similarities and differences between MakerDAO and the world of traditional finance. We will discuss how MakerDAO represents significant reform of the global financial system by better aligning its incentives and radically increasing its transparency.

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The international user base of Bitcoin, as well as a rapidly growing number of cryptocurrency-using millennials, frequently seek for ways to transact using digital assets at stores and merchants, and the integration of Bitcoin, which does not cost anything for the merchants, has become an efficient way of targeting consumers in the cryptocurrency market.

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until Bitcoin has 8 trx per second - its not possible to use as i cash

This is good news. We definitely need to build more crypto awareness.

Bitpay

tad bit late, might be the only real use for bitcoin here in a bit.

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Best news all day!

Yes, but: That doesn't mean in all cases companies' that bought into the blockchain or bitcoin hype haven't followed through on their announcements.

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Wen bags refund sir ? MUH FAMILIA

If you buy the way IBM sells it, the benefits of blockchain in business include "reduced time," "decreased costs" and "alleviated risk."

Who knew a git repository had all these properties?

Whenever I see blockchain on earning calls, I know that company has replaced sound business strategies with buzzword salads.

It's about goddamn time.

I just want one friend to have in-depth talks about bitcoin and its potential ramifications on the future, but not a single one cares.

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If I am sick with fever, and it finally goes down, I am usually quite happy. Why should it be otherwise when "corporate America" has blockchain and Bitcoin fever which finally subsides?

lol

its insane that "blockchain" ever got attention. Its just a little internal technology of bitcoin, not really useful otherwise.

Good, now we can concentrate more into making a better use of Bitcoin as P2P money, without be molested with corporate media hype...
I would love to see a media silence about Bitcoin. Leave us alone!

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uh huh. I hear a lot from people "I lost a lot on CRYPTO last year, I don't want to talk about it!". Must be that somebody lost money, got angry, and now we aren't talking about it to avoid bad vibes on the investment "floor". Corporate America is on a BLOCKCHAIN LEASH, but it's not a choke chain.

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There is zero chance "real volume" is 2X larger than reported volume. We can't even determine how much of the reported volume is simply wash trading, but there's no way 2X the volume is going on behind the scenes, especially when so many traders are looking for a jump in volume to confirm capitulation.

I would argue "real volume" is half as large as reported volume.

Run will start when ETF is confirmed. Not because investors will jump in then. But because the current market is calmed down with intention to make ETF possible (Remember, one of the biggest criticism of SEC is the volatility).

I mean, well he says himself here: "This time last year, most bots hadn't even been programmed, and there are now more coins than ever to wash trade. It's truly a great time to be an exchange."

I’m so sick of shady exchanges. I’m hoping decentralized exchanges like metamorph.pro will help adoption rather than shy the public away from crypto. It looks pretty simple to use.

It's goot that the market gets more settled these days. In 2017 the market was way too hot. Now companies are on their desk again and doing some work. I think in 2019 we will see finally some good projects. And then it could be way more bullish then in this bear market today.

Iam very excited for Quant and also Unibright with their cross-blockchain communication ability. And i think i miss some more.

How can people take these comments seriously? Obviously he is bullish, he doesn't really has a choice

Bullish

This dude is too excited

What I’ve heard is the OTC market is at least as large as the live recorded volumes, so that's at least 50 percent of volumes that is not being reported. As we’re not heading to that business, we don’t know the real volumes?