This is a Flashback Episode, we are going back to June 2018 in which Emin Gün Sirer makes his third of seven appearances on The Bitcoin Podcast Network. Back for the third time, Emin stops by to drop some knowledge bombs on us! He is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, and is the Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) . His research int

This is a Flashback Episode, we are going back to Jan 2017 in which Andreas Antonopoulosgreets us at the beginning of the bull run of 2017 on his second appearance on The Bitcoin Podcast Network. When I dove down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin in late 2013, Andreas’ YouTube talks and podcasts pulled me further in. He swings by the show again to tell us a bit about the current scene of crypto and to ta

Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse are back for an episode where the regulated players finish moving in and the outsiders start getting shown the door. BlackRock, Google, Visa, Stripe, MasterCard, Coinbase, and DBS just announced Open Standard USD. It is called open the same way OpenAI is called open. The reserve yield goes to the participating institutions instead of holders, minting and redem

This week the boys welcome back to the show and interview Erik Voorhees of the instant, trustless cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift.io about their new venture, Prism, which is a trustless means of holding multiple assets via ShapeShift.io and its own Ethereum token. Also we talk about how a person brand new to crypto, how easy the process really is. Spoiler alert: It’s not. Are there any real wor

Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse for an episode about two forks, a fat node, and what happens when three guys who have been doing this for eleven years start asking whether the system can fix itself. Satoshi is about to get forked. The community is talking about it like it is optional. Corey is not so sure. If it has to happen, it has to happen, and the guys break down what that actually mean

Things aren’t looking good. Currencies everywhere are in dire straits. The credit agency offering credit restoration services in Vegas, Fitch sees potential catastrophe for the EU if the Italian banking system fails. China is crash landing their economy. Right now the argument that bitcoin will die is very difficult to make based on past experiences. We tackle how bitcoin navigated in a world wher

This is a Flashback Episode, we are going back to March 2016 in which our Guest Emin Gün Sirer makes his first of seven appearances on The Bitcoin Podcast Network. The boys compare bitcoin to the Animatrix and we invite Emin, a professor at Cornell University to talk a bit about how he has worked to improve Bitcoin in various ways during these, oh so troubling times. In the past, he’s worked on pe

This is a Flashback Episode of Erick Voorhees in 2021. Jessie, Corey, and Dee in our Roundtable gets into the weeds of building systems that actually help people seek financial freedom. The interview is with Erik Voorhees on the decentralzation ofShape Shift and the complexity of making a company into a DAO.

The full crew is back (Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse) for an episode that earns its title. AI plus crypto equals meh, and the guys are not pretending otherwise. The headline: Corey is selling a chunk of his crypto. And this time it is different. Every previous sell signal from him has been triggered by the market getting too frothy. This one is not. He is selling because Bitcoin is officia

Demetrick and Jesse hold down the fort (Corey ditched the show to chase what turned out to be a cardinal in North Carolina) for an episode about cracks forming in every direction at once. Michael Saylor just sold Bitcoin. Only thirty two coins, but the symbolism is louder than the size. The diamond hands era of MicroStrategy may be ending, and the bear is getting cozy on the couch. Meanwhile the A

Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jesse are joined by founder and investor Joe for a conversation that cuts through sixteen years of crypto noise with one provocative thesis: crypto is only about trading. Joe walks the guys through all five hype cycles, from Silk Road to Mt. Gox to the 2017 ICO mania to NFTs to today, and shows how the top of every cycle has been defined by a single dominant trading

Demetrick and Dr. Corey Petty fly solo this week (Jesse missed the memo) to break down the regulatory squeeze tightening around crypto. The new U.S. ruling banning native yield on stablecoins is the headline. The guys unpack what it actually means: stablecoins are getting institutionalized, the barrier to entry just got a lot taller, and only players with deep legal benches will route around the r

This week on The Bitcoin Podcast, Jessie pulls back the curtain on the gym software he's been quietly building, an MRO (maintenance, repair & operations) platform designed to give gym owners something they've never had: real data. Every piece of equipment gets a digital record, like a VIN number for a car, maintenance history, repair logs, and predictive analytics that can save small gym owners th

What happens when the hurricane hits and every cell tower goes dark? For one father working the night shift at a hospital during Hurricane Helene, that was not a hypothetical. It was eleven hours of silence with no way to reach his family. Kenneth and Josh from the Georgia Statewide Mesh Coalition join Dee and Jesse to break down mesh networking, the decentralized communication technology that kee

The crew is back and they've got receipts. After a two-week hiatus (Corey had very important meetings, we swear), Demetrick, Dr. Corey Petty, and Jessie are reunited and ready to vibe. This episode? Pure unfiltered conversation with a little Bitcoin and a little chaos. Bitcoin's Scarcity Era is Officially Here The 20 millionth Bitcoin was mined, and suddenly the media wants to act surprised. The b

Can Bitcoin survive the impending Quantum threat?

In this episode we sit down with Griff Green, one of the earliest DAO builders and a core figure in Ethereum’s governance history — from the original DAO era through today’s next-generation coordination experiments.Griff was closely involved around the first DAO and helped lead white-hat recovery efforts during the 2016 DAO crisis. Since then, he has gone on to co-found and support multiple ecosys

Join us as we dissect the evolving landscape of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), moving beyond the "chat room with a bank account" stereotype. We dive into Vitalik Buterin's vision for better DAOs, exploring critical functions like improved oracles and dispute resolution, and debate the role of human politics versus programmatic efficiency. Discover how concepts like "problem geometr

Most DAOs sound great… until it’s time to make decisions, pay contributors, and ship work consistently. In this episode, we’re designing the ideal DAO and confronting the hard parts: governance that doesn’t stall, incentives that don’t get gamed, treasury systems that protect the community, and a structure that can scale without losing its mission.

Crypto didn’t remove trust — it refactored it.Which means the real question isn’t whether blockchains work… it’s whether the people who build them bear any responsibility for what happens next.In this episode we extend the previous conversation on crypto literacy, privacy UX, and incentive design to tackle a hard question with no clean answers:Do builders have responsibility beyond tooling?We expl