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info_outline BitVM: The Holy Grail for Bitcoin? | Creator Robin LinusBankless
Today on the show, we’re exploring the frontier of ZK Rollups on Bitcoin! The Bitcoin L2 landscape is standing on the shoulders of this technical implementation called BitVM. We brought Robin Linus, one of the author’s of the BitVM White Paper, to not only dive into how BitVM got started, but more importantly, what it means for the future of Bitcoin. ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN |...
info_outline The Trillion Dollar ETH Pitch | RSA+DHBankless
The Ethereum ETF is coming. What’s the best narrative for ETH to sell to TradFi/Wall Street? Ryan and David discuss the 7 leading ETH Narratives and then have a pitch-off amongst themselves. Each of them prepared a 1-2 minute pitch and then they each spend some time unpacking each other’s pitch and analyzing each point. Bankless Citizens get to vote - whose was better? Ryan or David’s? The winner gets a bragging rights POAP. ------ 📣BANKLESS CITIZENS VOTE HERE ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO...
info_outline The End of the Petrodollar | Luke GromenBankless
“Energy is the base layer of money” - that’s how our guest Luke Gromen puts it in today’s episode. Luke is an Author and Investor who gives us a completely new way to look at money, through the lens of energy costs. The essential learning of today’s show is that you can’t understand money until you understand energy markets. Apart from that Luke explains why the price of oil is about to force a monetary system change, why the 60/40 portfolio is dead and much more. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the...
info_outline ROLLUP: ETFs Back? | Robinhood Acquires Bitstamp | Biden SAB-121 VetoBankless
Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup 1st Week of June 2024 ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 📣 TRANSPORTER - SECURED BY CHAINLINK CCIP | TRY IT OUT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK ⚡️ CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS 🏠 CASA | SECURE YOUR GENERATIONAL WEALTH 🌐 TRANSPORTER | CROSS CHAINS WITH CONFIDENCE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 3:26 Prices 4:30 L2 Update ...
info_outline When Will We Go Parabolic This Cycle? | RSA+DHBankless
After 3 months of flat crypto prices, people are asking “where are we in the cycle”? What if the real bull hasn't even started yet? How big of the impact can the ETH ETF's really have and can they really take us to the coveted.... Banana Zone? All of that and more on this weeks episode of Bankless Takes. ------ ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🔐 GridPlus Lattice1 Hardware Wallet (use discount code BANKLESS2024 at checkout for 15% off) ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK...
info_outline The Ethereum vs. Solana Debate | Justin Drake vs. Anatoly YakovenkoBankless
✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Ethereum vs. Solana. That’s the debate we’re having today. On Ethereum’s side we have Ethereum Researcher Justin Drake, and on the Solana’s we have Solana’s Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko. They give us the good, the bad and the ugly of each other’s blockchain, settling their endgame towards the end of the episode. This was one, if not the spiciest debate we had on the show. We tried our best to give both guests time with minimal intervention. At times went...
info_outline ROLLUP: ETH Price Target | ETF Launch Date | Celebcoin Drama | Major New L2sBankless
✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup Last Week of May ------ 📣 TRANSPORTER - SECURED BY CHAINLINK CCIP | TRY IT OUT ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM 🌐 CARTESI | LINUX-POWERED ROLLUPS ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00:00 Injury Updates 00:05:16 Markets 00:07:22 ETF...
info_outline In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work | Kyla ScanlonBankless
✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ Is it all vibes? Always has been. Kyla Scanlon is a writer, podcaster, analyst, founder of financial education company Bread, and an all around brilliant explainer of things hard to explain. Expect to learn why economies are vibe reflectors, Kyla’s “economic kingdom” model and an overview on the current state of economic affairs. Financial literacy is a superpower and Kyla managed to compress this topic that people have been trying to figure out for ages in an easy to understand economics toolbox. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS...
info_outline Stablecoins and National Security | Former CFTC Chair Timothy MassadBankless
✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ ------ 🎬 DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: ------ Are stablecoins a threat to national security? How should the US government step in? We brought Timothy Massad, the perfect guest to help us answer these hard questions. He was the Obama appointed chair for the CFTC, the guy who helped designate Bitcoin as a commodity over 10 years ago. We touch on: - The importance of stablecoins. - How stablecoins compare to eurodollars. - Weather crypto and sanctions can co-exist. - A sensible policy for...
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https://www.bankless.com/debrief-the-byron-tau-interview
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Are we being watched?
That’s the question we ask Byron Tau, an investigative journalist and author of “Means of Control'' that covers all about the US surveillance state.
Turns out the US Government has a digital dossier of every citizen, but how? How do they collect the data? How are they using it? Can we ever get back our digital privacy?
Expect to learn all that and much more in what is a deep dive into digital surveillance.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
4:42 State of Surveillance
12:24 Content vs Metadata
18:16 The Surveillance Industry
33:53 Total Information Awareness
49:50 Is the Gov Using Data Against Us?
53:10 Privacy Protections
1:05:29 The Role of Encryption
1:17:23 Surveillance Abroad
1:22:09 US vs China
1:26:04 Surveillance in Crypto
1:31:09 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Byron Tau
https://twitter.com/ByronTau
Means of Control by Byron Tau
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-control-by-byron-tau/
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