Topic: Let's Talk Bitcoin! #6 "Cyprus & Serendipity" Big Jeffrey A. Tucker Interview - page 2. (Read 5362 times)

Enjoyed the show. A comment about the donations issue.

I expect that many people like me will think "I'd like to donate. But I don't want to do it every week" so that's why people are donating in the .1-1BTC range rather than the 0.01 x hundreds of people version you were hoping for.

Like, for myself, I donated 0.1 thinking of it as ~$15 USD and thinking "that's my contribution for the next month or two, let's see how this goes". And then if I think you're providing me a really valuable service and I enjoy the show, I can do the same again later.

Of course, once automated payment systems are up and running, that would be a great option for micropayments

Comment on the content: the ID-tied-to-BTC-address concept is excellent. There seems to be a connection with the Namecoin concept and what Julian Assange was saying to Eric Schmidt in that transcript.

Your concerns about tying monetary value to speech are valid, and I am worried about that too, but I believe/hope they will be addressed by the free market. That is to say, just as now people can interact via facebook if they want to, or on an open forum with anonymous login if they want to, so in the future fora will form based on BTC identities for those who see value in that (avoidance of spam and fraud or anything else), and other fora will form with other user groups in mind. There is no need to try and regulate anything away.

At a deeper level, I think the "ID in BTC" concept, like the "smart property" concept has great philosophical significance for the way society develops from here. I have an idea in my mind based around reification, Platonic ideals and entropy but that's for another time...

There was a long musical part, and I put it in as a test to see how people liked it.  I've been using them for transitions and thought it might be good to have a longer break since this was a more host-intensive show.  Thanks for the feedback on it, as you can tell this is all an experiment

The long intro - It's about 2 and a half minutes - I thought adding music under it might help a little, and it does change every episode - kind of an update about where the show is before it.  I figure it's easy to skip on most podcast players chunks of 30s, but I am looking to make it shorter, or to spread out the information a little more.

We actually did talk about the elephant in the room, it wasn't really a one-sided contract.  It may seem that way, but signing the contract prevented the creation of probably their most connected US challenger to date.  The partnership means that Gox basically keeps their monopoly on market trading, rather than losing their US customers when Coinlab's exchange is much easier to get money into, and comply with relevent tax law.

Turning a competitor into a subsidiary partner is a good move by Gox - They just failed to deliver for whatever reason.

Yolo!

Some feedbacks:

The intro where you present everyone, the purpose of the podcast and everything
was kinda long. Especially for those who listened to the other podcasts.

Between the first and second part, there was a long musical part.
If I listen to a podcast, it's for hearing people talk. 

Really enjoyed the ID scheme!

BitcoinATM: The story might be much more interesting... the other cofounder is the SilverVigilante;
he already works with Jeff Berwick on other projects. I urged him to speak up, but still nothing. 

MtGox: This is why I love the free market. Everyone's bitching about MtGox, but the fact is that
they provide a service and (at least for now) they are better than everyone else. They've also remained
unhacked for a surprisingly long period of time. Especially considering they are probably the prime target.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U
I also wonder why nobody mentioned the elephant in the room... it seems the contract is incredibly one-sided
to benefit Coinlab. Why the hell did Mark signed this in the first place?

Anyhow, keep up the good work! 

Episode 4 "The Horrible Warnings" released, front page updated.

Yeah that's a real weakness,
I consult and my rates are very reasonable in BTC [email protected]

Before starting the shows, I'd been volunteering my time as "community liason" at one of the Kickstarters I backed... Good lord do people have unrealistic assumptions, it can turn even a successful project into one everybody involved (creator included) just f'ing hate, and wish they'd never seen.

My rates are cheap because it hurts my brain to see good people failing because they just can't get away from their own limited point of view.

You should work for BFL. Then need some help in that department

Expectation management Saturday.

As in "release tonight" good? 

Saturday's episode is looking good

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Episode 003 for May 1st, 2013 - The Future of Money

• Project Talk! - Phone-A-Coin, OpenPaperWallet & Porc Therapy!
• Max Keiser is getting klever or maybe krazy, why is this “Smart Guy” recommending Bitcoin do the impossible?
• Interview with Paul Hughes - How Resilient is Bitcoin?
• Altcoins, Namecoins, Litecoins, Hayekcoins - We discuss the Cryptocurrency Competition
• Community Roundtable Member, Elizabeth Ploshay has some helpful advice on how to educate your political representatives about the Future of Money

Next episode is today, amirite?

I'll get a press package to you on it. We should have a website/blog something done by the end of the week.

I don't think so, I'll add the to my list of "Things I can do better next time"

I edit myself for a reason, tangents are many.

Any mention of the Bitcoin Education Project?

Thanks Paulie!

Also, episode 3 has been delayed a day due to a scheduling mixup, you can read details about it here and also listen to episode 46 of POP CULTIVATION, which I appeared on as a guest talking about Bitcoin http://letstalkbitcoin.com/post/49277689923/excuse-our-delay-we-record-our-host

adam the quality just keeps getting better! well done!

Thanks, Adam, yes, we're working on it.

Thanks, I'm going to try to cover Bitcoin more than we have--and I welcome more allies against the BSA and FinCEN!

Nan sorry, I didn't look much into altcoins until recently.

I do know however that Namecoin was already there back in 2011 when I started looking into Bitcoin.

You could probably find someone to answer your questions in the alternate cryptocurrencies subforum.