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The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastOn The Access Tribe PodcastThis is an interview with me, Anita Posch, from the Access Tribe podcast. During this episode I’m talking about my Bitcoin journey, my work in the Global South, my book and membership platform and I’m taking questions from the audience.
Access Tribe will inspire, educate, and connect you with other women in the Bitcoin world, accelerating your learning journey and opening the door of opportunity.
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2024-02-1939 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastBitcoin For Fairness Review 2023A review of what Bitcoin For Fairness and Anita Posch achieved for Bitcoin adoption in 2023.
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2023-12-2625 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastOriginal Bitcoin Island BaliA new episode after a long break and I’m back with Dea Rezkitha, organizer of the Indonesia Bitcoin conference taking place in Sanur, Bali on October 26-27, 2023.
We’re talking about
Dea’s Bitcoin journey
how Bali became the original Bitcoin island
Bitcoin adoption in Indonesia
insights about Bali for digital nomads and tourists
visa and travel information
the Bitcoin conference with speakers like Jack Dorsey
their Lightning Hackathon
Get 10% discount on every conference ticket using coupon code: ANITA
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https...2023-09-0144 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastHow Bitcoin Solves Financial Apartheid with Ray YoussefI’m joined by Ray Youssef, the CEO of Paxful, the peer-to-peer exchange which recently removed Ethereum from their platform and he is the co-founder of Built with Bitcoin. This interview took place at the first African Bitcoin only conference in Ghana at the beginning of December 2022.
As Mark Maraia writes in an article about Youssef in the Bitcoin Magazine: “Youssef is the only person you will ever meet who went into New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck and who flew into Egypt on an empty plane while the Arab Spring was becoming very dangerous and who went...2023-01-1254 min
The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only Podcast2022: A Year In Grassroots Bitcoin Adoption For AfricaToday I want to share with you what my initiative Bitcoin for Fairness achieved in terms of grassroots adoption in Africa in 2022.
You can read this as an article at: https://anitaposch.com/bitcoin-africa-review-2022
This article was originally published on Bitcoin Magazine by BTC Inc.
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2022-12-2824 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastHow Bitcoin Enforces Human RightsThis is the audio version of my article Opposing the Corruptible Fiat System, Bitcoin Enforces Universal Human Rights.
It lays out how Bitcoin directly enforces seven of the 30 human rights listed on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. The article shows the correlations between authoritarianism, corruption, inflation and oppression and how financial exclusion is used as an instrument to keep two billions worldwide from using a financial service.
This article was originally published on Bitcoin Magazine by BTC Inc.
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The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAdvocating for Human Rights through Bitcoin - Anita PoschThis episode is a recording of the conversation I had on the Cryptopulse podcast with Kevin and Ben from the UK. It was recorded in late June 2022.
We’re talking about my journey into Bitcoin, about writing my book, my work in Africa with Bitcoin for Fairness, EU regulation on crypto and my drive to educate.
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2022-08-1839 min
The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDeFi & Smart Contracts On The Bitcoin Network?! - Gabriel KurmanMy guest is Gabriel Kurman, Co-founder of the Rootstock protocol “RSK”, which is a merge-mined Bitcoin sidechain enabling smart contracts. Smart contracts on Bitcoin, won’t this make many Altcoins obsolete? I’m asking Gabriel about this too. We’re also discussing Money on Chain a decentralized stablecoin on Bitcoin.
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:00 – Brief Introduction to Gabriel
00:01:52 – Anita welcomes Gabriel
00:02:19 – The next LaBitconf conference in Argentina
00:03:49 – Who is Gabriel and how did he become a Bitcoiner?
00:07:25 – How Rootstock started
00:13:20 – Will Altcoins become obsolete?
00:15:13 – How secure is Rootstock since it works with Ethereum virtual machine?
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The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAnita Posch: The Art of (L)earning Bitcoin - a Starter's guideThis is Anita Posch’s talk at LaBitconf 2021 in El Salvador, the longest running Bitcoin conference in Latin America. If you’re interested in learning and using Bitcoin, this is your guide to start. With an explanation of the most important properties of Bitcoin, why they are important, the best Bitcoin wallets and recommendations for Spanish and English learning material.
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2022-01-0621 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAnita Posch: Impressions from Bitcoin in El SalvadorIn November 2021 I visited El Salvador to research the use of Bitcoin, that has been legal tender there since early September. I was attending Bitcoin week in San Salvador, speaking at Adopting Bitcoin and LaBitconf, two Bitcoin conferences. Afterwards I moved to El Zonte at the Pacific Ocean, the village where Bitcoin Beach started in early 2020. I also visited “Bitcoin City SV” a cooperative in Sonzacate, that is educating their ~2,000 members about Bitcoin even longer than the folks at Bitcoin Beach.
In this episode I talk about my thoughts about Bitcoin City, the government’s plans, Bitcoin Bonds...2021-12-1621 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastRodolfo Andragnes: From Bitcoins.com to LaBitconfMy guest is Rodolfo Andragnes, co-founder and executive director of the non-profit organization Bitcoin Argentina and main organizer of the Latin American Bitcoin Conference LaBitconf. We’re talking about Rodolfo’s creation of the word Bitcoin in the year 2000, cryptocurrency adoption in Latin America and LaBitconf the first Bitcoin conference in Latin America, which is taking place in El Salvador this week.
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2021-11-1645 min
The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastHong Fang: From China Via Wall Street to BitcoinMy guest is Hong Fang, CEO of OKCoin, a global, US-licensed cryptocurrency platform serving 190+ countries – the largest reach of any US-based exchange. Hong was born and raised in China, holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. After that she worked at Goldman Sachs and left Wall Street for cryptocurrency after realizing digital assets offer the financial inclusion that traditional finance only claims to.
Topics:
– Hong Fang: from Wall Street to Bitcoin
– Free markets vs. central planning
– Wealth inequality
– Her view on China’s Bitcoin bans...2021-11-1153 min
The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJohannes Zweng: Lightning - The Future of PaymentsMy guest is Johannes Zweng, software developer and backend engineer at Coinfinity, Austria’s first bitcoin broker. Johannes and I are walking through new techniques enabling future use cases of Bitcoin. How Taproot upgrades our privacy, how lightning invoices will allow us to walk through a retail store and get everything we buy delivered just by scanning QR codes.
– Johannes Zweng’s Bitcoin story
– How Bitcoin changed his thinking
– new features enabled by Taproot
– Schnorr signatures
– Taproot’s Lightning improvements
– Lightning optimizations
– new possibilities static QR codes, refunds, sending text via LN
– Lightning...2021-11-041h 00
The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAlyse Killeen: Insights of a Bitcoin Venture CapitalistToday’s guest is Alyse Killeen founding managing partner at StillMark, the Bitcoin Venture Capital Firm. Alyse has been in the Bitcoin space since 2013 and she is the Independent Director on Blockstream’s board of directors. StillMark’s portfolio includes companies such as CASA, Lightning Labs, lastbit and Sphinx.
– Introduction Alyse Killeen
– Alyse’s Bitcoin story
– Why Bitcoin and not Altcoins?
– KYC and regulations conflicting financial inclusion?
– Will the suits take over?
– How Bitcoin VC Alyse Killeen’s estimates future developments
– Earning bitcoin – fintech for poor people
– Bitcoin founders, startups in emerging countries
...2021-10-2844 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDiego Gutiérrez Zaldívar: Bitcoin in Latin America and RootstockMy guest is Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar one of the first people to foster and develop Bitcoin and blockchain technology in Latin America starting 2012. He is the CEO of IOV Labs, co-founder of LaBitconf, the first Bitcoin conference in Latin America and the co-founder of Bitcoin Iberoamérica an NGO devoted to Bitcoin education. His goal is to build a more decentralized world for a freer and fairer financial future. Rootstock, a sidechain of Bitcoin that enables smart contracts, is one of these building blocks.
Our topics:
– Introduction Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar
– Why Bitcoin i...2021-10-071h 05The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastChristian Decker: The Lightning Network and Greenlight NodesMy guest is Christian Decker one of the architects of the Lightning Network, a Bitcoin OG and a Core Tech engineer at Blockstream. He wrote the world’s first PhD dissertation about Bitcoin and has been involved in the community since 2009.
Topics:
– Introduction Christian Decker
– The first eleven years
– Growth of the Lightning Network
– Privacy on the Lightning Network, Taproot
– Hurdles for the adoption of Lightning
– Purpose and goals of “Greenlight”
– The future of Lightning and Bitcoin
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.2021-09-301h 13The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJeff Gallas & Rootz: RaspiBlitz and the Speed of LightningMy guests are Jeff Gallas and Rootz of Fulmo, an open source company dedicated to the research and development of the Lightning Network. They are the organizers of the Lightning Hackdays and the first Lightning Conference that took place in Berlin in 2019 and are supporters of the RaspiBlitz project, a Lightning and Bitcoin full node.
“If you run a Lightning node you’re a part of replacing the VISA and Mastercard networks.” – Rootz
Topics:
03:17 Introduction Fulmo
11:30 Development of the Lightning Network and the RaspiBlitz
15:00 Adoption rate of the Lightning Network
22:18 Accessibility improvem...2021-09-2358 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastTeam Satoshi: Sports and the Road to BitcoinMy guests today are Vitus Zeller and Richard Taylor my team mates at Team Satoshi, a decentralized sports team. We’re talking about the interconnections between Bitcoin and sports and how you can participate in this movement.
– Introduction Vitus and Richard
– What is Bitcoin for you?
– Why are you active in the Bitcoin space?
– What is Team Satoshi and its goal
– Bitcoin and sports – where is the connection
– How do you stay healthy? Mental fitness
– First adventure of Vitus, Satoshi Freeathlon
– Road to Bitcoin
– Icebathing
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter t...2021-09-021h 02The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLyn Alden: Bitcoin for Billions, Not BillionairesLyn Alden is one of the sharpest minds in the bitcoin space, an investment strategist with a background in engineering and finance, Lyn started investing at a young age and made equity research and investing her primary business. She is focusing on value investing with a global macro overlay. Recently she shared the stage at the Bitcoin2021 conference in Miami with Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark on the topic of Bitcoin for billions, not billionaires, which is the core of my work in the Bitcoin space too. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did.
...2021-07-0155 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastMeron Estefanos from Eritrea: Bitcoin Can Take Down DictatorsMeron Estefanos is a Swedish-based Eritrean human rights activist and journalist, who works tirelessly to aid and raise awareness about the plight of Eritrean refugees, who have been kidnapped, tortured, raped and held for ransom in the Sudan and the Sinai. In her efforts to rise up against the dictatorship in Eritrea she is engaging researchers in Ethiopia, who she has been paying with bitcoin. We’re also discussing the fact that Bitcoin can take down dictators and many human rights activists use bitcoin discreetly.
“Bitcoin helps people on the ground as a money transferring method, as an i...2021-06-2451 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDon't Trust, Verify! Scammers Send Fake Hardware WalletsBitcoin in the last 12 years, bullish signs, trading volume in the last year, reactions towards El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender, fake hardware wallets, Blockstream’s Bitcoin strategy.
This was Last Week in Bitcoin.
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2021-06-1809 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastSamson Mow: Blockstream's Bitcoin StrategyIn this episode I talk with Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow about Blockstream’s Cypherpunk origins and their far stretching engagement in the Bitcoin space – from their Green and Aqua wallet, to their mining business, the Liquid sidechain and the Blockstream satellites, which enable receiving Bitcoin without the Internet.
Samson Mow’s Bitcoin story
Why Bitcoin is important
Blockstream’s Cypherpunk background
What is Liquid?
Lightning Network and c-lightning
Blockstream Green vs. Aqua wallet
Bitcoin works without the internet – satellites
Blockstream’s mining operations – future of mining
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: htt...2021-06-1750 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastA New Bitcoin Epoch - Legal Tender in El SalvadorWhat does it mean, that Bitcoin will be legal tender in El Salvador? Taproot will be locked in successfully.
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2021-06-1109 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastEl Salvador First Country to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender - Bitcoin Beach Improving LivesJune 9, 2021 a historical moment for Bitcoin. The first country of the world, El Salvador, made Bitcoin officially legal tender. Michael Peterson initiated Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte and started this whole development. I spoke with him two weeks before, he said, he is expecting a country to adopt Bitcoin, but we didn’t know, that it will happen so soon. Listen to the story of Bitcoin Beach and the people of El Salvador.
Our topics:
Michael Peterson’s Bitcoin story
What is Bitcoin Beach?
Description of El Salvador
Living conditions, financial problems
How Bitcoin makes a diff...2021-06-0942 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastBitcoin on the Moon - Last Week in BitcoinSo many news this week…
_Taproot on the way
_Bitcoin adoption in Zimbabwe
_Inflation hits new records
_News from China and India
_Bitcoin was on the moon
_building a permissionless future
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2021-06-0409 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastExiledsurfer: Building a Permissionless Future with SovrynExiledsurfer is an early Bitcoiner, a Co-founder of Parallele Polis and now part of the communications team of Sovryn a Bitcoin-native DeFi platform. We’re talking about the historical developments and the roots of Bitcoin as a Hippie activists Utopia coming true, the community discussions around the differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin, and who the real enemies of Bitcoin are. Tldr: it’s companies like Coinbase.
exiledsurfer’s Bitcoin story
The Bitcoin Foundation
Early history and different mindsets of the Bitcoin community
Original promises of Bitcoin
Nation state actors coming into mining
21st century paradigm: Government identity vs. crypto...2021-06-031h 24The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLast Week in Bitcoin: Keep Calm and Carry OnThis week’s learnings:
_Bitcoin privacy improvements with Taproot
_mining developments in China
_solar power is bad?
_hodlers hodl
_state of the Lightning Network
_Bitcoin and new art forms
Image credit: https://twitter.com/Labrahodl9
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2021-05-2807 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastRarescrilla: Bitcoin Enables New Art FormsRarescrilla is a hip-hop musician and producer, who joined the cryptomusic journey in 2014 and created DJ PEPE in 2016 with a first of its kind access token based on the Counterparty platform, which is extending Bitcoin’s functionality. In 2020 he dropped the “Sound Money” album, a niche hip hop themed bitcoin album. Now he is into programmable music, where the owners of music layers control the output, which makes it living art and music.
Rarescrilla’s Bitcoin journey
First NFTs in 2014? Early days and now?
Impact of current NFT “craze” on the art and music space
Path to adoption
Why Rarescri...2021-05-2750 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLast Week in Bitcoin: Bitcoin Is on Sale and That's GoodThis week’s learnings: buy and earn bitcoin now.
_Bitcoin dipping, what’s next?
_volatility is good
_where Bitcoin is needed the most
_Sub-Saharan Africa’s trading volume up in 2021
_Bitcoin, NFTS and the arts
_US regulatory crackdown will spur decentralization
Music: Rarescrilla https://twitter.com/ScrillaVentura
Image credit: https://twitter.com/LinaSeiche
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2021-05-2114 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAdam B. Levine: Bitcoin, NFTs and the ArtsMy guest is Adam B. Levine the managing editor for podcasts at Coindesk, and host of the longest-running English language talk show about Bitcoin called “Speaking of Bitcoin” (formerly known as Let’s Talk Bitcoin). I appreciate Adam’s work a lot, I have been an avid listener of his podcast for many years. Adam is also the CEO of tokenly.com, has minted some NFTs and had Metakovan on his show, who bought Beeple’s NFT for $ 69 million – the most expensive NFT sold at an auction so far. Our topic is NFTs and how they are going to shape the ar...2021-05-201h 23The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLast Week in Bitcoin: The Eco-Narrative Against Bitcoin and Why It Doesn't Use Proof-of-StakeWith this week’s Tesla dismissing Bitcoin for its energy use and at the same time Elon Musk pumping the joke currency Doge another level of hypocrisy has been reached. We’re looking into why Elon Musk suddenly dismisses Bitcoin, how Tesla’s income relying on renewable energy credits, Elon Musk pumping Doge, and why Bitcoin doesn’t change to proof-of-stake?
With shout outs to Andreas M. Antonopoulos, John Carvalho and Gabriel Shipton on behalf of Julian Assange.
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Subscribe...2021-05-1411 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastGabriel Shipton: Defend Julian Assange, Defend Free InternetThis episode was recorded on World Press Freedom Day 2021, the perfect date for a conversation with Gabriel Shipton, half-brother of Julian Assange. We are talking about the current state of Julian, who is the first publisher charged under the US espionage act and is awaiting further trials locked up in Belmarsh high security prison, the connections between WikiLeaks, journalism and Bitcoin and why and how Bitcoiners can support Julian’s case.
The current state of Julian Assange
WikiLeaks and the history of the charges
The US against Julian Assange
No extradition from the UK, but Belmarsh prison
WikiLeaks ac...2021-05-1330 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLast Week in Bitcoin: Don't Mess with BitcoinDon’t mess with Bitcoin, the most interesting stories in Bitcoin:
_Bitcoin empowers Zimbabweans
_Buckminster Fullers’ energy and wealth vision
_Iran trying to regulate mining
_censored mining
_mining more decentralized
_Taproot activation
_Buffett and Munger yelling at Bitcoin
_DeFi on Bitcoin
_global adoption of Bitcoin
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2021-05-0718 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastMiss Aurra: Bitcoin Empowers ZimbabweansMy guest is Miss Aurra from Harare, Zimbabwe. I got to know her at the beginning of 2020, when I visited Zimbabwe to research the possibilities and the use of Bitcoin in the country. In May 2020 we started a donation campaign for the school that Miss Aurra is leading. It had to be closed down due to Covid and the school lost its building. We are discussing the difficult living situation in Zimbabwe and how Bitcoin has been helping through your donations.
Who is Miss Aurra?
Living conditions
Economical situation in Zimbabwe
Problems in getting money in and out...2021-05-0650 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAnita Posch: How Bitcoin Supports DemocracyThe Central European Affairs podcast featured Anita Posch in an interview by Balasz Csekö about different aspects of Bitcoin, how blockchain is revolutionizing the global financial system, how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can help overcome Big Brother, and why every regulatory plan makes Bitcoin stronger.
Civitas Institute is a European knowledge center created for the purpose of promoting European democracy and European integration through analyses and debates in the widest possible societal groups, without ideological bias but with a firm belief in pluralistic democracy and freedom.
Topics:
Anita Posch’s Bitcoin story
How Bitcoin can pro...2021-04-2947 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAlex Gladstein: Bitcoin a Trojan Horse for FreedomMy guest is Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded it 2005. We talk about how Bitcoin helps to defend human rights and promote liberal democracy. Alex is also the Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009 and a co-author of “The Little Bitcoin Book”.
Topics:
Alex Gladstein’s Bitcoin story
Bitcoin’s importance as a human rights tool
Mainstream media causing damage
Savings instrument and unstoppable payment network
How Bitcoin has been helping
Countries where it’s needed the most
Surveillance and Bitcoin
Bi...2021-04-2251 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastFranco Amati: Bitcoin in ArgentinaMy guest is Franco Amati, founder of Bitcoin Argentina and member of laBitconf – the biggest Bitcoin conference in Latin America, the Bitcoin embassy Buenos Aires, and Bitcoin Iberoamérica foundation. We are discussing the importance of Bitcoin for the people of Argentina, who have to deal with harsh capital controls that allow them to only buy foreign currency up to 200 USD per month with 65% tax and an inflation of 50%.
Franco Amati’s Bitcoin story
50% Inflation in Argentina
How capital controls hurt the people
Use cases for Bitcoin in Argentina
Confiscation through fake rates
Message about a ban of Bitco...2021-04-151h 00The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastShermin Voshmgir: The Web 3 and Token RevolutionI sat down with Shermin Voshmgir, a researcher and author of “Token Economy” to discuss the hype around NFTs and how in the future every part of the economy will be merged into crypto. Shermin is the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. On a personal sidenote: in early 2017 Shermin’s keynote about Bitcoin and open blockchains spurred my attention and deepened my interest to work in that field.
“You can’t run a decentralized network like a centralized company.” – Shermin Voshmgir
Topics:
Token definition
Potential use-cases
Identity and Web 3.0
Thoughts on regulation of DeFi
Why th...2021-04-081h 01The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJonathan Chester: Get Paid in BitcoinMy guest is Jonathan Chester, he is the CEO and Founder of Bitwage, a company that enables employees and remote workers worldwide to get paid in Bitcoin. We discuss how individuals can earn their wage in bitcoin, what the advantages are, the details of their 401k retirement plans, and when public adoption of Bitcoin could feasibly take place.
Topics:
Jonathan Chester’s Bitcoin story
The looming US Dollar fall
Bitcoin enabling self-sovereignty
Why earn bitcoin?
Bitwage’s history
Bitcoin payroll and 401k retirement plans
State and future of Bitcoin’s adoption
Subscribe to my weekly newsle...2021-04-0148 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastEdan Yago: Sovereignty Through BitcoinEdan Yago is a neuroscientist and entrepreneur who turned his career around to focus on Bitcoin. He has been pivotal in establishing Sovryn one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. We’re talking about how a decentralized bitcoin trading and lending platform like Sovryn will create a new, open economic system that empowers individuals globally.
Topics:
Why Edan Yago lived in a closet
Why Bitcoin matters
Advantages of Bitcoin DeFi to other blockchains
NFTs are silly, but…
The future of finance and self-sovereignty
How decentralized lending works
Sovryn’s mission and innovations
Governance without company structures
“The...2021-03-2553 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAbe Cambridge: Invest in Solar Powered BitcoinMy guest is Abe Cambridge, the founder and CEO of Sun Exchange, the world’s first peer-to-peer solar leasing platform. We’re discussing how to transition the world away from fossil fuels and towards solar power, the most deployable, affordable and accessible type of renewable energy. In combination with a decentralized money like Bitcoin it is possible to open up owning solar cells and earning from it to anyone for as little as 5 USD. Abraham Cambridge has an academic background in climate change science. Through his studies, it became alarmingly clear that climate change presents the most imminent threat to h...2021-03-1847 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastMax Keiser & Stacy Herbert: The 220k Bitcoin Orange PillMax Keiser and Stacy Herbert are preaching Bitcoin in the Keiser Report since 2011. The Report is broadcasted on RT to a global audience. The YouTube channel has 4.1 million subscribers. In 2020 the dynamic couple started their own show, the Orange Pill Podcast. Max Keiser has made a bold price prediction for Bitcoin in 2021, he says it will reach 220,000 USD. I am asking him, why he thinks that this will be the case and how to assess the value of Bitcoin. We are talking about Stacy and Max’s background and why Max left Wall Street to become a financial anarchist....2021-03-031h 17The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastPhilippe Bekhazi: Bitcoin Mining in PracticeMy guest is Philippe Bekhazi, he is the CEO of XBTO Group a company active in market-making, OTC trading, venture capital, and Bitcoin and Ethereum mining. Our main topic is Bitcoin mining. XBTO Group is runnning a mining facility that is powered by electricity generated from Niagara Falls. Philippe Bekhazi is also the CEO of Stablehouse a regulated market-leading stablecoin platform bridging centralized and decentralized finance enabling payments, foreign exchange, trading and treasury for people and institutions.
Philippe Bekhazi’s Bitcoin story
Counterparty risks
Proof-of-work vs. proof-of-stake mining
Bitcoin mining at Niagara Falls
Energy consumption of PoW mining – prob...2021-02-2549 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJameson Lopp: Bitcoin Mining and CensorshipMy guest is Jameson Lopp, he calls himself a professional cypherpunk. His mission is to use his skills as a technologist to build tools that empower individuals. Our topic is nicely called “clean” mining or to say it in a more distinct way: censored mining. Is this an attack on Bitcoin and what are the possible strategies and outcomes? Jameson is the Co-founder & CTO of Casa a company dedicated to helping you to secure your bitcoin. It’s the second time that Jameson is my guest, listen to our previous interview here.
Topics:
Government friendly mining or an...2021-02-1851 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastBen Arc: Building Bitcoin DIY Hardware and SoftwareMy guest is Ben Arc from Wales. He is a FOSS hobbyist, advocate, and educator. FOSS stands for Free Open Source Software. Ben has been building hardware and software for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network since around 2014. We are talking about the Welsh Bitcoin scene and his projects like Bowser, a DIY Hardware Wallet, lnbits or the Nostr messaging client, which could enable completely decentralized markets and social media apps.
Our topics:
Ben Arc’s personal Bitcoin story
Bitcoin scene in Wales?
Ethics in the FOSS world
Ben’s hardware projects
Lightning ATM
Bowser DIY hardware wall...2021-02-1159 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastFarooq Ahmed: Bitcoin in PakistanMy guest is Farooq Ahmed, President of the Bitcoin Association Pakistan. Pakistan is a country of over 200 million people, between Afghanistan and India. I recently released interviews with Fereshteh Forough and Sunny Ray about those countries as well. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading is banned in Pakistan at the moment, nonetheless the use of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining is rising.
We discuss:
Farooq Ahmed’s personal Bitcoin story
The situation in Pakistan
Bitcoin’s legal status
Trading and holding bitcoin
Bitcoin mining
Bitcoin Association Pakistan
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free...2021-02-0433 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastSunny Ray: Bitcoin's Win vs. India's Central BankMy guest is Sunny Ray, he is a co-founder at Unocoin which is the first and leading bitcoin platform in India serving 1.5 million people. Sunny’s family stems from India and while he is spending most of the time living in Toronto, Canada he learned a lot about different cultures and their special ways to approach money and Bitcoin.
We discuss
Sunny Ray’s Bitcoin story
Start and learning’s from Unocoin
Bitcoin in India
Bitcoin use cases in India
The court case against the Reserve Bank of India
His message to the Bitcoin community
Subscr...2021-01-2851 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastBitcoin Q & A, Jan. 2021I asked for your Bitcoin questions. Here are my answers. Want to ask a Bitcoin question too? Subscribe to get a notification for the next Q&A. I was joined by Chris Chester.
0:01:00 Introduction
0:03:40 If you had to specify your options for preferred exchange, cold storage wallet, hardware wallet, software wallet, multi sig wallet – which would you choose and why?
0:09:21 Software wallets
0:12:15 Counter arguments to custodial wallets
0:16:50 Cold storage/paper wallets
0:24:10 Finding a buyer for your Bitcoin: When I want to sell Bitcoins which I have in my wallet. Do I have to...2021-01-241h 07The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastFereshteh Forough: Bitcoin in AfghanistanMy guest is Fereshteh Forough, she is the founder of “Code to Inspire”, which is the first coding school for women in Afghanistan. We will be talking about her journey and her learning’s from being a refugee, the general situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which is one of the least developed nations in the world and of course about Bitcoin in Afghanistan and how it is used to support the female students of “Code to Inspire”.
Fereshteh’s learning’s as a refugee
Situation of women in Afghanistan
Gender gap in STEM
How Bitcoin can support the li...2021-01-2137 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDerek Muhney: The Business of Bitcoin ATMsMy guest is Derek Muhney, Director of Marketing & Strategy at CoinSource the largest Bitcoin ATM network in the world. We are discussing the impact the 2020 pandemic is having on their business, about how Bitcoin ATMs work, and Bitcoin’s future from his perspective.
Topics:
Derek’s personal Bitcoin story
Coinsource’s company development
Impact of the pandemic
Volume of transactions and users
How does a Bitcoin ATM work from the user perspective
Setting up an ATM
Privacy and regulation
Bitcoin’s future from his/company perspective
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s f...2021-01-1443 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDesiree Dickerson, Ryan Gentry: Lightning is BitcoinMy guests are Desiree Dickerson and Ryan Gentry. They are working for one of the – in my eyes – hottest companies in the Bitcoin space. Lightning Labs was founded in 2016 by Elizabeth Stark and Olaoluwa Osuntokun. The Lightning Network is a second layer protocol on top of the Bitcoin network. We will be talking about the Lightning Network, what it is and what it is enabling, their most interesting products and about their outlook for the Lightning Network in 2021.
Our topics:
Their personal Bitcoin stories
Areas where Bitcoin is important today
What is LND (Lightning Network Daemon)?
The...2021-01-0756 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAndreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Outlook 2021My guest is Andreas M. Antonopoulos, who has been one of my biggest inspirations on my Bitcoin journey. We are discussing Bitcoin, the ultimate fairness system, why we need to strengthen privacy now, and his outlook for 2021. His talks have been inspiring and ensuring that is the space where my personal values and ethics find a place to work on something that is bigger than me, where I can contribute to changing the world to become a better place. Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a bitcoin and open blockchains educator, he coined the terms “Not your keys, not your coins” and...2020-12-3150 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastChris Tramount: Bitcoin Art, A New RenaissanceMy guest is Chris Tramount. He is the co-founder of Scarce.City an online marketplace for Bitcoin-related art and collectibles. We are discussing the possibilities to auction and verify digital art with Bitcoin and Lightning, and how this can enable a new Renaissance and completely new art forms.
Our topics:
Chris Tramount’s Bitcoin story
What is Scarce.City?
How is a Lightning Auction working?
What are Bitcoin collectibles?
How artists can participate
What is the business plan of Scarce.City?
What is NFT art?
A new Renaissance with Bitcoin
Use-cases for the Lightning Network
Su...2020-12-2443 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJukka Blomberg: LocalBitcoins in Latin AmericaMy guest is Jukka Blomberg, Chief Marketing Officer at LocalBitcoins, the biggest peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace in the world. With 6 million customers and operations in 189 countries LocalBitcoins is a global company with insights into the development of the Bitcoin space for every continent. We discuss the trading volume of Bitcoin in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and the different use-cases for Bitcoin in different regions of the world.
Topics:
Investing in stocks in China compared to Bitcoin
What makes Bitcoin special
Bitcoin in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina
LocalBitcoins’ trading volumes 2020
What are the important trends that are emerging in the wo...2020-12-1749 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastNicolas Dorier: Be Your Own Bank with BTCPayNicolas Dorier is a decentralized systems software developer and open-source advocate. He has been active in the Bitcoin community since 2014 and has contributed to several Bitcoin projects, including Bitcoin Core, before founding BTCPayServer, an open-source payment processor used by thousands of merchants globally. He is also the co-founder of METACO, a provider of security-critical infrastructure for financial institutions.
Topics:
Nicolas’ background as a Bitcoin and open-source advocate
Why he founded BTCPayserver
The features for merchants using BTCPay
BTCPay as a donation tool
Business model of BTCPay, paying developers
His learnings while developing BTCPay
Life and Bitcoin in...2020-12-1054 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastNigerian Feminist Coalition: Bitcoin Is PowerI am thrilled to have Damilola Odufuwa and Ire Aderinokun Co-Founders of the Nigerian Feminist Coalition as my guests today.
If you are following the developments in Africa, then you have heard of the #EndSARS movement. A protest movement against police brutality in Nigeria. When the central bank banned the Nigerian Feminist Coalition from using the traditional financial infrastructure to collect donations, they started using Bitcoin to fund their activities. Let’s hear from Dami and Ire how they did that and how the current situation looks like.
“One thing I realized in our lockdown in L...2020-12-031h 02The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastRoselyne Wanjiru: Bitcoin in KenyaAfter covering Zimbabwe, Senegal, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria, I have the honor to host a guest from Kenya. Roselyne Wanjiru is the Director of Growth & User Acquisition at Pesabase and an advocate for the digital economy in Kenya.
“Bitcoin does not require an ID, does not require your tax ID, does not require any other major documentation. It just requires you to have an email address and that’s it. And that’s really huge.” – Roselyne Wanjiru
Topics:
Roselyne’s Bitcoin story
Her educational efforts regarding cryptocurrencies
Why Bitcoin is especially important for Africa
Main...2020-11-261h 01The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastPhilip Agyei Asare: Bitcoin in GhanaIn this episode I am talking with Philip Agyei Asare from Ghana. He is the Co-founder and CEO of BTC Ghana and the Blockchain Foundation Africa. Philip hosted the first Bitcoin conference in Ghana in 2014. We are talking about Bitcoin adoption, about the fact that Chinese people in Ghana prefer to send Bitcoin home and why he believes that Africa is the future of bitcoin.
“Most people in Ghana use bitcoin as a form of payment.” – Philip Agyei Asare
Topics
Philip’s Bitcoin story
Why Bitcoin is especially important for Africa
Main characteristics of Ghana
Ec...2020-11-1941 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastGrey Jabesi: Bitcoin in South AfricaThis time I am talking about Bitcoin in South Africa with Grey Jabesi the founder of Crypto University and the Hardc0re Crypt0 YouTube channel. In the first segment, you will hear a message from Miss Aurra. She is talking about the result of our call for bitcoin donations at St. Anne’s school in Harare. The school had to be closed down due to the corona pandemic and a lack of funding.
Topics:
Importance of Bitcoin
Why is Bitcoin especially important for Africa?
Characteristics of South Africa
Financial inequality
Economical situation
Effects of Covid-19
Bitcoin us...2020-11-1255 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastFodé Diop: Bitcoin in SenegalHello dear listener,
this is Anita here and I have a short notice, regarding the interview you wanted to listen to with Fode Diop. I deleted this episode because I lost my trust in Mr. Diop in recent months. If I had known what I know today, I wouldn’t have invited him on my show. It is not for me to disclose the reasons for my action.
Thank you, for your understanding.
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2020-11-0500 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastMiss Aurra, Zimbabwe: Bitcoin Changed My Whole LifeToday’s episode is the start of a new series about Bitcoin in Africa. I have been traveling to Zimbabwe and Botswana in February 2020 to find out if and how Bitcoin is known and used there. When I left the African continent at the beginning of March it was unclear how the pandemic is going to change the economical situation of countries that were already in a deep crisis like Zimbabwe or Nigeria and how it would affect the adoption of bitcoin in Subsaharan countries. With the upcoming episodes I want to give you insights into African nations such as...2020-10-291h 16The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastGloria Zhao: A College Student's Journey to Bitcoin Core DevelopmentTodays guest is Gloria Zhao, she is a Bitcoin Core developer, former president of “Blockchain at Berkeley” and will finish her Computer Science studies at the end of 2020. We discuss how Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are seen by her fellow college students, why she chose to work on Bitcoin only instead of all the other Silicon Valley stuff and blockchain projects that are around.
“Privacy and censorship resistance should be the default. We can’t keep measuring technologies or applications based on how convenient they are or how cheap they are.
We need to start thinking about ho...2020-10-221h 00The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastElyse Petersen: From Ancient Tea Currency To Using Bitcoin For WholesaleElyse Petersen is a food scientist and the founder of Tealet, a wholesale tea supply chain network. Tealet’s business model is based on cutting out unnecessary middlemen between tea growers and buyers, same like in Bitcoin. Since 2013 Tealet is using Bitcoin for payments, which eliminates the inefficiencies of global financial systems and saves a lot of transaction costs. Tealet was one of the first companies worldwide to use Bitcoin.
Topics:
History of tea as an international commodity
Traditional tea supply chain absorbs 85% of the growers profit
Tea Horse Road
Tea as currency
Venture capital demands gr...2020-10-1549 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastZachary Kelman: Bitcoin an Alternative to the Current Unfair Financial SystemZachary Kelman is a New York-based attorney specializing in political, legal, and regulatory issues in and around Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technology. Prior to this he was working in banking, monitoring international money transactions, looking for suspicious activities. Coming out of this environment he was introduced to Bitcoin by his brother Daniel Kelman, who was the architect of the civil rehabilitation plan for Mt. Gox creditors and Zachary afterwards left banking for crypto projects in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
Topics:
The correspondent banking system
How all worldwide transactions are monitored
The history of the US...2020-10-0856 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastNic Carter: Bitcoin Disrupts Our Politicized Financial InfrastructureNic Carter is a Bitcoiner with a financial and philosophical background. I wanted to have him on the show for a long time. He is thoughtful and interesting to talk to as you will hear. We touch on some of his favourite topics like Bitcoin metaphysics, crypto-dollarization, historical references to free banking and the future of privacy and surveillance in the digital era.
“Bitcoin is no one’s liability. There’s no one that guarantees the value of that Bitcoin. People say that’s a weakness. That’s actually a strength. That means there’s no situation where the ba...2020-10-011h 07The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastIs Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme? The Story of Charles PonziWondering what a Ponzi scheme is? Somebody told you Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme? Listen to this episode of “The Context” where I tell the story of Italian born confidence trickster Carlo Ponzi. In 1920 it took him only nine months to defraud thirty thousand investors, who believed in getting rich quick, collecting 20 million USD in total. Ponzi promised 50% return on their investment in three months. His arrest in August 1920 brought down six banks and Ponzi’s investors were practically wiped out. In 1957, the Encyclopedia Britannica – the Wikipedia of it’s time – formally acknowledged that Ponzi’s name had become synonymous wit...2020-09-2417 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDouglas Bakkum: Building Bitcoin Hardware Wallets to Empower IndividualsMy guest is Douglas Bakkum. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Swiss hardware wallet manufacturer Shift Crypto. Douglas holds a Phd in neuroscience and shifted his career from starting a scientific research lab in academia to building a hardware wallet manufacturer at a time, when no hardware wallets existed on the market. Douglas saw a problem and the need for a solution and started the company together with bitcoin core maintainer Jonas Schnelli in 2015.
Shift Crypto is one of my sponsors, and after this conversation I have to say I am even more impressed with...2020-09-1756 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLiam Ball - Maui: Bitcoin Is TruthToday I am talking with Liam Ball a real estate broker on Maui, who tells us his story of how he got into Bitcoin, why it is interesting to him, the parallels of Bitcoin to his personal journey and also my journey, his real life use cases with Bitcoin and why Bitcoin is real.
Bitcoin can allow person to person generosity over the entire planet. I think that’s an incredible thing. You’re taking these charitable organizations out of the middle and you’re just saying, I feel like being generous, here’s somebody who needs somethin...2020-09-1051 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastBCH, BSV, BTG, BTC, BTC2, BTCV...What to Invest In?This time I am answering questions by a listener named Thamzin:
What is the difference between Bitcoin Vault and LocalBitcoins?
What are all those different Bitcoin versions that can be found on exchanges or Coinmarketcap?
How do I know, what a good investment looks like?
No financial advice. Do your own research.
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2020-09-0711 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastDale Bewan: Using Bitcoin Only Since 2017Todays guest is Dale Bewan. He is a married father of two, living in Germany. Since 2017 Bitcoin is the only money Dale is using. He does not own or hold any Fiat currency like Euros or US Dollars. We will talk about his motivation for doing so, how his wife and children deal with it, why he is using different identities, what LSD has to do with it, his Silkroad experiences, if he gets paid in Bitcoin and much more….
Topics:
Therapeutical benefits of using LSD
Was Satoshi on LSD?
Pseudonyms and identity on the internet
Di...2020-09-0352 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastGuy Swann: Bitcoin Is a Revolution With Historical ImpactGuy Swann is the host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast, where he is reading Bitcoin articles and essays by different authors. In 2011 he found out about Bitcoin. Back then Guy used money he did not have to buy Bitcoin, just to watch it loosing it’s value in the following bear market. For him, this was not the moment for an exit, it was the moment, when he really started to investigate and learn what Bitcoin is.
Topics:
Why he started his podcast Bitcoin Audible
His Bitcoin story
The real value proposition of Bitcoin
Digital scarcity
Th...2020-08-2758 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastKai Kremser: Coinfinity - Pushing Bitcoin Adoption in Austria Since 2014Today I am talking with Kai Kremser a fellow Austrian working for Coinfinity, Austria’s first Bitcoin broker founded in 2014. Kai, a former software developer, is the product manager for the Card Wallet, that is produced by Coinfinity and the Austrian State Printinghouse. Coinfinity and Card Wallet are my longest standing loyal sponsors. I am very thankful for their support, but this did not change the questions I was asking. We are talking about their products, but also touch more general questions for instance bitcoin adoption in Austria and changes in the perception and trading volumes of bitcoin in th...2020-08-2044 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAnita Posch: Interviewed by Japanese Crypto-Exchange BTCBOXLina Kather from the crypto-exchange BTCBOX Japan in Tokyo invited Anita Posch to do an interview about her Bitcoin experiences in Africa, the reasons why she is doing the work she does, her takes on Altcoins, privacy, the importance of the Lightning Network and why she believes that Bitcoin will stay the world’s dominant cryptocurrency in the future.
“Bitcoin has been here for 11 years now and it runs very reliable and it’s very secure in itself. The old system, the banking system, we have had this for 200 to 300 years. We have been using gold for thousa...2020-08-1347 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLyn Alden: Bullish on Bitcoin - a Strategic Value Investors ViewLyn Alden wrote a longform article about the 3 reasons why she is investing in Bitcoin. Lyn Alden is an investment strategist with a background in engineering and finance. She focusses on value investing with a global macro overlay.
What are the main reasons why you are bullish on Bitcoin?
“The first reason is, that, Bitcoin has demonstrated that it has a pretty strong network effect over time. The second reason is the halving, most of the bullish price action of Bitcoin tends to happen in the first year or two after a halving. And then th...2020-08-0645 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAndy Edstrom: Why Buy Bitcoin? Investing Today in the Money of TomorrowMy guest today is Andy Edstrom from Los Angeles. Andy spent 17 years in the investment world on Wall Street, working for Goldman Sachs and is now a wealth manager at his familiy’s firm West Cap Group. In the course of his consulting work, more and more people asked him about Bitcoin, that’s why he wrote a book about it called “Why Buy Bitcoin – Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow”. Andy Edstrom recently took on the role of “Head of Institutional at Swan Bitcoin” and as always this interview is no financial advice, please do your own research.
...2020-07-3052 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastElena Tonoyan, LocalBitcoins COO: Bitcoin Provides Financial Inclusion and Will GrowJoining me is Elena Tonoyan, she is the Chief Operating Officer at LocalBitcoins, the peer to peer bitcoin exchange that was founded as early as in 2012. We are looking into the history of LocalBitcoins, it’s growth, and optimistic outlook for the years to come. You will also learn about the values and usecases of Bitcoin that Elena finds important, because they solve real problems and have a positive impact on peoples lives.
Our topics:
history and growth of LocalBitcoins
financial inclusion esp. for women
bitcoin demand in Africa, India, Latin America
supporting altcoins
fraud in tr...2020-07-2334 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastGigi: Bitcoin From Speculative Asset to Savings TechnologyMy guest today is Gigi a software developer and computer scientist. Gigi wrote “21Lessons”, a book in which he shares his learnings from falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Two years ago he quit his job and started to work solely in the Bitcoin space.
“Bitcoin already has all three functions of money. It is a store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” – Gigi
“As I see Bitcoin evolve, I think it will be a global settlement layer for something approximating central banks. And since it’s obviously...2020-07-1653 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastChimezie Chuta: Light Up Africa With Bitcoin Nodes“A lot of Nigerians are using Bitcoin. Majorly among the young population. Those between the age of 22 and 35-40 are deeply using Bitcoin”, says Chimezie Chuta. He is a software developer, founder of blockchaingroup Nigeria and a Bitcoin user since 2015. With his “Spacebox” project he aims to put Africa on the map of Bitcoin and Lightning Network fullnodes.
“Every week bitcoin worth 18 Million USD are exchanged in Nigeria.” – Chimezie Chuta
Topics include:
Bitcoin in 2015
Blockchain education at the University of Nicosia
His book
Failed financial and political systems in Africa
Inflation in Nigeria
Black market exchang...2020-07-0950 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastRahim Taghizadegan: Money Is a Spontaneous Order Measuring the Cooperation of PeopleRahim Taghizadegan is an economist, book author and principal of the Scholarium, an independent learning enterprise based in Vienna, Austria. He studied physics, sociology and economy and is an expert on the Austrian School of Economics. His recent book is called “The Zero Interest Trap”.
We discuss:
Differences in tackling COVID-19 in Singapore and Austria
How to be prepared for crisis
Loss of trust in politics
Privacy aspects of health data usage
Social unrest and wealth inequality
The Worgl experiment and regional cryptocurrencies
Demurrage and velocity of money
The correlation of Bitcoin to other financial assets
Univ...2020-07-0256 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastMoritz Wietersheim: Why Bitcoin Is Superior to Altcoins or Stock Nonsense Like WirecardToday’s guest is Moritz Wietersheim. Moritz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Crypto Advance a company that focusses on security improvements and the secure management of private keys in the Bitcoin space. Together with CTO Stepan Snigirev the Specter wallet is developed, which allows you to have an air gapped and watch only wallet that runs together with your Bitcoin core node. That way you protect your privacy. Preparing for the interview I found out that Moritz and I we both, started to work full time in the bitcoin space in 2017.
Our Topics:
His time in...2020-06-2542 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastTim Akinbo: Bitcoin is a Store of Value for the African PeopleMy guest in this episode is Tim Akinbo. He comes from Nigeria and is involved in the Bitcoin space since 2014. I got to know Tim when I asked for bitcoin donations for a school in Harare, Zimbabwe. He contacted me on Twitter and offered to setup a BTCpayserver so that we can receive lightning payments, too. That was of great help. I looked him up and realized that Tim is also a Bitcoin Core contributor, Software developer and has a lot of experience with e-commerce and international payments.
“I think from an individual perspective, Bitcoin will make it...2020-06-1849 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAmiti Uttarwar: Developing Bitcoin - The Only Crypto Project With a Very Clear GoalIn this week’s episode I had the pleasure to interview Amiti Uttarwar. She is one of the first female engineers contributing to the Bitcoin Core software. Amiti is working full time as a Core developer, focusing on the peer to peer aspect of the protocol. Her latest contribution is a pull request that improves wallet privacy. I enjoyed our chat a lot, because Amiti has a clear and concise way to communicate which had even a calming effect on me. Maybe her daily meditation practice is the reason for that.
“I definitely hope that we move towa...2020-06-111h 03The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastChris Maurice: Chances and Challenges of Running a Bitcoin Exchange in AfricaIn this episode I talk with Chris Maurice, the CEO and Founder of Yellow Card Financial, a Nigeria based bitcoin and crypto exchange. Chris started his entrepreneurial endeavors as a SEO consultant at the age of 16 after that he sold bitcoin on eBay and in the backrooms of Taco Bell restaurants. Chris tells us how he came up with founding an exchange and why he did that in Africa.
“Dollar can be extremely difficult to access in most countries, Dollar is a complete pain to handle whether you’re in the US or in any other country in t...2020-06-0440 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastCarla Kirk-Cohen: Bitcoin Is the Ability to Take Back Control Over Your Financial SituationToday’s guest is Carla Kirk-Cohen she is a developer at Lightning Labs and is living in Cape Town in South Africa. Carla is building infrastructure around lightning nodes that makes it easier for people to run their own nodes at home.
“I was really drawn to the security model of Bitcoin, really interested and thinking, oh, this can’t possibly work. There must be some way that it breaks. And then going back and learning a bit more and realizing how incredible the entire system actually is. For me Bitcoin is really about self determination. I think...2020-05-2839 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastRay Youssef: Bringing Bitcoin Into Africa With Gift Cards Is Solving Real ProblemsOn today’s episode I talk with Ray Youssef, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace for money transfers serving about 4 million people in every country of the world. He says that in the next five years Africa with its tremendous growth in trading volume is going to become the leading crypto continent.
“Africa is leading all of our volume right now, and it’s growing tremendously. And every time a new country comes online, we start to see exponential growth. So you know this, these next five years are going to see Africa become the crypto...2020-05-2144 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLeo Wandersleb: Bitcoin Wallet Security to Avoid Exit ScamsOur topic today is all about Bitcoin wallets and their security. I am talking with Leo Wandersleb a german developer living in Chile, who is the founder of a project called Wallet Scrutiny. The goal of his project is to avoid exit scams through the verifiability of the wallet source code.
“The goal of Wallet Scrutiny is to avoid exit scams and to avoid major flaws that would make all the users of a certain wallet vulnerable to some back doors that get injected by the provider or by somebody who has a means to add an at...2020-05-1451 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastTuur Demeester: The Bitcoin Reformation in Times of COVID-19Today I am talking with Tuur Demeester, who recommended Bitcoin as an investment to his readers at $5 back in 2012. I would say Tuur is a philosopher with a greater perspective and an historical approach to today’s developments. We discuss his findings in his paper “The Bitcoin Reformation”. Published that at the end of 2019 he is drawing comparisons between the Dutch reformation in the 16th century and the emergence of Bitcoin in this century. This bring us to discuss COVID-19 and Tuur’s thoughts on the impact of this crisis on the Bitcoin reformation and he tells us which assets w...2020-05-0758 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAndreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Removes Power From the Few and Gives It to the ManyToday’s guest is one of my favourite people in the space Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We are going to talk about the adoption of Bitcoin, censorship and fake news, the use of Bitcoin in Zimbabwe, corporate and nation state digital currencies, why he does not believe in Austrian economics, why the so-called “left” does not embrace Bitcoin and more.
“When freedom is banned, only outlaws have freedom.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos
“Bitcoin, this system of open currency removes power from the few and gives it to the many.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling...2020-04-3045 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastPart 6: The Future of Bitcoin Is Big in Africa - With Alakanani ItirelengIn this episode I talk with Alakanani Itireleng, who founded the Satoshicentre in Botswana in 2014 and single-handedly built a growing Bitcoin community. She is the heart and center of Bitcoin education there, even the government is relying on her consultancy. We recorded this interview in February 2020, only days before the Covid-19 lockdowns went into effect. Her greatest ambition, the organization of a Bitcoin conference in Southern Africa will not come true soon. If you like to support her work and the Satoshicentre – please do so, you can find her on Twitter.
If you have a question, feel free to...2020-04-2345 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastBUC Live: Digital Scarcity - Will Central Banks Be Obsolete Within This Century?This is a live recording of a panel discussion at the “Value of Bitcoin Symposium” in Vienna, March 5th 2020. We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of digital scarcity and a hard capped supply versus fiat money, the impact of new players in the money game like Facebook’s Libra, the topic of central bank digital currencies and how that all relates to bitcoin. Participants were Rahim Taghizadegan – Austrian economist, Arthur Stadler – lawyer with blockchain expertise, Beat Weber – Austrian Central Bank and Aurel Schubert – former director general at the European Central Bank.
Please, excuse the low audio quality.
Topics:2020-03-121h 01The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastConnie Gallippi: A Pioneer Bridging the Gap Between the Non-Profit Space and BitcoinConnie Gallippi is the Founder and Executive Director of BitGive. In May 2013, she founded BitGive, the first government recognized Bitcoin 501(c)(3) nonprofit and pioneer organization leveraging Bitcoin and Blockchain technology via practical applications for humanitarian work in the developing world. Under her leadership, BitGive has built a positive philanthropic representative organization for the Bitcoin and Blockchain industry, bridging the gap between an innovative technology and its practical applications for nonprofits and humanitarian work in the developing world. BitGive has established strong partnerships and raised funds with well-known nonprofits including Save the Children, The Water Project, TECHO, Medic Mobile, and...2020-03-0539 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastRandy Brito: How People Are Using Bitcoin in VenezuelaRandy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. In 2012 he started publishing educational material about Bitcoin in Spanish and translated the interface of the Electrum Wallet. We are talking about the economical situation in Venezuela, how authorities extorted miners in 2015 and how people are using bitcoin today.
We talk about:
Started bitcoinvenezuela.com in 2012
Economical situation Venezuela
Spanish translator for electrum wallet 2012
Bitcoin is used to get money in and out of Venezuela
Most liquid currency in Venezuela in the moment
How people buy online in the US and get...2020-02-2626 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJan Čapek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool MiningWe will take a non-technical look into bitcoin mining in this episode. My guests are Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, the CEOs and Founders of Braiins, the company that is operating Slush pool, which is the world’s first bitcoin mining pool with more than 1 000 000 BTC mined since 2010. Jan and Pavels company is located in the Czech Republic in Prague. They are bitcoiners by heart and explain how pool mining works, what the challenges for miners are to be profitable, share their thoughts about the electricity consumption of proof-of-work and what they believe bitcoin will be in the future.
...2019-12-2646 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAustin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees. Today it is one of the biggest and most respected crypto exchanges in the world. I met Austin at several bitcoin conferences and at the Baltic Honeybadger in Riga in October, we finally sat down to chat about his career and the developments in the bitcoin space since 2011. In 2013 he was co-founding the Bitcoin Center New York with Nick Spanos. He talks about how enthusiastically they have built the center and about...2019-12-1959 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastJohn Carvalho: Bitcoin Is Not About Getting Rich, It Is Meant to Be Freedom MoneyWether you are a newbie or a Bitcoin enthusiast, this interview with John Carvalho, one of the rare people with strong views and rhetorical talent at the same time, will bring you joy and new insights. John is the CCO of Bitrefill, a swedish company that sells giftcards and phone refills for cryptocurrencies and offers “Thor” a lightning network services provider. He says, his higher boss is Bitcoin and he is working for bitcoin since it’s price was 10 USD. John Carvalho has seen a lot of things happening in the bitcoin space, let him inspire you.
“Bitcoin...2019-11-2858 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastThe Petro Is a Scam and Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Send Money to VenezuelaMeet Aníbal Santaella Sánchez and Paola Rodriguez-Giustiniani from Venezuela. The couple left the country three years ago and live in Scotland now. Anibal started mining bitcoin back in Venezuela, but when the national forces started prosecuting miners, he stopped. Bitcoin is the only way for Aníbal to send money to his father in Venezuela. Listen to the podcast episode to find out how this works, how the exchange ban and the regime have ruined the country that ended in todays humanitarian crisis and why the Petro is a scam.
Aníbal and Paola are also...2019-09-1240 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastSatoshi Freeathlon a Sports Event to Raise Awareness for BitcoinA group of sport- and Bitcoin enthusiasts got together to challenge themselves in a 4 day race with 14 km of swimming, 280 km of biking and 63 km of running to raise positive awareness for Bitcoin. The race is named Satoshi Freeathlon (freeathlon = Freestyle + Triathlon) and is organized by team satoshi. The idea behind team satoshi is to bring forward bitcoin and the decentralization of power and money as well as the ideals of Bitcoin, which come from the Cypherpunk Manifesto (human rights, freedom of information, freedom of expression, transaction freedom, right to privacy). The team is named after Satoshi Nakamoto the...2019-08-1938 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastLeah Wald on Possibilities for Women in the Bitcoin Space and Why We Still Are in a Bear MarketLeah Wald is a development economist, financial analyst and Partner & Executive Vice President at Lucid Investment Strategies. Together with Tyler Jenks she is the host of their Hyperwave Channel on YouTube. Leah began her career at 19 working at the World Bank in the Africa Region and has applied social entrepreneurship to help goat herders in Mongolia, local entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. as well as to first-time businesswomen in India.
In this Bitcoin & Co. episode we discuss these topics:
Women in sports, knee injuries and Soccer (yes, really)
Female investors in Bitcoin and the presence of...2019-04-2553 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastAdam Back on the Magic of Cryptography and Why Bitcoin MattersAdam Back is the inventor of Hashcash, a method to prevent spam emails, that was used with minor changes as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His work is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as well as in the Tor Browser whitepaper. He is a seasoned cryptographer with a PhD in computer science and distributed systems. As co-founder and CEO of Blockstream he is building the infrastructure for the internet of the future.
The topics of our interview:
his interests in school, growing up in England
the evolution of his work up to Bitcoin
learnings from DigiCash
...2019-04-1144 minThe Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only PodcastPamela Morgan on Inheritance Planning for Crypto-AssetsIn this episode I am talking with Pamela Morgan. She is the author of “Crypto-Asset Inheritance Planning: A Simple Guide for Owners” a book about strategies to store your private keys for bitcoin and other digital assets safely for your heirs. Pamela is an educator, attorney and entrepreneur. She has studied Business and Computer Programming before pursuing a Juris Doctors degree. In early 2015 Pamela has founded Thirdkey solutions (with Andreas M. Antonopoulos as CTO), a key consulting firm that works with individuals and organizations to improve the security of their crypto-holdings and ensure these assets are accessible in the even...2018-12-0645 min