To The Moon S01E10 · Bitcoin, not blockchain

Overview

Max and Stacy have made it TO THE MOON. The year is 2019, and they ask, “will bitcoin wreck bankers or will bankers wreck bitcoin?” Max notes that bitcoin is a system of justice disguised as a get-rich-quick scheme and the Bank for International Settlements is queen of get-rich-quick schemes, just print more money and buy as many Modiglianis as there are available. As bitcoin becomes more and more entrenched, more and more unstoppable, the FUD rises. The latest media FUD against bitcoin is that it is boiling the oceans, to which Francis Pouliot makes the case that bitcoin actually makes energy more liquid which makes energy markets more efficient, so is, in fact, better for the environment. Bitcoin’s journey began during the first days of quantitative easing when QE was supposed to be a temporary experiment to provide liquidity (they said) for the otherwise solvent banks, yet this money printing policy has been made permanent in 2019.

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1. 1 1. the Genesis2019-04-21In the genesis episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy ask: “What is bitcoin? What was the actual beginning? Was it the genesis block on January 3, 2009? Or the Bitcoin White Paper p
2. 2 2. The OG Years2019-04-28In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy look at some of the early adopters of bitcoin and the exchanges, derivatives contracts and pizza sales that erupted in the first days
3. 3 3. Permissionless2019-05-05In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy remain in 2011, a year when bitcoin was still ‘magical internet money’. In terms of the ‘permissionless’ nature of bitcoin, TO THE MO
4. 4 4. Unconfiscatable store of value2019-05-12In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy look back to March 2013, when the Cyprus bail happened. Max and Stacy talk to Tone Vays about the censorship resistant value transfer
5. 5 5. Honey badger don't care2019-05-19In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy look back to the year 2014 when the meme that describes the anti-fragile nature of bitcoin took hold. Giacomo Zucco points out that ev
6. 6 6. Blockchain, not bitcoin2019-05-26In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy arrive in the year 2015 when the notion of ‘blockchain, not bitcoin’ took hold in the media and on the Wall Street. Giacomo Zucco comp
7. 7 7. The blocksize wars2019-06-02In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy take on the year 2016 when the blocksize wars burst onto the scene in January, when a bitcoin core developer, Mike Hearn, rage quits i
8. 8 8. UASF2019-06-09In this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy rock into the year 2017, the year of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in the altcoin market and of the User Activated Soft Fork as a tr
9. 9 9. When Lambo2019-06-16On this episode of TO THE MOON, Max and Stacy look at the year 2018 for bitcoin. While it started with bitcoin prices beginning what would become a massive fall of more than 80 per
10. 10 10. Bitcoin, not blockchain2019-06-23Max and Stacy have made it TO THE MOON. The year is 2019, and they ask, “will bitcoin wreck bankers or will bankers wreck bitcoin?” Max notes that bitcoin is a system of justice d