Bitcoins & Gravy

Bitcoin The Musical Written & Directed by John Barrett Act IV, Scene II – Put Your Money In The ICO! Scene II opens with Stanley and Loretta at the state fair. While Loretta is having the time of her life, Stanley is secretly nursing the worst and only hangover of his life. The couple is drawn to a traveling troubadour and his band who have attracted the attention of a large crowd. This troubadour...

In this episode, in celebration of Columbus Day, I reveal the true Christopher Columbus - the world famous mariner, explorer, murderer, rapist and slave master. We’ll dig a bit deeper than our public school history books to find out the truth about how the early Spanish were some of the true early terrorists in the Americas.

On today’s show I head over to the second annual Distributed Health conference held right here in beautiful Nashville Tennessee at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall. We had speakers and attendees joining us from all over the world who shared with us information about their projects and insights about the future here at the dawn of the age of cryptocurrencies, blockchain tech and distributed ledger te...

On today's show I am privileged to interview Dana Zhang a PhD student in computer science at Vanderbilt University right here in Nashville Tennessee. This highly intelligent young woman shares with us the path that brought her to blockchain tech and a bit about where she hopes to make an impact in our world. In the second half of the show I head over to the Vanderbilt University campus to the Depa...

Today on the show I feel privileged to be speaking with Jonathan Baha’i the President and Michael Maloney the Director of Intelligence for Peerplays. The Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA), is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of provably-fair gaming. Peerplays is the world’s first peer-to-peer betting platform built entirely on top of a live blockchain AND acco...

On today's show I feel privileged to be speaking with Dr. Julian Hosp the co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of TenX. Located in Singapore, TenX provides solutions to some of the issues faced by those of us who have crypto asset portfolios or Cryptofolios as I like to call them, by providing a way for us to spend our assets easily. Join us now friends for another crypto journey here at the daw...

Welcome to Bitcoins and Gravy. On today’s show I feel fortunate to be speaking with Professor Jules White, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University right here in Nashville, Tennessee, “the Athens of the South”. In this interview we discuss the future of Blockchain technology from the perspective of an academic who is beginning to introduce block chain tech and distributed l...

Welcome to Bitcoins and Gravy Episode #92. On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with Stuart Lackey a graduate student completing his Master’s Degree in Healthcare Informatics at Lipscomb University right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Stuart and I have a great conversation about his program and how he envisions the future of healthcare as we move into the age of blockchain tech. In the se...

Episode #91: Internet of Coins – Linking Our Digital Value Systems! On today’s show I interview Joachim De Koning the founder of Internet of Coins. The goal of Internet of Coins is to create a comprehensive environment for personal finance that gives everyone access to all of the world’s Digital value systems. The platform is designed to connect all cryptographic ledgers and to integrate all token...

On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with Landon Thomas, the Vice President of Bitcoin Depot the second largest Bitcoin ATM company in the U.S. Bitcoin Depot is now actively looking for prime locations in the Nashville area where brand new, state of the art Bitcoin Depot ATM’s will be installed. In this episode you’ll learn how you can take part in helping Bitcoin Depot find prime locati...

Welcome to Bitcoins and Gravy. On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with John Bass the Founder and CEO of Hashed Health. Hashed Health is a healthcare technology company focused on accelerating the commercialization of blockchain and distributed ledger technology in healthcare. John and his team are coming up with next generation ideas to help break down those walls between care and comm...

This episode is from an interview with genome scientist Kevin McKernan from Episode #73, August 2015. Enjoy! Episode #73: Distributed Consensus on Cannabis Genetics On today’s show I interview Kevin McKernan the Chief Scientist at Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen Lifesciences. Kevin talks to us about everything from the Human genome project gone bad to free market regulations and testing in the Ca...

Hear Louis Armstrong sing "Hello Bitcoin" to celebrate bitcoin's success in 2016 and to usher in a New Year! Hello Bitcoin Parody of the song Hello Dolly - By Jerry Herman Parody Lyrics & Vocal acrobatics by John Barrett Hello Bitcoin yes Hello Bitcoin It’s so nice to have you back where you belong You’re lookin swell Bitcoin, I can tell Bitcoin You’re still glowin, you’re still growin, you’re sti...

Hear the real Santa Claus sing It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Bitcoin - a real holiday favorite! Merry Christmas Let's Talk Bitcoin!

On today’s show I feel privileged to be speaking once again with Shawn Wilkinson, the brains behind Storj. Storj.io is decentralized cloud storage utilizing the world’s best blockchain – that’s right the Bitcoin Blockchain. In the first half of the show I take us all back in time to the 2015 Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin, Texas and to an interview from the lost Tree House Studio archives. Bac...

On today’s show I am thrilled to have back with me here in the studio author Max Hernandez. Max was kind enough to drop by to see me here at the Tree House Studio in Nashville for yet another rockin good discussion about freedom and government, darknets and drones and of course about his very popular novel Thieves Emporium. Listeners if you have not read Thieves Emporium yet, please do yourself a...

Lowdown Bitcoin Blues Lyrics and Music by John Barrett Copyright 2013 RJM Publishing - BMI Nashville Wasted all my time back in ’09 I should have been mining blocks Now all I’ve got’s a Dogecoin rig and holes in my Alpaca socks I got them Lowdown Bitcoin Blues I’m cryin Hear the lowdown Bitcoin news I ain’t lying to you Lowdown Bitcoin Blues I’m dyin honey Lowdown Bitcoin Blues BTC convention came...

The Bitcoin Trader John Barrett Copyright 2015 - RJM Publishing - BMI Nashville I’m The Bitcoin Trader Navigator of the Bitcoin sea I’m a real motivator bout a makin lotta money for me And I might go short or long But I like to tell everybody that I’ve never been wrong I’m The Bitcoin Trader come on and hear me sing my song Well I made about a quarter million dollars on the old Mt. Gox Then I jump...

Crypto (The Official Cryptocurrency Song) Copyright 2015 - RJM Publishing - BMI Nashville Look at the Cryptocurrency Man it’s such a blur and see A new one every day They got the pump and dump They’ll try to make you a chump You better watch your back I say I hear the troll box singing till my ears are ringin I’m afraid just to go to bed And I’m not feeling so well Tell me should I buy or sell We...

Ode To Satoshi (The Official Bitcoin Song) Well Satoshi Nakamoto that's a name I love to say And we don't know much about him, but he came to save the day When he wrote about the way things are and the way things ought to be He gave us all a protocol this world had never seen Oh Bitcoin as you're going into the old Blockchain Oh Bitcoin I know you're going to reign, gonna reign Till everybody know...

On today’s show I get to share with all of you my great experience at Nashville’s very first Distributed Health Blockchain conference that was held on Monday October 3rd in the heart of downtown Music City USA. In addition to some amazing panel discussions and presentations by some brilliant women and men, I was also able to slip away from time to time to get some face to face interviews with some...

On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with Andrew Wagner a Huntercoin evangelist living in Vancouver, Canada. Andrew was kind enough to break away from his gaming console to spend some time with us by giving us the inside scoop about Hunter Coin and what may just turn out to be the future of gaming. And an extra special thanks to our sponsor Moonshine Cowboy Boot Wax, the Original, All Na...

On today’s show I have the privilege of speaking with Kent Barton in Denver, Colorado. Kent is the founder of Ethereum Denver, a meetup group that also provides workshops and events for Ethereum enthusiasts as well as the broader blockchain/cryptocurrency community in Mile High City! And a shout out to the Bitcoins and Gravy Freelance Transcriptionist for his excellent and highly accurate work. Pr...

On today’s show I have a special guest visiting me here in the Tree House Studio and that is none other than John Ferguson, the self proclaimed Simpleton of Safe. Yes I’m talking about the same John Ferguson we know and love from the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast network that you are listening to right now. John Ferguson is the host of the Safe Crossroads podcast and a new cutting edge podcast called...

Today I welcome to the show Griff Green, formerly a chemical engineer turned Community Organizer for Slock.it and The DAO. Slock.it is a software company focusing on smart contracts and The DAO is . . . well The DAO is The DAO. Griff Green recently did what only a handful of people in the world have done. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Digital Currency and now he travels the globe as a...