Bitcoins & Gravy

On today’s show I welcome Ned Scott, the CEO of Steemit. Ned talks to us about the value of Community and the value of reputation – two vitally important concepts that lie at the heart of Steemit. Working with the Larimers, Ned is blazing a trail forward and setting a great example of how we can learn to communicate better in the future. This is a must listen episode friends! I’d like to thank our...

On today’s show I take a trip to Barcelona, Spain to spend some time with Manfred Karrer, the founder of Bitsquare. Bitsquare is an open source peer-to-peer application that allows anyone to trade bitcoin for national currencies or cryptocurrencies. Bitsquares requires no registration or verification process and does not hold a users data or funds. Welcome to the future of trading here at the dawn...

On today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with the Marketing Monk, Chris Coney. Chris teaches an online course called Digital Money Revolution that can be found by going to digitalMoneyRevolution.com. This course promises to get you up to speed on the exciting and sometimes challenging new world of digital currencies. Welcome to the Dawn of the Age of Cryptocurrencies! And I’d like to thank o...

On today’s show I take a trip to Madrid, Spain where I have a great conversation with Fernando Gutierrez of Dash. For those of you not familiar with Dash, Dash is Digital Cash. More importantly, Dash is a technology leader in the digital currency space, with a rapid pace of deploying new innovations. The Dash developers have delivered a number of “firsts”, such as the first privacy-centric transac...

On today’s show I am very happy to be speaking with Professor Campbell R. Harvey. Mr. Harvey is a Professor of Finance in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Professor Harvey is a trail blazer in that he is currently teaching an MBA course in Blockchain technology and all things related! Listen now to this great conversation with an educator who truly cares a...

On today’s show I am privileged to have back on the show, Paul Snow. Many of you know Paul from the Texas Bitcoin Conferences and also from what I consider to be one of the most important platforms emerging from the bitcoin space - Factom. Paul and I talk about the progress being made by Factom, the great Block size debate and we also touch on the Hearn Affair affectionately known as the Hearnado...

On today’s show I am happy to have as my guests here in the Tree House Studio, the CEO of BTC Media David Bailey. Here today with David is BTC Media’s Shanghai guy on the ground in charge of operations, John Riggins. BTC Media recently moved here to Nashville and is now the world’s preeminent Bitcoin media group, reaching millions of readers worldwide and representing over 130 fintech advertisers...

In this sermon the right Reverend Johnny preaches about the evils that exist in todays world and about the path that we must follow if we hope to find redemption. A good life is not about fame and fortune and it's not about wielding power or controlling others. We must have the strength of character to fight the good fight and to fight as Peaceful Warriors against hierarchical structures that shro...

Let It Grow To the tune of: Let It Snow 1945 Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn WARNING: These lyrics may not match the recording. Lyrics by John Barrett Copyright 2015 RJM Publishing BMI – Nashville, Tennessee Oh the currencies they’re all crashing While my bitcoin friends are stashing Deflation is all we know - so Let It Grow, Let It Grow, Let It Grow Some people say not to I hoard it But if you can afford...

On today’s show I head over to Tenn 16, one of East Nashville’s great little eateries where I meet up with Melvin, Aaron, Kate and Bob of the New Nashville BitLunch meetup group. During lunch we talk about the youth unemployment crisis here and abroad, the miserable failure of a Vancouver bitcoin ATM machine, the prestigious Vanderbilt University Computer Science Department and everything else bit...

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 Cannabis field, families moving to Colorado to help their children get relief from epileptic seizures, the opiate crisis in America and how Bitcoin blockchain technolo...

Episode #72: Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It On today’s show I interview film producer Torsten Hoffman about the release of his new Bitcoin Documentary, Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It which recently picked up two awards at the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas. In the words of Calvin Tran, this important documentary is: “Dynamic and filled to the brim with hard-hitting history. There’s el...

On today’s show I travel to the remote coastal village of Krabi in Thailand to speak with Bitcoin Trader Venzen Khaosan. Venzen is a market analyst and trader with over 6 years of experience in stocks, forex and commodities trading. After completing school, he studied anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and became interested in the pre-14th century Indian Ocean trade routes t...

On Today’s show I am privileged to be speaking with Taulant Ramabaja, the CEO of Bitsapphire. Bitsapphire aims to change the face of how society works through the development of Distributed Autonomous Corporations (DAC’s) and applications which utilize this revolutionary technology. We also talk about the Moonstone Wallet – a free crypto wallet that allows transfers and trades among Bitcoin, BitAs...

On today’s show I have the privilege of speaking with the three founders of the Grantcoin. Grantcoin is a global alternative currency distributed by a non-profit organization, The Grantcoin Foundation. Their mission is to incentivize a sustainable economy and environment. Grantcoin is sold on exchanges and given as grants to people, businesses and organizations that are making the world a better p...

On today’s show I speak with Daniel Krawisz, one of the founders of the Nakamoto Institute. Daniel and I discuss the merits and the pitfalls of Cryptocurrencies, Altcoins and Appcoins. What’s an appcoin? Well I guess you’ll just have to listen to the episode to find out now won’t you? We also discuss Bitcoin’s cypherpunk and crypto anarchism Roots. Halfway through the interview we get to hear my n...

On today’s show I am thrilled to be talking with Nick Pudar in Detroit, Michigan. Nick takes us on a journey to a place that very few people even know exists. That place is the brain wallet where it is now possible to store a small or a large amount of bitcoin wealth in your memory. We talk about Entropy, Diceware, bathtubs and 50 million, billion Jupiter water balloons. Nick does a fantastic job...

On today’s show I interview Pamela Morgan, the CEO of 3rd Key Solutions. Pamela works closely with Andreas Antonopoulos who serves as the Chief Technology Officer and with Richard Kagan the Business Advisor. 3rd Key Solutions can design a fool proof plan for your company to securely generate and store private keys to help reduce the risks of embezzlement, coercion and fraud. This is a major step f...

Episode #65: Ian Panchevre: Men Will Be Angels? On today’s show I have the great privilege of speaking with Ian Panchevre (pronounced pun-shev). Ian is a political scientist from Yale whose primary studies include political theory and political psychology. Most recently, Ian has been researching the internal politics of the Bitcoin community. He's interested in both the "informal power networks" t...

This past week I had the privilege of sitting on my front porch and chatting with 3 great fellows from the Bitshares community, Brandon Lovejoy, Tim Fesenko and Rob Konsdorf. These guys are on a road trip, traveling around the region telling people about Bitshares. I learned more about Bitshares from these guys in 1 hour than I have in reading about Bitshares over the past year. CREDITS: Useful Bi...

On today’s show I travel to beautiful San Diego, California for a conversation with my good friend Paul Puey the founder and CEO of Airbitz.co. The Airbitz wallet is a leap forward for Bitcoin wallets where data is strongly encrypted on each user’s device using each individual user’s login and password. The Airbitz wallet does not host user funds on their servers so your chance of being goxed is n...

Episode #62: The Texas Bitcoin Conference! On today’s show I travel to Austin, Texas for the 2nd annual Texas Bitcoins Conference! Friends I had the time of my life and despite a bit of audio tech difficulty on my part, the conference was a massively huge success! Please forgive me listeners as some of the audio is BELOW the normal quality of my show. Much thanks to Paul and Linda Snow for going w...

On today’s show, due to a serious lack of time, I ask my listeners to forgive me for repeating a past show. I’ll be at the Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin this weekend and will be back next week with a slammin show that is sure to make you stand up and shout Yee Haa!!!! On today's show I travel to San Diego to speak with Paul Puey, the CEO and co-founder of Airbitz.co, a mobile and web app comp...

In the first half of today’s show I am thrilled to be speaking with Paul Snow, the Chairman of the Texas Bitcoin conference which is coming up in less than one week, March 27th through 29th. Of course there is still time to register for the conference by going to TexasBitcoinConference.com. Make sure to use the Bitcoins and Gravy discount code which is easy to remember because it is: BitcoinsAndGr...

Episode #59: Yanis Varoufakis On today’s show I travel all the way to the beautiful island of Greece to speak with finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Yanis sets us straight about the history of economics and about how some of the old models we hold onto need to be left behind as we open our minds to new paradigms and new freedoms for all people. Magic Word Hidden in each episode of Bitcoins and Gr...