The Peter McCormack Show

Lawrence Lepard is an Investment Manager and Austrian Economist and Quoth The Raven is an independent financial researcher. In this interview, we discuss how the dollar could fall, signals in the bond market, what central banks can do, and the debt spiral unwinding. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-fiat-apocalypse This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustain...

Gloria Zhao is a Bitcoin Core maintainer. In this interview, we discuss upgrading Bitcoin vs ossifying the protocol, ordinals and mempool "spam", and the theory & 'power' of core developers. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-power-of-bitcoin This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan Ledger - State of the art...

Jack Mallers is the Founder & CEO of Strike, American HODL is a Bitcoin Educator, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy and Calle is a Bitcoin developer working on Cashu. In this interview, we discuss why no one understands Bitcoin, ETFs & centralisation threats and the importance of funding development. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/nobody-understands-bitcoi...

Harry Sudock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Griid, Will Roberts is the Co-CEO at IREN, Erik Hersman is the CEO of Gridless, Thomas Pacchia is a Board Member of Stronghold, & Dennis Porter is the CEO of Satoshi Action Fund. In this interview, they discuss bitcoin mining sustainability, accessing stranded energy and the halving. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-mining-a...

Seth for Privacy is a privacy advocate and Head of Strategy and Marketing at Foundation and Bitcoin Q+A is a Bitcoin educator and Head of Customer Experience at Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the recent indictment against the founders of Samourai Wallet. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/first-they-came-for-samourai This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done...

Andrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke are all professors of Philosophy, Allen Farrington is an investor and author of Bitcoin is Venice. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin in academia, the Resistance Money thesis and the philosophy of money and Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-is-resistance-money This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Do...

Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Natalie Brunell is the host of the Coin Stories Podcast, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, Thomas Pacchia is co-owner of Pubkey, and Christopher Gordon from Bridge2Bitcoin. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin wins, and the CheatCode for business. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-bitcoin-wins This episode's sponsors...

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Natalie Smolenski founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin is a cheat code for human rights, privacy, sovereignty and the reciprocal loss of trust. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-human-rights This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining....

Lyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Preston Pysh is a founder of The Investor Podcast Network, Allen Farrington is the author of Bitcoin Is Venice & Max Hillebrand is an economist & entrepreneur. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin vs fiat, inflation and why Bitcoin is the best money. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-economics-of-bitcoin This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitco...

In this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCode conference. This panel was titled A CheatCode for Payments, and was hosted by Natalie Brunell, with Calle (Cashu), Obi Nwosu (Fedi) & Ben Arc (LNBits). They discussed the past & present of Ecash, the power of lightning and the future of payments. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/a-cheatcode-for-payments This episode's s...

In this interview, American HODL, Preston Pysh, Harry Sudock and Jeff Booth join us from the recent CheatCode conference. We discuss why bitcoin matters, the paradigm shift in money and the transition to a new system. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/a-paradigm-shift-in-money This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with...

Oscar Merry is the Founder of Fountain podcasts. In this interview, we discuss how the subscription model on the internet is changing and the power of value for value Bitcoin payments. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-bitcoin-value-for-value-thesis This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan Ledger - State of...

Freddie New is the Head of Policy at Bitcoin Policy UK. In this interview, we discuss current and proposed legislation affecting Bitcoin and why it often backfires, changing minds on Bitcoin, UK Bitcoin allies and how we win. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/defeating-the-regulators This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitco...

Nicholas Bowick is a systems engineer in the aerospace industry. In this interview, we discuss emergent behaviors in complex systems, positive and negative feedback loops and chaos vs systemic antifragility. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-bitcoins-design-fixes-money This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swa...

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the ultimate bitcoin use cases. How it is used in commerce, for freedom and how it fundamentally changes energy systems. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-ultimate-bitcoin-use-cases This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in B...

James Lavish is a macro analyst, and Eric Yakes is the author of The 7th Property. In this interview, we discuss Wall Street's arrival into Bitcoin, why TradFi struggles to understand it and how Bitcoin is a new paradigm for investors. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/wall-street-embraces-bitcoin This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - I...

American HODL is an OG Bitcoin investor. In this interview, we discuss ordinals & 'spam', why bitcoin makes for a better world, if Wall Street will attempt to change Bitcoin and why we are still so, so early. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-were-still-early This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan Ledg...

Vortex is a developer and OG Bitcoin podcaster. In this interview, we look back at the blocksize wars, talk about the challenges upgrading Bitcoin, the dangers of ossification and get into covenants and LNHance. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-we-must-upgrade-bitcoin This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swa...

Mark Moss is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and host of The Mark Moss Show. In this interview, we discuss how to play the game of money, using debt and inflation to your advantage and how to retire off Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-to-play-the-money-game This episode's sponsors: Iren - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin wi...

Bitcoin Mechanic is a Bitcoin educator and Chief Boiling Officer at OCEAN. In this interview, we discuss the issues with arbitrary data on the Bitcoin blockchain, if filters can work as well as OCEAN mining pool and the need for greater decentralisation in mining. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-battle-for-bitcoin-with-bitcoin-mechanic This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitco...

Andy Edstrom is a financial advisor, and the author of Why Buy Bitcoin. Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Michael Saylor's Bitcoin strategy, Bitcoin vs gold & real estate as well as demand, adoption and the four year cycle. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/michael-saylors-bitcoin-moonshot-revisited This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitc...

David Seroy is a ZK rollup researcher. In this interview, we discuss the tradeoffs when scaling Bitcoin, the reality of ZK rollups in theory vs in practice as well as, the fee market and MEV on Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-challenge-of-scaling-bitcoin This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan Le...

Nik Bhatia is the founder of 'The Bitcoin Layer' & author of 'Layered Money'. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin as an optimal base layer for the financial system, how the largest economic actors may be allocating to Bitcoin, and where the price could go. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-etfs-have-changed-the-game This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done...

Grant McCarty is the Co-Executive Director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. In this interview, we discuss evangelism and the Bitcoin revolution, why BPI is a crucial resource, flawed incentives in the education system, journalism and the shifting perception of Bitcoin. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-maturing-bitcoin-narrative This episode's sponsors: Iren - Bitcoin Mining...

Raphael Zagury is a CIO at Swan Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss Bitcoin adoption, how the ETFs changed everything, Bitcoin vs real estate and Bitcoin portfolio allocation. – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-perfect-bitcoin-allocation This episode's sponsors: Iren - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan Ledger - State of the art Bi...