The Transformation of Value with Cody Ellingham

How do American prison gangs facilitate money, trade, and economics behind bars? What causes this and what can we learn from it? David Skarbek is Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. David’s award-winning book, The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System , challenges the view...

Who are we, and what grounds us? Mike Grimshaw is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Mike writes and speaks about New Zealand history, economics, education, and culture. In particular he asks critical questions about the future of the country, which faces economic stagnancy, political malaise, and perhaps most dangerously, a complacency with our lot at t...

Keyan Kousha is the founder of Stacker News, an online forum where you can share and discuss articles and content without the attention manipulation of social media. Instead of “likes” or invisible algorithms, Stacker News uses Bitcoin as an incentive mechanism, and for ranking content. Stacker News rewards users for thoughtful contributions, and enables you to support your favourite content with...

Johan Nylander is an award-winning author and freelance correspondent from Sweden. His work covering Asia has been published by CNN, National Geographic Travel, and Forbes. Johan wrote "The Wolf Economy Awakens – Mongolia's fight for democracy, and a green and digital future." He also wrote “The Epic Split – Why ‘Made in China’ is going out of style.” Johan on LinkedIn - https://www....

Parker Lewis is the author of Gradually, Then Suddenly, A framework for understanding Bitcoin as money. Parker previously worked in finance in the heart of wall street before discovering Bitcoin in 2016. He is now the Head of Business Development at Zaprite, helping businesses migrate to a Bitcoin standard. Parker on X - https://x.com/parkeralewis Gradually, Then Suddenly: Essays on Bitcoin Moneti...

Erik Cason, author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin. Erik is a regular speaker and essayist, focussing on the social, political, and philosophical aspects of bitcoin. Erik's new company - https://vora.io/ Erik Cason on X - https://x.com/Erikcason SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support

Mike Brock writes extensively about democracy, liberalism, and what he sees as the decline of the American Republic. Mike has an extensive tech background formerly working as an executive at Cash App as well as being involved with various open-source projects. Mike Brock's Substack, Notes from the Circus - https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/ Mike Brock on X - https://x.com/brockm SUPPORT ME: h...

Paul Knight is a city planner and architectural designer at Historical Concepts in New York Paul serves as the Director of Research at the Doug Allen Institute, a nonprofit organisation exploring the lessons of history for how we can build better cities Paul is also a Bitcoin enthusiast and has a deep interest in how money and economic forces shape the form of cities https://dougalleninstitute.org...

Paul Sheard is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help us all Prosper. As a financial markets economist Paul has extensive experience including previous roles as Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Chief Economist of Lehman Brothers, and Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue....

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Allen Farrington co-wrote Bitcoin Is Venice and Only The Strong Survive , and is a co-founder of Axiom, a Bitcoin-focused venture firm. We discuss the future of stablecoins and taproot assets. A Half-Baked Thesis on Stablecoins by Allen Farrington - https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpqnwn7y4hqdtgxj9ygngkfy7drgze2qkpr002c4yj08wxhlut36eqqxnzde5xs6rjv3kxcer2vp3lc8ac9 SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetrans...

Dr. Murray Rudd is an environmental economics and policy researcher who has written extensively on the impact of proof of work and Bitcoin, including writing academic papers with Satoshi Action Education. We talk about institutional economics and transaction cost economics as well as other things that Murray is working on. Dr. Murray Rudd - https://x.com/drmurrayrudd Satoshi Action Education - htt...

In a world of silence and screens, where the body hides and the voice is masked, what is our political power? SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support X: https://x.com/TTOVpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codyellingham Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1uth29ygt090fe640skhc8l34d9s7xlwj4frxs2esezt7n6d64nwsqcmmmu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TTOVPodcast Music by Simon...

Kim de Vos writes and talks about Bitcoin. He formerly hosted Alles voor Bitcoin, the independent, ad-free voice of Belgian Bitcoiners. Kim joins me to explore the state of the Bitcoin movement from the inside. Kim de Vos / Alles Voor Bitcoin - https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/ Kim's Substack - https://substack.com/@allesvoorbitcoin SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support X: ht...

Erik Cason is author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin. Erik is a regular speaker and essayist, focussing on the social, political, and philosophical aspects of Bitcoin. Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin - https://cryptosovereignty.org/ SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support X: https://x.com/TTOVpodcast Instagra...

James Scaur is a prolific New Zealand Bitcoin entrepreneur and developer now living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. James recently won the bitcoin++ hackathon in Florianopolis with the project NostrPIX, enabling payments to anyone in Brazil using sats. James Scaur Website - https://scaur.nz/ NostrPix - https://nostrpix.carrd.co/ Fred Dagg - We Don't Know How Lucky We Are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anita Posch is a strategic Bitcoin adviser, educator, author and founder ofBitcoin for Fairness. She has travelled extensively throughout Africa and other parts of the world as a digital nomad to learn about how Bitcoins use cases are different in each region. In this episode we discuss her experience in Zimbabwe and Sub-Saharan Africa and how Bitcoin education can be shared to promote financial s...

I catch up with Paul from Bitkiwi, who was the first ever guest on this show. We actually met in my old studio in Wellington during my trip back in New Zealand. We share a drink and a laugh as we talk about being back in New Zealand, the state of the world, Bitcoin, and all that has come to pass over the last few years. Paul also shares more on the upcoming Bitkiwi events as well as their new Bitc...

Where Are We Now? The Epidemic as Politics by Giorgio Agamben - https://amzn.to/4jc3Pyf SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support X: https://x.com/TTOVpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codyellingham Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1uth29ygt090fe640skhc8l34d9s7xlwj4frxs2esezt7n6d64nwsqcmmmu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TTOVPodcast Music by Simon James French: https://...

Ian Meredith is the founder of Arlington Motorcycles, building compact Electric Motorcycles for the Streets here in New Zealand. We talk about Ians story, how he has been able to deploy Bitcoin as capital to realise his dream of building the company, and how proof of work figures into what he does as an entrepreneur. I did have a test ride of the Arlington A1 which was pretty awesome. The bikes ar...

Cody Ellingham's introduction talk at Bitkiwi Queenstown, New Zealand, March 2025. SUPPORT ME: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support X: https://x.com/TTOVpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codyellingham Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1uth29ygt090fe640skhc8l34d9s7xlwj4frxs2esezt7n6d64nwsqcmmmu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TTOVPodcast Music by Simon James French: https://w...

Andrew Wilson is an Author, Bitcoiner, and Professor of History of Christianity as well as host of The Disentanglement Podcast, exploring privacy tech and the surveillance state. We set out to explore the political identity of the left and the right. These labels have come to define our modern world. But where do they come from? What underwrites it all? How can bridges be built between them? From...

Roger Huang is author of the book “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?” We talk in-depth about China and Bitcoin and what is going on when it comes to Bitcoin mining bans, the Chinese Communist Party and the broader Chinese economy. We also unpick the various layers of optics and politics involved when talking about anything to do with China and how freedom and money play into all of this. ‍--- Links: Book: W...

Ketan is co-founder of Ministry of Nodes providing educational content and tutorials on how to run Bitcoin nodes and private and self-sovereign computing. We talk about freedom, privacy tech, threat models and the journey to being more private and secure in the way we use the internet. ‍--- Links: Ministry of Nodes - https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/ Ministry of Nodes YouTube - https://www.youtu...

Carmen Lau is a former Hong Kong District Councillor who was forced to resign by the government and later fled Hong Kong to the UK where she lives in exile.  She is a pro-democracy and freedom advocate with the Hong Kong Democracy Council and a Freedom Fellow with the Human Rights Foundation and is wanted by the Hong Kong police with a $1 million Hong Kong dollar bounty being offered for informati...