The Transformation of Value with Cody Ellingham

Bob Burnett is heavily involved in the Bitcoin mining industry, including being founder and CEO at Barefoot Mining and Board Member at Ocean. We talk about Bob’s experience building personal computers in the 1990s and early 2000s in Japan, how those lessons apply to Bitcoin mining hardware today, and the manufacturing and geopolitical challenges and considerations for Bitcoin mining. ‍--- Links: B...

I’m joined by my friend Simon James French, AKA SJF, a musician and creative and the first person I ever introduced to Bitcoin. We talk about life in the fiat cities of London & Tokyo, what it means to create low-time preference music and art in a world of chaos and noise, and the importance of running your own business for a sense of self-sovereignty. ‍--- Links: Simon's Substack: https:/...

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Joe Bryan has recently released the film "What's The Problem? - Demystifying why we all need Bitcoin." Joe shares a bit about the film and the way that framing things with questions can prompt a more meaningful engagement when talking about Bitcoin with people who have maybe never thought about the nature of money before.  We also talk about Joe’s background and connections to business development...

Joel Robinson is a New Zealand financial adviser, Bitcoiner, and Director of Radical Investment providing personalised investment planning. Joel shares some of the different ways to get Bitcoin exposure via New Zealand Kiwisaver retirement funds including KiwiWrap and the various ETF and fund options available. We talk about the overall state of financial advice in New Zealand and how it is respon...

Vijay Boyapati is author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin.  We dive into the transformative potential of Bitcoin for Australia, New Zealand, and smaller countries. What role will the Asia-Pacific region more broadly play in Bitcoin’s adoption? What does a change of direction in the United States signal for Bitcoin adoption in other countries? We explore the cultural and economic dynamics shaping th...

Instead of thinking about "Bitcoin businesses", maybe we can instead think about "businesses owned by Bitcoiners"? I read through the 2014 article "The Correct Strategy of Bitcoin Entrepreneurship" by Daniel Krawisz and offer some of my own thoughts. --- Links: The Correct Strategy of Bitcoin Entrepreneurship Daniel Krawisz - https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-correct-strategy-of-bitcoin-en...

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I’m joined by Brandon Bucher, co-founder of Lightning Pay, who I think are New Zealand’s best Bitcoin-only brokerage. Brandon is also very active in Bitcoin education in New Zealand and we ask the question: what is a Bitcoin UTXO? Is this something you’re familiar with? UTXO stands for Unspent Transaction Output and they are one of the fundamental pieces of Bitcoin. What is the importance of UTXO...

I’m joined by Nick Wilson who has spent over two decades working in energy and sustainability policy internationally, most recently at Mercury in New Zealand helping lead the company's energy transition strategy.   We ask: How does the energy market work and what are the political and market forces at play? Who is deciding what the sustainability goals are and what are the real-world challenges? W...

I’m joined again by James Viggiano. We ask: How do smaller currencies like the Kiwi Dollar (New Zealand Dollar) survive in a US Dollar dominant world? Is there a deeper geopolitical reason for the push for Central Bank Digital Currencies? Is the fight for physical cash a red herring when most transactions are already digital? And what is the role of Bitcoin in all of this? --- Links: James Viggian...

Dr. Anthony Jefferies is co-author of the book "Decrypting Money: A Comprehensive Introduction to Bitcoin", which gives an excellent technical overview of Bitcoin and includes a foreword by world chess champion and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, Garry Kasparov. We talk about Anthony's background in automotive R&D and how a system’s design approach translates over into Bitcoin Thinkin...

I am joined by Aness Kattan and we talk about how his company, Structural Engineers NZ, have embraced Bitcoin by accepting it for payment as well as holding Bitcoin on the balance sheet of the company. We talk about business, Aness’s background and his Bitcoin story, and the broader outlook for the construction market and housing sector as it relates to inflation and monetary policy. --- Links: St...

Chris Moss is co-founder of ZBD, a company building payments infrastructure for games and apps to easily integrate Bitcoin using the Lightning Network. We talk about Chris’s background with Bitcoin and video game development as well as his time living in Japan during the Bitcoin Blocksize War. We also talk about the opportunities for integrating Bitcoin into other services such as for Podcasting 2...

I'm joined by Allen Farrington who co-wrote Bitcoin Is Venice and Only The Strong Survive , and is a co-founder of Axiom, a Bitcoin-focused venture firm. We talk about Bitcoin is Venice and the book’s explorations of capitalism and the philosophy of economics. We also discuss Allen’s current venture with Axiom, investing in Bitcoin companies as well as broader ideas about capital allocation in a s...

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I am joined by Nick Touran, a nuclear engineer, educator, and founder of whatisnuclear.com. We talk about the nuanced reality of nuclear energy, its history and the current political, economic, and regulatory challenges globally, as well as the outlook for nuclear reactor technology and energy abundance more broadly. --- Links: What Is Nuclear? Website - https://whatisnuclear.com/ Nick Touran on X...

I am joined by Alex Martynov, a leadership coach based in Prague originally from Ukraine. Alex founded the first website in Ukraine dedicated to Austrian economics and libertarianism and he also has an interest in Bitcoin and Freedom technology. We discuss the big questions of purpose, self-actualisation, and meaning making as well as explore the nature of liberty, and what is meant by the idea of...

I talk with Sovereign Origin about his concept FITS (Financially Independent, Time Sovereign) a new alternative to the traditional FIRE movement (Financially Independent, Retire Early).  While both approaches aim to escape the “rat race,” FITS redefines the pursuit of financial independence through the lens of Bitcoin, focusing on sovereignty over one’s time with a unique perspective towards wealt...

Robert Warren is the author of The Bitcoin Miner's Almanac: Where Code Meets Business and Everything in Between, published 2024. We discuss the book, which gives an excellent overview of what Bitcoin mining is and the operational considerations, as well as fascinating case studies of the different business models and types of mining operations. Alongside this we discuss energy and the electrical g...

Kenji Tateiwa is CEO of Agile Energy X who are mining Bitcoin in Japan and helping to reduce grid congestion with flexible load that matches the variability of renewable energy. We discuss the long term outlook for Japan as it moves towards renewable energy more broadly and the challenges with the existing infrastructure network and how the innovation of Bitcoin mining can help with this. Kenji al...

James Pierog is co-founder and CEO of Bitcoin Prediction Market, a new company back by Bitcoin startup accelerator Wolf, enabling bets on real-world events using the Bitcoin Lightning Network. We explore what a prediction market is, why Bitcoin is the perfect medium for this, and what new forms of crowd intelligence through prediction markets could mean in an increasingly complex world. Along the...

Sam Trevethick is an award-winning music producer, songwriter and performer most renowned for his role as founding member of the live drum and bass group Shapeshifter. We talk about Sam’s music, his inspiration, and his Bitcoin story - drawing a thread between the dynamic creativity of music and understanding the implications of Bitcoin on the world. ‍--- Connect with The Transformation of Value X...

Bayani Mills is the Secretary & Acting CEO at the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body, providing advocacy on behalf of their Bitcoin industry members and advancing the adoption and understanding of Bitcoin in Australia. We take a deep dive into Bayani’s work with the industry body: educating politicians, making submissions on bills before parliament, and trying to carve out a clear space for Bitc...

I talk with Hubertus Hofkirchner, an economist and entrepreneur from Austria.  Hubertus hosts the monthly Austrian Economics Salon at Vienna's Hayek Institute and he shares some fascinating insight into the nature of base money and credit money, how we can understand these from a Bitcoin and Austrian economics perspective as well as what he sees as the next step for growing the Bitcoin circular ec...