![Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/9566C26CCB442F38DBB57171D11CAAE9_small.jpg)
Read_683 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 1 [Alex Gladstein]
"A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years, a historic increase. Countries like Jamaica, Greece and Cyprus have bor...
13 Dec 202259min
Guy's Take #61 - Blockchains, A Square Peg for Round Holes
There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to unlock your house, and how DAOs will be used to enforce and decide laws, but wh...
9 Dec 20222h 21min
Read_682 - Data Shows That Lightning Solves Scaling [Kozlovski]
"A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way." - Stanislov Kozlovski Check out the original article at: https://bit...
7 Dec 202257min
Read_681 - The Twitter Files - Part 1 [Matt Taibbi]
“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one h...
6 Dec 20221h 17min
Read_680 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 2 [Farrington & Big Al]
"We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of bitcoin is to definancialize, the ethos of crypto is to financialize. We repe...
3 Dec 20221h 13min
Read_679 - Green Eggs and Ham, Part 1 [Farrington & Larson]
"One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant could, at the same time, be said to give it practical grounds to become mor...
1 Dec 20221h 21min
Read_678 - Toward a Node World Order [Micheal Goldstein]
"A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level of certainty about a monetary network that no human had prior to bitcoin’s existence. Every other mo...
29 Nov 20221h 34min
Chat_75 - Opting Out with Matt Hill
On the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended upon our lives, and on the tools and systems we need (and are building) in order to ensure we wi...
26 Nov 20222h 2min
