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The Bitcoin Scaling Debate [Episode 7]

In this episode I interviewed Clark Moody and we discussed the Bitcoin scaling debate and implementation of SegWit. While we focused on the scaling issues, SegWit also addressed a number of other issues. If you’d like to know more, hit the Bitcoin.org link below.

Clark

Exchange tickers
Street Price Indicator
Picks & Shovels Co

Segwit

Bitcoin.org’s write up on SegWit

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Music Credits:
Morning Ritual by L’Indecis
Chillhop Records
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Thank You by Joakim Karud
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What are Altcoins? [Episode 6]

In this episode I talked about altcoins. I discussed the prominent altcoins and the issues in Bitcoin, real or imagined, that they attempt to solve.

Market Minute:

BTC price: $9,728
Finney(0.00001 BTC): $0.97
24 hour volume: $7.2B / 752k BTC
Market cap: $164 billion
@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – $8510, mayer multiple=1.14x
Transaction fees: 57.86 sats/Byte(24) 36.5 sats/Byte(7d)
Suggested fees (sats/B): 106 next block, 101 next hour, 2.4 same day
Coin.Dance was running maintenance and I was unable to get info on Bisq or Localbitcoins

AltCoins:

LiteCoin

Ethereum

Doge

Monero

Zcash

DASH

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Tuttle Twins – Great kids books and a great way to support the show!

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Music Credits:
Morning Ritual by L’Indecis
Chillhop Records
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Thank You by Joakim Karud
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Fatherhood by Joakim Karud
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Who controls bitcoin? [Episode 5]

In this episode I talked about who controls Bitcoin, who writes the code for the Bitcoin protocol and how improvements and updates are made. Follow the links below for more information on open-source projects, Github, and Bitcoin’s process specifically.

Show Notes:

Market Minute:

BTC price: $10,872
Finney(0.00001 BTC): $1.08
24 hour volume: $8.2B / 792k BTC
Market cap: $183 billion
Coins in Circulation: 16.8M
@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – $8244.77, mayer multiple=1.29x
Transaction fees: 36 sats/Byte(24) 39.6 sats/Byte(7d)
Suggested fees (sats/B): 5.0 next block, 3 next hour, 2.4 same day
localbitcoins – $53.9M(global)/ $6.7M(USA) last 7 days
bisq – $90k(global)/ $15.9k(USA) last 7 days
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GitHub

What is git and Github?
Github

Bitcoin’s process

Bitcoin github repsitory
Noded episode with John Newbery
Visualization of Bitcoin Development

Other stuff

Michael Phelps photo
Codecademy

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Donation page

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Music Credits:
Morning Ritual by L’Indecis
Chillhop Records
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Thank You by Joakim Karud
Purchase on Bandcamp
Listen on Soundcloud

Fatherhood by Joakim Karud
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Listen on Soundcloud