#415: Coal Is The Future with Steve Barbour
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Marty sits down with Steve Barbour before the first Nakamoto Forum debate to talk about energy, mining, and replacing the US Dollar.
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGBarbour
Upstream Data: https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/
7:30 - Bitcoin dev conflict of interest
19:18 - Bitcoin reaching maturity
21:01 - Russian mining
25:37 - Fiat IOUs
28:30 - The state of US mining
34:25 - Will "Coal" Cole
38:09 - Upstream's progress since Steve's last pod
47:06 - Hydro is better for portability
55:31 - New design
59:53 - Is coal the future?
1:04:48 - Hydrocarbons debate
1:08:33 - Lizard men
1:10:57 - Mock the rulers
1:19:03 - Fiat dying
1:25:01 - Wrapping up
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| 0:00.0 | Bada, ba, ba, ba, ba. I'm loving it. |
| 0:08.4 | This rip is brought to you by McDonald's. |
| 0:10.1 | Just kidding. |
| 0:10.8 | We wouldn't recommend that poison to you. |
| 0:13.7 | Stay away from the seed oils, freaks. |
| 0:16.7 | Great rip with Steve Barber. |
| 0:18.7 | We've got a growing crowd here at the Bitcoin Commons for the first ever Nakamoto |
| 0:24.0 | Debate Forum debate. |
| 0:28.0 | Nakamoto debate forum between Steve Barber and Jesse Pelton. |
| 0:31.0 | Going to be a hell of a night. |
| 0:32.0 | Just had a hell of a conversation with Steve. |
| 0:34.6 | Again, got to get going here. |
| 0:36.4 | So we'll read the top four boosts from RIP-414. |
| 0:39.4 | Pallandron rip, the dollar end game theory with Peruvian Bull. |
| 0:42.6 | Great Rip, if you haven't listened to it yet. |
| 0:44.2 | At Eric 9-9,000 sets. |
| 0:46.8 | Keep up the great work. |
| 0:48.3 | Eric, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for supporting the show. |
| 0:52.8 | Both the show and RHR here. |
| 0:54.4 | I think the top supporter for both shows. |
| 0:57.6 | So thank you for that. |
| 0:58.5 | At cryosats, 5,000 sats, stay humble, stack sats, good advice. |
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