SOB: How Far We’ve Come (And How Much Stayed the Same)
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today’s show is from a time before the trillion (or even billion) dollar market cap; Before Vitalik had ever spoken the word Ethereum; Before taproot, segwit, stock-to-flow and the institutional investing thesis. In the early days, Bitcoin was the absolute state of the art and the basis for an entirely new and utterly revolutionary form of technology. In this episode you’ll get a peek at how we discussed it before everything that would happen had happened.
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Original show notes for episode 14 - In Search of Goldilocks
- Listener mail: “Microtransaction powered social networks”
- Constance Choi, legal council at payward brings us up to speed on DC, Fincen & Treasury
- The retroactive Bitcoin paywall
- Counterintuitive: Smaller amounts equal larger transactions?
- 1 Megabyte blocks, good or bad?
- Who needs banks? Zach Harvey of the Lamassu bitcoin vending machine
- Full node clients vs. lite clients: Are federated servers the future?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Speaking of Bitcoin on the Coin Desk Podcast Network is brought to you by nexo.io. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey folks, my name is Adam B. Levine, and this is Speaking of Bitcoin. Before this show was called |
| 0:11.3 | Speaking of Bitcoin, we produced episodes for seven years under the original name, Let's Talk Bitcoin. |
| 0:16.9 | On today show, we're traveling back in time to June 7, 2013 for episode 14, where we'll get a |
| 0:22.9 | reminder of just how far we've come in eight short years. At the time, the price of Bitcoin was just |
| 0:28.2 | over $72 per BTC, and although much has changed, far more has stayed the same. In this episode, |
| 0:35.7 | we discussed the wild idea of a micro-transaction-powered |
| 0:38.5 | social network, the very first regulatory outreach efforts conducted by then in Beta Cracken's parent |
| 0:44.1 | company Payword, the idea of a retroactive Bitcoin paywall as a way to solve media |
| 0:48.5 | monetization, an interview with one of the very first Bitcoin ATM or Bitcoin machines, as |
| 0:53.6 | they called it, |
| 0:58.6 | manufacturers with Zach Harvey from Llamisou, and finally a discussion about full nodes versus light nodes in the world before. If you're looking for current news, this isn't the |
| 1:03.2 | episode for you. But if you want to take a peek at the world before Ethereum or even tokens that |
| 1:07.2 | didn't require their own miners, thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 1:12.3 | Hi, and welcome to Let's Talk Bitcoin, a twice-weekly show focused on the ideas, projects, |
| 1:16.9 | and people building the new digital economy and the future of money. |
| 1:20.5 | My name is Adam B. Levine. |
| 1:22.1 | I'm a writer and speaker who likes to talk about complicated topics and understandable terms. |
| 1:26.6 | Joining me in our twice-weekly search for clarity, |
| 1:29.3 | Andrea Sam Antonopoulos is an expert in distributed systems and decentralized networks. |
| 1:33.6 | Hi there. |
| 1:34.4 | Dr. Stephanie Murphy is a scientist and syndicated radio host. |
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