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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Tales from the Crypt #123: Bitcoin Sign Guy on Urbit

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Urbit ambassador to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Sign Guy, to discuss:

- Urbit

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, freaks? I hope all as well. Happy Friday. It's your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this week's episode.

0:06.9

We got Bitcoin Sign Guy in the studio again. Always a pleasure to have BSG in the studio this time, though.

0:14.6

Talking about, uh, well, maybe a controversial topic to some people out there. A lot of people think this project is a shick coin.

0:21.7

I'm not so convinced it's a shit coin yet.

0:24.5

There are a lot of questions about the initial distribution of the address space, but

0:28.4

forgetting that, I think the ethos and goals of the Erbit project are extremely fascinating, extremely crucial, more importantly,

0:41.2

at this particular junction that we find ourselves in here.

0:46.2

I don't know if you guys saw the New York Times article that came out yesterday in the series,

0:51.4

I think they're on part three of the series by this point already this morning,

0:55.5

but it seems that we are not really good at securing our data.

0:59.0

And Erbit is a project that is aiming to help secure our data.

1:03.6

So I was very interested to sit down with BSG and dive into Erbic, Erbitt, how it works,

1:15.1

and how they've been refining their pitch it's been a it's always been a bit of a uh i'm not going to like confusing project to me i'm getting less

1:22.4

and less confused as time goes on and i learn more about it uh bsg seems to think that Erbit is an essential system for Bitcoin in the future.

1:32.0

If you really want to secure Bitcoin at the individual level, he believes that Erbit is an

1:38.0

imperative.

1:38.8

So we talked about it for about an hour and 50 minutes, I believe.

1:42.5

I don't know.

1:42.9

I haven't uploaded the audio file yet. I'm recording the of the ad this episode of tales from the crypt is brought to you

1:48.9

by the cash app you freaks already know all about them they're helping you stack sats they're

1:54.5

helping you send stats they're helping you receive sats and now they're helping you stack slivers of stonks

1:58.7

if you want to or slivers of shares.

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