Tales from the Crypt #14: JW Weatherman
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
**Sorry for the poor sound quality on my end of the mic. Recorded on my laptop and the mic wasn't configured properly.** Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman to learn about the cypherpunk movement, JW's definition of modern-day slavery, anarcho-capitalism and how they all relate to Bitcoin. Hold onto your butts, the conversation broaches some controversial topics that will make you think about the systems we've grown up within. JW is on Twitter under the handle @WeathermanIam. Follow him.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, Freaks? |
| 0:02.3 | Welcome back to Tales from the Cript. |
| 0:03.9 | It's your boy Marty Bent. |
| 0:05.7 | Trying something new today. |
| 0:07.7 | Doing a live recording on YouTube. |
| 0:12.0 | This is new for me, so bear with me. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm very excited for today's conversation. |
| 0:16.4 | We're doing this over YouTube because we cannot get this man in the studio. |
| 0:26.2 | He's a conscious about his security and his OPSEC. And I'm very interested about the conversation we're about to have in regards to |
| 0:31.4 | Bitcoin. I'd like to introduce you all to J.W. Weatherman. J.W., welcome to the show. |
| 0:38.0 | Thanks, man. |
| 0:38.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:40.1 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 0:40.9 | I appreciate your time. |
| 0:42.1 | For those of you that don't know, |
| 0:45.3 | J.W. Wetherman is the co-host of the Block Digest podcast here on YouTube |
| 0:50.3 | and is also the creator of the Bitcoin Th model, BTcthreats.com. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, JW, thanks for coming on today. I really appreciate taking some time out of your Saturday here to talk about Bitcoin's threat model. |
| 1:06.0 | So I guess we're just going to start off. This is Tales from the Crypt. We're doing a little pre-interview conversation before we started this. So how did you find Bitcoin? You were saying you were |
| 1:16.8 | initially skeptical of Bitcoin? Yeah. Yeah. So I've been in software security for almost a couple |
| 1:24.1 | decades, something in that range. And when I first heard about Bitcoin, it was from some clients, actually. |
| 1:31.2 | And I had messed around with a few things earlier on, SETI at home and that I, you know, kind |
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