Bitcoin Philosophy and Tech with Jameson Lopp

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In this podcast, I chat with Cypherpunk and BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp aka @lopp. We discuss both the philosophical and technical aspects of Bitcoin, the scaling debates, forks and the various leading personalities in the community.

Breakdown of the show

00:10:17: Introductions
00:13:54: Cypherpunks and the birth of Bitcoin
00:16:37: The importance of privacy
00:20:48: The Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht
00:23:38: The real Bitcoin
00:24:54: Consensus explained
00:27:59: Nodes and why you should have them
00:30:14: The effect of scaling and the block size debate
00:37:14: Bitcoin use in third world countries
00:38:37: Lightning Network
00:41:14: The user-activated soft fork
00:44:23: Bitcoin Cash
00:48:03: Bitcoin Core
00:57:45: Craig Wright and Satoshi Nakamoto
01:03:27: Bcash and Roger Ver
01:08:58: The New York Agreement and SegWit2x
01:16:49: The future prospects for Bitcoin
01:20:43: Nation state investment in Bitcoin
01:24:36: Bitcoin education
01:26:12: Hardware wallets and security
01:29:29: Environmental impact of mining Bitcoin
01:33:34: Litecoin, Dash and other coins/protocols
01:45:56: Final comments

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SHOW NOTES

• Connect with Jameson:

  • On Twitter @lopp

  • On Medium

  • On earn.com
     

• His websites:

  • Personal

  • Statoshi.info - Realtime Bitcoin Node Stats

  • BitGo - his current engineering role
     

• Important articles

  • Securing Your Financial Sovereignty

  • Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That's OK)

  • SegWit: The Swiftest Safe Path Forward

  • Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks
     

• Other important information:

  • A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

  • Jameson's resources

  • Other interviews with Jameson

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THANKS

• Jason Camiolo for audio production, his website is at http://www.jasoncamiolo.com/

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