Episode 29: Money Printer Go BRRR
Jill and Meltem reunite amidst corona-madness to breakdown how they are thinking about this unprecedented situation. They take us back to the Black Pl...
What Grinds My Gears
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From Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson, welcome to What Grinds My Gears, a podcast about the bizarre and buzzworthy happenings in the world of cryptocurrency. Each week, we delve into one key theme in crypto, and examine this theme through a broader financial, political, and cultural lens to learn from the past, understand the present, and explore the future.
Episode 28: Breaking Banks with Bitcoin
This episode of What Grinds my Gears was recorded live on stage at SF Blockchain Week 2019. In this episode, Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss ...
Episode 27: Origin Myth: The Market and Marketing of Bitcoin
Every movement that has withstood the test of time — from religions to empires — has had a founding myth attached. This is the story of how it all sta...
Episode 26: Death and Taxes
They say there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. And while we don’t get know of anyone who has managed to cheat death, we certainly know o...
Episode 25: Mesh Much? Telecommunications, Topology, and Tokens
Most of us take our connectivity to the internet and other telecommunications networks for granted. But behind the simple and benign act of connecting...
Episode 24: Banning Bitcoin: The Long Arc of an Infinite Revolution
Encryption has long walked the line between weapon and tool. While the so-called “Crypto Wars” ended in the 1990’s, in 2013, Edward Snowden showed us ...
Episode 23: Price Predictions: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vol
Bitcoin: is it a safe haven or a risk asset? This week we are (for once) talking price. We try to make sense of the recent run ups and retracements an...
Episode 22: Welcome to FaceCoin
What do you get when you put together a consortium of private members issuing a currency that is aimed at world domination? First, the Federal Reserve...
Episode 21: Bonus Round: Blockchain Week Recap
Every May, the blockchain and crypto industry gets together for a week of announcements, hype, and lambo giveaways. In this live recording, Jill and M...
Episode 20: ETF, F No?
You can’t talk about bitcoin for ten minutes without having someone bemoan the lack of a bitcoin ETF. In this live episode, we talk about the history ...