Bitcoin Revolution Pt. 1

Does nature or nurture shape who we are? Does our personality come from our genes, or the environment we live in? Countless scientific studies on the subject have been published. But one such study – a collaboration between a psychoanalyst and a New York adoption agency – was ins ... Show More

James Angleton ran counterintelligence for the CIA for 20 years. His job was to find Soviet spies hiding inside Western intelligence. He was brilliant, obsessive, and almost certainly right that the threat of a mole was real. But the hunt he launched tore the CIA apart from the i ... Show More

In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, sinking it off the Irish coast, and killing over 1000 people. The attack devastated the American public, and justified America’s entry into World War I. But rumors of a top-secret British navy operation, the ship’s hidden second m ... Show More

É 2009 e em uma modesta casa do subúrbio, uma revolução monetária está começando. Se chama bitcoin e chega de mansinho. Simplesmente não há razão convincente para trocar dólares por esse token digital inútil. Mas então, um aspirante a senhor do crime vê o potencial do bitcoin e e ... Show More

With crypto currencies – like Bitcoin and Troon - booming there’s never been a better time to mine for crypto online. Mines in this context describe hundreds of computers that solve complex mathematical puzzles to produce cryptocurrency. And with many wanting to jump onto the cry ... Show More

<p>Cryptocurrency has transformed dramatically since Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world more than a decade ago. Today, crypto has become a hot investment and, in recent years, an irreverent staple of Internet&nbsp;culture. But questions about its sustainability and ... Show More

<p>To some, Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies are the future of finance, deregulated and free from the problems of the existing financial others. To critics, they're little more than a bad investment or an outright ponzi scheme. But what happens when the coins begin to crash? ... Show More

<p>If you’ve committed any internet crimes lately, you probably shouldn’t have paid for them with Bitcoin. While many crypto-evangelists have long thought of digital currency as a means of buying legal and illicit goods on the web with total anonymity, the fact is that nearly all ... Show More

<p>Au-delà d&#39;une révolution technologique, Bitcoin est un outil social, environnemental, philosophique et parfois même politique. Pour mieux le comprendre, plongeons nous dans les fondements de cette création aux côtés de Yorick de Mombynes. Quelle est la philosophie de Bitco ... Show More

Trevor examines the sudden rise of NFTs, Jordan Klepper gets a lesson on the benefits of Bitcoin cryptocurrency from his puppet friend, and Ronny Chieng investigates stupid meme currencies. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio. ... Show More