Notorious anti-crypto critic and goldbug, Peter Schiff gets booked at the Bitcoin 2025 convention in Vegas and has an opportunity to tell the audience what he thinks of their “investment.” It results in a refreshing amount of common sense at a convention otherwise dominated by propaganda, fearmongering and delusions of grandeur. But Peter Schiff isn’t innocent either. In some cases he has his own irrational agenda of promoting gold as an investment. Let’s watch this interesting panel and comment. I try to set them all straight, and learn a few things along the way.
Today with talk with Lou, a French Canadian and independent crypto investigator who has been taking an interest in the odd dynamics between various entities in the crypto markets. He has formulated what he considers to be a possible explanation for how various crypto exchanges and others are engaged in market manipulation. Note that this is one person’s opinion and only a theory, but he has a reasonable amount of citations involving all the players involved. What do YOU think?
In today’s episode I have a casual conversation with “Matthew” a 26-year old from Estonia, whos convinced Bitcoin is his ticket to financial freedom and that he’s found a “system” that work to consistently bring in money. What do YOU think?
On today’s show, we’re going through a presentation made at the “Bitcoin For America” conference a few weeks ago, entitled: “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: A Strategy For US Digital Supremacy”
What does that actually mean? Will Michael Saylor actually provide any specific details on how this will work, or will be shower everybody with his unique brand of abstract, AI-inspired techno-babble? Tune in and see, plus my own commentary adding some real world clarity to whatever it is he’s claiming. Also, we add a new feature called, the Fallacy Tracker, where I put on-screen almost every Begging-the-Question fallacy he unloads during this presentation. As an added BONUS, I fact-check anything he states which is specific enough to actually fact-check, and we find at least one claim which we fact check. Stay tuned near the end for that exciting revelation.
In today’s episode I chat with Yvonne Taylor of the organization Seneca Lake Guardian – an affiliate of the National Coalition Against Crypto Mining. Yvonne has been battling environmental issues in the Finger Lakes region of New York for many years and recently a refurbished coal power plant has been turned back on and used for crypto mining.
Today we hear from a crypto developer and marketer who was deep in the trenches for several years and finally decided he wanted out. We’ll call him “Labcrazy2600” and he shares with us his story.
At this time, he still wishes to remain anonymous and is careful to not go into too many details whereby he could be recognized. This appears to be a common theme with those leaving the crypto industry: they’re afraid of the repercussions of “naming names” at this stage in the game. That gives you some insight into how seedy the industry really is — as if you needed more, listen to what LabCrazy has to say…
Today on the show I have a conversation with crypto mining activist Jackie Sawicky. After the recent election, she’s decided to dissolve the Texas Coalition Against Crypto Mining and move out of state. We talk about what’s happened to change her mind and what we think about the near future and the upcoming “regime change” which appears to be full of crypto shills and grifters.
Today we tackle what is “Stupid Crypto Talking Point #10” – the claim that Bitcoin is a reliable long term store of value. The digital equivalent of gold?
Does this actually make sense? Is Bitcoin a good investment? Is it a hedge against inflation? Let’s dive in.
There’s a dark secret in the crypto world that mainstream media doesn’t want to acknowledge. A dark secret that will affect each and every crypto holder at one point in time. No, it’s not Tether or Stablecoin – although that’s another ticking time bomb. I’m talking about something that should strike fear into the hearts of even the most committed HODL’er: Is your Crypto Clean or Dirty? Is there anything you can do to protect it?
We’re coming up on 16 years since the advent of blockchain technology. And somehow, some way, the price of Bitcoin is still holding at an unreasonably high amount DESPITE there being any indication that blockchain technology has anything truly useful to offer modern society. BUT there is one thing it has proven to be good for — and that one thing will infect everybody in the market, because you’re all indirectly involved whether you like it or not.
For this episode we have a “who’s who” of Crypto Critics who have assembled in Twitter Spaces, hosted by author Jake Donoghue, of “Crypto Confidential.” Jake put together a team of prominent people to discuss the current state of the industry, including myself, former SEC cybercrime head, John Reed Stark, journalist David Gerard, tech entrepreneur Dave Troy, senior policy analyst Mark Hays and others. We have a casual conversation about what’s going on in the industry and take some questions.
I apologize for the beginning and ending being cut off – I started recording when I came in and somehow the recording stopped at around the 2 hour mark, but we have almost the entire conversation archived.
Regarding my counter-argument to the crypto-shitcoin-shilling troll who appeared in the podcast, let me address that… her claim was that ‘blockchain is mainstream’ and IBM is using it. This is a phony narrative that crypto people keep spreading. Here’s the truth on that:
For those wondering whether her claim that “IBM is using blockchain” is legit, no it’s not. Their primary IBM blockchain project that was hyped by crypto bros — still to this day, was a prominent partnership with shipping company Maersk. While the web page promoting the venture still sits online and is cited every day as a “crypto success story” in reality it was cancelled. See: https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens
Other so-called “blockchain” projects, such as IBM’s “hyperledger” are not actually blockchain – IBM has just borrowed that name and registered their own trademark: “IBM Blockchain®” When you examine what IBM calls “blockchain” it looks nothing like crypto’s version.
IBM’s version is centralized; it’s not permissionless; it’s not public, and there’s no evidence it’s “immutable” in the same manner as crypto blockchain. It’s just a marketing ploy to take advantage of the crypto/blockchain fad.
So if you ask somebody, “What makes blockchain, blockchain?” They’ll give you a list of answers that basically negate whatever IBM is claiming is blockchain, as being anything that resembles what crypto/blockchain people call “blockchain.”
Words mean things. If just labeling something “blockchain” without actually checking to see if it resembles the conventionally-known tech is ok, then we no longer have the ability convey legitimate ideas.
But more importantly, there’s insufficient evidence that any mission-critical apps are using the tech. There’s lots of name-dropping but nothing indicating this is anything more than prototypical. The reason for this is because we know, by design. blockchain is an inferior database system, hamstrung from its birth, abandoned decades ago by real engineers. I prove this in my documentary (see www.BlockchainII.com).
