ioRadio #47: Anti-Bitcoin Goldbug Attacks Crypto Cult At Their Convention

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.

Listen/download the audio podcast here: https://podcast.ioradio.org/IOR47.mp3

IORadio #22: STOP Comparing Crypto and Blockchain to the Internet!

In this episode we tackle one of our biggest tech pet peeves: Comparing crypto & blockchain to the “early Internet” as a way to suggest blockchain has the same potential as the Internet did, but merely “takes time” to become accepted as something essential and useful.

This is a flat out delusion. And we discuss the details of how and why it’s a dreadful false equivalence to suggest crypto is in any way, comparable to the Internet.