What Grinds My Gears Podcast
1) Episode 10: Surveillance Capitalism
This week, we're diving deep into the rise of surveillance capitalism, it’s slow and steady creep into the heart of the crypto community, and what that might mean for our cypherpunk dreams of privacy....Show More
2) 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 Plague and project into an increasingly sci-fi futur...Show More
3) 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 banking Bitcoin, what a bank really is, and whethe...Show More
4) 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 started. Often these legends are shrouded in mystery....Show More
5) 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 of people who have dodged their taxes. In this epis...Show More
6) 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 to the internet lies an intricate maze of physica...Show More
7) 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 why the fight was long from over. This week, we di...Show More
8) 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 and we explore how the valuation of bitcoin and othe...Show More
Episode 23: Price Predictions: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vol
56:20 | Jul 9th, 2019
9) 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. And then, 100 years later, Facebook’s Libra! In ...Show More
10) 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 Meltem provide a retrospective on years past and di...Show More