The CowShed Podcast: Recent Episodes
CowShed.
A podcast where we discuss the future of Bitcoin, crypto and blockchain. Suitable for anyone open-minded and curious.
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Jason Maier is the author of "A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin" where he looks at Bitcoin through the perspective of someone on the political left.
Bitcoin has typically not been embraced by the left, but several proponents like Jason are on a mission to change that.
This podcast is also available in video:
→ YouTube: https://youtu.be/_UD7aV8RmpI
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
Jason Maier:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cjasonmaier
→ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Progressives-Case-Bitcoin-Equitable-Peaceful/dp/B0C1J3DC2X
David Belle is the founder of the Macrodesiac, a newsletter that breaks down the complicated world of macroeconomics into entertaining and digestible articles.
It has 8000+ readers and David has 55,000+ followers on his Twitter, where he shares his macro thoughts.This podcast is also available in video:
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Na0HTK7nLg
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
David Belle:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidbelle_→ Macrodesiac: https://www.macrodesiac.com/
Susie spent much of her life as a Financial Systems Analyst, before leaving the 9-5 rate race and to do her own thing. She’s written some great articles for City AM about Central Bank Digital Currencies and bitcoin mining's environmental effects, and has just started a new role as Head of Mining and Sustainability for the new Bitcoin Policy UK. In this convo we debate the long-term effects of AI before digging into CBDCs and Bitcoin Mining.
This podcast is also available in video:
→ YouTube: https://youtu.be/jdS12_wwahY
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
Susie Ward:
→ Twitter:https://twitter.com/DecentraSuze
David Hay is Chief Investment Officer at Evergreen Gavekal, an independent investment advisory firm, and writes an excellent macro newsletter, The Haymaker, for over 14,000 readers. He has over 45 years of experience in the investment markets and has an amazing ability to see the larger picture, which we dig into in this episode.This podcast is also available in video:→ YouTube: https://youtu.be/trOF5DqRnIUCowShed:→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUKDavid Hay:→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Haymaker_0→ The Haymaker: https://haymaker.substack.com/
Greg Foss has 32 years experience in the bond market as a trader and portfolio manager and is a legend in the Bitcoin space. He understands macro math and risk management better than most. And in this episode, he breaks down what the hell is going on in the world and how to protect yourself from the inevitable fiat crisis.This podcast is also available in video:→ YouTube: https://youtu.be/OSIQCIWsnfMCowShed:→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUKGreg Foss:→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FossGregfoss
Daniel Batten is a climate activist, ESG analyst, and ClimateTech investor.He’s in the process of setting up his 3rd fund, which is investing in an unexpected technology with the power to fight climate change - Bitcoin Mining.
This podcast is also available in video:→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ZM8ulTlcYCowShed:→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUKDaniel Batten:→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DSBatten→ Research: https://batcoinz.com/
Robert Green has worked as an executive, a producer, and a big picture strategist in marketing, film, television and digital content for over 20 years. He has a lot of expertise working with large banks and this led to him being headhunted by some of the largest crypto projects back in 2017. He quickly found himself at the epicentre, attending summits with the most powerful people in crypto. However, what he saw soon had him running for the exits. Some atrocities were so bad that he has even put some people in jail. This podcast is also available in video: → YouTube: https://youtu.be/om0LWyvTMcwCowShed: → Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk → Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK Robert Green: → LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertogreen/
Ivan's mother was murdered in a tragic accident. This indirectly led him down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, and then to Nostr, a decentralised social media which has been gaining momentum over the last 6 months.
CowShed:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DOCowShed
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
Ivan Makedonski:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nackoo2000
Allen Farrington is an ex-Investment Manager from Baillie Gifford and author of the subliminal book Bitcoin is Venice. He has an impressively deep knowledge of economics, so I took this opportunity to dig deep into the weeds of why the finance sector benefits disproportionately from the current monetary.CowShed: → Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK → YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DOCowShed→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
Allen Farrington: → Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
Siam Kidd is an ex-RAF pilot, trader and successful founder. Alongside his business and trading, he runs The Realistic Trader and The Wealth Action Plan, where he teaches people how to build wealth. He is a man who loves to dig into first principles, and if you want to understand how you can realistically generate wealth outside your 9-5, this is a must watch.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/n-nJSAUhrRM
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
Siam Kidd:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SiamKidd
→ TheRealisticTrader: https://therealistictrader.siamkidd.io/
→ TheWealthActionPlan: https://thewap.siamkidd.io/
Jordan Walker is the founder of the largest Bitcoin conference in the UK, the Bitcoin Collective. In this episode, we dig into how it all started, his biggest lessons, and how you can start an amazing event too.
Sidenote: The location of the next Bitcoin Collective is not yet confirmed, despite the mention of London.
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
Jordan Walker:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JayW132
→ The Bitcoin Collective: https://bitcoincollective.co.uk/
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Jeff Booth is one of Bitcoins greatest thinkers. A man who needs no introduction to anyone in this space. In this episode, we dig into how he build one of Vancouver’s biggest home-grown tech successes, raising more than $100 million in venture capital and employing hundreds of tech workers. We discuss the biggest lessons he's learnt, AI, The 4th Turning, advice to younger generations, entrepreneurship and so much more.
CowShed:
→ Website
→ YouTube
Jeff Booth:
→ Finding Signals In a Noisy World
Having worked as the Global Creative Strategy Director at Microsoft for 10 years and then as the Brand Strategy Director at BuzzFeed. David has mastered the art of storytelling. Using it to reimagine how start-ups communicate with their customers. You can now find him at CUDOS - an innovative cloud computing company - where he is the CMO.
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeh98jc0V0Q6_ZNSUyIG_Dw
David Pugh-Jones:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidpj
David Brickell has over 18 years of macro sales and trading experience working at the Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Royal Bank of Canada, and he was actually at Lehman Brothers during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. He is currently head of institutional sales for Paradigm where he sees the institutional money flows in real-time which gives him some interesting insights into the crypto market. In this episode, we dig into his macro framework and how he sees the current dynamics playing out. He’s a lone wolf on a few of his forecasts, which made us all the keener to speak with him.
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeh98jc0V0Q6_ZNSUyIG_Dw
→ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cowshed-podcast/id1656936109
David Pugh-Jones:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidpj
Joe Nakamoto is a research and interview journalist for one of the biggest crypto media companies in the world, Cointelegraph.
Topics:
0:00 - Intro
1:37 - Corruption in the system
15:33 - How can we solve corruption
20:33 - The situation in El Salvador
39:12 - Who will adopt BTC next?
42:18 - White elephant projects in Africa
45:02 - Barriers in Africa’s bitcoin adoption path
47:57 - Fedimint and wallet security
51:01 - The Lightning Network
56:03 - The problem with dark mode
1:00:06 - How to drive BTC adoption
1:05:28 - What if bitcoin fails?
1:12:54 - Why Joe focuses only on bitcoin?
1:18:23 - Outro:
CowShed:
→ Website: https://www.cowshed.org.uk
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CowShedUK
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeh98jc0V0Q6_ZNSUyIG_Dw
→ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cowshed-podcast/id1656936109
Joe Nakamoto:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeNakamoto
Irfon Watkins has founded numerous successful businesses.
In this episode, we discuss his two blockchain projects. One is a tokenised carbon market place and the other is an all-in-one platform for musicians to help them earn a living. Both projects were born from very unusual beginnings and have gone on to become very successful with thousands of users.
We discuss the journey of both projects, the lessons he's learned and what advice he has for builders during a bear market.
CowShed Website
CowShed Twitter
Irfon Twitter
His Blockchain Projects:
Dovu
Amplify.Link
During the 90s, Jason was working for Microsoft to help them drive the adoption of the internet.
Jason describes what it was like from both a technological and cultural point of view and what the parallels are to Bitcoin today.
Who got it wrong, and who got it right? Why?
We also look into the environmental effects of Bitcoin mining and how it could actually become a carbon negative industry.
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Links mentioned during the show:
1994 TODAY SHOW “What is the internet anyway?”
Famous Newsweek article by Clifford Stohl “Why cyberspace isn’t, and never will be, Nirvana” 26/2/95
Famous Bill Gates and Dave Letterman clip from 1995 – Bill (badly) explains the internet
InfoWorld Article by Robert Metcalf (who invested Ethernet) “Internet will collapse in 1996”
Daily Mail, December 2000 “Internet may just be a passing fad as millions give up on it”
Paul Krugman “the internet will have no greater effect on the world economy than the fax machine”
Visionary – David Bowies 1999 BBC interview