MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor thinks that Bitcoin (BTC) is more like digital property than digital currency. He was speaking on the July 15 edition of the Coin Stories podcast with host Natalie Brunell. Asked if he thought that Bitcoin was a threat to the United States dollar, Saylor replied: “I would call it a digital property; it’s a threat to property; it’s particularly a threat to other forms of property. Gold is property; real estate is property. I don’t think the United States government is threatened by real estate or buildings or companies or gold.” The comments follow on from …

RIF, the utility token for smart contract network RSK, shot up over 30% in price after an appearance by its founder on the Jan. 13 edition of The Pomp Podcast. The gain equates to a $36 million increase in market cap for RIF, most of which has occurred in the last 12 hours. $RIF up 20% now and it's just the beginning. Building infrastructure on top of #bitcoin The most secure network in the world. — TradingToolCrypto (@RealTradingTool) January 14, 2021 RIF, short for “RSK Infrastructure Framework,” is the token used as payment for decentralized infrastructure services which operate under …

Popular day trader and founder of Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy revealed that he bought $1.25 million worth of Bitcoin even though he thinks its “just one big Ponzi scheme” in an interview with crypto podcaster Anthony Pompliano. Portnoy summed up his view of crypto trading as: “You get in, and you just have to not be the one left holding the bag.” The sport and pop culture celebrity, whose day trading exploits have become hugely popular during the coronavirus pandemic, only recently delved into the world of crypto. He entered the Bitcoin (BTC) market in mid-August, following a meeting with …

Celebrity and podcaster Adam Curry described the importance of Bitcoin (BTC) to podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan. He posited the asset's importance amid an internet-based world which thrives on personal data sales, banking activities, and centralized control. "The apocalypse is coming, and you're gonna need a Bitcoin — at least one," Curry said in a Sept. 8 interview with Rogan. "Are you a Bitcoin salesman, Adam Curry?" Rogan responded, put off at first by the comment. "I was very anti-Bitcoin, until I sold a s***load of them at like $900," Curry said, noting he acquired a stack of the asset …

A known gold enthusiast, financial commentator Peter Schiff said Bitcoin (BTC) holders are not actually looking to the asset as a storage of wealth — one of the most commonly touted use cases surrounding the coin. "I buy gold as a way to store my wealth, as a conservative place to keep liquidity, as opposed to keeping it in dollars or some other fiat currency," Schiff told interviewer Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, during a July 17 episode. "I do think that when people are buying Bitcoin, they're really not looking for that," Schiff added. Bitcoin …

Known for their regulation-friendly outlook within the crypto industry, Gemini exchange founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss hold a hybrid approach to privacy and government rules. The twin brothers explained in a May 22 podcast interview with Peter McCormack that crypto adoption comes a need for some degree of regulation. Cameron added: “The independence and sovereignty around crypto is unmatched with any technology before, but the onramps have to have an element of thoughtful regulation.” Zero regulation is not the answer Labeled as the 15th and 16th most influential people in the crypto space, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss dove into Bitcoin …

In a recent interview with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Julia Cheek, CEO of home medical testing company Everlywell, called for major reform in the U.S. lab testing sector. “I’ve been fighting this battle for five years, talking about how lab testing is broken and Americans are getting screwed,” Cheek said in a May 19 podcast interview with Pompliano, adding: “Lab testing is cheap, it can be affordable, you should know how much your tests are going to cost, period. [...] There is no excuse for that, especially as you’re having to pay for it out of pocket more and more.” Everlywell …

In a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Elon Musk bashed inflation — a problem that Bitcoin (BTC) fixes. Some of the current United States population sees the economy as an ever-flowing gift basket that will continue providing essentials even while the country is shut down from its regular workflow, Musk told Rogan on Thursday. "This notion though, that you can just sort of send checks out to everybody and things will be fine, is not true," Musk said referring to stimulus money the U.S. government sent to citizens. The government cannot logically sustain its money printing efforts In an …

Crypto analyst and Twitter personality, PlanB, recently said Bitcoin is serious business as he recapped the asset's journey over the last decade. “This thing is not a toy anymore," PlanB told Peter McCormack in a May 1 podcast episode. "It’s maybe not an asset anymore as well," he said, adding, "It is going to be much bigger than that.” PlanB created a concept for Bitcoin's growth compared with its supply PlanB is known around the crypto space for his stock-to-flow model. The model takes into account Bitcoin's block reward, or current inflation, and halving events, factoring those into the asset's …

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that issuance on the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade will be drastically reduced in a podcast interview with POV Crypto called “Internet Money”. Discussing some of the differences between Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), Buterin explained why the team chose Proof of Stake as the upgraded consensus mechanism: “One of the reasons why we’re doing Proof of Stake is because we want to greatly reduce the issuance. So in the specs for ETH 2.0 I think we have put out a calculation that the theoretical maximum issuance would be something like 2 million a year if literally …

In a podcast interview with tech researcher, Lex Fridman, Twitter CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, referred to Bitcoin's white paper as "Poetry." "I think the Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the most seminal works of computer science in the last 20 or 30 years," Dorsey said in Fridman's April 24 podcast episode. "It's poetry," he added. Dorsey has talked about Bitcoin before Ranked 11th on Cointelegraph's top 100 most influential people in crypto and blockchain, Dorsey, who is also CEO for payments company, Square, has often spoken positively of Bitcoin. "It was something that was born on the internet, that …

Check out this week’s episode of the Bad Crypto podcast, which cites a bunch of great Cointelegraph reporting to generate an hour-long episode of crypto audio news. This week’s episode covers a wide variety of topics per usual. There’s the ever-developing story of BTC living life above $10,000. And wouldn’t you know it, it turns out the CIA has been far more capable at decryption than you may have previously thought. Binance’s CZ confirms the impending launch of a cloud platform, and there are exciting stablecoin developments taking place in Canada right now. This only scratches the surface of what …