What Grinds My Gears
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What Grinds My Gears
From Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson, welcome to What Grinds My Gears, a podcast about the bizarre and buzzworthy happenings in the world of cryptocurrency. Each week, we delve into one key theme in crypto, and examine this theme through a broader financial, political, and cultural lens to learn fr...
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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 Pl...
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 di...
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 sta...
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 o...
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...
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...
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 an...
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...
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 M...
Episode 20: ETF, F No?
You can’t talk about bitcoin for ten minutes without having someone bemoan the lack of a bitcoin ETF. In this live episode, we talk about the history...
Episode 19: It’s All about DEX, Baby
Markets are the beating heart of the financial system. As new asset classes emerge and markets get built, the questions are often the same: who should...
Episode 18: Tarred and Tethered
Episode Description: What the heck is a tether and why is everyone always talking about it? This week, we untangle what’s going on with Tether, Bitfin...
Episode 17: Fact or FUD: Crypto in the Media
Media about crypto has been at best confusing and at worst blatantly and deliberately wrong. It bounces back and forth between utopian, unrealistic hy...
Episode 16: Beating the Market: A Game of Geeks and Greeks
How do you figure out if you’re any good at investing? How do you decide if you made the best choices possible in picking stocks, bonds, or crypto ass...
Episode 15: Fork Yourself
Forks, or chain splits, are some of the most dramatic events in cryptocurrency. In this episode we untangle how we think about them. Are they like sto...
Episode 14: This is Water: A Story about Liquidity
This week, we dive into liquidity, a word whose blatant abuse really grinds our gears! We break down what liquidity *actually* means in markets, for c...
Episode 13: You’ve Been Liquidated
This week we are talking about prediction markets. Tune in to hear about the history of prediction markets, their applications across governance and f...
Episode 12: The ICO Ice Age: Back to Banking
This week, we delve into crypto seasons and how winter isn’t actually winter at all but the dawn of a new age. New species are emerging, and old speci...
Episode 11: Alex, I’ll Take “Blockchain” for $500
Innovation theater: a performance enacted by a big corporate incumbent to demonstrate it is still fresh, innovative, and on the cutting edge, often wi...
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 tha...
Episode 9: Initial Country Offering
If you turned on CNBC at any point during 2018, you’ll know that lots of startups and entrepreneurs used initial coin offerings (ICOs) to raise fundin...
Episode 8: Living on Borrowed DAI
One of the key innovations of bitcoin is that it solves something called the double spend problem. This means that every bitcoin is provably scarce —...
Episode 7: Money Makes the World Go Round
In past episodes, hosts Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson have touched on crypto business models, crypto asset classifications, and governance as both...
Episode 6: Crypto Cartels
In this episode, hosts Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson cover the nebulous and thorny topic of crypto governance mechanisms and the merging of politic...
Episode 5: Venezuela: Living in a Powder Keg
One of crypto’s favorite narratives has always been that it can help people in places where their local currency is being debased. Venezuela, with its...
Episode 4: Square Peg Round Hole
The story around crypto is broken. For many investors crypto has been about pattern matching, but the search for the “next Bitcoin” or the “next Ether...
Episode 3: DeFi, Same as the OldFi
Crypto revolution or evolution? Regulatory arbitrage, cat and mouse games, and decentralization theater are all core parts of how the cryptocurrency i...
Episode 2: Welcome to Bagel World
What are all these cryptocurrencies actually worth? We break down a number of perspectives on how to unpack this issue. From balance sheet issues to l...
Episode 1: An Unfettered Orgy of Capitalism
We put the crypto bubble in the context of the broader markets. Are we entering a global macro unwind? Is the decline cryptocurrencies just the canary...