What Grinds My Gears
Latest Episodes
Episode 29: Money Printer Go BRRR
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss the options on the table, the policy responses (and lack thereof), and the implications of it all, exploring everything from deflationary crises to inflationary spirals.
Episode 28: Breaking Banks with Bitcoin
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss banking Bitcoin, what a bank really is, and whether or not we're just building the same thing in a different way.
Episode 27: Origin Myth: The Market and Marketing of Bitcoin
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss the cypherpunk mailing list to Occupy Wall Street, put bitcoin’s beginnings in context, and discuss their significance.
Episode 26: Death and Taxes
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss death and taxes.
Episode 25: Mesh Much? Telecommunications, Topology, and Tokens
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss the origins of mesh networking topologies and innovations in using cryptocurrencies to enhance security, facilitate more complex logical ordering, and incentivize resource sharing in these new networks.
Episode 24: Banning Bitcoin: The Long Arc of an Infinite Revolution
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss the brink of another type of Crypto War, the one over cryptocurrencies.
Episode 23: Price Predictions: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vol
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss recent run ups and retracements, and how the valuation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fit into the larger economic landscape.
Episode 22: Welcome to FaceCoin
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss why Facebook needs FaceCoin, how digital money in a digital world is changing the role of banks, and what does and doesn’t make sense when it comes to tech companies issuing their own tender.
Episode 21: Bonus Round: Blockchain Week Recap
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson provide a retrospective on years past and discuss how this year’s “Blockchain Week” differs.
Episode 20: ETF, F No?
Meltem Demirors and Jill Carlson discuss the history of pooled investment vehicles, why theyve grown exponentially over the last two decades, and why US firms are so fascinated by making bitcoin, whi