The Transformation of Value with Cody Ellingham
Hello. I'm Cody Ellingham and this is The Transformation of Value – where I ask questions about Freedom, Bitcoin, and Creativity.www.thetransformationofvalue.com
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Paul Sheard is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help us all Prosper. As a financial markets economist Paul has extensive experience including previous roles as Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Chief Economist of Lehman Brothers, and Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Allen Farrington co-wrote Bitcoin Is Venice and Only The Strong Survive, and is a co-founder of Axiom, a Bitcoin-focused venture firm. We discuss the future of stablecoins and taproot assets.
A Half-Baked Thesis on Stablecoins by Allen Farrington - https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpqnwn7y4hqdtgxj9ygngkfy7drgze2qkpr002c4yj08wxhlut36eqqxnzde5xs6rjv3kxcer2vp3lc8ac9
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Dr. Murray Rudd is an environmental economics and policy researcher who has written extensively on the impact of proof of work and Bitcoin, including writing academic papers with Satoshi Action Education. We talk about institutional economics and transaction cost economics as well as other things that Murray is working on.
Dr. Murray Rudd - https://x.com/drmurrayrudd
Satoshi Action Education - https://www.satoshiaction.org/
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In a world of silence and screens, where the body hides and the voice is masked, what is our political power?
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Kim de Vos writes and talks about Bitcoin. He formerly hosted Alles voor Bitcoin, the independent, ad-free voice of Belgian Bitcoiners. Kim joins me to explore the state of the Bitcoin movement from the inside.
Kim de Vos / Alles Voor Bitcoin - https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/
Kim's Substack - https://substack.com/@allesvoorbitcoin
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Erik Cason is author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin. Erik is a regular speaker and essayist, focussing on the social, political, and philosophical aspects of Bitcoin.
Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin - https://cryptosovereignty.org/
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James Scaur is a prolific New Zealand Bitcoin entrepreneur and developer now living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. James recently won the bitcoin++ hackathon in Florianopolis with the project NostrPIX, enabling payments to anyone in Brazil using sats.
James Scaur Website - https://scaur.nz/
NostrPix - https://nostrpix.carrd.co/
Fred Dagg - We Don't Know How Lucky We Are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14
Rise - https://www.ri...
Anita Posch is a strategic Bitcoin adviser, educator, author and founder ofBitcoin for Fairness. She has travelled extensively throughout Africa and other parts of the world as a digital nomad to learn about how Bitcoins use cases are different in each region. In this episode we discuss her experience in Zimbabwe and Sub-Saharan Africa and how Bitcoin education can be shared to promote financial sovereignty.
Crack the Orange - h...
I catch up with Paul from Bitkiwi, who was the first ever guest on this show. We actually met in my old studio in Wellington during my trip back in New Zealand. We share a drink and a laugh as we talk about being back in New Zealand, the state of the world, Bitcoin, and all that has come to pass over the last few years.
Paul also shares more on the upcoming Bitkiwi events as well as their new Bitcoin marketplace project, Orange Page...
Where Are We Now? The Epidemic as Politics by Giorgio Agamben - https://amzn.to/4jc3Pyf
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Ian Meredith is the founder of Arlington Motorcycles, building compact Electric Motorcycles for the Streets here in New Zealand.
We talk about Ians story, how he has been able to deploy Bitcoin as capital to realise his dream of building the company, and how proof of work figures into what he does as an entrepreneur.
I did have a test ride of the Arlington A1 which was pretty awesome. The bikes are certified for road use in New Zeala...
Cody Ellingham's introduction talk at Bitkiwi Queenstown, New Zealand, March 2025.
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Andrew Wilson is an Author, Bitcoiner, and Professor of History of Christianity as well as host of The Disentanglement Podcast, exploring privacy tech and the surveillance state.
We set out to explore the political identity of the left and the right. These labels have come to define our modern world. But where do they come from? What underwrites it all? How can bridges be built between them?
From the French Revolution to the technolo...
Roger Huang is author of the book “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?”
We talk in-depth about China and Bitcoin and what is going on when it comes to Bitcoin mining bans, the Chinese Communist Party and the broader Chinese economy. We also unpick the various layers of optics and politics involved when talking about anything to do with China and how freedom and money play into all of this.
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Ketan is co-founder of Ministry of Nodes providing educational content and tutorials on how to run Bitcoin nodes and private and self-sovereign computing.
We talk about freedom, privacy tech, threat models and the journey to being more private and secure in the way we use the internet.
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Ministry of Nodes - https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/
Ministry of Nodes YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/ministryofnodes
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Carmen Lau is a former Hong Kong District Councillor who was forced to resign by the government and later fled Hong Kong to the UK where she lives in exile.
She is a pro-democracy and freedom advocate with the Hong Kong Democracy Council and a Freedom Fellow with the Human Rights Foundation and is wanted by the Hong Kong police with a $1 million Hong Kong dollar bounty being offered for information leading to her arrest.
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Bob Burnett is heavily involved in the Bitcoin mining industry, including being founder and CEO at Barefoot Mining and Board Member at Ocean.
We talk about Bob’s experience building personal computers in the 1990s and early 2000s in Japan, how those lessons apply to Bitcoin mining hardware today, and the manufacturing and geopolitical challenges and considerations for Bitcoin mining.
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Barefoot Mining -https://www.barefootmi...
I’m joined by my friend Simon James French, AKA SJF, a musician and creative and the first person I ever introduced to Bitcoin.
We talk about life in the fiat cities of London & Tokyo, what it means to create low-time preference music and art in a world of chaos and noise, and the importance of running your own business for a sense of self-sovereignty.
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Simon's Substack: https://ohayo.substack.com/
What is the link between Avocados and Bitcoin? Spoken word story by Cody Ellingham.
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