CodyEllingham

Creative & Host of the Transformation of Value Podcast.

Last Notes

2025-08-16 14:00:09 UTC

Photography of unplaces. Hong Kong.
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2025-06-28 08:44:53 UTC

What Happens When Money Becomes Morality? With Mike Brock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCN5SMKkB0
Mike Brock writes extensively about democracy, liberalism, and what he sees as the decline of the American Republic Mike has an extensive tech & Bitcoin background formerly working as an executive at Cash App as well as being involved with various open-source projects.
[Other ways to listen.](https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/what-happens-when-money-becomes-morality-with-mike-brock)
https://stacker.news/items/1017696

2024-10-05 11:34:07 UTC

The headline from The Times Jan 3, 2009 "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" was inscribed in the Bitcoin genesis block. But what I've just noticed was the line above about Israel and Gaza. History repeats. Central banking and war go hand in hand.
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2024-09-23 00:09:12 UTC

🎧 What could Bitcoin mean for New Zealand at a national level?
Samson Mow is the former Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream and current CEO at JAN3, focussed on Nation-state Bitcoin adoption as well as developing the Aqua Bitcoin wallet.
Samson is well known for advising various governments and heads of state about Bitcoin adoption, including in El Salvador with their plan to issue Bitcoin Bonds.
We discuss the game theory and approaches to nation-state Bitcoin Adoption, including the Bitcoin mining and energy story and how smaller countries like New Zealand can approach Bitcoin at both a grass-roots and state level.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/nation-state-bitcoin-adoption-with-samson-mow

2024-09-20 14:03:54 UTC

🎧 Latest pod is out.
Andrew M. Bailey @npub1yez…awc7 is a Professor and co-author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical case for Bitcoin.
We discuss the book’s approach to communicating the idea of Bitcoin from a global perspective, providing strong arguments for Bitcoin’s value as a net good for the world.
We also talk about the history of political philosophy and how ideas spread as well as the new interdisciplinary Bitcoin Research Institute at the University of Wyoming where Andrew will be taking on a role as Professor of Philosophy.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/resistance-money-with-andrew-m-bailey

2024-09-18 00:16:58 UTC

Oh, and GM!

2024-09-01 01:46:47 UTC

2024-08-30 03:32:53 UTC

🎧 Latest episode is out.
Don Brash was the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand from 1988 until 2002. Don was also a Member of Parliament, and leader of the New Zealand National Party.
We discuss Don’s work at the Reserve Bank, which came at a pivotal time alongside the economic reforms of the late 80s.
Don shares the history of the famous 0 - 2% inflation target that he helped implement, and we talk more broadly about the state’s understanding of inflation, its causes, Bitcoin, and the role of Central Banking.
We go on to talk about Don’s current focus looking at both the geopolitical situation New Zealand faces in-between the US and China, as well as his work with Hobson’s pledge looking at democracy issues closer to home.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/reserve-bank-of-new-zealand-inflation-with-don-brash

2024-08-14 02:56:59 UTC

Latest pod is out:
I talk with Umi Miyahara, Business Development Lead at @npub1mu7…j5cl.
Breez is a self-custodial Lightning-as-a-Service company bringing peer-to-peer bitcoin payments to apps and services globally with the free and open-source Breez SDK.
We talk about Umi’s journey through traditional finance and fintech startups, her Bitcoin story, and the evolution of the Lightning Network.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/breez-and-lightning-with-umi-miyahara

2024-07-31 13:45:53 UTC

Are you working on Bitcoin in New Zealand? Our next Kiwi Bitcoin Builders video call is on August 25th. Please reach out if you are interested in joining!
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/kiwi-bitcoin-builders
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2024-02-28 05:26:43 UTC

🎧 Latest Pod is out:
Andrew L. Wilson is an Author and Professor of History of Christianity as well as host of The Disentanglement Podcast, exploring privacy tech and the surveillance state.
We discuss in detail severals books about the origin of the state and money, including James C Scott’s, “Seeing Like A State”, Rees-Mogg and Davidson’s “The Sovereign Individual”, and David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years”.
We discover some interesting parallels between the unconfiscatable nature of Bitcoin and the origins of state power with its ability to tax easily countable grain crops versus something like a potato which grows underground.
We also talk about the history of the printing press as it relates to inflation within the church, and Andrew's personal proof of work undertaking a 1000-mile pilgrimage in the footsteps of Martin Luther from Germany to Rome.
Listen now:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/state-money-and-pilgrimages-with-andrew-l-wilson