Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 274. [Update: For an article based on the transcript, see “Nobody Owns Bitcoin,” StephanKinsella.com (Sept. 20, 2019) Update: See KOL395 | Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection (PFS 2022).] This is my presentation to the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society on Sunday, Sept. […]

KOL273 | Peter Quinones Interview on Argumentation Ethics

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 273. This is my appearance as a guest on Episode 302: “Stephan Kinsella Explains Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics“, of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast, by host Pete Quinones (formerly known as “Mance Rayder”), hosted by The Libertarian Institute. From his shownotes: Many libertarian/anarchists have heard of the concept of […]

KOL272 | Ernie Hancock Freedom’s Phoenix on Reputation Rights, Defamation, IP

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 272. This is my appearance on the Ernie Hancock “Declare your Independence” show for Aug. 21 (Hour 2).  We discussed defamation law and reputation rights, and some related matters. Related links: Rothbard, Knowledge, True and False Block, Defending the Undefendable, ch. 7 “The Slanderer and Libeler” David Kelley vs. Nat Hentoff […]

KOL271 | Let’s Talk ETC! Libertarianism, Anarcho-Capitalism & Blockchains

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 271. This is my appearance on Let’s Talk ETC! #87 (June 24, 2019), with host Dr. Christian Seberino. From his shownotes: Stephan Kinsella is a Houston patent lawyer and libertarian advocate. He joins me for an informative discussion about libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism and related blockchain legal issues. Topics addressed include how […]

KOL268 | Bob Murphy Show: Law Without the State, and the Illegitimacy of IP

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 268. I was a guest on Episode 39 of the excellent podcast The Bob Murphy Show, discussing “Law Without the State, and the Illegitimacy of IP (Intellectual Property)”. A few people have told me this particular discussion of IP was one of my best–thorough and systematic. No doubt aided by […]

KOL267 | Sal the Agorist Interview: Bitcoin, Copyright, Craig Wright

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 267. I was a guest today on Sal Mayweather’s “The Agora” podcast, ep. 48 (Soundcloud version below). From his shownotes: We discussed Craig’s copyright application of the Bitcoin White Paper and whether they lend any credence to his claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Does a copyright application imply that CSW […]

KOL266 | Did You Know Crypto Podcast, Ep. 36: Bitcoin Patent Trolling

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 266. This is my appearance in Episode 36 of the Did You Know Crypto Podcast, with host Dustin. We talked “about the possibility of using patents as an attack vector on Bitcoin.” As Dustin summarized in his show notes: Stephan and I talk about… What is a Patent? Differences in […]

KOL264 | Disenthrall: Stephan Kinsella on Tim Pool Subverse and Trademark

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 264. I appeared today on the Disenthrall.me Youtube channel, host Patrick Smith, to discuss the trademark issues between Tim Pool and his company media Subverse, and StudioFOW which has a popular crowdsourced porn video game coming out also called Subverse. We touched a bit on bitcoin ownership, patent and copyright, […]