{"id":17607,"date":"2021-02-25T18:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe79b0132697"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:07:20","slug":"interview-james-obeirne-on-bitnomial-and-bitcoin-dependencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/interview-james-obeirne-on-bitnomial-and-bitcoin-dependencies","title":{"rendered":"Interview: James O&#8217;Beirne On Bitnomial And Bitcoin Dependencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-magazine-podcast-template.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7rZSpQpozgg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bitcoin Technology &amp; Economics w\/ James O&#039;Beirne\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rZSpQpozgg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Listen To This Episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bitcoin-magazine-podcast\/id1459884105#episodeGuid=84b2ce0d-77e2-4ab5-af16-46067f670bc7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/502m6e3BLFFV3rszQsMS3q?si=AZG5s12vSsylYFDFdfD91w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9iaXRjb2lubWFnYXppbmUubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M\/episode\/ODRiMmNlMGQtNzdlMi00YWI1LWFmMTYtNDYwNjdmNjcwYmM3?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAcQuIEEahcKEwiQ2KqzyIXvAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Libsyn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+Rp4oPD7G0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For this episode of the &#8220;Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,&#8221; host Christian Keroles sat down with Bitcoin developer and economist James O\u2019Beirne.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Beirne is a Bitcoin Core developer with very unique experiences across disciplines, being both a Bitcoin Core contributor as well as a learned macroeconomics scholar. He took Keroles through his journey from Chaincode Labs in New York to DG Lab and now, to his current project, Bitnomial bitcoin derivatives exchange.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Beirne also walked through his designing of a basic command line interface for Coldcard, which he built with no outside dependencies. They closed out the conversation by discussing O&#8217;Beirne\u2019s experiences with trading during the depth of the 2020 economic fears and why his experiences with gold solidified his position that bitcoin is an order of magnitude improvement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being a long-time libertarian and Austrian economist<\/li>\n<li>Learning Bitcoin<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Beirne&#8217;s history in the Bitcoin space<\/li>\n<li>Trading bitcoin in 2020<\/li>\n<li>Trading gold In 2020<\/li>\n<li>Why bitcoin is better than gold<\/li>\n<li>Why dependancies are bad for Bitcoin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James O&#8217;Beirne joined the &#8220;Bitcoin Magazine Podcast&#8221; to discuss Bitcoin Core development, bitcoin vs. gold and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1826,869,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-17607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-bitcoin-magazine-podcast","9":"tag-bitnomial","10":"tag-video"},"author_data":{"id":2520,"name":"Bitcoin Magazine","nicename":"bitcoin-magazine","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-magazine-logo.jpeg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bitcoin-magazine-podcast-template.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}