CodyEllingham
Cody Ellingham | The Transformation of Value

Creative & Host of the Transformation of Value Podcast.

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2026-03-18 12:39:48 GMT

"The threat of war had revived old anxieties about paper money, inspired a desire for the tangible, the immutable."
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2025-11-11 17:39:23 GMT

🎧 Taiwan sits at the heart of global geopolitics, caught between history, identity, and rising tensions with China. In this episode, Chris Horton takes us inside the island’s struggle for survival and what it means for the world today.
Chris is a journalist based in Taiwan since 2015, covering the country’s foreign relations, domestic politics, economy, and society. Chris has released his first book: Ghost Nation: The story of Taiwan and its struggle for survival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOuRzWvKT3A
Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/why-taiwan-matters-more-than-ever-with-chris-horton

2025-10-20 08:19:40 GMT

🎧 For over 20 years Stiven Kerestegian has been exploring questions of design, innovation, and disruption, working with some of the world’s biggest brands including Microsoft, LEGO, and recently as Head of Global Innovation at IKEA.
But since discovering Bitcoin in 2017 everything has changed, Stiven has turned his focus towards applying design thinking to this new form of money, and how we might use it to build a more open and resilient financial system for the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ocL4XvdFNE
Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/can-we-design-bitcoin-for-a-billion-people-with-stiven-kerestegian

2025-10-17 11:13:14 GMT

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Is that Sam Altman in the wardrobe?

2025-09-03 09:08:50 GMT

Why does Bitcoin struggle to find its place in the real economy of supply chains, factories, and things? What role does credit play in building the economy, and could a new layer on top of Bitcoin be the missing piece?
Hubertus Hofkirchner is an economist and entrepreneur from Austria. Hubertus is a key figure in developing the Bitcredit Protocol, an open-source initiative focussed on building a flexible credit money layer on top of Bitcoin for enabling businesses to finance working capital needs, using bills of exchange and ecash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG4Lmv_uScM
Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/where-are-the-bitcoin-supply-chains-with-hubertus-hofkirchner

2025-08-28 13:54:55 GMT

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Cool!

2025-08-27 09:54:15 GMT

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I think you nailed it. "We may save and think long term" ... but we are not as motivated to actually act with that Bitcoin capital and invest it in productive businesses.
If I read their argument correctly, this is one of the reasons no supply chains or factories are being built on Bitcoin standards - the price is too volatile, even if it is increasing in value.
My new factory's suppliers and employees risk a 20% bonus or a 20% haircut which is just too much risk for their balance sheet, so we end up settling the contract in fiat!
It may well be a temporary phase, but interesting to study.

2025-08-23 05:12:49 GMT

🎧 Bitcoin Mass Adoption Vs Parallel Resistance | Cody Ellingham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5zk0GWreg
What do we mean when we talk about mass adoption of Bitcoin? Is it even possible? Or is something like parallel resistance more likely?
[Other ways to listen](https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/bitcoin-mass-adoption-vs-parallel-resistance).
https://stacker.news/items/1090854

2025-08-23 02:11:38 GMT

🎧 Something that I've been thinking about - Bitcoin Mass Adoption Vs Parallel Resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5zk0GWreg
Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/bitcoin-mass-adoption-vs-parallel-resistance

2025-08-16 14:00:09 GMT

Photography of unplaces. Hong Kong.
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2025-08-14 14:46:09 GMT

My hippie friends ask, “Why do we need money?” but the real question is, “Who controls the money?”

2025-08-14 14:30:04 GMT

Photography of unplaces. Hong Kong.
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2025-08-09 06:19:19 GMT

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Well done getting this out there.

2025-07-24 11:14:08 GMT

Running A Marathon In North Korea + Arrested In China With Johan Nylander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXfd2iCqbtU
🎧 I had the opportunity to sit down with journalist and Amazon best-selling author Johan Nylander.
Johan shares with me why running is important to him, and how he ended up running marathons in North Korea and Mongolia.
He also opens up for the first time publicly about his experience getting arrested in Xinjiang, Western China, while reporting on the oppression that the Muslim population faces there.
This episode is a must-watch. We tackle some bigger questions about freedom, the role of journalism, technology, and why it is important to go and see the world with your own eyes.
[Other ways to listen](https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/running-a-marathon-in-north-korea-arrested-in-china-with-johan-nylander)
https://stacker.news/items/1052375

2025-07-04 12:04:46 GMT

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These are very nice.

2025-06-28 15:37:36 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
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2025-06-28 07:55:28 GMT

🎧 Listen Now: Mike Brock writes 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCN5SMKkB0
Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/what-happens-when-money-becomes-morality-with-mike-brock

2025-06-24 13:38:06 GMT

Magic Theater- Entrance Not For Everybody- For Madmen Only!
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2025-06-21 00:40:48 GMT

🎧 I talk with Paul Knight , a city planner, architectural designer, and Bitcoiner. We discuss architecture and how money and economic forces shape the form of cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nruF1ZzD3ik
Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/how-do-economic-forces-shape-cities-with-paul-knight

2025-05-24 12:01:07 GMT

"Like that real China, this kid was a victim, a victim of communism."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-164281934

2025-05-19 14:06:15 GMT

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Other ways to listen: https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/what-is-institutional-economics-with-dr-murray-rudd

2025-05-19 14:05:29 GMT

🎧 Latest episode is out with @DrMurrayRudd. We talk about institutional economics and transaction cost economics: What are the social contexts and dynamics that shape the formation of firms and business structures?
https://youtu.be/U1pWIOSG2U8

2025-05-14 02:53:34 GMT

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Other ways to listen:
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/the-ghost-in-the-shell-having-voice-in-the-age-of-silence-with-cody-ellingham

2025-05-14 02:53:11 GMT

🎧 In a world of silence and screens, where the body hides and the voice is masked, what is our political power?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTo2XMq7yaQ

2025-04-28 06:08:47 GMT

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Hey I have tried changing the zap address, could you try again and see if it works please? I am not sure what is going on.

2025-04-28 00:37:47 GMT

What is Cryptosovereignty? With Erik Cason & Cody Ellingham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0w5mE_434
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.
[Other ways to listen here](https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/what-is-cryptosovereignty-with-erik-cason)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/965017

2025-04-21 02:32:03 GMT

🎧 James Scaur (@nprofile…emka) is a prolific New Zealand Bitcoin entrepreneur and developer now living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. James recently won the bitcoin++ hackathon in Florianópolis with the project NostrPIX, enabling payments to anyone in Brazil using sats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZR5vpVq94

2025-04-04 03:55:44 GMT

This thing really is "picking up". I feel like something is going on with this amount of MSM co-ordination. Who is behind the curtain? Who are the Bitcoiners with their citadels?@nprofile…vg68
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2025-02-26 07:20:31 GMT

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We just had a conversation. Can you elaborate on the issues you see? Is there someone else I need to talk with?

2025-02-18 06:06:19 GMT

🎧 I am joined by 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.
We talk about freedom and self-determination and importantly what it means to lose freedoms that you once had.
We also touch on China and the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/why-am-i-wanted-by-the-hong-kong-police-with-carmen-lau

2025-02-18 06:05:35 GMT

The world's second hardest money. #misterdonut
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2024-11-02 10:06:31 GMT

🎧 Latest pod.
I am joined by Alex Martynov, a leadership coach based in Prague originally from Ukraine. Alex founded the first website in Ukraine dedicated to Austrian economics and libertarianism and he also has an interest in Bitcoin and Freedom technology.
We discuss the big questions of purpose, self-actualisation, and meaning making as well as explore the nature of liberty, and what is meant by the idea of the good life.
We also talk about how psychology can be applied not only to individuals but to states and societies and the complex relationship people may have with the idea of freedom.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/finding-freedom-and-purpose-with-alex-martynov

2024-10-29 03:12:23 GMT

🎧 Latest pod is out. I talk with Sovereign Origin ( @npub15tk…nhq4 ) about his concept FITS (Financially Independent, Time Sovereign) a new alternative to the traditional FIRE movement (Financially Independent, Retire Early).
While both approaches aim to escape the “rat race,” FITS redefines the pursuit of financial independence through the lens of Bitcoin, focusing on sovereignty over one’s time with a unique perspective towards wealth, work, and life.
We had a great talk about the FITS concept, exploring some of the technical aspects, as well as some of the challenges inherent in the traditional FIRE approach which is built on the premise of the ongoing growth of the stock market and ultimately is not truely independent because the state can always come and turn off or confiscate your retirement fund – Something they can’t do with Bitcoin.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/financially-independent-time-sovereign-with-sovereign-origin

2024-10-18 05:48:12 GMT

🎧 Latest pod is out.
James Pierog is co-founder and CEO of Bitcoin Prediction Market, a new company back by Bitcoin startup accelerator Wolf, enabling bets on real-world events using the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
We explore what a prediction market is, why Bitcoin is the perfect medium for this, and what new forms of crowd intelligence through prediction markets could mean in an increasingly complex world.
Along the way we discuss the intersection of philosophy and mathematics, the wisdom of the crowd, AI, and the challenge of dealing with rapid change.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/bitcoin-prediction-market-with-james-pierog

2024-10-03 04:13:32 GMT

gm.

2024-09-24 13:59:26 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
https://m.primal.net/LAZF.jpg

2024-09-22 13:17:25 GMT

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Thank you!

2024-09-18 09:48:48 GMT

I am reading The Sovereign Individual again. Has anyone else been reading it? Some truth bombs that stand out:
1. Is anarchy the world order already? There is no global power, only competing states and interests and the logic of violence.
2. Politics is downstream of technology, mass democracy is a product of mass production, along with mass media
3. Voting is a proxy for military violence
4. What is it that makes people believe in the legitimacy of democratic institutions? No other organisation or business is run this way, when you understand the logic of violence in the industrial age it becomes clear.

2024-09-18 00:16:58 GMT

Oh, and GM!

2024-09-18 00:16:38 GMT

"It's OK to overthrow an unjust King."

2024-09-14 16:48:45 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
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2024-09-13 12:54:23 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
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2024-09-13 00:38:24 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
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2024-09-12 07:51:02 GMT

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Hey GM fellow photographer here.

2024-09-11 15:24:00 GMT

Photography of unplaces, somewhere in Japan.
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2024-09-08 15:28:14 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
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2024-09-02 14:23:37 GMT

Photography of unplaces.
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2024-09-01 01:46:47 GMT

2024-08-30 03:32:53 GMT

🎧 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

2024-08-28 15:11:40 GMT

Photos of unplaces.
https://m.primal.net/KRrO.jpg

2024-08-16 06:37:22 GMT

🎧 Latest pod: Max Hillebrand ( @npub1klk…x3vt ) is a Bitcoin builder, educator, and privacy advocate.
Max has contributed to open-source Bitcoin projects including BISQ, JoinMarket, and Wasabi Wallet, while also talking about individual freedom and self-sovereignty.
We dive straight into the concept of The Second Realm, which is focussed on building parallel economic systems in which sovereign individuals are empowered to pursue life, liberty and happiness without the harassment of the State.
Along the way we discuss anarchy, agorism, praxeology, and natural law.
Max is a wealth of knowledge and I enjoyed this conversation with him, I hope you do too.
https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/towards-liberty-and-the-second-realm-with-max-hillebrand

2024-07-29 10:58:28 GMT

🎉 I'm happy to share the「Bitcoin in New Zealand 」panel talk video from the Bitkiwi event, in Christchurch on July 20th. Thanks to everyone who attended and to the awesome guests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2n47lS1zM

2024-07-29 10:55:13 GMT

2024-07-26 23:44:16 GMT

The Xapo price hike email only just dropped, but it is weird that there is very little noise about this, especially given that the Nashville conference has them as a main sponsor. 60 days notice for a 10x price increase seems like a rugging to me.
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2024-07-24 03:36:25 GMT

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Thank you. I have been deeply immersed in reading Cryptosovereignty over the last few weeks.

2024-07-17 09:44:32 GMT

I am looking forward to Saturday. See you all at Bitkiwi in Christchurch. The event runs 1 - 5pm & the talk panel is at 1:30pm. Learn about Bitcoin, buy a beer with sats, or just have a yarn. Free and open to all.
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2024-07-12 13:18:42 GMT

I think the technological brilliance that is the Lightning protocol is often under appreciated. It is a final settlement payments layer that does not rely on the use of credit. Bitcoin may be on the scale of the Internet, but Lightning sits up there with something like the WWW.

2024-07-06 14:38:47 GMT

Summer skies. I wrote something else, but it does not matter.
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2024-07-06 14:35:38 GMT

Summer skies. I wrote something else, but it does not matter.
https://m.primal.net/JJZH.jpg

2024-07-05 05:44:25 GMT

Yokohama.
#sketch #art #wandering #derive
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2024-07-05 05:41:53 GMT

Yomiuriland, Japan.
#photography #wandering #art #derive
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2024-07-05 05:40:11 GMT

Old houses on Christmas Eve, Shonan Coast.
#photography #wandering #art #derive
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2024-05-15 14:14:40 GMT

It seems we went from "new innovations in digital money are being tentatively explored by a small team..." to "TIME TO GET READY FOR THE CBDC NEW ZEALAND: ITS COMING" in a period of about 6 months.
https://m.primal.net/IGwV.png
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It's not looking good for privacy and human rights. Interestingly it looks like they already have an internal project titled "Digital Cash Campaign" designed to push this narrative out there:
https://m.primal.net/IGwX.png
I have heard that the RBNZ's unelected oafdom are also beginning the rounds in the local media to plant the seeds for their new magic money.

2023-08-05 03:28:25 GMT

@npub102c…zyfp imagine photograph a cafe on the corner near a harbour near the sea of Japan, it is winter, but sunny. There is a boat on the water which has a white flag.

2023-04-13 22:03:15 GMT

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This is high time preference though. Any way to slow it down and not need to have people’s constant attention?

2023-03-06 21:10:27 GMT

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I am still struggling with following and basic functions in Damus and some basic things. We have gone straight to some high level applications like duplicating twitter while the core infrastructure needs work still.