I finished high school one year before Vietnam was over, to sickly for the draft. Medically not qualified. I still remember. I had only lived in the plains did not look foward to jungle or fire fights.
I still don’t like the idea of a fire fight.

Podcasts:

Congressional Dish – EVERY TSPer SHOULD CHECK THIS ONE OUT!!!
http://www.congressionaldish.com/
A weekly podcast that outlines the good, the bad, and the really ugly contents of the bills passed by Congress.

Harvest Eating – Chef Keith Snow – Expert Council Member
Wealthsteading Podcast – Jon Pugliano – Expert Council Member

Farm Marketing Solutions – John Suscovich – Interviewed on TSP
Homegrown Liberty – Been on TSP
Permaculture Voices – Been on TSP
Pioneering Today – Been on TSP

Featured Voices – Been on TSP
http://www.peakprosperity.com/featuredvoice

Financial Sense News Hour
Speaking of Wealth
Eventual Millionaire
Entrepreneur on Fire
Internet Business Mastery
Smart Passive Income
The Ziglar Show
Social Triggers Insider
Entreleadership Podcast

Get Rich Education – Real Estate Podcast
Creating Wealth Real Estate

TED Talks

And for fun I like Scott Sigler Audiobooks.

I like the Tom Woods Show
Brion McClanahan Show
Gun Talk with Tom Woods
Ron Paul’s Liberty Report.

Better than watching TV. All are on Sticher

Wanted to follow-up a little bit about the bitcoin wallet questions. Let me start by saying that bitcoin wallets discussions end up a lot like weapon caliber opinions. There is some truth to the opinions but there is also a lot of lore and emotion (not suggesting that was the case with Jack’s response – just that if you hang out in the bitcoin community long enough you will see a lot of religious debating on wallets mixed with facts).

Before going into my recommendations lets talk about why we want a wallet

1) We want it to ‘just work’.
2) We want to avoid coin loss due to theft
3) We want to avoid coin loss due to our error
4) We want to avoid coin loss due to counterparty risk.
5) We might want some level of privacy – this can betrue even if you are not attempting to hide things from the government for tax or other reasons. Some of us just want people that have no need to be involved in our affairs to be unaware of what we are doing.

Lets start with Jack’s suggestion on coinbase. It does pretty much just work. I have had a few cases (none recently) with slower transaction times but other than that it does pretty much just work. The features jack talked about like authy help reduce theft risk. I use coinbase myself to buy bitcoin. I never ‘store’ any bitcoin there and generally do not use their wallet for anything. Coinbase does monitor where you send your coins. They will and have shutdown accounts for seemingly arbitrary reasons. They don’t (probably) do this because they are ‘evil’ per se but since they are so involved on the boundary of the banking system, they do need to comply with governement rules.
So for example, I personally know someone who would buy coins there and then sell them locally to friends (and aquaintenaces). I am sure he was making some profit but the primary motivation was bitcoin evangalism. Coinbase shutdown his account. If you’ve got coins there if/when that happens to you it will be a problem. I am not suggesting they will ‘steal’ your coins but it could take a lot longer to get them than you ever planned. There is also counterparty risk. If they get hacked, or go backrupt, you don’t really ‘own’ your coins. It is somewhat like the difference between buying and holding silver yourself and buying it and having Goldman Sachs promise to keep it safe for you in a vault. In some ways you feel better because they probably have a better vault, but you will worry if they ‘really’ have al of the silver in the vault to cover everyone and worry that if they ‘melt down’ you would never see your silver. There is a non-zero risk of that happening with Coinbase. Early adopters who shunned the ‘hold your own coins’ got burned by a similar exchange called Mt Gox.

Next, and I won’t go deeply into this. Bitcoin core. The 80 gig thing was real. It will certainly work. When running that wallet your computer (when that wallet is up) is part of the bitcoin network and that 80 gigs is the ‘blockchain’ that you will hear people talk about. There are reasons why running a ‘full node’ is nice. They don’t apply to you – at least not yet.
I keep my coins in 1 of two places. For long term storage in a ‘safe place’ I use a hardware wallet device called a ‘trezor’. If you are buying 1 or 2 or 3.5 bitcoin (and can afford that level), do not look at hardware wallets but if you ever planned to hold a lot of bitcoin, they are a great choice. Since I don’ think this applies to the caller, I won’t go into details other than to say, yes your coins are safe even if the hardware wallet breaks as long as you follow some fairly simple strategy.

For my ‘walkin around money’ – I ‘keep’ all of my bitcoin in a wallet on my smart phone. On android, I still recommend Mycelium. I don’t have an Iphone but I have friends who have used copay and bread wallet.

*The most important thing* – you MUST MUST follow the wallet backup instructions with whatever ‘real’ wallet you pick. What I mean by ‘real’ wallet is one where you take responsibility for actually ‘holding’ your own bitcoin v.s. putting them in Goldman Sachs vault. There is nobody to help you if screw this up badly enough, you will eventually lose your bitcoin and no hacker, or service will ever get it back. Sounds scary…It is a little. In fact, I would say more people end up losing bitcoin from human error on their own part than from theft (Total guess).

With modern wallets though backing up the wallet is very easy. Generally there are 12 words you write down on a piece of paper – one time when you first install. Put that piece of paper in a safe (or a couple of safes for more security). Don’t type it into your computer. With those words, if your phone dies, you can restore the wallet on a new phone and all your money will be there.

If the company behind the wallet and the service that supports it folds tomorrow, and you have those 12 words, you can restore it on other wallet SW and still your money will be there. If someone steals your phone, you can use those 12 words on a different computer and you will be able to move the money to a new phone long before they hack your phone (assuming you pick an even minimally secure phone and wallet password).

The important difference with ‘real’ wallets is you ‘own’ your ‘keys’ (which are really what is required to own your bitcoin. Mycelium can’t take your coin. There is less privacy than if ran your real full node but Mycelium can’t lock down your coins if they want to because even if they disabled your phone/wallet, you still can move your coins because you have the 12 word key.

There are also some neat features on the near term horizon for mycelium to allow you to combine the phone with your own ’80 gig’ local node (on your own computer perhaps) for additional privacy. Not suggesting you go there, but if you ever do want to run your own version of bitcoin core, realize that 80 gigs is only slightly larger than what people ‘give away’ for free flash drives these days. I would not want to run a full node on my phone but on a modern computer, your browser cache is probably using more space than the blockchain. To be clear, this is not required to use Mycelium but it is a nice future optional feature that a lot of us are looking forward to.