Closing the Loop

Closing the Loop is a podcast about Bitcoin. In it, we will be speaking with the entrepreneurs, developers, and thinkers who are contributing to the evolution of this revolutionary technology. The podcast will also be an ongoing experiment of sorts, leveraging the latest developments in the broader ecosystem, highlighting and implementing solutions that foster censorship-resistant communication and new content monetization models. Join us in discovering the many possibilities that Bitcoin brings!

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Episodes

#06 - Whit Gibbs: Now Everyone Can Mine Bitcoin

Today's guest is Whit Gibbs , co-founder, and CEO of Compass Mining . According to their website, "Compass is a Bitcoin-first company, on a mission to support the decentralized growth of hashrate and strengthen network security, by helping more people learn, explore and mine Bitcoin." In the last couple of years, interest in bitcoin mining has seemingly exploded as the industry has developed and as more and more people begin to understand just how diverse its impact will be and the opportunity t...

Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 6

#05 - Roy Sheinfeld: The Interface of the Peer to Peer Lightning Economy w/ Breez

Today's guest on Closing the Loop is Roy Sheinfeld . Roy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Breez , a mobile app that aspires to be 'The interface of the peer to peer lightning economy.' Roy and his team have taken a nascent, though still largely intimidating technology and abstracted away much of the complexity so that the average user can begin to interact with it and leverage the tremendous value which the lightning network increasingly represents. Podcasting 2.0, and the value for value model, are...

Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 5

#04 - Daniel Buchner: Decentralized Identity on Bitcoin w/ Microsoft's ION

Today's guest on Closing the Loop is Daniel Buchner . Daniel is the Senior Product Manager for Decentralized Identity at Microsoft, which in March of 2021 culminated in the launch of ION . ION is an open, public, permissionless Layer 2 Decentralized Identifier network that runs atop the Bitcoin timechain . As life becomes increasingly digital and concerns around privacy and control of personal data become increasingly important, we thought it would be interesting to speak with Daniel to see how ...

Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 4

#03 - Harry Sudock: Bitcoin Mining at GRIID, the Evolution of Energy Production, and Human Flourishing

Today's guest is Harry Sudock , VP of Strategy at GRIID , a company that procures low-cost, renewable energy to build, manage, and operate a growing portfolio of vertically-integrated bitcoin mining facilities. Harry is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about the bitcoin mining industry and extremely dedicated to the cause of Bitcoin generally. John and Harry discuss the mining ecosystem, the impact he believes it will have on energy companies and markets, and what the implications may be ...

Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 3

#02 - Paul Itoi: Stakwork, Sphinx Chat, and the Bitcoin Lightning Economy

Paul Itoi is the founder and CEO of Stakwork and has been a tech entrepreneur since the mid-nineties. In his spare time, Paul is also one of the driving forces behind the open-source, lightning-powered chat-app, called Sphinx . As Paul puts it, Stakwork pays the bills, but Sphinx just needed to exist, so they built it. Unlike most people, Paul's entry into bitcoin was not out of an interest in the investment case or really anything to do with the 'base layer.' Instead, Paul was drawn in by his i...

Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 2

#01 - Gigi: Introduction to Closing the Loop

For the inaugural episode of Closing the Loop, it is a genuine honor to introduce you to a highly respected bitcoiner and dear friend of mine, who goes by the name of Gigi . Gigi is a father, educator, meme artist, author, philosopher, and someone who is fully committed to serving the bitcoin project and seeing it succeed. He curates the website bitcoin-resources.com , where much of the top bitcoin content can be found for anyone seeking to get up to speed. His first book, 21 Lessons , is a fasc...

Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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