Sergej Kotliar CEO of Bitrefill rejoins me on the show to talk about a big new feature coming to Bitrefill, the rebrand, and Bitcoin adoption more broadly. We chat: Culturally what does it take for Bitcoin adoption Inconvenient truths about who uses Bitcoin for payment What wallets people are actually using LN vs on-chain payment BIP21 Payment volume breakdowns Bill Payment in the US Capital Gains Tax laws Convenience of living the Bitcoin life Links: Twitter: @ziggamon Site: Bitrefill Previous ...
May 02, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 372
Max Keiser, Bitcoiner, financial broadcaster, investor and writer joins me on the show to talk about his adventures in El Salvador and investments in line with the global hyperbitcoinisation thesis. We chat: Living in El Salvador Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure El Zonte Capital and who’s involved Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Gaming Thoughts on Central African Republic Bitcoin City Links: Twitter: @maxkeiser Twitter: @ElZonteCapital Twitter: @stacyherbert Email: hello@elzontecapital.com Sponsor...
Apr 30, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 371
Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital (previously Avon Ventures & Fidelity) joins me to talk about how and why Bitcoin Fees are low. After going through eras of higher fees, it might be puzzling as to why they’re low now. We talk: Which factors had the biggest impact SegWit Batching Lightning Network Less OP_Returns Less miner selling What might cause fees to rise in future Links: Twitter: @intangiblecoins Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/intangiblecoins/status/151134041...
Apr 29, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 370
Daniel Frumkin of Braiins joins me on the show to talk about calculating Bitcoin Mining profitability and a load of topics: Braiins insights dashboard Stratum v2 benefits Profitability calculator Cost to mine calculator CAPEX or OPEX costs for mining? How to think about mining ROI Updates coming Links: Twitter: @dfrumps Site: insights.braiins.com Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Stephan Livera links: Show notes and websi...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 369
Bitcoin QNA of Bitcoiner.guide joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Seeds and a new Seed Tool created with SuperPhatArrow. In this show you’ll learn a little bit about how your bitcoin wallet works in the background: Bitcoin and entropy Seed Words Passphrases Bitcoin wallets and addresses BIP85 BIP47 Stealth Addresses Education for newcoiners in the space Links: Site: https://bitcoiner.guide/seed Twitter: @BitcoinQ_A Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code...
Apr 26, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 368
Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Lead Strategist at Kraken rejoins me on the show to talk about new lightning network developments and how Lightning network is growing: Experience of setting up LN at Kraken LN for day to day use not being big yet Millions of people plugged into Lightning Will LN node operation only be for pros? Long term fee / security arguments Thoughts on stablecoins vs Bitcoin Links: Twitter: @pierre_rochard Prior episodes: SLP147 Pierre Rochard & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin as Sav...
Apr 21, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 367
Nate (aka BeefOrBacon1, also working at Voltage) joins me to talk about how to run a Bitcoin Lightning node. We get into all sorts of information while keeping it accessible for people relatively new to running a lightning node. Different lightning user types How to run your lightning node Different types of node: RPi, box, VPS How to manage channels Who to open channels with What tools you can use Should you use swap providers? What kind of fees do you earn? How do you backup your lightning nod...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 366
Anita Posch, bitcoin educator, podcaster and founder of Bitcoin For Fairness joins me on the show to talk about her recent trip to Zimbabwe and Zambia. We chat about: Why she went Crypto Scammers vs Bitcoin Education Bitcoin software and hardware Main hurdles to adoption Government views on Bitcoin p2p Bitcoin Links: @AnitaPosch bffbtc.org Bitcoin for Fairness - Anita Posch (L)earn Bitcoin Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.c...
Apr 15, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 365
Max Hillebrand, a bitcoin and privacy educator, also working at ZKSnacks (the company behind Wasabi Wallet) rejoins me to talk about why ZKSnacks is implementing blacklisting, and working with chain surveillance firms. We disagree a lot in this one! But we chat: Wasabi Wallet default coordinator implementing censorship Coinjoin coordinator models comparison The contradiction between being anti surveillance firms and working with them Is there a regulatory capture angle here? Address re use in Wa...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 364
Seth for Privacy joins me to chat about Bitcoin & Fungibility. We chat: Privacy and fungibility Practical real world difficulties of censoring Bitcoin and Monero community differences Technical and social reasons for not having protocol level privacy The hopes for application level privacy with tools like Samourai Wallet & Sparrow Wallet Growing the p2p bitcoin economy Links: Twitter: @sethforprivacy Site: https://sethforprivacy.com/ Pieter Wuille StackExchange answer mentioned: https://...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 363
John Carvalho, Founder of Synonym joins me to talk about Slashpay and SlashTags, an ambitious attempt to dramatically smooth the process of exchanging bitcoin addresses or lightning invoices. What kind of things does this enable? We discuss: Competing standards in Bitcoin How it would work Updating and revocation of SlashTags What other things are enabled by this public keypair approach Why not use a blockchain Putting tether USD on lightning Synonym Links: Slashpay Twitter thread: https://twitt...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 362
Rene Pickhardt, independent researcher and bitcoin/lightning educator rejoins me to talk about his new approach to massively improving lightning payments reliability, and the various trade offs: What the current approach is What Pickhardt payments are Constraints and trade offs Reliability and privacy trade offs Are there conflicts with other proposals to improve lightning network? Zero Base Fee Rene links: Twitter: @renepickhardt Rene’s Patreon: Rene Pickhardt - Patreon.com Support Rene here: h...
Mar 26, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 361
Giacomo rejoins me on the show to talk about the need for Bitcoin to be both Hard Money and Dark Money. In this show we talk about: What Dark Money means Why “Just use Monero” is not a satisfactory answer Use of atomic swap services or other Can compliance bros kill Bitcoin? Global KYC capture risk - would it create a minority chain soft fork? Why NgU is still important Links: Twitter: @giacomozucco Bitcoin Culture Talk @ Unconfiscatable 2022: Unconfiscatable 2022 - Giacomozucco.com Lightning ta...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 360
Have you wondered about the progress of Bitcoin in Africa? Abubakar Nur Khalil, Bitcoin Core contributor, on the board of BTrust and also of Recursive Capital joins me on the show to talk about: Bitcoin core contribution and developer training/mentor process Qala Bitcoin in Africa & education B Trust Recursive Capital and investing in African Bitcoin companies Links: Abubakar’s Twitter: @ihate1999 B Trust: @btrustteam Recursive Capital: @RcrsvCapital Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Com...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 359
Lili joins me to talk about her journey of learning about Bitcoin and using it privately. We chat about: Trade offs of KYC vs Non-KYC coins How to acquire non KYC coins Staying private through the lifecycle of using Bitcoin Bitcoin for donations Canadian Trucker Bitcoin Wasabi and ZkSnacks debacle thoughts Links: Twitter: @Marketsbylili Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Stephan Livera links: Show notes and ...
Mar 22, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 358
Lawrence Lepard (Investment Manager, Austrian Economist) of Equity Management Associates joins me on the show to chat about living through the burning house of fiat money. We chat: What’s changing in the world today and why so many took it for granted The insecurity around property rights Holding paper assets vs physical assets Change in monetary order Economic ignorance in the world today Links: Twitter: @LawrenceLepard Site: Ema2.com Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 357
Darin Feinstein, Founder of Core Scientific (Bitcoin Mining) joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin as an upgrade on some very old accounting technology and what it could mean for our future. We get into: Learning about Bitcoin Bitcoin mining narratives - FUD and facts Bitcoin’s importance for liberty Challenges to Bitcoin fungibility Bitcoin for human rights EU Proof of Work ban? The path forward Links: Twitter: @DarinFeinstein Site: CoreScientific.com Twitter: @Core_Scientific Sponsors: Sw...
Mar 19, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 356
Julie Landrum of OpenNode joins me to talk about what they’re building to help people onboard to Bitcoin & the lightning network as a payment standard. OpenNode first got its name as a merchant payment processor but we chat about how the company has grown and evolved over the years. We chat: Bitcoin infrastructure services for merchants, bitcoin companies Dealing with the cyclical nature of Bitcoin Spend, HODL, earn? Chargeback risk Dealing with regulatory requirements El Salvador adoption I...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 355
Josef Tetek of Trezor (and contributor at Bitcoin Magazine) joins me on the show to talk about: The liberty movement in Europe The connection between Austrian economics and bitcoin Fractional and full reserve visions of bitcoin’s future Why HODLing is rational Nakamoto-Gresham’s law and how most get Gresham’s law wrong Links: Twitter: @SatsJoseph Article: What is Nakamoto-Gresham’s Law and How does it pertain to Bitcoin? Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained ...
Mar 13, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 355
John Cantrell of L2 Technology and Spiral BTC grantee rejoins me on the show to talk about his latest work in making Bitcoin and the lightning network more accessible for the many. Sensei can be thought of as an LND or c-lightning but for LDK. We chat: John’s journey since cracking Alistair Milne’s 12 word seed How sensei works Trade offs How the child node concept works What does it look like if 7.7B+ people onboarded to the lightning network? Links: LN Thread Twitter: @JohnCantrell97 Site: Sen...
Mar 08, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 353
Matt Hill of Start9 Labs rejoins me on the show to talk about where the world is at, and a surprising argument that might actually be true. Sovereign Tech may be adopted, not merely because of privacy, but because of being lower cost. We chat: Canada Truckers and the broader fight for freedom Is it a question of tools or winning hearts and minds? What’s new and coming in EmbassyOS v0.3.0? Why cost will be the driver Making it easy to use and saying goodbye to command line Community driven growth...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 352
Jeff Vandrew of Unchained Capital joins me on the show to share his thoughts on Bitcoin for the very long term. Where is it going, and how should you think about using the retirement system to potentially stack more sats? We chat: Where is Bitcoin going over the long term? What happens if more states make Bitcoin legal tender? How big is the market for retirement savings What about just stacking sats outside retirement accounts? Roth vs Traditional IRAs McNulty case and whether it stops self cus...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 351
Benny Peiser of Net Zero Watch joins me on the show to talk about ‘net zero’ and the inaccuracy in the presentation of arguments on renewables. We discuss: What is ‘net zero’ Accurate treatment of costs and benefits How much of it is regulation or market choice ESG box ticking The impact on everyday people ‘Greenwashing’ by some countries Why it will crash Links: Twitter: @netzerowatch Site: netzerowatch.com Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code...
Feb 18, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 350
Chris Stewart Founder and CEO of Suredbits joins me on the show to talk about the latest with Bitcoin DLCs. You might have heard my earlier show with Nadav Kohen but in this one we chat: ‘Maximalism’ and tech ‘Policing activity’ Block space market over time Where DLCs are at today Lightning DLCs vs on-chain DLCs Doing stablechannels Practical and commercial applications Umbrel app Links: Twitter: @ Chris_Stewart_5 Site: suredbits.com Suredbits Stablechannel blog post Suredbits oracle explorer Na...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 349
Nick Hansen, CEO and Founder of Luxor Technology joins me to talk about the bitcoin mining scene, the narrative around bitcoin mining energy use and Proof of Work, Demand Response, ‘ESG’, China ban, Intel coming into the mining game, and hash rate derivatives. Links: Twitter: @hash_bender Site: luxor.tech Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Stephan Livera links: Show notes and website Follow me on Twitter @st...
Feb 11, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 348
Kyle Murphy of Pleb Lab and Austin Bitcoin Club joins me on the show to talk about the Austin Bitcoin scene and his role in growing it. We also get into what Pleb Lab is and the bitcoin entrepreneurship in Austin, Texas. This is a great show to get a sense of the community in Austin as well as thoughts on how Bitcoin’s ecosystem grows. Links: Twitter: @The_bitcoin_bum Site: PlebLab.com Site: Austin Bitcoin Club Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained Capital (c...
Feb 07, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 347
Nicolas Burtey of Galoy Money rejoins me on the show for a fascinating discussion about doing synthetic USD as a building block to bringing it to the Bitcoin Beach wallet. We talk about: The latest with Galoy Bitcoin Banking 4 ways of doing synthetic USD value Why is it necessary? How to fund it? Risks Links: Twitter: @NicolasBurtey Twitter: GaloyMoney Site: Galoy.io Github: GitHub - GaloyMoney/galoy: bitcoin banking infrastructure Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com...
Feb 04, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 346
Danny Brewster, Founder & CEO of FastBitcoins joins me on the show to chat: Dealing with regulation as a bitcoin business Products and services for bitcoiners Expanding into new markets around the world Challenges and rewards of being bitcoin only Bitcoin builders and why we need them Links: Twitter: @BTCDanny Site: FastBitcoins.com FastBitcoins Twitter: @FastBitcoins Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) S...
Feb 02, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 345
NVK, co founder and CEO of CoinKite rejoins me on the show to talk about the latest and exciting developments in the world of Bitcoin hardware security. CoinKite are pushing forward with NFC as a way of making hardware wallet UX easy but also keeping the hardware accessible from a cost point of view We chat: What’s changing with Coldcard Mk4 Memory, SE, processor NFC for bitcoin transactions Tapsigner Satscard Business models for open source Low cost devices Operating without laptops or PCs Link...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 344
R0ckstar dev & Pavlenex of BTCPay Server and other projects (Strike, Bitcoin Smiles, Bitcoin Design) rejoin me on the show to talk about Bitcoin, Open Source community ethos, and how it can lead to career opportunities. We chat: BTCPay 4 years on Open Source for hiring Bitcoinerjobs.com How open source projects mature How to grow the project How to move on from a project R0ckstar’s big announcement What’s coming with BTCPay Server Links: Twitter: @r0ckstardev Twitter: @pavlenex BTCPay Server...
Jan 26, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 343
