Stephan Livera Podcast Archiv

Elizabeth Warren has come out with a new anti Bitcoin bill. Joining me is VP of Research at Riot Platforms, Pierre Rochard. We talk about: 

What’s in the bill

Policy objectives

“Unhosted wallets”

FATF

Ordinals

Tx Fees

Third school of thought on long term fees

Links:

X: @BitcoinPierre

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What are the key principles underlying Bitcoin? How should we think about changes to Bitcoin? Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman and Founder of MicroStrategy rejoins me on the show to discuss:

Bitcoin Protocols

Bitcoin Principles

Bitcoin Dynamics

Bitcoin Politics

Bitcoin Philosophy

Links:

X: @saylor

Prior Episode:

SLP213 Michael Saylor – Bitcoin Dematerializes Money

Prior Episode:SLP213 Michael Saylor – Bitcoin Dematerializes Money

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Should Bitcoiners consider Small Business? What are some of the important considerations here? Bobby Shell of Voltage and Imprint Digital joins me on the show to talk about his experiences in SMB and why Bitcoiners should also think about it. 

Why do SMB

Earning more and making an impact

His experiences with digital and physical businesses

Why not just stack sats?

The latest at Voltage

Links:

Twitter/X: @iBobbyShell 

Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-shell-iv/

Youtube: @ibobbyshell 

Website: Bobbyshell.com

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Imprint Digital website

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Drivechain is a proposal from 2015 which has had a lot of community debate recently. Joining us today to debate this are Paul Sztorc (CEO of Layer Two Labs) and Peter Todd. We discuss a range of points:

Drivechain and miner centralisation

Whether you can delegate running a node

Legal risks

Fees and Blocksize limits

Links:

Earlier episode with Shinobi: Will Drivechain Centralise Bitcoin? With Shinobi

X: @peterktodd 

Peter Todd’s post: Drivechains: A Detailed Analysis

Peter’s Site:petertodd.org

X: @Truthcoin 

Paul’s site: Truthcoin.info

Paul’s response to Peter’s post: https://www.drivechain.info/peer-review/peter-todd-2023.png 

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:22 - Guests Introduction

02:12 - Paul's Opening Statement

11:08 - Peter's Opening Statement

19:42 - Paul's Rebuttal

24:56 - Peter's Rebuttal

30:47 - Guests Challenge each Other

01:30:59 - Closing thoughts

Now many of us are familiar with the idea of using steel backups for our bitcoin private keys, but what about in the case of multi signature? And what about using machine engraving? Dax and E from the SeedHammer project join me to talk:

Why they are interested in this problem

Passphrase vs multi sig

Descriptor backup on steel

Seed Hammer walk through

Cost

Attack vectors

Changing standards

Where the project is going next

Links:

X: @SeedHammer

Site: Seedhammer.com

Github: https://github.com/seedhammer/seedhammer

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How many people can use Bitcoin and Lightning today? Severin Buhler from Synonym joins me to talk about the LSP spec as well as lightning development. We talk about how the new LSP spec will enable more wallet builders, and more user choice, as well as smoothing the process for LSPs to compete: 

What is an LSP

A marketplace of LSPs

Competition between jurisdictions

Wallet of Satoshi news

How many people can use lightning? 

LSP business models

LSPS1 and 2

JIT Channels

Asynchronous payments

Blocktank

Links:

X: @SeverinAlexB 

X: @lnrouter

Site: lnrouter.app 

Site: Synonym.to

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There are various Bitcoin ‘circular economies’ but we talk with Fernando Motolese about how he started Bitcoin Beach Brazil, as well as his efforts in creating a new merchant POS terminal device, Bitcoinize. We discuss:

How Bitcoin Beach Brazil started

Onboarding merchants

Bolt card

Tech stack

Tourists and Locals experience

Bitcoinize device

HODL vs Spend

Fundraising

Links:

Fernando Motolese X: @MotoleseOficial 

Bitcoinize site: bitcoinize.com

Bitcoinize POS on X: @BitcoinizePOS 

Bitcoin Beach BR fundraiser: https://donate.praiabitcoin.org/

X: @BitcoinBeachBR 

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Free Private Cities are an exciting attempt at a new model for private governance. I’ve previously spoken with leaders in this movement such as Titus Gebel and Peter Young. Today I’m speaking with the founder of Ciudad Morazan, another free private city in Honduras. This one is a little different to the others you may have heard of, as this one is more focused on ‘blue collar’ workers, families, and businesses. We talk about the free private cities model and how it is being applied differently here with Massimo Mazzone, founder. Topics: 

Free Private City Model

Taxes

How many live in Morazan

ZEDE law

Comparison with Prospera

Morazan’s 4 advantages

Scaling up

Amenities available

Growth

No legal tender law

Links:

X: @MassimoMazzone4 

Site: morazan.city 

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Has Bitcoin’s Mining ecosystem become centralised? What can be done about it? Bitcoin Mechanic from Ocean joins me to talk:

Hashers vs Miners

Different pool payout methods

Stratum v2

Block withholding attacks

What Ocean is doing about it

Fees

Lightning payouts

Links:

X: @GrassFedBitcoin

Site: ocean.xyz/event

X: @ocean_mining

Article: Are Mining Pools Becoming a Problem? 

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Many Bitcoiners have seen or shared around the images that show Labour Compensation (wages and other benefits) diverging from Labour Productivity since 1971, particularly from sites such as wtfhappenedin1971.com. Rejoining me today is Gene Epstein to break down why this chart is flawed! We also talk about broader issues around CPI, whether inflation is over or undercounted, and cost of living pressures that so many people are facing today. The conclusions will surprise you!We talk:

Labour Compensation and Productivity

Nominal dollars and issues with price indexes

Is CPI overstated? 

Are we poorer than we used to be? 

Cost of living crisis

Can you make it on a single income these days? 

The real problems

Links:

X: @GeneSohoForum

WTFhappenedin1971 site spoken about: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Gene’s Soho Forum Website: https://www.thesohoforum.org/ 

Book: Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers 

Gene’s Mises Institute Lecture cited: https://youtu.be/h9BE1YIrqyE?si=J5ia_Q18OjGcdB6- 

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How do you prevent loss of your coins? What are some critical steps that are commonly missed? NVK and I discuss a recent case of a HODLer losing 25 BTC, as well as talk about updates in  Bitcoin security.

Links:

X: @NVK

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Site: Coinkite.com

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When you need to send a Bitcoin transaction, you need Bitcoin blockspace. But blockspace is scarce! CEO of Barefoot Mining, Bob Burnett and I chat about this, and what you can do about it. 

Blockspace scarcity and explanation

What you can do about it

UTXO management

Different types of miner

Miner’s Trilemma

Arguments against public company mining

Mining NOT being a leverage play on Bitcoin

Public vs private miners

Gateway going public

Core Scientific bankruptcy

Mining decentralisation

Links:

X: @boomer_btc

Site: Barefoot Mining

Old Man Yells: @OldManYells-btc

Satoshi’s Heel article mentioned: SATOSHI’S HEEL: IS MINING INFRASTRUCTURE A VULNERABILITY THAT COULD TAKE DOWN BITCOIN?

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Is there a demographic collapse coming? What could or should be done about it? Is there any connection with Bitcoiner culture? Malcolm Collins has a background in VC and Private Equity, and he is a co-founder of The Pronatalist Foundation. He has spent a lot of time speaking about this problem and has some great insights to share:

Population Projections

The Urban Monoculture

Pronatalist aims

Childless demographics

What caused this

What governments have tried

Where Bitcoiner culture could change this

How to motivate a large family 

Malcolm’s links mentioned:

Pragmatist’s Guide to Religion Book

Basedcamp podcast with Malcolm and Simone Collins

Links:

Site: Pronatalist.org

X: @SimoneHCollins

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Are we entering a new Bitcoin bull cycle? Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, rejoins me on the show to talk about a variety of things: 

SBF found guilty

Bitcoin bull cycle

Block size wars

Blockstream Greenlight

Blockstream BASIC note

Blockstream Green

Links:

Site: Blockstream.com

Blockstream BASIC Note

X: @adam3us 

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Relevant Episodes:

SLP521 Support Bitcoin Lightning with Greenlight with Christian Decker 

SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin IBD