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Stephan Livera Podcast Archiv

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1 Stunde 27 Minuten
Matt Corallo of Spiral Bitcoin rejoins me to chat about the purpose of Bitcoin and developments in the space:

Bitcoin contrasted with stablecoins

Bitcoin’s specialty

Future problems vs today problems

Canadian Trucker Bitcoin

Donations and adversarial environments

Cultural aspects

What does it take to have Bitcoin Soft forks again?

LDK

Links:

Twitter: @TheBlueMatt

Spiral: Spiral.xyz

LDK: Lightningdevkit.org 

Async payment post

Prior episodes: SLP257 Matt Corallo – Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation, Taproot, and Playing Chicken

Other relevant episodes:

SLP449 James O’Beirne OP_Vault – A New Way to HODL?

SLP200 Christian Decker – ANYPREVOUT, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks

SLP456 Casey Rodarmor What are Ordinals?

SLP349 Chris Stewart Bitcoin DLCs & Stablechannels

SLP298 Rusty Russell – Lightning Offers / BOLT12: The next big thing in Lightning?

Sponsors:

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Stephan Livera links:

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1 Stunde 2 Minuten
Mark Goodwin is the Editorial Director for Print at Bitcoin Magazine. He joins me to chat about the dynamics of Bitcoin and the Dollar:

Warring factions in the govt

Monetary dominance

Protocol risks created by stablecoins?

Bitcoin still surviving and thriving

Links:

Store: https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/

Twitter: @markgoodw_in

Article: Bitcoinmagazine.com

Article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/stablecoin-monster-cbdc-red-herring

Sponsors:

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1 Stunde 8 Minuten
NVK (of Coinkite.com) rejoins me to chat about the latest in bitcoin security:

New device Q1 with QR

New Coldcard firmware

Combining security techniques

Bitcoin Gardening, not Ossification

OP_VAULT

Nostr

Links:

Q1: https://coldcard.com/docs/coldcard-q1

NVK's Nostr npub: npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8

Previous Episodes:

SLP418 NVK Tapsigner: Bitcoin Hardware for the Masses?

SLP344 NVK – Coldcard Mk4, Tapsigner, Satscard – Bitcoin Hardware Innovation

SLP290 NVK Bitcoin Security & Backups Primer

SLP252 NVK Bitcoin Hardware Wallets vs Air Gapped Computers

Sponsors:

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1 Stunde 21 Minuten
Peter St Onge rejoins me on the show to talk about AI and what it means from an economic perspective. Many believe that all the jobs will disappear or there will be massive economic chaos.

We discuss:

AI and what jobs it will take

What new jobs will be created?

What about UBI?

Implications for choosing a career

ChatGPT and political bias

Existential risks

Trillion dollar coins

Links:

Twitter: @profstonge

Substack: HyperBitcoinization | stonge.substack.com

YouTube: @Profitsofchaos | Youtube.com

Prior episode: SLP272 Peter St. Onge - Bitcoin Energy Double Standards & Why Robots Are Not Taking All Our Jobs

Sponsors:

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Stephan Livera links:

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52 Minuten
Bill Hill from Pouch (Bitcoin Island Philippines) and Malcolm Weed from Neutronpay join me to talk about Bitcoin as international money and the scene in Asia. Bill and Malcolm share some insights into Bitcoin and lightning on the ground, and remittance corridors. We also talk about their upcoming events, Lightningcon in Da Nang and Bitcoin Island Retreat coming up at the end of March. We chat:

Merchant adoption

Bitcoin remittances

Bitcoin and lightning companies collaborating

Knowledge about the lightning network

Bitcoin communities locally

Links:

Twitter: @BitcoinIslandPH

Site: https://pouch.ph/retreat2023

Site: https://lightningcon.org/

BitcoinBeachVN: @BitcoinBeachVN

Site: Neutronpay.com

Sponsors:

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Stephan Livera links:

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55 Minuten
Casey Rodarmor joins me to chat about Ordinals and Inscriptions. Now we get into the pros and cons of this, and whether it is bad for Bitcoin. We chat:

What Ordinals and Inscriptions are

The ‘bull’ case for Ordinals and Inscriptions

Do they spam the bitcoin blockchain?

Witness data on the input side, not output side

Is it harder to validate?

Can it even be stopped?

Marginal consumption of block space

Links:

Twitter: @rodarmor

Site: Ordinals.com

Podcast: https://hellpodcast.money/

BitMEX post: https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/

Andrew Poelstra’s commentary: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Cory's blog post for Swan: Bitcoiners, it's winning time

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1 Stunde 7 Minuten
Anant of BitHyve (Hexa, Keeper) rejoins me on the show to chat about the question of securing your Bitcoin in single signature or multi signature. We also talk through best practices.

Topics covered:

Single sig or multi sig

Costs of multi sig

Detailed walkthrough of multi sig set up

Practical tips to keep it simple

Keeper and features

Miniscript and Musig2

Bitcoin4india

Links:

Twitter: @anant_tap

Twitter: @bitcoinKeeper_

Site: Bitcoinkeeper.app

Relevant prior episodes

SLP429 – Anant Tapadia Bitcoin In India, Keeper, b4i conference

SLP290 NVK Bitcoin Security & Backups Primer

SLP215 Michael Flaxman – 10x Your Bitcoin Security With Multisig

Sponsors:

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1 Stunde
Dante Cook of Swan Business joins me on the show to chat about:

Athletes and Bitcoin

Proof of Work

Shipping Containers and Bitcoin

The need for entrepreneurs

The old system fighting the new

Bitcoin for businesses

Links:

Twitter: @Dante_Cook1

Email: Dante@swan.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantecook/

Sponsors:

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Stephan Livera links:

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51 Minuten
Luke Gromen of Forest For The Trees rejoins me on the show to talk about his macro views:

Soft landing vs hard landing

Government debt levels

US Interest rates and “chicken-pivot”

Commodities and dedollarisation

Outlook for Bitcoin

Links:

Twitter: @LukeGromen

Site: https://fftt-llc.com/

Prior episode: SLP247 Luke Gromen – Does Bitcoin Recreate The Hunger Games?

Sponsors:

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58 Minuten
Antoine Poinsot of Revault/WizardSardine and Salvatore Ingala of Ledger join me to explain:

What is Bitcoin Miniscript?

How does it help enable new uses of bitcoin?

Inheritance, timelocking and business use

Security

Complexity

Liana and Ledger

Software and hardware

Next steps from here

Links:

Twitter: @darosior

Twitter: @salvatoshi

Blog: https://blog.ledger.com/miniscript-is-coming/

WizardSardine: A team of bitcoiners with a passion for security 

Liana: Announcing Liana

BIP for wallet policies: [New BIP] Wallet Policies #1389 

Sponsors:

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Miniscript resources:

github.com/LedgerHQ/app-bitcoin-new: the Ledger Nano application for bitcoin

bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript: the miniscript website and playground

miniscript.fun: a graphical playground for miniscript

bitcoinops.org/en/topics/miniscript: more links and additional information on miniscript

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script: Script reference
1 Stunde 14 Minuten
Brad Mills (Bitcoin HODLer and VC investor) joins me to dissect cRyPtO scams from the last cycle. What lessons are there to be learned about the dynamics? Listen in to hear some post mortem commentary, as well as some views on what’s coming. We discuss:

cRyPtO ponzi dynamics

How the cycles line up

Fake decentralisation

Liquid staking

Yield chasing

Bitcoin fundamentals

Links:

Twitter: @bradmillscan

Site: Bradmills.ca

Sponsors:

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1 Stunde 10 Minuten
Josibake (bitcoin core developer) joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Developer Education and why it’s much improved nowadays! We discuss a range of topics:

Why is it important?

What are the main bottlenecks?

What career opportunities are there?

Chaincode labs seminars

Qala

Bitcoin Dev Philosophy book

Onboarding to bitcoin core

What he’d like to see in Bitcoin

Links:

Twitter: @josibake

Chaincode Labs Seminars

Onboarding to Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Development Philosophy

Prior episodes:

SLP124 Jon Atack – Bitcoin Core Contribution

SLP216 Gloria Zhao Learning Bitcoin Core Contribution & Hosting PR Review Club

SLP359 Abubakar Nur Khalil – Bitcoin in Africa, Qala, B Trust, Recursive Capital

SLP229 John Newbery – Brink: Bitcoin Development

SLP406 Adi Shankara Bitcoin Needs Technologists & Summer of Bitcoin

Sponsors:

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57 Minuten
James O’Beirne (Bitcoin Core developer) rejoins me on the show to chat about OP_Vault. We discuss:

The history of the Vault idea

Precomputed vaults vs General covenants

What does a good vault look like?

How OP_Vault works

Who it’s for

What next with OP_Vault

Links:

Paper: Vaults and Covenants

Twitter: @jamesob

Mailing list discussion: [bitcoin-dev] OP_VAULT: a new vault proposal

Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/jamesob/status/1612482957406801922

Prior episodes:

SLP339 Jeremy Rubin – What is Check Template Verify?

SLP404 Gloria Zhao – What Do Bitcoin Core Maintainers Do?

SLP83 Conner Fromknecht – Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers in depth

SLP66 James O’Beirne – The truth about ‘power’ in Bitcoin

Sponsors:

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51 Minuten
Texas Slim and Jacob Wolki join me on the show to chat about what people are getting wrong with their nutrition nowadays, and how the beef initiative is helping. We chat:

Nutrition today and what’s gone wrong

The Beef Initiative

Regenerative Agriculture and the difference in product

Using Bitcoin w/IBEX, OpenNode, BTCPay

Inaugural Australian Beef Initiative Summit Feb 12th

Links:

Event link: Australian Beef Initiative- Sunday 12th

Twitter: @JakeWolki 

Twitter: @modernTman

Jake’s Site: Wolkifarm.com.au

Slim’s Site: Beefinitiative.com

Sponsors:

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59 Minuten
K3tan of Ministry of Nodes rejoins me on the show to chat about his recent survey and review the year in Bitcoin. We discuss:

Practical tips on using Bitcoin

Which Bitcoin projects/software/hardware came out on top and why

Self sovereignty and adoption

Lightning

Fedimint, Cashu

What to expect for the next year

Links:

Twitter: @_k3tan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_k3tan/status/1600068204185153536

Site: https://ministryofnodes.com.au/

Prior episodes:

SLP315 k3tan – Networking For Bitcoiners

SLP411 K3tan Why Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Nodes Are Bad

Sponsors:

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Stephan Livera links:

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