Stephan Livera Podcast Archiv

Roy Sheinfeld of Breez rejoins me on the show to talk about various topics:

How lightning network is growing and maturing

Breez Merchant Point of Sale

Breez and Greenlight

LN Protocol development

Asynchronous payments

Splicing

Links:

Twitter: @Breez_tech

Site: breez.technology

Mentioned:

Laolu Summary of Recent LN Meeting

SLP378 Christian Decker – Greenlight & ANYPREVOUT

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

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Nicolas Burtey of Galoy Money rejoins me on the show to talk about his recent trip to Central African Republic and their new bitcoin legal tender push.

We chat:

The situation in the country today

Hurdles to adoption

Internet, Electricity and Smartphone penetration

What makes sense for bitcoin adoption in CAR?

Comparison with El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law

Galoy Money

El Salvador hosting central bankers and finance ministers

Links:

Twitter: @nicolasburtey

Site: galoy.io

Prior episodes:

SLP346 Nicolas Burtey – Synthetic USD & Bitcoin Banking

SLP279 Michael Peterson and Nicolas Burtey – Bitcoin Beach: Citadel By The Sea in El Zonte, El Salvador

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Zerofeerouting, runner of the 3rd most connected Lightning node with an innovative business model joins me on the show to chat about lightning:

Starting a routing node

The Zero Fee Routing business model

Why has nobody else done it yet?

Where fees are going on LN and who will pay them

Operational aspects of running a big node

Lightning protocol improvements

LND and CLN

Links:

Twitter: @zerofeerouting

Site:  Zerofeerouting.com

Episodes mentioned:

SLP378 Christian Decker – Greenlight & ANYPREVOUT

SLP376 Evan Kaloudis – Zeus: Self Sovereign LN Wallet

SLP135 Suheb – Manage Your Lightning Node with RTL

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Alex Epstein, energy expert and author rejoins me on the show to talk about his newest book coming out, Fossil Future. We chat:

Updates to his thinking since the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels in 2014

Problems with our ‘knowledge system’ today

Fossil Fuels benefit deniers

“Climate Mastery”

What the Bitcoin community is getting right and wrong on energy

How free market energy advocates should be approaching their discussions

Links:

Twitter: @AlexEpstein

Site: FossilFuture.com

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Gary Leland, entrepreneur, author & founder of BitBlockBoom rejoins me to talk about orange pilling people, whether they are everyday individuals, or state senators.

We chat:

Doing a booksprint on ‘Bitcoin and the American Dream’

Orange pilling people by teaching them to DCA

Speaking to a state senate to get them to buy Bitcoin

What to expect with BitBlockBoom 2022

Links:

Twitter: @GaryLeland

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-American-Dream-Technology-Transcending/dp/B09P7RL79Z

BitBlockBoom: bitblockboom.com (code LIVERA for discount)

Previous Episodes:

SLP193 Gary Leland – Bitcoin For Boomers

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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John and Gloriana from the “My First Bitcoin” project join me to talk about their journey in running Bitcoin education for Salvadoran high school students. We chat about:

How the project got started

Phases of the project

What the students learn

Hurdles for learning

Where the project may go in future

Links:

Site: MiPrimerBitcoin.io

Twitter: @MyfirstBitcoin_

Twitter: @jdennehy_writes

Twitter: @Glori1995

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast

Patreon @stephanlivera

Jeff Deist President of Mises Institute and I had a chat recently for the Human Action Podcast, and we discuss a few ideas about liberty, political freedom & economic freedom around the world:

Exiting Australia

Freedom indexes and where they may be falling down

Political freedom contrasted with economic freedom

Why social issues dominate

Links:

Jeff’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffdeist

Mises Institute: https://mises.org/

Mises Institute Twitter: https://twitter.com/@mises

Previous Episodes:

SLP45 Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute

SLP169 Jeff Deist – Bitcoin & Acting Locally

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Gigi rejoins me on the show to talk about the problems of imprecise language and wording in Bitcoin:

‘Unhosted wallets’ terminology

Bitcoin and warfare language

Proof of Work and mining

Links:

Twitter: @dergigi

Site: Dergigi.com

Previous Episodes:

SLP313 Gigi – USD is going down to 1 sat & Bitcoin is Time

SLP140 Gigi – Bitcoin’s Gravity and 21 Lessons 

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

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Christian Decker of Blockstream rejoins me on the show to talk about Greenlight, a node service by Blockstream. We chat about:

Who it’s for

Running a node online

Backups

Channel Management

CLN v0.11

APO and eltoo

Pinning attacks

Layered commitments

Christian Decker links:

Twitter: @snyke

ANYPREVOUT: BIP118

github cdecker

Previous Episodes:

SLP200 Christian Decker – ANYPREVOUT, MPP, Mitigating LN Attacks

SLP59 Christian Decker – Bitcoin Lightning Channel Factories

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera

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Patreon @stephanlivera

Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, programmer) rejoins me to chat about how Airline Miles are the original altcoins and how there are similarities in the fiat mindsets around chasing miles/points, and altcoins. We discuss:

Why the airline industry is the way it is

Fiat mindset in miles chasers and DeFi chasers

Altcoiners chasing airdrops and yield

Secure property rights vs fuzzy property rights

CTV

Links:

Article: Bitcoin Songsheet: Airline Miles Are The Original Altcoins

Article: Bitcoin Songsheet: Private Property and Covenants

Twitter: @jimmysong

Site: ProgrammingBitcoin.com

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Voltage

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Evan Kaloudis joins me on the show to talk about building Zeus, a self sovereign Lightning Wallet for use with your own lightning node. Evan and I chat about using the LN today, and being a more sovereign lightning user.

Building Zeus as a FOSS app

Getting support and feature bounties

Zeus community

Interoperable standards

Supporting multiple lightning implementations

Privacy on LN - e.g. route blinding

Payment reliability

Links:

Twitter: @evankaloudis

Site: Zeusln.app

Zeus Twitter: @ZeusLN

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Laolu Osuntokun (Roasbeef), CTO of Lightning Labs rejoins me on the show to talk about Taro. Taro is a new protocol and proposal by the Lightning Labs team for creation of stablecoins or other assets that can be built into the existing Bitcoin/Lightning network. We chat about how it works and what it could mean for Bitcoin.

How Taro works

Prior efforts e.g. coloured coins, Counterparty, RGB

Benefits of Taro approach

What it would look like in practice

Lightning Network development generally

CTV and ST discussion

Links:

Twitter: @roasbeef 

Lightning Labs Taro Blog Post : A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning

Lightning Labs Engineering documentation: Taro is a new Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets on the bitcoin blockchain.

Previous Episode:

SLP289 Roasbeef Bitcoin & Lightning For a Billion Users

SLP207 Roasbeef – Lightning Labs lnd Goes Wumbo

SLP39 Olaoluwa Osuntokun (Roasbeef), CTO of Lightning Labs

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera

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Adam O (DenverBitcoin) of Upstream Data rejoins me on the show to talk about the Bitcoin advocate community’s response to the ESG Mafia. Are there better ways to respond?

We chat:

ESG statistics and what would be better

Bitcoin’s rising energy use and prominence

Bitcoin Mining Council

Carbon accounting dishonesty

Is placating them a good strategy?

Links:

Twitter: @denverbitcoin

Site: UpstreamData.ca

Article: DENVER’S DERIVATIVE — HOW TO GAUGE THE PRICE OF A BITCOIN ASIC

Recent Bitcoin Mining Council Report referred to in show

Previous Episode:

SLP299 Adam O – Bitcoin Optionality for Oil & Gas

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

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Sam Callahan of Swan Bitcoin rejoins me on the show to talk about another global organisation that has been making all kinds of anti-Bitcoin and anti-freedom statements in its research and proclamations. We chat:

Who the IMF are and how they started

What they think on Proof of Work

“Financial Crime”

“Transitioning to a low carbon economy”

“Financial stability”

Global corruption

Links:

Twitter: @samcallah

Thread: https://twitter.com/samcallah/status/1517170892979142657

Relevant episodes:

SLP336 Sam Callahan – The Problem with the BIS

SLP318 Ronald Pol – The ineffectiveness of AML

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin

Hodl Hodl Lend

Braiins.com

Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast

Patreon @stephanlivera