Stephan Livera Podcast Archiv

Parker Lewis and Buck Perley of Unchained Capital join me on the show  to talk about updates on the Caravan open source project, making multi  sig accessible and easy for the masses. Previously it was single address  only, and now it works as a wallet! We’ll chat:

Why use Caravan

What the new updates are

Hardware wallet testing

xPubs and multi sig

Bitcoiner Ventures raise

Parker Lewis & Buck Perley links:

Unchained blog: Gearing up the Caravan

Parker Lewis Twitter: @parkeralewis

Buck Perley Twitter: @buckperley

Related episode:

SLP131 Parker Lewis – Bitcoin is Intuitive

Sponsors:

Kraken 

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin.com/livera

Cyphersafe

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Matt Ahlborg of UsefulTulips.org joins me on the show to talk about bitcoin use in South America, and Africa. Matt Ahlborg is a researcher and data scientist looking into the use of Bitcoin around the world.

Matt Ahlborg links:

Twitter: @MattAhlborg

Website: usefultulips.org

Article: Latin American Bitcoin Trading Follows the Heartbeat of Venezuela

Article: Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to

Related episode:

SLP143 Eduardo Gomez – Bitcoin As A Source Of Truth in Venezuela

Sponsors:

Kraken 

Coinfloor.co.uk

SwanBitcoin.com/livera

Unchained Capital

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Matt Ridley is a writer, biologist & Rational Optimist. He joins me to talk about his views on science, economics, innovation and how they apply to Bitcoin.

Matt Ridley Links:

Website: mattridley.co.uk

Twitter @mattwridley

Book: How Innovation Works

Sponsors:

Kraken 

Coinfloor.co.uk

SwanBitcoin.com

Unchained Capital

Stephan Livera links:

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Bitstein aka Michael Goldstein, President of the Nakamoto Institute and co-host of Noded Bitcoin Podcast rejoins me on the show to talk about some Bitcoin literature.

Bitstein links:

Twitter @bitstein

Nakamoto Institute website

Noded

Literature:

The Cyphernomicon

Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities

Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority

Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks

Politics vs Technology

Previous episodes:

SLP111 Bitstein – Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Bitcoin Crash Course

SLP6 – Fiat Money As ‘Fad Diet’ with Bitstein

Sponsors:

Kraken 

Cyphersafe

SwanBitcoin.com

Unchained Capital

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Nicolas Dorier and Mr Kukks rejoin me on the show to talk about updates  with BTCPay Server, such as P2EP (Pay to End point), which will assist  bitcoin accepting merchants to PayJoin with customers, adding to the  privacy on Bitcoin.

Links:

Nicolas Dorier: https://twitter.com/nicolasdorier

MrKukks: https://twitter.com/mrkukks

BTCPay blog: https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-1-0-4-0/

BTCPay twitter: https://twitter.com/btcpayserver

BTCPay PayJoin guide: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/Payjoin.md

BTCPay PayJoin spec: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/Payjoin-spec.md

LaurentMT Payjoin discussion: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LaurentMT/c38794ef6a62b2f8c76d7f694a3e7777/raw/cde5620d6ab59a8202af504e1650aef1ff907730/

Earlier appearances:

Nicolas: http://stephanlivera.com/48

Kukks: http://stephanlivera.com/91

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Coinfloor.co.uk

SwanBitcoin.com

Unchained Capital

Stephan Livera links:

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PlanB (pseudonymous Bitcoin quant) & Saifedean (Bitcoin economist)  rejoin me to talk about PlanB’s latest work on S2FX, and some of the  debates being had on S2F modelling as well as addressing some of the  criticism. We will also talk about Bitcoin as it goes through phase  transitions, and the implications on the Bitcoin industry, and the rest  of society.

PlanB Links:

PlanB Twitter: @100trillionUSD

Article: Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset Model

Saifedean Links:

Twitter: @saifedean

Website: saifedean.com

Book: The Bitcoin Standard

Prior episodes:

SLP67 PlanB – Modelling Bitcoin’s Digital Scarcity Through Stock-To-Flow Techniques

SLP86 PlanB – Frontrunning the Bitcoin Halvening?

SLP122 PlanB – Responses to the S2F model

SLP1 Saifedean – Bitcoin as Sound Money

SLP69 Saifedean – How Governments Could Kill Bitcoin and Bitcoin Scenarios

SLP147 Pierre Rochard & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin as Savings Technology & Number Go Up

Relevant episodes:

SLP154 Nick @Btconometrics – Quantitative Bitcoin Analysis & S2F Cointegration Strengthens

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

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Yuri de Gaia, Partner at L2B Global (Reserve Bitcoin OTC, Liquiditi, Moontower) joins me to talk about Bitcoin’s two economies: the regulated compliant world, and the defiant crypto-anarchist world.

How they will grow

Do they support each other

Citadels, Monarchy, and Anarcho-capitalism

OTC Trading

Liquid

Moontower

Yuri Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Y_deGaia

Personal blog: https://degaia.co/

L2B Global (company) https://l2b.global

Bitcoin Reserve (HNWI brokerage) https://bitcoinreserve.com

The Bitcoin Reserve Journal (blog) https://journal.bitcoinreserve.com

Moontower (retail) https://moontower.co/

Liquiditi.io (Liquid asset swap tool) https://liquiditi.io/

Article: https://degaia.co/bitcoins-two-economies/

Other relevant episodes:

SLP141 American HODL

SLP161 Titus Gebel - Bitcoin Citadels as Free Private Cities

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

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Patreon @stephanlivera

Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute rejoins me to talk about Bitcoin, Central Banking, Corona virus, libertarianism and acting locally:

Mises Institute and Bitcoin

Hypocritical fund managers

UBI and MMT becoming popular

Smaller is better

Better, not perfect

Jeff Deist links:

Twitter: @jeffdeist

Mises: www.mises.org

Human Action Podcast: HA Podcast

Prior appearance: SLP45

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Lisa Neigut of Blockstream joins me to talk about Lightning Network Channels, c-lightning, and Dual Funded Channels. We discuss:

How she got into Lightning development

How Lightning Channels work

How they could be accounted for in c-lightning

Dual Funding of Channels

PoDLE

Hardware wallet funding of lightning channels

Lisa Neigut links:

Twitter: @niftynei

C-lightning thread: https://twitter.com/clightningcomit/status/1212810910731063297

C-lightning github: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/niftynei/

Related episodes:

SLP134 Rusty Russell - Lightning Multi Part Payments

SLP59 Christian Decker - Lightning Channel Factories

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

CypherWheel by CypherSafe

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Chris Belcher rejoins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Surveillance companies, and what risks they present to Bitcoin. We also talk about JoinMarket fidelity bonds.

Chain surveillance techniques

Downsides for Bitcoin

What to do about it

“Just Use Monero” is insufficient

PayJoin & P2EP

Fidelity Bonds - how they work

Benefits and costs

Chris Belcher Links:

Joinmarket donation page: https://bitcoinprivacy.me/joinmarket-donations

Fidelity bond doc: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/18ea0e6acdb885a2bfbdee43dcd6b5af

Financial mathematics of fidelity bonds: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/87ebbcbb639686057a389acb9ab3e25b

Twitter: @chris_belcher_

Reddit: /u/belcher_

Email: belcher@riseup.net

Github: github.com/chris-belcher/

P2P trading exchanges list: https://github.com/cointastical/P2P-Trading-Exchanges/

Other relevant episodes:

SLP165 Rafael Yakobi Should CoinJoin users be flagged? Is Privacy Illegal?

SLP149 WAXWING – Is Consumerism At Odds With Privacy in Bitcoin? JoinMarket, PayJoin, Snicker

SLP58 Chris Belcher – Defending Bitcoin Privacy

SLP150 Samorai Wallet - Make Every Bitcoin Spend a CoinJoin

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Max Keidun, CEO of Hodl Hodl rejoins me on the show to talk about some exciting updates with Hodl Hodl:

UX/UI update to Hodl Hodl website interface

How the platform protects against scammers

Local Trader feature in BlueWallet

Stacking Bitcoins p2p, No KYC, directly into your Coldcard

Baltic Honeybadger 2020 Update

Max Keidun & Hodl Hodl links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/keidunm

Website: https://hodlhodl.com/ (Code:LIVERA)

Hodl Hodl twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlhodl

Previous episode:

SLP56 Max Keidun and Roman Snitko

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Rafael Yakobi, Managing Attorney at The Crypto Lawyers joins me to talk about privacy in Bitcoin and the law. We talk about:

Financial surveillance laws

Obligations on bitcoin companies

How it works in practice

Blockchain surveillance companies

Links:

Twitter: @CACryptoLawyer

The Crypto Lawyers: www.thecryptolawyers.com

Bitcoin Magazine article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-fungibility-mixing-and-the-legal-limits-on-maintaining-privacy

Other links:

Bitcoin wiki transaction surveillance company by Chris Belcher

6102 Bitcoin coinjoin infographics:

1. https://6102bitcoin.com/001_what_is_bitcoin_taint/

2. https://6102bitcoin.com/002_are_chain_analysis_heuristics_reliable/

3. https://6102bitcoin.com/003_blacklisting_distance_proximity/

Other relevant interviews:

SLP160 BTCxZelko - Protect your Bitcoin Privacy with Ronin Dojo

SLP150 Samourai Wallet

SLP149 Waxwing (JoinMarket, PayJoin, SNICKER)

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

CypherWheel by CypherSafe

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Gleb Naumenko of Chaincode Labs joins me in this episode to talk about erlay. We talk about:

How he got into bitcoin development

Transaction relay in Bitcoin

Attacks at the network level

Erlay

Costs and Benefits

Bitcoin and lightning development more broadly

Gleb Naumenko:

Twitter: @tomatodread

Github account: https://github.com/naumenkogs

BIP330: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0330.mediawiki

Erlay Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.10518.pdf

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

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Cory Klippsten, CEO and Co-founder of Swan Bitcoin, GP of Bitcoiner Ventures joins me on the show to talk about:

Taleb’s thought and applying it to Bitcoin

The Intransigent Minority

Swan Bitcoin

Cheapest Auto DCA in the US

Bitcoiner Ventures and what it’s about, and how to get involved

Cory Klippsten links:

Twitter: @coryklippsten

Swan Bitcoin: SwanBitcoin.com

Bitcoiner Ventures AngelList Syndicate:  https://angel.co/i/v7pGo

Bitcoiner Ventures: BitcoinerVentures.com

Article: Ten Million Bitcoiners: The Intransigent Minority

Sponsor links:

Kraken

Unchained Capital

SwanBitcoin

Stephan Livera links:

Show notes and website

Follow me on twitter @stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast

Patreon @stephanlivera