Stephan Livera Podcast Archiv

Max Keidun and Roman Snitko (CEO and CTO of Hodl Hodl) join me to talk:

Why they started Hodl Hodl, a P2P exchange

How Hodl Hodl is different from the typical Bitcoin exchange

Education of users

Volume trends

Prediction market announcement

Baltic Honeybadger conference 2019

Max, Roman, Hodl Hodl & Baltic Honeybadger Links:

Max Keidun: https://twitter.com/keidunm 

Roman Snitko: https://twitter.com/romansnitko 

Hodl Hodl: https://hodlhodl.com/ 

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

Baltic Honeybadger 2019: http://bh2019.hodlhodl.com/ 

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

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Shinobi (aka Bitcoin Twitter character @Brian_Trollz) joins me in this episode to discuss a range of topics: 

Problems with using Litecoin for paying with things

Confidential Transactions and the different approaches

The push for smaller blocks

Different approaches to scaling

Problems with sidechains and drivechains

Shinobi / Brian Trollz links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brian_trollz 

BlockDigest YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

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Justin Camarena of Bitrefill joins me to talk about his journey with Bitcoin Lightning development and pioneering Bitcoin Lightning payments at Bitrefill. We discuss:

Learning Lightning development

Pioneering Lightning payment at Bitrefill in the #reckless early days

Bitrefill Thor service

Lightning Channel Management

Thoughts on Lightning custodial wallets

What Lightning Network can enable

Justin Camarena Links:

Justin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/juscamarena 

Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/ 

Bitrefill Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitrefill 

Bitrefill Thor lightning service link: https://www.bitrefill.com/thor-lightning-network-channels/

Other links mentioned:

Turbo Channels: https://medium.com/@akumaigorodski/instant-channels-enable-safe-lightning-payments-with-unconfirmed-funding-8d640defa183 

Alex Bosworth Channel Management talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPIB6jt6ww 

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

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Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ 

Andreas M. Antonopoulos (best-selling author, speaker and bitcoin  educator) joins me in this episode to talk about his views on Bitcoin  Maximalism as contrasted with a multicoin view. Andreas and I disagree  and present clashing visions. We also discuss other points such as  whether Bitcoin challenges central banking more specifically, or banking  generally.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/aantonop 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/aantonop 

Website: https://antonopoulos.com/ 

Episode Sponsor BUIDL Bootcamp:

Website: https://buidlbootcamp.com/

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

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Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter & Square) & Elizabeth Stark (CEO of Lightning Labs) join me to talk about the vision of Bitcoin as native currency of the internet. Bitcoin's principles, resilience, and being 'of the internet' are what make it special. In this special episode we discuss:

How Jack came to understand Bitcoin and view it as potentially the native currency of the internet

Why everyone is so excited about the Lightning Network

Lightning Torch

Square and the Cash App

Twitter & Bitcoin

Future internet business models possible with Lightning Network

Bitcoin as foundational to the internet and society

Jack Dorsey Links:

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@jack

Square: https://squareup.com/

Cash App: https://cash.app/

Elizabeth Stark Links:

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@starkness

Lightning Labs: https://lightning.engineering/

Lightning Labs Twitter account: https://twitter.com/@lightning

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StephanLivera 

Tallycoin (BTC/LN donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/ 

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ 

Dr Guido Hülsmann, Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute, and Economics Professor at the University of Anger, France, joins me in this very special episode. We talk about government monetary intervention compared with a free market in money. We discuss many topics:

The process of government monetary intervention and deterioration in quality of money

Which kind of monetary intervention is worst?

Interaction of reserve requirements with capital requirements

How businesses and banking differ in a free market economy versus our fiat money economy

The tendency towards one most saleable good or money, even within the cryptocurrency world

Comments on 'stock to flow' ratio and hard money

Dr Hülsmann's economics book recommendations for listeners

Dr Guido Hülsmann links: 

Website: http://www.guidohulsmann.com/

Guido Hülsmann's The Ethics of Money Production: https://mises.org/library/ethics-money-production 

Murray Rothbard’s What Has Government Done To Our Money?: https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money 

Hans-Hermann Hoppe How Is Fiat Money Possible?: https://mises.org/library/how-fiat-money-possible-or-devolution-money-and-credit 

Ludwig von Mises Theory of Money and Credit: https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit 

Huerta de Soto Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles:  https://mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles 

Philipp Bagus In Defense of Deflation - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319134277

Stephan Livera Links: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera 

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ 

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Rui Gomes & João Almeida (CTO, co-founder) of OpenNode join me in this episode to discuss why they turned down Roger Ver's $1.25M, as well as the vision of OpenNode in enabling Bitcoin & Lightning payments. Topics include: 

Background on OpenNode

Service structure and fees

Rejecting Roger Ver's $1.25M offer and why

Why OpenNode is Bitcoin-only

Comparison of OpenNode with self-hosted BTCPayServer approach

How users can set up

Getting tech support

Plans over the next year or so

Growth markets for Bitcoin Lightning payment

OpenNode Links:

OpenNode invite link (affiliate link): https://app.opennode.co/join/1b454baa-b233-45c0-8f0a-13893d4ae960 

OpenNode website: https://www.opennode.co/ 

OpenNode twitter: https://twitter.com/opennodeco 

Rui Gomes Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruigomeseu 

João Almeida Twitter: https://twitter.com/joaodealmeida94 

Stephan Links: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera 

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ 

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Marty Bent, host of the Tales From the Crypt podcast, and editor in chief of Marty's Bent joins me in this episode. We talk about Bitcoin content creation and curation, and also touch on the shifts in thinking from 'mainstream' economics required to understand Bitcoin. 

Marty Bent links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent

Marty's Bent Newsletter: martysbent.com 

Tales from the Crypt Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt 

TFTC21 Podcast twitter account: https://twitter.com/TFTC21

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

BTC/LN donation: https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

Nicolas Dorier, a Bitcoin developer, joins me in this episode to talk about the open source project he started, BTCPayServer. BTCPayServer allows you to start accepting Bitcoin payments with 0% fees & no third-party. It is built with security, privacy and censorship-resistance at its core. 

We cover:

Why Nicolas started BTCPayServer

What BitPay did to drive Nicolas to start his own open source version

Cost and ease of setting up BTCPayServer

Hardware node products that can be configured with BTCPayServer built in

Upcoming BTCPayServer features such as fiat exchange

How you can get involved

Nicolas Dorier & BTCPayServer links:

Nicola Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier 

BTCPayServer website: https://btcpayserver.org/ 

BTCPayServer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpG9WL6TJuoNfFVkaDMp9ug 

BTCPayServer Github: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver 

BTCPayServer Twitter: https://twitter.com/BtcpayServer 

BTCPayServer Slack: http://slack.btcpayserver.org/ 

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

Giacomo Zucco, well known Bitcoin advocate, Supremo of BHB Network, and bitcoin consultant/teacher joins me in this episode. We talk:

His Bitcoin 'rage quit'!

The recent trend of Lightning Network custodial wallets, and whether this is on net a good or bad thing

Thoughts on altcoins - are some of them honest, good faith efforts? Might they be technologically interesting, but still not monetarily relevant?

Bitcoin financialisation - Does Bitcoin need financialisation or does finance need Bitcoin?

Attacks on Bitcoin that may come

Giacomo links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco 

Giacomo’s ‘rage quit’ thread: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/1084411808734240769 

The B: https://theb.foundation/ 

BHB Network: https://www.blockchainlab.it/ 

Stephan links: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera 

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/ 

Patreon: http://patreon.com/stephanlivera 

Tallycoin (BTC/LN donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/ 

Sjors Provoost (Bitcoin Core developer) joins me to discuss a range of topics: 

Bitcoin Core Development and Review 

Working towards hardware wallet support in Bitcoin Core

Sjors' article, "A Crime on Testnet" - with privacy & fungibility implications

Sjors Links: 

Sjors Twitter: https://twitter.com/@provoost

“A Crime on Testnet”: https://medium.com/provoost-on-crypto/a-crime-on-testnet-6d95ede8da03 

Episode Ad/Sponsor: BUIDL Bootcamp with Justin Moon

Learn to code Bitcoin: https://buidlbootcamp.com/

Jeff Deist joins me to discuss Bitcoin and the application of Austrian economics in understanding Bitcoin. Topics: 

Market selection of money

The potential for a hard money standard to restrict govt spending

Why Austrian Economists are split on Bitcoin

Why credit would be much tighter under a hard money standard

The deflation and 'hoarding' argument - dispelled

The educational strategy pursued by the Mises Institute

Jeff's recommended Austrian economics books for Bitcoiners

Jeff Deist and Mises Institute links:

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

Mises Institute: https://mises.org/

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

Aleks Svetski (CEO, co-founder of Amber) joins me in this fiery episode  to talk about the blind excesses of 'Crypto' over the last few years and  more:

- Crazy excesses that we saw over the last few years

- STO's - Security Token Offerings

- "Crypto Traders"

- "Crypto Hedge Fund Managers"

- Bitcoin as asymmetric bet

- Dollar Cost Averaging

- Amber and the service offering

Aleks and Amber links: 

- Amber website: https://getamber.io/

- Aleks Twitter: https://twitter.com/AleksSvetski

- Article "A world full of Blind Excess": https://hackernoon.com/a-world-full-of-blind-excess-b7fb42357d43 

Stephan links:

- Website: http://stephanlivera.com/

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera 

- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StephanLivera

- Tallycoin (BTC/Lightning donations): https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

Jameson Lopp, Cypherpunk & CTO of Casa, joins me in this episode to discuss a range of topics:

What he's working on right now @ Casa

"Who controls Bitcoin Core?", the article by Jameson

2018 Year in Review, thematically and by statistics

Bitcoin storage and multi signature solutions

Bitcoin helping enable individual sovereignty

Grin & Beam 

Maintaining privacy with a Bitcoin transaction

Jameson Lopp links:

Jameson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/lopp

"Who Controls Bitcoin Core?": https://medium.com/@lopp/who-controls-bitcoin-core-c55c0af91b8a

Jameson's Bitcoin Resources page: https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html

Casa: https://keys.casa/

Statoshi: https://statoshi.info/

Stephan Livera links: 

Site: http://stephanlivera.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera