Stephan Livera Podcast

Seth for Privacy joins me to chat about Bitcoin & Fungibility. We chat: Privacy and fungibility Practical real world difficulties of censoring Bitcoin and Monero community differences Technical and social reasons for not having protocol level privacy The hopes for application level privacy with tools like Samourai Wallet & Sparrow Wallet Growing the p2p bitcoin economy Links: Twitter: @sethforprivacy Site: https://sethforprivacy.com/ Pieter Wuille StackExchange answer mentioned: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/101874 Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

John Carvalho, Founder of Synonym joins me to talk about Slashpay and SlashTags, an ambitious attempt to dramatically smooth the process of exchanging bitcoin addresses or lightning invoices. What kind of things does this enable? We discuss: Competing standards in Bitcoin How it would work Updating and revocation of SlashTags What other things are enabled by this public keypair approach Why not use a blockchain Putting tether USD on lightning Synonym Links: Slashpay Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Synonym_to/status/1498021273255002115 Site: https://synonym.to/ John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog John’s Podcast: http://thebiz.pro/ Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Rene Pickhardt, independent researcher and bitcoin/lightning educator rejoins me to talk about his new approach to massively improving lightning payments reliability, and the various trade offs: What the current approach is What Pickhardt payments are Constraints and trade offs Reliability and privacy trade offs Are there conflicts with other proposals to improve lightning network? Zero Base Fee Rene links: Twitter: @renepickhardt Rene’s Patreon: Rene Pickhardt - Patreon.com Support Rene here: https://donate.ln.rene-pickhardt.de/ Researchers website: https://ln.rene-pickhardt.de/ Prior episode: SLP37 Rene Pickhardt - Bitcoin Lightning Education & Lightning Summit Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Giacomo rejoins me on the show to talk about the need for Bitcoin to be both Hard Money and Dark Money. In this show we talk about: What Dark Money means Why “Just use Monero” is not a satisfactory answer Use of atomic swap services or other Can compliance bros kill Bitcoin? Global KYC capture risk - would it create a minority chain soft fork? Why NgU is still important Links: Twitter: @giacomozucco Bitcoin Culture Talk @ Unconfiscatable 2022: Unconfiscatable 2022 - Giacomozucco.com Lightning talk: Lightning Privacy - Lightning Hack Day, Istanbul 2022 - Giacomozucco.com Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Have you wondered about the progress of Bitcoin in Africa? Abubakar Nur Khalil, Bitcoin Core contributor, on the board of BTrust and also of Recursive Capital joins me on the show to talk about: Bitcoin core contribution and developer training/mentor process Qala Bitcoin in Africa & education B Trust Recursive Capital and investing in African Bitcoin companies Links: Abubakar’s Twitter: @ihate1999 B Trust: @btrustteam Recursive Capital:  @RcrsvCapital Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Lili joins me to talk about her journey of learning about Bitcoin and using it privately. We chat about: Trade offs of KYC vs Non-KYC coins How to acquire non KYC coins Staying private through the lifecycle of using Bitcoin Bitcoin for donations Canadian Trucker Bitcoin Wasabi and ZkSnacks debacle thoughts Links: Twitter:  @Marketsbylili Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Lawrence Lepard (Investment Manager, Austrian Economist) of Equity Management Associates joins me on the show to chat about living through the burning house of fiat money. We chat: What’s changing in the world today and why so many took it for granted The insecurity around property rights Holding paper assets vs physical assets Change in monetary order Economic ignorance in the world today Links: Twitter: @LawrenceLepard Site: Ema2.com Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Darin Feinstein, Founder of Core Scientific (Bitcoin Mining) joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin as an upgrade on some very old accounting technology and what it could mean for our future. We get into: Learning about Bitcoin Bitcoin mining narratives - FUD and facts Bitcoin’s importance for liberty Challenges to Bitcoin fungibility Bitcoin for human rights EU Proof of Work ban? The path forward Links: Twitter: @DarinFeinstein Site: CoreScientific.com Twitter: @Core_Scientific Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Julie Landrum of OpenNode joins me to talk about what they’re building to help people onboard to Bitcoin & the lightning network as a payment standard. OpenNode first got its name as a merchant payment processor but we chat about how the company has grown and evolved over the years. We chat: Bitcoin infrastructure services for merchants, bitcoin companies Dealing with the cyclical nature of Bitcoin Spend, HODL, earn? Chargeback risk Dealing with regulatory requirements El Salvador adoption International adoption Links: Twitter: @OpenNode Twitter: @juliecity Site: OpenNode.com Previous episode: SLP50 Rui Gomes & João Almeida of OpenNode – Helping merchants take Bitcoin Lightning Payments Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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

Josef Tetek of Trezor (and contributor at Bitcoin Magazine) joins me on the show to talk about: The liberty movement in Europe The connection between Austrian economics and bitcoin Fractional and full reserve visions of bitcoin’s future Why HODLing is rational Nakamoto-Gresham’s law and how most get Gresham’s law wrong Links: Twitter: @SatsJoseph Article: What is Nakamoto-Gresham’s Law and How does it pertain to Bitcoin? Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining 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