In this episode, Haley Berkoe sat down with Stephen DeLorme, a Product Designer at Voltage and co-founder of ATL BitLab, a bitcoin-focused hackerspace in Atlanta.

Episode Highlights:

* Battle of the Mine-hackers starts this Saturday, June 7th, at ATL BitLab! Remote participation is welcome: https://minehackers.atlbitlab.com/

* Centralization risks with mining pools, hardware manufacturing, and block template construction

* Current focus areas at Voltage along with fun side projects like Bolt 12 Zaps

* Hot takes on Cashu

* Warming up to renaming sats to bitcoin. We need user research to gauge reactions

* Making bitcoin fun with games and approaches like Bitty (go find all 9 on bitcoin.org)

* Shoutouts to Steve Lee (@moneyball) and Adam Jonas (@adamcjonas)

* His positive experiences with vibe coding and advice that everyone should start doing it

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Haley Berkoe met with Ella Hough, who has dedicated significant time to educating younger generations about bitcoin. She just completed her bitcoin-focused study at Cornell University, co-founded the Bitcoin Students Network, and led the Cornell Bitcoin Club, which is now transitioning to new leadership. Additionally, she is conducting a global study examining bitcoin adoption and financial freedom.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

* How she went about pursuing bitcoin as an independent major, focusing on its connections to linguistics and game theory, and viewing bitcoin as a language—a new protocol for truth and the dissemination of information.

* Her research study, which spans 25 countries, includes 25,000 surveys and about 250 interviews to explore how bitcoin serves as a tool for financial freedom.

* Her bitcoin "aha" moment 4 years ago after attending the Oslo Freedom Forum with the Human Rights Foundation.

* How hackathons can help foster connections and provide students a chance to build proof of work, making them more employable.

* Shoutouts to Sarah Kreps (@sekreps), Troy Cross (@thetrocro), Parker Lewis (@parkeralewis), Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican), Dhruv Bansal (@dhruvbansal), and her mom Lisa Hough (@lisa_hough_).

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Haley Berkoe interviewed Laolu Osuntokun, also known as Roasbeef. He’s a longtime bitcoiner, the CTO and co-founder of Lightning Labs, and lead developer for LND, one of the main Lightning implementations.

Highlights of the conversation include his:

- Winning project at the PB hackathon

- Areas of focus at Lightning Labs, including improving LND and Taproot Assets

- Pragmatic view on stablecoins

- Ideas on how best to display bitcoin fractions and decimals

- Current favorite gadget: a ring watch

- Reflections on bitcoin's adoption and the need for better privacy

- The story behind his nickname

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Haley Berkoe interviewed Daniel Nordh, co-founder of the Bitcoin Design Foundation and one of the longest-serving contributors to the Bitcoin Design Community.

Here are the key highlights:

- How designers can help build smoother user experiences

- Daniel's transition from big tech to bitcoin

- Fostering a sustainable future for the bitcoin design community

- Collaborating with open-source projects and developers

- Design Week at PB this fall

- Shoutout to Christoph and Mogashni Naidoo

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Haley Berkoe sat down with Neha Narula, the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, which supports research in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Additionally, she serves on Block’s board of directors.

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Haley Berkoe met with Shehzan Maredia, the founder and CEO of Lava, a self-custodial solution for borrowing against bitcoin.

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HIGHLIGHTS

2:16 Before bitcoin can be seen as a spending asset, it needs to be adopted as a savings asset. Right now, bitcoin is in the phase of being adopted as a store of value.

4:07 Lava addresses the demand from people who hold bitcoin and wish to make purchases without selling their bitcoin.

5:40 To mitigate the risk of bitcoin failing, we should ensure that Bitcoin Core is a reliable codebase, that enough people are running nodes, address centralization in mining, and provide accessible ways to acquire bitcoin.

8:55 Reasons for his lack of interest in the strategic bitcoin reserve.

9:40 Concerns regarding the interaction between stablecoins and bitcoin, and how Lava utilizes stablecoins in a unique way.

11:10 How individuals with different skill sets can contribute to Bitcoin.

11:58 Shoutout to Greg Maxwell

Haley Berkoe sat down with Pierre Rochard, who recently launched The Bitcoin Bond Company. Rochard is a longtime bitcoiner, having previously served as the VP of Research at Riot Platforms and co-founding the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.

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Haley sat down with Niftynei, a seasoned Lightning developer, bitcoin educator, and conference organizer. Be sure to check out Bitcoin++, the global developer conference she spearheads multiple times per year.

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Haley Berkoe interviews Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block, former CEO of Twitter, and prominent supporter of the bitcoin open-source ecosystem.

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In this inaugural episode of 21 in 21, Haley Berkoe interviews Rockstar Dev, a longtime contributor to BTCPayServer, one of the most important projects in the bitcoin space.

3:46 - Rockstar Dev’s story of growing up amidst hyperinflation and how that helped make him a bitcoiner.

9:07 - The importance of spending sats and building products like Nostr.

11:35 - How companies can support the open-source ecosystem by utilizing bitcoin tools rather than creating their own.

13:30 - Why stablecoins are a fantastic tool to onboard new bitcoiners.

14:40 - The importance of physical spaces like Presidio Bitcoin play as technology advances and people seek real connection.

16:05 - Shoutout to @Mandrik

18:47 - Advice to new bitcoiners: Figure out who inspires you and emulate their approach.

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