Ben Arc is the founder of LNbits and a passionate Bitcoiner. In this episode, he tells us the story of how he discovered the problem he set out to solve, i.e. LNbits. He also talks about how makers, hobbyists, and tinkerers can make use of LNbits and hardware devices to their advantage. We ended the episode with what bitcoin is to him, and why he was at the conference.

Running Bitcoin - runningbitcoin.us

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

04:17 - Introducing Ben

09:47 - The Lightning World, early Bitcoin days, and the first phone wallet

14:00 - Ben's journey developing hardware and technology for the Lightning network, and LNURL

25:45 - LNbits, and the gap in the market it sought to fill

41:57 - More use cases - like the offline shop extension, and Ben's workshops

54:35 - Ben shouts out some tools he uses, and other projects in the works

1:05:44 - What does Bitcoin mean to Ben?

1:09:15 - Contact Info and Closing Thoughts

Ben's Socials:

Ben Arc on Twitter - https://twitter.com/arcbtc

GitHub Repository - https://github.com/arcbtc

LNBits Lightning Wallet - https://legend.lnbits.com/

Go Full Crypto Social Links

Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com

Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/

Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan

Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/