Eric Sirion, Joscha, and Hermann join to discuss Fedimint being used in the wild in South Africa. We get into Bitcoin Ekasi’s live five-of-seven federation, running guardians on Start9, how Iroh removes DNS and networking pain, backups, uptime, and why federated custody can be a powerful middle ground between self custody and custodial wallets. We discuss Lightning gateways, Conduit wallet, MoneyBadger payments, eCash privacy, zero-fee internal transactions, on-chain UTXO consolidation, and why Fedimint may become a key tool for Bitcoin communities around the world.

Starting your own federation: https://fedimint.org/guardians/Setup/overview
Conduit Wallet: https://joschisan.github.io/conduit
Fedimint on X: https://x.com/fedimint
Bitcoin Ekasi on X: https://x.com/BitcoinEkasi
Bitcoin Ekasi on Nostr: https://primal.net/bitcoinekasi

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