Changing the Tide

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin programmer, educator, author, and entrepreneur. He and I met at the one-day Thank God for Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami the day before Bitcoin 2022 kicked off.

He has written Programming Bitcoin and The Little Bitcoin Book, as well as co-authored the more recent Thank God for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and the American Dream. The latter is focused on educating American politicians on the benefits of adopting a Bitcoin standard.

Jimmy is Changing the Tide by training more Bitcoin developers through his programming education efforts, like a forthcoming course in El Salvador that Stacy Herbert encouraged him to put on. He has also contributed to Bitcoin Core and other open-source Bitcoin projects. An outspoken Christian, he is a leader in educating Christians on the benefits of Bitcoin.

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Jimmy's Twitter handle: @jimmysong
Jimmy's website: https://programmingbitcoin.com/

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Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Tim is Founder and CEO of LNPay. LNPay offers tools to help you integrate Lightning Network into your business. Many of the earliest Podcasting 2.0 apps are LNPay clients, including Podcast Index and Fountain.

Tim is Changing the Tide by offering ways for businesses to get started with Lightning. This includes Podcasting 2.0 features, as well as LAPPs such as paywalls, faucets, gifts, and the Satmailer. His primary interest in Lightning was micropayments, which unlock an entire band of small payments worldwide.

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LNPay's Twitter handle: @LNPAYco
LNPay's website: https://lnpay.co/
Tim's Twitter handle: @BootstrapBandit

Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Graham Krizek is Founder and CEO of Voltage. Voltage is a cloud platform for hosted Bitcoin and Lightning nodes, BTCPay Server instances, and liquidity. It is being used by several prominent Lightning startups and movements.

Graham and the Voltage team are Changing the Tide by offering a KYC-free experience that allows you to quickly and easily spin up nodes, BTCPay Server instances, and Lightning channels. Your accounts are encrypted to a password you choose that they do not control. As such, they have no insight into your nodes and channels.

Ultimately, they desire to make Lightning scalable as easy at the Enterprise level as at the individual level. That includes the Value4Value model in podcasting and content publishing, as well as social media, gaming, payments, and more.

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Voltage's Twitter handle: @voltage_cloud
Voltage website: https://voltage.cloud/
Graham's Twitter handle: @gkrizek

Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

BecomingPhill is the pseudonymous founder of Landifa Bitcoin. It's an online marketplace for Namibians and South Africans to purchase and sell Bitcoin.

BecomingPhill is Changing the Tide by offering a KYC-free experience that emphasizes "Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins." He wants everyone who uses his site to take control of their own Bitcoin and their own wealth.

He has integrated Lightning to make the experience even faster and cheaper. He also worked with Namibian authorities to clarify that they do not need KYC, thus offering one more step towards a future in which those in the vendor economy in Namibia and the rest of Africa can move seamlessly into the Bitcoin network.

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BecomingPhill's Twitter handle: @BecomingPhill
Landifa Bitcoin's Twitter handle: @LandifaBitcoin
Landifa Bitcoin's website: https://landifa.com/

Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Keyan Kousha is the founder of Stacker News. It's like Hacker News, but they pay you in Bitcoin.

Keyan is Changing the Tide by valuing the users of his social network. Users must pay a sat to post or reply to others' posts, but they can also "upvote" posts by sending as many sats as they want to the poster. Users can take the sats they've earned with them by withdrawing to their own wallets.

By using a web of trust model, Stacker News is also helping people see content (rather than ads) from people they trust most.

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Keyan's Twitter handle: @k00bideh
Stacker News website: https://stacker.news/
Keyan's Stacker News handle: @k00b
Stacker News Twitter handle: @stacker_news

Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

John Cantrell is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has been studying Bitcoin for close to a decade. His technology lab L2 recently announced "Sensei." Built on the Bitcoin and Lightning Development Kits, it is a "lightning node implementation focused on making Bitcoin accessible to the entire world."

John is Changing the Tide by focusing on software and services that will accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin worldwide. Sensei does this by allowing a "parent node" to spin up "child nodes" that can eventually become "Senseis" themselves. This should reduce frictions that might arise when starting a node, like liquidity issues and high bandwidth requirements for on-chain monitoring and network graph maintenance.

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John's Twitter handle: @JohnCantrell97
John's Thread of Threads on Bitcoin + Lightning: twitter.com/JohnCantrell97/status/1488218859521949703?s=20&t=kKsQiX9F20Ay_qWCg3WmCQ
L2's website: l2.technology

*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Tone Vays is a professional trader and Bitcoin educator. He has been active in the Bitcoin space for close to 7 years.

Tone has been Changing the Tide by continuously advocating for people to take full possession of their Bitcoin's private keys, leading to its "unconfiscatable" property. The events in Canada the week of this recording made it very clear how important that property really is. As well as what kind of state-level attack you leave yourself open to if you leave your Bitcoin in the custody of state-regulated financial institutions.

The Unconfiscatable conference begins the night of Thursday, March 3 with a poker tournament. The conference itself takes place on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. For the chance to win a free ticket, follow this show's Twitter handle (@changingtidepod) and the conference's (@unconfiscatable), like the tweet about this episode, and reply with why you want to go!

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Unconfiscatable website: https://unconfiscatable.com/
Unconfiscatable's Twitter handle: @unconfiscatable
Tone's Twitter handle: @ToneVays

*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Andy Schroder is an engineer and entrepreneur who has created the Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser and Distributed Charge.

These projects are Changing the Tide by providing a smooth path that vendors can use to dispense commodities and energy for Bitcoin in a trustless or near-trustless way. Both the seller and the buyer(s) can rely on their Bitcoin and Lightning full nodes to transact, bolstering their financial privacy and sovereignty.

Distributed Charge's proprietary Board A0 is "The First Building Block of a Bitcoin Lightning Network Enabled Energy Grid." The goal is to create a truly distributed network of charging stations for electric cars.

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Andy's website: http://andyschroder.com/
Andy's Twitter handle: @_andy_schroder_
Bitcoin Fluid Dispenser overview: http://andyschroder.com/BitcoinFluidDispenser/TheOriginal/
Distributed Charge overview:
http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/alpha/InitialDemonstration/
Board A0 overview:
http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/BoardA0/Overview/

*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Correction: At approximately 3:20, I mention that "90.29% of Bitcoin...has been issued by miners." In reality, "90.29% of Bitcoin...has been issued TO miners."

8₿it is building BTC.email. This concept reaches all the way back to a very famous email exchange on the Cryptography Mailing List dated January 16, 2009.

8₿it is Changing the Tide. This product will allow people to have their time bought by those wanting to get their attention. So it lets them store the time they've spent in and on their email persona in Bitcoin and take it with them. And thus give them greater freedom over another huge aspect of their lives: digital communications.

As a fun side benefit, he is also documenting this journey.

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8₿it's Twitter handle: @8BIT
BTC.email's Twitter handle: @BTCemail
Email Exchange URL: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/17/

*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree

Desiree Dickerson is CEO and Co-Founder of THNDR Games, a company onboarding new Bitcoiners through engaging mobile video games.

Des has been Changing the Tide for years. As part of both Lightning Labs and MintGox, she was pivotal in driving Lightning adoption through video games. Now at THNDR Games, she is ready to help scale THNDR's impact across the world.

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Des's Twitter handle: @dickerson_des
THNDR Games Twitter handle: @THNDRGAMES
THNDR's website: https://www.thndr.gg/
THNDR's games in app stores:
*Turbo '84
*Bitcoin Bounce
*THNDR Bay

*Note: Nothing in this podcast constitutes financial, legal, or medical advice. The content within is solely for educational purposes. Please consult tax, legal, or medical professionals before making financial, legal, or medical decisions based on what you hear.**

Music: "Summer Nights" by Bobo Renthlei
Graphics: Kal Kassa
Host: Jon Crabtree
Producer: Jon Crabtree