Stephan Livera Podcast

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October 20, 2023Support Bitcoin Lightning with Greenlight with Christian Decker (SLP521)
Are you interested in building support for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into your product or service? Check out this discussion of Greenlight with Blockstream’s Christian Decker. We talk:
Improvements in lightning experience over the years

No. of payments, reliability

Greenlight experiences

Mobile nodes

Comparison with other providers

Shared infrastructure

Core Lightning features

What features will help make lightning easy
Links:
Site: https://blockstream.com/lightning/greenlight/

X: @Snyke

X: @Blockstream
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October 12, 2023What is BitVM? with Robin Linus and Super Testnet (SLP520)
BitVM is a new paradigm for Turing-complete bitcoin contracts. In this episode I speak with the creator, Robin Linus and another developer working on the idea, Super Testnet. We discuss:
What is BitVM?

What are some of the trade offs?

What could BitVM enable?

Set up time and interactivity

Can it enable sidechains or covenants?
Links:
Paper: bitvm.pdf

X: @robin_linus

X: @super_testnet

Super Testnet’s Tapleaf circuits

Shinobi article on BM: The Big Deal With Bitvm: Arbitrary Computation Now Possible on Bitcoin Without a Fork

AJ Towns ML response on BitVM: BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin
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55 min
October 09, 2023Self Custodial Bitcoin Finance with Matthew Black of Atomic Finance (SLP519)
Matthew Black, co-founder and CTO of Atomic Finance joins me to talk about earning yield in a self custodial way with DLCs. We get into all the questions and criticisms people might have:
How does it work without being custodial?

Where is the yield coming from?

HODL only

Different strategies available

DLC security over time

The future of Bitcoin Finance
Links:
X: @matthewjablack

Website: Atomic.Finance
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58 min
October 01, 2023Broken Money with Lyn Alden (SLP518)
Lyn Alden, macro analyst rejoins me on the show to talk about her new book, Broken Money. We discuss Lyn’s thoughts on:
Ledger money and who controls it

Different theories of money

Speed of transaction vs. settlement

Warfare funding under fiat

Base money and Broad money

GFC and the response to it

Fiat standard incentives

What kind of debt makes sense under a Bitcoin standard
Links:
X: @LynAldenContact

Site: LynAlden.com

Book: Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
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1 hr 2 min
September 29, 2023Bitcoin Merchant Adoption: This Time is Different? with Will Cole (SLP517)
Will Cole of Zaprite rejoins me to talk about:
Merchant adoption and why it’s different this time

Improved custody

How Zaprite works

Accounting and integration

How adoption will be driven this time

Circular economy

The lie of 2% inflation
Links:
X: @willcole

Zaprite: https://zaprite.com/
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1 hr
September 22, 2023Why You Should Have Zero Debt to Avoid Enslavement with Jimmy Song (SLP516)
Do you have debt? Are you wondering about the case for why you shouldn’t? Check out this episode with my friend and Bitcoin developer and advocate, Jimmy Song.

We talk about his newest book, Fiat Ruins Everything:
Why he wrote this book

Why you should have zero debt

Cultural issues

Fiat morality
Links:
X: @jimmysong

Site: https://fiatruinseverything.com/
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September 21, 2023HODLing through the cycles with American HODL (SLP515)
Have you wondered what it takes to be a long-term HODLer? American HODL rejoins me on the show to talk about HODLer psychology, bitcoin culture, and what to expect going forward:
Adoption waves

Living on Bitcoin

Overconfidence

Mainstream culture

Bitcoin Fixes This

Jurisdictions

Thoughts on next cycle
Links:
X: americanhodl8
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1 hr 27 min
September 20, 2023Kids Don’t Need School with Jonathan Prescott & Adriana Prescott (SLP514)
Are you interested in spending 16,000 more hours with your children? Consider homeschooling! We discuss this and many other insights in this chat about homeschooling:
Their own journey of homeschooling

Escaping hivemind thinking

Criticism of ‘school vouchers’

Building up your child’s agency

Do you need curricula?

Modelling behaviour

“Socialisation”

The culture war
Links:
X: https://twitter.com/Homeschool_LLC

Site: https://www.homeschoollife.us/
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1 hr 9 min
September 17, 2023Next Generation Lightning with Phoenix - Bastien Teinturier (SLP513)
The next generation of Bitcoin Lightning wallets is here with Phoenix from ACINQ. Rejoining me is CTO of ACINQ, Bastien Teinturier to talk about how the team is innovating a great self custodial experience for bitcoin and lightning users:
High Fee environment

New Phoenix fee structure

Splicing and what it enables

Dual Funding

Liquidity Ads

Building on a smartphone app

Can ACINQ steal from users?

APO

Biggest challenges

Reasons to be optimistic
Bastien links:
Twitter: @realtbast

Phoenix Splicing Update post
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1 hr 13 min
September 14, 2023Will Drivechain Centralise Bitcoin? with Shinobi (SLP512)
Drivechain is a proposed soft fork that has faced a lot of criticism in the community, and Shinobi (Technical Editor of Bitcoin Magazine) joins me to discuss his critiques of the idea. We discuss:
What is Drivechain

How it works

Miner centralisation

Re orgs on sidechains

T-shirt sales argument

Stratum v2

“Miners can steal”

Other soft fork ideas (e.g. APO, CTV)

Multi Party Channels

“First Develop with what we’ve got”
Links
brian_trollz on X

Drivechains Introduce New Incentive Dynamics to Bitcoin

Achim Warner - Thoughts on Drivechain I
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1 hr 23 min

About Stephan Livera Podcast

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In-depth Bitcoin interviews and education. Stephan Livera talks with the builders, developers, founders and thinkers shaping Bitcoin, covering self-custody, Lightning, payments, mining, markets and…