Stephan Livera Podcast

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Stephan Livera Podcast episodes

July 12, 2023SLP491 The Crossover Between Bitcoin and Nuclear Energy with Nuclear Bitcoiner
Ryan MacLeod (Nuclear Bitcoiner) joins me to talk about Bitcoin and Nuclear Energy. We talk:
Is nuclear energy too costly?

What are SMRs? Small Modular Reactors

Nuclear waste and safety concerns

How Nuclear energy crosses over with Bitcoin mining

Reduced costs and increased accessibility
Links:
Twitter: @NuclearBitcoinr
Sponsors:
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Lugano PlanB Forum

Mempool.space
1 hr 1 min
July 10, 2023SLP490 Dusty - What is Splicing and why will it improve LN?
Dusty Daemon joins me to talk about splicing on Bitcoin’s lightning network. We talk about:
What is splicing?

Splicing’s potential privacy benefits

Potential to undermine surveillance heuristics

Splicing’s efficiency gains

Splicing as one tool in the toolkit

Walkthrough of how it works
Site:
Site: Lightning Splicing

Twitter: @dusty_daemon
Sponsors:
Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Lugano PlanB Forum

Mempool.space
Stephan Livera links:
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58 min
July 06, 2023SLP489 Graham Krizek - Will every company be a lightning company?
Will every company be a lightning company? Graham Krizek CEO of Voltage rejoins me on the show to talk about this idea as well as what’s happening in bitcoin and lightning:
Being near the printer

Why big companies do financial services

What lightning does differently

What use cases are there and who’s looking at them?

Products at Voltage

Thoughts on LDK by Spiral
Links:
Article: Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company

Article: SURGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR VOLTAGE USERS

Twitter: @gkrizek

Twitter: @voltage_cloud
Sponsors:
Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA)

CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Lugano PlanB Forum

Mempool.space
54 min
June 21, 2023SLP488 Future Visions of Lightning, Greenlight & Breez SDK with Christian Decker and Roy Sheinfeld
Christian Decker (Blockstream) and Roy Sheinfeld (Breez) rejoin me on the show to talk about:
What has improved about Lightning over time

Lightning in a high fee environment

What Greenlight is

What Breez SDK is

Is anything changing on the existing Breez app?

Core-lightning contrasted with other implementations

Lightning protocol improvements
Links:
Twitter: @Snyke

Twitter: @therealkingonly

Site: Your personal Core Lightning node, without the technical fuss.

Site: Breez SDK
Sponsors:
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CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Lugano PlanB Forum

Mempool.space
Stephan Livera links:
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1 hr 42 min
June 15, 2023SLP487 Bitcoin Mining Energy Debate - Digiconomist and Ben Gagnon
Digiconomist (Alex de Vries) and Ben Gagnon (Chief Mining Officer, Bitfarms) join me on the show to debate Bitcoin Mining energy. We talk through:
Bitcoin Mining machine efficiency assumptions

Where do the models break down?

Media referring to scary numbers in the bull cycle

Transactions per second metrics
Links:
Twitter: @DigiEconomist

Twitter: @hashoveride

Digiconomist energy consumption index: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

CBECI (Cambridge) referred to: Bitcoin network power demand

Prior episode: SLP478 Ben Gagnon
Sponsors:
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CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Lugano PlanB Forum

Mempool.space
Stephan Livera links:
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1 hr 17 min
June 14, 2023SLP486 Bitcoin Estate Planning with Peter Dunworth
Peter Dunworth is a financial adviser for high net worth individuals and families. He joins me to talk about what most people are getting wrong on bitcoin estate planning and inheritance. We discuss:
Why bother with all this?

Legal, asset protection and tax benefits

Possession vs Title of coins

Collaborative custody

Practical components

Miniscript and technical advances

Valuation framework for Bitcoin and why inheritance matters
Links:
Site: https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/comparison

Peter’s Twitter: @PeterBTCAdviser

TheBTCAdviser’s Twitter: @TheBTCAdviser
Sponsors:
Swan Bitcoin

CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Lugano PlanB Forum

Mempool.space
Stephan Livera links:
Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast

Patreon @stephanlivera
1 hr 1 min
June 13, 2023SLP485 What is Inflation? with Jonathan Newman
Jonathan Newman, Associate Professor of Economics and Mises Fellow joins me to chat:
Contrasting definitions of inflation

How did Mises define inflation?

How did Rothbard define inflation?

Where and how does fractional reserve come into it?

Cantillon effect and the Mises effect

Costless production of money
Links:
Paper: What Is Inflation? Clarifying and Justifying Rothbard’s Definition

Twitter: @NewmanJ_R

Twitter: @KrisMoustHansen
Sponsors:
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Mempool.space
55 min
June 05, 2023SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD)
Robin Linus from the ZeroSync project joins me to talk about how ZKPs can be used to help people quickly get started using Bitcoin. We discuss:
What ZKPs are and what they can be used for

Speeding up IBD

Contrasting ZeroSync with utreexo and assumeutxo

UTXO set commitment

Blockstream satellite

What’s being verified?

Different types of nodes
Links:
Site: zerosync.org

Twitter: @ZeroSync_

Twitter: @robin_linus
Sponsors
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Mempool.space
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46 min
June 02, 2023SLP483 Lightning in a High Fee Environment with Niftynei, D++ & Nate
What happens under a high fee environment on the lightning network? We had one recently and so I asked Niftynei (Lisa of Base58), D++, and Nate (Voltage Head of Support & Education) to join me to talk about it:
Lightning implementations handling the fee spike

Force closes in lightning

Bitcoin performed just fine

Anchor outputs

Mitigation techniques

Setting fee rates
Links:
plebnet telegram: https://t.me/plebnet

Plebnet wiki: https://plebnet.wiki/wiki/Main_Page

base58: https://www.base58.info/

Voltage blog post: https://voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-network-faq/lightning-node-management-handling-high-on-chain-fees/

Twitter: @beeforbacon1

Twitter: @niftynei

Twitter: @D_plus__plus
1 hr 20 min
May 29, 2023SLP482 Burak - Ark: A new L2 protocol for Bitcoin
Burak (Bitcoin researcher/developer) joins me to talk about Ark, a new protocol for Bitcoin scaling and privacy. We chat about:
Downsides of LN

High level overview

ASPs, vTXOs

Vapourware?

Other criticisms

Interactive vs non-interactive versions

Covenants and what they’d mean for Bitcoin
Links:
Site: arkpill.me

Twitter: @brqgoo

Telegram: https://t.me/ark_network_community
Relevant prior episode:
SLP339 Jeremy Rubin – What is Check Template Verify?
Sponsors
Swan Bitcoin

CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Mempool.space
1 hr 22 min

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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…