Stephan Livera Podcast

Stephan Livera Podcast

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  • SLP362 John Carvalho - Slashpay: Bitcoin Payment Negotiation

    John Carvalho, Founder of Synonym joins me to talk about Slashpay and SlashTags, an ambitious attempt to dramatically smooth the process of exchanging bitcoin addresses or lightning invoices. What kind of things does this enable? We discuss:

    • Competing standards in Bitcoin
    • How it would work
    • Updating and revocation of SlashTags
    • What other things are enabled by this public keypair approach
    • Why not use a blockchain
    • Putting tether USD on lightning
    • Synonym
    • Links:

      • Slashpay Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Synonym_to/status/1498021273255002115
      • Site: https://synonym.to/
      • John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog
      • John’s Podcast: http://thebiz.pro/
      • Sponsors:

        • Swan Bitcoin
        • Hodl Hodl Lend
        • Compass Mining
        • Braiins.com
        • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
        • CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
        • Stephan Livera links:

          • Show notes and website
          • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
          • Subscribe to the podcast
          • Patreon @stephanlivera
          • 1 hr 8 min
          • SLP361 Rene Pickhardt - Pickhardt Payments & Zero Base Fee for Lightning Network

            Rene Pickhardt, independent researcher and bitcoin/lightning educator rejoins me to talk about his new approach to massively improving lightning payments reliability, and the various trade offs:

            • What the current approach is
            • What Pickhardt payments are
            • Constraints and trade offs
            • Reliability and privacy trade offs
            • Are there conflicts with other proposals to improve lightning network?
            • Zero Base Fee
            • Rene links:

              • Twitter: @renepickhardt
              • Rene’s Patreon: Rene Pickhardt - Patreon.com
              • Support Rene here: https://donate.ln.rene-pickhardt.de/
              • Researchers website: https://ln.rene-pickhardt.de/
              • Prior episode:

                • SLP37 Rene Pickhardt - Bitcoin Lightning Education & Lightning Summit
                • Sponsors:

                  • Swan Bitcoin
                  • Hodl Hodl Lend
                  • Compass Mining
                  • Braiins.com
                  • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                  • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                  • Stephan Livera links:

                    • Show notes and website
                    • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                    • Subscribe to the podcast
                    • Patreon @stephanlivera
                    • 1 hr 5 min
                    • SLP360 Giacomo Zucco Bitcoin - Can Bitcoin be both Hard Money & Dark Money?

                      Giacomo rejoins me on the show to talk about the need for Bitcoin to be both Hard Money and Dark Money. In this show we talk about:

                      • What Dark Money means
                      • Why “Just use Monero” is not a satisfactory answer
                      • Use of atomic swap services or other
                      • Can compliance bros kill Bitcoin?
                      • Global KYC capture risk - would it create a minority chain soft fork?
                      • Why NgU is still important
                      • Links:

                        • Twitter: @giacomozucco
                        • Bitcoin Culture Talk @ Unconfiscatable 2022: Unconfiscatable 2022 - Giacomozucco.com
                        • Lightning talk: Lightning Privacy - Lightning Hack Day, Istanbul 2022 - Giacomozucco.com
                        • Sponsors:

                          • Swan Bitcoin
                          • Hodl Hodl Lend
                          • Compass Mining
                          • Braiins.com
                          • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                          • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                          • Stephan Livera links:

                            • Show notes and website
                            • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                            • Subscribe to the podcast
                            • Patreon @stephanlivera
                            • 1 hr 31 min
                            • SLP359 Abubakar Nur Khalil - Bitcoin in Africa, Qala, B Trust, Recursive Capital

                              Have you wondered about the progress of Bitcoin in Africa? Abubakar Nur Khalil, Bitcoin Core contributor, on the board of BTrust and also of Recursive Capital joins me on the show to talk about:

                              • Bitcoin core contribution and developer training/mentor process
                              • Qala
                              • Bitcoin in Africa & education
                              • B Trust
                              • Recursive Capital and investing in African Bitcoin companies
                              • Links:

                                • Abubakar’s Twitter: @ihate1999
                                • B Trust: @btrustteam
                                • Recursive Capital:  @RcrsvCapital
                                • Sponsors:

                                  • Swan Bitcoin
                                  • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                  • Compass Mining
                                  • Braiins.com
                                  • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                  • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                                  • Stephan Livera links:

                                    • Show notes and website
                                    • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                    • Subscribe to the podcast
                                    • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                    • 1 hr 4 min
                                    • SLP358 Lili - Bitcoin Privacy for Beginners

                                      Lili joins me to talk about her journey of learning about Bitcoin and using it privately. We chat about:

                                      • Trade offs of KYC vs Non-KYC coins
                                      • How to acquire non KYC coins
                                      • Staying private through the lifecycle of using Bitcoin
                                      • Bitcoin for donations
                                      • Canadian Trucker Bitcoin
                                      • Wasabi and ZkSnacks debacle thoughts
                                      • Links:

                                        • Twitter:  @Marketsbylili
                                        • Sponsors:

                                          • Swan Bitcoin
                                          • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                          • Compass Mining
                                          • Braiins.com
                                          • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                          • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                                          • Stephan Livera links:

                                            • Show notes and website
                                            • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                            • Subscribe to the podcast
                                            • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                            • 56 min
                                            • SLP357 Lawrence Lepard The Burning House of Fiat

                                              Lawrence Lepard (Investment Manager, Austrian Economist) of Equity Management Associates joins me on the show to chat about living through the burning house of fiat money. We chat:

                                              • What’s changing in the world today and why so many took it for granted
                                              • The insecurity around property rights
                                              • Holding paper assets vs physical assets
                                              • Change in monetary order
                                              • Economic ignorance in the world today
                                              • Links:

                                                • Twitter: @LawrenceLepard
                                                • Site: Ema2.com
                                                • Sponsors:

                                                  • Swan Bitcoin
                                                  • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                                  • Compass Mining
                                                  • Braiins.com
                                                  • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                                  • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                                                  • Stephan Livera links:

                                                    • Show notes and website
                                                    • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                                    • Subscribe to the podcast
                                                    • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                                    • 1 hr 4 min
                                                    • SLP356 Bitcoin: An Upgrade to 700 Year Old Accounting Tech

                                                      Darin Feinstein, Founder of Core Scientific (Bitcoin Mining) joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin as an upgrade on some very old accounting technology and what it could mean for our future. We get into:

                                                      • Learning about Bitcoin
                                                      • Bitcoin mining narratives - FUD and facts
                                                      • Bitcoin’s importance for liberty
                                                      • Challenges to Bitcoin fungibility
                                                      • Bitcoin for human rights
                                                      • EU Proof of Work ban?
                                                      • The path forward
                                                      • Links:

                                                        • Twitter: @DarinFeinstein
                                                        • Site: CoreScientific.com
                                                        • Twitter: @Core_Scientific
                                                        • Sponsors:

                                                          • Swan Bitcoin
                                                          • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                                          • Compass Mining
                                                          • Braiins.com
                                                          • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                                          • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                                                          • Stephan Livera links:

                                                            • Show notes and website
                                                            • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                                            • Subscribe to the podcast
                                                            • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                                            • 1 hr 21 min
                                                            • SLP355 Julie Landrum - Payments Infrastructure for the Bitcoin Standard

                                                              Julie Landrum of OpenNode joins me to talk about what they’re building to help people onboard to Bitcoin & the lightning network as a payment standard. OpenNode first got its name as a merchant payment processor but we chat about how the company has grown and evolved over the years. We chat:

                                                              • Bitcoin infrastructure services for merchants, bitcoin companies
                                                              • Dealing with the cyclical nature of Bitcoin
                                                              • Spend, HODL, earn?
                                                              • Chargeback risk
                                                              • Dealing with regulatory requirements
                                                              • El Salvador adoption
                                                              • International adoption
                                                              • Links:

                                                                • Twitter: @OpenNode
                                                                • Twitter: @juliecity
                                                                • Site: OpenNode.com
                                                                • Previous episode:

                                                                  • SLP50 Rui Gomes & João Almeida of OpenNode – Helping merchants take Bitcoin Lightning Payments
                                                                  • Sponsors:

                                                                    • Swan Bitcoin
                                                                    • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                                                    • Compass Mining
                                                                    • Braiins.com
                                                                    • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                                                    • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                                                                    • Stephan Livera links:

                                                                      • Show notes and website
                                                                      • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                                                      • Subscribe to the podcast
                                                                      • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                                                      • 1 hr 3 min
                                                                      • SLP354 Josef Tetek - Why is Bitcoin HODLing rational?

                                                                        Josef Tetek of Trezor (and contributor at Bitcoin Magazine) joins me on the show to talk about:

                                                                        • The liberty movement in Europe
                                                                        • The connection between Austrian economics and bitcoin
                                                                        • Fractional and full reserve visions of bitcoin’s future
                                                                        • Why HODLing is rational
                                                                        • Nakamoto-Gresham’s law and how most get Gresham’s law wrong
                                                                        • Links:

                                                                          • Twitter: @SatsJoseph
                                                                          • Article: What is Nakamoto-Gresham’s Law and How does it pertain to Bitcoin?
                                                                          • Sponsors:

                                                                            • Swan Bitcoin
                                                                            • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                                                            • Compass Mining
                                                                            • Braiins.com
                                                                            • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                                                            • CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
                                                                            • Stephan Livera links:

                                                                              • Show notes and website
                                                                              • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                                                              • Subscribe to the podcast
                                                                              • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                                                              • 50 min
                                                                              • SLP353 John Cantrell - Sensei: A new lightning node client based on BDK + LDK

                                                                                John Cantrell of L2 Technology and Spiral BTC grantee rejoins me on the show to talk about his latest work in making Bitcoin and the lightning network more accessible for the many. Sensei can be thought of as an LND or c-lightning but for LDK. We chat:

                                                                                • John’s journey since cracking Alistair Milne’s 12 word seed
                                                                                • How sensei works
                                                                                • Trade offs
                                                                                • How the child node concept works
                                                                                • What does it look like if 7.7B+ people onboarded to the lightning network?
                                                                                • Links:

                                                                                  • LN Thread
                                                                                  • Twitter: @JohnCantrell97
                                                                                  • Site: Sensei
                                                                                  • Prior episode:

                                                                                    • SLP187 John Cantrell - Bruteforcing Bitcoin Seeds
                                                                                    • Sponsors:

                                                                                      • Swan Bitcoin
                                                                                      • Hodl Hodl Lend
                                                                                      • Compass Mining
                                                                                      • Braiins.com
                                                                                      • Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
                                                                                      • CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
                                                                                      • Stephan Livera links:

                                                                                        • Show notes and website
                                                                                        • Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
                                                                                        • Subscribe to the podcast
                                                                                        • Patreon @stephanlivera
                                                                                        • 53 min

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