Stephan Livera Podcast

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Stephan Livera Podcast episodes

June 24, 2019SLP83 Conner Fromknecht - Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers in depth
Conner Fromknecht Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs, joins me to go in depth on Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers. Understand how Bitcoin’s Lightning Network keeps channel participants honest and how Watchtowers can help:
How Lightning Network’s punishment model works without watchtowers

Where watchtowers come in and how they work

Why watchtowers can’t steal your bitcoins

Scalability of watchtowers

Privacy

Funding and operation model

LND v0.7 features
Conner Fromknecht links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitconner

Github: https://github.com/cfromknecht

Lightning Labs website (Developer Slack sign up link on this page): https://lightning.engineering/
Sponsor links:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera

Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/?utm_source=Stephan%20Livera&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Affiliate
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact: [email protected]
1 hr 1 min
June 21, 2019SLP82 Alena Vranova - Data privacy in a digital age
Alena Vranova, Head of Strategy at Casa joins me in this episode to talk about the challenges we’re all facing with keeping our data secure, as well as what Casa are doing.
We talk:
Privacy horrors around the world

#MyDataMyLife campaign

What individuals can do to protect their privacy

How businesses can change their practices

Casa and their approach to customer data
Alena Vranova links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alenasatoshi

Casa: https://keys.casa/
Sponsor links:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera

Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/?utm_source=Stephan%20Livera&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Affiliate
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact: [email protected]
56 min
June 20, 2019SLP81 Dan Held - Why Bitcoin’s Security is Fine
Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange rejoins me in this episode to talk about the long term security of Bitcoin as it transitions to transaction fee (away from block subsidy). We discuss whether this will be a problem, or whether Bitcoin will be OK.
Basic statement of the concern

The modelling behind why Dan believes Bitcoin’s security is fine

The increasing ‘weight’ of a bitcoin transaction

How bitcoin usage will evolve in the future

Value of Bitcoin conference reflections e.g. is Proof of Work wasteful or environmentally destructive
Dan Held Links:
Dan Held Twitter: https://twitter.com/danheld

Bitcoin’s Security is Fine article: https://blog.picks.co/bitcoins-security-is-fine-93391d9b61a8?gi=2fa1fafbf5b4
Sponsor links:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera

Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/?utm_source=Stephan%20Livera&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Affiliate
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact: [email protected]
59 min
June 17, 2019SLP80 Richard Myers - Bitcoin Incentivised Mesh Networking with Lot49
Richard Myers of Gotenna and Global Mesh Labs joins me to talk about a new way to improve mesh networking with the use of bitcoin payments to provide incentive for message and packet routing. We talk:
What the problem is with the current set up of the internet and current mesh networking

What the Lot49 proposal is

How it works

Risks and challenges to be faced

What happens next
Richard Myers Links:
Richard Myers twitter: https://twitter.com/remyers_

Global Mesh Labs twitter: https://twitter.com/globalmeshlabs

Global Mesh Labs site: https://globalmeshlabs.org/

Lot49 Protocol Whitepaper: https://global-mesh-labs.gitbook.io/lot49/

Global Mesh Labs Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/HvhpZhT_q4VYUgXm5hOFGA
Sponsor links:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera

Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact (advertising queries or general feedback): [email protected]
58 min
June 15, 2019SLP79 Misir Mahmudov - Bitcoin, Inequality & Morals
Misir Mahmudov (Bitcoin writer and working Operations at Adaptive Capital) joins me in this episode to talk:
How he learned about Bitcoin and Austrian Economics

Recommendations for listeners who want to learn more

His thesis on the closure of the gold window and impacts on inequality

Bitcoin and Morals

The role of Satoshi
Misir links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/misir_mahmudov

Medium: https://medium.com/@misir_mahmudov
Sponsor links:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera

Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact (advertising queries or general feedback): [email protected]
59 min
June 10, 2019SLP78 Samourai Wallet - Welcome to the Dojo
A co-founder of the Bitcoin privacy focused wallet, Samourai Wallet, rejoins the show in this fantastic episode to talk about the many updates since last time on the show (SLP29):
Getting funding from Cypherpunk Holdings

Release of Dojo software - open sourcing Samourai Wallet server backend

Collaboration with the nodl team for official Dojo Hardware

Whirlpool (Coinjoin) mixing

Other features and what to look out for - Stonewallx2, Stowaway, Ricochet
Samourai Wallet Links:
Samourai Wallet website: https://samouraiwallet.com/

Samourai Wallet Twitter: https://twitter.com/samouraiwallet

Samourai Wallet Telegram chat group: https://t.me/SamouraiWallet
Sponsor links:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera

Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact: [email protected]
1 hr 1 min
June 07, 2019SLP77 Kalle Rosenbaum - Grokking Bitcoin: it’s not just for developers
Kalle Rosenbaum (author, developer and bitcoin consultant) joins me in this episode to discuss his new book, Grokking Bitcoin. We talk:
The process of writing this book

David Harding’s foreword

Some cryptography basics

Different Bitcoin transaction types

How nodes communicate

Bitcoin upgrades, and bitcoin forks
Kalle Rosenbaum links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kallerosenbaum

(40% DISCOUNT CODE: podsliv19) Grokking Bitcoin book: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-bitcoin
Sponsor link:
Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera

Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email contact: [email protected]
48 min
June 03, 2019SLP76 Vijay Boyapati - Bitcoin is not Paypal 2.0
Vijay Boyapati, Bitcoin economic commentator, joins me to talk about:
Monetary stages of evolution

Merchant adoption of Bitcoin to receive payment - is it 2013 all over again?

Facebook Crypto

Horizontal “Crypto” vs Vertical Bitcoin businesses

Why Bitcoin is not Paypal 2.0
Vijay links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/real_vijay/

Bitcoin ‘Horizontal vs vertical’ thread: https://twitter.com/real_vijay/status/1128893146807488512
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera

Subscribe to the Podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/

Email for podcast advertising enquiries: [email protected]
55 min
May 31, 2019SLP75 Giacomo Zucco - There is only one Bitcoin (Newbie episode)
Giacomo joins me again in this episode to explain for newbies why there is only one Bitcoin. We cover common points of confusion that newbies and outsiders to Bitcoin may not grasp:
Forks of Bitcoin

Semantics and word games

Traps to avoid
Giacomo link:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/giacomozucco
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera

Website: https://stephanlivera.com/

Patreon: http://patreon.com/stephanlivera

Tallycoin for Bitcoin/Lightning donations: https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/
1 hr 9 min
May 28, 2019SLP74 Wiz - Bitcoiners vs Shitcoiners
Wiz, Bitcoin OG from Tokyo (and creator of the “Bitcoiner or Shitcoiner” browser extension) joins me in this episode to discuss his career, how to build your own ISP, and also, a new way to help mitigate social attacks on Bitcoin.
We talk:
Importance of self sovereignty for Bitcoiners

How to set up your own ISP

VPNs

Bitcoiner or Shitcoiner browser extension

Wiz’s work with Hive.one and setting up his projects, “Bitcoin Wizards”, and “Bitcoiner or Shitcoiner”

How this can help mitigate social attacks
Wiz links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiz

(Coming soon) Bitcoin Wizards: www.bitcoin-wizards.com

Bitcoin Wizards twitter: https://twitter.com/Bitcoin_Wizards

(Coming soon) Bitcoiner or Shitcoiner? www.bitcoiner-or-shitcoiner.com

Bitcoiner or Shitcoiner twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinerOrShit

Hive: https://hive.one/

Bitcoin-Only website: https://bitcoin-only.com/
Stephan Livera links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera

Patreon: http://patreon.com/stephanlivera

Tallycoin for Bitcoin/Lightning donations: https://tallyco.in/stephanlivera/

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Website: https://stephanlivera.com/
1 hr 1 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…