Bitcoin in the last 12 years, bullish signs, trading volume in the last year, reactions towards El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender, fake hardware wallets, Blockstream’s Bitcoin strategy.
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In this episode I talk with Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow about Blockstream’s Cypherpunk origins and their far stretching engagement in the Bitcoin space – from their Green and Aqua wallet, to their mining business, the Liquid sidechain and the Blockstream satellites, which enable receiving Bitcoin without the Internet.

Samson Mow’s Bitcoin story
Why Bitcoin is important
Blockstream’s Cypherpunk background
What is Liquid?
Lightning Network and c-lightning
Blockstream Green vs. Aqua wallet
Bitcoin works without the internet – satellites
Blockstream’s mining operations – future of mining

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What does it mean, that Bitcoin will be legal tender in El Salvador? Taproot will be locked in successfully.
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June 9, 2021 a historical moment for Bitcoin. The first country of the world, El Salvador, made Bitcoin officially legal tender. Michael Peterson initiated Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte and started this whole development. I spoke with him two weeks before, he said, he is expecting a country to adopt Bitcoin, but we didn’t know, that it will happen so soon. Listen to the story of Bitcoin Beach and the people of El Salvador.
Our topics:

Michael Peterson’s Bitcoin story
What is Bitcoin Beach?
Description of El Salvador
Living conditions, financial problems
How Bitcoin makes a difference
Which wallets and services people are using
Use cases and hurdles?
How people navigate volatility
What Bitcoin enables
Is there a circular bitcoin economy?
Goal of Bitcoin Beach 2021 and beyond?

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So many news this week…
_Taproot on the way
_Bitcoin adoption in Zimbabwe
_Inflation hits new records
_News from China and India
_Bitcoin was on the moon
_building a permissionless future
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Exiledsurfer is an early Bitcoiner, a Co-founder of Parallele Polis and now part of the communications team of Sovryn a Bitcoin-native DeFi platform. We’re talking about the historical developments and the roots of Bitcoin as a Hippie activists Utopia coming true, the community discussions around the differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin, and who the real enemies of Bitcoin are. Tldr: it’s companies like Coinbase.

exiledsurfer’s Bitcoin story
The Bitcoin Foundation
Early history and different mindsets of the Bitcoin community
Original promises of Bitcoin
Nation state actors coming into mining
21st century paradigm: Government identity vs. cryptographic identities not tied to personal data
Bitcoin’s USP has been confirmed
Bitcoin a Hippie activists utopia
Cypherpunk ethos
Companies like Coinbase are a threat to Bitcoin, not governments
Sovryn’s idea and goals
SOV token and governance
KYC rant
Sovryn hackathon

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This week’s learnings:
_Bitcoin privacy improvements with Taproot
_mining developments in China
_solar power is bad?
_hodlers hodl
_state of the Lightning Network
_Bitcoin and new art forms
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Rarescrilla is a hip-hop musician and producer, who joined the cryptomusic journey in 2014 and created DJ PEPE in 2016 with a first of its kind access token based on the Counterparty platform, which is extending Bitcoin’s functionality. In 2020 he dropped the “Sound Money” album, a niche hip hop themed bitcoin album. Now he is into programmable music, where the owners of music layers control the output, which makes it living art and music.

Rarescrilla’s Bitcoin journey
First NFTs in 2014? Early days and now?
Impact of current NFT “craze” on the art and music space
Path to adoption
Why Rarescrilla is focusing on Bitcoin
Future of NFTs on Bitcoin
Sound Money album and upcoming projects

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This week’s learnings: buy and earn bitcoin now.
_Bitcoin dipping, what’s next?
_volatility is good
_where Bitcoin is needed the most
_Sub-Saharan Africa’s trading volume up in 2021
_Bitcoin, NFTS and the arts
_US regulatory crackdown will spur decentralization
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My guest is Adam B. Levine the managing editor for podcasts at Coindesk, and host of the longest-running English language talk show about Bitcoin called “Speaking of Bitcoin” (formerly known as Let’s Talk Bitcoin). I appreciate Adam’s work a lot, I have been an avid listener of his podcast for many years. Adam is also the CEO of tokenly.com, has minted some NFTs and had Metakovan on his show, who bought Beeple’s NFT for $ 69 million – the most expensive NFT sold at an auction so far. Our topic is NFTs and how they are going to shape the art world of the future.

“The value of the key is not how it looks like, it’s what it does.” – Adam B. Levine about NFTs


Adam B. Levine’s podcasting and Bitcoin story
Why Metakovan paid $69 Mio. for Beeple’s NFT
Advantages and responsibility of being your own bank
Technology adoption
Democratization of art and gatekeepers
Technological problems to be solved
How to mint a NFT
Tezos, Mintable, Rarible, Nifty gateway
Artists revenue split and rewards
The new renaissance and the Medici patronage model
Lightning network and podcasting
Adam sent 5 bitcoin to Adam Curry
Tokenly project, crowdfunding with tokens

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