The Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast

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  • Cypherpunk CTO of Casa Jameson Lopp tells the story of being swatted and how he has disappeared.
    http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition1.com/podcast/BTCK-254-2019-03-12.mp3

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    Cypherpunk CTO of Casa Jameson Lopp tells the story of being swatted and how he has disappeared.

    About the episode.

    Resources
    • Jameson Lopp's Website
    • Lopp's Blog
    • Lopp's Twitter
    • Statoshi.info
    • BitGo
    • Casa
    • Ethereum
    • What is a cypherpunk?
    • "Swatting"
    • How To Vanish
    • Show Notes
      • 00:00:00 - Welcome & Intro.
      • 00:00:46 - Who is Jameson Lopp?
      • 00:01:41 - Lopp’s background before Bitcoin.
      • 00:02:24 - Lopp explains why he sees himself as a cypherpunk.
      • 00:03:36 - How Bitcoin has influenced Lopp himself and why Bitcoin is his favorite.
      • 00:08:11 - What Lopp is doing at Casa.
      • 00:11:16 - Lopp tells the story of how he was “swatted” and how it forced him to adjust his behavior.
      • 00:14:54 - Trace Mayer explains how difficult it is to maintain privacy of your information and how important it is.
      • 00:19:46 - When Lopp thinks the crypto work will be finished and what he is most excited for in the future.
      • 00:21:36 - Lopp gives advice to the listeners.
      • 25 min
      • Bitcoin developer Bryan Bishop discusses Bitcoin development.
        http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition1.com/podcast/BTCK-253-2019-03-05.mp3

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        Bitcoin developer Bryan Bishop and Trace Mayer talk about technical aspects of Bitcoin and Bitcoin development.

        About the episode.

        Resources
        • Bryan Bishop
        • Building on Bitcoin
        • Open Currency
        • Lightning Network
        • Nick Szabo
        • Hal Finney
        • Wei Dai
        • Adam Back
        • BitDNS
        • Secp256k1
        • BIPS
        • Bolts
        • Schnorr signatures
        • SIGHASH_NOINPUT
        • LedgerX
        • Show Notes
          • 00:00:46 - Welcome & Intro.
          • 00:01:14 - How Bishop got in to Bitcoin.
          • 00:03:39 - What kind of technical debt have we seen with Bitcoin and how difficult is it to work with consensus critical code?
          • 00:10:16 - Bishop explains what is happening in bitcoin development.
          • 00:12:01 - Bishop explains what is coming down the pipeline with BTC development...
          • 25 min
          • Bitcoin PHD Dr. Christian Decker explains Lighting Network.
            http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition1.com/podcast/BTCK-252-2019-02-26.mp3

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            Christian Decker discusses the Lightning Network.

            About the episode.

            Resources
            • Christian Decker
            • Blockstream
            • ETH Zurich
            • Lightning Network
            • Duplex micropayment channels
            • Lightning Labs
            • BitPico
            • Ethereum
            • Full node
            • Taproot
            • One-way Aggregatable Signatures
            • Schnorr
            • Show Notes
              • 00:01:15 - Christian Decker’s history with bitcoin and lightning network.
              • 00:04:00 - Decker teaches about sequence numbers and what Satoshi’s original vision for them was.
              • 00:06:31 - Who is working in the lightning space?
              • 00:08:44 - Decker explains the many possible risks with much larger block sizes.
              • 00:18:05 - Decker tells his recommendations for listeners and what he is most excited about for the future.
              • 21 min
              • Legendary guest Dr. Adam Back updates his Bitcoin observations.
                http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition1.com/podcast/BTCK-251-2019-02-12.mp3

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                Legendary guest Dr. Adam Back, cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, gives his latest observations of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

                About the episode.

                Resources
                • Dr. Adam Back
                • Liquid
                • Confidential transaction episodes
                • Greg Maxwell
                • Confidential Assets
                • Homomorphic encryption
                • Bitcoin gold
                • Atomic swaps
                • MAST
                • Tim Ruffing
                • Switch commitments
                • BTCPay
                • Cypherpunk
                • Show Notes
                  • 00:00:32 - What interesting things are going on in Bitcoin today?
                  • 00:02:05 - Confidential Assets – What are they?
                  • 00:09:05 - Why Bitcoin security is very difficult to replicate.
                  • 00:10:45 - Why the fourth network effect of miners is so important.
                  • 00:11:53 - How useful side chains could be.
                  • 00:21:03 - Gold vs. the Dollar vs. Bitcoin a...
                  • 35 min
                  • Adam Gibson discusses Bitcoin fungibility.
                    http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition.com/podcast/BTCK-250-2019-01-29.mp3

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                    Join Market Maintainer Adam Gibson discusses Bitcoin fungibility.

                    About the episode.

                    Resources
                    • Join Market
                    • Join Market Repo
                    • Join Market Blog
                    • Join Market
                    • Chris Belcher
                    • CoinJoin
                    • Mt. Gox
                    • TLS Notary
                    • LavaBit
                    • Greg Maxwell
                    • Tim Ruffing
                    • Christian Decker
                    • Liquid
                    • Dr. Adam Back
                    • RSA
                    • Opendime
                    • Coldcard
                    • Jonas Nick
                    • Tumble Bit
                    • Schnorr
                    • Onion routing
                    • Show Notes
                      • 00:00:45 - Welc...
                      • 30 min
                      • Aaron Van Wirdum tells epic BTC journalism tales.
                        http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition.com/podcast/BTCK-249-2019-01-22.mp3

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                        Aaron Van Wirdum, technical editor for the Bitcoin Magazine, regales us with bitcoin journalism stories.

                        About the episode.

                        Resources
                        • Bitcoin Magazine
                        • Aaron Van Wirdum
                        • History of the printing press
                        • Onion Routing
                        • Lightning Network
                        • Bitcoin signatures
                        • Show Notes
                          • 00:01:14 - How Aaron became interested in learning and writing about bitcoin.
                          • 00:03:30 - How are bitcoin and free speech interconnected?
                          • 00:04:40 - Aaron tells how he reconciles his bitcoin positivity with the overwhelmingly negative mainstream press.
                          • 00:07:35 - How is bitcoin like the printing press and how can we learn from the past to predict the future?
                          • 00:12:45 - Aaron uses the example of the evolution of the bicycle to explain that we may not understand how bitcoin will develop.
                          • 00:15:50 - Aaron shares a few major misconceptions about bitcoin that he would love to fix.
                          • 00:17:12 - Aaron tells some journalism war stories.
                          • 00:22:55 - Aaron lists the names of other bitcoin journalists that he trusts.
                          • 00:23:39 - Aaron’s advice for listeners.
                          • 26 min
                          • What Bitcoin Did interviews Trace Mayer about why Bitcoin is important, Austrian Economics and The 7 Network Effects of Bitcoin.
                            http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition.com/podcast/BTCK-248-2019-01-08.mp3

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                            What Bitcoin Did interviews Trace Mayer about why Bitcoin is important, Austrian economics, the 7 Networks Effects of Bitcoin and Proof of Keys.

                            About the episode.

                            Resources
                            • What Bitcoin Did
                            • 7 Networks Effects of Bitcoin
                            • Proof of Keys
                            • Show Notes
                              • 00:03:49 - Intro and welcome
                              • 00:05:04 - What is Bitcoin and who is it for?
                              • 00:06:01 - The 7 Network Effects of Bitcoin
                              • 00:22:59 - Introduction to Austrian Economics
                              • 00:37:30 - Interest Trace has in crypto outside of Bitcoin
                              • 00:44:34 - Bitcoin being ahead of target
                              • 00:49:55 - Thoughts on KYC/AML in reference to Tim May article
                              • 00:53:16 - Proof of Keys
                              • 01:07:05 - Why you should run your own full node
                              • 1 hr 16 min
                              • A decade of Bitcoin in the rearview mirror.
                                http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition.com/podcast/BTCK-247-2019-01-01.mp3

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                                A decade of Bitcoin in the rearview mirror.

                                About the episode.

                                Resources
                                • Bitcoin By The Numbers
                                  • Bitmex insurance fund
                                  • LedgerX
                                  • FIBRE Network
                                  • Blockstream Satellites
                                  • Jameson Lopp
                                  • Segwit
                                  • UTXO
                                  • Lightning Network
                                  • Rootstock
                                  • Liquid
                                  • OP RETURN
                                  • Bitcoin Core
                                  • Monero
                                  • Bitcoin Cash
                                  • Dash
                                  • Ripple
                                  • Stellar
                                  • Litecoin
                                  • HitBTC
                                  • Show Notes
                                    • 00:00:45 - Welcome and intro.
                                    • 00:04:00 - Bitcoin by the numbers.
                                    • 00:07:44 - New Github commits and contributor numbers for bitcoin vs. altcoins.
                                    • 00:09:38 - Ventu...
                                    • 26 min
                                    • Casa CEO Jeremy Welch discusses running a Bitcoin full-node and Lightning Network node.
                                      http://media.blubrry.com/bitcoinruntogold/p/www.satoshisdeposition.com/podcast/BTCK-246-2018-12-18.mp3

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                                      Casa CEO Jeremy Welch discusses running a Bitcoin full-node and Lightning Network node.

                                      Resources
                                      • Casa
                                      • Casa - Twitter
                                      • Jeremy Welch
                                      • Bitcoin full node
                                      • Lightning Network
                                      • Warning and Dangers with Ledger and Trezor
                                      • Show Notes
                                        • 00:01:25 - What does Casa do?
                                        • 00:03:15 - Why is network consensus so important?
                                        • 00:04:10 - How will satellites affect this consensus?
                                        • 00:08:35 - Why is proof of keys so important?
                                        • 00:10:50 - What are the advantages of proof of keys to individuals and to the community?
                                        • 00:12:45 - What are the disadvantages of using a Casa node?
                                        • 00:15:50 - The security vs. convenience/usability trade off.
                                        • 00:18:15 - What about the potential problems with hardware wallets?
                                        • 00:22:53 - What Welch is the most excited about.
                                        • 00:25:45 - How Casa helps people manage their keys.
                                        • 30 min

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