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Connect The World

Connect The World

An English podcast where we guide you in the magic world of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Do you want to participate in a Ring Of Fire (ROF) or help in our mission? CONTACT: CHAT - t.me/connect_the_world CHAT - t.me/satoshiradiorof CHANNEL - t.me/connect_the_world_channel TWITTER - twitter.com/ctw_podcast WEBSITE - connecttheworld.live DONATION: CTWBOT: https://t.me/ctwdonationbot SRROFBOT: https://t.me/srrofbot LN address: Joni_Kyasshu@LNTXBOT.com LN address: ⚡Joni_Kyasshu@LN.tips LNURL:

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01:10:31

Connect the World, The Anniversary Edition! | Bart Mol

Connect The World ·

2022/11/29

Connect The World EP053 | Bart Mol | Satoshi Radio | The Netherlands "Edward and Stef talk with Bart Mol, founder of the Dutch Satoshi Radio Podcast and Co-founder of the Dutch Bitcoin Alpha newsletter! This Episode is special in many ways! We’re celebrating the anniversary of the Connect the World Podcast! And we do that together with our very own Podfather from The Netherlands: Bart Mol! Bart started the Satoshi Radio Podcast in 2018 and has grown into the biggest community driven Bitcoin

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00:55:49

Called a Fool by Satoshi Nakamoto | Christian Decker

Connect The World ·

2022/11/22

Connect The World EP052 | Christian Decker | Blockstream | Zurich | Switzerland "Edward and Stef talk with Christian Decker, core tech engineer at Blockstream. Christian found the Bitcoin Whitepaper in 2009, did his PhD on it between 2012 and 2016 and is working ever since on the Lightning Network as a continuation of his research. At Blockstream he started working on Core Lightning right away, specifically working on Onion Routing together with Rusty Russell. They talk about the Blockstream

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00:57:46

Powerful Lightning web-plugin Alby | Moritz Kaminski

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2022/11/15

Connect The World EP051 | Alby | Moritz Kaminski | Switzerland "Edward and Stef talk with Moritz Kaminski, co-founder of Alby, the Bitcoin Lightning App for the browser! The Alby browser extension gives a seamless experience with in-browser payments and identity. They focus on interoperability and therefore make it future proof and suitable for a broader group of users. They talk with Moritz about the benefits of using your own Lightning node with Alby, their new API for developers and Bitcoin

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00:57:50

Adopting Bitcoin | Noor El Huda El Bawab

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2022/11/08

Connect The World EP050 | Noor El Huda El Bawab | Galoy Money | El Salvador "Edward and Stef talk with Noor, co-organizer of Adopting Bitcoin, the Lightning Summit held in El Salvador and Director of Partnership at Galoy Money. Adopting Bitcoin brings together the Bitcoin and Lightning community in San Salvador and El Zonte to connect and advance the future of money and payments in the Central American Republic. It includes three days of renowned speakers, engaging panels, educational tracks,

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00:26:34

Quick Talk | BOLT.FUN | Legends of Lightning Tournament

Connect The World ·

2022/11/03

Legends of Lightning is a new online global tournament organized by BOLT.FUN. It’s aiming for makers to learn, connect, collaborate and build innovative applications and tools with Bitcoin and Lightning! In this Quick Talk, Johns Beharry and Ed Pratt talk to Edward about how they came up with the Legends of Lightning tournament and how it exactly works when applying. They also discuss the importance of accelerator programs for the Lightning Space to keep people learning and experimenting with

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01:07:50

Mastering the Lightning Network | Rene Pickhardt

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2022/11/01

Connect The World EP049 | Rene Pickhardt | Data Scientist | Norway "Edward and Stef talk to Rene Pickhardt, a data scientist, consultant and co-writer of Mastering the Lightning Network. Rene is constantly working on open source projects, research on the Lightning Network and mentoring Lightning related projects during the Summer of Bitcoin. In April this year he received a grant from the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) to continue research on feature engineering to produce a better cost function

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00:58:51

Complete self sovereignty with Mempool.Space | Soft...

Connect The World ·

2022/10/25

Connect The World EP48 | Soft Simon | Mempool.space | Dubai "Edward and Stef talk to Soft Simon, a full stack developer and Co-founder of the open source Bitcoin block explorer, Mempool.space! With over a million visits a month and despite the bear market, Mempool.space is still growing! They talk about Mempool.space being the first multi-layer explorer that is also open source. They’re interconnecting the on-chain and Lightning explorer! And it gives everyone the possibility to run their own

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01:07:43

Derivatives Trading with LN Markets | Romain Rouphaël

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2022/10/18

Connect The World EP047 | Romain Rouphaël | LNmarkets | Portugal "Edward and Stef talk to Romain Rouphaël, Co-founder of LN Markets and ITŌ. This is a new type of Bitcoin derivatives trading platform. LN Markets can only be accessed via the Lightning Network and all transactions occur in Bitcoin and no fiat money is involved! They talk about how with LN Markets the focus is to leverage the Lightning Network for instant trading. With Lightning, they can build new interactions with the market:

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00:14:46

The Lightning Lounge | Sergej Kotliar

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2022/10/15

The Lightning Lounge EP005 | Sergej Kotliar | Bitrefill | Sweden "Edward and Stef talk to Sergej Kotliar, the CEO and Founder of Bitrefill. Based in Sweden, Bitrefill allows users to buy almost anything with Bitcoin through the sale of digital gift cards, bill pay, and mobile refills. Bitrefill is the number one place where people use their bitcoin, and is available in over 150 countries. Bitrefill is also a thought leader in the Lightning space - from being the first major merchant to accept

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00:25:04

The Lightning Lounge | John Carvalho

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2022/10/15

The Lightning Lounge EP004 | John Carvalho | Synonym | Portugal "Edward and Stef talk to the CEO at Synonym: John Carvalho. John is CEO at Synonym, where they are building an ecosystem of software products and protocols to enable a hyperbitcoinized future. John enjoys educating Bitcoiners about the dynamics of Bitcoin and squashing popular misconceptions and false narratives with his series of "Good Morning" tweets, and his many podcast and conference appearances. Watch and listen to this interview

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00:31:06

The Lightning Lounge | Ben Arc

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2022/10/14

The Lightning Lounge EP003 | Ben Arc | LNBITS | Wales - United Kingdom "Edward and Stef talk to Ben Arc. A bitcoin and free and open-source hobbyist, advocate, educator, researcher and inventor. Ben has started a number of cheap and useful DIY bitcoin hardware projects and workshops for points-of-sale, ATMs, vending machines, node monitors, hardware wallets. Always with an emphasis on users taking control of the hardware they use! Ben also started the LNbits project, a free and open-source

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00:28:13

The Lightning Lounge | Mick Morucci & Stelios Rammos

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2022/10/14

The Lightning Lounge EP002 | Mick Morucci & Stelios Rammos | Geyser | United Kingdom & The Netherlands "Edward and Stef talk to Mick Morucci & Stelios Rammos from Geyser. Mick started Geyser with the aim of supporting Bitcoin creators, creatives and builders to reach and engage their communities through borderless & viral crowdfunding. His belief is that this can only happen on Bitcoin/Lightning. As co-founder and CTO of Geyser, Stelios brings a passion for lightning, a drive to

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00:19:00

The Lightning Lounge | Kwinten De Backer

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2022/10/13

The Lightning Lounge EP001 | Kwinten De Backer | Alby | Belgium "Edward and Stef talk to a Physicist-turned-software-engineer from Belgium. Kwinten has been on the Lightning Network since February 2018. He worked as a freelance consultant for various (Lightning-related) companies. Creator of the “Flitz” app ceased operations, which was a direct SEPA-to-Lightning on-ramp. He is now managing Lightning nodes at Alby and developing Lightning-related software. Watch and listen to this interview live

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00:29:33

Workshop | Rings of Fire by Connect the World |...

Connect The World ·

2022/10/12

What is a Ring of Fire? Why is it helpful and How can you create your own? Together with Stef we wanted to answer all these questions during our Rings of Fire workshop at the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 Conference! Bitcoin Magazine made an awesome recording of it with video. This can be viewed on Youtube: https://youtu.be/fy2rvIE_7AQ. But we also recorded the audio ourselves to be able to publish it here as well. We've put all the relevant links here in the shownotes for you! So, enjoy and keep

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00:55:30

Basic Bitch Lightning software | Lisa Neigut

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2022/10/11

Connect The World EP046 | Lisa Neigut aka Nifty | Blockstream | Base58 | Texas USA "Edward and Stef talk to Nifty (Lisa Neigut), a Lightning Protocol Engineer at Blockstream and co-founder of Base58! Nifty has been working more than 4 years on Lightning protocol improvements for Blockstream and she started Base58 to offer a developer-oriented Bitcoin transaction class. She also runs a blog site, Basic Bitch Software. They talk about her current work on the newest version of CLN and the updates of

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00:15:04

Quick Talk | Slaapyhoofd | Building Lightning payment...

Connect The World ·

2022/10/07

Slaapyhoofd is a Full-stack developer and built the batch create tool nfc-brrr-machine to write LNBits wallets to NFC tags for any event! In this Quick Talk, Slaapyhoofd talks to Edward about his technical effort to create an NFC card for Connect the World for the upcoming Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 conference! This card is powered by LNBits and made possible by Satsback and TunnelSats! What is needed to create a Lightning payment NFC card yourself? Let’s listen to this conversation with Slaapyhoofd and

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00:55:53

Breez Lightning | Roy Sheinfeld

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2022/10/04

Connect The World EP045 | Roy Sheinfeld | Breez | Israel "Edward and Stef talk to Roy Sheinfeld, Co-founder and CEO of Breez. The Breez app is a fully functional Lightning Node running on your mobile phone! Roy describes Breez as not being just a wallet, but as an interface to the Lightning economy providing an infrastructure with services built on top! They talk about the Podcasting 2.0 and Point of Sale functions and their partnership with Blockstream to integrate their Greenlight solution,

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00:59:40

Everyone Will Have a Lightning Channel For Life! |...

Connect The World ·

2022/09/27

Connect The World EP044 | Dmitry Laptev aka Augustus Baggins | LN2ME | Switzerland "Edward and Stef talk to Dmitry Laptev, creator of ln2me.com. His ln2me node routes hundreds of payments per day and provides a service to help Lightning node operators with liquidity issues. Dmitry was the first to realize that getting inbound liquidity will be a huge problem for nodes. A real necessity for merchants who want to start accepting Lightning! They talk about how he started reading up on Bitcoin in 2013

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00:58:48

Building With Ben’s Arctifacts | Ben Arc

Connect The World ·

2022/09/20

Connect The World EP043 | Ben Arc | LNBITS | Wales - United Kingdom "Edward and Stef talk to Ben Arc, the creator of LNbits and a real Free Open Source Software developer, advocate, educator and builder of Bitcoin hardware and software from 2014! LNbits is often described as Wordpress for your Lightning Node. It’s a simple account system for multiple wallets and multiple users. You can add a lot of extra features by installing extensions. This makes LNbits work great for several use cases! Ben

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00:55:16

Game, Sat, Match!!! | Desiree Dickerson

Connect The World ·

2022/09/13

Connect The World EP042 | Desiree Dickerson | CEO THNDR | WASHINGTON DC USA "Edward and Stef talk to Desiree Dickerson, CEO of THNDR Games. They make it possible to earn Bitcoin while playing mobile games! Desiree shares how playing THNDR games is a great and easy way to reward pre-coiners to start stacking sats. This experience really helps the adoption of Bitcoin and Lightning! THNDR Games is hyperfocused on mobile gaming, seeing this as the future of gaming. They also talk about how Lightning

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