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Stephan Livera Podcast

Join Stephan as he interviews the sharpest economic and technical minds in Bitcoin & Austrian Economics to help you understand how money is changing and evolving. Leading names in the world of Bitcoin join the show to share their insights, whether they are developers, CEOs, economists, authors, analysts and more.

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00:55:05

SLP371 Max Keiser - Investing For Hyperbitcoinisation...

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2022/04/30

Max Keiser, Bitcoiner, financial broadcaster, investor and writer joins me on the show to talk about his adventures in El Salvador and investments in line with the global hyperbitcoinisation thesis. We chat: Living in El Salvador Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure El Zonte Capital and who’s involved Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Gaming Thoughts on Central African Republic Bitcoin City Links: Twitter: @maxkeiser Twitter: @ElZonteCapital Twitter: @stacyherbert Email:

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00:52:28

SLP370 Alex Thorn - Why Are Bitcoin Fees Low?

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/04/29

Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital (previously Avon Ventures & Fidelity) joins me to talk about how and why Bitcoin Fees are low. After going through eras of higher fees, it might be puzzling as to why they’re low now. We talk: Which factors had the biggest impact SegWit Batching Lightning Network Less OP_Returns Less miner selling What might cause fees to rise in future Links: Twitter: @intangiblecoins Twitter thread:

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01:02:09

SLP369 Daniel Frumkin - Calculating Bitcoin Mining...

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2022/04/27

Daniel Frumkin of Braiins joins me on the show to talk about calculating Bitcoin Mining profitability and a load of topics: Braiins insights dashboard Stratum v2 benefits Profitability calculator Cost to mine calculator CAPEX or OPEX costs for mining? How to think about mining ROI Updates coming Links: Twitter: @dfrumps Site: insights.braiins.com Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Braiins.com Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com(code LIVERA) Stephan Livera

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00:52:57

SLP368 BitcoinQNA - Bitcoin Seed Tool

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2022/04/26

Bitcoin QNA of Bitcoiner.guide joins me on the show to talk about Bitcoin Seeds and a new Seed Tool created with SuperPhatArrow. In this show you’ll learn a little bit about how your bitcoin wallet works in the background: Bitcoin and entropy Seed Words Passphrases Bitcoin wallets and addresses BIP85 BIP47 Stealth Addresses Education for newcoiners in the space Links: Site: https://bitcoiner.guide/seed Twitter: @BitcoinQ_A Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Braiins.com

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00:54:54

SLP367 Pierre Rochard - Lightning Network Comes to...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/04/21

Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Lead Strategist at Kraken rejoins me on the show to talk about new lightning network developments and how Lightning network is growing: Experience of setting up LN at Kraken LN for day to day use not being big yet Millions of people plugged into Lightning Will LN node operation only be for pros? Long term fee / security arguments Thoughts on stablecoins vs Bitcoin Links: Twitter: @pierre_rochard Prior episodes: SLP147 Pierre Rochard & Saifedean Ammous –

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01:00:13

SLP366 Nate (BeefOrBacon) - How To Run Your Lightning...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/04/19

Nate (aka BeefOrBacon1, also working at Voltage) joins me to talk about how to run a Bitcoin Lightning node. We get into all sorts of information while keeping it accessible for people relatively new to running a lightning node. Different lightning user types How to run your lightning node Different types of node: RPi, box, VPS How to manage channels Who to open channels with What tools you can use Should you use swap providers? What kind of fees do you earn? How do you backup your

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00:44:21

SLP365 Anita Posch - Bitcoin For Fairness in Zimbabwe...

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2022/04/15

Anita Posch, bitcoin educator, podcaster and founder of Bitcoin For Fairness joins me on the show to talk about her recent trip to Zimbabwe and Zambia. We chat about: Why she went Crypto Scammers vs Bitcoin Education Bitcoin software and hardware Main hurdles to adoption Government views on Bitcoin p2p Bitcoin Links: @AnitaPosch bffbtc.org Bitcoin for Fairness - Anita Posch (L)earn Bitcoin Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Braiins.com Unchained

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01:25:08

SLP364 Max Hillebrand ZKSnacks Blacklisting Coins

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2022/04/03

Max Hillebrand, a bitcoin and privacy educator, also working at ZKSnacks (the company behind Wasabi Wallet) rejoins me to talk about why ZKSnacks is implementing blacklisting, and working with chain surveillance firms. We disagree a lot in this one! But we chat: Wasabi Wallet default coordinator implementing censorship Coinjoin coordinator models comparison The contradiction between being anti surveillance firms and working with them Is there a regulatory capture angle here? Address re use

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01:12:13

SLP363 Seth For Privacy - Bitcoin & Fungibility...

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2022/03/30

Seth for Privacy joins me to chat about Bitcoin & Fungibility. We chat: Privacy and fungibility Practical real world difficulties of censoring Bitcoin and Monero community differences Technical and social reasons for not having protocol level privacy The hopes for application level privacy with tools like Samourai Wallet & Sparrow Wallet Growing the p2p bitcoin economy Links: Twitter: @sethforprivacy Site: https://sethforprivacy.com/ Pieter Wuille StackExchange answer

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01:07:16

SLP362 John Carvalho - Slashpay: Bitcoin Payment...

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2022/03/28

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:

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01:04:23

SLP361 Rene Pickhardt - Pickhardt Payments & Zero...

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2022/03/26

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

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01:30:37

SLP360 Giacomo Zucco Bitcoin - Can Bitcoin be both...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/24

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 -

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01:03:14

SLP359 Abubakar Nur Khalil - Bitcoin in Africa, Qala,...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/23

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

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00:55:17

SLP358 Lili - Bitcoin Privacy for Beginners

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/22

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

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01:03:38

SLP357 Lawrence Lepard The Burning House of Fiat

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/21

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

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01:20:36

SLP356 Bitcoin: An Upgrade to 700 Year Old Accounting...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/19

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:

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01:02:18

SLP355 Julie Landrum - Payments Infrastructure for...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/16

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

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00:49:35

SLP354 Josef Tetek - Why is Bitcoin HODLing rational?

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/13

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

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00:52:44

SLP353 John Cantrell - Sensei: A new lightning node...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/03/08

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:

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01:09:07

SLP352 Matt Hill - EmbassyOS & Making Self...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2022/02/25

Matt Hill of Start9 Labs rejoins me on the show to talk about where the world is at, and a surprising argument that might actually be true. Sovereign Tech may be adopted, not merely because of privacy, but because of being lower cost. We chat: Canada Truckers and the broader fight for freedom Is it a question of tools or winning hearts and minds? What’s new and coming in EmbassyOS v0.3.0? Why cost will be the driver Making it easy to use and saying goodbye to command line Community driven

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