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Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown

Interviews with the best founders building on Bitcoin. Jacob takes an open-minded approach and talks with builders from all corners of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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48:48

BitVM meets ZK Rollups on Bitcoin with Orkun Kilic -...

Built on Bitcoin with Jacob Brown ·

2024/02/07

Orkun is the co-founder of Citrea. A new Bitcoin L2 leveraging the latest ZK Rollup tech and BitVM to connect to the Bitcoin L1. Follow him on Twitter: @0x_orkun How best to scale Bitcoin is a hotly debated topic. One promising option is rollups, but to do them properly we need an a new OP_CODE. That is until BitVM entered the picture with a middle path with potential for bridges with much safer trust assumptions.

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53:49

Rollups on Bitcoin, BitVM Bridges and Finding...

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2024/02/02

In this open-format chat. Charlie Spears, Donny, Bob Bodily, and myself discuss a few interesting topics including: - How close ZKrollups are to coming to Bitcoin - Building better bridges for L2s with BitVM - The Taproot Wizards BIPLand - Finding consensus for upgrades in 2024 You will definitely learn something in this one.

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41:46

Is The Seed Phrase Era Over? with Louise Ivan - CEO &...

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2023/11/17

In 2023, managing your crypto wallet is still a big pain in the butt. Seed phrases are a single point of failure no normal person wants to use. Enter the Ryder One. They have rethought the experience of what a hardware wallet could be from first principles and created a completely new experience for securely managing your digital assets. Louise Ivan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ryder. Learn more about Ryder: https://www.ryder.id/ Order your own Ryder One:

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57:14

E125: RGB Deep-Dive & Scaling Bitcoin with Hunter...

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2023/10/14

What is RGB? That is the question we are answering today. RGB is an off-chain solution that brings smart contracts to Bitcoin. It's a radically different approach to the global-state blockchains we're used to. Hunteris the Director of Engineering at DIBA. They are building a bleeding-edge wallet and platform to operationalize the RGB protocol. Tune in, there's a lot to cover. Follow Hunter on Twitter: @cryptoquick Learn more about DIBA: https://diba.io/ Try BitMask wallet:

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55:55

E:124 Bitcoin Startup Investing with Mike Jarmuz -...

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2023/10/02

Mike Jarmuz is the Managing Partner at Lightning Ventures. A Bitcoin-focused venture capital firm supporting early-stage founders. He has invested in over 1,500 startups to-date. We discuss: - Biggest mistakes he sees founders make when pitching - Anti-VC sentiment in Bitcoin - Biggest Opportunities - How to find good VC partners + much more Follow Mike on Twitter: @@MikeJarmuz Check out Lightning Ventures: https://ltng.ventures/

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38:37

E123: Understanding Babylon Bitcoin Staking with...

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2023/09/11

$500 billion in BTC is sitting mostly dormant. Proof-of-Stake chains need large amounts of capital to secure the network. David Tse is working to solve these two problems by allowing you to stake Bitcoin and secure a myriad of other blockchains. This new project is called Babylon. Check out the recently released litepaper here. https://docs.babylonchain.io/assets/files/btc_staking_litepaper-32bfea0c243773f0bfac63e148387aef.pdf Follow David Tse on Twitter: @dntse Follow Babylon on Twitter:

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58:00

E122: Decoding the Lightning Network with Jesse...

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2023/08/21

The Lightning Network is heralded as the future of payments. However, several aspects of the network still require refinement. Amboss is one company doing that work. Jesse and his team are creating tools to make it more efficient to run a Lightning node and have access to the best data to make informed decisions. Follow Jesse on X: @Jestopher_BTC Learn more about Amboss: https://amboss.space/ Get Built on Bitcoin directly to your inbox and never miss an episode:

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66:21

E121: Educating The Next 10k Bitcoin Developers with...

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2023/08/04

Lisa Neigut wears many hats. Lightning Protocol Engineer, Bitcoin Educator, and developer conference organizer just to name a few. She is the co-founder of Base58, an education platform focused on teaching beginner-to-advanced courses on different parts of Bitcoin. As well as organizing multiple conferences per year focused on the Bitcoin developer experience with BTC++. Follow Lisa on Twitter: @niftynei Learn more about Base58: https://www.base58.info/ Learn about the next BTC++ event:

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51:09

E120: Building Sound Finance for Sound Money with...

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2023/07/28

Matthew Black is building non-custodial Bitcoin financial tools. He started on the otherside side of crypto before getting disenchanted with how things were being built and making the jump to Bitcoin. Since then, him and his team have been hard at work on Atomic Finance and recently launched their first product using Discreet Log Contracts to safely earn a yield on your BTC. Follow Matthew on Twitter: @matthewjablack Learn more about Atomic Finance: https://atomic.finance/ Follow Atomic on Twitter:

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49:59

E119: Sovereign Stablecoins & The Bitcoin Economy -...

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2023/07/21

Edan Yago is a core contributor to Sovryn. A DeFi protocol building financial tools for Bitcoin on the Rootstock sidechain. In this episode, we discuss: - The role of money - Practical ways to onboard new Bitcoiners - Satoshi's Hierarchy of Needs - Bitcoin-Only mindset and its flaws - Bitcoin-backed stablecoins and the Sovryn $DLLR and other gems. Check out and use Sovryn at https://sovryn.com/ Follow Yago on Twitter @EdanYago

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18:40

E118: 5 Insights from 1 Year in Bitcoin VC - Jacob Brown

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2023/07/14

Its been just over a year since I switched careers entirely and got into the VC space with an analyst position a the Bitcoin Frontier Fund. Here are 5 things I learned that I was completely unaware of before I started.

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71:18

E117: Understanding Fedimint & Federations with Kody...

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2023/06/10

Fedi is building community-empowering tech powered by Fedimint. An open-source protocol to custody and transact Bitcoin within a community (federation). This is a wide-ranging conversation with Kody Low who is the head of developer & product support at Fedi. We touch on his experience as a new Bitcoin developer and best places to learn today, the differences between Fedi and Fedimint, and a deep dive into the design space of using federations to expand the utility of Bitcoin. You will learn a few

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54:35

E116: Ordinals, BRC20's, & Rollups Explained with Bob...

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2023/06/02

A tsunami of innovation has crashed over Bitcoin in the past few months thanks to Ordinals. It's hard to keep up with the latest. Bob Bodily breaks down ordinals, inscriptions, BRC20s, rollups, and more. He and his team are also building Bioniq, which they say will be the fastest Ordinals marketplace in the world running on Internet Computer. Follow Bob on Twitter: @BobBodily Learn more about Bioniq: https://bioniq.io/collections

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32:34

E115: Building the Bitcoin Economy with Muneeb Ali -...

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2023/05/12

Muneeb needs no introduction. He is an OG in the Bitcoin space and has been building in the space for over a decade. He co-created the Stacks blockchain with Ryan Shea and currently is the CEO of Trust Machines which is building the largest ecosystem of applications focused on making Bitcoin more useful. Follow Muneeb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/muneeb Learn more about Trust Machines: https://trustmachines.co/ Learn more about Stacks: https://www.stacks.co/

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66:17

E114: Stablecoins, Bitcoin and Building Protocols on...

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2023/03/31

Philip De Smedt is the co-founder and core contributor to Arkadiko. Arkadiko is a stablecoin protocol and lending platform built on Stacks, working to create better and more transparent finance tools for everyone. We discuss: - Why stablecoins aren't so stable? - Why build on Stacks? - The current landscape of DeFi + much more. Try out Arkadiko at https://arkadiko.finance/ Follow Philip on Twitter: @philipdesmedt Follow Arkadiko on Twitter: @ArkadikoFinance

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59:29

E113: Building a Bitcoin Bridge for All Chains -...

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2023/03/25

Alexei Zamyatin is a Bitcoin enthusiast, researcher & software developer. He co-founded Interlay to solve the problem of getting Bitcoin to be used in as many places as possible in a safe, secure way. That lead them to build the V1 of their decentralized Bitcoin bridge. V2 has been released this week and brings a whole new suite of tools including Uniswap-like AMM features, lending/borrowing, and more. Learn more about Interlay at https://www.interlay.io/ Follow Alexei on Twitter:

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16:48

E112: This Week in Bitcoin for March 22nd, 2023...

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2023/03/22

Links to everything mentioned in this episode: https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/p/week-bitcoin-march-22nd-2023 Follow Built on Bitcoin on Twitter: @JakeBlockchain Stay updated to all new Bitcoin innovation: www.builtonbitcoin.xyz

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44:46

E111: Nostr, BNS, and the Decentralized Future with...

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2023/03/17

The potential for a truly user-owned internet is becoming closer than ever with new protocols like Nostr and decentralized identity systems like BNS. Larry has been at the forefront working in this area for years. His latest project is solving the problem of identity and search for users on Nostr. Catch Larry online: Twitter - @larrysalibra Website - https://www.newinternetlabs.com/ Nostr Names - https://www.newinternetlabs.com/nostr/

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13:58

E110: This Week in Bitcoin for March 15th, 2023...

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2023/03/15

Links to everything mentioned in this episode: https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/p/week-bitcoin-march-15th-2023 Follow Built on Bitcoin on Twitter: @JakeBlockchain Stay updated to all new Bitcoin innovation: www.builtonbitcoin.xyz

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21:40

E109: This Week in Bitcoin for March 8th, 2023...

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2023/03/08

Links to everything mentioned in this episode: https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/p/week-bitcoin-march-8th-2023 Follow Built on Bitcoin on Twitter: @JakeBlockchain Stay updated to all new Bitcoin innovation: www.builtonbitcoin.xyz

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