Stephan Livera Podcast

00:44:39

Smarter Web's Capital Structure and MORE Preferred |...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/10/05

Andrew Webley walks through Smarter Web's capital structure—ordinary shares as growth equity, a repaid short convert, Coinbase credit, and MORE as the income preferred.Webley is CEO of The Smarter Web Company (LSE: SWC), the UK's largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury. He traces the path from Hargreaves Lansdown to listing on Aquis, then the LSE Main Market, while building toward roughly 2,747 BTC on the balance sheet.The conversation covers ordinary shares versus preferred equity, why SWC

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00:45:28

Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/10/03

Bitcoiners built L402 for a Lightning-native web. Crypto built x402 for agents — and early volume is mostly stables. Ben Carman helped get Lightning into the x402 standard, and argues the pragmatic move is to meet that stack in the middle rather than wait for L402 alone.Ben Carman of Spiral rejoin me to unpack HTTP 402 Payment Required, facilitators versus Coinbase Commerce, why agentic payments are still near zero today, and why AI agents may adopt Bitcoin faster than humans — because models

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00:59:48

Why Bitkey Ditched Seed Phrases | Clay Garrett SLP778

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/10/01

Bitkey ditched seed phrases for a recovery-focused 2-of-3 design: an app key, hardware key, and Block server key that use phones, hardware, and cloud access to help people retain control of their funds.Clay Garrett, Bitkey lead at Block, joins Stephan Livera to explain the design trade-offs: safety as security plus recoverability, cloud backup that needs your hardware to decrypt, and why Bitkey does not treat vendor lock-in as its ethos.They dig into recovery paths, multi-vendor trade-offs,

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00:51:13

Bitcoin Savings vs Casino Exchanges | Julian Liniger...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/29

Most crypto exchanges are built like casinos: they chase the next hot token, prediction market, or trading product. Relai is building a different category—a savings brand for people who want to accumulate Bitcoin, hold it in self-custody, and build wealth over the long run. Julian Liniger explains why serving patient savers requires a different product, message, and business model.The conversation also explores why rising living costs are pushing Europeans to rethink ordinary savings, and why the

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00:42:47

Bitcoin PIPEs v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/24

Bitcoin soft-fork debates around CTV, CSFS, OP_CAT, and OP_VAULT keep stalling — and Misha Komarov of Allocinit argues you can emulate much of that covenant behavior with cryptography instead of changing consensus.Misha joins Stephan to unpack Bitcoin PIPEs v2: a Witness Encryption design that locks a signing key under an NP statement so a valid zero-knowledge proof decrypts the key and produces an ordinary Schnorr spend. Bitcoin L1 only checks a normal signature.They compare PIPEs v1 (Functional

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00:45:25

rbitcoin: Bitcoin Full Node With Zero Human Code |...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/24

Almost every public Bitcoin node still runs Bitcoin Core. Brandon Black argues that client monoculture is a systemic risk — and that automation plus AI now make independent consensus implementations more realistic than skeptics assume.Brandon (aka reardencode) returns to Stephan Livera Podcast for the first episode in a mini-series on non-Core Bitcoin implementations. He is shipping rbitcoin, a Rust full node aimed at server-side wallet and Lightning backends, with Electrum served in-process.They

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00:36:12

Bitcoin Accelerator on Mirissa Beach | James of Ârc...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/22

Most Asian markets still make buying and saving Bitcoin painfully hard. James of Ârc argues the fix is not another protocol breakthrough — it is local founders shipping simple DCA and savings products market by market.James joins me from Mirissa Beach, Sri Lanka, where Arc is partnering with Fulgur Ventures on a continuous Bitcoin accelerator. He is a former EY advisor and Playfair Capital investor who previously built with Alexander Mann (now Fulgur GP) and later sold Consequence, an early

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01:07:00

Institutional Custody, Multisig & the War on Cash |...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/16

Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, walks through how institutional Bitcoin custody actually works in 2026: qualified custody, self-custody co-signing, and why BitGo still centers a 2-of-3 model after pioneering P2SH multisig in 2013.BitGo now operates as a US-regulated qualified custodian and public company, while still offering the same wallet stack individuals can run in self-custody mode. The conversation covers what “institutional security” means in practice — HSM-backed co-signing,

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00:37:31

Trustless Swaps Across Bitcoin Layers | Walter...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/15

Walter Maffione, CEO and co-founder of KaleidoSwap, join me to explain how the project grew from an RGB Lightning DEX into a broader swap engine and LSP stack — Lightning as rails between Liquid, Arkade, Taproot Assets, Spark, and RGB — plus KaleidoSDK, desktop app, and browser Extension.We dig into web app and SDK integrations for merchants and unified-balance wallets, how HTLC atomicity works across layers, BOLT 12 multi-asset offers and Nostr discovery for competing providers, Bitcoin-only scope

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00:49:10

Bitcoiners Must Remove Single Points of Failure |...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/10

Recent attacks exposed how even large, educated Bitcoin holders remained exposed through single-vendor setups. The core lesson is that self-custody alone does not remove single points of failure; deliberate design is required.Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and CISO of Unchained, joins to examine these incidents and the practical barriers that keep most hardware wallet users on single sig despite years of warnings.The conversation covers the gap between theoretical multisig knowledge and actual adoption,

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00:41:30

Interviews at Origin Seoul 2026 | SLP770

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/09/03

Official Podcast Episode: https://stephanlivera.com/77000:00 - Interview with Gabriele Vernetti of Stratum V2 @gitgab1915:38 - Interview with Jimmy Kostro @jimmykostro13:14 - Interview with James Check of checkonchain.com Links: https://x.com/gitgab19https://x.com/jimmykostrohttps://x.com/_checkonchainhttps://x.com/_checkmatey_https://x.com/stratumv2Bitcoinchiangmai.orgStephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack#Bitcoin #BitcoinPodcast

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00:27:05

Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 2 Interviews | SLP769

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/31

Interviews at Bitcoin Asia 2026 Day 200:00 - Piriya Sambandaraksa05:14 - Alexander Mann11:04 - Shone Anstey of LQWD17:03 -Liam Eagen from Ideal GroupLinks: https://x.com/piriyahttps://x.com/idealgrouphttps://x.com/liameagenhttps://x.com/LQWDTechhttps://x.com/shoneansteyhttps://x.com/alex_singh_mannStephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack

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00:40:16

Bitcoin Asia (HK) 2026 Day 1 Interviews | SLP768

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/29

In this episode, I interviewed several people at Bitcoin Asia 2026.Timestamps:00:00 - Interview with Adam Poulton06:28 Interview with Giovanni Santostasi15:18 Interview Jeff Walton of Strive34:11 Interview with Alex B from ArkLabsLinks: http://x.com/Giovann35084111http://x.com/adampoultonhttp://x.com/bergealex4http://x.com/arklabshqhttp://x.com/punterjeffhttp://x.com/striveStephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack

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00:29:31

Wallet Playground for learning Bitcoin self custody...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/25

In this episode, Piers Macrae demonstrates Wallet Playground and explains why hardware wallets are signing devices, not wallets.Timestamps:01:10 — Teach Me vs Do It For Me03:23 — Test Any Wallet Free in Browser09:09 — Coldcard Drama Forced Early Release14:03 — Generate Seeds Using Your Webcam17:52 — Hardware Wallets Aren't Real Wallets21:52 — Only 1% Use Multisig for Life Savings25:33 — Self-Custody Like Firearms Drilling?27:30 — Only Tiny Percentage Will Self-CustodyLinks: X: @mineracks —

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00:52:08

Dice Rolls, Entropy, and SeedSigner | Keith Mukai SLP766

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/22

In this episode, Keith Mukai of SeedSigner joins to explain why 1.4 percent variance in cheap dice still delivers full 128-bit entropy and how to verify rolls across devices.Timestamps:03:10 — Cheap Dice Only 1.4% Unfair?06:29 — Shake Multiple Dice in a Box08:26 — Verify Dice Rolls Across Devices11:02 — Verify Dice Seeds With Fake Rolls13:50 — Multiple Test Rounds Foil Attackers16:36 — 90% Users Choose Easy RNG Mode19:08 — Jade's D&D Dice Method?21:53 — Build Your Own: Avoid Mailing List

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00:27:51

Jade for Single-Sig or Multisig | Rich SLP765

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/19

In this episode, Rich from the team at Blockstream explains Jade, offline dice entropy, blind oracle protection, multisig descriptor recovery and the new Blockstream Swaps beta.Timestamps:00:45 — AI Scans & Audits Secure Jade03:21 — Jade Core $99, Plus Up to $16905:51 — Roll Dice for Offline Seed Entropy08:23 — Blind Oracle: Remote Secure Element Explained11:15 — Seed QR: Hand-Draw Your Recovery Phrase15:24 — Jade Sends Back Lost Multisig Descriptor19:40 — People Choosing Multisig Over ETFs25:03

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00:50:19

Wavelength Delivers Ark-Based Lightning Without Node...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/14

Lightning Labs built Wavelength to deliver self-custodial Lightning payments without forcing users to run nodes, manage channels, or handle liquidity.Olaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO and co-founder of Lightning Labs, and Michael Levin, VP of Product, join me to detail the design choices behind their Ark implementation.They explain why Ark was selected, how hop hints let every payment use ordinary Lightning invoices, and why the four-endpoint SDK targets AI agents and vibe coders. The conversation covers

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00:44:43

Bitcoin Custody Rules Have Changed | Michael Tanguma...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/13

Old self-custody approaches collapse once Bitcoin reaches six figures, physical threats rise, and AI tools proliferate. Single hardware wallets and mattress myths no longer match the scale or risks that large holders now face.Michael Tanguma, CEO and co-founder of Onramp, returns to examine how custody must adapt to family obligations, mortality, and market structure that turns concentrated holdings into targets.The discussion covers why repeated exchange failures keep Bitcoin looking speculative to

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00:34:13

Breez Ships Glow — A Super Simple Bitcoin Wallet |...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/12

Roy Sheinfeld of Breez returns to walk through Glow, the team's new reference wallet built using Spark. It’s designed so non-custodial Bitcoin feels simple: send, receive, and go.Glow uses passkey onboarding (no seed phrase to write down), automatic backup via the passkey provider, and a single-balance UX so users can pay Lightning, on-chain, and stablecoin destinations without wrestling settings.They also cover client-side swaps (Flashnet, multi-vendor architecture after Boltz), AI-driven

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00:36:03

Bitcoin Multi Sig vs Secure Single Sig with Nick...

Stephan Livera Podcast ·

2026/08/07

In this episode, Nick Neuman of Casa argues that it’s not the end of self-custody. Instead, it highlights why multisig with multiple vendors provides stronger protection without the hidden complexity of passphrases or dice rolling for single sig setups.Timestamps:03:12 — Not the End of Self-Custody06:14 — Single Sig Is Actually More Complex08:45 — Multisig Simpler Than Secure Single Sig15:37 — $1K Single Sig, $10K Multisig?17:32 — Casa's $250 2-of-3 Multisig Plan20:01 — Private Clients Get

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