“They (Koreans) want to save, they want long term capital formation…the problem is, in a savings based culture with fiat money, you’re just stealing from everybody and that’s unfortunately what the govt here has done for a long time. I see Bitcoin fitting hand-in-glove with the culture that craves savings - there are so many people within Korea that want to save.” - @jimmysong
BitcoinSeoul 2024 Interviews SLP581 I caught up with some of the speakers at Bitcoin Seoul, including @jimmysong @Saifedean Ammous @npub1kp7j...487l Calvin Kim Gloria Zhao and Laolu (roasbeef)
Silent Payments is a new approach to improving privacy and useability of Bitcoin. Imagine not needing to manually create new addresses? Josie and Ruben Somsen join me to discuss how it's possible. Silent Payments overview Contrast with other techniques such as BIP47 Light client support Stopping address re-use Base layer privacy discussion
Stephan Livera
SLP579 Silent Payments: A Bitcoin username? With Josibake and Ruben Somsen
Silent Payments is a new approach to improving privacy and useability of Bitcoin. Imagine not needing to manually create new addresses? Josibake an...
HODLing Bitcoin can be a crazy ride, one day it can seem like the world is against you, and then other days it seems like everything is working out in favour of Bitcoin. Don't make rash decisions. Do your best to be calm and long term focused.
Skot joins me to talk about his project to bring affordable, energy efficient, open source mining to home miners. We discuss: The current state of open source in bitcoin mining Bitaxe overview Why do people do this? Price and how to set one up Mining pools Decentralisation
Stephan Livera
SLP578 Bitaxe: The Open Source Bitcoin Miner with Skot
Skot joins me to talk about his project to bring affordable, energy efficient, open source mining to home miners.
@npub179e9...lz4s of @Blockstream rejoins me on the show to talk about a new idea for a bitcoin soft fork that hopefully avoids some of the ‘horse trading’ dynamic that existed amongst other proposals. Listen in to learn more about the different paradigm that Rusty introduces here, so that developers can build more functionality and efficiency in, hopefully so that more people can use Bitcoin in self-custody. Bitcoin Script background GSR overview GSR benefits What is varops Contrast with APO or LNHANCE? Will it enable shitcoins and spam?
Stephan Livera
SLP577 Great Script Restoration with Rusty Russell
Rusty Russell rejoins me on the show to talk about a new idea for a bitcoin soft fork that hopefully avoids some of the ‘horse trading’ dynamic...
@Dan Gould of PayJoin Dev Kit (sponsored by Spiral and Opensats) joins me to discuss how Bitcoin privacy could be improved with more PayJoin adoption. What’s more, it might also benefit users in consolidating their wallets or potentially even fee savings. We discuss how this could be integrated into more bitcoin wallets.
Stephan Livera
SLP576 Payjoin Dev Kit for Bitcoin Privacy – Dan Gould
Dan Gould of the PayJoin Dev Kit (sponsored by Spiral and Opensats) joins me to discuss how Bitcoin privacy could be improved with more PayJoin ado...
Rapha Zagury, CIO of Swan and Head of Swan Mining rejoins me on the show to talk about a range of topics, from Brazil’s flooding, Bitcoin Mining, Capital Structure, as well as share some insights on speaking to TradFi professionals about Bitcoin.
Rapha Zagury, CIO of Swan and Head of Swan Mining rejoins me on the show to talk about a range of topics, from Brazil’s flooding, Bitcoin Mining, Capital Structure, as well as share some insights on speaking to TradFi professionals about Bitcoin.
The recent BTC++ was a 'meeting of the minds’ for a lot of bitcoin developers, and Brandon Black aka reardencode rejoins me on the show to discuss. We talk about: Various covenant proposals What has shifted now in thinking The promise of Great Script Restoration Could it have bad side effects? Doing good engineering
Stephan Livera
SLP573 A Shift in Bitcoin Developer Thought? with Brandon Black (aka reardencode)
As you may know, at the recent Bitcoin++ conference, there was a ‘meeting of the minds’ and Brandon Black aka reardencode rejoins me on the sho...