So don't the Zuckerberg censorship revelations mean the 2020 election was stolen?
Will Biden or Harris face any consequences for this?
Stephan Livera
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#Bitcoin Podcaster and Advisor to Bold
Thoughts on posting videos to nostr? is it clunky or works ok nowadays?
It's insane to me how bald-faced the lies from Macron are. He claims to support free expression, but apparently for him this includes coercing software devs and entrepreneurs to help the state spy on people or control what may be posted?
Why are some bitcoin blocks empty? Orange Surf from the mempool space team joins me to explain his recent research report on this topic. We discuss:
Why do empty blocks happen?
Comparing empty block rates across mining pools
Firmware and config differences
Stephan Livera
Why are Empty Blocks Happening with OrangeSurf from mempool.space SLP588
Why are some bitcoin blocks empty? Orange Surf from the mempool.space team joins me to explain his recent research report on this topic. We discuss...
Today: One Federal Reserve, ~20,000 fiat banks worldwide.
Future: 10 million+ Bitcoin/Lightning banks, with no central bank and no bitcoin bailouts.
@DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 of @Coinkite (old npup) on Bitcoin Ossification and Changes SLP582 rejoins me to talk about attitudes on Bitcoin development and consensus changes. We discuss how “ossification” is commonly thrown around, but maybe there is a better term.
HODLing Bitcoin is easy mode.
Profitably growing a business in bitcoin terms is hard mode.
“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 @Obi 🔅 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.
@Rusty Russell 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...
@miljan from @primal joins me to talk about why Bitcoiners should not sleep on Nostr. We chat why he’s bullish on nostr, the experience nowadays, network effects for creators and devs, spam and sybils, and why openness is the killer feature.
Stephan Livera
SLP572 Bitcoiners, Don’t Sleep on Nostr! – Miljan
Miljan from Primal joins me to talk about why Bitcoiners should not sleep on Nostr.
Interesting dynamic here with some users wanting to delete their answers off of StackOverflow but the site is keeping them.
In some ways nostr is the opposite, no? As long as relays have your content, you can't delete it.
But muh EU "right to be forgotten". Which funnily enough always seemed like a statist imposition.
For better or worse, the internet is forever.
