Podcast appearances and mentions of ben arc

Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits: a modular Lightning network wallet which, after 5 years of development, has just launched version 1. To celebrate this remarkable milestone, ”the CEO of Nostr” joins the show to talk about everything interesting in Bitcoin.

When GameStop buys, even Bitcoin goes downFEATURING:Gideon Gallasch (https://twitter.com/gideongallasch)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc)Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/satoshis_page)Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:  GameStop stock tumbles after company announces plans to raise $1.3 billion to buy bitcoinhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamestop-stock-tumbles-after-company-announces-plans-to-raise-13-billion-to-buy-bitcoin-205250545.htmlSource: YahooArthur Hayes on the one reason that tariffs can't stop Bitcoin's surgehttps://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/arthur-hayes-on-why-tariffs-dont-matter-bitcoin-will-rise/Source:DL NewsUS scraps sanctions on Tornado Cash, crypto ‘mixer' accused of laundering North Korea moneyhttps://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-scraps-sanctions-tornado-cash-crypto-mixer-accused-laundering-north-korea-2025-03-21/Source: ReutersTrump's World Liberty Financial crypto venture to launch stablecoinhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/trumps-world-liberty-financial-crypto-venture-says-it-will-launch-stablecoin-2025-03-25/Source: ReutersPump.fun's new DEX reaches $1B volume a week after launchhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/pumpswap-trading-volume-1-billion-pumpfun-memecoin-declineSource: Cointelegraph CoinDesk Publishes Long Debunked Hamas Financing Allegationshttps://www.therage.co/coindesk-debunked-hamas-financing/Source: The RageThey helped Trump take back the White House. The rewards have come swiftlyhttps://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/politics/trump-campaign-pledges-rewards/index.htmlSource: CNN___________________________________________________________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHf

Never sell your bitcoin, who the hell knows.” - TrumpFEATURING:Vlad Costea  (https://twitter.com/TheVladCostea)Jameson Loop  (https://twitter.com/Lopp)Victoria Jones  (https://twitter.com/satoshis_page)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc)Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:  Trump: From this day on America will follow the rule that every Bitcoin knows very well, never sell your Bitcoin. That's a phrase that they have. I don't know if that's right or not. Who the hell knows, right?https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1898115499097309496?s=46Source: Twitter/XMichael Saylor likely spent millions lobbying Donald Trump to say, “Never sell your Bitcoin”. Saylor needs enough exit-liquidity to rug everyone else.https://x.com/JacobKinge/status/1898160046430708039Source: Twitter/XCryptoverse: Bitcoin's bear market hits newcomers hardesthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cryptoverse-bitcoin-s-bear-market-hits-newcomers-hardest/ar-AA1AREfVSource: MSNBitcoin Seller Exhaustion Incoming Sooner Rather Than Later, According to Crypto Analyst – Here's Whyhttps://dailyhodl.com/2025/03/13/bitcoin-seller-exhaustion-incoming-sooner-rather-than-later-according-to-crypto-analyst-heres-why/Source: Dayli HodlUS Senator And Congressman Introduce Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bills To Buy One Million BTChttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/us-senator-and-congressman-introduce-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-bills-to-buy-one-million-btcSource: Bitcoin MagazineBitcoin falls as much as 6.5% as volatility continues after Trump's bitcoin reserve planhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bitcoin-falls-over-5-as-volatility-continues-after-trumps-bitcoin-reserve-plan/ar-AA1AzTnqSource: MSNFake FBI agent directs New Smyrna woman to deposit $20,000 in Bitcoin ATM machinehttps://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2025/03/12/florida-woman-falls-for-bitcoin-machine-scam/80695719007/Source: News JournalonlineNorth Korean hackers cash out hundreds of millions from $1.5bn ByBit hackhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kgndwwd7loSource: BBCJUST IN:

Mao's slogan, "man must conquer nature", became the rallying cry for the campaign.FEATURING:Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/satoshis_page)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Trump's win ignites a crypto frenzy that sends bitcoin to a record highhttps://apnews.com/article/bitcoin-crypto-donald-trump-election-c2e2a1a895288c5e9c0df2721012a5bbSource: Ap NewsBlackRock Fund Powers US Bitcoin ETFs to a Record Daily Inflowhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/us-bitcoin-btc-etfs-including-blackrock-s-ibit-get-record-inflows?embedded-checkout=trueSource: Bloomberg Trump Is Not Bitcoin's Saviorhttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/trump-is-not-bitcoins-saviorSource: Bitcoin Magazine Trump's Coin Is About As Revolutionary As OneCoinhttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/trumps-coin-is-about-as-revolutionary-as-onecoinSource: Bitcoin Magazine Hunt for Bitcoin's elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto hits another dead-endhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c079zp2vy31oSource: BBCFour Pests campaignhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaigSource: Wikipedia Artist shows how climate change could leave cities under waterhttps://www.today.com/news/artist-shows-how-climate-change-could-leave-cities-under-water-2d79630469Source: TodayWill he free Ross?https://twitter.com/madbitcoins/status/1854921489155506180?s=46Source: X/twitter________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHf

New HBO Documentary claims Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto. He says No. FEATURING:Daniel Cawrey (https://twitter.com/danielcawrey)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/arcbtc)Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/satoshis_page)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:A New Bitcoin Documentary Reopens the Search for Satoshi Nakamotohttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/technology/money-electric-bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.htmlSource: NY TimesFormer Bitcoin Dev Peter Todd Denies He's Satoshi Hours Before HBO Documentary Airshttps://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/08/former-bitcoin-dev-peter-todd-denies-hes-satoshi-hours-before-hbo-documentary-airs/Source: CoindeskCheck on our Peter Todd's video!https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSbHWlMTU3w-a1DAyp4PLOVa&si=alffFBYoTW2RQbl1Source: YoutubeBitcoin Price Consolidates Above $60,000 After Hot US Inflation Data – Is An “Uptober” Price Surge Still Coming?https://cryptonews.com/news/bitcoin-price-consolidates-above-60000-after-hot-us-inflation-data-is-an-uptober-price-surge-still-coming/Source: CryptonewsGrammy-Nominated Rapper Logic Invested $6M In Bitcoin Nearly 4 Years Ago: This Is How Much His Stash Would Be Worth Todayhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/grammy-nominated-rapper-logic-invested-133044514.htmlSource: FinanceBitcoin will rocket to $200,000 in 2025 no matter who wins the US election, Standard Chartered sayshttps://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/what-will-a-trump-win-mean-for-bitcoin-and-solana-and-ether/Source: DL News________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHf

Ben Arc is an open-source developer and an advocate in the Bitcoin and Nostr ecosystems. In this episode, we discuss the shift from centralised platforms like Twitter to decentralized systems, discussing how Nostr allows users to control their data and build communities without corporate interference. We get into Bitcoin's evolution, synthesizing libertarian and socialist ideologies, the future of soft currencies, and the role of CBDCs in global economies. We also talk about the cultural significance of local currencies like the Welsh pound, the importance of free speech in a digital age, and how AI is transforming both daily life.  

The Fed raised rates — now what? FEATURING:Kyle Forkey (https://twitter.com/Theesehands)Vlad Costea (https://twitter.com/thevladcostea)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBtc)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:BlackRock Says Clients Are Buying Bitcoin to Hedge Against US Debt Crisishttps://decrypt.co/250205/blackrock-clients-buying-bitcoin-hedge-debt-crisisSource: DecryptTrump becomes first president to pay in Bitcoin: ‘Very easy'https://nypost.com/2024/09/18/us-news/trump-becomes-first-president-to-pay-in-bitcoin-very-easy/Source: NypostLouisiana Says "yes" To Bitcoin For Paying Utility Bills!https://www.cointribune.com/en/louisiana-says-yes-to-bitcoin-for-paying-utility-bills/Source: CointribuneAmerica through the looking glass: The crypto bros crowdfunding a new countryhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyl171lyewoSource: BBCBitcoin and crypto stocks rise after the Fed cuts rates by half a percentage pointhttps://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/09/19/crypto-market-today.htmlSource: CNBC________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHf

Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits, as well as one of the founding fathers of the Nostr social media protocol. In this episode, he reflects on the state of development in Bitcoin and why he is still bullish on the Lightning Network! Time stamps: Introducing Ben (00:00:23) LNBits Contributors and Collaborators (00:01:41) Scaling Challenges of Lightning Network (00:05:01) Bidirectional Payment Channels (00:06:06) Need for Development in Lightning Network (00:07:22) Skepticism Towards Trusted Third Parties (00:09:32) Importance of Swapping Services (00:12:20) Innovating Lightning (00:17:40) ZK Rollups and Future of Bitcoin (00:18:15)
Covenants and Computer Science (00:19:49)
ZK Proofs and Mobile Wallets (00:20:21)
Drivechains (00:20:51)
Litecoin's Influence on Bitcoin (00:22:10) Centralized Mining Concerns (00:23:06)
Community Contributions and Tribalism (00:24:13)
Self-Custody Consulting (00:25:04)
Cashu and Its Implications (00:26:08) Game Theory and Custodial Solutions (00:27:08)
Mints and Trust Issues (00:29:58)
Ecash and Its Future (00:33:37)
Regulatory Environment for Cryptocurrencies (00:34:12)
Alternative Cryptocurrencies (00:35:02)
Bitcoin's Payment Technology (00:36:50)
Pursuing the Right Focus (00:38:58)
Getting Started with LNBits and Nostr (00:39:23)
Disclaimer on Personal Views (00:39:37)
Exploring LNBits (00:40:03) Ben's Current Projects (00:41:18)
Acknowledging Team Contributions (00:41:47)
Future Aspirations for Lightning Payments (00:42:00)
Thematic Nostr Clients (00:43:00)
Closing Remarks (00:43:47)
Mutual Appreciation (00:44:18)
Acknowledging Hard Work (00:45:09)


Trump might Free Ross or join him in prison.FEATURING:Wassim Alsindi (https://twitter.com/wassimalsindi)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:JUST IN: Donald Trump vows to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht to time served if elected President. "He's already served 11 years. We're going to get him home."https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1794535395176366260JUST IN: President Joe Biden's campaign started reaching out to the #Bitcoin and crypto industry: ReportsThe first Bitcoin election https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1796095499260346732We have current sources within Greenpeace who have been leaking information to us about the #changethecode campaign because while they believe in @greenpeace's mission, they arehttps://twitter.com/dsbatten/status/1795128278493040830?s=46Gemini Earn Users Receive $2.18 Billion of Their Digital Assets in Kind — a 232% Recoveryhttps://www.gemini.com/blog/gemini-earn-users-receive-usd2-18-billion-of-their-digital-assets-in-kind-aSource: Gemini‘Crypto Is Sexy': Is Iggy Azalea for Real?https://decrypt.co/232892/crypto-is-sexy-is-iggy-azalea-for-realSource: DecryptCaitlyn Jenner Says She Was “Scammed” By Alleged Hacker Sahil Arora Following JENNER Token Releasehttps://cryptonews.com/news/caitlyn-jenner-claims-sahil-arora-hacked-her-post-jenner-memecoin-release.htmSource: Crypto News________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHf

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In this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCode conference. This panel was titled A CheatCode for Payments, and was hosted by Natalie Brunell, with Calle (Cashu), Obi Nwosu (Fedi) & Ben Arc (LNBits). They discussed the past & present of Ecash, the power of lightning and the future of payments.  – Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/a-cheatcode-for-payments This episode's sponsors: IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably. Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with Swan Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here Casa - Take control of your digital wealth

“Right now, Lightning is not able to support billions of users around the world…when you add the 3 technologies together: Bitcoin, Lighting, and ecash, you have a solution that can give you incredible levels of privacy and scale to billions of users.”— Obi NwosuIn this episode, we have a panel from the recent CheatCode conference. This panel was titled A CheatCode for Payments, and was hosted by Natalie Brunell, with Calle (Cashu), Obi Nwosu (Fedi) & Ben Arc (LNBits). They discussed the past & present of Ecash, the power of lightning and the future of payments.- - - - This episode's sponsors:IREN - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Swan Bitcoin - Invest in Bitcoin with SwanBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletCasa - Take control of your digital wealth-----WBD802 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

NostrTalk #04 - Blockzeit 821460 - von und mit ⁠Quillie⁠, ⁠Pid⁠ und Ben Arc What is LNbits? Panel: the future of nostr Nostr Markets Nostr Merch (LNbits) ⁠Nostr Pleb Rap (outro)⁠ Weitere Links: Folge ⁠NostrTalk⁠ Besuche unsere ⁠⁠Website⁠ Diskutiere mit in unserer ⁠⁠Community⁠⁠ Höre diesen Podcast via Lightning-Netzwerk mit ⁠⁠Fountain⁠⁠ oder ⁠⁠Breeze⁠⁠ V4V Nostr Track: powa@geyser.fund

Would SBF be in the clear if only he had more time? FEATURING: Robert Allen (https://twitter.com/satoshisound) Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc) Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: Gary Gensler: SEC 'Taking a New Look' at Bitcoin ETF Applications https://decrypt.co/209964/gary-gensler-sec-taking-new-look-bitcoin-etf-applications Source: Decrypt $100K BTC? Don't undervalue Bitcoin ETF influence, says Adam Back https://cointelegraph.com/news/dont-undervalue-bitcoin-etf-influence-says-adam-back Source: Cointelegraph https://twitter.com/ap_abacus/status/1734750068366770180?s=46 https://twitter.com/ap_abacus/status/1734031671706402843?s=46 JPMorgan says ETF optimism is overhyped, and Ether could overshadow Bitcoin in 2024 https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/12/14/jpmorgan-ethereum-ether-bitcoin-etf-hype/ Source: Fortune Arthur Hayes Doubles Down on $1,000,000 Bitcoin Prediction Following Shift in US Macroeconomic Landscape https://dailyhodl.com/2023/12/15/arthur-hayes-doubles-down-on-1000000-bitcoin-prediction-following-shift-in-us-macroeconomic-landscape/ Source: Dailyhodl Argentina's Milei, So Far Shunning Bitcoin, Devalues Peso by More Than 50% https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/12/13/argentinas-milei-so-far-shunning-bitcoin-devalues-peso-by-more-than-50/ Source: Coindesk El Salvador Invites Bitcoin Millionaires To Rebuild The Country https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/12/11/el-salvador-invites-bitcoin-millionaires-to-rebuild-the-country/?sh=58b51f3342ab Source: Forbes Bad Timing For Sam Bankman-Fried? Here's How Much FTX Assets Would Be Worth Now https://bitcoinist.com/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-assets/ Source: Bitcoinist https://twitter.com/walkeramerica/status/1734197557604065394?s=46 https://twitter.com/bitsbetrippin/status/1735048731148390641?s=46 Mickey Mouse will soon belong to you and me — with some caveats https://apnews.com/article/mickey-mouse-public-domain-disney-minnie-tigger-1dbfa3982a172334503bc8cf87302b6f Source: apnews __________________________________________ World Crypto Network https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/ On This Day in World Crypto Network History https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/ WCN: Hosts & Guests https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/ WCN: Topic https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/ WCN Clips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videos World Crypto Network Store | Teespring Https://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store ----------------------------------------------------- Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channel https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3478703/advertisement

“Don't call it a comeback, we never left.” -- Bitcoin FEATURING: Robert Allen (https://twitter.com/satoshisound) Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc) Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala) Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins) THIS WEEK: Secret ‘Sovereign Bid'—Is This The Real Shock Reason Behind The Huge $1.5 Trillion Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP And Crypto Price Boom? https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/12/07/secret-sovereign-bid-is-this-the-real-shock-reason-behind-the-huge-15-trillion-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-and-crypto-price-boom/ Source: Forbes Bitcoin Halving Is Poised to Unleash Darwinism on Miners https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/12/08/bitcoin-halving-is-poised-to-unleash-darwinism-on-miners/ Source: Coindesk BlackRock CEO Larry Fink likens crypto to ‘digitizing gold'; praises Bitcoin as an ‘international asset' https://cryptoslate.com/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-likens-crypto-to-digitizing-gold-praises-bitcoin-as-an-international-asset/ Source: Cryptoslate Jamie Dimon Wants to Kill Off Bitcoin, Buffett Hates It. Why It's Invincible. https://www.barrons.com/articles/things-to-know-today-1eb1a113?mod=RSSMSNBarrons Source: Barrons El Salvador unveils BTC ‘Freedom Visa' — but it's 10x the cost of others https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-bitcoin-freedom-visa-more-expensive-citizenship-by-investment Source: Cointelegraph Bitcoin custodian Nostr Assets pauses deposits after reaching ‘maximum capacity' https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-custodian-nostr-assets-pauses-deposits-after-reaching-maximum-capacity Source: Cointelegraph __________________________________________ World Crypto Network https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/ On This Day in World Crypto Network History https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/ WCN: Hosts & Guests https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/ WCN: Topic https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/ WCN Clips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videos World Crypto Network Store | Teespring Https://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store ----------------------------------------------------- Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channel https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3478703/advertisement

"The history of social change shows us that it's not fear that leads to better situations. It's Hope." - Rabble My guests today are Ben Arc and Rabble. Ben is a FOSS (free and open source software) hobbyist and activist, founder of LNbits, bitcoin/lightning software and hardware builder, and creator of one of the first twitter clones utilizing the nostr protocol. Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath is a social media pioneer, Jack Dorsey's former boss at Odeo (where they worked together on code that would become what we now know as twitter/x), and and creator of Nos social, a nostr client. In this episode we discuss all things social media and how Bitcoin-inspired tech like Nostr aims to reinvent social media as an open ecosystem beyond the control of big tech gatekeepers. Beyond social media and bitcoin, we discuss culture, how we interact with one another in this rapidly evolving and information intensive world, and hope we have for social change. It's such a pleasure to sit with two technology/social media pioneers like Ben and Rabble and hear their reflections on the world and a possible path forward.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsu_VInPazY  Ben Arc twitter: https://twitter.com/arcbtc  nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm  Rabble: twitter: https://twitter.com/rabble  nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 Trey: https://nostree.me/Trey@progressivebitcoiner.com  SPONSOR: BitBox: Use promo-code TPB during checkout to get 5% off your purchase: https://bitbox.swiss/tpb  Sazmining: Get $50 off the purchase of a miner using the following link: https://app.sazmining.com/purchase?ref=tpb. Sazmining is a hosted bitcoin mining provider with a commitment to using 100% renewable energy for your mining operation. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Start 00:00:06 Introducing Guests 00:06:02 Bitcoin and Social Media 00:17:16 Building on Nostr 00:25:21 Freedom of Association 00:31:15 Economics and Social Change 00:38:52 Hopes for the Social Web 00:45:30 Sponsor Ad 00:46:05 Early Adoption Challenges 00:55:01 The Shock Doctrine 01:10:00 Building Connections 01:18:10 Conspiracy Theories 01:27:02 Catastrophe and Control 01:35:10 Slow Change Over Sudden Revolution 01:41:00 Where to Find the Guests 01:45:36 Conclusion SUBSCRIBE Website: https://zurl.co/z6c8Libsyn: https://zurl.co/Bkw2Apple Podcasts: https://zurl.co/WPZg    Spotify: https://zurl.co/Y41f    Amazon: https://zurl.co/io24    Fountain: https://zurl.co/c7bl    RSS: https://zurl.co/wHWC    Youtube: https://zurl.co/VT9p    FOLLOW Nostr: https://zurl.co/q7qB    Bluesky: https://zurl.co/0w35   Twitter: https://zurl.co/k1ay    Instagram: https://zurl.co/rYZW    Threads: https://zurl.co/KcMx    Facebook: https://zurl.co/Zekf    LinkedIn: https://zurl.co/SGY2    The Team: Producer/Editor: @DamienSomerset Branding/Art: @Daniel Website: @EvanPrim Send Some Sats: https://geyser.fund/project/theprogressivebitcoiner    

Bitcoin prices break $30,000 on false ETF news And again on ETF hopeFEATURING:Victoria Jones (https://twitter.com/victoriadentist)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/Arcbtc)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Cryptocurrencies Head For a Winning Week, Bitcoin Tops $30,000 On ETF Optimism And Flight To Safetyhttps://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/20/cryptocurrencies-head-for-a-winning-week-bitcoin-nears-30000-on-etf-optimism-and-flight-to-safety.htmlSource: CNBChttps://twitter.com/poetbrah/status/1713926557855838270?s=46https://twitter.com/autismcapital/status/1714019958433431950?s=46Sam Bankman-Fried Was A Bad Friend, Toohttps://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23920125/sam-bankman-fried-nishad-singh-testimony-ftx-trialSource: The VergeLightning Labs Rolls Out 'Taproot Assets,' to Make Bitcoin 'Multi-Asset' Networkhttps://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/10/18/lightning-labs-rolls-out-taproot-assets-to-make-bitcoin-multi-asset-network/Source: Coindesk__________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/WCN: Hosts & Guestshttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/WCN: Topichttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/WCN Clips - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videosWorld Crypto Network Store | TeespringHttps://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfcAThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3478703/advertisement

In der heutigen Folge sprechen Jan-Paul, Thorsten, Calso und Martin über das vierte und fünfte Kapitel des Buches und schauen uns die zwei ersten richtig technischen Kapitel des Buches an. Wir werden im Laufe der Staffel Kapitel für Kapitel des Buches “Einführung in das Lightning Netzwerk” von Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun und Rene Pickhardt lesen und besprechen. Wir laden euch gerne ein, das Buch mit uns parallel zu lesen und nach den Folgen mit uns in der Community zu besprechen und zu diskutieren.Ihr lest das Buch mit uns parallel und wollt auch gerne mal bei einer der kommenden Buchclub-Folgen dabei sein? Meldet euch gerne bei uns und wir werden sehen, ob wir einen gemeinsamen Termin finden. Von und mit Jan-Paul, Thorsten, Martin und Calso  Hier könnt ihr uns eine Spende über Lightning da lassen: ⚡️ tip@tip.nodesignal.space Wenn euch unsere Arbeit gefällt, könnt ihr unsere Folgen auch auf Podcasting 2.0 Plattformen, wie Breez, Fountain oder Castamatic hören und uns so eine kleine Aufmerksamkeit da lassen. Danke an alle, die die Bitcoin Community mit ihren Spenden unterstützen! Mit diesen Spenden wird unter anderem unser Bounty Programm verwirklicht, in dem ihr euch für die Mitarbeit an einem Projekt eine Belohnung sichern könnt. -------------- Blockzeit: 807071 Nodesignal-Buchclub – E119 – Mastering the Lightning Network III Hetzner Restricts the Usage of Crypto Der Bitcoin Effekt E34 - Wir betreiben einen der größten Lightning Nodes - mit Kilian von Boltz Nodesignal-Talk – E137 – Running a node is not enough Nodesignal-Techboost – E06 – Updates Oktober 2022 Nodesignal-Techboost – E133 – Was ist nix-bitcoin? Ben Arc und Fiatjaf zu Lightning Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro und Begrüßung (00:01:15) Vorgeplänkel (00:02:21) Einführung Kapitel IV (00:19:01) Einführung Kapitel V (00:26:37) Welche Hardware zum selber hosten? (00:32:27) Pruned oder Fullnode (00:37:03) Welche Implementierung? (00:41:18) Prozessisolation und Security (00:48:23) Backup bei Lightning (01:04:51) Submarine Swaps (01:09:14) Kanalmanagement (01:10:19) Rountinggebühren (01:14:32) Nodemanagmentsoftware (01:15:09) Zukunft von Lightning (01:21:22) Zukunft Buchclub und Outro -------------- Für Feedback und weitergehenden Diskussionen kommt gerne in die Telegramgruppe von Nodesignal und bewertet uns bei Spotify und Apple Podcasts. Folgt uns auch gerne bei Twitter.

Ben Arc is a free open-source software advocate and founder of LNbits. In this interview, we discuss a range of subjects covering poverty, politics, and technology. We talk about the value of hard work, the impact of Brexit, the potential of decentralized platforms like Nostr, privacy concerns, censorship on social media platforms, and the importance of freedom of speech. - - - - Ben Arc is one of the Bitcoin community's most unheralded heroes': there are numerous occasions when LNbits, which he co-founded, has been mentioned as a vital cog in the development of new Bitcoin software and hardware across the world, particularly in Africa. Then there is Ben's leading development in the censor-resistant social network Nostr. And, he was an OG Bitcoin progressive pushing against the dogma that Bitcoin was solely a libertarian tool. In this great podcast, we discuss a range of subjects close to Ben's heart that fall into the big buckets of politics and technology. Ben has a personal experience of poverty, which has shaped his political views. We talk about this and the most important political event to have affected the UK in our lifetimes, Brexit, which has dominated headlines for years and still continues to divide opinion. We then focus on Ben's opinions of the potential for decentralized platforms to resist censorship and government interference. Nostr was developed out of an LNbits proof of concept application for a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace. It has morphed into a technology that's not only revolutionizing the way developers build applications but also facilitates a censorship-resistant global social network. In an era of increasing digital censorship, alternative platforms that prioritize freedom of speech are more important than ever. With the backing of influential figures like Jack Dorsey, Nostr could become a dominant platform in the tech world that disintermediates middlemen and tackles censorship. And it shows the potential of Bitcoin to continue to revolutionize industries. Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/what-nostr-did This episode's sponsors: Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Ledn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlers Bitcasino - The Future of Gaming is here Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware wallet Wasabi Wallet - Privacy by default Unchained - Secure your bitcoin with confidence

“The model we have now which is corrupt and a bit evil, that will probably still exist, it's just you have a choice as a user to not use that model.”— Ben ArcBen Arc is a free open-source software advocate and founder of LNbits. In this interview, we discuss a range of subjects covering poverty, politics, and technology. We talk about the value of hard work, the impact of Brexit, the potential of decentralized platforms like Nostr, privacy concerns, censorship on social media platforms, and the importance of freedom of speech. - - - - Ben Arc is one of the Bitcoin community's most unheralded heroes': there are numerous occasions when LNbits, which he co-founded, has been mentioned as a vital cog in the development of new Bitcoin software and hardware across the world, particularly in Africa. Then there is Ben's leading development in the censor-resistant social network Nostr. And, he was an OG Bitcoin progressive pushing against the dogma that Bitcoin was solely a libertarian tool. In this great podcast, we discuss a range of subjects close to Ben's heart that fall into the big buckets of politics and technology. Ben has a personal experience of poverty, which has shaped his political views. We talk about this and the most important political event to have affected the UK in our lifetimes, Brexit, which has dominated headlines for years and still continues to divide opinion. We then focus on Ben's opinions of the potential for decentralized platforms to resist censorship and government interference. Nostr was developed out of an LNbits proof of concept application for a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace. It has morphed into a technology that's not only revolutionizing the way developers build applications but also facilitates a censorship-resistant global social network. In an era of increasing digital censorship, alternative platforms that prioritize freedom of speech are more important than ever. With the backing of influential figures like Jack Dorsey, Nostr could become a dominant platform in the tech world that disintermediates middlemen and tackles censorship. And it shows the potential of Bitcoin to continue to revolutionize industries. - - - - This episode's sponsors:Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Ledn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultUnchained - Secure your bitcoin with confidence-----WBD700 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Ben Arc is one of the most prolific builders in Bitcoin. He created LNBits – a simple Lightning wallet project which seeks to be the Wordpress of Bitcoin thanks to its modularity and openness to plugins. Ben is also one of the founding fathers of Nostr.

“Price going down, but also up”, Trader says.Featuring: Adam McBride (https://twitter.com/adamamcbride)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/arbtc)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Bitcoin Lingers Under $27K to Continue Its May Sluggishness Amid Inflation Concerns https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/06/01/bitcoin-lingers-under-27k-to-continue-its-may-sluggishness-amid-inflation-concerns/Source: CoindeskVoltage scales Bitcoin and Lightning Network infrastructure with Googlehttps://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/how-voltage-uses-google-cloud-to-scale-its-bitcoin-lightning-networkSource: CloudThe PulseChain Sideshow Tent Is Collapsinghttps://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/05/31/the-pulsechain-sideshow-tent-is-collapsing/Source: CoindeskSam Bankman-Fried Sets The Stage To Blame FTX's Massive Fraud On A Law Firm's Advicehttps://fortune.com/2023/05/30/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-fraud-law-firm-advice-defense/Source: FortuneBiden Will ‘End Up Killing It'—Serious Crypto Warning Could Spell Chaos For The Price Of Bitcoin And Ethereum As Debt Ceiling Deal Reachedhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/28/biden-will-end-up-killing-it-serious-crypto-warning-could-spell-chaos-for-the-price-of-bitcoin-and-ethereum/amp/Source: Forbes__________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/WCN: Hosts & Guestshttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/WCN: Topichttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/WCN Clips - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videosWorld Crypto Network Store | Teespringhttps://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfcAThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3478703/advertisement

Did your NFT get pulled while Bitcoin and Ethereum were having their best week ever Forget it man. It's Goblintown.FEATURING:Coinsure (https://twitter.com/CoinsureNZ)Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBTC)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Bitcoin price is back above $30,000. But why?https://www.fastcompany.com/90880932/bitcoin-price-rising-crypto-winter-analysts-explain-halvingSource: Fast CompanyBitcoin Is One Year Away From A Major Technical Event. History Suggests The Start Of Another Bull Runhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/bitcoin-is-one-year-away-from-a-major-technical-event-history-suggests-the-start-of-another-bull-run/ar-AA19KSBy?ocid=sapphireappshareSource: MSNBitcoin Is Rallying But El Salvador's Holdings Are Still Down 29%https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-11/bitcoin-is-rallying-but-el-salvador-s-holdings-are-still-down-29#xj4y7vzkgSource: BloombergMicroStrategy's Bitcoin Bet Is Profitable Again After Price Surgehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-11/microstrategy-s-bitcoin-btc-bet-is-profitable-post-30-000-market-rallySource: Bloomberg‘I've Seen People Do Stupid Things All My Life': Warren Buffett Doubles Down On His Long-held Bitcoin And Crypto Viewshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/ive-seen-people-do-stupid-things-all-my-life-warren-buffett-doubles-down-on-his-longheld-bitcoin-and-crypto-views/ar-AA19Mfw7?ocid=sapphireappshareSource: MSNThe New York Times' Skewed Bitcoin Mining Exposé Reveals Blatant Biashttps://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/04/11/the-new-york-times-skewed-bitcoin-mining-expose-reveals-blatant-bias/Source: CoindeskGoblintown Creator Trashes NFT Artwork, Disables Trading in Royalties Standhttps://decrypt.co/126261/goblintown-creator-trashes-nft-artwork-disables-trading-royalties-stand standSource: Decrypt______________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/WCN: Hosts & Guestshttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/WCN: Topichttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/WCN Clips - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videosWorld Crypto Network Store | Teespringhttps://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfcAThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3478703/advertisement

Is Steve Jobs really Satoshi Nakamoto? Find outFEATURING:Christian Rootzoll (https://twitter.com/rootzoll)Daniel M. (https://twitter.com/dmnyc)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBTC)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Bitcoin at $30,000 Is Still Out of Grasp But Getting There ‘Looks Likely'https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-30-000-still-grasp-171623207.htmlSource: Yahoo 'Operation Cookie Monster': International Police Action Seizes Dark Web Markethttps://www.reuters.com/world/uk/operation-cookie-monster-international-police-action-seizes-dark-web-market-2023-04-05/Source: Reuters ‘Bitcoin Stamps' NFTs Are Gaining On Ordinalshttps://decrypt.co/125556/bitcoin-stamps-nfts-are-gaining-on-ordinals?amp=1Source: Decrypt Apple Hiding A Bitcoin Manifesto In Macs Is Fueling Theories That Steve Jobs Was Satoshi Nakamoto, The Crypto's Mysterious Inventorhttps://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/apple-bitcoin-manifesto-steve-jobs-satoshi-nakamoto-white-paper-cryptocurrency-2023-4?ampSource: Business Insider Binance's Market Share Hits Lowest Level Since November After CFTC Lawsuit, End of Zero-Fee Tradinghttps://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/04/binance-market-share-hits-lowest-since-november-after-cftc-lawsuit-end-of-zero-fee-trading/Source: Coindesk______________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/WCN: Hosts & Guestshttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/WCN: Topichttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/WCN Clips - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videosWorld Crypto Network Store | Teespringhttps://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfcAThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3478703/advertisement

Ben Arc interview

Banks crashing while Bitcoin Triumphant!FEATURING:Adam Meister (https://twitter.com/TechBalt)Adam McBride (https://twitter.com/adamamcbride)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBTC)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Crypto Rallies Into Weekend, Bitcoin Heads For Its Best Week Since Early 2021https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/03/17/crypto-rallies-bitcoin-heads-for-its-best-week-since-january-2021.htmlSource: CNBCSVB Bailout Exposes The Limits Of Central Banking, Highlighting Bitcoinhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/03/16/bank-bailouts-expose-the-limits-of-central-banking-highlighting-bitcoin/?sh=875c852429f9Source: ForbesExclusive: U.S. Regulator Eyes Friday Bids For SVB, Signature Bank -Sourceshttps://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-regulator-taps-piper-sandler-new-bid-sell-silicon-valley-bank-sources-2023-03-15/Source: ReutersThree Finance And Tech Giants That Bitcoin Has Surpassed In Terms Of Market Cap This Yearhttps://www.cnbctv18.com/cryptocurrency/three-finance-and-tech-giants-that-bitcoin-has-surpassed-in-terms-of-market-cap-this-year-16181101.htmSource: CNBCTV"I dumped a live Ethereum contract into GPT-4" says Conor Groganhttps://twitter.com/jconorgrogan/status/1635695064692273161?s=46&t=EpmbZYAN3S7DsKcxQM2tVgSource: TwitterEU Parliament Passes Bill Requiring Smart Contracts to Include Kill Switchhttps://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/14/eu-parliament-passes-bill-requiring-smart-contracts-to-include-kill-switch/Source: CoindeskBitwise Hopeful For a Spot Bitcoin ETF, But Sees No ‘Path Forward' At SEC Nowhttps://www.pionline.com/exchange-traded-funds/bitwise-hopeful-spot-bitcoin-etf-sees-no-path-forward-sec-nowSource: Pionline4 Things Every Artist Needs To Understand About Bitcoin Network's Update for Native NFTshttps://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/things-every-artist-needs-understand-about-bitcoin-networks-update-for-native-nfts-1234696470/Source: Rolling Stones______________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/WCN: Hosts & Guestshttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/WCN: Topichttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/WCN Clips - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videosWorld Crypto Network Store | Teespringhttps://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store-----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfcA

On the 14th of April What Bitcoin Did hosted a live show in Bedford. The guests were the founder of LNBits Ben Arc, CEO/Chairman of Ego Death Capital Jeff Booth, Investment Manager Lawrence Lepard and Macro analyst James Lavish. Across these interviews, we discussed Nostr, censorship-resistant marketplaces, hyperinflation, debt, deflationary economics, Bitcoin and AI. - - - - I have taken the What Bitcoin Did podcast all around the world: across the United States, South America and Europe. However, I have always dreamed of hosting a live event in my home town. Never would I have believed that I could have been lucky enough to have 4 of the best voices within the community come to the inaugural What Bitcoin Did Live in Bedford event. The show covered the main issues affecting not only the Bitcoin community at the moment, but the wider economic and social landscape. We discuss the development of the decentralized censorship-resistant social media network Nostr with one of it's inventors, the amazing Ben Arc, and his work in expanding its application to develop censorship-resistant marketplaces. Lawrence Lepard and James Lavish set out their analysis of the macroeconomic environment in which the current sovereign debt and deficit situation could result in triple-digit inflation in Western economies within the next few years. We discuss balancing mitigating the resultant risk with investment strategies focused on both gold and Bitcoin. Finally, Jeff Booth explains his deflationary thesis, where an unmanipulated economic system allows technology and competition to provide productivity gains to flow through society, how Bitcoin is the only way to measure the productivity falling in a system with monetary inflation, and, the potential for AI to create a superintelligence that will be smarter than humans.

“When people are talking about Bitcoin price going up, that is not what's happening. Everything is falling against Bitcoin forever. That's what's happening. And so when you're measuring Bitcoin price going up, you're actually defaulting to the currency that's being manipulated.”— Jeff BoothOn the 14th of April What Bitcoin Did hosted a live show in Bedford. The guests were the founder of LNBits Ben Arc, CEO/Chairman of Ego Death Capital Jeff Booth, Investment Manager Lawrence Lepard and Macro analyst James Lavish. Across these interviews, we discussed Nostr, censorship-resistant marketplaces, hyperinflation, debt, deflationary economics, Bitcoin and AI. - - - - I have taken the What Bitcoin Did podcast all around the world: across the United States, South America and Europe. However, I have always dreamed of hosting a live event in my home town. Never would I have believed that I could have been lucky enough to have 4 of the best voices within the community come to the inaugural What Bitcoin Did Live in Bedford event.The show covered the main issues affecting not only the Bitcoin community at the moment, but the wider economic and social landscape. We discuss the development of the decentralized censorship-resistant social media network Nostr with one of it's inventors, the amazing Ben Arc, and his work in expanding its application to develop censorship-resistant marketplaces.Lawrence Lepard and James Lavish set out their analysis of the macroeconomic environment in which the current sovereign debt and deficit situation could result in triple-digit inflation in Western economies within the next few years. We discuss balancing mitigating the resultant risk with investment strategies focused on both gold and Bitcoin.Finally, Jeff Booth explains his deflationary thesis, where an unmanipulated economic system allows technology and competition to provide productivity gains to flow through society, how Bitcoin is the only way to measure the productivity falling in a system with monetary inflation, and, the potential for AI to create a superintelligence that will be smarter than humans. - - - - This episode's sponsors:Iris Energy - Bitcoin Mining. Done Sustainably Ledn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultUnchained - Secure your bitcoin with confidence-----WBD652 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Everything is fine at Binance. Nothing to see here. Move Along!FEATURING:Wassim Alsindi (https://twitter.com/wassimalsindi)Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBTC)Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/JScigala)Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:Bitcoin, Ether Slide On Friday As Investors Weigh Potential Fallout From Silvergate Woeshttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/bitcoin-ether-slide-on-friday-as-investors-weigh-potential-fallout-from-silvergate-woes.htmlSource: CNBCCoinbase Announces They are Dropping Support for Binance Stablecoin BUSD as Regulatory Pressure Around Binance Increases.https://twitter.com/autismcapital/status/1630241224203603971?s=46&t=zo7QxPpNjk_94FDW_sYkDA Source: AutismCapital Binance's Asset Shuffling Eerily Similar To Maneuvers By FTXhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2023/02/27/binances-asset-shuffling-eerily-similar-to-maneuvers-by-ftx/Source: ForbesInvestors Pull Around $6 Billion Out of Binance's Stablecoinhttps://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/investors-pull-around-6-billion-out-binances-stablecoin-2023-03-01/Source: Reuters Binance Unveils New Artificial Intelligence-Powered NFT Generator ‘Bicasso'https://dailyhodl.com/2023/03/01/binance-unveils-new-artificial-intelligence-powered-nft-generator-bicasso/amp/Source: DailyhodlEthereum Moved to Proof of Stake. Why Can't Bitcoin? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/28/1069190/ethereum-moved-to-proof-of-stake-why-cant-bitcoin/Source: Technology Review Bitcoin NFT Mints Surpass 200K—But Is Interest in Ordinals Fading?https://www.yahoo.com/now/bitcoin-nft-mints-surpass-200k-235732673.html______________________________________________World Crypto Networkhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network Historyhttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/WCN: Hosts & Guestshttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/WCN: Topichttps://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 403. I was a guest today (Jan. 27, 2023) on The Bitcoin Group #343, on the World Crypto Network (Youtube channel), hosted by Thomas Hunt @MadBitcoins. The other panelists included the CryptoRaptor (Dan Eve); Ben Arc; Martin @generalbyltes. We discussed a variety of topics. https://youtu.be/878nyinOyqQ Shownotes: Featuring… Joshua Scigala (https://twitter.com/Vaultoro) Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly) Stephan Kinsella (https://twitter.com/NSKinsella) and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)

Tim Draper says Bitcoin $250,000 from the Halvening bump. Is he right?Featuring:Victoria Jones ((https://twitter.com/Victoriadentist)Dan Eve (https://twitter.com/cryptopoly) Ben Arc (https://twitter.com/ArcBtc)and Thomas Hunt (https://twitter.com/MadBitcoins)THIS WEEK:The boldest Bitcoin Calls For 2023 Are Out — And a 1,400% Rally or a 70% Plunge May Be On The Cardshttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02/the-boldest-bitcoin-price-predictions-for-2023.htmlKey Bitcoin Developer Calls on FBI to Recover $3.6M in Digital Coin https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/key-bitcoin-developer-calls-on-fbi-to-recover-3-6m-in-digital-coin/amp/Why Bitcoin Supporters Organized a 'Bank Run' on Crypto Exchanges https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-bitcoin-supporters-organized-bank-225352974.htmlBitcoin Will Soar to $250,000 in 2023, Says Billionaire Tim Draper https://www.thestreet.com/investing/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-will-soar-to-250000-in-2023-says-billionaire-tim-draper ______________________________________________World Crypto Network https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/On This Day in World Crypto Network History https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/onthisday/ WCN: Hosts & Guests https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Person/ WCN: Topic https://www.worldcryptonetwork.com/tag/Topic/ WCN Clips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCE3eOYr4pQ1CTMGZPNt1w/videos World Crypto Network Store | Teespring https://teespring.com/stores/world-crypto-network-store -----------------------------------------------------Please Subscribe to our Youtube Channel https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCR9gdpWisRwnk_k23GsHfcA

The Lightning Lounge EP003 | Ben Arc | LNBITS | Wales - United Kingdom "Edward and Stef talk to Ben Arc. A bitcoin and free and open-source hobbyist, advocate, educator, researcher and inventor. Ben has started a number of cheap and useful DIY bitcoin hardware projects and workshops for points-of-sale, ATMs, vending machines, node monitors, hardware wallets. Always with an emphasis on users taking control of the hardware they use! Ben also started the LNbits project, a free and open-source lightning wallet and accounts system with extension framework. Watch and listen to this interview live from Bitcoin Amsterdam Conference 2022!”- Jonī Kyasshu

Connect The World EP043 | Ben Arc | LNBITS | Wales - United Kingdom "Edward and Stef talk to Ben Arc, the creator of LNbits and a real Free Open Source Software developer, advocate, educator and builder of Bitcoin hardware and software from 2014! LNbits is often described as Wordpress for your Lightning Node. It's a simple account system for multiple wallets and multiple users. You can add a lot of extra features by installing extensions. This makes LNbits work great for several use cases! Ben shares with us how LNurlATM and LNurlPoS can work completely offline! And he elaborates about LNURL versus keysend for Podcasting 2.0 (Value4Value). He also talks about his work with developer Fiatjaf on Diagon Alley, a decentralized market-stall protocol, and nostr, the future for a free social network! Want to now how the nostr protocol could help sex workers? Check this brand new show! (Muggles are also welcome!)"- Jonī Kyasshu

Join us as we discuss: Regulate Crypto? - Wright Stomped - Black Swan - Environmental AttackSpecial Guests: Vlad Costea, Dan Eve, Josh Scigala, Martijn Wismeijer and Ben Arc.Moderator: Thomas Hunt Check out more shows at WorldCryptoNetwork.com Follow us on Twitter: @WorldCryptoNet

Ben Arc is a free open-source software advocate and founder of LNbits. In this interview, we discuss how LNbits helps to decentralize custodianship and how Bitcoin's widescale utility outweighs the environmental FUD. - - - - In April of this year, Arcane Research published the 2nd volume of its “The State of Lightning” report. It showed adoption of the payments system is growing rapidly. Transaction and usage data indicate exceptional growth (e.g. since January 2021 capacity on the Lightning network has increased by 450%). However, they don't provide the full picture: equally important is the flourishing ecosystem. There are well over a hundred companies working directly with Lightning: developing operating systems, node and liquidity services, wallets, payment infrastructure, financial services, rewards programs, gaming, podcast/streaming and social media payment options etc. etc. The investment such companies are attracting is growing: the prize is access to the world's best payment rail. LNbits are providing the services of a Point of Sale payment and accounting technology. Its founder, Ben Arc, started hacking hardware to integrate Lightning functionality after attending the very first Lightning hack day in 2018. Since then he has taken a passion to contribute free open-source software for the community, into a VC-funded business seeking to bring scalable products to market. LNbits already has a free open-source Lightning wallet/accounts system with an array of extensions enabling users to create paywalls, faucets, offline shops, and even a jukebox! But Ben continues to hack hardware: he has created a Lightning ATM that he provided a live demo of during the show. Those who attend Real Bedford should soon be able to see one of these! Ben is looking to help grow the adoption of a technology that can provide freedom through decentralization. This will occur once we make these technically sophisticated innovations easy to use, and equally, easy to develop as open-source projects. Lightning is the innovation that enables Bitcoin to scale, and LNbits is part of the growing ecosystem we need to help Lightning to scale.

“If you decentralise custodianship, if you make being a custodian very, very easy, it makes a mockery of laws restricting people from being custodians; if you've just got a few big operators, they're points of failure which can be attacked by government or whatever. I think you see that with technology if you make things easier to run, more people are going to collectively challenge those regulations and those rules.”— Ben ArcBen Arc is a free open-source software advocate and founder of LNbits. In this interview, we discuss how LNbits helps to decentralize custodianship and how Bitcoin's widescale utility outweighs the environmental FUD.- - - - In April of this year, Arcane Research published the 2nd volume of its “The State of Lightning” report. It showed adoption of the payments system is growing rapidly. Transaction and usage data indicate exceptional growth (e.g. since January 2021 capacity on the Lightning network has increased by 450%). However, they don't provide the full picture: equally important is the flourishing ecosystem. There are well over a hundred companies working directly with Lightning: developing operating systems, node and liquidity services, wallets, payment infrastructure, financial services, rewards programs, gaming, podcast/streaming and social media payment options etc. etc. The investment such companies are attracting is growing: the prize is access to the world's best payment rail. LNbits are providing the services of a Point of Sale payment and accounting technology. Its founder, Ben Arc, started hacking hardware to integrate Lightning functionality after attending the very first Lightning hack day in 2018. Since then he has taken a passion to contribute free open-source software for the community, into a VC-funded business seeking to bring scalable products to market. LNbits already has a free open-source Lightning wallet/accounts system with an array of extensions enabling users to create paywalls, faucets, offline shops, and even a jukebox! But Ben continues to hack hardware: he has created a Lightning ATM that he provided a live demo of during the show. Those who attend Real Bedford should soon be able to see one of these!Ben is looking to help grow the adoption of a technology that can provide freedom through decentralization. This will occur once we make these technically sophisticated innovations easy to use, and equally, easy to develop as open-source projects. Lightning is the innovation that enables Bitcoin to scale, and LNbits is part of the growing ecosystem we need to help Lightning to scale.- - - - This episode's sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyLedn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is herePacific Bitcoin - Bitcoin‑only event, Nov 10 & 11, 2022Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultTexas Blockchain Summit - Nov 17-18, 2022 | Austin, TexasBCB Group - Global digital financial Services-----WBD554 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Ben is without a doubt a Bitcoin Superstar, our admiration for his work is hard to describe. In this interview he shares his background story as an educator and how Bitcoin came to change his perspective. From educator to builder, his continuous code-tinkering and relentless pursuit of perfection have catapulted him to ultimate OG-Status. He recounts a story of a lightning enabled slapping machine, may this be the slap to get you building! Don't forget to like and subscribe and please don't be shy and share your comments underneath. Visit our website for more educational resources and to learn more about our services: https://ibexmercado.com/ Co-Host / Esteban de la Peña: https://twitter.com/yengmo Co-Host / Juan Pablo Lemus: https://twitter.com/floreathaiku Guest / Ben Arc: https://twitter.com/arcbtc Bitcoin Block Height: 747,090

Join us as we discuss: Energy Regs? - Unbanable - Tornado Lawsuit - Frozen Pool - Cuban BailsSpecial Guests: Dan Eve, Josh Scigala, Martijn Wismeijer and Ben Arc.Moderator: Thomas Hunt Check out more shows at WorldCryptoNetwork.com Follow us on Twitter: @WorldCryptoNet

Ben Arc, Bitcoin hardware maker and founder of LNbits joins me to chat: Getting into bitcoin hardware hacking and making How the LN Bits project came about The functionality possible with extensions POS Lightning payment splitting boltz.exchange for loop outs Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/arcbtc LN Bits twitter: https://twitter.com/lnbits Site: https://lnbits.com/ Github: https://github.com/arcbtc LNPoS: https://github.com/arcbtc/LNPoS LNBits Telegram: https://t.co/VoR10wtbKp MakerBits Telegram: https://t.me/makerbits Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Mempool.space Braiins.com Voltage Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Connect The World EP036 | Alexandra Moxin | Advance Tech Media | Canada "Edward and Stef talk to Alexandra Moxin, founder of Advance Tech Media and host at Advance Tech Podcast. With her Advance Tech Media Podcast she interviewed a lot of inspirational people in the Bitcoin and Lightning space, like Ben Arc and Adam Beck. She shares her experience interviewing Roman Martinex, co-founder at Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte and about her time working as the VP of product at LQwD Fintech. Join us and watch or listen to a show full of Lightning innovation!" - Jonī Kyasshu

Ben can be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arcbtcCheck out his GitHub: https://github.com/arcbtcBitcoin Retreat: http://www.bitcoinwales.infoBitcoin Black Cab: https://twitter.com/btcblackcabLNbits Tutorial: https://youtu.be/WJRxJtYZAn4Jukebox Extension Tutorial: https://youtu.be/5YdObUuDzqUNode Maps (BitNodes): https://bitnodes.ioHackathon by the Bitcoin Design Community: https://bolt.funAlby Lightning Wallet: https://getalby.comJoule Lightning Browser Extension: https://lightningjoule.comThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine

Video: https://youtu.be/OwJL0J_nPDE 00:00:00 - Intro Matt Odell 00:05:35 - Coinjoins & Coinswaps - With Ben Carman, Craig Raw, Fontaine, Nicholas Gregory 00:50:03 - Funding Open Source Bitcoin Developers - With Mike Schmidt, Adi Shankara, Ben Price, Conor Okus 01:17:10 - Lightning Payments (The Future Of Commerce) - With Andre Neves, Ben Arc, Rockstar Dev, Alyse Killeen 01:55:27 - Mempools With Wiz, Murch, Gloria Zhao, Sergej Kotliar 02:37:28 - Lightning Privacy (Concerns & Solution) - With Niftynei, Tony Giorgio, Evan Kaloudis & Shinobi 03:17:46 - Sidechains (Benefits & Tradeoffs) - With Paul Sztorc, Chad Barraford, Muneeb Ali, Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar, Burak Keceli 03:58:38 - Federated Chaumian Mints (Keynote) - With Obi Nwosu 04:12:43 - The Future of Bitcoin Privacy - With Eric Sirion & Obi Nwosu twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos podcast: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch support the show: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://matrix.to/#/#citadel:bitcoin.kyoto

I was joined by black coffee and BQA to discus the last month of bitcoin news and updates.  We talked about the recent developer conference in London where black coffee was doing a workshop on the LN point of sale system with Ben Arc.  We also covered the recent data leaks from unchained capital and others, the wasabi compliance nightmare and our thoughts.  BQA gave a quick run down of what we can expect from foundation devices new passport and he will be joining me next episode with Zack to go into full details.  I really hope you enjoy the show and please reach out if you have any questions.    twitter - @blackcoffeebtc twitter - @BitcoinQ_A As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.   twitter - @MaxBitbuybit   twitter - @bitbuybitpod   Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com     Today you can exchange $1 for 2399  Sats (Sale ends soon.)    Thank you Foundation Devices for sponsoring the show.  Use code BITBUYBIT at check out for $10 off your purchase   Thanks to https://keys.casa for sponsoring the show. use code BITBUYBIT10 for 10% off your gold membership.

In this episode Ricki chats to Welsh Bitcoiner Ben Arc. Ben has spent the past few years developing open source, cheap and easily accessible DIY hardware devices to enable Lightning transactions across a whole host of real world applications, including point of sale terminals, vending machines and ATMs (to name a few). Ben was also instrumental in getting LNBits off the ground. LNBits is an open source software stack which facilitates all kinds of use cases of the Lightning Network interoperating with DIY hardware devices and decentralized systems.We also discussed:- LN URL- NOSTR- Incentive models for merchant adoption of LN and BitcoinSponsors:Bitvice - Bitcoin Sovereignty Simplified - https://bit.ly/35fcuitFollow Ben's work at:Twitter - @arcbtcGithub - https://github.com/arcbtcLNBits - https://lnbits.com/By the Horns:Subscribe to our channels and get notified as soon as a new pod is released!By The Horns is a Bitcoin podcast about South Africa. You can follow our discussions on YouTube or via our podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts or Apple Podcasts.DisclaimerWe do not provide tax, legal, financial or accounting advice. The material discussed and views expressed on this podcast is intended to be for information purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal, financial or accounting advice. You should consult your own tax, legal, financial or accounting advice advisors before engaging in any transaction.

Location: London Date: Thursday 13th January Project: LNbits, NOSTR Role: Bitcoin and free open source software advocate What are the politics of Bitcoin? Satoshi in a post in 2008 said “It's very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly.” And, it certainly has garnered a strong libertarian following, principally because of its unique utility to undermine governments' control of money. However, Bitcoiners are a broad church. The original cypherpunks philosophy was predicated on anarchist ideals, to work outside of government controls. This attitude is analogous to a wide variety of political philosophies, including those on the left who feel disenfranchised by the current global capitalist hegemony. There is a strong and growing group of left-leaning Bitcoiners, who see the protocol as a radical means of achieving a fairer society where the levers of power and organisation are controlled by a community rather than elites. This may trigger a powerful section in Bitcoin whose views are antithetical to those on the left. And yet, this broad range of communities with divergent dogmas have all enabled Bitcoin to develop its critical mass. This is because early adopters viewing Bitcoin as a philosophy, whatever that philosophy may be, has inspired ardent advocacy and robust hodling behaviour. It surely underlines the genius of Bitcoin's protocol if those with seemingly divergent opinions can all lay claim to the benefits of the technology. Furthermore, history has shown that robust societies are ones where ideas are debated, tested, and then synthesized. If we can do this as a community we have a real opportunity to lay the foundations for a more open and fair society. In this interview, I talk to Ben Arc, an industrious Bitcoin and free open source software advocate. We discuss the attraction of Bitcoin to those on the left, Bitcoin as a commons for society, developing open source applications to take on big tech, and Marxism.

“Bitcoin is a commons, a monetary commons… a shared resource which people can use and then it's within their interests to keep that resource going and nurture that resource and help it to grow - and that's what Bitcoin is; and if any private interests try to co-opt Bitcoin…then ‘Bitcoiners' attack it.”— Ben ArcLocation: LondonDate: Thursday 13th JanuaryProject: LNbits, NOSTRRole: Bitcoin and free open source software advocateWhat are the politics of Bitcoin? Satoshi in a post in 2008 said “It's very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly.” And, it certainly has garnered a strong libertarian following, principally because of its unique utility to undermine governments' control of money. However, Bitcoiners are a broad church. The original cypherpunks philosophy was predicated on anarchist ideals, to work outside of government controls. This attitude is analogous to a wide variety of political philosophies, including those on the left who feel disenfranchised by the current global capitalist hegemony. There is a strong and growing group of left-leaning Bitcoiners, who see the protocol as a radical means of achieving a fairer society where the levers of power and organisation are controlled by a community rather than elites.This may trigger a powerful section in Bitcoin whose views are antithetical to those on the left. And yet, this broad range of communities with divergent dogmas have all enabled Bitcoin to develop its critical mass. This is because early adopters viewing Bitcoin as a philosophy, whatever that philosophy may be, has inspired ardent advocacy and robust hodling behaviour. It surely underlines the genius of Bitcoin's protocol if those with seemingly divergent opinions can all lay claim to the benefits of the technology. Furthermore, history has shown that robust societies are ones where ideas are debated, tested, and then synthesized. If we can do this as a community we have a real opportunity to lay the foundations for a more open and fair society.In this interview, I talk to Ben Arc, an industrious Bitcoin and free open source software advocate. We discuss the attraction of Bitcoin to those on the left, Bitcoin as a commons for society, developing open source applications to take on big tech, and Marxism.This episode's sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyBlockFi - The future of Bitcoin financial servicesSportsbet.io - Online sportsbook & casino that accepts BitcoinCasa - The leading provider of Bitcoin multisig key security.Ledger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletCompass Mining - Bitcoin mining & hostingLVL - Bank on BitcoinBCB Group - Global digital financial Services-----WBD453 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Ben Arc is the founder of LNbits and a passionate Bitcoiner. In this episode, he tells us the story of how he discovered the problem he set out to solve, i.e. LNbits. He also talks about how makers, hobbyists, and tinkerers can make use of LNbits and hardware devices to their advantage. We ended the episode with what bitcoin is to him, and why he was at the conference.   Running Bitcoin - runningbitcoin.us   Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 04:17 - Introducing Ben 09:47 - The Lightning World, early Bitcoin days, and the first phone wallet 14:00 - Ben's journey developing hardware and technology for the Lightning network, and LNURL 25:45 - LNbits, and the gap in the market it sought to fill 41:57 - More use cases - like the offline shop extension, and Ben's workshops 54:35 - Ben shouts out some tools he uses, and other projects in the works 1:05:44 - What does Bitcoin mean to Ben? 1:09:15 - Contact Info and Closing Thoughts   Ben's Socials: Ben Arc on Twitter - https://twitter.com/arcbtc GitHub Repository - https://github.com/arcbtc LNBits Lightning Wallet - https://legend.lnbits.com/   Go Full Crypto Social Links Website: https://GoFullCrypto.com Keegan Francis' Newsletter - http://keeganfrancis.substack.com/   Keegan Twitter - https://twitter.com/CryptoKeegan Mrugakshee Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrugakshee/    

This is the 51st episode of Lightning Junkies! In this episode we have Ben Arc returning, he was previously on episode LNJ031 (https://sicksub.network/LNJ031)! In this episode we are focusing on the world of LNbits, it is a way to add more features and options than would ordinarily be available in your Bitcoin Lightning Stack. We talk about: 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - A Prolific Creator 6:17 - The Start of Ben Arc 12:12 - How to Choose a Project 15:31 - Sci-Fi Weirdos 21:53 - Ben's Opinion on Bolt12 26:03 - AMP Invoices 27:08 - What is LNbits? 37:01 - DJ Livestream tipping 41:23 - LNDHub 47:25 - Extension Lightning Round 52:16 - The Future of LNbits 1:02:53 - How can YOU help the Lightning Network? 1:07:09 - The Idea Tangent 1:21:32 - Excitement for the Future FIND GUEST HERE ------------------------------------------------ Ben's Twitter:https://twitter.com/arcbtc LNbits' Twitter: https://twitter.com/lnbits LNbits' GitHub: https://github.com/arcbtc/lnbits VALUE 4 VALUE ------------------------------------------------

Looking through Ben's GitHub you begin to appreciate how voracious his creative energy is – meeting him IRL more than confirms these suspicions. I first met him in the backyard of the inaugural 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin. I was admittedly fueled with limitless, practically free beer from the Lightning Beertap but Ben was brimming with limitless Celtic zeal. He's a juggernaut of ideas, a self-taught, self-styled, dirty hacktivist who throws his considerable talent and charm into bleeding edge Lightning hardware and OpenSource projects.   "The #1 issue people have with BTC is volatility but with LN just used as a payment rail that doesn't even matter. No matter what happens, LN is here to stay. " Ben Arc   Ben's always been interested in computers and perhaps in another life he'd have had a more computer based background but that wasn't the case and he's glad for it. Instead he had a very rewarding 15 year career as a Design & Technology teacher in Wales, sometimes covering lessons in Electronics too. He specialised in teaching kids with severe behavioural difficulties in special needs classes. Electronics was particularly kinaesthetic and both he and the kids got a real buzz out of those early tinkering projects. For many of his kids, soldering electronics was the one thing that made them sit still. Ben developed a rudimentary understanding of electronics and computing, spinning up WordPress sites and PHP plugins. The unit where he worked was hit hard by UK economic austerity policies and his services got the squeeze. As disheartening as this clearly must have been it provided him an opportunity to take some time off and pursue his increasing curiosity into tinkering & hacking.   "Bitcoin can & will reduce the power of the State over people by taking away their control over monetary supply." Ben Arc   The first Bitcoin event he attended was a Maker centric Lightning Hackday in Berlin and like a kid in a candy store, the QR code Sweet Machine caught his attention the most. You could scan the screen's QR code and go to a website, pay a LN invoice and sweets would come out of the machine. He saw the potential benefits for the machine itself not to be a full node but rather a secondary device for a full node. So he started playing around with microcontrollers, generating invoices on the machine's screen and things began snowballing. In a way every LN project he's done since has been an offshoot from this Sweet Machine concept.   "The word ‘hack' literally comes from hacking away at a keyboard to make software/hardware eventually do something useful." Ben Arc   He began to have the opportunity to work on original projects most days, in a sense whatever he wanted. So he sat down and started making stuff, tinkering. One of his first Lightning software projects he made was the Sinclair Faucet using LN-URL. It allowed QR codes to be programmed with value and withdrawal frequency, printed or displayed and drained by people scanning it using their mobile LN wallets. RustyRussel is now building something akin to this into Lightning's protocol level with Bolt12.org. It'll enable static but private LN QR codes – groundbreaking stuff and in direct lineage of Ben's tinkering.   "Bitcoin needs to be safe & conservative software. But over time, all the fun stuff will come. We've just gotta be patient.” Ben Arc   The first Lightning hardware project he made was a modified Sweet Machine which then evolved into a basic POS device for a bar. He discovered the M5Stack and it's faces kit with a keypad and screen built into a handheld unit. He piloted it at Room77, Berlin's infamous Hacker Bar, where it received some battle testing with a tonne of transactions. It stood up well. Next he plugged in a coin acceptor, created LN faucets and made a LN ATM device. It needed admin access to a wallet, to spend from a wallet essentially. This conundrum birthed his realisation that LN would benefit from a piece of middleware software that connected to common backend funding sources like LNDhub, BlueWallet, Raspiblitz, Umbrel & OpenNode. These were the sources currently funding ATMs. His unifying solution to this issue led to a project whose implications are only now emerging – LNBits.   LNBits recently received a grant from the Human Rights Foundation of 25 million sats to recognise it's empowering contribution to Free Open Source Software development. In essence, it allows users to quickly spin up something akin to a Lightning server, connect it to a funding source and generate multiple wallets via a simple GUI. Each wallet has users and its own API keys which can connect to devices like an ATM. The innovation is that each wallet and device only has access to the set amount of funds within its own wallet. LNBits manages this as the middleware that sits on top of principle funding sources and reduces their exposure risk.   "LNBits came from making a LN ATM, hitting the stumbling block of needing multiple wallets & seeking the simplest, most interoperable, native Lightning software solution." Ben Arc   It came from necessity rather than any divine intervention or genius, he says, but perhaps the best ideas always do. I have the sneaky suspicion LNBits is going to snowball alongside growth of Lightning itself into something far more than people realise right now. Already it's begun integrating a wealth of plugins including a LN Spotify Jukebox, paywalls, livestreaming, ticketing and POS systems.   "We have >20 extensions from many contributors so we need a WordPress plugin like library to catalogue them. " Ben Arc   HACKTIVIST SPIRIT   Ben's never formally trained or worked as a Developer and continues to learn on the job, at conferences and Hackday events. He's progressed by picking people's brains. His character seems ideally suited to the job though, equal parts bright and inquisitive, humble and persistent. The skills he's aggregated are opening doors into Lightning at a particularly exciting moment in it's history. Perhaps it fate. He's presenting at the Hacker Congress in Prague this month and at Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador Nov 2021.   "Eventually in a Star Trek Utopia, we'll have BTC as the interplanetary universal Medium of Exchange. I hope some of this weird sci-fi software & hardware will be useful to someone IRL, but if not, it's fun anyway." Ben Arc   With his focus on grassroots, bottom-up, dirty hacking he's opening the gates of OpenSource LN development to exactly the people who need it most. The cheapest hardware with the simplest LN software is precisely the niche that countries like El Salvador, Brazil, Laos, Nigeria and every other country that's opening up to Bitcoin needs right now. He's already helping stores, bars, salons and hairdressers in El Salvador set up cheap POS devices and LNBits stacks. This, ladies and gentleman, is how OpenSource money wins. "Ben's the right man, in the right place, with the right skills, doing the right things. "   Selfbankt       Make sure to check out 21ism feature on Ben Arc and the brilliant article written by @selfbankt    21ism feature page - https://21ism.com/portfolio-item/ben-arc/   As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions.     Twitter - @arcbtc   Website - lnbits.com     Website - https://www.bit-buy-bit.com Twitter - @BitBuyBitPod Email - bit-buy-bitpodcast@protonmail.com

In this episode I interviewed Ben Arc. Ben is a Free and Open Source Software developer who recently built a point of sale device that works for Lightning Payments and is completely offline and made for less than $20. We get into everything he is building with LNbits and some stuff we want to do together. In this episode we discuss: - Creating a Bitcoin LN PoS device on his own. - Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Development. - Decentralized video hosting. Check out Luke at the links below: Twitter: https://twitter.com/arcbtc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGXU2Ae5x5K-5aKdmKqoLYg Github: https://github.com/arcbtc LNbits: https://github.com/lnbits Show Sponsor - https://www.coinbeast.com/ Show Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/bitcoinsimply Podcast - https://anchor.fm/bitcoinmadesimple Email - bitcoinmadesimplepodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitcoinmadesimple/support

Featuring in the CODE block this month is Ben Arc. @arcbtc is a free open source advocate, builder and educator. He is best known for LN Bits but has also worked on MANY other projects. Speaking to him is our boy @MaxBitBuyBit - Hope you enjoy this rip!

Ben Arc likes to call himself an anarchist. Yet unlike most bitcoiners, he doesn't subscribe to the anarcho-capitalist school of thought. Instead, he belongs to the original Proudhon left-wing tradition and Hegelian dialectics.

Ben Arc describes himself as an open source hobbyist. Yet in spite of his humble introduction, he built the open-source Bowser hardware wallet and is also one of the lead developers of LNBits – a useful Lightning Network tool.

I appeared yesterday (Friday, April 23, 2021) on the World Crypto Network (Youtube channel) panel The Bitcoin Group #255, hosted by Thomas Hunt. The other panelists included the CryptoRaptor (Dan Eve; see video below); Ben Arc; and Josh Scigala of Vaultoro. We discussed a variety of topics, including— Bitcoin Price Decline Deepens, Heads for Worst Week Since February Morgan Stanley Clients Hold Nearly $30M In Bitcoin Funds JPMorgan Sounds Urgent Alarm On Bitcoin Price ‘Momentum’ After $300 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Sell-Off UK Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk agree on bitcoin’s green credentials Other related links: the Open Crypto Alliance, for which I serve on the Advisory Board Vijay Boyapati’s upcoming book, based on his now-classic article “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin” (see this talk) My previous appearance at KOL323 | World Crypto Network: Announcing the Open Crypto Alliance to Protect Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 332. I appeared yesterday (Friday, April 23, 2021) on the World Crypto Network (Youtube channel) panel The Bitcoin Group #255, hosted by Thomas Hunt. The other panelists included the CryptoRaptor (Dan Eve; see video below); Ben Arc; and Josh Scigala of Vaultoro. We discussed a variety of topics, including— Bitcoin Price Decline Deepens, Heads for Worst Week Since February Morgan Stanley Clients Hold Nearly $30M In Bitcoin Funds JPMorgan Sounds Urgent Alarm On Bitcoin Price ‘Momentum' After $300 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Sell-Off UK Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk agree on bitcoin's green credentials Other related links: the Open Crypto Alliance, for which I serve on the Advisory Board Vijay Boyapati's upcoming book, based on his now-classic article "The Bullish Case for Bitcoin" (see this talk) My previous appearance at KOL323 | World Crypto Network: Announcing the Open Crypto Alliance to Protect Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 332. I appeared yesterday (Friday, April 23, 2021) on the World Crypto Network (Youtube channel) panel The Bitcoin Group #255, hosted by Thomas Hunt. The other panelists included the CryptoRaptor (Dan Eve; see video below); Ben Arc; and Josh Scigala of Vaultoro. We discussed a variety of topics, including— Bitcoin Price Decline Deepens, Heads for Worst Week Since February Morgan Stanley Clients Hold Nearly $30M In Bitcoin Funds JPMorgan Sounds Urgent Alarm On Bitcoin Price ‘Momentum’ After $300 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Sell-Off UK Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk agree on bitcoin's green credentials Other related links: the Open Crypto Alliance, for which I serve on the Advisory Board Vijay Boyapati's upcoming book, based on his now-classic article "The Bullish Case for Bitcoin" (see this talk) My previous appearance at KOL323 | World Crypto Network: Announcing the Open Crypto Alliance to Protect Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto

What I've done is taken some of the audio left over from the interview I did with Ben Arc or also  known as BTCSocialist on Twitter released a couple weeks ago and mashed it together since some of the good stuff wasn't able to make into the interview. I hope you enjoy the extra content and if you want full access then consider becoming a patron on Patreon.Some of the things we spoke about include:Secret lefties in the hacker communityFake right wing anarchistsPost-capitalist blockchain projects trying to reinvent the wheel when there's socialismRight wing philosophers' obsessions with eugenics and skull sizeCheck the site -> theblockchainsocialist.com/Join the community -> www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/Contribute to the project -> www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialistSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist)

 A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak with Ben Arc (@BTCSocialist), one of the first openly leftist guy in bitcoin and significant contributor to the bitcoin FOSS space. In this episode we discuss what it was like for him to be one of the only people loudly represent the Left, and, his bitcoin-IoT projects. You can find his github for all of his projects here: https://github.com/arcbtcYou can also find the podcast and future episodes on the major platforms below.Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3geORcile9E1EyPyFiAHhM?si=x7fjsFhURsSBlErXnihh9AiTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blockchain-socialist/id1501607045Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/theblockchainsocialistStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-blockchain-socialistPodcast Addict: https://podplayer.net/?podId=2598359 If you haven't seen it, I've also republished another article on Medium titled, Won't the State just Destroy the Blockchain?that you can check out or share with your other Lefty or even Libertarian friends.Check the site -> theblockchainsocialist.com/Join the community -> www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/Contribute to the project -> www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialistSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist)