Podcasts about Satoshi

Jack Mallers breaks down why money emerged, how it solved the limits of barter, and what allows billions of strangers to trade with each other. From seashells and gold to fiat and Bitcoin, the test is the same: can it move value across space and preserve it across time?Discover why Jack sees Bitcoin as the breakthrough that combines a global ledger with the properties of a bearer asset.Join the Revolution: https://strike.me/Timestamps:0:00 — Where Does Money Come From?0:56 — Barter and the Birth of Money6:48 — Scaling Trade to Billions of People16:08 — What Makes Good Money?20:01 — Moving Value Across Space and Time25:03 — Money's Two Forms: Lists and Things28:45 — Money Is a Technology32:55 — Gold vs. Fiat vs. Bitcoin35:52 — Satoshi's Breakthrough

The boys get together in person as CLARITY falls short with 47 votes. They break down what comes next, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token collapse, the Robinhood/Hyperliquid case, Balancer winding down, and the debate over an AI pause. The CLARITY Act fails cloture with 47 votes, not a single Democrat in favor, and the crew works out what that leaves behind: rulemaking at the SEC and CFTC, an ethics fight that was never really about market structure, and Robert's tally of everyone who walked away with nothing. Then Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token collapses 99.85 percent, the SDNY indicts two Robinhood engineers over Hyperliquid front-running, Balancer and a wave of exchanges wind down, Robert explains why Satoshi is a time traveler, and the panel takes apart the labs' agreement to pace the frontier. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

The boys get together in person as CLARITY falls short with 47 votes. They break down what comes next, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token collapse, the Robinhood/Hyperliquid case, Balancer winding down, and the debate over an AI pause. The CLARITY Act fails cloture with 47 votes, not a single Democrat in favor, and the crew works out what that leaves behind: rulemaking at the SEC and CFTC, an ethics fight that was never really about market structure, and Robert's tally of everyone who walked away with nothing. Then Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token collapses 99.85 percent, the SDNY indicts two Robinhood engineers over Hyperliquid front-running, Balancer and a wave of exchanges wind down, Robert explains why Satoshi is a time traveler, and the panel takes apart the labs' agreement to pace the frontier. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

 EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Todd Ault III, founder of Ault.com, a man with 37 years in traditional finance who has seen the future , and it is fully tokenized. Todd walks me through how Ault Markets is being built as a Bloomberg-style platform for Web3, why he borrowed $50 million in DeFi in 20 minutes on Morpho, and why he believes every stock, bond, piece of real estate, and commodity will eventually trade on Web3 rails. We get into stable coins, the dominance of the US dollar, why AI is creating jobs not killing them, and what founders can do right now to tokenize their assets on Ault's platform. If you want to understand where institutional finance meets blockchain, this episode is for you. DISCLAIMERNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/ CONNECT Ault Website: https://ault.com/Todd Ault Twitter/X: https://x.com/ToddAultIII?lang=enTodd Ault LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miltontoddault/Web3 with Sam Kamani: https://www.web3pod.xyz KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS • [00:00] Sam introduces Todd Ault III and frames the episode around tokenization and the RWA space• [00:56] Todd shares his 37-year background in traditional finance and how he discovered Bitcoin around 2011• [02:35] Why TradFi won't disappear overnight , Todd compares the shift to a generational standard-of-care change in healthcare• [03:34] Ault Markets explained: a Bloomberg-style Web3 platform with a DEX, lending, staking, tokenized stocks, commodities, and more• [05:28] How Ault integrates with DeFi Capital Markets, Universal Mint tokenization platform, and the Only Bulls wallet via Privy• [06:50] Why stablecoins are still massively underutilized and what gets tokenized next , stocks, commodities, and eventually real estate• [10:00] Todd's real-world DeFi story: borrowing $50 million against Bitcoin on Morpho in 20 minutes• [12:25] Why Todd built Ault's own blockchain after being debanked 10 times in the US for Bitcoin mining• [13:33] Bitcoin Max explained: trading Bitcoin down to the Satoshi level, denominated via a Swiss-based trust• [14:06] The 98% US dollar dominance in stablecoins vs 55% in fiat , and why Todd sees dollar dominance continuing• [17:25] How Ault uses AI for financial modeling, market making, staff accountability, and an integrated AI layer in Ault Markets• [20:10] Sam shares how AI is actually increasing workloads for lawyers and why history shows tech creates more jobs than it destroys• [23:38] Todd's goal to tokenize 100,000 assets over 10 years and grow TVL to $100 billion• [26:28] How founders can use Ault right now to tokenize securities, raise capital, and list on the DEX• [28:28] North Star metric: growing TVL, with 97–99% of all protocol revenue used to buy back the Ault token daily on a TWAP• [29:50] Todd's key asks: traders, founders wanting to tokenize, and hiring in tokenization , contact todd@ault.com• [33:15] Todd highlights Holiday as a standout payments innovation backed by Andreessen Horowitz• [34:36] Ault's hybrid private equity arm: owning and planning to tokenize hotels, a crane company, and other hard assets

Jetzt bei Kraken anmelden und 30 EUR Bonus erhalten: https://bit.ly/kraken-bonusThemen & Timestamps:00:00 Begrüssung und Themenüberblick00:35 600 Bitcoin aus der Satoshi-Ära bewegt04:00 Vitalik Buterins neuer Skalierungsplan für Ethereum05:54 Rekord bei KI-Transaktionen auf dem XRP Ledger08:02 Solana führt bei RWA-Zuflüssen09:13 Arbitrum profitiert von Robinhood und steigt um 120 %

In this video, I walk you through the practical steps of hardware security by physically removing the WiFi and Bluetooth chip from a laptop. This process is essential for anyone looking to create a truly air-gapped system that remains completely isolated from wireless networks. I show you exactly where the module is located and how to safely disconnect it without damaging the rest of your machine. Whether you are building a secure workstation for sensitive data or just want to learn more about computer hardware, this guide provides a clear and direct approach to enhancing your privacy.List of items needed.Laptop for dedicated Air gap deviceComputer with pruned or full node (umbrel or start9 works)M-disc writable driveM-discsUSB flash drivesWebcam if the laptop one doesn't work well enough.Guide I am roughly followinghttps://github.com/bowlarbear/yeti-2.00:29 - Overview: Removing chips vs. BIOS disabling0:50 - Approved communication methods (USB, Disc, Camera)1:16 - Hardware levels and tools (ThinkPad example)2:23 - Step 1: Removing the battery2:45 - Step 2: Accessing the keyboard screws3:15 - Step 3: Removing the keyboard3:24 - Step 4: Locating and removing the Wi-Fi chip3:43 - Step 5: Locating the Bluetooth module (if applicable)4:38 - Pro-tips for hardware disassembly5:25 - The "Simple Method": Disabling via BIOSAir gapped laptop serieshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOqJIdBxn69wBook a 1|1 Bitcoin Consulting call with mehttps://pathtobitcoin.xyz/Join my Bitcoin Learning Community & and access Free Courseshttps://www.skool.com/the-bitcoin-masters-4115/Where I buy Bitcoin (Free BTC & Non-KYC options)https://bitcoinwell.com/referral/bitcoinnotcrypto15% Stampseed Titanium Seed plates (BEST WAY TO STORE BTC PRIVATE KEYS)https://www.stampseed.com/USE CODE : BTCNOTCRYPTO155% off the MicroSeed Stamping kit CODE : HODLhttps://microseed.io/?ref=HODL5% off Start9 servers for plug & play Bitcoin NodesCODE: BNC5https://store.start9.com/Umbrel home for a Bitcoin node and home serverhttps://a.umbrel.com/hodl/umbrel-homeAffordable Privacy Phones & deviceshttps://www.mark37.com/ref/BNC/5% off using code : BNCBuy a Bitforge or Bitaxe here!https://dtvelectronics.com/store/?aff=22Use code hodl for 10% offHardware wallet optionsBlockstream Jadehttps://rewards.blockstream.com/ci9jj4Keystone 3 PRO 5% off using code ForrestHODLhttps://bit.ly/4qfJsVjBitboxhttps://shop.bitbox.swiss/?ref=yfghxxctFree Open Source Bitcoin and Investment tracking toolshttps://plebtools.com/Become a Member of the Channel, Get exclusive content, and livestream playbackhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aM2gVVEHTu0pfE1ZyA0BQ/joinFollow Rajat, Jor, and I's new show togetherhttps://www.youtube.com/@MapleBitcoinJoin our Communityhttps://www.skool.com/maplebitcoinListen to this as a podcasthttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinnotcryptoFollow me on Nostrnpub1zqm9zant0rxf49wfgw8pt5h0j50cetfes6hwa73u7sxstlzcsz8qh6x9fsFollow on Twitter/Xhttps://x.com/forrestHODLDonate to the show herehttps://coinos.io/BNCVFVSome of the above links may be Affiliate links that support this show at no extra cost to you. None of the links are Sponsored links. This allows me to only promote products and services I personally use and believe in.

Bitcoin rallied 23% after Bessent's debt-buyback comments and settled near $80K. Swan's Cory Klippsten weighs in on what ETF inflows and onchain exchange moves really mean. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ========================================================Bitcoin rallied 23 percent in a week after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the government would double its long-term debt buybacks, settling near $80,000 without a leverage-driven blowoff. ETFs pulled in about $3 billion over two weeks, even as onchain data showed coins moving toward exchanges. Cory Klippsten, founder and CEO of Swan, joins Laura Shin to discuss why he distrusts popular Bitcoin forecasting tools. He calls stock-to-flow and power-law price models unfalsifiable "false gods" that leave holders with paper hands, and dismisses the quantum-computing scare as manufactured hype tied to 2025's penny-stock schemes. Yet he insists onchain self-custody is where value lives. The two weigh the ColdCard hack, which cost self-custody wallets roughly 1,400 coins, against larger losses at Mt. Gox, Celsius, and Quadriga. Klippsten covers Swan's RBX tool for converting GBTC into real Bitcoin, the custody spectrum topped by Swan Trinity, and why nobody will know for decades whether Bitcoin's fee market can replace its shrinking block reward. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cory Klippsten - Founder and CEO of Swan Timestamps

Brandon Quittem walked through an essay he has never published, and Brady said so up front. The idea: Bitcoin resembles the Apache, who held off three empires for centuries because there was no leader to remove. He opened with the disclaimer, and it matters: "analogy, analogy, analogy. It's not one to one. These are just frameworks." ⭐ The mechanism he laid out: a centralized organization has a choke point, so Cortés could take an empire by capturing one man. The Apache had no such point, so killing a leader just produced two bands instead of one. ⭐⭐ What finally worked was a gift, not a fight. The US gave Apache leaders 100 head of cattle. A people who had never stored wealth formed a council to divide it, and the wealth eroded them from inside. His one-line version of the lesson: "you cannot fight decentralized organizations face-on. You have to subvert them from the inside, through values, through corruption, or by applying leverage on leaders." ⭐ He called it the golden cow, and named the Bitcoin version carefully: early holders get wealthy, stop fighting, and the supply drifts into a few custodial products. Then he hedged: he is not claiming we are there. Brady asked whether the cattle were a knowing move by the US government or an accident that happened to work. Brandon treated it as an open historical question rather than asserting intent. Brady's larger question ran under the whole hour: does culture even matter to Bitcoin? Brandon traced the waves, cypherpunks first, then libertarians and sound-money people, then the writers, and argued each cohort changed what the network was defended for. A listener's take on custody was the practical takeaway: custodians have gotten much better, and the thing to protect is not a purity test but the standing ability to exit to self-custody quickly if you ever need to. ⭐⭐ Then the fungi, and the origin story, told here for the first time. He wrote part one of the mycelium essay in one night after a meetup. Dan Held edited it and gave him confidence to publish in 2018. He was gun-shy because the genre didn't exist yet: "in 2018 there wasn't a lot of esoteric Bitcoin-is-a-living-organism talk." Held's own four-part series had compared Bitcoin to a tree and Satoshi to a gardener. ⭐ The biology, in his words: mycelium is the organism and the mushroom is just the reproductive organ. The network has no brain, runs underground or inside trees, and moves information in both directions across long distances and across species. Brady brought the pop-culture version: Star Trek Discovery built a spore drive on an intergalactic mycelial network, with an astromycologist character named Lieutenant Paul Stamets after the real mycologist Brandon cites. Brandon on why fungal medicine works on humans: the biology is close enough that a molecule a fungus builds to fight bacteria often works in us. His estimate is that over half of modern pharmacology is fungal or fungi-derived. The detail that got the room: Ötzi the Iceman, the frozen body found in the Italian Alps with an arrow in his back, was carrying several kinds of mushrooms when he died. His stated principle for the whole project: a "polymathic responsibility" to combine what you know from elsewhere to explain a genuinely new thing. Tomorrow: Bob Burnett, newly promoted to chairman of Ocean Mining, on what comes next for the pool.

 Ash and Pikachu are separated Yet Again, and Ash earns himself both a new teammate and another concussion in the process. Unlike Snow Way Out, his friends seem a little worried about him this time, and Ash doesn't have to deal with hypothermia on top of it all. But he really needs a more secure badge case... Tune in to meet Snorunt! 

Gean Chu is a partner at Honey Island Capital. He joins host Aaron Stanley for a deep dive on quantum computing, which has become one of the main factors weighing on crypto markets in 2026. Gean breaks down the March paper from Google Quantum AI that cut the estimated hardware requirement for breaking Bitcoin twentyfold, explains why roughly 6.9 million bitcoins already have their public keys exposed on chain, and argues the harder problem is the coins sitting in Satoshi-era wallets that nobody can move. He also lays out the mitigation plans under discussion, the realistic timelines, and why he thinks the risk is already priced in.You can connect with Gean Chu on LinkedIn Subscribe to Bits and Borders on Substack -------------------------------------------------------------------Bits and Borders is presented by SumsubSumsub recently released its fourth annual State of the Crypto Industry report. The new research reveals how digital asset companies are balancing fraud prevention, regulatory pressure, and user experience as they scale in 2026. This report draws on Sumsub's internal data from 2024–2025 and insights from 300 crypto companies surveyed outside Sumsub's customer base.Read the full report here:

Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing dive deep into Paul Sztorc's eCash Bitcoin fork and the return of the Bitcoin fork wars. The fork implements Drivechain through BIP 300 and BIP 301, allowing Bitcoin to support side chains for privacy, prediction markets, decentralized exchanges, assets, DNS, post-quantum cryptography, and more — without adding those features directly to Bitcoin Core.We break down how hashrate escrow and blind merge mining actually work, the seven proposed Drivechain side chains, the controversial redistribution of 500,000 of Satoshi's coins, and the central question hanging over the entire proposal: can Bitcoin miners actually be trusted to make this work?Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X: https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribeOr support the podcast by sending a BTC donation: bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzys ORDINALS SHIRT: https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-protocol-shirtTIMESTAMPS:0:00 Intro8:18 Fork Wars: Paul Sztorc's eCash Bitcoin Fork11:17 What is Drivechain? BIP 300 & BIP 30112:56 Satoshi Coin Redistribution & Drivechain Timeline14:17 Side Chains: Bitcoin's White Whale18:04 Blockstream's Liquid & Why Side Chains Fail21:22 Lightning vs Side Chains23:07 Hashrate Escrow Deep Dive: How BIP 300 Works28:00 Blind Merge Mining & Core Untouched Soft Fork32:28 The Seven Proposed Drivechain Side Chains36:30 Who Validates the Side Chains?40:40 Are Miners Stupid or is Drivechain Stupid?44:00 Paul Sztorc's Integrity & Pathological Honesty51:00 The Fork Wars: Luke vs Paul vs Michael59:00 What Makes Bitcoin Bitcoin?1:04:00 Should You Spend Your Bitcoin? Deflationary Psychology1:13:00 The Future of Bitcoin & Sovereign Individuals1:20:00 OutroTopics covered: Drivechain, Paul Sztorc, eCash, BIP 300, BIP 301, Bitcoin side chains, hashrate escrow, blind merge mining, Bitcoin miners, Satoshi Nakamoto coins, BIP-110, Luke Dashjr, Michael Saylor, Bitcoin ossification, Lightning Network, Bitcoin scaling, privacy, prediction markets, Bitcoin hard forks, Bitcoin governance, and the future of Bitcoin.

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET on the Eurovision Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.     AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK  Interview with Eurovision Winner 2011 Eldar Gasimov (Azerbaijan 2011) - done at the OGAE Germany Convention 2026, Munich Interview with AleXa (Winner of the American Song Contest 2022 & Melodifestivalen 2026, Heat 5). Interview with Satoshi (Moldova 2026) done at Eurovision Turquise Carpet in Vienna Interview with Silke (Norsk Melodi Grand Prix 2026).  Eurovision Spotlight: The Magical Letter Game with Alasdair Rendall Eurovision News with Johannes Vitt courtesy of www.escXtra.com Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal  National Final Update Eurovision and Junior Eurovision with Alain Forrotti  New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists  Your music requests       Eurovision Winner 2011 Edar Gasimov for Azerbaijan  at the OGAE Germany Convention 2026 Interview with Eurovision Winner Edar Gasimov (Azerbaijan 2011):  The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 came from Düsseldorf in Germany with Azerbaijan winning the contest with El (Eldar) & Nikki from Azerbaijan with the song "Running Scared". The following year he co-hosted the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest for which he trained for in Germany. Besides of that he speaks fluently German. Eldar was part of the OGAE Germany's Convention 2026 in January in Munich, Germany. JP and Salman had the pleasure to chat with Eldar about his Eurovision adventure and about his career. Enjoy listening to this interview on the show this week.      Satoshi (Moldova 2026) with JP Interview with Satoshi (Moldova 2026):  After a year's break Moldova came back with a bundle of energy to the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with Satoshi and the song "Viva Moldova" which in fact opened up the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 being the first song in Semi Final 1. Part of Satoshi's performance was also previous Eurovision entrant Aliona Moon who in 2013 reached Number 11 with the song "O Mie". The Radio International Interview Team met Satoshi at the Turquoise Carpet of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna for a quick chat which you can hear on the show this week.      Silke (Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix 2026) at MelFstWknd 2026 Interview with Silke (Norsk MGP 2026): As part of the Melodifestivalen Grand Final Weekend 2026 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Swedish Eurovision Fanclub organise the annual MelFstWknd with a number of Swedish and international Eurovision artists performing for the many fans that have arrived the the Swedish capital. This year Silke was one of the international acts who was invited to perform her entry she competed with in Norway's National Final the Norsk Melodi Grand Prixin the  Number 9 at MelFstWknd 2026     AleXa  (Winner of the American Song Contest 2022 for Oklahoma  and participant at Melodifestivalen 2026 at MelFstWknd     Interview with AleXa (Melodifestivalen 2026, Heat 5 & Winner of the American Song Contest 2022 - Oklahoma):  Also at the MelFstWknd 2026 was AleAa who competed in Melodifestivalen 2026 in Heat 5 with the song "Tongue Tied" and she won the American Song Contest 2022 with the song "Wonderland" represeting the US State Oklahoma. JP had a big pleasure chatting with AleXa which will be shared on this week's edition of Radio International.      The Eurovision Spotlight - The Magic Letter Game: As summer has officially arrived on the northern hemisphere of the globe it means that it is also time for the summer feature for the next few weeks. The summer feature is the Magic Letter Game involving Eurovision Songs which you will be presented by the Radio International Team of Experts :). Alisdair Rendall continues the summer series with Letter J and will explain the Rules of the Game.   Eurovision News, New Song Releases, Birthday File, Coverspot, Eurovision Calendar: Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Johannes will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and lots more. For full details of this week's Show Content and Play List - click here

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR's Illia Polosukhin and Ledger's Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠ to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at⁠⁠⁠ 1inch.com⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== In March, a Google research team published a paper on breaking cryptographic keys with a quantum algorithm, so cautious about the finding that it released only a zero-knowledge proof the algorithm existed. Weeks later, an EigenLayer AI competition improved on that method in roughly 48 hours. Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, and Charles Guillemet, CTO of Ledger, join Laura Shin for an update on the quantum threat whose deadline could be approaching fast. Both are creating products that deal with multiple chains that all have different post-quantum approaches.  They discuss why, of the three NIST-standardized, post-quantum algorithms, the crypto industry has splintered into different chains working with different ones, whereas most industries are converging on one, called lattice-based. They also debate what to do with Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoins: do nothing, freeze them, or freeze and tail-emit new bitcoin, an option Guillemet favors even though Bitcoin's leaderless governance makes consensus hard to reach. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guests: ⁠Illia Polosukhin - Co-founder of NEAR Protocol ⁠Charles Guillemet - CTO of Ledger Timestamps

Donald Hugh McIntyre passed in 2025, but is remembered as one of the most insightful polymaths... while his blog Etherplan lives on. The episode came out in the first week of February 2019, ran two hours, and set the genetic code for Bitcoin Takeover podcast. Time stamps: 00:02:45 – Introduction: who is Donald McIntyre 00:04:49 – Was Bitcoin inevitable? 00:06:29 – 10,000 years of top-down structures vs 3.5 million years of evolution 00:08:27 – Cypherpunks: Chaum, Tim May, Nick Szabo 00:09:43 – The ancient desire for unconfiscatable money 00:11:55 – Bitcoin as a bottom-up system 00:12:39 – Living in a dual world: banks vs private keys 00:15:02 – Trusted third parties are security holes 00:16:40 – Nick Szabo's social scalability explained 00:18:27 – Why banking excludes: the unbanked in the US and Latin America 00:20:14 – Privacy, intelligence agencies & the false sense of security 00:21:13 – Is Bitcoin enough to make people demand decentralization? 00:23:23 – Asia's interest in Ethereum Classic & immutability 00:24:51 – Mt. Gox, breaches & untrustworthy third parties 00:25:57 – Not your keys, not your coins 00:27:28 – JP Morgan's building & the marketing of strength 00:28:45 – The instant gratification bribe 00:29:58 – The tradeoff: security means inefficiency 00:31:27 – The high performance fallacy 00:32:26 – Decentralization theater & scammers 00:33:48 – Hyperbitcoinization: elites first or the people who need it? 00:36:26 – The jet set analogy: how technologies bootstrap 00:40:54 – The Lindy effect 00:41:47 – The geeks got in before the bankers 00:43:25 – The token as intrinsic to the protocol 00:46:27 – Bitcoin as a biological invention 00:47:02 – How Nick Szabo thinks (and why he went to law school) 00:48:38 – Shelling Out: the origins of money 00:51:20 – The 150-person brain & money as a bridge between strangers 00:52:39 – Dawkins & reciprocal altruism 00:53:52 – Stone tools, subjective value & the first trade 00:56:15 – Reading Szabo 30 times: one article = six months of university 01:00:52 – Lomekwi, Oldowan & Acheulean: Donald's stone tool theory 01:03:42 – Stashes of hand axes as prehistoric vaults 01:04:58 – Is money millions of years old? 01:07:51 – Darwin, Dawkins & John Maynard Smith 01:08:31 – The logic of animal conflict 01:10:53 – Territory, asymmetry & conflict minimization 01:12:08 – Money as a conflict minimization device 01:12:36 – Bitcoin's game theory & the Byzantine generals problem 01:15:32 – Chimpanzees, bipedalism & why our brains grew 01:17:19 – Bitcoin carnivores 01:17:40 – Szabo & Satoshi: the Newton-Leibniz parallel 01:19:23 – Satoshi's credits: bit gold, RPOW, Hashcash, b-money 01:19:59 – The mystery of Wei Dai 01:20:54 – Remembering Tim May 01:21:53 – The JW Weatherman interview & the CoinDesk piece 01:23:40 – Tim May as the father figure who was never satisfied 01:24:39 – Why not David Chaum? The Elixxir disappointment 01:26:35 – Never underestimate the elders 01:28:08 – What the cypherpunks built: Tor, WikiLeaks, BitTorrent 01:30:17 – Napster, Megaupload & the raid in New Zealand 01:30:30 – Cryptography as a wall: violence made useless 01:34:10 – The shifting Ethereum narrative 01:35:27 – World computer: a marketing confession 01:38:11 – The spectrum from marketers to scammers 01:39:59 – The DAO fork fight & leaving for Ethereum Classic 01:40:44 – What Ethereum Classic adds to Bitcoin 01:41:17 – Liquid & RSK: glorified trusted third parties 01:41:57 – Turing completeness on the base layer 01:43:48 – The future: four or five networks 01:44:26 – ETC's monetary policy: 210 to 230 million 01:46:19 – The 51% attack that happened that week 01:47:48 – 220,000 ETC, 15 double spends & 5,000 confirmations 01:49:15 – The $5,000 ETC thesis 01:50:37 – What happens when Ethereum moves to proof of stake 01:51:37 – ProgPoW, the issuance cut & doing everything wrong 01:52:16 – The Nick Johnson poll on reversing double spends 01:52:54 – The Parity bailout & the precedent of the DAO 01:54:53 – Bitcoin: soft forks, Schnorr & the SHA-256 exception 01:57:09 – Governments will never voluntarily give up fiat 01:59:14 – Donald's criticisms of Bitcoin 02:00:02 – The 21 million cap as a political decision 02:01:13 – The miner lobby scenario, 40 years from now 02:02:09 – Merge mining, drivechains & the super miners 02:02:14 – Miners as the future Google and Apple 02:04:46 – Paul Sztorc, Truth Coin & the guest suggestion 02:05:40 – "Do you think I have a chance with Nick Szabo?" 02:06:31 – The selfish joy of podcasting 02:09:51 – Enlightening, a Lightning pun & goodbye

Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek. In this interview, he explains why BSV formed from BCH, what are the biggest differences between the two versions of big block Bitcoin, and why he believes he found Satoshi Nakamoto. 00:49 – The Cake Wallet contest explained 01:22 – Who is Kurt Wuckert Jr? Print shop, 2012, and the making of a big blocker 02:07 – The OP_RETURN reduction that killed his tokenization project 03:28 – The Hodlonaut photo controversy in Oslo: Kurt's side of the story 07:02 – Vlad on the fallout: friendship, slander, and psychological damage 09:21 – The handshake Hodlonaut refused, and Kurt's public apology 12:03 – The irony: Hodlonaut now sounds like a 2016 big blocker 13:53 – Dan Kaminsky's 2011 gigabyte block slides 15:46 – Andrew DeSantis, world computer ideas before Vitalik 17:13 – Why Mike Hearn was Kurt's first big block influence 19:14 – BIP 101, 102, 103: when block size was not controversial 22:46 – Gavin's 8 GB by 2036 plan and Jeff Garzik's modest 2 MB 25:23 – Lightning, Liquid, and the migration of activity to other chains 29:03 – Vlad's Raspberry Pi Lightning node confession 30:42 – Jack Dorsey and the lightning bank thesis 32:19 – BTC's share of market cap vs its share of transactions 32:42 – Tether on Tron and the Tetheral Reserve 35:39 – IShowSpeed in Nigeria: USDT accepted, Visa declined 37:36 – Chat question: what if Michael Saylor called to pivot to BSV? 40:24 – Saylor's anti-development tweets and the perfectionism trap 41:37 – SPV debates and engineering for perfection 44:24 – Why Bitcoin Core devs do not stack 47:01 – The 2018 inflation bug disclosed by a BCH developer 48:23 – The DDoS attacks on Bitcoin XT nodes 48:58 – The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment and the Mike Hearn wish 51:18 – The merchant adoption Bitcoin lost 52:24 – WBTC's 120,000 BTC vs Lightning's 5,000 53:09 – Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, OrangeRock, Ecash 59:38 – Kurt on drivechains and Paul Sztorc 1:03:36 – The BCH/BSV split: what actually happened in November 2018 1:08:08 – Rolling checkpoints and the night of the fork 1:11:46 – Where Kurt was when the chain split 1:16:47 – Kurt's coin strategy: the Satoshi index of unsplit UTXOs 1:21:10 – The Binance delisting wave and Paolo Ardoino's defense 1:24:17 – Who invests and builds in BSV: Calvin Ayre, Tokenovate, Gorilla Pool 1:31:41 – Kurt's presentation to one of the world's biggest banks 1:33:05 – What BSV can do that BCH cannot 1:37:04 – Satoshi's disabled opcodes and the 2010 value overflow bug 1:39:16 – The poker client and marketplace in Bitcoin v0.1 1:41:48 – BCH's ABLA, CashTokens, and the governance difference 1:47:39 – The Monero codebase stored on BSV 1:48:05 – The DAR and Blacklist Manager hard forks 1:51:03 – CZ's aborted Binance rollback 1:55:33 – The white paper's immutability clause vs DAR 2:03:55 – Vlad's dormant-coins nightmare scenario 2:08:33 – The Craig Wright verdict as proof the system works 2:11:56 – Does Kurt still think Craig Wright is Satoshi? 2:15:36 – Dave Kleiman, the Drive Wipe Fallacy, and the Satoshi writing style 2:23:28 – The key slices, Uyen Nguyen, and the missing thumb drives 2:27:50 – Vlad's counter: the California IP address 2:32:00 – Bitcoin as an American project 2:35:32 – Hodlonaut replies mid-show 2:36:29 – If Craig is Satoshi, why sue the developers? 2:44:57 – The Arnhem 2017 speech 2:50:56 – Craig's neurodivergence and the villain arc 2:59:23 – The Gavin Andresen signing ceremony 3:04:58 – The rental Lamborghini and the pattern of bending truth 3:12:31 – Ryan X Charles and the post-COPA denunciations 3:14:04 – Can BSV exist without Craig Wright? 3:19:24 – BitVM: Craig's Turing completeness claim vindicated 3:20:44 – The giveaway reveal: the number is 40 3:22:24 – Would Kurt work on anything else if BSV died? 3:24:46 – Monero, fungibility, and the historian job offer 3:26:43 – OPL.dev, Bitcoin Schema, Sigma Identity 3:29:01 – The Smashing Pumpkins truce 3:32:00 – The Epstein money vindication 3:35:12 – Kurt's plugs: Gorilla Pool, kurtwuckertjr.com, bopen.ai 3:36:12 – Vlad's promise: this episode goes on the BSV blockchain 3:38:00 – The Mike Hearn introduction request 3:38:15 – Outro and sponsor thanks

“Just because I think something is dumb doesn't mean I think it should be illegal.” — Nicholas Anthony on meme coins Earlier this month, Elizabeth Warren called for an SEC investigation of Donald Trump's meme coin. Is the Pope Catholic? No surprise there. More revealing are other critics of the “presidential” token which netted our Grifter-in-Chief $636 million last year. Take, for example, Nicholas Anthony, an expert on crypto at the Cato Institute and author of Digital Currency or Digital Control? It's news when an unashamed libertarian from Washington's own temple of free markets calls the president's crypto adventure “completely unnecessary.” Maybe the Pope isn't Catholic. Or maybe Elizabeth Warren should join the Cato Institute. Anthony's verdict is withering because, under his libertarian shell, he's a crypto bro. The meme coin “has been a problem for everyone but Trump,” he argues, because it has held up legislation, invited investigations, and weaponized ethics concerns about crypto. “We have no one to blame except Trump…” Anthony concludes bleakly. “He knew better than to do it, but he saw the opportunity and ran with it.” When I accused Anthony of sounding like Elizabeth Warren, he was more amused than offended. Unlike the Warren crowd, however, he doesn't want to ban crypto. “Just because I think something is dumb,” he says, “doesn't mean I think it should be illegal.” So while Trump-style meme coins are a natural habitat for what he calls “rug pulls,” that shouldn't be an excuse for lawmakers to pull the rug from the entire industry. Crypto can still revolutionize finance, Anthony believes. It can democratize centralized banking. It can make money fairer. Just don't confuse that with a Melania meme coin. Five Takeaways •       A Hard No from Cato. The week's most surprising critic of Trump's meme coin isn't a Democrat — it's a Cato libertarian. Anthony's verdict: “completely unnecessary,” legally gray but ethically indefensible, and “a problem for everyone but Trump” — stalling the crypto legislation the industry actually wants, inviting investigations, and handing opponents a weapon. The explanation is pure self-interest: the first-term Trump attacked crypto as competition to the dollar and pushed policies hostile to the space; the second-term convert was swayed by industry lobbying and campaign money, the opportunity for personal enrichment, and crypto's libertarian-conservative DNA. “We have no one to blame except for Trump… He knew better than to do it, but he saw the opportunity and ran with it.”•       Dumb, But Not Illegal. The libertarian line in one sentence: “Just because I think something is dumb doesn't mean I think it should be illegal.” Meme coins are “a trading card of sorts” — their value is the person behind them, held up only as long as people stay amused — and a natural habitat for rug pulls, where insiders manufacture interest and vanish with the proceeds. Anthony opposes bans; he demands disclosure, and insists fraud be prosecuted whether it's snake oil from a cart or a token from a president. Hence the kicker: a Warren-style investigation of the sitting president is “perfectly reasonable,” and “if it turns out he was doing something behind the scenes, then I think he should be prosecuted for it.” From what he's seen, the fans knew what they were buying — but the line between brilliantly marketed and fraudulently sold is exactly what investigations exist to draw.•       The Dollar Launders Better. Isn't crypto the ideal vehicle for laundering money? “Not so much. The US dollar is definitely the ideal vehicle” — and remains the currency of choice for criminals worldwide. The numbers: roughly one percent of cryptocurrency activity has been identified as illegal, against about five percent of US dollar usage — because the dollar is accepted everywhere, even in criminal circles, and cash, once it leaves your hand, is gone. Most cryptocurrencies, by contrast, run on public blockchains: permanent, searchable records that forensic accounting firms mine daily, and that keep catching criminals who never understood that the ledger remembers everything. The moral panic, Anthony suggests, is aimed at the wrong instrument.•       Free Banking's Revenge. The deeper Cato case: cryptocurrency — born of cypherpunk and libertarian ideas after the 2008 crisis — is “for the first time in over a hundred years, the challenge to the idea that central banks have complete and total ownership of what is money.” Its ancestors are Scottish free banking and the note-issuing American banks that cleared payments for decades before the Federal Reserve existed. The prosecution's exhibits against central banking: Zimbabwe's hyperinflation queues, where friends of Anthony's watched food become unaffordable while they waited in line, and the slower American version — $10,000 bought two Corvettes in 1970 and needs to be $80,000 today. No utopias: Bitcoin won't erase the debt. But competition would supply the missing incentive for governments to be “better stewards of currency” — and the practice already exists, from Argentina and Lebanon to the crypto hubs of Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.•       Swept Up by Trump. The sadder confession concerns his own side: “Sadly, many conservatives have been swept up by Trump… the president can do no wrong” — Ted Cruz and Mike Lee among the obsequious, blocking the ethics language Democrats want attached to crypto legislation. The principled exception is Wyoming's Cynthia Lummis: pro-Trump, yes, but one of the rare members of Congress who has done the technical and philosophical homework. The industry itself — Coinbase included — walks a careful line around the man who will sign its rules into law, seeing the damage but saying little. Anthony acknowledges his privilege: “Here at the Cato Institute, I can call balls and strikes.” As for the wider economy: a storm in a teacup for now — while crypto's speculative fever has migrated to AI, whose models are quietly integrating the coins as their payment rails. It's not what Satoshi envisioned; the cypherpunks and the bankers will split the inheritance. About the Guest Nicholas Anthony is a research fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, a fellow at the Human Rights Foundation, and a member of the Economic Inclusion Group's Advisory Board. His research covers central bank digital currencies, financial privacy, cryptocurrency, and the use of money in society. The author of Digital Currency or Digital Control? Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money, he has testified before Congress, maintains the Human Rights Foundation's CBDC Tracker, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and Business Insider. Originally from Baltimore, he holds an MA in economics from George Mason University. References: •       Digital Currency or Digital Control? Decoding CBDC and the Future of Money by Nicholas Anthony (Cato Institute).•       Senator Elizabeth Warr...

We thought we were going to sit down for a nice simple episode of the podcast, and then the EBU announced everything. Burgas! New age limit! No more pre-recorded backing tracks! Less well-defined rules about "conflicts"! But our fantastic guest, Irene White (Superstore, St. Denis Medical), was game to talk about it all, along with a bunch of songs released by artists from this year's Eurovision class. Jeremy's glad to see Sam up to his old tricks again, Dimitry wants you to check out the Jiva back catalog, Irene explains the 90s appeal of Satoshi, and Oscar sees the other side of a melancholy Dane. Watch the songs discussed this week on YouTube (and several more that we didn't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMbx9-Lugo&list=PLVLzzJo26pRw&pp=8AUBsAgC This week's companion playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Oz1xrFSEuLPX2brv75I9e Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joineurovangelistsEurovangelists is an American Eurovision podcast, made in the US for Eurovision fans worldwide. The Eurovangelists are Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya and Dimitry Pompée.The theme was arranged and recorded by Cody McCorry and Faye Fadem, and the logo was designed by Tom Deja.Production support for this show was provided by the Maximum Fun network.The show is edited by Jeremy Bent with audio mixing help was courtesy of Shane O'Connell.Find Eurovangelists on social media as @eurovangelists on Instagram and @eurovangelists.com on Bluesky, or send us an email at eurovangelists@gmail.com. Head to https://maxfunstore.com/collections/eurovangelists for Eurovangelists merch. Also follow the Eurovangelists account on Spotify and check out our playlists of Eurovision hits, competitors in upcoming national finals, and companion playlists to every single episode, including this one!

Yan Pritzker, Swan's cofounder and CTO, walks his new essay on Bitcoin fork history, from the 2015 block size debates through the hard fork scheduled for September 1. Published on the Swan blog and posted to X during the show. His own entry point was Ethereum, not Bitcoin. The 2016 DAO rollback split the chain and created Ethereum Classic, and watching that taught him what a fork actually is before he lived through one in Bitcoin. Soft fork versus hard fork, explained without jargon. A soft fork produces blocks old nodes still accept. A hard fork produces blocks every existing node rejects, which means everyone must upgrade or the new chain is invisible to them. The asymmetry that decides every hard fork. Doing nothing rejects it by default. The forker has to convince every exchange, business, and holder to change software, including people asleep, on vacation, or gone. Brady's summary: they said if you're not with us you're against us, but the truth is if you're not with us, you ignored us. The block size wars were about governance, not block size. The big blockers had 58 companies, 22 countries, 83% of hash power. They still lost, because Bitcoin is not decided by a vote but by whether the blocks you produce get accepted. A 2010 forum post Yan found while researching. Jeff Garzik proposed a few lines of code to match PayPal's throughput, and 13 minutes later theymos and then Satoshi told him it would fork him off the network. The idea and the answer are both sixteen years old. The SegWit2x futures market as free-market polling. Exchanges let people trade the forked coin before the fork existed, it priced below Bitcoin, and miners used that signal. Brady: you are risking capital to vote, not answering a question on the telephone. Why every fork coin bleeds out. Holders receive it at a cost basis of zero, so selling at any price above zero is profit. Brady recounts selling his Bitcoin Cash near the intraday top around 0.4 to 0.45 BTC on Thanksgiving week 2017, watching a Telegram group call the biggest red candle in Bitcoin's history. Suze sat through six days of Craig Wright's cross-examination and describes supporters leaving court convinced he was winning. Yan's read: each splinter selects for the most willing to believe, producing what Brady calls mini cults. ⭐ The practical warning, and the reason to listen: do nothing. Replay attacks mean a transaction signed to move fork coins can be rebroadcast on Bitcoin and move your real Bitcoin. Never type a seed phrase into fork software, and treat any urgent instruction as a scam. On tail emissions: Yan grants that if Bitcoin had launched with 0.1% inflation nobody would object, because the point of the monetary policy is that it is fixed and predictable. Introducing it now is different, and he points at Ethereum changing its policy as the demonstration. His closing thought turns the whole story around. Every failed fork has proved Bitcoin cannot be changed, and the price rose after each one. He suggests this fork may mark the bear market bottom.

 EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Bobby from TEXITcoin, a man who has been manufacturing gold and silver coins since 2008, created the original physical Bitcoin coin in 2012, and testified before US Congress on crypto before most people had ever heard of it. In this episode, Bobby shares why he believes Bitcoin lost its original mission as peer-to-peer digital cash and became digital gold instead, and what he is doing about it. We dig into how he crowdfunded a community mining operation in his Texas garage, how TEXITcoin became the tenth largest Litecoin and Doge miner on the planet through merge mining, and why he is now building NectarPay, a zero-fee payment terminal network to get crypto accepted at real businesses. We also get into the big picture: the US dollar at 40 trillion in debt, Keynesian versus Austrian economics, Bitcoin retail adoption at a nine-year low, and what a Texas state securities case means for the future of TEXITcoin. This is one of the most grounded, no-nonsense conversations I have had about where honest money stands today and what it will take to get it into everyday hands. DISCLAIMERNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/ CONNECT TEXITcoin Website: https://texitcoin.org/NectarPay: https://www.paymentsjournal.com/nectarpay-tests-demand-for-crypto-payments-among-texas-retailers/Twitter/X: https://x.com/texitcoinTEXITcoin news: https://www.fidelity.com/news/article/technology/202607291027PRIMZONEFULLFEED1001255026Mining network statistics: https://pool.honest.money/Legal case updates: https://texitcoin.org/legalWeb3 with Sam Kamani: https://www.web3pod.xyz KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS • [00:00] Sam introduces Bobby from TEXITcoin and the mission to build the next generation of Bitcoin• [01:46] Bobby explains TEXITcoin as a Bitcoin redo, returning to Satoshi's original vision of fast, cheap, peer-to-peer digital cash• [02:47] Why TEXITcoin chose proof-of-work and layer one: Bobby's background in gold and silver coins and the value of physical, tangible infrastructure• [06:29] Bitcoin has become digital gold, not money , and that gap is exactly why TEXITcoin exists• [08:15] The difference between scarcity and utility: why a coin only has value when people can trade it for things• [11:04] Keynesian versus Austrian economics and the deflationary money debate: why saving can drive a healthy economy• [15:40] How banks and institutions took over Bitcoin conferences by 2017 and what was lost along the way• [19:25] The community-funded mining network in Texas: how Bobby went from a garage in McKinney to becoming the tenth largest Litecoin and Doge miner on the planet• [24:22] What merge mining is and how TEXITcoin mines Doge and Litecoin simultaneously to pay its electric bill• [29:49] NectarPay explained: a zero-fee crypto payment terminal targeting small businesses across Texas and beyond• [33:39] Why physical terminals matter more than QR codes: profit incentive, merchant simplicity, and NFC wearable compatibility• [36:35] The US dollar at 40 trillion in debt, where it is heading, and what history tells us about currency transitions• [39:52] Bitcoin retail adoption is at a nine-year low and why that is the core reason TEXITcoin exists• [42:47] The Texas State Securities Board case: why TEXITcoin is fighting back and what the outcome could mean for crypto regulation• [40:26] Bobby's ask: support crypto-friendly businesses, grab TXC on the open market, and follow the court case outcome in September

I met Yonatan Sompolinsky in Romania during his summer holiday, so we decided to do a roadtrip interview about covenants, the state of Kaspa development, why intents are more interesting than smart contracts & stag hunts. 00:00:54 – Intro: a road trip with Yonatan Sompolinsky 00:01:50 – Life since S16 E41: Oxford Union & the state of Kaspa 00:02:53 – Kaspa shipped covenants while Bitcoin debates OP_CAT 00:04:24 – Sequencing commitments & based apps explained 00:06:48 – Why OP_CAT alone can't do censorship-resistant based rollups 00:07:21 – BitVM & optimistic vs optimistically verified rollups 00:08:05 – ZK was born for privacy but lives for scaling 00:09:18 – "For the record, I'm very bearish on rollups" 00:12:27 – Ethereum quietly abandons the L2 roadmap 00:13:33 – What ZK is actually for: a thin L1 & separation of layers 00:15:05 – Kaspa follows Bitcoin's UTXO design principles 00:16:04 – Ephemeral logic: generalized atomic swaps 00:17:25 – Camera gymnastics & an Aston Martin 00:19:28 – What covenants won't give you: the DeFi Lego box 00:20:05 – One-time logic vs contract deployment 00:23:18 – The use case question & crypto's crisis of utility 00:26:17 – Bitcoin the turtle & the DAGKnight progress report 00:28:17 – DAGKnight: 49% Byzantine resilience, no latency parameter 00:29:50 – Why 100 BPS on GHOSTDAG would 8x confirmation times 00:30:21 – Sponsors: Cake Wallet, LayerTwo Labs, Braiins, Orange Rock & SideShift 00:34:33 – Zcash made a comeback 00:35:19 – The mental map: where Kaspa is unique 00:38:49 – Real-time decentralization: sampling the honest majority 00:39:47 – Solana & Hyperliquid: fast, but led by one 00:42:46 – Only proof of work bundles proposing & content 00:44:35 – A bear market in usage, not just price 00:45:53 – Old-world use case: bridges & oracles 00:47:22 – Tourism break: Bușteni, mascots & ski resorts 00:49:38 – Hit-and-run agents & the agentic economy 00:51:06 – Having your cake and eating it too 00:54:32 – Vlad on Ecash, miner fees & Satoshi's biggest bet 00:56:37 – Sinaia & the royal train station 00:57:38 – "Bitcoin is dead boring to me at this stage" 00:59:50 – Ironwood, verifiable supply & Tachyon 01:00:39 – Driving like six confirmations 01:01:59 – The tectonic shift nobody noticed: verifying the supply 01:03:43 – The bug & Zcash's unfixable history 01:06:04 – Kaspa's pruning vs historical correctness 01:08:12 – How Zcash's rise paves the way for Kaspa 01:09:17 – The Zooko sleeping-in-the-car story 01:10:32 – "Just launch": Zooko one day before the Sapling bug 01:12:05 – Downplaying the bug & the counterfeit scenario 01:14:34 – Peter Todd's demurrage & the Ironwood migration 01:17:25 – Would any other coin survive this? 01:18:55 – Ethereum's identity crisis 01:21:28 – Back to L1: too little, too late; Solana's cohesion 01:22:46 – Oxford Union & political ambitions 01:24:44 – Hayek: true vs false individualism 01:26:04 – The isolated individual: Lopp, Poelstra & early Bitcoiners 01:32:52 – The enthusiastic individualist 01:34:52 – Coordination markets & Project Stag Hunt 01:35:19 – Prisoner's dilemma vs stag hunt 01:36:24 – Moloch, the demon of defection 01:37:18 – Part 2: stag hunt as the optimistic game 01:42:43 – Intents & NEAR Intents 01:44:03 – Intents vs smart contracts 01:45:21 – Part 3: Rousseau's ape men 01:49:45 – Intendos: "if many sign this, consider mine signed" 01:51:44 – Example: migrating a liquidity pool together 01:53:34 – Pack formation & threshold homomorphic encryption 01:55:42 – Actionable but not committed 01:57:18 – The Netflix example: voice for the scattered majority 02:01:36 – Who are the stags we need to hunt? 02:02:11 – Minarchist, anarchist or libertarian? 02:03:32 – Stag = shared utility; escaping Ethereum's L2 mess 02:06:28 – Composable Intendos 02:07:58 – Exiting network effects 02:09:11 – The Kaspa-Ethereum overlap: GHOST & Casper 02:11:55 – "I don't like DAGs": it's just a data structure 02:12:51 – Why DAGKnight survives a world war 02:15:22 – Michael Sutton & the Argent language 02:16:58 – Bypassing the impossibility theorem 02:18:06 – Ahead of his time or poor communicator? 02:19:31 – BPS vs TPS: the shift already happened 02:21:05 – Falling between the cracks 02:23:17 – The next narrative: coordination markets 02:24:26 – Brașov to Bucharest: documenting the trip 02:25:31 – Roles reversed: Yonatan interviews Vlad 02:27:06 – ACTA protests, internet freedom & political science 02:28:53 – Sztorc's party metaphor 02:29:57 – Zcash at $30 & the Coldcard hack 02:31:40 – What Kaspa actually needs: wallets, not exchanges 02:33:56 – Broadening cypherpunk: from protective to positive 02:37:16 – What have we really accomplished? 02:39:33 – Arriving at the Palace of Parliament 02:43:57 – The secret handshake & farewell

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SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 94 Black holes are a hundred times more powerful than we thought Astronomers have been forced to rewrite their textbooks on the power of supermassive black holes after new observations have shown that these cosmic monsters can generate enough energy to impact galaxies hundreds of thousands of light years away. The dramatic collision the flipped our Milky Way galaxy A new study suggests that our home galaxy the Milky Way may have undergone a dramatic change in orientation following a head on collision with another galaxy. A successful return to Earth for the crew of the Soyuz M-28 The Roscosmos Soyuz M-28 spacecraft has returned safely to Earth bringing home the expedition 74 crew who have spent the past 8 months aboard the International Space Station. August SkyWatch The red supergiant Antares, Barnard's star is the second nearest star system to the Sun, and the annual Perseids meteor shower are among the highlights of the August night skies on SkyWatch   This Week's Guests NASA WB-57 pilot Tom Parent NASA WB-57 Sensor Equipment Operator Cary Klemm Nation Wide Eclipse Ballooning Project Principal Investigator Dr Angela Des Jardins from Montana State University. Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio Texas Juno Launch Director Omar Baez NASA Juno Mission Manager John Calvert NASA   Our regular guests: Alex Zaharov-Reutt from techadvice.life Tim Mendham from Australian Skeptics And Senior science writer and Sky and Telescope magazine contributor Jonathan Nally  

After nearly two years off the live mic, GMoney reunites with Patriots in Progress (Pip) for a wide-ranging, unhurried conversation that treats the current Bitcoin chaos as almost the calmest thing in the room. The two old comrades compare notes on surviving fifth-generation warfare, toxic maximalism, and the exhausting theater of geopolitics, arguing that stepping back is the only way to stay sane while the noose slowly tightens around the enemy. Expect a heavy dose of Pip's deep dive into Ecclesiastes, spiritual warfare, and why he thinks Bible prophecy is looking more plausible by the year, all woven together with the usual frog-adjacent banter. Along the way you get thoughts on Israel, tokenization, X Chain, and Satoshi's cryptographic roots in wartime code-breaking. Part reunion, part sermon, part signal-versus-noise pep talk, this one is a slower burn for listeners who care more about first principles than the daily shiny object.

A five-year-old firmware bug quietly turned "cold storage" into a guessing game, and roughly $88 million in Bitcoin walked out the door without anyone touching a device. Joel Comm and Travis Wright open year ten of The Bad Crypto Podcast with the Coldcard entropy flaw: a March 2021 build error routed seed generation through a predictable software fallback instead of the hardware random number generator, leaving affected seeds with about 40 bits of entropy instead of 128. Galaxy Research mapped the first sweep — 1,196 addresses drained in 41 minutes — and later waves pushed the total past 4,500 addresses. Updating the firmware does not fix a seed that was already generated. Also on this episode: BitGo CEO Mike Belshe posts a wallet holding 100 BTC and dares Anthropic's Claude to take it. Strategy sells another 1,638 Bitcoin to cover STRC preferred dividends while sitting on $10.9 billion in unrealized losses. Trump's executive orders move the federal post-quantum deadline to 2031, and BIP-361 raises the question of what happens to Satoshi's coins. Truth Social starts selling early access to the President's posts. And American Bitcoin posts a $57.2 million quarterly loss while growing its treasury to 8,002 BTC. Then the hosts swap notes on what they've been building. Travis is turning the marketing canon into installable AI skills at MRKT.NG, finished two screenplays that sat in a drawer for twenty-six years, and rebuilt his site around a news-reading audio agent and a council of nine AI advisors. Joel made a short film, wrote and produced an original song with AI, and makes the case that "slop" is a skill issue — the work is in the directing, not the prompting. Closes with a practical tutorial on building character reference sheets so your AI-generated characters stop changing faces between shots. This episode is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not financial, investment, or trading advice.Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vinny Lingham is a Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 with Gyft, served on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, spearheaded blockchain identity verification with CIvic, and in more recent years moved on to managing risk with Praxos Capital. Thanks to some of his accurate price predictions, Vinny has also received the nickname "The Oracle". In this episode, we talk about his Bitcoin journey and how his views have evolved over the last 14 years. Time stamps: 00:01:06 Intro & sponsors: Vinny Lingham, 15 years in Bitcoin 00:02:04 Gyft: a dozen companies and one gift card problem 00:02:26 Chargebacks, stolen cards & getting attacked by scammers 00:04:13 Why Bitcoin looked like the perfect payment rail 00:04:51 Zero-conf payments and the first-seen rule 00:05:48 The Starbucks and McDonald's signature math 00:06:51 100,000 Bitcoin payments, zero double spends 00:07:13 Civic's Bitcoin patents & the 2017 fee explosion 00:07:37 Blockstream, Adam Back, MIT and the Epstein files 00:08:10 Core keeps pruning dissenting voices 00:08:55 Why Bitcoin still can't be the whitepaper's payment system 00:09:08 Counterparty, Mastercoin & the birth of Ethereum 00:09:34 "Nothing has happened in Bitcoin in five years" 00:10:16 Why he went and backed Solana instead 00:10:23 Sympathy for BIP 110 over Core 00:11:08 Inscriptions can be done many ways 00:12:27 "Lightning will be ready in 18 months" forever 00:13:26 Drivechains, BIP 300 & the Ecash fork paying miners 00:14:44 UX, mainstream users and idiot-proof money 00:15:17 People who don't know you can hold BTC outside an ETF 00:15:27 Is the ETF the real scaling layer? 00:15:37 What Vinny signed up for when he read the whitepaper 00:16:30 Wayne Vaughn in the chat 00:16:48 Saylor's Bitcoin Security Consortium and the $15M 00:17:24 Saylor argues against bigger blocks and covenants 00:17:49 How is this different from the Bitcoin Foundation? 00:18:36 Saylor as systemic risk: crashing the minority fork 00:19:43 Losing SPV and the simplicity of early Bitcoin 00:20:48 When did you last actually use Bitcoin? 00:21:22 Six confirmations vs Apple Pay 00:21:41 Gyft's customers who had no credit cards 00:22:07 Not a store of value: a store of liquidity 00:23:24 So what is a store of value, exactly? 00:26:00 The 100 year test: one ounce of gold buys one suit 00:27:09 Does the whitepaper ever say "digital gold"? 00:27:53 Saylor's redefinition: expensive to move, held by institutions 00:28:08 Privacy, tiny payments and why volume creates stability 00:28:42 Exchanges are layer two, Lightning is layer three 00:29:06 Solana at the World Series of Poker 00:30:07 BSV, Teranode, BCH and who actually handles volume 00:30:58 Does everyone really need to run a node? 00:31:30 Luke Dashjr, 16MB blocks and 50 billion Catholics 00:33:34 Arguing with someone who redefines words 00:34:33 How did Blockstream become so politically powerful? 00:35:40 Reid Hoffman's $20 million 00:36:26 Reading the Epstein files with Bitcoin eyes 00:36:45 Tether won the global south instead 00:37:42 "The community is people who never built anything" 00:38:00 Why Elon Musk walked away from Bitcoin 00:39:07 The ESG excuse & the Bitcoin Mining Council 00:40:05 Elon on bandwidth, latency and second layers 00:41:03 Why Civic started on Bitcoin and left 00:42:05 Multicoin, the Solana seed round & founding Praxos 00:42:29 Why "Civic" and not "Supra" 00:42:46 Nobody wants identity: crypto's actual number one use case 00:44:03 Zcash's comeback, Ironwood & the auditable supply 00:45:34 Delistings and the headwinds facing privacy coins 00:46:06 Why Zcash chose DeFi rails over merchant adoption 00:47:07 How to know you're in a bear market 00:47:25 Elgamarov & how small this world really is 00:48:10 What does Vinny actually hold today? 00:49:27 Praxos: delta neutral, funding rates and volatility 00:51:44 Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, LayerTwo Labs, Orange Rock 00:54:40 Wayne Vaughn's question: will the CLARITY Act pass? 00:56:47 Michael Saylor and the Strategy problem 00:57:14 The GBTC discount scenario 00:58:16 Why August could be a bloodbath 01:01:56 Node counts, sybil attacks and hash rate 01:03:16 The rewritten history of SegWit and SegWit2x 01:04:19 How Bitcoin Cash became the fallback plan 01:04:59 Gavin Andresen and the word "bamboozled" 01:06:00 Was Craig Wright involved at all? 01:08:04 Hal Finney's logs and the Van Nuy, California IP address 01:08:55 GMX, German privacy law and the missing paper trail 01:11:17 Roger Ver, the checksum test and Craig 01:13:00 Asking Claude who Satoshi is 01:14:17 The case for Nick Szabo and the trusted third parties 01:15:31 The counterfactual: what if Bitcoin had scaled? 01:19:35 Tron, USDT and five years of outperforming BTC 01:20:09 Bitcoiners understand supply, not demand 01:20:36 What happens when the block rewards run out 01:21:15 Rentable SHA256 and the state actor attack scenario 01:22:54 Will Vinny claim the August fork airdrops?

Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Swan Bitcoin, the promoter and former adviser of the Sequans BTC treasury, and also a big advocate for bitcoin-only maximalism. In this episode, we catch up on what's been going on over the last year in Bitcoin. Time stamps: 00:01:59 – The challenges and failures of leveraged Bitcoin equity strategies in the U.S., referencing companies like Sequans, Strike, and Strategy. 00:04:48 – Swan and the relaunch of "Bitcoin Cafe," a daily show that started on Clubhouse and later moved to Twitter. 00:05:48 – Cory introduces his new framework for understanding Bitcoin adoption, inspired by recent government actions, and frames it as a generational fight for monetary independence and freedom. 00:10:41 – Cory outlines Swan's mission to promote Bitcoin adoption and self-custody, highlighting their "50 Days for Freedom" campaign with reduced fees to encourage participation. 00:14:39 – Cory shares stories from his grandfather's WWII journal, drawing parallels between maintaining calm and responsibility during wartime and navigating challenging times in Bitcoin. 00:18:56 – Cory responds to a viewer's question about his compensation for advising Sequans, disclosing that he received stock options and a small cash retainer. 00:22:09 – August 2026 Bitcoin hard forks & their economic impact. 00:29:25 – Cory explains his perspective on Bitcoin's adoption, describing it as progressing through three sequential S-curves: store of value, medium of exchange, and unit of account. 00:30:33 – Cory voices skepticism about the new Bitcoin Development Consortium, particularly regarding the proposal to freeze Satoshi's coins as part of their funding approach. 00:35:51 – The conversation addresses the increasing corporate and crypto-focused sponsorship of Bitcoin conferences, using the Las Vegas event as an example of this shift. 00:43:21 – Cory reflects on the evolution of Bitcoin content creation, contrasting the high-signal era of 2018 with today's prevalence of AI-generated, lower-quality material. 01:02:51 – Cory explains Swan's business model, emphasizing the separation of brokerage and custody to promote self-custody and ensure alignment with user interests. 01:09:26 – Cory discusses Swan's ongoing educational initiatives, including the Swan Canon learning modules and the release of the "Bitcoin Season" documentary.

Simon Dixon is an investor, geopolitical and financial analyst and certified Bitcoin OG: he was evangelising it at $3, and went on to advise El Salvador's President Bukele on his Bitcoin bonds. A former investment banker, Simon has spent 26 years trying to answer his dad's question: 'Son, what happened to my money?' The search took him from market-making on the London Stock Exchange, via a doomed attempt to found an honest bank (the Bank of England said no), to uncovering what he calls the Financial Industrial Complex: the web of central banks, asset managers and spooks that sits above governments and funds both sides of every war. On the ledger: who really owns the Bank of England?; politicians as 'paid-for-rent prostitutes' and how Liz Truss got rug-pulled; was Bitcoin a banker plot, and was Satoshi really a cypherpunk who died a month after the CIA came knocking?; why Wall Street wants your Bitcoin in an ETF, not your pocket; how the CIA invented the term 'conspiracy theorist'; Epstein as just one blackmail operation among many; James's confession about what he actually bought with his first Bitcoin; and lots more. Simon's website: https://simondixon.com Find Simon on X: @SimonDixonTwitter, and live on YouTube every Friday ↓ ↓ This Delingpod is very kindly sponsored by https://sinacrisps.com The crisp you can eat without the guilt. No seed oils and just 3 ingredients. Use code: JAMES with your purchase for 15% off. ↓ ↓ How environmentalists are killing the planet, destroying the economy and stealing your children's future. In Watermelons, an updated edition of his ground-breaking 2011 book, James tells the shocking true story of how a handful of political activists, green campaigners, voodoo scientists and psychopathic billionaires teamed up to invent a fake crisis called ‘global warming'. This updated edition includes two new chapters which, like a geo-engineered flood, pour cold water on some of the original's sunny optimism and provide new insights into the diabolical nature of the climate alarmists' sinister master plan. Purchase Watermelons by James Delingpole here: https://jamesdelingpole.co.uk/Shop/ ↓ ↓ ↓ Buy James a Coffee at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpole To support independent, no-holds-barred journalism and gain first and full access to all James's content, subscribe directly at https://www.jamesdelingpole.co.uk x

Chapters: 00:00 — Wicked: from trader to Bitcoin-only, sats per dollar, save don't trade 04:30 — Satoshi's Bride: a Bitcoin tip at a fine-dining shift 11:00 — Scott: the echo-chamber reality check and a self-custody challenge to the Bitcoin-only companies 18:00 — C Hoddle: Bitcoin treasure hunts and the Buena Vista circular economy → Midwest Bitcoin Summit 21:30 — The unblocking amnesty: blocked in the '23–'24 squabbles? DM to get unblocked 31:00 — The Consortium: nine companies pledge Bitcoin developer funding, starting with quantum 33:30 — Cory on path dependence: Coinbase, Jesse Powell, and why every Bitcoin fintech converges on the full product set 41:30 — THE BATTLE OF THE BEARS: fifty days, fifty basis points, one mission 43:30 — The narrative machine: how Wall Street picks the story after the price moves 49:00 — "Money is only as good as the story you can tell about it" 55:30 — The Battle for Monetary Independence, Part 3: "Independence Must Be Won" (read live) 63:00 — Why everyone with a mic owes their audience the canon; swan.com/canon 70:30 — Wrap: 90 minutes without the price; Part 4 tomorrow

Ever since he first received his first bitcoin in 2013, Joël Valenzuela has been on a quest to use free market electronic cash to pay for everything. Today, he is still unbanked and looking for ways to make instant payments without a bank account. He is best known for working for the DASH cryptocurrency project. But over the years, he's collaborated with plenty of other projects (mostly those related with private payments) and he possesses a wealth of knowledge in terms of adoption, everyday use as money, and user experience. Since Joël practices what he preaches and lives without fiat or banks, he is a bona fide advocate of inconvenience: using ATMs, purchasing gift cards, and trying every workaround that helps him accomplish the mission of never using fiat currencies. 00:00:00 Intro & sponsors: living without banks with Joël Valenzuela 00:02:18 The Vlad Costea handle saga & paying X to keep your name 00:04:20 Where the "Desert Lynx" name actually comes from 00:09:04 Joël's origin story: how Peter Schiff led him to Bitcoin 00:10:16 Growing up on the border & the Mexican peso crisis 00:12:16 First Bitcoin: the Chicago pizza payback of 2013 00:14:27 Silk Road's shutdown & the chaos of the Mt. Gox era 00:18:11 Digital cash vs. hoarding: the sound money mindset 00:20:54 Earning only Bitcoin: barn work, airport rides & Porkfest 00:22:47 Declining a dream political job to go all-in on crypto 00:24:39 The bank drain that made him unbanked for good 00:26:45 Centralization risk & the tyranny of the algorithm 00:31:38 TikTok's eerily accurate (and creepy) surveillance 00:33:32 Sponsor reads & the Cake Wallet Zcash giveaway 00:37:10 Bitcoin to Dash: exploring the whole crypto space 00:41:12 Mike Hearn's "Bitcoin is a failed project" rage quit 00:42:19 Bitcoin's usability failures: the pants & coffee stories 00:46:48 Picking Dash off CoinMarketCap as usable money 00:50:44 Dash founders: Evan Duffield & Amanda B. Johnson 00:55:20 Fluffy Pony, "Dash is trash" & the Miami strip-club drama 00:59:54 Reading the hate comments: the "premine cabal" 01:01:11 Litecoin's alleged inflation bug & Charlie Lee 01:04:07 Did Dash have a premine? The actual definition 01:13:09 Xcoin to Darkcoin to Dash: the name evolution 01:15:32 Master nodes, InstantSend & deterministic finality 01:18:18 The self-funding DAO treasury explained 01:22:01 Max Kaiser, John McAfee & the paid-shill era 01:29:43 What made Satoshi different & the genesis block message 01:33:57 Roger Ver, linear thinking & money as a tool 01:37:39 The 6.15 BTC "generational wealth" meme 01:41:47 BCH Bliss & why small conferences beat the corporate ones 01:46:00 Bitcoin forks: are all these coins really "bitcoins"? 01:50:54 Dash tech history: proof of service & chain locks 01:53:22 Evolution: the enshrined sidechain & DAPI 02:00:24 Adding Zcash-level privacy: the Orchard shielded pool 02:05:17 Orchard vs. Ironwood & the inflation-bug question 02:09:50 Turnstiles: why an inflation bug can't kill Dash 02:11:50 Monero's FCMP++ & why its privacy is "perishable" 02:16:56 Privacy UX, MiCA rules & unshielding to exchanges 02:23:22 Which wallets will support shielded Dash 02:27:34 Umbrel, Lightning & the pain of self-hosting 02:28:44 The for-profit ecosystem & the $15M dev "consortium" 02:34:53 Zcash's comeback: from industry joke to spotlight 02:37:23 Routing around fiat: Thorchain, Maya & DEXes 02:46:59 The number reveal & socializing the giveaway 02:50:02 Privacy as consent, not secrecy 02:51:49 The real challenges of living unbanked 02:58:35 Local AI models & maxing out privacy you don't need 03:04:31 Getting cancelled & how Zooko unblocked Vlad 03:13:03 Demaximizing & the toxic privacy-coin wars 03:21:35 When Zcash nearly built on Monero 03:25:45 Quai Network & transparent "cash-like" privacy 03:32:38 Why Dash focused on payments, not smart contracts 03:36:31 Crypto's consolidation: projects quietly going to zero 03:42:12 XEC, Amaury & bootstrapping off a fork 03:57:47 Monero vs. Zcash: marketing, memes & narratives 04:02:46 Why Joel really lives on crypto: getting real data 04:04:58 "Use it or die": the end of the narrative cycle 04:06:41 The private-equity playbook for buying dying coins 04:11:27 Why Dash is too decentralized to acquire 04:15:49 Which chains get acquired and shut down next 04:24:01 Neptune Cash, Neptune Dash & the first-ever DAT 04:36:57 The Charlie Shrem Dash debit card saga 04:38:46 Tone Vays & other Bitcoiners who dabbled in Dash 04:43:15 Cypherpunk Week Amsterdam & DashCon 04:50:56 Secret Word

S17 E32: Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin in 2008, Cypherpunk Culture & AI Optimism Time stamps: 00:00:50 - Introducing Perry E. Metzger 00:03:06 - Perry Metzger's Background 00:06:04 - The Cryptography Mailing List's Origins 00:07:36 - "The Code Breakers" & Early Influences in Cryptography 00:11:19 - The Cypherpunks Era and PGP 00:22:08 - The State of Cryptography in 2008 00:24:20 - Satoshi's Bitcoin Announcement on Metzdowd 00:28:52 - Bitcoin's Key Innovations 00:32:39 - Critique of Proof of Work 00:36:21 - Sponsors 00:40:10 - Scalability and Future Challenges 00:48:41 - Initial Reactions to Bitcoin 00:51:21 - Early Criticisms of Bitcoin from James A. Donald & Ray Dillinger 01:05:16 - Perry's Moderation of the Bitcoin Discussion 01:08:16 - Satoshi's Anonymity and Mailing List Logs 01:11:19 - Perry's Comic Book on Computer Science 01:16:13 - The Metzger Dowdeswell Mailing List Today 01:23:04 - Perry's Interest in AI 01:47:03 - AI Advocacy and Combating "Doomers" 01:49:19 - The Extropy Mailing List 01:51:01 - Conclusion and How to Follow Perry Metzger

A South African circular economy is already running real payments on Fedimint with seven guardians on Start9 boxes. Users send eCash with zero fees inside the federation and feel the same simplicity as Wallet of Satoshi—except the custody is local and the privacy model is different.Hermann and Joshi explain how non-technical guardians set up 5-of-7 multisig, how the Conduit wallet hides complexity, and why Fedimint beats Liquid on on-chain integration and local trust. They also cover Lightning gateway economics and why small federations may beat one global Spark.Bitcoiners exploring Lightning, eCash privacy, and circular economies in emerging markets should listen.Key Takeaways:Seven-guardian 5-of-7 multisig on Start9 now runs daily in South Africa with high reliability.Users inside the same federation enjoy true zero-fee eCash transfers.Conduit wallet offers a lighter, payments-focused alternative to Fedi with regional QR support.Migration between federations is smooth with parallel running and user-controlled timing.Fedimint severs the transaction graph for privacy while Liquid hides amounts but retains the graph.Local guardians reduce the “custodial guilt” felt when onboarding users to foreign services.Lightning gateways can become profitable side businesses with only a few hours of monthly work.Geographic spread of guardians improves resilience against local internet or power outages.Onboarding still requires one extra step—joining the federation—after app install.Fedimint is on-chain native, allowing direct receive and send without intermediate swaps.Timestamps:00:00 - Fedimint Goes Live in South Africa01:48 - Magic: Pay Across Africa04:15 - Onboard Users Without Custodial Guilt08:08 - Zero Fees Shock Rural Users11:04 - Liquid vs Fedimint Privacy Showdown13:32 - Many Small Federations Or Global Spark16:09 - Non-Techies Run Bitcoin Guardians Easily18:14 - 5-of-7 Multisig Survives Two Failures20:53 - Fedimint QR Is a 5-of-7 Multisig24:05 - Gateway: Profitable Hobby in Hours/Month31:06 - Trust Locals Over Anonymous Custodians34:55 - Spread Guardians to Survive OutagesLinks: Bitcoin Ekasi: https://bitcoinekasi.orgFedimint: https://fedimint.orgConduit Wallet: https://joschisan.github.io/conduit/SLP651 with Eric & Joschi: https://stephanlivera.com/651Follow Hermann: https://x.com/vryfokkenouFollow Joschi: https://x.com/joschisanbtcStephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack