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Stephan Livera Podcast

Join Stephan as he interviews the sharpest economic and technical minds in Bitcoin & Austrian Economics to help you understand how money is changing and evolving. Leading names in the world of Bitcoin join the show to share their insights, whether they are developers, CEOs, economists, authors, analysts and more.

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Latest Episodes:

Support Bitcoin Lightning with Greenlight with Christian Decker (SLP521) Oct 20, 2023

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Are you interested in building support for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into your product or service? Check out this discussion of Greenlight with Blockstream’s Christian Decker. We talk:

Improvements in lightning experience over the years
No. of payments, reliability
Greenlight experiences
Mobile nodes
Comparison with other providers
Shared infrastructure
Core Lightning features
What features will help make lightning easy

Links:

Site: https://blockstream.com/lightning/greenlight/
X: @Snyke
X: @Blockstream

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What is BitVM? with Robin Linus and Super Testnet (SLP520) Oct 12, 2023

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BitVM is a new paradigm for Turing-complete bitcoin contracts. In this episode I speak with the creator, Robin Linus and another developer working on the idea, Super Testnet. We discuss:

What is BitVM?
What are some of the trade offs?
What could BitVM enable?
Set up time and interactivity
Can it enable sidechains or covenants?

Links:

Paper: bitvm.pdf
X: @robin_linus
X: @super_testnet
Super Testnet’s Tapleaf circuits
Shinobi article on BM: The Big Deal With Bitvm: Arbitrary Computation Now Possible on Bitcoin Without a Fork
AJ Towns ML response on BitVM: BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin

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Self Custodial Bitcoin Finance with Matthew Black of Atomic Finance (SLP519) Oct 09, 2023

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Matthew Black, co-founder and CTO of Atomic Finance joins me to talk about earning yield in a self custodial way with DLCs. We get into all the questions and criticisms people might have:

How does it work without being custodial?
Where is the yield coming from?
HODL only
Different strategies available
DLC security over time
The future of Bitcoin Finance

Links:

X: @matthewjablack
Website: Atomic.Finance

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Broken Money with Lyn Alden (SLP518) Oct 01, 2023

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Lyn Alden, macro analyst rejoins me on the show to talk about her new book, Broken Money. We discuss Lyn’s thoughts on:

Ledger money and who controls it
Different theories of money
Speed of transaction vs. settlement
Warfare funding under fiat
Base money and Broad money
GFC and the response to it
Fiat standard incentives
What kind of debt makes sense under a Bitcoin standard

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Bitcoin Merchant Adoption: This Time is Different? with Will Cole (SLP517) Sep 29, 2023

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Will Cole of Zaprite rejoins me to talk about:

Merchant adoption and why it’s different this time
Improved custody
How Zaprite works
Accounting and integration
How adoption will be driven this time
Circular economy
The lie of 2% inflation

Links:

X: @willcole
Zaprite: https://zaprite.com/

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Why You Should Have Zero Debt to Avoid Enslavement with Jimmy Song (SLP516) Sep 22, 2023

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Do you have debt? Are you wondering about the case for why you shouldn’t? Check out this episode with my friend and Bitcoin developer and advocate, Jimmy Song.

We talk about his newest book, Fiat Ruins Everything:

Why he wrote this book
Why you should have zero debt
Cultural issues
Fiat morality

Links:

X: @jimmysong
Site: https://fiatruinseverything.com/

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HODLing through the cycles with American HODL (SLP515) Sep 21, 2023

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Have you wondered what it takes to be a long-term HODLer? American HODL rejoins me on the show to talk about HODLer psychology, bitcoin culture, and what to expect going forward:

Adoption waves
Living on Bitcoin
Overconfidence
Mainstream culture
Bitcoin Fixes This
Jurisdictions
Thoughts on next cycle

Links:

X: americanhodl8

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Kids Don’t Need School with Jonathan Prescott & Adriana Prescott (SLP514) Sep 20, 2023

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Are you interested in spending 16,000 more hours with your children? Consider homeschooling! We discuss this and many other insights in this chat about homeschooling:

Their own journey of homeschooling
Escaping hivemind thinking
Criticism of ‘school vouchers’
Building up your child’s agency
Do you need curricula?
Modelling behaviour
“Socialisation”
The culture war

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Next Generation Lightning with Phoenix - Bastien Teinturier (SLP513) Sep 17, 2023

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The next generation of Bitcoin Lightning wallets is here with Phoenix from ACINQ. Rejoining me is CTO of ACINQ, Bastien Teinturier to talk about how the team is innovating a great self custodial experience for bitcoin and lightning users:

High Fee environment
New Phoenix fee structure
Splicing and what it enables
Dual Funding
Liquidity Ads
Building on a smartphone app
Can ACINQ steal from users?
APO
Biggest challenges
Reasons to be optimistic

Bastien links:

Twitter: @realtbast
Phoenix Splicing Update post

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Will Drivechain Centralise Bitcoin? with Shinobi (SLP512) Sep 14, 2023

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Drivechain is a proposed soft fork that has faced a lot of criticism in the community, and Shinobi (Technical Editor of Bitcoin Magazine) joins me to discuss his critiques of the idea. We discuss:

What is Drivechain
How it works
Miner centralisation
Re orgs on sidechains
T-shirt sales argument
Stratum v2
“Miners can steal”
Other soft fork ideas (e.g. APO, CTV)
Multi Party Channels
“First Develop with what we’ve got”

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