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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.

Latest Episodes:

SLP491 The Crossover Between Bitcoin and Nuclear Energy with Nuclear Bitcoiner Jul 12, 2023

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Ryan MacLeod (Nuclear Bitcoiner) joins me to talk about Bitcoin and Nuclear Energy. We talk:

Is nuclear energy too costly?
What are SMRs? Small Modular Reactors
Nuclear waste and safety concerns
How Nuclear energy crosses over with Bitcoin mining
Reduced costs and increased accessibility

Links:

Twitter: @NuclearBitcoinr

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SLP490 Dusty - What is Splicing and why will it improve LN? Jul 10, 2023

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Dusty Daemon joins me to talk about splicing on Bitcoin’s lightning network. We talk about:

What is splicing?
Splicing’s potential privacy benefits
Potential to undermine surveillance heuristics
Splicing’s efficiency gains
Splicing as one tool in the toolkit
Walkthrough of how it works

Site:

Site: Lightning Splicing
Twitter: @dusty_daemon

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SLP489 Graham Krizek - Will every company be a lightning company? Jul 06, 2023

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Will every company be a lightning company? Graham Krizek CEO of Voltage rejoins me on the show to talk about this idea as well as what’s happening in bitcoin and lightning:

Being near the printer
Why big companies do financial services
What lightning does differently
What use cases are there and who’s looking at them?
Products at Voltage
Thoughts on LDK by Spiral

Links:

Article: Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company
Article: SURGE NOW AVAILABLE FOR VOLTAGE USERS
Twitter: @gkrizek
Twitter: @voltage_cloud

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SLP488 Future Visions of Lightning, Greenlight & Breez SDK with Christian Decker and Roy Sheinfeld Jun 21, 2023

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Christian Decker (Blockstream) and Roy Sheinfeld (Breez) rejoin me on the show to talk about:

What has improved about Lightning over time
Lightning in a high fee environment
What Greenlight is
What Breez SDK is
Is anything changing on the existing Breez app?
Core-lightning contrasted with other implementations
Lightning protocol improvements

Links:

Twitter: @Snyke
Twitter: @therealkingonly
Site: Your personal Core Lightning node, without the technical fuss.
Site: Breez SDK

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SLP487 Bitcoin Mining Energy Debate - Digiconomist and Ben Gagnon Jun 15, 2023

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Digiconomist (Alex de Vries) and Ben Gagnon (Chief Mining Officer, Bitfarms) join me on the show to debate Bitcoin Mining energy. We talk through:

Bitcoin Mining machine efficiency assumptions
Where do the models break down?
Media referring to scary numbers in the bull cycle
Transactions per second metrics

Links:

Twitter: @DigiEconomist
Twitter: @hashoveride
Digiconomist energy consumption index: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
CBECI (Cambridge) referred to: Bitcoin network power demand
Prior episode: SLP478 Ben Gagnon

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SLP486 Bitcoin Estate Planning with Peter Dunworth Jun 14, 2023

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Peter Dunworth is a financial adviser for high net worth individuals and families. He joins me to talk about what most people are getting wrong on bitcoin estate planning and inheritance. We discuss:

Why bother with all this?
Legal, asset protection and tax benefits
Possession vs Title of coins
Collaborative custody
Practical components
Miniscript and technical advances
Valuation framework for Bitcoin and why inheritance matters

Links:

Site: https://www.thebitcoinadviser.com/comparison
Peter’s Twitter: @PeterBTCAdviser
TheBTCAdviser’s Twitter: @TheBTCAdviser

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SLP485 What is Inflation? with Jonathan Newman Jun 13, 2023

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Jonathan Newman, Associate Professor of Economics and Mises Fellow joins me to chat:

Contrasting definitions of inflation
How did Mises define inflation?
How did Rothbard define inflation?
Where and how does fractional reserve come into it?
Cantillon effect and the Mises effect
Costless production of money

Links:

Paper: What Is Inflation? Clarifying and Justifying Rothbard’s Definition
Twitter: @NewmanJ_R
Twitter: @KrisMoustHansen

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SLP484 Robin Linus ZeroSync: Speeding up Bitcoin Initial Block Download (IBD) Jun 05, 2023

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Robin Linus from the ZeroSync project joins me to talk about how ZKPs can be used to help people quickly get started using Bitcoin. We discuss:

What ZKPs are and what they can be used for
Speeding up IBD
Contrasting ZeroSync with utreexo and assumeutxo
UTXO set commitment
Blockstream satellite
What’s being verified?
Different types of nodes

Links:

Site: zerosync.org
Twitter: @ZeroSync_
Twitter: @robin_linus

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SLP483 Lightning in a High Fee Environment with Niftynei, D++ & Nate Jun 02, 2023

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What happens under a high fee environment on the lightning network? We had one recently and so I asked Niftynei (Lisa of Base58), D++, and Nate (Voltage Head of Support & Education) to join me to talk about it: