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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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SLP471 Bitcoin & Cryptosovereignty with Erik Cason Apr 13, 2023

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Erik Cason joins me on the show to talk about his journey as a Bitcoiner, from working at Coinbase to leaving and now writing and speaking about Bitcoin:

Digital Panopticon and defunding three letter agencies
Making Money vs Caring for money
Can Bitcoin be corrupted?
Cryptosovereignty and political power

Links:

Twitter: @Erikcason
Site: C ryptosovereignty.org

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SLP470 Correcting NYT Disinformation on Bitcoin with Pierre Rochard Apr 11, 2023

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Pierre Rochard (VP of Research at Riot Platforms) rejoins me on the show to correct the NYT’s recent disinformation article on Bitcoin. We discuss:

Fundamental problems with the degrowth world view
Factual errors in the article
Demand response
Bitcoin mining has zero emissions
How Bitcoiners should respond

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SLP469 Is the World Really Dedollarising? with Peter St Onge Apr 05, 2023

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Peter St Onge rejoins me to talk about whether the world is really dedollarising. What kind of timeframe are we talking about here? We also talk through some recent developments from an austrian economics perspective:

Dedollarisation
Cantillon Effects
Fictional Reserve Banking systems
Did the market really ‘choose’ FRB?
How Bitcoin is really what most people think of as money

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SLP468 LNURL, Lightning Box, Blixt, Soft Forks with Hampus Sjoberg Mar 21, 2023

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Hampus Sjoberg, creator of Blixt Wallet joins me to talk about lightning technology and crafting a non-custodial experience while dealing with the trade offs of custodial lightning.

LNURL - what is it and where is it useful?
Comparison with bolt12
Blixt wallet and its tradeoffs
Lightning Box for offline payments
Bitcoin soft forks - why they should be considered

Links:

Twitter: @hampus_S
Site: Blixt Wallet
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SLP467 An Unsustainable Fiscal Path with James Lavish Mar 18, 2023

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James Lavish (Author of the Informationist and Managing Partner of Bitcoin Opportunity Fund) rejoins me on the show to talk about the latest:

Shocking US government debt stats
Silicon Valley Bank bailout and what it portends
Using Bitcoin to stay operational in banking crisis
Bitcoin Opportunity Fund

Links:

Twitter: @jameslavish
Newsletter: https://jameslavish.substack.com/
BOF: The Bitcoin Opportunity Fund
Thread: https://twitter.com/jameslavish/status/1636104435171737602

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SLP466 The Time Value of Truth with Benjamin Carlson Mar 17, 2023

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Ben Carlson, journalist and former editor at The Atlantic joins me on the show to chat about:

How the media operates and the model has shifted over time
Getting to the truth in this new age
How stories get covered up
Future of media
Uncovering interesting videos

Links:

Twitter: @bfcarlson
Site: bfcarlson.com

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SLP465 What is utreexo? with Calvin Kim Mar 13, 2023

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Calvin Kim (BitMEX & HRF grantee) joins me to talk about utreexo:

utreexo and the UTXO set
comparison with other ideas e.g. assumevalid and assumeUTXO
utreexo proofs
Types of utreexo nodes - Bridge + Compact State nodes
How it might look in practice
Running your own electrum server
Privacy benefits

Links:

Twitter: @kcalvinalvinn
utreexo Github: https://github.com/utreexo/utreexo
Overview at MIT DCI https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo
Blog post: Out of Order Block Validation with Utreexo Accumulators

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SLP464 Can Free Private Cities Make the World Dramatically Richer? with Erick Brimen CEO of Prospera Mar 08, 2023

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Erick Brimen of Prospera joins me to talk about:

Creating $100-200T more wealth globally
The market for living together
Historical examples
Governance, Government, & The State
ZEDE law and uncertainty
Working with Galoy Money
Accepting Bitcoin & AmityAge on the island

Links:

Site: https://prospera.hn/news
Twitter: @erickbrimen

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SLP463 Bitcoin Transaction Pinning, ANYPREVOUT & eltoo with Greg Sanders (Instagibbs) Mar 05, 2023

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Greg Sanders of Blockstream joins me to talk about Transaction Pinning, ANYPREVOUT and eltoo. We discuss a range of questions:

What is Transaction Pinning?
How does mempoolfullrbf help?
Transaction Pinning vectors and possible fixes
v3 transaction relay
Overview of ANYPREVOUT
Improvements with eltoo
LN Penalty contrasted with LN Symmetry
Scaling Bitcoin longer term

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Links:

Twitter: @theinstagibbs
Github: Gregory Sanders

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SLP462 Bitcoin Multi-signature with Craig Raw Feb 26, 2023

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Craig Raw of Sparrow Wallet rejoins me to chat:

Bitcoin multi signature security
Passphrases contrasted with multi-sig
NFC support
What’s the difference between seed, passphrase, PIN & app password?
Stages of HODLing
BSMS
BIP329 Import and export of transactions
BIP47 support

Links:

Twitter: @craigraw
Site: SparrowWallet.com
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